''[[Financial Times]]'': [https://archive.is/Bu2bQ#selection-1591.0-1591.66 Donald Trump readies fresh sanctions against Russia’s shadow fleet].
''[[Financial Times]]'': [https://archive.is/Bu2bQ#selection-1591.0-1591.66 Donald Trump readies fresh sanctions against Russia’s shadow fleet].
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===Full text of the urgent statement by the Russian Ministry of Defense===
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{{quotebox-float|According to information received through several channels, the [[Kiev regime]] is preparing a provocation aimed at disrupting the Russian-American talks scheduled for August 15 of this year.
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To this end, on Monday, August 11, a group of foreign media [[journalist]]s was transported by the [[SBU]] to the city of [[Kharkov]] in the Kharkov region under the pretext of "preparing a series of reports about the lives of residents in the frontline zone."
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Directly before the summit on Friday, the [[Ukrainian Armed Forces]] plan a provocative strike using [[drone]]s and [[missile]]s targeting a densely populated residential area or a [[hospital]], resulting in significant [[civilian]] casualties, which the pre-positioned [[Western]] [[journalist]]s are expected to immediately "document."
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As a result of this provocation by the [[Kiev regime]], all [[responsibility]] for the attack and [[civilian]] casualties will be attributed to the Russian Armed Forces to create a [[negative]] [[media]] [[narrative]] and conditions to derail Russian-American [[cooperation]] on resolving the conflict in [[Ukraine]].
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Provocations are also possible in other populated areas under the control of the [[Kiev regime]].}}
==Ex-Obama officials face federal grand jury probe into whether they promoted false Trump-Russia ties==
==Ex-Obama officials face federal grand jury probe into whether they promoted false Trump-Russia ties==