#Greek and Greek #Cypriot officials consider the decision by the U.S. to completely lift the arms embargo on Southern #Cyprus as a “game changer”.

Which game? Hasn't the game changed already?

"To join the SCO, Turkey must not be a member of NATO," a Russian Foreign Ministry official told the Russian media.

Russian Army bombing Ozerne village of Ukraine with incendiary weapons in Donetsk region with utter impunity.

Russia Today (RT) editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonyan:

Judging by what is happening and what is about to happen, this week marks either the threshold of our imminent victory, or the threshold of a nuclear war.

I can't see anything third.

Russian State Duma adopts amendments to the criminal code, including for reservists.

Harsh penalties await those who do not obey the codes.

Russian occupied Zaporizhzhya, Luhansk and Kherson regions announced a referandum on joining Russia.

Donbas is also on the verge of holding a referandum to join Russia.

Russia will facilitate foreign citizens entering military service in the Russian Army to obtain Russian citizenship without a long wait and other bureaucratic obstacles.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic:

"I suppose that from the phase of a special military operation we are approaching a major military conflict. In a month or two, into a big world conflict, which has not been since the Second World War."

Kyrgyzstan President Japarov:

Kyrgyzstan have no interest in anyone's land, but we do not intend to give a centimeter of our land to anyone.

Putin threatened the world with the use of modern nuclear weapons, which he claims Russia possesses and even more modern than their Western equivalents.

Shoigu, the commander of the Russian troops who were forced to withdraw from the occupied Ukrainian territories:

Ukraine has already lost half of its army: 61,207 dead, 49,368 wounded.

Everything is going on according to plan.

Russian Defence Minister Shoigu:

About 1% of mobilization resource will be used as part of mobilization.

300,000 reserves will be called for mobilization.

Russian Defence Minister Shoigu’s is blatantly lying on mobilization numbers.

Russia has 25 million people ready for reserve forces, as he put it out.

300,000 consist only the first wave. The rest can also be called for later on.

Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) prevented leak of secret developments of aircraft engines to one of the countries in East Asia.

The spies tried to smuggle secret documentation pertaining to manufacturing engines for fighter jets and combat helicopters.

Employees secretly copied secret information from work computers and samples of technical documentation.

The organizer planned to pass the obtained data to foreigners through secure electronic communication channels.

$30,000 cash was found during the searches of the suspects’ offices and homes, which they received as an advance payment.

Former head of Moscow Aviation Institute Anatoliy Geraschenko died after "falling from the high altitude inside the institute building"

Chinese President Xi reiterates “military must focus on preparations for war”.

Former Mufti of Ukraine calling on Muslim Russians not to mobilize:

The Muslims of Russia; your muftis, sheikhs and imams, whoever call you to war, do not mobilize. They will send you to die in here.

The exchange of 200 prisoners of war (POW) between Russia and Ukraine took place today on the initiative of Turkish President Erdogan.

5 high-ranking Ukrainian POWs were brought to Turkey as part of the agreement and the other prisoners were exchanged on Ukrainian soil.

Turkish Foreign Ministry:

We are concerned by attempts to stage unilateral referenda in some regions of Ukraine that are under Russian control.

Such illegitimate faits accomplis will not be recognized by the international community.