🤡🇷🇺🤡 Russian lawmakers have called on the country’s largest lender Sberbank to remove a rainbow-colored unicorn from its bank cards for kids, saying that “rainbow symbols” are an attribute of the “international LGBT movement.” 🏳️🌈
🇺🇲 "A scathing, five-part piece by The New York Times editorial board published Thursday morning leaves no room for doubt about who they think should be elected in November: anyone but Donald Trump."
🇷🇺 🇩🇪 US intelligence discovered earlier this year that the Russian government planned to assassinate the chief executive of a powerful German arms manufacturer that has been producing artillery shells and military vehicles for Ukraine.
🇭🇺 Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told the European Union that Russian and Chinese leaders expect Ukrainian peace talks by the end of 2024, the Spanish daily El Pais reported Wednesday, citing his confidential reports filed after visiting the countries.
🇺🇦🇺🇲 #Ukraine plans to ramp up pressure on the Biden administration during the #NATO Summit this week to lift all restrictions on using American-supplied weapons in Russian territory.
🇺🇸🇺🇦 Biden's national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, said #NATO was committed to standing with #Ukraine long term and would announce a new military command in Germany for training and equipping Ukrainian troops and appoint a senior representative in Kyiv to deepen ties.
🇱🇹 Kremlin cronies holding senior Olympic positions “is an official recognition of #Russia’s triumph against international law,” Lithuanian PM told POLITICO.
🇭🇺 In a leaked letter seen Tuesday by POLITICO, the Hungarian prime minister underlined Putin’s maximalist position on #Ukraine so thoroughly he could have been auditioning for the role of Kremlin spokesperson.
🇧🇬 🇷🇺 #Bulgaria's state-owned gas supplier Bulgargaz said Tuesday it was taking Gazprom to court and seeking millions of euros in damages over the Russian company's cut of supplies after its invasion of Ukraine.
🇦🇹 🇷🇺 #Austria's energy minister has appointed a commission of experts to examine whether Austria can scrap a gas-supply contract between OMV and Gazprom to reduce its dependence on #Russia, she said on Tuesday.
🇺🇦 #Ukraine won't get an invitation to join #NATO during this week's Washington summit — or indeed anytime soon — so Kyiv is building its own network of alliances it hopes will offer some security against Russia.
🇮🇳🇷🇺 NDTV television in #India reported on July 9 that about 20 Indian nationals who are fighting with #Russia's armed forces in Ukraine will return home soon.
🇷🇺 A #Russian court sentenced a playwright and a theatre director each to six years in prison on Monday for "justifying terrorism", concluding a trial that rights campaigners had said demonstrated #Russia's intolerance of artistic freedom.
🇺🇦 President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday said #Ukraine was calling for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, following a deadly barrage of #Russian strikes across the country.
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 At least 25 people were killed in Russian airstrikes on multiple Ukrainian cities including Kyiv, Kryvyi Rih and Pokrovsk on Monday morning, according to the Ukrainian authorities.
🗣️ #NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Sunday, “The war in #Ukraine demonstrates how closely aligned #Russia and China and North Korea and Iran are. #China is the main enabler of Russia’s war aggression against Ukraine.”
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