Putin condemns the " imperial ambitions of NATO ", which "seeks to assert its supremacy through the war in Ukraine", and on the entry into the Alliance of Sweden and Finland, now also accepted by Turkey after having reached an agreement on the Kurds, issues a threatening warning.

"It is not a problem as for Ukraine, if they want to join they join, but if NATO deploys troops and infrastructure in Sweden and Finland , Russia will respond in the same way and create equal threats for the territories from which threats to us come from ."

Putin added that with joining the alliance "there will certainly be tensions, it is inevitable, even if everything has gone well between us so far".

The special military operation, as it is called in Russia, " is achieving its intended objectives " and Russian forces "are advancing", Putin also claimed by denying the missiles on the Kremenchuk shopping center.

With a conflict that, by now NATO is certain, is destined to last at least until 2023, " it is possible that Russia uses nuclear weapons ", says US intelligence chief Avril Haines.

A letter from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was delivered to the Russian leader in these hours. The Indonesian President Widodo acts as mediator. News, however, denied from Kiev: "If Zelensky tries to address someone with messages, he does so in his daily speeches" in public, said the spokesman of the head of state

Ukrainian, Serghei Nikiforov.

Meanwhile, the British government announced at the NATO summit in Madrid another one billion pounds (1.16 billion euros) in additional aid to Ukraine , including air defense systems and drones. Even the US, through the voice of President Biden , has announced aid to Kiev for another 800 million dollars .

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A letter from Zelensky was delivered to Putin

Indonesian President Joko Widodo said he had delivered a message from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Interfax agency reports. "I conveyed President Zelensky's message to President Putin and expressed my willingness to establish communication between the two leaders," Widodo said according to Interfax. However, the news was denied by Kiev.

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Olena Zelensky: "The Russians steal our children"

"It's a tragedy, they're stealing our children and taking them to Russia, it's a crime." This was stated by Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska interviewed at Porta a Porta. "In Russia they have even changed their legislation in order to allow Russian families to adopt Ukrainian children more easily. We see it as a crime, we try to talk about this in all places to be able to return these children to their homeland, we will seek to bring all the children back to Ukraine ", he explained, reporting that" to date we do not have a list of the names and surnames of the children brought to Russia ".

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Biden: "New weapons in Kiev for 800 million"

"We will send new weapons to Ukraine in the next few days for a total of 800 million".

This was stated by US President Joe Biden at the press conference after the NATO summit in Madrid.

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Lavrov: "New Russia-West Iron Curtain"

An "iron curtain" is re-emerging between Russia and the West. The minister said so

Russian foreign minister Serghei Lavrov after the NATO summit.

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Kiev: "Now the whole Odessa region is free"

"With the liberation of the Snake Island, the Odessa region has been completely cleared of the Russian occupiers." The spokesman for the governor Sergey Bratchuk explained on Telegram. "Thanks to the armed forces!" He added in a video, confirming that the only inhabited settlement on the island, Bile, has returned to the control of the forces of Kiev.

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Cluster bomb raid on Sloviansk, dead

Russian forces again hit Sloviansk today with cluster bombs, causing at least six injuries. The mayor, Vadym Lyakh, reported this on Telegram. The city in Donetsk oblast has been in the sights of the Moscow offensive in Donbass for weeks.

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Medvedev: "Useless courts against the first nuclear power in the world"

"Attempting to establish courts against the country with the greatest nuclear potential is futile." This was stated by the deputy president of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev, at a meeting of the St. Petersburg Legal Forum, quoted by Tass.

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Putin: "We are open to dialogue on stability and disarmament"

"Russia is open to dialogue on world strategic stability, disarmament and trade". This was said by Russian President Vladimir Putin, adding, according to TASS, that Moscow "will try to make the world more democratic". Putin then denounced "countries that, by defending their exclusivity, violate their internal rights" and "attempts to replace the law with diktats", claiming to be "in disagreement with the opinion that existing international laws should be canceled" . "The multipolar world order is evolving in a global sense - he added - and the process cannot be reversed".

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Russian parliament votes against foreign media

Russian deputies have passed a law that will make it easier to shut down a foreign media in Russia. The new rule gives the Russian Attorney General and his deputies the right, "in the event of hostile action by a foreign state against a Russian media abroad, to quickly make the decision to ban or restrict the activities of the media of this country in Russia ", announced the Duma.

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The Russians withdraw from Snake Island

The Russian armed forces have announced that they intend to withdraw troops from Snake Island, "so as not to hinder the efforts of the UN to free Ukrainian food exports". Tass reports it. However, Kiev will not be allowed to use the island as a base for its exports.

"On June 30, as a sign of goodwill, the Russian armed forces completed their duties on Snake Island and withdrew a garrison stationed there," the defense ministry said in a statement.

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Moscow: "Attack on shopping center conceived by Kiev"

The attack on the Kremenchuk shopping center on Monday was conceived by Kiev on the eve of international events to make the West supply more weapons to Ukraine, the Russian envoy to the Organization for Cooperation and Loyalty said. economic development (OECD), Alexander Lukashevich, according to reports from TASS.

"It was a bogus incident which, of course, was staged on the eve of international events with the aim of persuading the West to provide a common response and, more importantly, more weapons" to Ukraine, he said. Lukashevich on Rossiya-24 TV channel.

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Lysychansk, area of the refinery in Russian hands

The entire area of the Lysychansk oil refinery, in eastern Ukraine, is in the hands of Russian forces and those of the self-proclaimed republic of Lugansk (LPR): said the LPR ambassador to Russia, Rodion Miroshnik, according to what reports the Tass.

"The area of the largest oil refinery in Ukraine, the Lysychansk refinery, is under the control of the allied forces. The shooting continued in the industrial area of the refinery for several days and now Ukrainian units have been removed from the area. The militants fled, abandoning shelters and weapons, "Miroshnik wrote on Telegram.

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Ship leaves with 7 thousand tons of grain

A ship carrying 7,000 tons of grain has left the occupied Ukrainian port of Berdyansk. This was reported by the pro-Russian authorities.

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Lysychansk under constant bombardment

The city of Lysychansk in eastern Ukraine is under constant bombardment as Russia continues its offensive in the region, Lugansk region governor Serhiy Gaidai told Ukrainian TV, according to the Guardian.

"The fighting continues unabated. The Russians are constantly on the offensive. There is no respite. Absolutely everything is being bombed," said Gaidai. Ukrainian authorities said they are trying to evacuate the approximately 15,000 remaining residents of the city.

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Aiea: "Lost connection with the Zaporizhzhya plant"

The International Atomic Energy Agency "has again lost the remote connection with its surveillance systems of the safety devices installed in the nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine. This underlines the need for the IAEA to visit the facility in the next future, "said the agency's director general, Rafael Grossi. This was reported by the IAEA in a tweet published last night.

(Unioneonline)

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