▪️Shanghai reports three deaths, the first in the current outbreak, amid growing skepticism about the country’s official data on the number of deaths from Covid-19
▪️Chinese citizens report food crisis amid Shanghai closure
▪️The world should prepare for the possible use of nuclear weapons by Russia, Zelensky told reporters
▪️North Korea is testing a new weapons system aimed at improving the effectiveness of “tactical cores”
▪️Putin said that it is necessary to accelerate the transition in foreign trade in rubles and national currencies of partner countries. In his opinion, the country has withstood unprecedented pressure due to sanctions imposed by the West
▪️Elon Musk says that the Twitter board should worry about other bidders, not about him
▪️An earthquake of magnitude 5.3 occurred off the coast of Taiwan
▪️The UN reports that about 5 million people have left the country since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine
▪️The United States will train the Ukrainian military to handle American howitzers, plan training for “other types” of weapons
▪️The office of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Downing Street has been subjected to multiple suspicious infections using Pegasus, a sophisticated hacking software created by the Israeli group NSO, which can turn a phone into a remote listening device.
▪️Top U.S. diplomats will travel to the Solomon Islands and other Pacific island states this week amid concerns about China’s diplomatic and military penetration into the strategic region.
▪️The UN invites Russia and Ukraine to hold a meeting to discuss humanitarian issues
▪️Chinese pharmaceutical company shares fall amid doubts about Covid drug
▪️Russia broadcasts a video with the captured “Britons”, demanding that the British Prime Minister negotiate their release