⚡️🗣 Prologue to Ukrainian crisis was expansion of NATO to the East, which was accompanied by deployment of offensive weapons. Today, more than 30,000 NATO soldiers armed with offensive weapons are concentrated near the borders of Belarus. Minsk remembers well the massive bombing of peaceful Serbian cities by NATO aircraft - Belarusian representative Savinykh at OSCE session in Vienna.

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⚡️💥 One person killed as a result of Ukrainian shelling on a village in Belgorod region, pre-war West Russia

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⚡️🗣 US would like, as of tomorrow, to resume START inspections and discuss implementation of this agreement with Russia - US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Nuland

🗣US has no desire to build up its nuclear arsenal and sees the same in Russia.

UPDATE: 🗣 US is discussing the possibility of supplying Ukraine with 5th-generation fighter jets.

🗣 US to present new package of sanctions against Russia on Friday, it will include Chinese companies and Russian banks.

🗣 US expects China to present its peace plan for Ukraine on Friday, we want to see it - Nuland

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⚡️🗣 Spain will provide Kiev with 10 Leopard 2 tanks - Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez, after meeting with Zelensky.

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UKRAINE-TURKEY GOOD, DONBASS-SYRIA BAD: UK's Lloyds Banking Group PROVES Western firms are willing tools in only waiving fees for NATO-backed states.

Obvious SELECTIVITY in refunds transfers granted to Ukraine and Turkey contrast sharply with crushing sanctions that make it impossible to send much-needed aid to rubble-roused Syria or war-torn Donbass - IR Exclusive.

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⚡️🇹🇷 Earthquake 5.0 magnitude registered AGAIN in Turkish Hatay province.

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🇪🇺 EU countries again fail to agree on new sanctions against Russia.

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⚡️🗣Australia will transfer drones to Ukraine and impose new sanctions against Russia - Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles

🗣 Australia will provide Ukraine with unmanned aerial systems in the amount of $33 million and will impose sanctions against individuals in the Russian government who are helping to continue the war against Ukraine.

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⚡️🗣 Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin:

▪️US is the largest producer of war, has not been at war in just 16 years of its 240-year history.

▪️US initiated about 80% of armed conflicts in the world since the end of World War II.

▪️US most of all violate the sovereignty of other countries and interferes in their internal affairs.

▪️After end of World War II, US tried to overthrow more than 50 foreign governments.

▪️Violently interfered in elections in at least 30 countries and tried to assassinate more than 50 foreign leaders.

▪️NATO wars against Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria under the US have resulted in over 900,000 deaths and 37 million refugees.

▪️ As long as America's hegemonic policies and warlike tendencies continue, there will be no peace in the world.

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⚡️🗣 US does not want to take steps that would lead to a wider confrontation in Ukraine, taking into account the factor of helping Kiev - US Secretary of State Blinken.

UPDATE: 🗣 US has information that China is considering the possibility of assisting Russia, Washington warns Beijing and urges not to do this.

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⚡️🗣NATO Chief Stoltenberg says he sees progress in negotiations with Turkey on Sweden's membership in the alliance.

🗣I see progress, My goal is for Finland and Sweden to become full members of NATO by the bloc’s summit (which will be held July 11-12 2023 in Lithuania ) - Stoltenberg

🗣 At the negotiating table there is not progress, but regression. Sweden brought itself to such a state, because it was unable to fulfill any of its promises - Turkish official.

Turkey is blocking Stockholm’s accession over Quran burning incidents and Sweden’s support of Kurdish separatists.

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⚡️🗣 Representative of Russia to UN Nebenzya:

◾️ Relations between Russia and the EU, in fact, no longer exist.

◾️ EU is debating how best to dismember and destroy Russia.

◾️ US and EU are bringing the world closer to a suicidal conflict by ramping up arms supplies to Kiev.

◾️ EU statements about good neighborliness with the Russian Federation turned out to be fables to cover up the fight against Moscow with the hands of Kiev.

◾️ EU is hooked on expensive drug - US gas, which is experiencing record inflation.

◾️ EU swallowed the undermining of Nord Streams, trying to cover the tracks.

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⚡️🗣Deputy Representative of China to UN:

◾️ For China, the priority in the situation around Ukraine is a ceasefire and end of hostilities.

◾️ We believe that a political solution to the Ukrainian crisis is possible.

◾️ Beijing will soon release a document on a peace plan for a political settlement of the Ukrainian crisis.

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⚡️🗣 German Chancellor Scholz says it's not a smart idea to launch attacks on Russian territory with weapons supplied to Ukraine by the West

🗣It always remains right to be smart, and therefore it would not be very reasonable if now the weapons we supply Kiev with, would attack Russian territory.

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