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The fire consumed an area of about 400 square meters The fire in the reservoir with oil products of the Ilsky oil refinery in Russia’s southern Krasnodar Territory has been extinguished, the Russian emergencies ministry’s regional department said on Thursday. “The fire was put out at 5:17 a.m.,” it said. Reservoirs with oil products at the Ilsky oil refinery in the Krasnodar Territory caught fire at around 3:00 a.m. on Thursday. The fire consumed an area of about 400 square meters. No one was hurt. No threat to the local population was reported. Another oil storage reservoir caught fire in…

Following an attack by an unidentified drone, a fire broke out in the reservoir of the Ilsky oil refinery in the settlement of Ilsky A fire broke out in the reservoir of the Ilsky oil refinery in Russia’s southern Krasnodar Territory following a drone attack, a spokesman for the local emergencies services said on Thursday. “Following an attack by an unidentified drone, a fire broke out in the reservoir of the Ilsky oil refinery in the settlement of Ilsky,” he said. An oil storage reservoir in the settlement of Volna in the Krasnodar Territory caught fire in the early hours…

The top SCO diplomats will exchange views on issues on the international and regional agenda. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has arrived in India’s Goa to take part in a ministerial meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a TASS correspondent reported on Thursday. The top SCO diplomats will discuss the agenda of the upcoming meeting of the SCO heads of state due in New Delhi on July 3-4. Apart from that, they will exchange views on issues on the international and regional agenda. Along with the participation in the ministerial meeting, Lavrov is expected to hold a number of…

Deputy Head of the United Russia Party faction in the State Duma Adalbi Shkhagoshev has called for the withdrawal of the US forces from Syria as quickly as possible. “The withdrawal of the Americans from Syria is not linked to their support for terrorist organizations there, or the protection of their interests in the region, and if they do not leave voluntarily, they will be expelled sooner or later,” Shkhagoshev told SANA correspondent in Moscow. He noted that the United States has practiced the worst types of hostilities to fragment Syria and has supported terrorist organizations by promoting the separatist…

Israeli media revealed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prevented his security minister from visiting the United States twice for meetings. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prevented Security Minister Yoav Gallant from going on a trip to the United States twice for official talks, Israeli media reported Wednesday. Gallant’s trip was not supposed to have a certain schedule, as he was simply meant to travel to Washington and New York to fulfill two invitations he had received; however, Netanyahu rebuffed his bids to leave, Israeli Channel 12 reported. The report underlined that Netanyahu prevented the top security official from going on his…

A legal twist allowed the South Korean Treasury to make a large profit on crypto seized by law enforcers in 2018 – and liquidated while Bitcoin (BTC) was trading for just under $40,000. Recently published legal documentation shows that the Busan District Prosecutor’s Office seized coins “worth about $413,000” in 2018. After a long legal struggle, the Treasury succeeded in liquidating the coins in January 2022. The media outlet Newsis reported: “At the time of the sale, the worth of the coins had soared about nine times to around $3.7 million.” The office did not reveal which kind of coins it had seized. But the closing…

“We accepted the Saudi-US ceasefire initiative, but not the mediation in ending the conflict,” Sudan’s FM undersecretary revealed. Sudanese Foreign Ministry undersecretary Dafalla Al-Haj Ali relayed that if contact were to happen between the Sudanese armed forces and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) representatives face-to-face, it would only occur through mediators. During a press conference by Saudi TV channel Al-Hadath, Ali who serves as Abdel Fattah Burhan’s representative, said: “The second party has not accepted the truce yet. If this humanitarian ceasefire continues, our delegation will not meet with those who the rebels [Rapid Support Forces] will send. We will not meet…

Yevgeny Prigozhin said that in the past 24 hours, Wagner PMC forces advanced 230 meters in Artyomovsk Ukrainian forces have started the counteroffensive, they have a lot of personnel and weapons, Wagner PMC founder Yevgeny Prigozhin said Wednesday. “The UAF have started its counteroffensive; they have ‘unlimited’ personnel and shells,” Prigozhin said, according to his press office’s Telegram channel. He added that, in the past 24 hours, Wagner PMC forces advanced 230 meters in Artyomovsk (Bakhmut). “[Russian forces in Artyomovsk] control area of 54,000 square meters. The enemy still controls 2.64 square kilometers,” he said. Source: tass

The teenage shooter has been detained, officials say A seventh-grade student opened fire inside Vladislav Ribnikar Elementary School in Serbia’s capital Belgrade on Wednesday morning, killing eight children and a security guard, the country’s Interior Ministry said. A teacher and six students were injured in the attack. A 14-year-old suspect has been detained. Police said the shooter used his father’s gun in his attack on the school. According to Vecernje novosti, the assailant was armed with two handguns and had three Molotov cocktails in his backpack. “I saw the security guard falling. At first, I thought someone was throwing firecrackers,” a…

The Israeli military has established a unit of soldiers composed of extremist and hardcore settlers, known as Hilltop Youth, to function and operate in the occupied territories, according to a report by the Israeli +972 Magazine. It said that an investigation by +972 and Local Call revealed that more than two years ago, the Israeli military established a unit called “Desert Frontier” specifically for hilltop youth settlers, who make up the vast majority of the unit’s soldiers. Hilltop youths are known to carry out violent attacks against Palestinians. “The military is enlisting hilltop youth settlers known for their violence toward Palestinians to…