❗️The Tsentr Battlegroup liberated the village of Netaylovo in the Donetsk Peoples's Republic, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.

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‘Israel must accept that it cannot exist without a Palestinian state’ – Saudi foreign minister

“Israel doesn’t get to decide whether or not the Palestinians have a right to self-determination. This is something that is enshrined in the UN’s charter and in international law... It is absolutely necessary that Israel accepts that it cannot exist without the existence of a Palestinian state,” Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud stated following the meeting with Arab and European counterparts in Belgium.

The top-diplomat also stressed that Israel should realize that it is in its interest to establish a Palestinian state along the 1967 borders “as everyone understands it is the right thing to do.”

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#Throwback: US National Security Jake Sullivan recently brushed off criticism of Israel’s operation in Rafah, stating that the Biden administration didn’t have any “mathematical formula” for assessing potential atrocities.

Last night, an Israeli airstrike on a “safe zone” camp in Rafah killed and wounded dozens.

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Ukrainian forces have twice attacked the Social Fund building in the settlement of Nizhniye Serogozy in the Kherson region, according to regional governor Vladimir Saldo.

"A woman, who was near the place of arrival, felt unwell. According to the doctors, she had a heart attack. Unfortunately, she died," he said.

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🇷🇺🇺🇿 Russia and Uzbekistan will sign documents on Monday on the creation of small-capacity nuclear power plants in the republic, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev said. This involves nuclear power plants, which will include up to six 55 MW power units.

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🗣 NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has exceeded his authority by speaking in favor of Ukraine's right to use Western weapons to strike Russian territory, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.

Earlier, the Italian foreign minister criticized the secretary-general's words, saying that all decisions in the alliance should be taken collegially.

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❗️LIVE: Putin and Uzbekistan's President hold press conference after talks

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Why US-Ukraine arms scheme will ‘fail in all of its objectives’

Washington's State Department recently announced a $2 billion package for Kiev aimed at creating the so-called Ukraine Defense Enterprise Program (UDEP) fund.

“Without any doubt, the US funding package for Ukraine - intended to be used to stimulate Europe’s arms industry, fund US-Ukraine arms co-production, and lure countries away from the Russian arms market - will fail in all of its objectives,” former US State Department counterterrorism analyst Scott Bennett tells Sputnik.

He explains that, “the US-Ukrainian arms development scheme will ultimately fail because the entire nation of Ukraine is now devolving into a failed state that - unless Russia intervenes - may resemble Mogadishu, Haiti, or New Caledonia soon.”

“Another aspect” pertains to the fact that Ukraine “has no personnel able to create weapons anymore, and no ability to establish such an enterprise on its soil, as Russia would immediately target and destroy any such facilities before they could produce or deploy any weapons to be used against Russian soldiers,” per Bennett.

When asked what specific types of arms or ammunition the US could "co-produce" with Ukraine, Bennett says: “these type of guerrilla terrorist weapons might include drones, sea, air, and land bombs.” He didn’t rule out that investor nations involved in the UDEP project “would most likely be Britain, France, Germany, and the Baltic nations."

“On the weapons market, the US has been on a conveyor belt of producing weapons for the shallow purpose of enriching politicians and the military-industrial complex, and not for military efficiency purposes. This is a lethal flaw, and an impediment, which the rest of the world sees, and therefore consciously and unconsciously views US-NATO weapons on a lower level than the Russian weapons," the expert stresses.

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