🇪🇺🇬🇪🇷🇺EU urges Georgia to follow the sanctions against Russia regarding the ban on flights and not to let Russian planes into its territory

This was announced at a briefing in Brussels by the official representative of the EU Foreign Service, Peter Stano.

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) said that they are trying to bring Ukraine to the negotiating table on Moscow's terms with the help of other countries, which Kiev will never do:

“Now there is just such a escalation of the situation in order to quickly put us at the negotiating table on Russia's terms. There is a huge campaign going on right now. A lot of offers from different countries. If Zelensky decides to negotiate with the Russian Federation, "it will be only on the terms of our country. No one is going to give up national interests, no matter how much representatives of some countries would like it, which are actively involved in the situation.

After that Danilov gave another statement(not included in the video):

"We are not going to surrender Bakhmut and we will keep as long as the military deems necessary for the tactical and strategic purposes that the military and military-political leadership of our country has."

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🇷🇺⚖️Russian Federation Investigative Committee will soon put on the wanted list the chairman and three judges of the International Criminal Court who issued the arrest warrant for the President of the Russian Federation and the Children's Ombudsman - Head of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin

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The United States is preparing for a massive influx of illegal migrants from Mexico after the expiration at 00:00 (7:00 Moscow time) of a legislative provision that allowed the authorities to deport migrants under the pretext of fighting COVID.

In the town of Ciudad Juarez, which borders the American El Paso, hundreds of migrants gathered in anticipation of midnight. They are followed by a little over a dozen border guards.

The head of Twitter will be a top manager of NBCUniversal Linda Yaccarino, according to the Wall Street Journal, citing sources.

Yaccarino has been with the NBCU since 2011. During this time, her team of two thousand people earned more than $100 billion from advertising sales.

Her Linkedin shows she served as an Executive Chair on the World Economic Forum.

She also worked with the White House in 2021-2022 on a Covid-19 vaccination campaign.

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🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦🇷🇺US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken commented on London's decision to supply long-range Storm Shadow cruise missiles to Ukraine.

"The question is, does all this meet the needs of Ukraine? We are confident that this is the case," Blinken said.

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Thursday May 11 headlines:

▪️ The head of PMC "Wagner" Yevgeny Prigozhin reported that "Wagner" advanced another 220m in Artyomovsk today.

▪️ British Defense Minister Ben Wallace confirmed that London is transferring long-range Storm Shadow cruise missiles to Kiev,speaking to members of the House of Commons of the British Parliament on Thursday, Wallace called the move "a measured and proportionate response to the escalation carried out by Russia."

▪️ "Ukraine received about 600 types of counteroffensive weapons - more than any one army in the world has."
- "In the coming weeks and months, when everything starts, it will be significant how the Ukrainians use the systems that they have been provided." - U.S. Army Europe and Africa spokesperson Col. Martin O’Donnell.

▪️ Volodymyr Zelensky has said his country needs more time to launch a much-anticipated counter-offensive against Russian forces, as its military awaits the delivery of promised military aid.

▪️ Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and the UN agreed to continue negotiations on a grain deal in the near future - Turkish MODERATES .
- "If by May 18 it is not possible to reach a consensus on a grain deal, taking into account Russian requirements, it will cease to exist" - Deputy FM Vershinin.

▪️ US national security advisor Jake Sullivan and China’s top diplomat Wang Yi met for a round of talks in Vienna.

▪️ The BRICS countries, at the upcoming summit, will discuss the introduction of a single currency within the association - South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor.

▪️ The Supreme Court of Pakistan after two days of mass protests in the country found the arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Khan illegal.
- The arrest of Khan has been declared null and void by the Supreme Court of Pakistan.

And lastly:

▪️ Iran’s Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance arrives in Saudi Arabia at the head of a delegation, in the first visit of an Iranian official to Saudi Arabia after the resumption of relations between the two countries.

