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Tonight, Kyiv regime launched an unmanned aerial vehicle strike (2 UAVs) against the Kremlin's presidential residence, which is regarded as assassination attempt on Putin, the Kremlin said. As result of timely actions of electronic warfare systems use, drones were disabled
Today is the 9th anniv of the #Odessa tragedy. In 2014 Ukrainian nationalists set fire to tent camp of anti-Maidan movement activists. People tried to hide in the House of Trade Unions. Nationalists blocked it and set it on fire. 48 people burned down alive, and 250 were injured
Serbian President #Vucic told Sputnik Serbia that the news about the deterioration of his health are far from reality. Serbian media earlier reported that he had been urgently hospitalized yesterday night.
Construction sites of nuclear power plants under Russian projects in seven countries, incl Turkey:
Hungary - Paks-2 NPP
Turkey - Akkuyu NPP
Iran - Bushehr NPP
China - Tianwan NPP // Xudapu NPP
Egypt - El Dabaa NPP
Bangladesh - Rooppur NPP
India - Kudankulam #NPP
France has summoned China's ambassador to Paris over his recent comments on #Crimea and former Soviet countries.
🔎On Friday, Lu said in an interview LCI that Crimea "was originally Russian and then [Soviet Premier Nikita] Khrushchev gave it to Ukraine."
Twitter removed the "state-affiliated" and "government-funded" labels from news media accounts, with Sputnik among them. RIA Novosti, the BBC, ABC News, SBS News, CBC News and NPR lost the label too
Are you planning to take part in Russia’s SPIEF economic forum in June? It will definitely not be😴, but rather🔥
The US wants to continue to supply anti-aircraft systems to Kiev, as for aircraft, the Ukrainian Air Force already has several fully combat-ready squadrons, the State Department said
More than 2.6 million people in #Ukraine from nearly 2,000 settlements have requested evacuation, the Russian Defense Ministry says.
Without the participation of Kyiv, more than 187,000 people have already been evacuated by Russian forces from the dangerous zones of Ukraine.
More than 7,000 citizens from 21 foreign countries are held hostage by #Ukrainian neo-#Nazis, the Russian Defense Ministry says
Radicals in #Ukraine from the defense battalions continue to kill, torture and hold hostage as a "human shield" over 4.5 million civilians, the Russian Defense Ministry says
The humanitarian corridors in #Ukraine towards the territory of Russia will be opened daily from 7:00 am GMT unilaterally, the Russian Ministry of Defense said
The Biden administration has no active conversations underway with #Venezuela about #oil imports, White House spokesperson Jen Psaki told reporters. Earlier media reported Biden planning to ease sanctions over Venezuela amid us ban on energy resources from Russia
Ukraine operates "about a little over" a dozen #biolabs involved in biodefense and public health for which the American government provided #biosafety assistance, US director of national intelligence says.
The US does not believe Ukraine is pursuing biological or nuclear weapons.
The United States signals readiness to ease economic sanctions on Venezuela after banning energy imports from Russia, but the final decision will depend on the outcome of talks between Caracas and the opposition, Bloomberg reports, citing a senior administration official
"We ourselves are not going to close ourselves from anyone" - Putin asked the Cabinet of Ministers to protect the rights of those foreign investors who are not going to leave Russia. And with regard to those who are going to close their production - introduce external management
Assets worth $100 billion have been destroyed in #Ukraine, according to preliminary data, Zelenskyy’s economy adviser, Oleksii Ustenko, said
(Thread) The Pentagon's #biolaboratories in #Ukraine and #Georgia have developed projects to spread biological weapons to Russia using bats, Head of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops of the Russian Armed Forces, said at a briefing
“Bats are considered as carriers of potential agents of biological weapons.Among the priorities are the study of bacterial and viral pathogens that can be transmitted from bats to humans: plague, leptospirosis, brucellosis, as well as coronaviruses and filoviruses," Kirillov said
Research is carried out in close proximity to the borders of Russia - in the areas of the Black Sea coast and in the Caucasus. It is implemented with the involvement of not only Ukrainian, but also Georgian #biolabs controlled by the Pentagon in coop with the Virginia Polytech