◾️ STAY TUNED: Putin to speak at SPIEF plenary session

◾️ Russian Navy vessels to arrive in Havana on June 12 - Cuban Foreign Ministry

◾️ US munitions were used by Israel in deadly strike on UN School in Gaza – report

◾️ “Political posture” - an analyst calls out Macron’s promises to Ukraine ahead of European elections

◾️ Mexico and Nicaragua and Argentina will not participate in the Ukraine conference in Switzerland

◾️ Radical center on way out as Europeans chafe over lack of “ideological flexibility”

◾️ ‘Be strong and ready to suffer’: Alexander Dugin offers advice to Western dissidents

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📹 During aerial reconnaissance, Russian paratroopers discovered and destroyed Ukrainian armored vehicles near the town of Chasov Yar in the Donetsk area

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📹President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik in an exclusive interview with Sputnik at SPIEF2024 reveals:

◾️ What makes the UN resolution on genocide in Srebrenica an "absolutely superficial document"?

◾️ Why has Russia been the only country to consistently uphold the Dayton Accords?

◾️ Why is Republika Srpska ready to defy the notion of imposing sanctions on Russia?

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🇷🇺💔🇵🇸 Maria Zakharova couldn’t hold back her feelings speaking about Gaza’s victims during an exclusive interview with Sputnik

The Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman discussed the topic at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF)

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❗️ EXCLUSIVE: UN's Srebrenica resolution ‘superficial’, imposed by international community - Milorad Dodik

The controversial resolution passed by the UN General Assembly that named July 11 as "International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the 1995 Genocide in Srebrenica" is no more than a superficial document, Milorad Dodik, president of Republika Srpska, told Sputnik in an exclusive interview.

“It is only called a resolution to make it sound more serious and impressive, but in reality, it is an absolutely superficial document. It was imposed by the international community and is absolutely out of keeping with the law. This is a private act by people from Sarajevo, supported by New York, and it has nothing to do with reality," said Dodik.

He underscored that relations in Bosnia and Herzegovina were already difficult, but now they are more so than ever.

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🎯 Right on target!

Russian Su-34 aircraft crews have destroyed camouflaged Ukrainian equipment and manpower on the front line with Russia’s Battlegroup Vostok.

The strike was carried out with high-explosive bombs with a universal planning and correction module.

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Russian political scientist and economist Sergey Karaganov will moderate the plenary session of the SPIEF with Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin announced.

The president will assess the state of the Russian economy and future guidelines at the session, presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov noted.

👉 Follow the session’s live stream here at 11 am GMT

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🗣 The Kremlin is surprised by Joe Biden's statement about having known Vladimir Putin for 40 years, and does not know what it is based on, presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said.

Biden's aggressive language towards Putin does not show the US president in a good light, and the Russian leader will not react to it, he added.

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📹 EXCLUSIVE: Bosnia and Herzegovina's peaceful separation solution ‘in accordance with Dayton Peace Treaty’ - Milorad Dodik

The peaceful separation plan offered by Republika Srpska to its partners in Bosnia and Herzegovina is a solution that is “absolutely possible in accordance with the Dayton Peace Treaty,” Milorad Dodik, president of Republika Srpska, told Sputnik in an exclusive interview.

Only Republika Srpska and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina are in a position to make initiatives and decisions on the matter, he noted, adding that, “until today, it was completely different. All the initiatives, and even meddling in the Dayton Treaty, were carried out by outside forces.”

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❗️ Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov's latest statements:

◾️ Emmanuel Macron demonstrates absolute support for Ukraine and has declared France's readiness for direct participation in the military conflict.

◾️ Participation of countries in the summit on Ukraine in Switzerland is not a topic for dialogue between Putin and his partners.

◾️ The summit on Ukraine in Switzerland will be empty in terms of eventfulness.

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US to roll out more ‘assertive’ nuclear strategy - report

The White House is about to roll out an amended, “more assertive” nuclear weapons strategy, the media outlet Semafor has reported.

Washington sees the need "to adopt a more competitive approach to non-proliferation and arms control" and "make certain adjustments to our posture and capabilities," the outlet cited a senior administration official as saying.

Specifically, the plans may refer to developing a new nuclear gravity bomb, as well as efforts to extend the life of several Ohio-class nuclear submarines, the report said.

