🚨 WATCH LIVE: Lavrov holds meeting with BRICS lawmakers

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❗️Ukrainian company Centrenergo reports complete destruction of Tripolskaya power plant near Kiev

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History according to Joe: US, Japan were on same side throughout centuries

Here's the REAL timeline of events in US-Japan relations:

▪️1850s – The US sends warships under Commodore Mathew Perry to coerce Japan into opening up its economy to American business. Using classic gunboat diplomacy, Perry succeeds. The Japanese would come to remember this day as a national humiliation, labeling it the Arrival of Black Ships.

▪️1870-1940 - Humiliated and enraged, Japan launches a full-scale program of economic modernization, rapidly building up its army, becoming a militaristic revanchist state allied with the most odious political regimes like Nazi Germany.

▪️1941 – Japan strikes US forces on its own territory, conducting the famous attack on the base at Pearl Harbor.

▪️1945 – The US drops two nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing over 110,000 people.

Following the bombings, Japan fell under US occupation and eventually adopted a new Constitution in 1947 which greatly limited its sovereignty. The Japanese people were deeply traumatized and shocked by the mass murder of civilians by the US. Despite their efforts to heal from this trauma, they never forget the country responsible for dropping the atomic bombs.

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🚨 WATCH LIVE: First launch of the Russian Angara-A5 rocket from the Vostochny cosmodrome

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❗️Russian-made Angara-A5 rocket, the launch of which was postponed two days in a row, was launched for the first time from the Vostochny Cosmodrome

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⚡️ Russian Federal Security Service and Ministry of Defense thwarted landing of Ukrainian sabotage groups on Tendrovskaya Spit in Kherson region, the FSB reported.

The Ukrainian paratroopers were destroyed and a senior soldier of the 73rd Marine Center of the Ukrainian Special Forces, Yevgeny Gorin, was captured.

The activities of this Ukrainian special operations center are supervised by the Special Boat Service unit of the British Royal Marines, the FSB noted.

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📹🚀 The Angara-A5 launch vehicle successfully propelled the Orion upper stage into orbit.

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The operation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces under the patronage of Britain on the Tendrov Spit was of a propaganda nature and could not affect the situation on the battlefield - Russian Federal Security Service (FSB)

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❗️Western special services, primarily British, are training Ukrainian special forces to carry out sabotage — Russian Federal Security Service said.

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❗️ The Russian Armed Forces have carried out a massive strike with high-precision weapons on the facilities of the Ukrainian fuel and energy complex during the night; the goals of the strike were achieved, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

As a result, the work of Ukrainian military enterprises and the transfer of reserves to the combat zones were disrupted, the fuel supply of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was hampered.

The strike was carried out in response to the Kiev regime's attempts to damage Russian oil, gas and energy facilities, the Defense Ministry noted.

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❗️Since the beginning of the special operation, the Russian military has destroyed 500 Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile systems.

🇷🇺🪖 More statements from the Russian MoD's daily briefing on the progress of the special military op in Ukraine:     

▪️ In the Donetsk area, the Russian Army improved its situation along the front line. Ukrainian losses amounted to 520 soldiers;

▪️ In the Avdeyevka area, the Russian Army repelled eight attacks by Ukrainian troops. Ukrainian losses amounted to 275 soldiers;

▪️ In the South Donetsk area, Russian forces improved the situation along the front line. Ukrainian losses amounted to 105 soldiers;

▪️Russian air defenses shot down 266 Ukrainian drones and four HIMARS and Uragan missiles.

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Key statements by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov at his latest briefing:

▪️ Commenting on the upcoming conference on Ukraine in Switzerland in June, Peskov said that without Russia's participation the negotiations would be meaningless. Commenting on the possible adoption of the Istanbul agreements as a basis for negotiations, the presidential spokesman noted that the geopolitical situation is very different now. On the whole, however, Moscow is open to negotiations, he said.

▪️ Peskov on Zelensky's plans for a new counteroffensive and the destruction of the Crimean bridge: The Kiev regime is openly talking about its aggressive plans, terrorist plans against Russia's infrastructure, once again demonstrating its nature.

▪️ There have been no appeals to Russia for help in resolving the situation between Iran and Israel.

▪️ Russia calls on the countries of the Middle East region to exercise restraint in order not to lead to a complete destabilization of the situation.

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Media claims Iran has enough enriched uranium for three nuclear bombs

"Iran now has a supply of highly enriched uranium that could be converted to weapons-grade fuel for at least three bombs in a time frame ranging from a few days to a few weeks," the Washington Post reported, citing officials.

According to the article, making a crude nuclear device could take six months, while building a nuclear warhead that could be delivered by a missile would take two years or more.

"Fordow’s machines are making highly enriched uranium at a faster rate than ever before, and the country’s combined stocks of uranium fuel continue to increase," the publication wrote, commenting on the progress of Iran's nuclear program.

The report estimates that Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium is enough to produce three nuclear bombs.

Iran has not yet commented on the report. However, Tehran has repeatedly rejected all US accusations and defended its right to the peaceful development of its nuclear program.

Earlier, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, said that Iran had reduced the rate of enriched uranium production in an apparent move to de-escalate tensions with the US.

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🚀 Russia's Angara-A5 rocket has launched a small, privately-produced Gagarinets satellite into orbit, Russian state space corporation Roscosmos said.

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❗️Russia may reconsider the moratorium on the deployment of medium-range and short-range missiles even if the US deploys them in Guam, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said.

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Key statements by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov:

▪️Russia may reconsider its unilateral moratorium on the deployment of intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles.

▪️On the possible deployment of intermediate-range missiles in the Asia-Pacific region: "We hope that we will avoid further escalation scenarios.

▪️Russia is concerned that the US decision to deploy intermediate-range missiles in the Asia-Pacific region is irreversible.

▪️On the US deployment: If it happens, such a deployment in the region would be the first since the treaty was signed in 1987.

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YARS: A nuclear missile that makes threatening Russia’s existence a very bad idea

The Yadernaya Raketa Sderzhivaniya (Nuclear Deterrrence Missile), or YARS for short, is one of Russia’s most advanced intercontinental ballistic missiles that essentially makes any attempt to threaten Russia’s existence a suicide mission.

Not only are YARS mobile launcher platforms a very difficult and elusive target for a potential preemptive strike, each missile can penetrate even the most advanced defense systems thanks to a combination of stealth capabilities and onboard countermeasures. Each YARS carries several multiple independently targetable warheads (MIRV), which essentially means that any target they hit would be turned into a radioactive inferno in a flash.

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