So this is the capital of Borrell's "civilized garden"

Slovak MEP Milan Mazurek delved into how Brussels looks today.

"Friends, it's morning in the capital of Europe, in civilized Brussels. We're not in some ghetto, we're just one street away from the European Parliament. As you can see, it's littered with garbage. This is what Brussels looks like today, yet we're being lectured by Western Europe that we are not civilized and that we should learn how to run our country from these people," he said.

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Yemen’s Houthis say they fired two missiles, including a hypersonic one, at military targets in Tel Aviv

Air raid sirens sounded across a wide area in central Israel, including Tel Aviv and its suburbs, a Sputnik correspondent reported Monday. The Israeli military said a surface-to-surface missile had been launched from Yemen.

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🇨🇺 Cuba officially applies for BRICS partner status

The Cuban government has made an official request to join the BRICS bloc as a partner country in a letter to President Putin, since Russia currently chairs the association, Carlos Pereira, the director general of bilateral affairs of the Cuban Foreign Ministry, said.

"Cuba has officially requested to be included in BRICS as a 'partner country' in a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is the interim chairman of the association, which is strengthening its position as a key player in global geopolitics and the hope of the Global South," Pereira said on X.

Earlier, Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel received an invitation to the BRICS summit in Kazan.

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📹 Watch footage of a man being pulled out alive from under the rubble after Israeli strikes in the town of Tebnine, southern Lebanon.

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🇷🇺🇨🇳 Russian and Chinese Navy's ships have participated in anti-submarine drills within the framework of joint patrols in the Asia-Pacific region, the Russian Pacific Fleet’s press service stated.

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❗️IDF claims it has killed Suhail Hussein Husseini, commander of Hezbollah headquarters

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Marine Le Pen's niece announced creation of her own party

Marine Le Pen's niece, MEP Marion Marechal, has announced the creation of her own party, which will work “in a structured coalition” with Jordan Bardella's National Rally and Eric Ciotti's Union of the Right for the Republic, according to the newspaper Le Figaro.

The party will be called “Identity and Freedom” and serve as the voice of the right, which opposes the culture of excessive liberalism, dependency, and “fiscal racketeering,” and seeks to break with “mental socialism,” she told the newspaper.

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Ukraine warns Slovakia it won’t extend agreement with Russia on gas transit

Ukraine will not prolong the agreement with Russia on transit of Russian gas through its territory after the current one expires, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmyhal told Slovak PM Robert Fico on Monday.

"Ukraine will not extend the transit agreement with Russia after the expiration of its term," Shmyhal posted on X.

The Ukrainian PM also said that the two countries had agreed to establish an Eastern European energy hub to use Ukraine's gas storage facilities.

Earlier, Slovak Foreign Minister Juraj Blanar told his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov that the country supports maintaining the existing corridors for oil and gas transit.

A decision by Ukraine to cut Central Europe off from access to Russian natural gas via Russia’s only remaining operational gas pipeline in the region “will seriously harm the interests of European consumers who still want to buy Russian gas,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

“They will simply have to pay much more, which will make their industry less competitive,” Peskov said.

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▪️ Yemen’s Houthis say they fired two missiles, including a hypersonic one

▪️ Ukraine warns Slovakia it won’t extend agreement with Russia on gas transit

▪️ Cuba officially applies for BRICS partner status

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❗️ Russia is updating its nuclear doctrine so that its adversaries have no illusions about Moscow's readiness to ensure its security by all available means, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko told Sputnik.

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🎥🎥 Vladimir Putin hosts CIS summit in Moscow

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❗️ Russian troops liberated the settlements of Zolotaya Niva and Zoryanoye Pervoye in the Donetsk People’s Republic, the Defense Ministry said.

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🇷🇺🪖More statements from the Russian Defense Ministry's daily briefing on the special military operation's progress:

◻️ Russian forces hit hit an ammunition container ship, a warehouse and a drone manufacturing facility.

◻️ Russia’s Battlegroup Yug repelled four counterattacks. The enemy lost as many as 855 soldiers.

◻️ Enemy losses in Russia’s Battlegroup Tsentr combat zone came to 495 troops, a tank and an armored vehicle.

◻️ Ukrainian losses reached a total of 115 troops in Battlegroup Vostok’s area of responsibility.

◻️ Enemy lost up to 50 military personnel and an ammunition depot in the Liptsov and Volchansk areas.

◻️ Russian air defenses hit three HIMARS rockets and shot down 49 Ukrainian drones over the day.

◻️ Ukrainian losses reached a total of 55 militants in Battlegroup Dnepr's area of responsibility.

◻️ Enemy losses in Russia’s Battlegroup Zapad combat zone came to 425 troops and two ammunition arsenals.

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🇱🇧 Key remarks by Sheikh Naim Qassem, deputy to Hezbollah's late general secretary and second-in-command of the movement:

🔸 The Israeli enemy, the US and Western countries are plotting to try to instill fear in us, but their plan to intimidate us will fail.

🔸 A great and blessed confrontation is in progress, paving the way for huge changes.

🔸 The whole world has witnessed the crimes by the enemy, including the killings of journalists, medical personnel, and countless others, along with the destruction of homes. This is not merely a struggle; it is simply a wholesale slaughter of free peoples, with America sharing culpability in these crimes, as well as certain parts of Europe.

🔸 The objective of the occupation has been the complete eradication of resistance and the systematic annihilation of the Palestinian people, aimed at stripping them of their ability to resist and claim their rights.

🔸 The crimes currently being committed by Israel today are unprecedented in history. Without the backing of the United States and the West, this war would have reached its conclusion within a month.

🔸 Through its aggression against Lebanon, Israel seeks to reshape the Middle East and eliminate all populations that obstruct its plans. However, the enemy will ultimately face defeat in this conflict.

🔸 Lebanon has been targeted, and Netanyahu has repeatedly stated that he wants a new Middle East, but history has proven time and again that this entity is a danger to the entire region.

🔸 Our struggle is not a fight for Iranian influence, as Netanyahu claims; it is a fight for the liberation of Palestine. Netanyahu may wage war against us for as long as he wants, but he will not accomplish his objectives.

🔸 We express our gratitude to Iran for the support it has consistently provided to the resistance over the years, demonstrating its unwavering commitment to stand by us.

🔸 We have maintained our capabilities, and all the enemy's claims about damage to our strength are mere illusions. This war has neither diminished our will nor our determination to continue the fight.

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