👴🏼🇺🇸 US leaders are aging with no replacement in sight amid unbreakable political gridlock, experts told Sputnik

A recent poll conducted by a US media outlet revealed 75% of Americans are concerned about US President Joe Biden’s age and mental competence, while 67% of Democrats do not want him to run again.

Constitutional historian Dan Lazare suggested these developments are part of a generational illness afflicting an out-of-touch US governing elite that stayed too long in power.

As a remedy to the situation, California State University Professor Emeritus of Political Science Beau Grosscup said the United States urgently needed to pass age limits for top public officials.

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Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has inspected the Zvezda plant in the Primorsky territory in Russia's Far East

Shoigu "draw special attention of the enterprise's management to compliance with the schedule of defense order fulfillment" and ordered that the Zvezda plant "make maximum use of production capacities to complete the repair and modernization of submarines".

The Zvezda plant is Russia's leading submarine repair facility of the Pacific Fleet and the only one in the country's Far East specializing in the repair and modernization of nuclear-powered submarines.

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The number of shootings in US elementary and secondary schools reached a new record in the 2021-2022 school year

A total of 327 school shootings at public and private elementary and secondary schools were documented in 2021-2022, including 188 incidents with casualties and 139 without any injuries or deaths, a new statistical data report compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics revealed. In the same school year, 57 school shootings resulted in death and 131 shootings ended with injuries only, the report said.

The new data set a new annual record number of shootings in US schools over the past 21 years. For comparison, the next highest number of school shooting incidents was recorded in 2020-2021 with a total of 93 shootings in schools, the report added.

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📹 Kim Jong Un left Komsomolsk-on-Amur after spending about five hours there

He was seen off on the platform by the governor and the head of the city, while his armored Maybach was loaded onto an armored train using a special platform.

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Key statements by Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev:

▪️ The United States is increasing the use of the British army and intelligence in its operations around the world;

▪️ The ambassadors of the United States, England and France tried to force delegations from other countries to ommit going to Russia for a security meeting under the auspices of the Russian Security Council;

▪️ Washington will easily send the troops of other alliance [NATO] member countries to be slaughtered without risking the lives of its military.

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😵‍💫 Kim Jong Un is included in the database of the Ukrainian website "Peacemaker", which publishes personal data of people who are considered by the creators of the portal to be enemies of the state

The reasons for inclusion in the list on the site include "an attack on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine" and complicity to Russia.

The website contains confidential details about the leader of North Korea, alongside information regarding the sanctions imposed on him by numerous countries worldwide.

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🗣 Inclusion of Kim Jong Un in the database of the Ukrainian website "Peacemaker" is another provocation by the Kiev regime, a vain attempt at intimidation, the Russian Foreign Ministry stated

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📌 WATCH LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov participates in an embassy 'round table' event aimed at finding a solution to the Ukraine crisis

📹 Russian troops destroy a boat believed to be carrying ammunition for the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the Dnepr River, using a Russian-made FPV drone recently deployed in the special military operation zone

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The Ukrainian military forced captured Russian soldiers to walk directly through a minefield, a trusted source told Sputnik, showing a video found on a phone in a Ukrainian shelter

Reprisal and torture videos of Russian servicemen have appeared on the Internet more than once. For example, in November last year, a video appeared online showing Ukrainian soldiers shooting Russians who had surrendered and were lying on the ground. In addition, military personnel who returned from Ukrainian captivity spoke of torture: "During interrogation they [Ukrainians] cut off fingers, shot their legs, beat them with rebar and electric shocks.

The UNHRC Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine said in its report that Ukrainian soldiers committed war crimes by shooting and torturing Russian prisoners of war. The UN mission reported 25 cases of reprisals by Ukrainian forces against Russian prisoners. In addition, Ukraine has not brought criminal charges against its soldiers who executed Russian prisoners of war, although several executions have been documented.

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❗️ Key statements made by Vladimir Putin at the meeting with Alexander Lukashenko:

▪️ The US considers itself exceptional and provides cluster munitions to Ukraine, despite considering their use a crime.

▪️ Russia has always been open to negotiations with Ukraine but has not seen any proactive initiatives from them.

▪️ Putin asserts that Ukraine widely uses cluster munitions during the conflict.

▪️ Many countries in the multipolar world are dissatisfied with the US treating its partners as expendable.

▪️ Over 300 thousand volunteers have already signed up for the special military operation.

▪️ Putin denies allegations of Russia recruiting North Korean volunteers for the military operation, dismissing it as baseless nonsense.

▪️ Russia has captured foreign instructors on the battlefield and has taken prisoners recently.

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🇩🇪 German Defense Minister Pistorius admitted the possibility of delivering Taurus missiles to Kiev in "a few weeks"

A couple of days ago, the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry noted that Kiev had made progress in negotiations on the supply of these missiles from Germany.

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Transgender - spokesperson for the Armed Forces of Ukraine Sarah Ashton-Cirillo published a new video on X (formerly Twitter), in which he confirmed that his yesterday's appeals and threats were addressed to the military correspondent of one of the Russian newspapers Alexander Kots @sashakots, the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova @MariaVladimirovnaZakharova and the "head for Human Rights" of Russia (probably, referring to the head of the Human Rights Council Valery Fadeev).

Yesterday, spokesperson for the Armed Forces of Ukraine published a video in which he threatened several Russian journalists with retribution. However, he did not name the journalists.

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What a shot!

📹 Russia's high-precision weapons strike destroyed (0:03) a temporary deployment point of the Ukrainian Armed Forces with personnel in the Kherson region

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🗣 The events in Ukraine were a priority for Western countries, especially for the US and Great Britain, Russian FM Lavrov stated that they invested 'billions of dollars' to bring the Ukrainian opposition to power

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