The administration intends to consider how US nuclear forces may have to “evolve further” and will discuss work to ensure that key allies “have long-range strike capabilities and surveillance abilities,” the unnamed official added. The plans will reportedly be announced by the National Security Council’s Senior Director for Arms Control, Disarmament, and Nonproliferation Pranay Vaddi at an arms control conference on Friday.

The report pointed out that the New START Treaty is set to expire in 2026.

The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) entered into force in 2011. Amid NATO's proxy war in Ukraine, Moscow suspended its participation in the accord in February 2023. At the time, President Vladimir Putin said that the US demanded that Russia unconditionally fulfill its obligations under the treaty while being arbitrary about its own obligations. In June, the US announced its "countermeasures" in response to Russia’s suspension of the treaty. Russia stated that it would continue to comply with quantitative restrictions and notifications, adding that it was open to dialogue on the issue.

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Who’s Sergey Karaganov, today’s moderator of SPIEF's plenary session?

Sergey Karaganov is a Russian political scientist who heads the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, Russia’s security analytical think tank. He specializes in Soviet/Russian foreign and defense policies, Russian-European security and economic interaction, and Russia’s pivot to the East.

Karaganov has spoken extensively on the escalating threat of a new global world war, especially in his article “How to Prevent World War Three.”

“The primary sources of this threat reside in the moral, political, intellectual, social, and economic multi-level crisis plaguing the bulk of the collective West, which has been imposing its interests and rules on the world over the past five centuries,” he noted.

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❗️ EXCLUSIVE: Putin ‘respects’ Bosnia and Herzegovina's peaceful separation solution proposed by Republika Srpska - Milorad Dodik

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin “understands and respects” Bosnia and Herzegovina's peaceful separation solution proposed by Republika Srpska, President Milorad Dodik told Sputnik in an exclusive interview.

The Russian Federation – a witness to the signing of the Dayton Treaty – remained the only one faithful to the terms, while other participants “simply stopped acting and complying with those agreements,” he said.

“Putin himself has faced such deception and betrayal on the part of the West,” Dodik said, recalling how Russia was misled by the Minsk accords on Ukraine.

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The plenary session of the SPIEF-2024 with Putin coming soon

The Russian president will participate in the plenary session of the 27th St Petersburg International Economic Forum where he is expected to outline the problems of international trade and the financial system, assess the situation in the Russian economy and its functioning in the conditions of a special military operation.

Bolivian President Luis Arce, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa will also take part at today's event.

👉 Stay tuned for the latest updates and today's live stream at 11:00 GMT!

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The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), funded by billionaire George Soros, is pushing for the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants for Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev and several Russian journalists, including Dmitry Kiselev and Margarita Simonyan, director general and editor-in-chief of the Rossiya Segodnya media group, Sputnik's parent company.

FIDH has submitted an appeal to the ICC, citing "criminal hate speech" allegedly used in Russian media.

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❗️ Three people were killed and seven were rescued from under the rubble of a residential building in Lugansk after a missile attack by Ukrainian forces, the Russian Emergencies Ministry said.

The number of victims of the Ukrainian strike has risen to 35, including three children, authorities said.

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🇮🇷🇷🇺 "Iranians are very pragmatic partners and see direct benefits in cooperation with the EAEU"

Speaking to Sputnik on the sidelines of the SPIEF, Dmitry Volvach, Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, commented on Iran's application for observer status in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU).

💬 "Our Iranian colleagues understand that there is indeed a great, primarily economic, potential in this cooperation,” Volvach noted. “I emphasize that they are very pragmatic partners, which means that they see direct benefits.”

“The temporary agreement with Iran has allowed us to double our mutual trade. This is also a way out for us, and a good way out with good conditions, with comfortable tariffs to new markets. This is also obvious and that is why all countries have supported the conclusion of such agreements with the free trade zone,” he added.

💬 “Let's see what will be the results of the consultations on Iran's accession to the EAEU as an observer. I hope that everyone will express their support,” Volvach said. “The perimeter of our Eurasian Economic Union will soon become a very serious economic and strategic partner. And not only in terms of trade in goods, but also in terms of logistics. I think this is quite logical.”

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