❗️The total Ukrainian losses during the day amounted to 1,520 troops, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.

Four Ukrainian unmanned boats were destroyed in the northwest of the Black Sea. A Ukrainian Su-27 was also shot down by Russian air defenses, the Defense Ministry noted.

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📹 ⚡️ British pro-Palestine activists claim to have sabotaged a factory producing targeting systems for Israeli F-35 fighter jets by cutting its internet cables

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Czech bid to buy artillery ammo for Ukraine on verge of collapse

Central Europe’s largest ammunition supplier, Czechoslovak Group (CSG), has warned that half of the shells it has received can’t be sent to Ukraine as quickly as planned.

“Every week the price is going up and there are big issues with the components,” Michal Strnad, owner and chair of CSG, said, as quoted by the Financial Times.

As a result of the poor quality of shells purchased at the initiative of the Czech government from Asia and Africa, they cannot be delivered as planned before missing components are added from the CSG’s own production, the newspaper quotes him as saying.

This adds to a string of difficulties the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been facing lately, amid successful advances by Russian troops on the front line.

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German police vs pro-Palestine activists

A wave of protests has broken out in Germany against Israeli crimes in the Gaza Strip. German police chased protesters through the streets, aggressively abusing their power against the demonstrators.

Is this the democracy Europe should look up to?

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❗️Russia, in connection with the events in Rafah, calls on Israel to immediately implement the resolutions of the UN Security Council and UN General Assembly on stopping hostilities in Gaza, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

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❗️Russia considers Zelensky the leader of the Kiev regime, whose legitimacy is disputed in Ukraine, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

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❗️"Zelensky became illegitimate after May 20," one of the authors of Ukraine’s current constitution, Dmitry Tabachnik, told Sputnik, adding that "this clearly proceeds from the norms of the constitution."

In his opinion, this illegitimacy was "created" specifically to complicate peace negotiations.

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🇨🇳Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a speech at the opening of the China-Arab Cooperation Forum in Beijing

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NATO’s grip on Gotland: Who’s militarizing the Baltic Sea?

Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service says Swedish military’s top brass is whipping up anti-Russian hysteria by suggesting Moscow "has its eye" on Gotland Island.

🔸Located about 150 km southeast of Stockholm and 250 km northwest of the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, Gotland has been central to Swedish anti-Russian fearmongering since 2014, with paranoia over imaginary Russian plans to seize it lingering since its temporary capture by the Russian Empire in the early 19th century.

🔸Russia has repeatedly stated it has no plans to attack Sweden but has warned Stockholm against provocations, including recent threats to turn Gotland into a NATO fortification.

🔸“As a result of such provocative activity, new threats are created to the safety of navigation and economic activity in the region,” the Russian Foreign Ministry told Sputnik, warning that Moscow will continue to take measures to “ensure Russia’s security” in light of NATO’s activities.

🔸The alliance has made no secret of plans to turn the Baltic Sea into a “NATO lake,” and has greedily eyed Gotland as a major component of its strategy, training alongside Swedish troops on the island in 2022, and planning fresh drills under the auspices of NATO’s BALTOPS exercises in June.

🔸Gotland is just one of an array of NATO facilities in the region, which after the alliance’s 2023/2024 expansion came to include the Musko and Karlskrona naval bases in Sweden, and Finnish bases in Helsinki, Turku, Kirkkonummi and Raseborg.

🔸That’s on top of naval facilities NATO has access to in Minnisadam, Estonia, Liepaja, Latvia, Klaipeda, Lithuania, Hel, Gdynia, Kolobrzeg, and Swinoujscie, Poland, and Rostock, Warnemunde, Eckernforde, Germany.

🔸NATO has bolstered its Baltic presence with "multinational battlegroups," deploying warships, aircraft, and troops to maintain a rotating "forward presence" along its eastern flank with Russia, and conducting air policing missions.

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Russia's President Vladimir Putin spoke to a large family from Mariupol

The president was told that the city was being restored right before the residents' very eyes.

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Slovenia has recognized the independence of Palestine, the Republic's Foreign Ministry said.

This comes just days after Ireland, Norway and Spain recognized Palestine as a state.

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Canadian PM Trudeau on the invitation for Russian officials to join the D-Day event: It is important to recognize all countries involved, but that does not preclude our extreme disagreement.

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Pepe Escobar: The West is Hell-Bent on Provoking Russia Into Hot War

🔹 For all their circumlocutions, NATO Secretary Jens Stoltenberg, French President Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz have effectively greenlighted Kiev using Western weapons for attacks deep inside the Russian Federation. The alleged debate, still ongoing, is just a “smokescreen” for the real objective: a pretext that could lead to WWIII.

🔹 There’s no reason to think Kiev will stick to “limited” strikes against relatively unimportant targets. Instead, it is likely to target critical security infrastructure in hopes of provoking an unrelenting Russian response, which in turn would pave the way for NATO to invoke Article 5 and de facto engage in a hot war.

🔹 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, once again displaying his trademark Taoist patience, had to come up with another serious reminder: Russia will regard the deployment of nuclear-capable F-16s in Ukraine – which de facto can only be operated by NATO pilots – as “a deliberate signal from NATO in the nuclear field to Russia.”

🔹 And still the gaggle of armchair Dr. Strangeloves – lavishly rewarded by the rarified Atlanticist plutocracy holding real power, funds, influence and mass media control - is not listening.

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🇷🇺 Putin's heartfelt message: love and family

"There is nothing more significant in life than love and children" — in a brief but touching moment during a meeting with large families Putin celebrated the importance of love and family, affirming the profound joy they bring.

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