❗️Iranian ambassador Mojtaba Amani in Beirut, Lebanon, was injured in the explosion of a communication device, Iranian media reported.

Lebanese hospitals report more than 1,200 injured.

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❗️Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov talked to Choe Son Hu, the North Korean FM, about the development of relations between Moscow and Pyongyang - Russian Foreign Ministry

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How does Ukraine try to distance itself from suspected Trump assassin?

It seems the Kiev regime is desperately trying to brush off Ukraine’s links to the suspected Trump shooter Ryan Wesley Routh, following his claims (on X and in interviews) about his involvement in the Ukraine conflict.

First and foremost, Volodymyr Zelensky was quick to condemn the assassination attempt, claiming that he’s “glad to hear” that Trump is “safe and unharmed”.

🔹 Zelensky then went further by extending his “best wishes” to the 45th US president and his family and adding: “It’s good that the suspect was apprehended quickly.”

🔹 In the same vein, the International Legion of Ukraine, a unit with the Ukrainian Ground Forces, argued that it had no association with Routh.

🔹 “American citizen Ryan Routh has never served in the International Legion and has no relation to the unit. Rumors disseminated in certain media are not true,” the unit said in a statement.

🔹 The Guardian has meanwhile cited the legion as saying that Routh's ideas about what he once called “a black and white” Ukraine conflict were “delusional.”

🔹 The same tone was struck by Matthew Crosston, a professor of national security and director of academic transformation at the US' Bowie State University who told Sputnik that “the early information coming out about the [suspected Trump] shooter clearly indicates a man of questionable mental stability that has over the years often resulted in radical extreme expressions of delusional political action.”

🔹 Crosston minced no words when dubbing Routh “an unhealthy and unstable person.” In last year’s interview with the New York Times, Routh claimed he was willing “to fight and die in Ukraine”, and in separate development, he told Newsweek that he’s eager to recruit volunteers for Ukraine’s Foreign Legion.

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⚡️The settlement of Ukrainsk in the Donetsk People's Republic came under the control of Russian troops, law enforcement agencies told Sputnik

The photo shows the ventilation shaft of one of the mines, where Russian soldiers raised a flag.

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The number of victims in Lebanon as a result of the explosion of communication devices has exceeded 1,500, Sky News Arabia TV reports.

Hospitals in Beirut, Nabatieh, Saida, and Tyre are overcrowded with victims of explosions caused by communication devices, according to Lebanon’s acting Health Minister Firas Abiad. The devices allegedly detonated as a result of a large-scale Israeli sabotage.

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Sergei Shoigu, Russia's former minister of defense and current secretary of the Security Council, arrived in Iran on an unannounced visit

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