❗️Russia and Europe will no longer be able to build relations as before, Moscow will take into account existing experience, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated.

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Key statement by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu at Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states Defense Ministers meeting:

▪️The international situation remains difficult and tends to deteriorate;

▪️The United States first created and is now deliberately prolonging the conflict in Ukraine. To achieve its goals, the US is exerting unprecedented pressure, including on its partners;

▪️The SCO expects Belarus to join the organization very soon;

▪️Russia has never threatened NATO and has no interest in attacking the bloc's states;

▪️ Foreign advisors are involved in the preparation of sabotage that Ukraine conducts on the territory of Russia;

▪️ The Ukrainian shelling of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant is fraught with catastrophic consequences;

▪️ Ukraine uses Western weapons to attack Russian civilian infrastructure;

▪️The West transmits intelligence data to Ukraine in real time, organizes training of Ukrainian military personnel.

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Key statements by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov at a briefing:

▪️Russia poses no threat to anyone in Europe and hopes that no one poses a threat to it;

▪️ Europe will still have to negotiate with Russia, but according to a new model;

▪️ The European Parliament has long based its actions on solid Russophobia and has turned itself into a machine of outrageous statements and internal contradictions;

▪️ Sooner or later, the special operation will end in success for Russia;

▪️ Preparations for Putin's visit to China are in the final stage, there will be many issues on the agenda with an emphasis on bilateral cooperation.

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❗️ LIVE: Lavrov holds press conference after talks with Bolivian Foreign Minister Sosa Lunda

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❗️The United States is ready to take new measures and impose sanctions against China against the background of the situation in Ukraine, Blinken said after talks with Xi Jinping.

"If China does not take measures to solve this problem, the US will do it," US Secretary of State said, commenting on China's "support for Russia."

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❗️Ukrainian troops lost a total of up to 1005 servicemen in one day, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.

🇷🇺🪖Other statements from the daily briefing of the Russian Defense Ministry on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️ The Tsentr combat group improved its tactical position and repulsed eight counterattacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Ukrainian losses amounted to up to 415 servicemen, infantry fighting vehicles, 8 armored personnel carriers;

▪️ Units of the Yug combat group improved the position on the front line during the day. Ukrainian losses amounted to up to 430 soldiers;

▪️ Russian air defense systems shot down 193 Ukrainian drones, 2 MLRS "Alder" rounds, and 3 Hammer guided bombs during the day.

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Trump wants to 'restore the dominance of conservatism' after election victory

As long as conservatives fearlessly defend their values, they will win the battle to save our civilisation from communists, Marxists and fascists, the former president said.

Trump also stressed that he was proud to work with Hungarian Prime Minister Orban: "We have dealt with illegal immigration, protected our borders and created jobs.

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❗️ LIVE: Putin delivers speech at Council of Legislators of Russia meeting

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🇷🇺🚀Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub completed a spacewalk two hours ahead of schedule.

The astronauts spent 4 hours and 36 minutes outside the station.

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❗️F-16s will begin arriving in Ukraine this year along with trained pilots, the Pentagon chief said.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said earlier that Russia would begin to hunt down Ukrainian F-16 aircraft as soon as they arrive, adding that Russian air defenses would need only about "20 days of work" to decimate the first batch of these jets delivered to Kiev.

Vladimir Putin, for his part, stressed that the delivery of F-16s would not change anything for Ukraine.

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