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The press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense announced a meeting between the deputy head of this department, Colonel-General Alexander Fomin, and the military attachés of unnamed “friendly countries.” The main point of the briefing was nuclear deterrence.

“The activities of the Russian Federation in the field of nuclear deterrence are of a defensive nature and are aimed at guaranteed protection of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country,” the statement said, cited by the agency. “Interfax”.

It should be noted that, from the point of view of Russian legislation, the occupied regions of Ukraine are the territory of Russia.

The warlord also expressed outrage that the US is stationing nuclear weapons in Europe and that the US and its NATO allies have refused to withdraw these weapons. According to him, the deployment of Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus is a reciprocal step.

The warlord also expressed outrage that the US is stationing nuclear weapons in Europe and that the US and its NATO allies have refused to withdraw these weapons. According to him, the deployment of Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus is a reciprocal step.

It is unclear whether the briefing was planned, but it can be assumed that its holding is connected with the incident that occurred on the night of May 3 in Moscow. The press service of Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Ukraine tried to strike with two drones on the presidential residence in the Kremlin. The UAVs were shot down by Russian special services.

Sergei Nikiforov, spokesman for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, said he was not involved in the incident. “Ukraine directs all available forces and means to liberate its own territories, and not to attack others,” he said, accusing the Putin regime of escalating the situation before May 9.

FBI USA put on the wanted list Natalya Burlinova, associate professor at Moscow State University and former producer of the radio station “Moscow Speaks”. She is suspected of recruiting Americans on the instructions of the FSB of the Russian Federation.

The FBI’s wanted notice states: “Natalya Burlinova is wanted on suspicion of acting as an illegal agent for a foreign government, Russia, on United States soil. Burlinova is suspected to have colluded with a Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) ) to recruit U.S. citizens to travel to Moscow to participate in the “Meet Russia” program run by her Public Creative Diplomacy Initiative (PICREADI), an FSB agent who is suspected to have provided funding for Burlinova and other support for her efforts to In turn, Burlinova provided the FSB officer with information about the recruited US citizens, including their resumes, passport details, photographs and analysis of their views on Russia.In addition, Burlinova identified for further cooperation a list of specific US citizens who expressed a positive attitude towards Russia During a recruiting trip to the US in the fall of 2018, Burlinova met with US citizens at various US universities and research institutes and provided the FSB officer with photographs of her meetings.

Earlier, the US Department of Justice reported that Burlinova violated the local law on foreign agents because she did not notify the authorities about the financing of her activities by the Russian security service. A Columbia court on April 17 issued a federal warrant for her arrest. Natalya Burlinova herself denies the accusations against her.

Margarita Simonyan, head of the Russian state media group Rossiya Segodnya, offered to exchange opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza and American citizens Paul Whelan and Evan Gershkovich arrested in Russia for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

“Change Whelan, Kara-Murza* and Gershkovich for Assange. They won’t give him up for less than three. Save one useful life at the cost of three harmful ones,” a Russian propagandist wrote on the Telegram social network.

On April 17, a Moscow city court found Vladimir Kara-Murza guilty of high treason, spreading “fakes” about the Russian army, and participating in the activities of an undesirable organization, and sentenced him to 25 years in prison.

Whelan, a former US Marine, was arrested in Moscow in 2018 on espionage charges and sentenced to 16 years in prison in 2020. Wall Street Jordan correspondent Evan Gershkovich was arrested on suspicion of espionage in March 2023.