⚡️🚨 Air raid alerts blare in several regions of Central Ukraine

Sirens sound in Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, Kirovograd, and Poltava regions, Central Ukraine.

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🇮🇷 Iran executes first of several armed rioters involved with brutal murders of Iranian officers

The outbreak of violence occurred during demonstrations protesting the death of Mahsa Amini, while in police custody in September, with many found to be collaborators with outside forces.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 American Brittney Griner released from Russian prison as part of an exchange

Russia frees basketball star Griner in prisoner swap, with US releasing Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.

UPDATE: Washington categorically refused to engage in dialogue on the inclusion of Bout in the exchange, nevertheless, the Russian Federation continued to work actively to rescue our compatriot - Russian Defense Ministry.

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⚡️ Kiev cynically ignores the presence of representatives of the IAEA at Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant

🗣 The main purpose of the discussed protective zone is to stop Ukrainian shelling - Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.

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🇭🇷🇪🇺 EU countries agree to include Croatia in the Schengen zone.

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🇪🇺🇦🇹 Austria vetoes Bulgaria and Romania joining the Schengen passport-free zone

Earlier, EU agreed to include Croatia in the Schengen zone.

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🏘💰AN ILLEGAL SETTLEMENT: Between the EU and Israel, where EU, from time to time pretends to scold Tel Aviv and give it a wrist slap.

While EU sanctions countries they deem "undemocratic", Tel Aviv is never punished, and European firms' investments in Israel’s ILLEGAL settlements increased by more than a WHOPPING $30 billion since just last year.

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🇨🇳 🇸🇦 Arab leaders arrive in Riyadh to participate in major Arab-China and Arab-Gulf summits tomorrow

Earlier, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Al-Yamama Palace in Riyadh.

UPDATE: Saudi Arabia and China sign 34 investment deals.

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🇺🇦🇷🇺 Ombudsmen of the Russian Federation and Ukraine are negotiating possibility of mutual transfer of civilians against whom criminal cases have been initiated

🗣Among those included are prosecuted in Ukraine for pro-Russian sentiments - Tatiana Moskalkova, Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia.

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🇷🇺 Putin First @IntelRepublic

🗣 There is a lot of noise about our strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure. Yes, we are doing it. But who started it? Who hit the Crimean Bridge? Who blew up the power lines from the Kursk nuclear power plant? - Putin at Heroes of the Fatherland Day.

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🇺🇦🇬🇧 PREPARING WAR AGAINST RUSSIA: Except something went terribly wrong; the UK has trained more than 22,000 members of the Ukrainian Armed Forces since 2015 and the program has been extended until 2023.

What business did the UK have there in 2015? Russian Foreign Affairs Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova explains.

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🇮🇱🕵️ THE PERFECT OPPORTUNISTS: Mossad found the perfect recruitment policy out of people's misery, as evidenced by a recent SURGE in its recruits all around the world.

Lebanese security forces round up a record-breaking 185 people suspected of working for Mossad since the start of the Lebanese economic collapse in 2019, as Israeli Mossad lurked in the shadows of social media, targeting poverty-stricken Lebanese with job advertisements for phony companies, and then blackmailing them into betraying their country.

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⚡️🗣 The exchange of Griner for Bout means surrender of US - Former US National Security Adviser John Bolton.

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🇨🇳🇸🇦China ready to strengthen coordination with Riyadh in energy, increase oil trade - Xi Jinping.

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🇳🇴 Norway imposes price cap on Russian crude of $60 per barrel

The purpose is "to reduce Russia's income from the sale of crude oil to third countries" according to statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the kingdom.

Russia is shortly due to make a statement on what this may mean for countries who impose a price cap.

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🚀💥BETTER TOGETHER: Russian S-300V rocket launcher works in STEP with self-propelled firing system that sharply scans the sky, IMMEDIATELY calculates its target coordinates and sends them off to special-deliver DESTRUCTION onto unlucky Ukrainian positions.

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🇺🇸🇺🇦 US Congress approves defense budget for 2023 of $858 billion

Which includes the allocation of $800 million to Kiev.

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APOCALYPSE NOW: In Artyomovsk-Bakhmut, Donetsk region hotspot, Russian forces push back Ukrainian army.

Kiev's forces return fire, video shows them turning residential regions into targets and neighborhoods into NIGHTMARES of burning hell.

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