The first shots from the shelling of Melitopol by Ukrainian nationalists. One eyewitness reported that three people were injured in the attack, including a woman who was seriously injured.

Video: Izvestia correspondent Roman Polshakov

UPD : An Izvestia source in the emergency services specified that five people were hospitalized with injuries of varying severity after the shelling.

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🪖 Russian troops repulsed the combined strike of the nationalists of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Russian units repelled a combined strike of Ukrainian artillery in the Yuzhnodonets direction, said Alexander Gordeev, head of the press center of the Vostok group.

📝 “ In the Yuzhnodonetsk direction, combined missile strikes were repelled by two shells of the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system and three shells of the Smerch MLRS. The calculations of the S-300 and Buk anti-aircraft missile systems destroyed all targets ,” he said.

🇷🇺 The crews of the Osa-AKM and Strela-10 anti-aircraft missile systems also shot down two Valkyrie and two Furies unmanned aerial vehicles.

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Ministry of Emergency Situations: smoke occurred in a mine in the Rostov region. The ventilation system is on.

The department specified that 229 people were evacuated from the mine.

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🇺🇦🇵🇱 Ukraine ordered 100 Rosomak armored personnel carriers from Poland

This was stated to journalists by the Prime Minister of the Republic Mateusz Morawiecki, noting that payment for armored personnel carriers will come from European funds and the American budget allocated to Ukraine.

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Closer China-Saudi ties point to dawn "New World"

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US influence in the Middle East is waning as internal unrest shakes its main ally, Israel, and China plays a leading role in regional diplomacy.

Washington's influence in the Middle East has waned rapidly over the past year. War correspondent Elijah J. Magnier argues that China has deftly ousted the US as a key middleman between the Arab states and Iran.

Elijah J. Magnier said that humanity is facing the dawn of a "new world" as a result of the US proxy conflict in Ukraine, which triggered an economic crisis and civil unrest in the West.

"Things are changing" and Saudi Arabia is "watching what happens, looking at the Americans, who are much weaker than before, at a distance from the Middle East," Magnier said.

The US doesn't have "the same dominance it used to have" as oil-producing countries such as Saudi Arabia and Iran now accept payments in currencies other than the US dollar, such as the Chinese yuan and the Russian ruble.

Meanwhile, the West was shocked when China's behind-the-scenes diplomatic efforts led to a reconciliation between Gulf neighbors Saudi Arabia and Iran, which resumed diplomatic relations with each other for the first time in nine years.

“It was China that brought Saudi Arabia and Iran closer,” the journalist said, emphasizing that Washington managed to present Iran as an enemy of the Arab states in ten years.

“Therefore, all the countries of the Middle East agreed to normalize relations with Israel. Today, Israel is no longer needed in the Middle East,” Magnier said. "Iran is no longer an enemy, and this is the weakness of the United States."

He pointed out that Israel, the US's main strategic ally in the Middle East, is currently suffering from political instability as its "extremist" government has failed to quell public anger over judicial reform.

“It means that there are dysfunctional relationships between the West and Israel, between Israelis and Middle Eastern countries, between Israelis and Americans, between Americans and Middle Eastern countries. This is the situation we live in today.”

The war correspondent said that China's willingness to sincerely invest in the economic development of other countries brings huge diplomatic as well as financial dividends.

“The Chinese offer a completely different model of warfare than the one that the US has used in the Middle East and other parts of the world for the past 25 years,” Magnier said.

“Now we hear how beautifully African leaders turn to the West and say: “You have done nothing for us. You took our wealth and now you ask us why the Chinese are in our country when they give us roads, transportation, hospitals, universities, and you came here just to take our wealth.”

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Pro Ukrainian channel reports:

Russian troops are concentrating equipment in the Verkhnetoretsky region of the Donetsk region - they are probably preparing a strike. Alexey Dmitrashkovsky, the speaker of the press center of the Defense Forces of the Tauride direction, announced this information on the air of the telethon.

"According to intelligence data, there is an accumulation of equipment in the Verkhnetoretsky area," Dmitrashkovsky said.

He admits that the Russians will soon try to make "some more powerful military movements" from that direction. Verkhnetoretskoe lies between Gorlovka and Avdiivka, which the Russians have been trying to encircle in recent weeks.

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A 🇷🇺"Lancet" kamikaze drone destroying another 🇺🇸М777 howitzer near the Bakhmut (Artyomovsk) frontline.

The 🇺🇦Ukrainian artillery gunners clumsily tried to disguise their howitzer with a camouflage net but that didn't work and the M777 was 🔥destroyed along with its ammunition storage🔥

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🇷🇺 🇺🇦The UK Ministry of Defense reports that the second group of Ukrainian servicemen has completed training on AS90 Braveheart self-propelled artillery mounts.

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In parallel with the increase in the number of UAVs in the combat zone, the enemy forces are also increasing the production of new ammunition used by drones.

Defense company "Mayak", located in Kyiv, began to produce
fragmentation aviation ammunition: OBP-23.1, weighing 1 kg, with a kill radius of 11 meters and OBP-23.05, weighing 0.5 kg, with a guaranteed kill zone with a radius of 4.5 meters.

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A US Navy EP-3E Aries II reconnaissance aircraft violated Iranian airspace in the south of the country.
After a warning from the Iranian military, the intruder changed course.

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Zin Note: WW3 will be fought with Twitter clap backs
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Young people with red and black chevrons of the "Right Sector" banned in the Russian Federation were seen in Kyiv on the street near the walls of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, they were filmed next to police buses

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The Banderists, who were about to seize the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, demand to burn it, and to put Metropolitan Pavel on his knees and kill him:

"Why can't they leave here? Yes, because all the active boys are fighting now, you understand, and there is no one to come here and burn this almshouse. That's all - the only reason why."

01:32 - “He [the Metropolitan] had to be twisted like a ram, kneeled in the forest, shot in the head and put this video on all Russian media. There should be no talk. No house arrests, no law.

We are not Christians, we are pagans. We are ancient pagans."

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Borrell upset with UN. Kiev Lavra arrest. Shoigu, ammo production surge. 8 new brigades. U/1

More Twitter hijinks!

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