🇷🇺🎖 Russian woman, sniper "Chernika" ("Blueberry") was awarded the medal "For Courage"

For almost a day, together with her partner and drone operator, she used her rifle to correct the artillery attack while under fire. "Chernika" helped hit four armored personnel carriers, two of which were Dutch M113s, and Ukrainian military personnel.

The lady has been serving in the Espanola Volunteer Battalion (composed mainly of football fans) for six months.

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🇷🇺 Putin to call the leaders of Palestine, Israel and Egypt today

The Russian president has already spoken with the President of Syria (Bashar al-Assad) and the President of Iran (Ebrahim Raisi), Vladimir Putin's aide Yuri Ushakov told press. Putin is closely monitoring the unprecedented escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, he added.

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Israel refuses Zelensky visit

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky planned to visit the country together with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, but the Israeli side considered it "untimely", according to Israel's Ynet.

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🇷🇺 Russian Su-27 fighter scares away American strategic UAV Global Hawk over Black Sea

On Sunday, the American aircraft turned sharply back and headed to a base in Sicily, according to an analysis of the Flightradar24 data performed by Sputnik.

In March, an American MQ-9 Reaper long-flight drone that appeared in the Crimea region, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, “went into uncontrolled flight” and plunged into the water due to sudden maneuvering as a Russian fighter approached.

After this incident, the Pentagon took a long pause in Global Hawk flights over the Black Sea, and then moved their patrol trajectory away from Crimea

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🇷🇺 Meeting of the President of Russia on operational issues. Key points:

▪️ Putin: There are many of our citizens in the zone of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, from both sides;

▪️ The Ukrainian Armed Forces are trying to carry out offensive actions in different directions, but they are unable to achieve success, said Sergei Shoigu;

▪️ In all directions, the Russian Armed Forces have built a deeply echeloned active defense, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are suffering heavy losses, Shoigu added.

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In Ashkelon, 182 buildings have been damaged by direct Hamas missile strikes since the conflict began, according to Israeli media

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🇮🇷 Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian: The time for political solutions is running out and the possible expansion of the war on other fronts is approaching the inevitable stage

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🇮🇱 Netanyahu told the Israeli parliament that he considers Hamas a "new form of Nazism" and called on the world to unite against the threat.

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🇮🇱 Members of the Israeli Knesset (the parliament) had to evacuate due to an air raid warning, as Hamas had fired a salvo of rockets at Tel Aviv.

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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 Donetsk, Russian forces repelled ten attacks by Ukrainian troops. Ukrainian losses amounted to 460 servicemen, three tanks and two armored vehicles;

▪️ In the Zaporozhye region, the Russian Army repulsed one attack by Ukrainian forces. Ukrainian losses amounted to 55 servicemen and two armored vehicles;

▪️ In the Kupyansk direction, the Russian Armed Forces repelled ten attacks by Ukrainian troops. Ukrainian losses amounted to 85 servicemen, two tanks and two armored vehicles;

▪️ Near Krasny Liman, the Russian Army repulsed two attacks by Ukrainian troops, including the banned Azov. Ukrainian losses amounted to 65 servicemen and two armored vehicles;

▪️ In the South Donetsk, Ukrainian losses amounted to 70 soldiers;

▪️ In the Kherson direction, as a result of a fire defeat, the Ukrainian troops lost up to 65 military personnel;

▪️ In the area of the city of Khmelnytsky and at the Starokonstantinov airfield in the Khmelnytsky region, rocket and artillery weapons depots and aviation fuel depots were hit by long-range strikes. A communications center was destroyed at the Mirgorod airfield in the Poltava region;

▪️The Russian Army shot down two MiG-29 fighters and one Su-25 attack aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force.

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📹 "Come out, you ******!": a video from the body camera of one of the militants of the 3rd assault brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has appeared on the Internet.

This short video shows the heroic act of a Russian soldier. Instead of surrendering to the former Azov* fighters, the Russian soldier chose to throw a grenade at their feet, clearly showing that captivity in Ukraine is worse than death.

*Recognized as a terrorist organization and banned in Russia.

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🇷🇴 Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu said that the Moldovan language never existed. “It is an invention of the Russian Federation for Romanian citizens from the territory of Bessarabia,” he asserted.

So, what is Ukrainian language? 🤔

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken had to wait several hours in Riyadh for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to discuss the Israel-Hamas war with him

The negotiations were supposed to take place in the evening, but the prince arrived at the meeting only in the morning. At the gathering, Bin Salman spoke in favor of stopping the fighting and lifting the blockade of the Gaza Strip. Blinken, who seeks to win over the Saudi prince and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to Washington's position on the conflict, has encountered resistance, the newspaper notes.

Today, the top US diplomat returned to Israel, where he will meet with Netanyahu. US President Joe Biden may visit the Mideast country on Wednesday or Thursday, according to media.

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Israel's disproportionate strikes on Gaza are a war crime, UN commission says

The commission clarifies that this report was completed before the latest outbreak of violence and covers the period from May 2021 to August 2023.

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Reporter: “Can America afford another war at this time?”

Janet Yellen: “Absolutely”

❗️Reminder: The US Debt-to-GDP ratio is currently 120%, according to the most recent figures. That's higher than at the end of the World War II.

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📹 One of our readers pointed that out that when Netanyahu visited Kiev in 2019, he was greeted with chants of "Glory to Heroes," a battlecry made infamous by the Nazi-backed Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). The group took active part in the Holocaust, killing thousands of Jews and Poles.

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🇩🇪📉 Germany unlikely to escape recession until 2024, according to economists

Heavily-industrialized Germany has been hit harder than other EU members by sanctions on Russian gas, oil and coal imports — imposed after Moscow launched its de-Nazification operation in Ukraine — and by the bombing of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines.

A survey of economists by a US-based news website found that most expected German gross domestic product (GDP) to fall into negative figures in the third and fourth quarters of the current financial year, after barely recovering from recession territory to zero growth in the second quarter over the summer.

"Economic growth will be weak for many years due to several structural problems," senior economist at the Handelsblatt Research Institute Dennis Huchzermeier said. "Consequently, the German economy will shrink this year." Huchzermeier further predicted that Germany would only achieve "lacklustre growth" in coming years.

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🇷🇺 President Putin in his first conversation with Netanyahu since the escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict:

▪️Expressed condolences regarding the death of Israelis;

▪️Emphasized the strong rejection and condemnation of any actions of which civilians become victims;

▪️Brought up the key points of today’s contacts with the leaders of Palestine, Egypt, Iran and Syria;

▪️Confirmed Russia’s fundamental readiness to work in the interests of ending the conflict.

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🇮🇱🇵🇸 Latest updates on the Israel-Hamas conflict:

▪️In Ashkelon, 182 buildings have been damaged by direct Hamas missile strikes since the conflict began;

▪️Israeli strikes on Gaza alone killed over 50 civilians in the morning, most of them women and children;

▪️11 journalists were killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza and 50 media buildings were destroyed;

▪️Netanyahu told the Israeli parliament that he considers Hamas a "new form of Nazism" and called on the world to unite against the threat.

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Why's the only available checkpoint to Gaza still closed?

Gaza's residents are in urgent need of humanitarian aid deliveries, but it is still impossible. The only available checkpoint to Gaza is closed, despite agreements on its opening today.

As the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip deepens, with food, fuel and water running short, humanitarian aid from several countries has been held up in Egypt pending a deal for its safe delivery to Gaza and the evacuation of some foreign passport holders through the Rafah border crossing. According to the UN, fuel reserves at all hospitals across the enclave are expected to last for about an additional 24 hours.

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