🗣 Beijing does not impose its will on anyone, which is a distinctive feature of the PRC under the leadership of Xi Jinping in building relations with other countries, distinguishing China from a number of states with a heavy colonial legacy, Vladimir Putin said in an interview with China Central Television

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📹 Israeli forces drop leaflets urging Gaza City residents to relocate to the south of the strip

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❗️ "F*** the police!" - is how one protester in Australia reacted to the government's decision to ban thousands of pro-Palestinians from marching in Sydney's CBD today.

Not all protesters agreed with his sentiment, as seen in this Sputnik exclusive.

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❗️Key points of the Russian Defense Ministry briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️ In the direction of Kupyansk, the Russian Armed Forces repelled six enemy attacks. More than 50 Ukrainian troops, one tank, two armored combat vehicles, two pickup trucks and one Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system were eliminated.

▪️ Three Ukrainian attacks were repulsed by the Russian army in the LPR. Enemy losses amounted to up to 180 Ukrainian servicemen killed and wounded, three armored combat vehicles and two pickup trucks.

▪️ The Russian Army repulsed five enemy attacks in the DPR. The enemy has lost up to 410 Ukrainian servicemen killed and wounded, two armored combat vehicles and three motor vehicles.

▪️ In the direction of South Donetsk, the Russian Armed Forces repelled one enemy attack. Up to 155 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles and three motor vehicles were neutralized.

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces repulsed one Ukrainian attack in the Zaporozhye region. Up to 55 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, three motor vehicles, one US M777 artillery system and one D-30 howitzer were destroyed.

▪️ Russian air defense forces intercepted three U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS missiles during the day.

▪️ Some 488 aircraft and 250 helicopters, 7,888 unmanned aerial vehicles, 441 air defense missile systems, 12,640 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,163 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 6,771 field artillery guns and mortars, and 14,297 pieces of special military equipment were destroyed during the special military operation.

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❗️ Nine missiles were fired from Lebanon into Israeli territory; Israeli air defenses intercepted five of them. The IDF has conducted strikes on the launch site in Lebanon, as stated by the army

📹 Soldiers of Russia's Viking special forces detachment identified a camouflaged dugout with Ukrainian infantry in the Artemovsk direction and subsequently destroyed it using a kamikaze drone

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🇺🇸🇮🇱 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Israel again on Monday, as reported by an American newspaper

According to Blinken's spokesperson, Matthew Miller, Antony Blinken will return to Israel on Monday. This visit comes as the country prepares to launch a major offensive against the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip by air, land, and sea.

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🇮🇷 Iran's UN mission weighs in on Israel's ground operation: Iran's armed forces will not engage in battle, if Tel Aviv does not attack Iran, the resistance front can defend itself.

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🇺🇸 The US will not send troops to participate in the conflict in Gaza, but does not rule out the possibility of using them to free the hostages, the White House said.

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📹 Footage of artillery paratroopers accurately firing 82mm ammunition at positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of Verbovoye

Airborne troops fire to suppress enemy firing positions, strongholds and hidden personnel at a range of up to 7 kilometers.

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🗣 Dr. Imad Salamey, associate professor of political science and international affairs at the Lebanese American University on possible Iranian intervention in the Israel-Hamas conflict:

"I mean, the risk is multiple because, once a third country intervenes in this conflict at least in direct ways, then there could be other countries intervening on the side of Israel as well. So, the United States, then if Iran intervenes, and the United States may intervene, if Hezbollah intervenes, you know then things also may go.... I mean, depends on the extent of this intervention. Things may run out of hand, and then you may end up with a regionwide confrontation that can go as far as the Arab Gulf. So, the situation of a wider regional conflict with an Iranian direct intervention, on a wide-scale level, and it means a highly unlikely scenario, but it is a probable scenario nevertheless."

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📹 Russian artillery uses surgical strikes to eliminate the strongholds and locations of Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel.

Accuracy control and fire adjustments are carried out by drone operators.

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🗣 "For the first time in Gaza, we are being threatened in this way, with complete disregard for the safety of patients and the hospitals themselves, which is a serious crime," Dr Ahmed al-Kahlout, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza City, told Sputnik expressing his astonishment at Israel's threats regarding the evacuation of hospitals.

The Kamal Adwan Hospital is located in the northern areas of Gaza being the sole medical facility providing services to children, women and expectant mothers. "We treat those who need medical attention for injuries sustained during the recent Israeli aggression. The hospital serves approximately 450,000 people, which makes its evacuation extremely challenging, as there is simply no medical alternative for those who rely on the hospital's services," Al-Kahlout said.

"We have called on the World Health Organization to put pressure on the Israeli occupation [authorities] to withdraw these evacuation warnings and threats," Al-Kahlout added.

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🇮🇱🇵🇸 Latest updates on Palestinian-Israeli conflict:

▪️The number of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip has exceeded 2,600, the Palestinian Health Ministry's office said;

▪️The death toll of Israeli residents during the escalation of the conflict has increased to 1,400, Israeli media reported;

▪️ Nine missiles were fired from Lebanon into Israeli territory; Israeli air defenses intercepted five of them. The IDF has conducted strikes on the launch site in Lebanon, as stated by the army;

▪️️ Palestine urges the international community to thwart Israel's mass displacement plan for the Gaza Strip, according to a Palestinian leader's aide;

▪️ US President Joe Biden has appointed former Ambassador David Satterfield as the Special Envoy for Middle East Humanitarian Issues.

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Biden claims that US can handle Ukraine and Palestinian-Israeli conflicts simultaneously

🗣 “We're the United States of America for God's sake, the most powerful nation in the history-- not in the world, in the history of the world. The history of the world. We can take care of both of these and still maintain our overall international defense.”

Biden did not elaborate on how the US planned on increasing weapons production enough to support two proxy wars at once. The American president has previously admitted that the Ukraine conflict has put a serious strain on US ammunition reserves.

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❗️Why have Communists, Palestinians, University students and regular Australian mums and dads joined forces to protest against the Albanese Government's foreign policy towards Palestine?

The reason is not what you think in this Sputnik exclusive on the ground in Sydney's CBD.

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