🇹🇷🇦🇪 Turkey and the UAE sign agreements worth $50.7 billion.

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⚡️Everything is under control, there are no victims, there are no injured, the situation will return to normal within a day - Head of Crimea Aksyonov on explosions in Crimea.

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Biden Administration announces new security assistance package for Ukraine.

However, is not being drawn from existing stockpiles, but instead to be procured through yet-to-be concluded contracts with "industry and partners” - looks like Kiev won't be getting that precious list of equipment for MONTHS at best!

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⛴NOW A PARTY TO THE CONFLICT are Ukrainian ships in the ports of Nikolaev and Odessa, South Ukraine, which must leave by MIDNIGHT after termination of the grain deal or else Moscow will consider them party to war, which is reasonable once one remembers massive fuel storage facilities present at those exact ports.

Kiev then goes full-on Karen and pens begging letter to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) on creating mechanism to provide "damage compensation guarantees" to companies and ships visiting Ukrainian ports after Kiev systematically broke grain export deal with Russia.

Should’ve thought ‘bout that before @IntelRepublic

STRIKEDOWN: Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) detains Ukrainian suspected of spying for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Collecting coordinates of the positions of the Russian military personnel guarding the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant and passed them on to his brother, a Ukrainian Army officer, the Ukrainians planned to use this data to launch artillery strikes on our units.

But, before they could, Russian FSB struck him down and out.

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⚡️🇮🇶 Footage from Baghdad, Iraq where protesters stormed and set fire to the Swedish embassy overnight.

Swedish police have allowed to hold a rally near the Iraqi embassy in Sweden with the planned burning of the Quran. Courts uphold the decision saying such acts are protected by the country's far-reaching freedom of speech laws.

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⚡️Early morning Ukrainian drone strike in Crimea kills teenage girl.

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⚡️Third night of Russian strikes on military targets in Odessa, South Ukraine, and clean up.

Biggest threats to the Crimea come from Odessa, which the Russian command appears to have decided to neutralize.

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MUTINY MYSTERY continues, as Wagner PMC Chief Prigozhin emerges publicly for the first time since the aborted mutiny to declare PMC has moved to Belarus “for some time.”

In a poorly-lit dawn video, he said they would train and prepare for “a new journey to Africa,” and may return to Ukraine when “we’re sure that we won’t be asked to embarrass ourselves and our experience.”

A second figure in the video who claimed to be Dmitry Utkin, Wagner’s founder and top commander, said the mercenaries’ work had just begun, adding in English “Welcome to Hell.” 🤷‍♀

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