🗣 NATO is forming a network of cyber laboratories along the perimeter of Russia's borders: in Estonia, Latvia, Finland, Romania, and in the future – in Georgia and Moldova, Presidential Special Envoy and Director of the Department of International Information Security at the Russian Foreign Minsitry Artur Lyukmanov told Sputnik.

“Washington has long been practicing methods of hybrid warfare against Russia in the information sphere. Ukraine is used as the main testing ground, whose hackers, including those from the touted ‘IT army,’ carry out electronic sabotage under the tight tutelage of NATO curators,” he added.

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◾️ NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called to lift restrictions on Ukrainian military strikes using Western weapons against targets on the Russian territory

◾️ Russian Foreign Ministry called the Ukraine peace summit in Switzerland another “hoax” invented by the Biden State Department.

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UN vote on Srebrenica an ‘offense that will be remembered’ – Balkan affairs analyst

Millions of Serbs like veteran Balkan affairs expert Stevan Gajic were left reeling when the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on the events of 1995 in Srebrenica. They feel deeply offended by Germany, which co-sponsored the controversial motion, the political analyst told Sputnik.

Memories of atrocities committed by German forces in World War II, and later killings carried out by the Bosnian Muslims are indelibly seared into their memories.

“I can't speak calmly about this resolution,” Gajic said. He recalled the painful events from the Second World War, saying:

“Multiple members of my family were murdered by German occupiers during World War II. My grandfather was a war prisoner in a German prison camp in Norway. And, I think that millions of Serbs who also have similar family stories are deeply offended by Germany.”

Germany, the analyst noted, waged three wars against the Serbs in the 20th century, occupying Serbian lands in WWI and WWII, and “committed genocide both times.”

The pundit recalled that then-Chancellor Gerhard Schroder and his Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer supported the NATO bombing campaign against Serbia.

German Kosovo Force (KFOR) troops advancing into the country after NATO’s bombing and aggression against the Serbs “murdered two Serbian civilians in cold blood while they were in their car,” the analyst said.

Gajic’s family also suffered at the hands of the Bosnian Muslim forces from Srebrenica.

“They brutally murdered my uncle, Ljubisa Gajic, on June 27, 1992, at the village where generations of my ancestors with my family name came from, were born and lived... This village, Magdovici, does not exist on the map anymore,” he said.

The vote on the Srebrenica resolution at the UN General Assembly “comes as offense, one that will be remembered,” Stevan Gajic stressed.

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🇷🇺 Russian forces shoot down Ukrainian Baba Yaga drone

Russian paratroopers from Battlegroup Dnepr have shot down a Ukrainian Army heavy hexacopter bomber known as Baba Yaga in an air battle in the skies over the Kherson region, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

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Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has commented on NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg's call to lift restrictions on strikes by Ukraine on Russian territory.

“It is useful to know this for everyone who is invited to the so-called ‘peace conference’ in Switzerland,” she wrote on her Telegram channel.

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❗️ Units of Russia’s Battlegroup Tsentr have liberated the settlement of Arkhangelskoye in the Donetsk People's Republic, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

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

◾️ Units of Russia’s Battlegroup Sever struck the manpower and equipment of two Ukrainian brigades.

◾️ Units of Russia’s Battlegroup Vostok took more favorable positions and repulsed an enemy attack. Ukrainian losses amounted to up to 220 military personnel and a Panzerhaubitze 2000 self-propelled howitzer was destroyed;

◾️ The Russian Armed Forces struck a temporary deployment point of foreign mercenaries in Ukraine;

◾️ Units of Russia’s Battlegroup Zapad took more favorable positions and hit units of a Ukrainian brigade. The enemy lost up to 210 military personnel;

◾️ Russia’s Battlegroup Yug improved its position along the front line and hit the manpower and equipment of two Ukrainian brigades. The enemy's losses exceeded 475 military personnel;

◾️ Air defenses shot down 25 UAVs, one Hammer guided bomb, and three HARM anti-radar missiles;

◾️ Units Russia’s Battlegroup Tsentr repelled three counterattacks by Ukrainian forces. The enemy lost up to 410 military personnel.

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Hungary resists EU pressure to fund Ukraine with profits from frozen Russian assets

Hungary is yet again refusing to kowtow to EU diktat on funding weapons for Kiev. In this case, it is reportedly holding up legislation to fast-track handing Ukraine profits from illegally frozen Russian assets.

Budapest is objecting to forgoing a requirement for unanimous backing from all 27 member states for each cash disbursement to Kiev, FT reported, citing sources.

“For the time being they are blocking everything connected to the military support to Ukraine,” one insider was cited as saying.

Hungary has staunchly refused to be pressured into funding the ongoing NATO proxy conflict in Ukraine, with Prime Minister Viktor Orban reiterating this stance on Friday.

“We do not approve of this, nor do we want to participate in financial or arms support [for Ukraine,] even within the framework of NATO,” Orban said.

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🥴 How much cringe can one UK PM dish out? Sunak knows

The snap general election announced by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak can only highlight the hard times the country is passing through right now.

But how did Sunak himself weather the crisis? Let's recall the current UK PM’s most cringe-worthy moments.

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