⚡️ Meeting of foreign ministers of Russia, Ukraine and Turkey planned at 08:00 GMT, Lavrov is expected to give press conference, organizers say

⚡️ US-funded bio labs in Ukraine conducted research into bat coronavirus, Russian MoD says

❗️ Russian Defense Ministry says will publish soon package of documents received from Ukrainian biolaboratories staff, results of their examination

❗️ NATO says alliance is not at war with Russia, wants to avoid escalation

⚡️ The Russian MoD's latest statements about the Ukrainian crisis:

▪️ The Russian Ministry of Defence will soon publish a new package of documents on biolaboratories in Ukraine.

▪️ A mechanism for the hidden spread of deadly pathogens was created in Ukraine.

▪️ Moscow says the United States implemented a project in Ukraine to study the transfer of pathogens by birds migrating between Ukraine and Russia.

▪️ The Russian armed forces have destroyed more than 2,900 military facilities in Ukraine.

▪️ Russian military specialists received documents confirming transfer of human biomaterials from Ukraine to abroad at the direction of the US.

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📸 The Russian MoD has published a video of a combat helicopter sortie during the special military operation in Ukraine

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⚡️ Turkey hopes meeting of top Russian, Ukrainian diplomats to bring peace - Foreign Ministry

🇷🇺 🇹🇷 Video of the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Russia and Turkey

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‼️ Meeting between Russia's FM Lavrov, Ukraine's Kuleba has begun in Antalya

❗️ Kremlin on Washington’s response in event of confiscation of assets of companies leaving Russia: Consequences will be mutually negative

⚡️ Kremlin: If someone uses weapons against Russian forces in Ukraine, they will become targets

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Journalists wait in the conference hall where Russian FM Lavrov is set to hold a presser

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🇷🇺 🇺🇦 First video of Lavrov and Kuleba in the meeting room

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A heated exchange ahead of news conference between Russian MFA spokeswoman Maria Zakharova and CNN journalist. Key disagreements are on what's happening on the ground in Ukraine and on why Western media ignored previous 8 years of the conflict in Donbass.

❗️ EU has reached limit of its capabilities to impose financial sanctions on Russia, Borrell says

⚡️ Kuleba says negotiations with Lavrov in Antalya were difficult

❗️ Ukrainian FM Kuleba says no agreement on ceasefire reached

⚡️ The Ukrainian foreign minister said that the issues of opening humanitarian corridors and the ceasefire regime were discussed at the meeting with Lavrov