❗️ The Russian Foreign Ministry has released its response to the US on the security proposals in Eastern Europe.

In the document, the Ministry specifically stressed the unacceptability of demands to withdraw Russian troops from the country’s certain areas.

The Ministry pointed out that Russia is concerned over “the growing military activity of the United States and NATO directly near Russian borders, while our ‘red lines’ and core security interests, as well as Russia’s sovereign right to protect them, are still being ignored”.

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❗️ US President Joe Biden has claimed that "there is every indication" that Russia is "prepared" to invade Ukraine, insisting that he has information about a "false flag" operation on the part of Moscow.

The president went on to allege that the threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine is "very high", and said that he had no plans to call his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.

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⚡️ Website of Russian Foreign Ministry down as response to US on security proposals released

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇸The Russian Foreign Ministry has made a statement after sending the US its observations on the American response to Russian proposals on security guarantees:

• The US "twisted" Russia's proposals on security guarantees by ignoring the fact that the proposals were a package deal and choosing items that benefit them the most;

• Moscow’s response stressed the unacceptability of demands to withdraw troops from certain areas in Russia;

• For de-escalation of tensions in the Ukraine affair, Kyiv needs to comply with the Minsk agreements, while NATO members should halt deliveries of weapons to Ukraine and withdraw those already supplied, as well as recall all Western advisers and instructors from Ukraine and refrain from conducting joint military exercise with Ukraine;

• Russia insists on the withdrawal of all US forces and weapons from Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltics;

• Russia expects specific proposals from the US and NATO on the content and forms of the alliance's commitment not to expand to the East;

• Arms control issues cannot be considered separately from other topics of security guarantees.

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🐶 Missing dog at the US Senate
This morning, a lost dog followed US Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID) around in the Dirksen Senate Office Building.

"I wondered why you guys were all looking at me," Crapo said. It is not his dog; it just went into a hearing room. The dog was recovered by a staffer, who explained that "somebody left the door open."

The author of the tweet @burgessev declared ''I could break a story on BBB set to pass the Senate and it would get less traction than this dog tweet.''


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⚡️Former president Donald Trump, two of his children must testify in NY Attorney General civil probe, a court ruled Thursday

JUST IN: US Vice President Kamala Harris has landed at Munich Airport in Germany, ahead of the Munich Security Conference

An Allegiant Airlines passenger was kicked off a flight because he refused to change his mask from one that purportedly had the slogan “Let’s go, Brandon,” video shows.

Though the video does not show the message on his mask, the caption said it featured the slogan “Let’s Go, Brandon,” a not-so-secret code for “F*ck Joe Biden” among conservatives.

“The video in question depicts part of an incident involving a passenger who failed to comply with repeated crew member requests to adhere to the federal face mask policy,” the airline said in a statement.

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🔎 The U.S. Justice Department has tapped a seasoned computer crimes prosecutor to lead its new national cryptocurrency enforcement team and announced on Thursday that the FBI is launching a unit for blockchain analysis and virtual asset seizure.

The creation of the FBI's "virtual asset exploitation" unit comes after the Justice Department's largest-ever financial seizure earlier this month. It charged a married New York couple with allegedly laundering bitcoins now valued at over $4.5 billion that were stolen in the 2016 hack of the digital currency exchange Bitfinex.

In some of those cases, the FBI has been able to track down and recover some of the ransom.

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