⚖️ IT'S DEBATABLE: - Or maybe not, as NATO makes up its mind and strikes down possibility of serving up that long-awaited NATO membership to Ukraine in the near future.

Kiev formally applied to join NATO in September, yet the alliance has not taken any official steps to honor its bid for membership, with one diplomat even quoted as saying that "the letter with the application is on the table, but we just ignore it."

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☦ 🇧🇾🇷🇺 FOR ALL THAT IS GOOD AND HOLY: Russia and Belarus have stepped up cooperation in recent years in the face of threats; the West, in its struggle for a new world order, is destroying canonical Orthodoxy in Ukraine [as] situation in Ukraine taken on features of a religious war, in which the West and Kiev have no red lines - Russian Intelligence Chief Naryshkin.

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🇷🇺🇧🇾 DUAL THREATS: We have all sorts of scumbags appearing within society on which foreign terrorists rely - Lukashenko.

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🇨🇦 Canada drought could lead to crop cuts and supply disruptions in the grain market.

Canada is the world's largest supplier of rapeseed and a major exporter of wheat, is experiencing the second driest start to year in 45 years, and important agricultural provinces such as Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba have received 60% less than normal rainfall since September 1, 2022.

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⚡️🗣 Russian Defense Minister Shoigu says Moscow transferred to Belarus operational-tactical complex "Iskander-M", which can use conventional and nuclear missiles.

Shoigu adds that In 3 months, Russian Armed Forces destroyed 59 UK-made M777 artillery systems, 14 US-made HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems and 13 Paladin self-propelled guns.

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