“This is not signaling someone, not some underscoring of some ‘red lines’ - this is about practice,” Korotchenko tells Sputnik.

“This is a response mechanism in case NATO enters a war with Russia,” he surmises.

“We do not need to send signals to anyone. We do not need to once again draw ‘red lines’ that lost their value already,” he adds. “We must be prepared for full-scale military action involving the use of tactical nuclear weapons.”

"If you have your security clearance revoked, you're not in a position to go to another agency. Exactly. You can't say, I want to go to Immigration and Customs Enforcement because I think that they need some help over there. No, you have been deemed disloyal to the United States. And so lacking a security clearance, that's a huge, huge issue," he said.

"It wasn't a question of were you present and then did you go inside the Capitol or did you engage in violence? It's do you have any views that we don't favor? And so for that to lead to a purge of conservative employees, again, it's just totally inappropriate and wrong, but it's a sign of how polarizing January 6th was to our country, I think," he said.

“We have a bilateral scientific agenda with almost all countries, and now, against the background of this, we will separately discuss new interesting projects, as a rule, these are grant programs and various kinds of new research projects that correspond to the interests of each country,” Falkov said.

“We don't anticipate, we don't expect that there'll be any imminent threat or any threat at all, quite frankly, to American national security in the region, in the Caribbean region, or anywhere else," Kirby said.

“To include Belousov A.R. - Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation as a permanent member of the Russian Security Council,” the text of the decree reads.

The Security Council of the Russian Federation is a body under the President of the Russian Federation, which drafts presidential resolutions on issues of ensuring the protection of vital interests of the individual, society and the state from internal and external threats.

"I can confirm that threatening messages to the Russian embassy, for example, are received almost daily. And not only to the administration, but also to regular diplomats,” Antonov said in a commentary distributed by the embassy.

"Thus, we know very well that in some states, primarily on the West Coast, groups of natives of Ukraine and relocants from our country sympathetic to Kiev are gathering. Someone is nurturing, mentoring, pumping poisonous propaganda into the youth. They are being prepared to be thrown onto the battlefield in Eastern Europe, and maybe even to other gangster antics. A lot of money is spent on this. And it is unlikely that the organization of such extremist cells goes unnoticed by law enforcement agencies. However, nothing is done regardless of the obvious risks,” he said.

"The town of Shebekino was shelled by the Ukrainian armed forces from MLRS. One civilian was killed as a result of a direct hit of a shell on an apartment. The man died of his wounds on the spot before medics arrived. I express my sincere condolences to the family and friends of the deceased. As of this moment, three people were wounded. Two women with various shrapnel wounds to the hands and legs were taken by ambulance crews to the city hospital No. 2 in Belgorod," Gladkov said on Telegram.

"We were in receipt of this reply that Hamas delivered to Qatar and to Egypt, and we are evaluating it right now," Kirby said during a press briefing, declining to provide any more details, except it was "certainly helpful" for US to receive any response from Hamas.

Meanwhile, Al Jazeera reported, citing sources, that Hamas’ response includes full withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Gaza Strip, including Rafah and the border area with Egypt.

"The Sparrow drone is designed for reconnaissance and fire correction, that is, in terms of functionality it is our domestic analog of Mavic copters widely used on the front on both sides. We got a drone that is not inferior to it: compact, foldable, with almost similar technical characteristics and control panel", - said the interlocutor of the agency.

Sparrow's ground station is also connected to a neural network that helps the drone operator recognize targets like armored vehicles, artillery, infantry, vehicles and others.

"Russia is ready to deepen and expand reciprocal and beneficial cooperation with each and every nation on the basis of mutual respect and consideration of each other’s interest," the ambassador told the event.

"They want to impose a unipolar neocolonial mindset on everyone else, the mindset where the UN Charter and International Law are replaced by certain rules invented by who knows who," the ambassador said.

Nitazenes were responsible for nearly 100 fatalities in Estonia and Latvia last year and have contributed to numerous overdoses in France and Ireland. The EU Drug Report 2024 revealed that nitazenes, which are hundreds of times more potent than heroin and stronger than fentanyl, are often misrepresented as street-grade heroin, adding a dangerous element to the drug market.

Last year, synthetic opioids, particularly fentanyl, were responsible for more than 70,000 deaths in the US, where the transition from prenoscription painkillers to heroin and then to synthetic opioids had devastating effects.

EU police have raised alarms about the industrial-scale exploitation of African children. These drug networks are capitalizing on the vast supply of vulnerable young migrants to expand Europe's £10 billion cocaine market. Reports indicate that these cartels use brutal methods such as torture and rape to control and coerce their young victims.

According to a Belgian federal police document, thousands of unaccompanied foreign minors cross EU borders annually, often vanishing without a trace, as reported by the Guardian. Eric Garbar, head of human trafficking and smuggling at the Belgian federal judicial police, noted that Europe faces an "unstoppable low-cost human resource" of African minors being exploited, as quoted by the publication.