🇷🇺 Key statements made by Kremlin spokesman Peskov at daily press briefing

▪️The Kremlin agrees with Shoigu's remarks about the West’s line of escalating the conflict with Russia posing the threat of a direct military clash between the nuclear powers, which is fraught with catastrophic consequences

▪️A call by renowned US economist Jeffrey Sachs for Washington to reconsider its position on Russia is a rare display of reasoning in the West, but these discussions are brewing

▪️At the moment, there are no proposals of security guarantees for Russia in light of NATO enlargement

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🇷🇺🪖 Russian forces shoot down eight Storm Shadow missiles in Ukrainian attack targeting Crimea

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 Israeli tank fires on civilian car in Gaza Strip, killing three people, eyewitnesses told Sputnik

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 Netanyahu’s dirty little secret: Why did Israeli PM once help prop up Hamas?

The violence in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank is rapidly shaping up to become one of the bloodiest-ever flashpoints in the 75-year-old Palestinian-Israeli crisis’s history, with Hamas’ surprise October 7 invasion blamed for triggering the carnage. But one little-talked about aspect of the conflict is the Israeli government and Benjamin Netanyahu’s personal role in supporting Hamas over the years.

A recent article in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz documents some of the ways Netanyahu has materially supported the armed group during his over 16 years as Israeli prime minister, including by reportedly allowing untraceable cash contributions from outside, and allowing Hamas leaders to operate freely outside the country, even as Israel keeps a tight grip on the rest of Gaza, which has been described as the world’s largest concentration camp.

In effect, Hamas and the Israeli government can be said to have had a symbiotic relationship aimed at fomenting perpetual conflict and discrediting the Palestinian cause in the eyes of the West.

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🇷🇺🪖 Russian engineer-sapper crews send Ukrainian armored vehicle flying in Artemovsk (Bakhmut) area

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🇷🇺 Riots at Dagestan airport are result of provocation planned with help of foreign interference, Russia’s MFA spokeswoman Maria Zakharova says

The key role in the incident was assigned to the criminal Kiev regime, as Ukraine is maximally interested in destabilizing the situation in Russia and discrediting the country in the international arena, Zakharova said.

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🇪🇺🇩🇪 German defense minister urges preparations for European war

Boris Pistorius has said Germans “have to get used to” the idea of a threat of war in Europe, and assured that Berlin is building up the Bundeswehr’s capabilities, depleted over 30 years of bungling reforms and cutbacks. His comments come amid Germany’s military modernization – the largest of its kind since WW2.

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 About 30 children were taken hostage by Hamas on October 7. There is a social movement in Israel currently working on their rescue called “Free Our Kids IL.”

Dor Halevy Feldman is one of the co-founders of Free Our Kids IL. She told Sputnik a story about one of the abducted girls from a kibbutz near the Gaza border.

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 Almost every child in Israel has a trauma related to the current conflict, Dor Halevy Feldman, one of the co-founders of the Israeli social movement Free Our Kids IL, noted to Sputnik.

"The kids are terrified whether they know someone who was taken, whether they know someone who was murdered. They just know it. They feel even if their parents are not telling them specifically what is happening, you can feel it through the street."

Dor also told the story of little Sarah, that was successfully saved from abduction.

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🇺🇸🇮🇱 “Ten thousand people have been killed in Gaza, half of them children. The Pope’s calling for a ceasefire, the UN has called for it. I’m just asking you -” international human rights lawyer Dan Kovalik was abruptly cut off by security guards on Sunday before he could finish his question to US Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA).

Earlier this month, the progressive freshman senator broke with his colleagues, issuing a statement that “now is not the time to talk about a ceasefire” between Israel and Hamas, a Palestinian militant party that governs the Gaza Strip. “We can talk about a ceasefire after Hamas is neutralized,” he added.

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🇷🇺 Russia's military might ranked first in the world, according to US News & World Report rating

The ranking was compiled on the basis of a survey of 17,200 people in 36 countries. Seventy-three criteria were taken into account.

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🇮🇱 Netanyahu addressed the hostages kidnapped by Hamas by name, assuring that Israel is doing everything to bring all those kidnapped home.

Israeli PM also said that the Hamas video of the Israeli hostages is harsh psychological propaganda.

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🇮🇱 Israel will not allow fuel into the Gaza Strip, despite requests from humanitarian organizations and the UN, the IDF spokesman stated.

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🇷🇺💰 Zelenskys’ Crimea apartment sold at auction for more than $450,000, proceeds go to supporting Russian troops

An apartment outside Yalta registered to Olena Zelenska, the wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, has sold at auction for the equivalent of about $475,000. The upscale digs, located in the village of Livadia on Crimea’s south coast in the ‘Imperator’ residential complex, was nationalized by Crimean authorities back in May. The auction’s winner offered the equivalent of $475,000 for the apartment – about $214,000 more than the starting price.

Crimean parliament chief Vladimir Konstantinov previously indicated that proceeds from the sale of the property of Ukrainian politicians in Crimea would be spent to support soldiers involved in the military operation in Ukraine and members of their families, and for the development of the peninsula’s cities.

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 Massive debris after Israeli strikes pulverized Gaza may offer a protective “cover” for Hamas militant group’s infrastructure hidden in underground tunnels, Andrey Koshkin, a retired colonel and expert of the Association of Military Political Scientists, told Sputnik.

To some extent, this rubble may present an obstacle for the IDF amid its expanded ground operations in the enclave, said the expert.

However, he added that if Israeli military determine that Hamas militants or infrastructure are hidden under the debris, bombs will be used that can blast through the wreckage to reach the target.

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🇺🇸 In an interview with US television that aired on Sunday, US Vice President Kamala Harris assured American voters that US President Joe Biden is still “very much alive” as she deflected a question about the president’s increasing age.

"Joe Biden is very much alive and running for re-election,” Harris told journalist Bill Whitaker, adding that she does "not have time for parlor games."

An increasing number of Americans have said they are worried about Biden’s age. One poll last month found 52.21% said they were “very concerned” and another 22.1% said they were “somewhat concerned” about the 80-year-old leader’s cognitive health.

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