🇨🇳 🇸🇦 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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🗣 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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🇺🇦🇺🇸 US does not prohibit Ukraine from using American-supplied weapons to strike targets in Crimea, Russia

🗣 Kiev will NOT agree to peace deal if Crimea and Donbass region remain under Russian control - Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba.

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⚡️🇫🇷 Kiev who - Paris, France plunges into darkness during what is an unplanned power cut.

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⚡ Moscow will react to oil price cap in way that suits Russia's best interests

🗣 A number of countries have already sharply increased volume of oil and oil products they purchase from Russia in recent months - Kremlin spokesman Peskov.

UPDATE: Peskov says START III - bilateral nuclear arms control treaty between Moscow and Washington - only treaty left between US and Russia.

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🗣 US and its satellites deliberately destabilizing international situation in attempt to slow down inevitable multipolar geopolitical shifts - Putin in message to Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and Commonwealth of Independent states (CIS) defense ministers.

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🗣 US turned Ukraine into a colony, uses Ukrainian people as cannon fodder and pushes Kiev down SUICIDAL path - Putin.

🇷🇸🇽🇰 Serbian President Vucic holds meeting with Serbian Defense Minster and Chief of Staff to discuss deployment of army in Kosovo

Earlier, Vucic announced possibility of deploying military forces in order to protect Serbian population in partially-recognized Kosovo following clashes between police and Serbs in region.

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