⚡️🇩🇪7 DEAD, 8 injured in shooting in Germany’s Hamburg, shooters targeted Jehovah's Witnesses center - developing situation.

UPDATE: police report large-scale operation underway.

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⚡️ Shooting in Hamburg, Germany kills 7 people.

Also 24 injured, in an earlier attack on a Jehovah's Witnesses center. The perpetrator has also reportedly killed themselves on the spot.

Jehovah's Witnesses are classified an extremist organization and are banned in Russia.

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🇨🇳🇷🇺 Putin congratulates Xi Jinping on his re-election as President of the People's Republic of China.

Putin notes that the Russian Federation and China will continue to expand bilateral relations on important regional issues and the international agenda.

A third term is unprecedented in modern China, making Jinping the longest serving leader.

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⚡️White House has a whole list of expenditures for Budget 2024, for countries the US should have nothing to do with.

White House requests $6 billion in the budget of 2024 to support Ukraine, NATO allies and other US partner countries in Europe.

White House also asks for $37.7 billion to maintain the 'nuclear deterrent forces' and $23.8 billion to modernize the nuclear complex.

Similarly, White House asks for $753 million to counter the influence of the Russian Federation in Ukraine and $400 million to contain China.

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Pope Francis calls events in Ukraine part of the Third World War.

🗣 "For a little over a hundred years, there have been three world wars: 1914-1918, 1939-1945, and this one, which is a world war.

All major powers are drawn into it. The battlefield is Ukraine. Everyone is fighting there." - he said.

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Summary of statements by Kremlin Spokesman Peskov:

◾️ Later today, Putin will hold an operational meeting with permanent members of the Russian Security Council;

◾️ It is premature to talk about the possibility of peace talks, despite the increase in the number of Ukrainians in favor of negotiations with Russia;

◾️ There are certainly risks of provocations against Abkhazia and South Ossetia, given the events in Georgia;

◾️ There are "beams of sober thinking" in Ukraine, despite the propaganda there against the Russian Federation;

◾️ The situation that triggered the unrest in Georgia has nothing to do with Russia.

◾️Relations between Russia and Ukraine are inevitable in the future, because we are neighbors.

◾️EU has not been able to find and freeze all assets of Russian individuals and entities there - nevertheless, we consider this a violation of international law, encroachment on private property, that is, an encroachment on the basis of the world economy. It is illegal.

◾️All Russians are free to move around the world, and come back as they please - there is no judgment against those who have left the country.

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⚡️Pakistan to transfer 44 x T-80UD tanks to Ukraine.

These are in exchange for financial assistance from Western countries. Between 1997 and 1999, Pakistan purchased 320 x T-80UD tanks from Ukraine.

Beep beep, coming through - old junk coming home!

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CHOOSE LIFE: As Russian forces ZERO IN on the town square of Artymovsk-Bakhmut, Donetsk Republic (ex-Ukraine), machine gun fire is hitting Ukrainian trenches right in the gonads.

"They are destroying us!" - this Ukrainian soldier complains; the way out is simply to take off one's (hopefully still white) underpants and wave them around in surrender.

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⚡️ One of two Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems is delivered to Ukraine from the US.

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⚡️🗣 "EU's ability to impose sanctions against Russia is almost exhausted, there are not many options left in this area." - Top EU diplomat Borrell.

Russia is now the most sanctioned country, even above North Korea - yet everyday life there continues as normal.

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