❗️Several Russian Navy vessels will enter Cuba on June 12 within international cooperation framework, Navy Commander-in-Chief confirmed to Sputnik.

Earlier, the Cuban Foreign Ministry said that the visit of the Russian ships was in line with friendly relations and that none of the ships carried nuclear weapons.

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Stavropol compact rocket ship launched in the Russian Republic of Tatarstan, Sputnik correspondent reports.

Such ships have been built at the Zelenodolsk Gorky Plant since 2010, the Stavropol ship is the twelfth in the series.

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Key statements by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov:

▪️The sudden change in the US position on the supply of weapons to Ukraine's terrorist Azov battalion* indicates that Washington will stop at nothing to suppress Russia.

▪️The Kremlin is extremely negative about the lifting of the US ban on the supply of weapons to the Azov battalion.

▪️Washington is ready to flirt with neo-Nazis, which confirms the relevance of Russia's concerns about the spread of neo-Nazi ideas.

*The 'Azov' battalion is a terrorist organization outlawed in Russia.

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🇷🇺🇮🇷Russia and Iran continue to work on comprehensive treaty, Kremlin spokesman said.

"The work [on a comprehensive treaty] continues. But of course, given the current period in Tehran, when preparations for the presidential elections are underway, the schedule is shifting slightly to the right," Dmitry Peskov said.

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The Elysee Palace has denied reports that Macron intends to resign.

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Riots break out across France following right-wing victory in EU elections

Violent clashes have erupted in Paris, Marseille, Rennes, Bordeaux, Montpellier, and Besançon as leftist demonstrators protested against the recent right-wing win in the EU elections.

Police resorted to tear gas in Paris, where protestors were heard chanting "ACAB" (All Cops Are B*stards).

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❗️Russian special services have established the involvement of Ukrainian military intelligence in the organization of the terrorist attack on Moscow's Crocus City Hall, the director of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), Alexander Bortnikov, has reiterated.

In May, at a meeting in Kyrgyzstan, he said that "the military intelligence of Ukraine is directly related" to the terrorist attack.

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❗️Russia's military liberated the settlements of Artemovka in the Lugansk People's Republic and Timkovka in the Kharkov region, the Ministry of Defense reported.

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

▪️Units of the Yug Battlegroup have improved their situation along the front line. Ukrainian losses amounted to more than 740 soldiers;

▪️Units of the Tsentr Battlegroup improved their tactical situation in their area of responsibility and repelled five counterattacks by Ukrainian troops;

▪️ Units of the Vostok Battlegroup occupied more advantageous positions, Ukrainian forces in their area of responsibility lost up to 135 military personnel and a tank;

▪️Units of the Sever Battlegroup defeated two brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kharkov region, enemy losses per day amounted to over 265 military personnel;

▪️Ukrainian losses amounted to more than 560 soldiers in the zone of responsibility of the Zapad Battlegroup in one day;

▪️Russian air defenses shot down 45 Ukrainian drones, two Hammer bombs and ten HIMARS missiles.

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💥Another Abrams was destroyed near the village of Progress, Donetsk People's Republic.

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Poland braces for EU procedure over high budget deficit caused by massive Ukraine military spending

The EU’s infringement procedure “will be definitely launched” against Poland due to its excessive government deficit, the country’s Finance Minister Andrzej Domanski has told reporters.

He expressed hope that the bloc’s recommendations will be very "mild" because Poland purportedly “invests in the security for the whole of the European Union," which is why he said Warsaw needs to increase defense spending.

In the EU, if a country’s deficit is above 3% of gross domestic product (GDP), it is put under an excessive deficit procedure and must cut it by 0.5% annually. Domanski earlier said that “4.1% of the GDP is the share we [Poland] spend on defense this year and next year it will be more."

The country’s general governance deficit stood at 5.1% of GDP in 2023, with economists projecting the figure will soar to 5.4% before the end of this year, according to a Reuters poll.

Per Poland’s Ministry of Finance, the country’s high deficit is the result of the arms supplies to Ukraine and Warsaw’s massive expenditure on the Polish Army.

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The vice president of Malawi and all other plane passengers did not survive the crash — reports

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Small missile ship ‘Stavropol’ launched near Kazan

The ship is part of the “Buyan-M” project and is expected to be sent to the Baltic Sea after it is lowered into the waters of Russia's Zelenodolsk, according to the media.

“The appearance of the new ship is certainly a strengthening of the Baltic Fleet. Sweden and Finland have decided to abandon their neutral policy. Therefore, eight more long-range missiles are not superfluous for the Baltic Fleet,” military expert Dmitry Boltenkov explained.

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