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The Acting Kherson Governor accuses Kiev of wanting to intimidate residents of the Kherson Region and sow panic among the population. The Ukrainian armed forces have attacked bridges on the administrative border between the Kherson Region and the Crimea near the village of Chonhar, Acting Kherson Governor Vladimir Saldo confirmed early Thursday. “The criminal Kiev regime committed barbaric shelling of civilian objects – bridges on the administrative border between the Kherson Region and the Crimea near Chonhar,” Saldo said on Telegram. He considered that Kiev wants to intimidate residents of the Kherson Region and sow panic among the population, affirming…

Diplomats in Washington reportedly reassured China that the president’s comments do not mark a policy shift Senior US officials were taken aback by US President Joe Biden’s remarks labeling Chinese President Xi Jinping a “dictator,” which came shortly after a landmark visit of Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Beijing, NBC reported on Wednesday, citing sources. On Tuesday, speaking at a fundraiser in California, the US leader suggested that Xi did not even know about the Chinese balloon that entered US airspace earlier this year. While Beijing insisted that the vessel deviated from its course due to “force majeure circumstances,” the Pentagon claimed that…

Sources to Al Mayadeen from within Al-Rukban camp near Al-Tanf US occupation base confirm that Washington plans to prevent the dismantling of the camp to safeguard its military base. The United States wants to preserve Al-Rukban camp in Syria in order to keep using it as a pretext it uses to “legalize” the presence of its occupation military base in Al-Tanf, northeast of the country. Sources from within the camp told Al Mayadeen that Washignton is working on preventing plans carried out by by Syria and Jordan, along with Russian support, to dismantle the camp, which is located near the Iraqi-Jordanian border…

Russia has been preparing a draft roadmap for further approval by the rest of the parties. Syria, Turkey, and Iran have all agreed to the roadmap initiative pitched by Russia to restore normal diplomatic relations between Syria and Turkey, Sputnik reported citing Alexander Lavrentyev Russia’s special envoy to Syria. “All parties generally agreed with the concept of a road map to advance the process of normalizing relations and expressed their views and proposals. Now they need to be systematized and coordinated,” Lavrentyev said, noting however that the process would take some time before being realized. “The most important thing is that the…

Locals from the Quneitra governorate organize a demonstration in protest of the Israeli occupation forces’ aggression on the residents of the occupied Syrian Golan, affirming their belief in the inevitability of the territories’ liberation. Locals from the Syrian province of Quneitra organized a protest on Wednesday to condemn the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) attacks on the residents of the occupied Golan Heights, as IOF aimed to forcefully appropriate land for a wind turbine project. During the protest, the participants expressed their solidarity with the people of the occupied Golan who have been actively resisting the project for the past two…

An Israeli drone strike targets 3 Resistance fighters to the northeast of Jenin near the Jalama checkpoint, marking an escalation as such an event has not occurred since 2005. Three Resistance fighters were martyred after an Israeli drone strike targeted them in a car near Jenin, as gunshots were heard in the vicinity, Al Mayadeen’s correspondent reported on Wednesday. In a statement, the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, announced the names of the three martyred fighters: Suhaib Adnan Al-Ghoul, 27, a formation leader in Al-Quds Brigades – Jenin Brigade. Mohammad Bashar Oueis, 28, a leader in Al-Aqsa…

It’s true that quite a lot of grain transactions are commercial transactions, Farhan Haq said Despite the fact that most transactions under the grain deal are commercial, the fundamental purpose of the deal is humanitarian seeking to maintain lower food prices globally, a deputy spokesperson for the UN secretary-general Farhan Haq told a briefing on Wednesday. “The fundamental purpose of the Black Sea Initiative is a humanitarian purpose. It’s true that quite a lot of grain transactions are commercial transactions. But those commercial transactions help our humanitarian goal by maintaining a lower level of world food prices overall, and particularly…

Maria Zakharova said that Russia was fully aware of the seriousness of the situation and “systematically sends sobering signals to the Western countries” Aggressive policies by the United States and NATO, leading towards an ever-deeper involvement in military confrontation, can result in a direct clash between nuclear powers, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told a news briefing on Wednesday. “The greatest danger is that with the aggressive policies of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia in the Ukrainian conflict they have provoked themselves the United States and NATO continue to raise the stakes and become drawn ever deeper into…

Washington continues to pressure Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear arsenal US President Joe Biden has renewed a raft of economic penalties targeting North Korea, as well as a national emergency declaration over alleged threats posed by the DPRK’s atomic weapons. The White House notified lawmakers of the decision on Tuesday, stating that Biden would extend the sanctions and state of emergency, which were first established by an executive order signed by President George W. Bush in 2008. “The existence and risk of the proliferation of weapons‑usable fissile material on the Korean Peninsula… [continues] to constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the…

The strategic bombers will take part in a multi-level joint exercise with Sweden’s Armed Forces. US bombers landed in Sweden for the first time in decades for joint military exercises as the Nordic country continues to place high bets on being admitted into the NATO coalition. While Stockholm hopes to have its membership approved in the next NATO meeting scheduled in Vilnius, Lithuania, the invitee announced earlier this month it is ready to host the military bloc’s troops and military hardware on its territory even before it formally becomes a member. Two American B-1B Lancers arrived at Lulea-Kallax airport in Sweden on Monday, the…