Joe Biden: You don't have to be a Jew to be a Zionist. I am a Zionist!

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🇷🇺 Latest statements by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov:

▪️ The tens of billions of dollars pumped into Ukraine by the United States will not help the Ukrainian armed forces achieve success on the battlefield, other means are doomed to fail;

▪️ There are no plans for Putin to visit Latin America in the near future, although Moscow is interested in developing relations with the countries of the region;

▪️Russia is interested in developing relations with Argentina, and contradictory statements made there during the election campaign are being corrected;

▪️ Moscow will follow the Biden-Zelensky meeting very closely;

▪️ Many of Ukraine's failures on the battlefield lead to 'rocking of the boat' inside the country and a decline in the authority of the authorities there.

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🏋️‍♂️🪖 New mobilization trend in Ukraine: handing out summons in gyms

Employees of the military draft office issue summons both to those who have trained and to the trainers.

General mobilization in Ukraine has been held since February 25, 2022, then men aged 18 to 60 were banned from leaving the country.

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Denmark has refused Moscow's request for legal assistance in its Nord Stream investigation, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

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🇷🇺 Russian servicemen of the engineer battalion carried out demining works on the territory of the Lugansk People's Republic.

"Before they perform, let's say, the tasks of fortifying the perimeters of troop positions, the engineers first go through the area and check it for explosive hazards, unexploded [objects], or for any traps or surprises," the commander of the infantry battalion said.

The commander added that the soldiers responsible for engineering support of the battle also have to work with the deactivation of unexploded mines, which explode when trying to pull them out of the ground.

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📹 Sputnik correspondent Russell Bentley (@TXDPR) sat down with MMA star Jeff Monson for an exclusive interview.

They talked sports, supporting Russian veterans, and life in the Donbass.

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🤡 AWKWARD: Biden presented the Philadelphia Fire Department with a certificate of honor but a group photo didn't happen.

Are the firefighters burning bridges?

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🇷🇺🪖 Key points of Russian MoD briefing on progress of special military op in Ukraine:

▪️ In the Donetsk region, Russian troops repelled two attacks by Ukrainian forces; Ukrainian losses amounted to up to 240 soldiers;

▪️ In the Krasny Liman area, Russian troops repelled five attacks by Ukrainian troops. Ukrainian losses amounted to up to 185 servicemen and 3 vehicles;

▪️ In the Kharkov region, the Russian air force defeated units of the 57th brigade of the Ukrainian armed forces. Ukrainian losses amounted to 105 servicemen;

▪️ In Zaporozhye, the attack of Ukrainian troops was repelled, the Ukrainian airborne assault brigade was defeated;

▪️ In the Kherson region the Ukrainian losses amounted to 35 soldiers and 2 self-propelled guns "Gvozdika";

▪️ The Russian troops hit the personnel and military equipment of the Ukrainian armed forces in 114 districts;

▪️ Russian air defense systems intercepted two HIMARS missiles, one Tochka-U tactical missile and destroyed 23 Ukrainian drones during the day.

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🇭🇺 Hungary resolute on no aid to Ukraine from EU joint budget, no entry talks until June

Budapest believes that Kiev should not receive aid from the joint budget of the EU and that the bloc should decide on membership talks with Ukraine not earlier than the European Parliament elections are held in June, the Financial Times reported, citing Hungarian Minister for European Affairs Janos Boka.

Earlier, Hungary refused to approve the eighth tranche of 500 million euros ($543 million) in military funding for Ukraine within the European Peace Facility, saying that Kiev did not provide guarantees that Hungarian companies would not be put on its blacklist of "sponsors of war."

The EU is trying to reach agreement on 20 billion euros in military support for Ukraine and intends to include another 50 billion euros in the EU budget to provide assistance to Kiev over the next four years. However, these plans face opposition from some member states, including Hungary.

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New US Russia-related sanctions target over 200 companies, more than 20 people, according to US Treasury

Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Moscow must be prepared for the fact that Western sanctions pressure will increase. Putin added that the West's countless sanctions primarily hit their own economies and jobs.

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🇧🇪 Thousands of EU demonstrators took to the streets in Brussels to demand an end to strict budget rules limiting aid to the population. Another demand is to not increase military spending.

