❗️The European Commission recommended starting negotiations on accession to the EU with Ukraine and Moldova

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Russian citizens were not included in the evacuation lists to leave the Gaza Strip due to obstruction from Israel and the United States, said Basem Naim, Hamas' head of international relations.

🗣 "We have no role to play in this process, and we have no authority to determine who is allowed to leave Gaza for Egypt. Nevertheless, we do not prevent those who wish to leave Gaza from doing so," Naim added.

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Watch LIVE: Putin Holds Meeting With Chinese Central Military Council Vice Chairman

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📹 Russian soldiers are attacking enemy positions on the front line of the Artemovsk (Bakhmut) area of the Donbass front with kamikaze drones.

The fighters managed to destroy two positions of the Ukrainian forces, one of which had a grenade launcher firing point.

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Ukrainian intelligence has assumed responsibility for the murder of LPR Deputy Filiponenko

A criminal case under three articles, including terrorism, was opened after the death of LPR Deputy Mikhail Filiponenko, according to the Investigative Committee of Russia.

An unidentified explosive device exploded under the bottom of a car this morning in Lugansk causing Filiponenko's death.

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🇷🇺🪖 Key points of Russian MoD briefing on progress of special military op in Ukraine

▪️In the Kupyansk area, two attacks by Ukrainian forces were repelled in the Timkovka area;

▪️in the Krasny Liman region, clusters of manpower and equipment of the Ukrainian forces were defeated. Ukrainian losses amounted to 90 soldiers;

▪️In the Donetsk and South Donetsk directions, Ukrainian losses amounted to 280 people. A Ukrainian ammunition depot was destroyed in the area of the settlement of Bogatyr;

▪️In the Zaporozhye area, three attacks by Ukrainian troops were repelled in Rabotino and Novoprokopovka. Ukrainian losses amounted to 80 people, three tanks, and five infantry fighting vehicles;

▪️In the Kherson direction, up to 30 Ukrainian soldiers were destroyed;

▪️Five aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force (Su-27, two MiG-29 and two Su-25) were shot down.

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🇮🇷 Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Mohammad Eslami on Wednesday condemned Israel for threatening to use nuclear weapons against the Gaza Strip, stressing that this also means that Israel has admitted to possessing nuclear arms.

He added that it was high time for international organizations, especially the UN, to take decisive action against Israel, which he said is a grave threat to global peace and security, adding that the Iranian atomic chief also urged the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, to take an independent approach within the framework of nuclear non-proliferation.

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🇳🇱 The Netherlands will supply Israel with F-35 spare parts despite war crime risks, a Dutch newspaper reported, citing government sources.

The ministry's lawyers warned that Israel could be violating the laws of war, as it has already used F-35s to bomb Gaza. But blocking the delivery could seriously damage relations with both Israel and the United States, the media reported.

The Dutch Foreign Ministry told the newspaper that the export of goods to international partners in the F-35 program was "not restricted."

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An explosion occurred at a metallurgical plant in southern Turkiye. Over ten people are reported injured.

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📹 “There's no military reason to be hitting the center of Donetsk like this. It's inexcusable, it’s just terrorism,” Sputnik correspondent Russell Bentley (@TXDPR) reports from Donetsk following a Ukrainian attack on civilian infrastructure in the city yesterday.

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🙅‍♂️💵 No money - no elections

📹 Zelensky asked the West to fund Ukraine's elections last August. After his request was refused, he now claims it's not the right time to hold the ballot.

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📹 The Israeli army showed footage of the liquidation of Hamas tunnels and rocket launching positions

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📹 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shows his true colors?

🗣 “Israel is a bulwark for us... it’s almost like having an aircraft carrier in the Middle East. If Israel disappears, Russia and China will control 90% of the oil in the world and that would be cataclysmic for US national security,” RFK Jr. said.

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📹 Vladimir Putin knelt next to child cancer patients during a special visit to an oncology hospital

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🇺🇸 Humanitarian aid to Kiev may cease completely as the US has no funds left for direct budget support, the relevant American department reported.

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📈 BRICS is going to prevail over the G7 by 2040 as far as political and economic influence goes, a recent report showed.

The forecast suggests an expanding workforce and ample room for playing technological catch-up will boost BRICS’s share in the global economy to 45% by 2040, more than double the weight of the Group of Seven major advanced economies.

The study also foresaw that the recent enlargement of BRICS and its ambitions would help the group successfully challenge global US dominance and dethrone the dollar as the world’s primary currency.

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🪖 More women may be drafted in the Ukrainian military, as Kiev reportedly mulls the step after losing 90,000 soldiers in its botched counteroffensive.

Roughly 43,000 women currently serve in the nation's armed forces - a 40% increase since 2021, according to the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense. Restrictions preventing women from serving as machine-gunners, tank commanders and military truck drivers have also been lifted while the age limits for female recruits increased from 40 to 60.

While connoscripting women is nothing new, in Ukraine, new female recruits would be thrown into the conflict's meat-grinder, as the Ukrainian Armed Forces lacks soldiers, ammo, equipment and morale amid the stalled counteroffensive.

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Is there a weapon that could solve Ukraine's problems?

🖖"I imagine he [Zaluzhny] watched Star Trek and said, "You know, some phasers and photon torpedoes would be nice, that'd do the job"

Garland Nixon, host of our podcast The Critical Hour and Mark Sleboda, international relations and security expert discussed General Valery Zaluzhny's recent interview.

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The Palestinians in the West Bank witness the genocide and ethnic cleansing of a captive population in Gaza and know they are next, according to professor Mazin Qumsiyeh, a Palestinian nonviolent activist, Bethlehem resident.

"Since October 7th, the occupation army and settlers have already slaughtered 163 Palestinians in the West Bank. The situation is expected to worsen. Israel has blocked our cantons and arrested or kidnapped over 2,500 Palestinians. These political prisoners, now totaling over 11,000, are being subjected to torture through physical abuse and denial of food and medicine. The mood among Palestinians is bitter and angry. It is difficult for us to comprehend how the US government and its Western allies have colluded, collaborated, and funded this carnage for 75 years."

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📹 Could Iran and US tensions escalate amid the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

🗣 "Someone once joked, who put Iran in the middle of all of our bases. It's that silly and so it's meant as a deterrence on the one hand, but on the other hand it provides an Achilles heel really because it exposes U.S. forces to counterattack if necessary," Michael Maloof, former Pentagon senior security policy analyst told Sputnik.

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📹 A chemical plant is burning in Texas, eyewitnesses share footage of a giant column of black smoke. The authorities are evacuating people.

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