⚡️ The defence of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will appeal to the administration of US President Joe Biden with a request to abandon the criminal prosecution of the journalist.

This was announced on Friday at a press conference in London by the lawyer Jennifer Robinson, commenting on the decision of the head of the British Home Office Priti Patel to extradite Assange to the United States.

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⚡️ Putin: All the tasks of the Russian special operation in Ukraine will certainly be completed

❗️ Putin: The architecture of Western sanctions is built around the false thesis that the Russian economy is not sovereign

🗣 Biden on inflation and high prices: "I'm using ever lever available to me to bring down prices for the American people."

“But the critical point is that these actions are part of our transition to a clean and secure and long-term energy future,” the US president stated during a forum on energy and climate.

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❗️ Boris Johnson is meeting Zelensky in Kiev

🎥 "Hostile artillery is practically destroying the town, nowhere is safe": Svetogorsk houses are destroyed and burnt by the Ukraine Army, people are threatened or shot at.

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❗️Zelensky has published a video of his meeting with the UK prime minister. This is the second time that Johnson has visited Kiev since the start of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine.

Apparently, the Ukrainian president has asked Johnson to supply more weapons to Kiev. This time around, he's requested heavy weaponry and air defence systems, according to Zelensky's office.

⚡️ Americans 'shouldn't be going to Ukraine', Biden says after being briefed on 'missing US nationals'

⚡️Putin says Russia has nothing against Ukraine joining EU: 'It's not a military bloc'

❗️Putin has made additional statements at the SPIEF:

▪️ In 2014, the US should have called for elections in Ukraine instead of supporting the coup;

▪️Washington began to create an anti-Russian foothold out of Ukraine. He wondered how the American side would react if Russia were to create an anti-US foothold near its borders, and stressed that Moscow had even removed its military base from Cuba to defuse tensions;

▪️ Russia will respect any choice of the residents of the liberated territories in Ukraine: only they will decide their own fate;

▪️ Russia does not threaten anyone with nuclear weapons;

▪️ Warfare is always a tragedy, but this is a forced measure: Russia was pushed to start the op;

▪️ Ukrainian attacks on residential areas in Donetsk are a crime against humanity;

▪️ Storming Ukrainian fortified areas in Donetsk from where they hit residential areas has no purpose;

▪️ Russia will support the Donbass people.

🇷🇺 Russian President Vladimir Putin at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) explains the reasons for the current global economic crisis, stressing that it is linked to poor Western policies rather than Russia's special operation in Ukraine.

🎥 The All-Russia People's Front delivered humanitarian aid to residents of Svetlodarsk and Mironovsky.

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🇺🇦🎤Ukraine disagrees with the decision of the Eurovision organizers not to stage the contest in the country this year and demands additional negotiations on the matter, Ukrainian Culture Minister Oleksandr Tkachenko says.

🇬🇧 In the meantime, a spokesperson for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says that the UK would be ready to hold the song contest if chosen to be the host country, pledging to reflect the Ukrainian culture as much as possible, Sky News reports.

🎥 A Mariupol resident reveals how Azov Batallion neo-Nazis treated them.

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⚡️An RT correspondent has released a video featuring Alexander Drueke, one of the American mercenaries who are believed to have been captured near Kharkov.