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❗️Kremlin on US supplies of Abrams tanks to Ukraine: These tanks will burn too

Western weapons deliveries will be unlikely to change the balance of power on the battlefield, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

The US continues to increase its involvement in the conflict, while the Russian Army is improving its countermeasures skills, he added.

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🇷🇺 Russia's Black Sea Fleet commander Admiral Viktor Sokolov alive and well despite reports in Western media of being killed in Ukrainian strike on Sevastopol

The ministry has published a video showing the commander participating in the department's board meeting.

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🇪🇺🇷🇺 The EU will not be able to completely abandon gas supplies from Russia in the near future, as this could inflate market prices, Kirill Logvinov, the acting head of the Russian mission to the EU, told Sputnik.

💬 "If we talk about calls for a complete refusal of Russian supplies of ‘blue fuel,’ including LNG, then in the near future this is impossible. Refusal to purchase it from Russia under existing long-term contracts will entail serious financial costs for the European Union. Stopping the use of free volumes of domestic LNG in conditions of limited supply will once again increase energy prices in the EU," Logvinov said.

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🇷🇺🇮🇷 Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi had a detailed exchange of views on the situation around Nagorno-Karabakh and the normalization of Yerevan-Baku relations, the Kremlin said.

Both sides expressed a mutual interest in activating the “3+3” consultative platform (Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Russia, Iran, and Turkiye).

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❗️US operatives responsible for the Nord Stream pipeline explosions left no traces of their activities, and no important information on the operation was digitized, Pulitzer Prize-winning US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has said.

Reports on the operation were sent only to the CIA, which kept in touch with those planning the attack, and to President Joe Biden. Paper documents were destroyed after the pipelines were blown up, Hersh added.

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❗️Russian peacekeepers evacuate Nagorno-Karabakh civilians injured in a fuel explosion near the Stepanakert-Askeran highway

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❗️Terrorist attack on Nord Streams had little to do with Ukrainian crisis, Hersh says

💬 “It resulted from fears in the White House that Germany would waver and turn on the flow of Russia gas—and that Germany and then NATO, for economic reasons, would fall under the sway of Russia and its extensive and inexpensive natural resources. And thus followed the ultimate fear: that America would lose its long-standing primacy in Western Europe,” Pulitzer Prize-winning US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh.

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🇹🇳 🇷🇺Tunisia to Negotiate With IMF, But 'Should Not Endanger Stability': Tunisian FM tells Sputnik Africa

🗣 "We have never said that we cease any contacts with the IMF; we have certain conditions and we have to be clear - the protection of the country, the protection of the most vulnerable citizens – these are redlines…these are redlines we are willing to negotiate," says Nabil Ammar.

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❗️Russia demands US response to Seymour Hersh’s allegations related to Nord Stream terrorist attacks

💬 "Hersh's investigation is cooler than the Watergate scandal. American presidents have reached a new low. The Biden administration is obliged to give a thorough response on all points," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said

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❗️LIVE NOW: High-level delegations speak at UNGA - 🇮🇳 India

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🪖 Ukraine has moved part of its missile production outside the country after Russia's strikes on their assembly site, Secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council said

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🇨🇦 Speaker of Canada's parliament will meet with country’s party leaders on Tuesday

The meeting will take place amid reports that the Speaker might be forced to resign over the invitation to a Ukrainian Nazi veteran to be honored by Parliament.

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❗️Rossiya Segodnya media group Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan comments on Ukraine moving missile assembly facilities outside the country:

💬 “After Russian forces struck a Ukrainian facility for assembling missiles, Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council Secretary Oleksiy Danylov admitted the existence of a secret Ukrainian missile program. Danilov also said that part of the production had been moved out of the country. Well, we will have to take some of our missile strikes outside the country as well, if that is the case.”

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🇨🇦 Canadian FM Melanie Joly says parliament speaker Anthony Rota should resign

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🇸🇰 The Slovakian army is in a bad state after the transfer of military equipment to Ukraine, said the head of the Slovakian opposition party "Smer" (the favorite of this Saturday’s elections), ex-premier Robert Fico.

They have no combat aircraft, no air defense system, and no ammunition, Fico said. He promised to stop many unnecessary purchases of weapons and stop deliveries to Kiev.

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