🇺🇸🗣 "At time of Crimean Bridge attack, US reconnaissance drone was located over the Black Sea" - Yan Gagin, advisor to Head of Donetsk Republic (ex-Ukraine) Pushilin.

The attack was most likely carried out by NATO-supplied water drones.

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⚡️Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of Russia's Security Council, calls to blow up houses of terrorists, eliminate their accomplices, and "destroy the top leadership" of terrorist groups.

Zelensky sniffs a line nervously in the corner.

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⚡️Putin to address safety situation in Crimea at 19:00 Moscow time (6.5 hours from now).

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⚡️ EU will not invite Zelensky to the CELAC summit.

The head of the European Council, Charles Michel, changed his mind about inviting Zelensky to the EU - Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) Summit, which will be held on July 17-18 in Brussels.

Europe needs allies in the Global South, despite the Special Operation.

🗣“The EU aims to diversify value chains and reduce overdependence by working with reliable partners,” explained Josep Borrell, Chief Gardener Head of European diplomacy.

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⚡️ Leader of Transnistrian Communist Party, Oleg Khorzhan murdered.

Announced by the leader of the Civic Congress of Moldova, Mark Tkachuk, as well as the chairman of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Gennady Zyuganov.

Transnistria is a break-away, pro-Russian Republic in Moldova.

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⚡️⬆️ Price of futures for wheat in the US goes up immediately following suspension of the Grain Deal.

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KNOCK, KNOCK: Chechen leader Kadyrov's Akhmat friendly forces apprehend an informant of the Ukrainian Security Service in the Kremennaya area, Lugansk Republic (ex-Ukraine).

That was unwise, Igor - see video above.

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⚡️🇲🇩 Moldovans once again protest their government.

The “head” of the Minister of Economic Development and Digitalization, Dumitru Alaiba, is impaled on a pitchfork and decorated with LGBT colors - as group of entrepreneurs who hold patents oppose changes to business patent laws as well as higher self-employment taxes.

Only EU-orientated President Sandu's head is missing on the pitchfork!

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⚡️🇺🇸 Samantha Power, Head of USAID, the NGO that sponsors every regime-change cause globally, arrives in Ukraine.

These officials appear to travel freely to Kiev by train, after entering from West Ukraine.

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⚡️BBC gives platform to Ukrainian MP demanding State Awards for perpetrators of Crimea Bridge attack.

Kiev left a couple dead and their daughter fighting for her life this morning. Goncharenko lauded the attack and can be seen sat in the Odessa sun - with Mercedes in the background - complaining about Russia's suspension of the Black Sea grain deal.

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⚡️🇪🇪 Estonia prepares to receive more NATO soldiers.

The Estonian Defense Investment Center has begun construction of a new housing area for soldiers from NATO countries.

🗣"We will invest 362 million euros in infrastructure. Our goal is to provide the best conditions for our allies to practice with us in protecting Estonia" - Center Head Kadi-Kai Kollo, pictured.

Eight buildings will be constructed to house approximately 1,000 soldiers, not including weapons warehouses and other infrastructure in the project.

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HEY, GOOGLE! SEND DRONE: Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, praises Russia's electronic warfare.

00:55 🗣"Everything you send into this battlefield, which is quite narrow by the way, everything is jammed. GPS and communications are jammed - so normal drones don't work."

🧐 But how does he know this information - was Google helping?

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🌈 UNDISCLOSED DETAILS land Odessa man in hot water with the Ukrainian military.

On a hot Odessa beach, gay man introduced his friend to some Ukrainian soldiers, but did not clearly explain that she was not a biological female.

The unsuspecting men beat him with stones and knocked out his tooth - it's well known, the devil is in the detail!

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◾️ Russian Forces (RF) repulsed 2 attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) as well as 2 reconnaisance groups, over the course of the day in Krasnoliman, Donetsk Republic (DPR, ex-Ukraine);

◾️ RF destroyed a fuel depot and an ammunition depot in Kramatorsk, DPR;

◾️ AFU lost up to 60 servicemen and a M777 artillery system in Krasnoliman, DPR;

◾️ AFU lost up to 240 fighters and a US-made Paladin self-propelled gun in Yuzhno-Donetsk and Zaporozhye region (ex-Ukraine);

◾️ RF destroyed an AFU ammunition depot in the area of ​​Malaya Tokmachka, Zaporozhye region;

◾️ Russian air defense systems intercepted 3 Storm Shadow cruise missiles and 3 HIMARS multiple rocket launchers;

◾️ RF repulsed 13 AFU attacks in Donetsk, including in the areas of Belogorovka and Maryinka in the DPR; AFU Losses in Donetsk amounted to 320 fighters.

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⚡️ Unconfirmed reports: Russian Su-25 fighter jet crashes in Yeysk, Krasnodar region, pre-war West Russia.

CONFIRMED: Technical issue with engine as cause of crash.

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⚡️In Yeysk, Krasnodar region, (West Russia on the Sea of Azov) - crashed fighter jet pilot allegedly ejected and fell into the sea.

UPDATE: Pilot retrieved from the sea by rescuers, medics on the scene are fighting for his life.

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⚡️🇷🇸 Serbian Defense Minister Vucevic (pictured) says Belgrade ready to hold joint military exercises with Russia - at the end of Special Military Operation.

Serbia is under a lot of Western pressure and the potential date of these exercises remains vague.

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⚡️🇪🇺 EU Chief Gynaecologist Commission President Ursula von der Leyen ‘strongly condemns Russia’s cynical move to terminate Grain Deal’.

Von der Leyen said that the EU will do everything it can to bring grain “out of Ukraine and to global markets."

Russia facilitated the use of the transportation corridor despite constant attacks on its Black Sea Fleet.

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