Geneva, 13 June 2024 – Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance today announced that the lower-income countries it supports can now apply to introduce four additional vaccines: preventive Ebola, human rabies vaccine for post-exposure prophylaxis, multivalent meningococcal conjugate and hepatitis B birth dose. These four vaccine programmes were previously approved by the Gavi Board but put on hold either due to the COVID-19 pandemic (in the case of human rabies for post-exposure prophylaxis and hepatitis B birth dose); pending availability of suitable products (multivalent meni ..read more

The head of the House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Policy of the American Congress, Michael McCaul, is trying to convince the country’s President Joe Biden to allow Ukraine to launch attacks with American weapons not only on the regions of the Russian Federation located near the Kharkiv region but also throughout the rest of Russian territory, according to US Congress’ Foreign Affairs official website. Congressman Michael McCaul is lobbying Biden to allow Ukraine to use American weapons to strike other parts of Russia, in addition to the territory of the Russian Federation near the ..read more

The Russian side has a number of unpublicized contacts with Western representatives regarding the situation in Ukraine. However, during these contacts, the West does not want to notice the Russophobic and Nazi direction of the regime of Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced this on Tuesday, June 11, at a press conference following a meeting of the foreign ministers of the BRICS member states. “I think that the realization that one can simply leave this situation and sit at the negotiating table as if nothing happened is wrong. Moreover, no one in the West, we h ..read more

On Thursday morning, the Hamas movement called on the United States to “pressure” Israel in order to reach a permanent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. The Hamas movement said in a statement, “While Blinken continues to talk about “Israel’s” approval of the latest proposal, we have not heard any “Israeli” official speak of this approval,” adding, “We call on Blinken, and the administration of President Biden, to direct pressure” on the Jewish state. Hamas stressed in its statement that it has always shown “the positivity required to reach a comprehensive and satisfactory agreement based on the ju ..read more

Ukraine’s power grids are related to military infrastructure and are therefore a legitimate military target for the Russian Armed Forces. This was stated by the press secretary of Russian President Dmitry Peskov, “Of course, in specific cases, this has to do with military infrastructure,” Peskov told reporters. At the same time, the Kremlin representative did not develop this topic but advised to “substantively ask this question” to the Russian Ministry of Defense. In mid-May, the national energy company Ukrenergo announced that emergency power outages would be carried out throughout Ukraine ..read more

The Russian Navy will receive several submarines this year, which will strengthen the nuclear triad. This was stated by the general director of the Sevmash production association, Mikhail Budnichenko, during the state awards ceremony in the Kremlin, TASS reports. According to him, Sevmash will continue to strive to work more efficiently and cheaply. “I want to report to you that the fleet will receive several more nuclear submarines, which will strengthen both the nuclear component of our maritime triad and multipurpose submarines,” Budnichenko said. Before this, it was reported that the miss ..read more

Today, any Russian could be under attack from the Danish intelligence services. This was stated by the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian  Federation Maria Zakharova, Russian news website Kxan reports. The Russian Foreign Ministry is monitoring the situation with a Russian citizen detained in Denmark on June 11 on suspicion of assisting foreign intelligence services. She added that Copenhagen had provided “no evidence” of the woman’s “unlawful activity” and said Russians and those with pro-Russia views are “subjected to reprisals” in Denmark, accord ..read more

European Union ( EU ) Ambassador to Ukraine Katarina Maternova called Russia’s victory in Ukraine the greatest danger the West could face. Her words are quoted by the Slovak publication Aktuality. Answering the question about whether active assistance from NATO countries to Ukraine poses a threat of direct confrontation with Moscow, she emphasized that she does not consider such a risk to be the main one. Click to view slideshow. “I think the most dangerous thing that can happen to the West is if Russia wins,” Maternova said. On June 8, US President Joe Biden said that Russia “would not stop ..read more

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation were able to weaken the Ukrainian army in the Kharkiv region. This was reported by retired French Colonel Bertrand Darra in an interview (Russian) with LCI. He stated that “the Russians still managed to achieve their goal.” According to him, during the advance near Kharkiv, the Russian Armed Forces were able to weaken Ukrainian units and disperse them from other sectors of the front, which allowed other parts of the Russian army to advance against the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. On June 12, Irish journalist Chay Bowes said that the coll ..read more

The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) are shelling the Grayvoronsky urban district in the Belgorod region. This was earlier reported by The Eastern Herald. “Shelling is underway in the Grayvoronsky urban district of the village Novostroevka-Pervaya,” the city administration said in a statement. Local residents were urged to go to a basement or shelter. Prior to this, the governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, announced the shelling of Shebekino by the Ukrainian army. Various damages were recorded in four private houses. Also in two apartment buildings, windows in the apartments were ..read more