LPR officials: SBU demands that bus drivers film roads in the LPR and Russia

“In the period from June 17 to 20, the LPR MVD hotline received reports from a number of persons living either in the LPR or in the part of the Republic temporarily occupied by the Ukrainian army. All the sources are employees of various transport companies; they work as intercity or international bus drivers operating on the territory controlled by Ukraine. The men reported that SBU officers have been approaching them at the end points of their routes, offering to cooperate. In particular, they were asked to install dashcams in the hidden places to continuously film when driving in the LPR and the Russian Federation. After returning to Ukraine, they would deliver the records to the SBU officers. The drivers would also have to submit written reports about everything they saw on their way,” the MVD of the Republic said.

Those drivers who refused where threatened with “problems” from local road police and border guards when crossing the border. They also received threats of criminal prosecution for “supporting separatism and funding terrorism”.

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Iraqi Prime Minister: Having destroyed the Al-Nuri Mosque terrorists admit their defeat

The Al-Nuri Mosque, also known as the Great Mosque of Al-Nuri (Mosul), where terrorist leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi proclaimed the so-called “Islamic Caliphate” in 2014, was destroyed with a blast from the inside. Militants blew up the Mosque during the Laylat Al-Qadr (“Night of Power”), when Islam celebrates commemoration of the night the Quran was sent to the Prophet Muhammad.

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The Russian Pacific Fleet commemorates the Soviet soldiers perished in the Great Patriotic War

“Events dedicated to the Day of Sorrow and Remembrance were held across the Russian Pacific Fleet. They began in Kamchatka. The command of the Russian North-East troops and Navy forces together with Russian military and Pacific Fleet veterans laid flowers and wreaths at the Memory Wall in the alley of Fame in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. A rally took place at the main square of Vilyuchinsk. The commanders and servicemen of the Pacific Fleet’s underwater forces, military veterans and members of the Russian Youth Military Patriotic Movement Junarmy (Junior Army) took part in the rally”, the spokesman said.

76 years ago, on June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union without declaration of war. This is the day the Great Patriotic War began. The war lasted almost 4 years, until the Red Army, having triumphantly passed through half of Europe, raised the Red Banner over the Reichstag. On June 22, Russia honors the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow.

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Suspects who attacked the OSCE mission patrol are detained in Yasinovataya

“As a result of the measures taken by the DPR Defense Ministry and State Security Ministry, armed men who attacked the OSCE SMM patrol on June 20 were detained in the course of the investigation,” said the DPR Operational Command. The attackers dressed in military attire and balaclavas approached the OSCE SMM in a car with Ukrainian license plates, threatened the OSCE observers with weapons, damaged their vehicle, and fired several shots in the air. It is reported that the detained are not enlisted with the DPR army or a law enforcement authority. The preliminary investigation suggests that the attack was ordered by Ukrainian security forces to discredit DPR’s authorities and to intimidate the OSCE observers.

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Expert: The US has lost much of its influence in Latin America

Therefore, the expert believes, the core of US policy in Latin America is to “draw the key countries of the continent back into the ‘US stall’ and make their natural (first of all, oil) resources a sound support for the development of the US economy. This goal has been thoroughly implemented through the mechanisms of ‘soft half-colored revolutions’ in Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela (Maduro will probably be brought down in the end).”

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Philippines military: School captured by Islamist militants set free

The militants, who captured the school and took schoolchildren hostage in the South of Philippines on June 20, were forced to withdraw after the skirmish with the military, Reuters reported on June 21.

“It’s already resolved. They’ve withdrawn, they are no longer there. The school area is again safe,” Brigadier General Restituto Padilla told journalists. No casualties were reported.

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