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🇬🇧 🇷🇺 Today, a British electronic reconnaissance aircraft RC-135W is operating in the Black Sea. However, the special attention of observers was attracted by the escort of the board by two Typhoon fighters at once.

The UK has been resorting to such measures since the fall of last year, when a rocket “unexpectedly” flew near the reconnaissance aircraft of the United Kingdom. In London, they raised a panic, calling the actions of Russian pilots "dangerous and impermissible."

The Russian defense ministry explained the episode as a malfunction, due to which an unforeseen missile launch occurred. In Britain, they did not particularly believe this and began to send RW-135W with an escort of fighters for protection.

🔻At the same time, the electronic reconnaissance aircraft itself is now located southeast of the Crimean peninsula. Most likely, it is moving in the direction of the Kerch Bridge and the coast of the Krasnodar Territory, where the American RQ-4B UAV was working a couple of days ago.

And northeast of Romania, the EP-3E electronic intelligence aircraft has been operating for several hours. The accumulation of intelligence officers from NATO countries may well indicate preparations for the next strikes on the southern Russian territories.
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THE MASSIVE INVASION OF OUR SOUTHERN BORDER IS UNPRECEDENTED ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. IT’S ABSOLUTELY CRAZY!!!

😐🇷🇺🇬🇧The Russian Federation reserves the right to take all measures to neutralize the threats that may arise when Kiev uses Storm Shadow missiles, the Russian Foreign Ministry noted

🇷🇺🇿🇦🇺🇦South African President Cyril Ramaphosa called Putin:
"Topical issues of strategic partnership were discussed. The mood for further activation of mutually beneficial ties in various fields was expressed.

The importance of continuing close coordination between Russia and South Africa in the context of preparations for major events, in particular, the upcoming second Russia-Africa summit in St. Petersburg at the end of July and the BRICS summit, which will be held in August in Johannesburg, was noted.

When discussing the issues of global food security, the readiness of the Russian side to supply substantial amounts of grain and fertilizers to African states in need, including free of charge, was confirmed.

Having supported the idea expressed by Ramaphosa about the participation of a group of African leaders in the discussion of the prospects for the settlement of the Ukrainian conflict, Putin outlined the principal assessments of the destructive line of the Kiev regime and its patrons, noted that the Russian side has never refused to work on the diplomatic track"

The conversation was initiated by the South African side.

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The British Spectator magazine discusses why the economic war against Russia failed (that's exactly what the noscript sounds like).

The publication writes that the confrontation with the Russian Federation is not only on the military, but also on the economic front, and "few people in the West realize how bad things are in this aspect of the war."

One of the reasons is "while the West was interested in an economic war, the rest of the world does not want it."

"Russia quickly increased exports to China and India, which preferred to buy oil at a discount rather than resist the invasion of Ukraine," the article says.

Europe also continues to trade with Russia through third countries.

"The import of German cars to Kazakhstan, for example, increased by 507% in the period from 2021 to 2022, and to Armenia — by 761%. Exports of chemical products to Armenia increased by 110 percent, and to Kazakhstan - by 129 percent. Sales of electrical and computer equipment to Armenia increased by 343%," the article says.

The calculations for the collapse of the Russian economy were also not justified.

In April last year, the IMF predicted that they would shrink by 8.5% in 2022 and by another 2.3% this year. But, "as it turned out, last year GDP fell by only 2.1%, and this year the IMF predicts a slight increase of 0.7%."

"The West started the sanctions war with an exaggerated sense of its own influence around the world," the publication concludes. In his opinion, the Russian economy is not destroyed, but reoriented, "to look to the east and south, and not to the west."

🇺🇸🇮🇷US to send reinforcements to Gulf after Iran ship threats White House stated

United States said Friday it was sending reinforcements to the Gulf after what it called "increasing harassment by Iran" of ships in the oil-rich waters.

“The Department of Defense will be making a series of moves to bolster our defensive posture” in the Gulf, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters, saying there would be “details on those reinforcements in coming days.”