On the deployment of "Wagner" in Belarus.
1. There will be no recruitment points of the Wagner PMCs in Belarus.
2. At the same time, Lukashenko does not prevent Belarusians from joining the Wagner PMCs, the main thing is that they understand the deadly danger of such a job.
3. An old military unit was offered for placement for the Wagner PMCs.
4. Lukashenko transparently hinted that Belarus could become a transit country for Prigozhin and the Wagner PMCs to move somewhere else. Perhaps Africa.
5. The Wagner PMCs will not arrange any provocations on the border with NATO.
6. Units of PMCs "Wagner" are still in field camps in the Lugansk People's Republic.

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🇧🇾 Lukashenko spoke openly about his communication with Prigozhin, head of Wagner:

The [Wagner PMC] guys are just from the front. They have seen thousands of their guys die. The guys are very offended, especially the commanders. And, as I understood, they were seriously influencing Prigozhin himself.

Yes, he is such a, you know, heroic guy, but he was pressured and influenced very much by those who led assault groups and saw these deaths. And so in this situation, having jumped out of there into Rostov, in such a half-frenzied state, I have this dialogue with him."

"I say: Evgeny, no one will give you Shoigu or Gerasimov, no one, especially in this situation. You know Putin as well as I do. Secondly, because of the situation he will not even talk on the phone with you, let alone meet you. Silent

"But we want justice! They want to strangle us! We will go to Moscow!" I said: "Halfway through you will be squashed like a bedbug. Despite the fact that the troops (Putin told me about this for a long time) are diverted on the relevant front." Think about it, I say. "No!" - such is his euphoria."

"At length I persuaded him. And in the end I said: "You know, you can do whatever you want to do. But don't hold it against me. The [Belarusian] brigade is prepared to be transferred to Moscow. And like in '41 (you read books, you are an educated, intelligent man) we will defend Moscow. Because this situation is not only in Russia.

It is not only because it is our Fatherland. But because, God forbid, this turmoil would have spread throughout Russia, and the prerequisites for it were enormous, we [Belarus] were next in line.

@ukraine_watch

West Plotting ‘Color Revolution’ In Serbia — Moscow

Western nations appear to be laying the groundwork for a ‘color revolution’ in Serbia, according to Valentina Matvienko, the speaker of the upper chamber of Russia’s parliament. She claimed public anger is being whipped up following two mass shootings in the country.

“What we have today is a classic example of network-centric warfare, when net structures under Western control use some hot-button issue to destabilize the situation, hoping it would serve as a trigger. Then they provoke mass demonstrations and deploy prepared local opposition,” she said in an interview with Sputnik Serbia on Monday.

Matvienko said the same approach was used during the Arab Spring uprisings and in Iran. In Serbia’s case, she added, the US and its allies are seeking to stir public anger over the two mass shootings, which took place in Belgrade and Mladenovac.

👉@RTnews_unc3 **RT**

More than 10,000 Serbs in Kosovo protest Pristina's repression

Kosovo Serbs protested again in the enclave of Gracanica near Pristina. Their action was timed to the anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo Field, a sacred date for Serbia. According to estimates of the local authorities, some 10,000 Serbs took to the streets.

The participants demanded the release of all arrested Serbs, the resignation of appointed pro-Albanian mayors and the withdrawal of the "Kosovo police" from Serb enclaves. Protesters stressed that they were being persecuted simply because they were Serbs. The protesters warned that they would respond to the violence if it did not stop.

Business sentiment in Germany worsened in June, marking a second consecutive month of declining expectations. The country likely faces a longer recession than initially predicted, according to a survey published on Monday.
The business climate index for the EU’s largest economy dropped to 88.5 this month from 91.5 in May, a deeper-than-expected decline, according to Munich’s Ifo institute for economic research.
https://www.rt.com/business/578796-germany-facing-deeper-recession/

Russia and Belarus have finalized the pairing of their national payment systems, allowing them to bypass Western-dominated networks, according to the Belarusian Ambassador to Russia, Dmitry Krutoy.
https://www.rt.com/business/578742-russia-belarus-sanctions-payment-networks/

Geologist, Dr. Ian Plimer: Governments need a crisis with which to frighten people, in order to control them more effectively, which is why only scientists who push the fraudulent human-induced "climate crisis" narrative receive any funding.
@WideAwakeMedia

Greenpeace co-founder, Dr. Patrick Moore, utterly demolishes the lie that CO2 is somehow bad for the environment:

"Carbon dioxide is the currency of life, and the most important building block for all life on earth... The optimum level of CO2 for plant growth is about five times higher [than the concentration of CO2 present in the atmosphere today], yet the alarmists warn it is already too high. They must be challenged every day by every person who knows the truth in this matter. CO2 is the giver of life, and we should celebrate CO2 rather than denigrate it, as is the fashion today."

@WideAwakeMedia

Ukrainian channel Rezident:

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MI-6 sent new intelligence to the Office of the President and the General Staff that the entry of PMC Wagner into Belarus is directed against the plans of Ukraine/Poland/Lithuania to deploy a corps on the borders of Western Ukraine. British intelligence is sure that a new military unit of 30-40 thousand people will be formed in Belarus, the main task of which will be a new campaign against Kyiv at the time of difficulties of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the southern front. The equipment for these units has long been in Belarus, it was filled up during 2022-2023.

🇭🇺 "Partners and Allies" threatened Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria and Serbia with sanctions when they were building the Turkish Stream gas pipeline, the head of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry said.

"They explained this by saying that it was inappropriate to build a gas pipeline passing to Hungary not through Ukraine. We then said that our own energy security was above all for us."

NEW - Capital outflows at a new record level: $132 billion more in direct investment flowed out of Germany last year than into the country.

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Taking a dagger to the ‘soft underbelly’: How the West has opened yet another front against Russia
https://www.rt.com/russia/578416-carrot-and-stick-method/

Ukraine could become world’s first cashless economy – official  
https://www.rt.com/business/578853-ukraine-considering-cash-ban/