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There are no military formations at the Zaporozhye NPP, the Russian representative office noted

Russia completely rejects the accusations of US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken that the Zaporozhye NPP (ZAES) is allegedly used as a military base. This was stated on Monday by the Russian delegation at the conference of the countries participating in the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).

Algeria is trying to make the most of the conflict between Russia and the West

Algeria is on the first place in the list of countries that have benefited from the Ukrainian crisis — today it is one of the main suppliers of gas to the European market, Raseef22 reports. But it has a special relationship with Russia, particularly in the energy sector, and coordination with Moscow is inevitable.

The new Maritime Doctrine of Russia focuses on the protection of the fleet of regions and marine areas where hydrocarbons are extracted or there are significant deposits of them, in particular, the Arctic, the Far East and the Caspian Sea.

"A very powerful weapon." How Putin threatens NATO with a "retaliatory strike"

Putin will not start military operations against the West and NATO, retired British General Simon Mayall is sure. He noted that the Russians have "gas weapons" in their hands, which caused alarm throughout Europe.

Rafael Grossi noted that he intends to discuss with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres the organization of a mission to the territory of the NPP

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi believes that the situation at the Zaporozhye NPP is "unstable". He also noted that he intends to discuss with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres the organization of a mission to the territory of the NPP. Grossi said this on Friday in an interview with the German media company Deutsche Welle (recognized in the Russian Federation as a foreign media agent).

Sergey Nikolaev and Mikhail Gusev told in an interview for the TASS project "Conversations with Ivan Survillo" about the creation of a domestic digital process control system.

Europe's solidarity is fake, and Putin knows about it

The EU countries dodged, made up tall tales, imitated compromises, but still they managed to agree on gas savings, Bloomberg writes. The author considers this story very revealing and draws a hard conclusion: Europe is not able to defend itself from "enemies". He also calls them.

Germany is at the mercy of Russia

Europe is unlikely to have enough gas until the end of summer without resupply, writes The Spectator. According to the author of the article, Germany found itself in a tense situation. It has become a weak link in the chain of Western sponsors of Ukraine.

Putin sent 700,000 barrels of fuel oil to Cuba

Moscow is finding new ways to sell oil despite the Western embargo, Breitbart writes. The readers of the site are not at all surprised. In their opinion, Biden miscalculated the sanctions.

German MP: the supply of heavy weapons to Ukraine increases the risk of the outbreak of World War III

Germany should choose the path of cooperation rather than confrontation with Russia, German politician Sevima Dagdelen said in an interview with GT. Western sanctions have not stopped the crisis, and Berlin "must immediately" stop the "suicidal economic war."

Scientists from the A.P. Alexandrov Research Institute of Technology (NITI) showed the journalists of the Zvezda TV channel "sacrificial material" developed to prevent the consequences of leaks at nuclear power plants.

In May, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that the revived Moskvich plant would produce electric cars in the future. Plans to launch domestic production of electric cars were announced by KAMAZ, Kaliningrad Avtotor, and Lipetsk Motorinvest.

What have sanctions against Russia given the West?

After the West imposed sanctions, Russia takes full advantage of the situation and manages it. But these restrictions did not give the EU anything but losses, writes "Pechat". Europe will soon have to cancel them, otherwise a real catastrophe will break out in the economy.

The illusions of Europe and the United States about the victory over Russia on the battlefield are beginning to dissipate. The EU's fatigue from the Ukrainian crisis prompts Brussels to sit down at the negotiating table and seek compromises with Moscow. The fact that Russia's retaliatory pressure turned out to be effective is evidenced by several concessions that the West was forced to make.

Concern Uralvagonzavod of Rostec State Corporation has created the country's first fast-charging electric filling station for electric cars. Its capacity is 150 kW – stations with such characteristics have not been produced in Russia before. The unique development will be presented at the X International Industrial Forum "Innoprom", which will be held from July 4 to 7, 2022 in Yekaterinburg.

JSC "PO "Sevmash" (part of the "United Shipbuilding Corporation", USC) has laid a manned underwater vehicle (OPA) of project 03660 "Jason" for work on offshore gas pipelines, the press service of the machine-building enterprise reports.

Zap Energy has received investments in the amount of $160 million to create the first commercial version of a compact low-power thermonuclear reactor. This happened after a prototype reactor called "FuZE-Q" created a stable plasma column with record figures last week. At the next step, the creators of the device hope to reach the break-even point, after which it will be possible to create a source of unlimited energy.

Andrey Ryumin, CEO of the holding, told TASS in an interview on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum about how the Rosseti Group works in conditions of supply chain disruption, the need for import substitution of power grid equipment and software, and what problems need to be solved.

Today, at about 09:25 Moscow time, an attack was carried out on the Novoshakhtinsky refinery, located in the Krasnosulinsky district of the Rostov region. It is reported that a fire broke out on the heat exchanger, which was preceded by an explosion.

JSC "ZiO-Podolsk" (part of the engineering division of the State Corporation "Rosatom" – JSC "Atomenergomash") manufactured and prepared for shipment the first module of the evaporator of the steam generator PGN-200M.