🇷🇺🇺🇸 US establishes "moderate" approach toward Russia within NATO following meeting between Russian Army Chief of Staff and NATO counterpart

Chief of General Staff of Russian Armed Forces Gerasimov and head of NATO Military Committee Rob Bauer agree to be CAREFUL to avoid incidents between Russian and NATO forces, particularly in Black Sea.

UPDATE:🗣 Information on reaching certain "agreement" with NATO on issues of safe movement of ships in Black Sea is FICTION from beginning to end, there were no contacts with NATO - Russian Defense Ministry.

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⚡🔋 International Atomic Energy Agency Chief Grossi says he’s held talks in Istanbul with Head of Russian Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom on creation of protective zone around Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, South Russia, site of frequent Ukrainian strikes.

UPDATE:🗣 For effectiveness of consultations on "protective zone" around Zaporozhye Plant, constructive contribution from Kiev is required, but is not yet available - Permanent Russian Representative in Vienna.

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💥 ROAR OF DESTRUCTION: 152mm artillery shells of the Donetsk Republic forces tear apart Ukrainian forces and their strongholds like pieces of paper, launching precise attacks and giving the enemy soldiers a very warm and fiery farewell.

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⚡️⛪ Ukrainian Parliament submits bill to BAN Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine

Kiev stooping to new lows in its shameless targeting of religion, after conducting search of church in Ukrainian capital following reports of pro-Russian singing, with priest who conducted service already BANNED for allowing hymn to be sung.

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🇬🇧🇺🇦🚁 UK to send 3 helicopters to Ukraine - British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace

3 Sea King choppers will be 1st piloted aircraft to be sent by UK to Kiev since beginning of conflict, with Ukrainian crews already trained to fly and maintain aircraft.

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🇹🇷🇺🇦 Turkey hands over TRG-230 multiple rocket launcher systems to Ukraine

Ukrainian media claims rocket launchers already in use in country, with systems reported to work in tandem with Turkish Bayraktar drones.

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⚡Foreign and Defense Ministers of countries in Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) - Eurasian military alliance - meet in Armenia, with Russian, Belarusian and Kazakhstani ministers among visiting officials.

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧 Scotland cannot hold independence referendum without UK government approval - UK Supreme Court

Scottish independence campaigners lose bid to hold referendum on leaving UK without approval of British authorities.

Previous independence referendum, held in 2014, resulted in Scotland remaining part of UK, with 55% voting no to be independent country.

UPDATE:🗣 Law that doesn't allow Scotland to choose our own future without Westminster consent exposes as myth any notion of UK as voluntary partnership, and strengthens grounds for referendum - Scottish PM Nicola Sturgeon.

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🤬 JUSTIFYING SICKNESS: Following in the footsteps of their hero mass murderer and Nazi collaborator Bandera, CRUEL Kiev's Prosecutor General says Russian troops FAKED surrender and attacked Ukrainian soldiers making the barbaric killing of prisoners of war a reasonable act after videos of remorseless and bloody execution of Russian soldiers by bloodthirsty Ukrainian forces appear to show Russians were murdered at CLOSE range as Moscow vows retribution and punish those guilty of committing the war crime.

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🇹🇷🇸🇾 Turkey has right to resolve security issues stemming from Northern Syria - Turkish President Erdogan

Erdogan says Turkey intends to begin new cross-border operation at appropriate time in order to clear out terrorists from Syrian cities, and Syria and Iraq’s territorial integrities will NOT be violated during Ankara’s military operation.

UPDATE:🗣 Russia hopes Turkey will refrain from its operation in Syria and Moscow will attempt to provide assistance in solving issue of Kurdish militants - Russian Representative at Astana Platform.

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⚡️🚨 Air raid alerts sound in Central and East Ukrainian regions, including in Ukrainian capital Kiev.

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⚡ Acting Head of Donetsk People’s Republic Pushilin announces prisoner exchange with Ukraine taking place today, where 35 servicemen from each side will be swapped.

UPDATE:🗣 35 captive Russian servicemen in MORTAL danger returned from Kiev regime as a result of negotiation process - Russian Defense Ministry.

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⚡🇪🇺🇷🇺 European Parliament recognizes Russia as "State Sponsor of Terrorism"

Move largely symbolic as EU reportedly does not have legal framework to back up such recognition.

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🇷🇸🇽🇰 Negotiators from Serbia and partially-recognized Kosovo to travel for talks in Brussels - EU Commission

Tensions between Serbia and Kosovo mounting over Kosovo’s plans to fine ethnic Serb residents who refuse to surrender their Belgrade-issued car number plates, with Kosovo agreeing to delay implementation of measure and EU and US seeking negotiations to avoid unrest between countries.

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⚡🇷🇺🇺🇦 Ukrainian Sabotage and Reconnaissance group DESTROYED in Zaporozhye region, South Ukraine, Russian air defenses shoot down 5 drones over gas fields in Black Sea and Sevastopol region, Crimea, and Russian forces continue offensive in Donetsk People’s Republic, killing over 60 Ukrainian soldiers - Russian Defense Ministry.

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🗣 US making strenuous attempts to maintain dominance in rapidly changing world, in doing so they caused DEGRADATION of Ukraine by cultivating extreme nationalism in country - Russia’s foreign intelligence service chief Naryshkin.

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⚡🇷🇺🇦🇲 Putin arrives in Yerevan and is welcomed by Armenian PM Pashinyan, as Russian President takes part in Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) - Eurasian military alliance - meeting in Armenia.

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