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Air raid alerts in Ukraine were cut off in 76 locations in the Kiev region due to a mobile operator failure.

Meanwhile, the Kievstar company reports that its IT infrastructure was partially destroyed due to a hacker attack. Later, the same problem was reported by Vodafone.

At the same time, the Main Directorate of Ukrainian Intelligence reports that it managed to break the server of the Russian Federal Taxation Service. The service later denied this message.

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💰Merchants of misery: cornered Zelensky joins team Biden in appealing for more Ukraine funding

It's unclear what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is hoping for while in DC, given his latest fiasco to address US lawmakers online and his failure to win the hearts or minds of Congress in September, says Daniel McAdams, the executive director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity.

"I would be very worried if I were him, he is a total liability right now. He's going to have to hope his money is in a secure place because he's going to have some tough times. So he's kind of in a corner without a lot of options right now. And I think the laws are closing in on him," McAdams told Sputnik.

Team Biden is looking increasingly desperate as it tries to persuade lawmakers to pass more funding for Ukraine. To complicate matters further, the House GOP is due to formalize their impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky provided no new information or arguments to US lawmakers during a closed-door meeting as he arrived to Washington in order to beg for new financial assistance, US Senator Eric Schmitt said on Tuesday.

Schmitt also criticized the Biden administration for sending Zelensky to meet with lawmakers about Ukraine instead of meeting with them himself about US border security.

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The agenda of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has ceased to be regional long ago and currently includes various global aspects, SCO Deputy Secretary General Grigory Logvinov said on Tuesday.

"It used to be rather a local association whose agenda was mainly focused on Central Asia. Now the SCO is a giant transregional organization ... And the organization's agenda is no longer regional, it has many global aspects," Logvinov told a press conference.

The organization has no attributes of a military bloc and was not designed as such, the official stated, adding that coordination between defense ministries and armed forces of the SCO member states had a "strong counterterrorism orientation," with all joint drills aimed at improving capacities to repel large-scale attacks by international terrorists.

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🇺🇸 The members of Congress are still waiting to see a clear articulation of strategy on Ukraine and so far the White House has not provided any sufficient responses to their questions, US House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters after meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Washington.

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🇺🇸 US Congress’ move to ban Russian uranium imports may cost US taxpayers a lot

US lawmakers’ earnest efforts to sever the supply of enriched uranium supply to their country is a “purely political decision that can be summed up as ‘we’ll do it even if it makes things worse for ourselves’,” says member of public council of Russia’s Rosatom state nuclear corporation Valeriy Menshikov.

According to him, any alternative uranium procurement scheme would be much more expensive for the United States than the arrangement with Russia.

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Zelensky and team Biden's fantasies of turning Ukraine into defense hub won't fly

Volodymyr Zelensky's idea of creating a defense hub in Ukraine is a pipe dream, says retired Colonel Anatoliy Matviychuk, commenting on the Ukrainian president's meeting with US industrial CEOs in DC.

"I think that everything that Zelensky told them was his fantasies and his attempt to come up with something," Matviychuk told Sputnik.

"Who in their right mind would now invest money in a country that is practically non-existent? Can Ukraine produce anything? I doubt it very much, because the production facilities are completely in tatters."

Likewise, Washington's new strategy envisaging Ukraine digging in and accumulating forces for a new counteroffensive against Russia appears to be Team Biden's fantasy to stay in power as long as possible, per the expert.

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🇮🇱🇵🇸 Latest updates on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict:

▪️Death toll in Gaza Strip from Israeli attacks up to 18,412 while number of injured exceeds 50,000, according to Gaza's Health Ministry;

▪️Gaza down to 11 functional hospitals, according to the WHO;

▪️The IDF has destroyed the headquarters of Hamas' elite Nukhba unit, where documents with plans for October 7 attack were located;

▪️Netanyahu said Israel received full US support for ground operation in Gaza Strip;

▪️Gaza conflict can go out of control at any moment, Iranian Foreign Minister said;

▪️WHO chief voices concern about prolonged security checks for medical staff in Gaza.

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