🇷🇺🇨🇳 Russian and Chinese ships have left Vladivostok and begun joint patrols in the Pacific Ocean

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The US government has approved a $120.5 million sale of sixteen assault amphibious vehicles and other equipment to Romania

This proposed sale will support the foreign policy and national security objectives of the United States by helping to improve the security of a NATO ally, which is an important force for political and economic stability in Europe, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said.

The US considers that the proposed sale will improve Romania’s capability to meet current and future threats and allow Bucharest to modernize its capabilities, according to DSCA.

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❗️LIVE NOW: Vladimir Putin Takes Part in Russia-Africa Summit

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📹 Russia’s Solntsepyok multiple-launch rocket system crews destroy (0:11) a Ukrainian stronghold in the zone of the special military op

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Russia intends to hold Third Russia-Africa summit, date is yet to be determined, Kremlin reveals

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Key statements made by Russia's President Vladimir Putin at the plenary session on the second day of the Russia-Africa Summit:

▪️Russia respects Africa's plans to resolve the conflict in Ukraine;

▪️The African continent is becoming a center of power, and this objective reality will have to be reckoned with;

▪️Russia and Africa share a close bond;

▪️Russia will continue training the military personnel and policemen of African countries in its specialized universities;

▪️The authority of African regional structures, primarily the African Union, as a spokesman for the views and aspirations of the entire macro-region has noticeably increased;

▪️The situation in many African countries is unstable, this is a legacy of colonialism;

▪️Russia shares the aspiration of African countries to take a more active part in the UN.

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🇷🇺🇰🇵📹 Russian Defense Minister Shoigu took part in a solemn meeting in the DPRK on the occasion of the anniversary of the end of the Korean War

The Russian MoD has also publishes footage showing the parade, including the latest Korean military technology.

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📹 A group of Armed Forces of Ukraine infantry blew up their own mines while trying to attack the Russian positions near Ugledar in the DPR, a serviceman of the Russian Armed Forces told Sputnik

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💬 "With opening the embassy, everything will be really easy"

📹 Antonio Oburu Ondo, the Republic of Equatorial Guinea’s Minister of Mines and Hydrocarbons, comments on President Putin's statement on the resumption of the work of the Russian Embassy in Equatorial Guinea.

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Sputnik military correspondent Rostislav Zhuravlev has been buried with honors in Yekaterinburg, Russia

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Russia wrote off $23 billion in debt to African countries, Russian President Vladimir Putin said

💬 "Russia is taking part in debt relief efforts for African countries. At the moment, we have written off a total of $23 billion in debt. On recent requests of African countries, we will allocate over $90 million more for these development purposes," Putin said at the Russia-Africa summit.

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🇧🇮 Exclusive: Africa Has No Choice But 'to Go the Nuclear Route', Burundian Minister

Nuclear technologies are vital for Africa to achieve energy self-sufficiency, Ibrahim Uwizeye, Burundi's Minister of Hydraulics, Energy and Mines, told Sputnik Africa in an interview on the sidelines of the Russia-Africa Summit.

He stressed that sub-Saharan Africa needs "efficient energy" in order to develop and advance projects in other areas aimed at facilitating the continent's economy

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The Ukrainian Armed Forces three times shelled the town of Tokmak in Zaporozhye with cluster munitions, killing a civilian woman

The second missile was intercepted by air defense systems, and the third projectile did not explode, and will be safely disposed of by sappers, the acting governor of the region, Yevgeny Balitsky, reported.

Another local resident was injured and has been hospitalized.

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Zaporozhye NPP is now absolutely safe; the radiation background at the plant is normal, Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom’s head said

🇰🇵 North Korea showed off its Haeil-1 nuclear submarine drone at the parade for the first time

In March, the Yonhap news agency reported that North Korea had tested it, saying that it was under water for more than 40 hours.

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🗣️ On Ukraine’s military capabilities:

“We do not hear much anymore about those wonder HIMARS. We don't hear too much about Ukrainian artillery. It's still there, it still tries to have an impact, but the balance of forces is so skewed in the favor of Russia that, I mean, there is really nothing to discuss,” Andrei Martyanov, a military and political analyst, told Sputnik.

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