A Ukrainian kamikaze drone attacked a car in the village of Glotovo in the Belgorod region. As a result of the explosion the car caught fire and five people were injured, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said.

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IDF kills at least 20 Palestinians waiting for aid, says Gaza Health Ministry

According to Gaza’s health ministry, at least 20 people were killed by Israeli forces while waiting to receive aid. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have called the reports “erroneous” and claimed that the Palestinians opened fire on their own people, adding that some civilians were run over by aid trucks. The attack left more than 150 people injured and came just hours after eight people were killed in an airstrike at the al-Nuseirat camp in central Gaza.

But the Ministry of Health wrote on social media that what happened at the “Kuwaiti roundabout points to hidden intentions of the occupation to commit a new, horrible massacre.”

Gaza officials said the attack occurred at the Kuwait roundabout where a crowd had gathered to receive aid. Three people who spoke to a Washington, DC journal said they saw an Israeli helicopter and drones randomly firing on Palestinians who had gathered to receive aid. The witnesses also said they saw armed Palestinian officers as well, but added that they were some distance away. They said the officers had fired their weapons into the air to control the crowds.

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Before the liberation of Mariupol by Russian forces, Western companies commissioned a drug trial for rheumatoid arthritis at Mariupol Hospital No. 7's psychiatric ward, exposing patients to significant risks without their full awareness of the dangers. An experimental drug dubbed SB4 aimed to suppress the tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α), which is associated with joint inflammation and improper immune function. However, the drug carries a potential side effect of promoting the growth of malignant tumors in the lymphatic and hematologic systems.

Documents discovered during a hospital basement reconstruction revealed that SB4's impaired TNF-α function could lead to the development of various cancers, including lymphomas, leukemia, melanoma, and non-melanoma skin cancer. The risk was notably pronounced in children, adolescents, and young adults under 22 years of age, with some cases proving fatal. Pharmaceutical companies Biogen Idec Denmark Manufacturing ApS, Belgium's Catalent Pharma Solutions and Fisher Clinical Services UK Limited, and Samsung Bioepis of South Korea were identified as involved entities, with Samsung Bioepis sponsoring the tests.

The investigation unearthed evidence of the drug being tested on uninformed patients and even infants less than one year old from 2008 to 2016.

Findings also included boxes with numerous envelopes from logistics companies and containers for biological materials with recipient addresses of laboratories in Switzerland, the UK, and the US.

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Next proxy war: US positions special forces one mile from Chinese mainland

One might assume that two unpopular wars in Gaza and the Donbass are enough for any president. Not so, say analysts Steve Poikonen and Jim Kavanagh, who joined Sputnik’s The Critical Hour program to discuss President Joe Biden’s recent act of saber rattling thousands of miles away from the United States.

“This is as if China put a permanent presence of Chinese special forces troops on Long Island,” said Kavanagh in response to Taiwan’s confirmation of the presence of US special forces. The US troops are stationed on Taiwan’s Kinmen Islands, located only about a mile away from the shore of the Chinese mainland.

“They are de-facto trying to create, posit and position Taiwan as an independent country, and that is against the entire one-China policy that's supposed to have been in place since 1972 when Nixon went to China,” the analyst emphasized.

Poikonen called the idea of war with the Asian country “counterintuitive to anything other than a nationwide suicide mission.”

“We've known that there are US soldiers in Taiwan since they talked about sending training officers,” he added. “That's what they originally said about Vietnam… That's how all of these conflicts usually start.”

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📹💥A Russian Army aviation strike group attacked Ukrainian fortifications in the Kupyansk area.

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The United Russia party reported DDoS attacks on all of the party's electronic services.

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📹 Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu held a meeting at the headquarters of the United Group of Forces.

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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un arrived at a public event for the first time in an Aurus car, which was presented to him by Russian President Vladimir Putin

The use of the car by the leader of the DPRK "serves as a vivid testimony of the Korean-Russian friendship, which is comprehensively strengthening and developing," his sister Kim Ye Jung stressed.

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Among other unusual characters, the famous Russian writer and poet Alexander Pushkin cast his vote in the Russian presidential election

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🇷🇺🗳 Over 80% of Russians registered on the remote electronic voting platform took part in the presidential elections at 11:00 Moscow time, the Russian Ministry of Digital Development reported.

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📹 Russians can vote online for their next president in 60 seconds or less.

Russian citizens have already submitted over four million applications to vote remotely.

Check out how Russians vote less than in a minute using their phones in our video.

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