🇷🇺🇺🇿 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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❗️Poland will limit the right of free movement within the country for Russian diplomats, the head of Poland's Foreign Ministry said.

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Rostec starts delivering components for first, fully Russian-made communication satellite

Rostec and its enterprises have completed the development of actuators for the microwave switches of the Express-AMU4 satellite and have started their delivery. These devices will enable the first-ever fully Russian-made satellite to transmit data and provide communications, as reported by the Rostec press service.

◾️ Actuators are a functional element of automatic control systems. These products include electric motors, electric and hydraulic drives, relay devices, and manipulators.

◾️ On the Express-AMU4 satellite, they will enable microwave switches to shift between different radio signals – a feat necessary for data transmission, fixed and mobile communications, and digital television broadcasting.

The Express-AMU4 spacecraft will be the first completely domestic communications satellite. The launch into geostationary orbit - about 36,000 kilometers above the Earth - is expected in 2026 on a Proton rocket from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome.

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An Egyptian soldier died during a shootout with Israeli troops at the Rafah checkpoint, according to Kan radio station.

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