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MOSCOW, April 10. /TASS/: Russian air defense forces intercepted two rockets of the US-made HIMARS multiple launch rocket system and destroyed 11 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over the past day during the special military operation in Ukraine, Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov reported on Monday.

MOSCOW, April 10. /TASS/:  The Russian State Duma Committee on State Building and Legislation recommended on Monday that the lower house of parliament pass a bill containing legislative amendments, in the second reading, aimed at toughening liability for terrorism and instituting life imprisonment for the crime of treason.

MOSCOW, April 10 (Reuters) - Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus, told Russia's defence minister on Monday that he wanted guarantees that Moscow would defend his country if it was attacked, the state-owned BelTA news agency reported.

BelTA cited Lukashenko as making the remarks to Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu during a meeting in the Belarusian capital Minsk.

MOSCOW, April 8. /TASS/: Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev believes that no-one in the world needs Ukraine, therefore it will cease to exist, he said in his post on social media Saturday.

The post, titled "Why Ukraine will cease to exist? Because nobody needs it," is divided into six parts, in which Medvedev explains why the Ukrainian state is not needed to Europe, the US, Africa, Latin America, Asia, Russia and, finally, Ukrainian people themselves.

MOSCOW, April 8. /TASS/: By speaking against deployment of nuclear weapons beyond national territory, French President Emmanuel Macron effectively criticized the US policy, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview, partially uploaded to journalist Pavel Zarubin’s Telegram channel.

"It has been a long time since we’ve heard such fierce criticism towards the United States of American from the President of France," the spokesman noted ironically, commenting on Macron’s remarks.

MOSCOW, April 8. /TASS/: Western countries could not bring themselves to condemn the terror attack on war reporter Vladlen Tatarsky [real name: Maxim Fomin], Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on her Telegram channel on Saturday.

"Over six days that elapsed since the moment of the blast in that St. Petersburg cafe, not a single Western ‘champion’ of freedom of the media and the safety of journalists managed to utter even a word condemning this cruelty, horrendous by any human standards, nor expressed simple compassion for its victims," she noted.

MOSCOW, Apr 8 (NNN-TASS) – U.S. biological research, which is conducted secretly, is fraught with the risk of virus leakages, the Russian Defence Ministry said, yesterday.

“The United States has never been explicit about how dedicated it is, to ensure research safety in the bio-labs it oversees,” Igor Kirillov, chief of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defence Forces of the Russian Armed Forces, said during a briefing.

07 Apr 2023; MEMO: Russia on Friday called on Israel and Palestine to refrain from "confrontational steps" and to end the "escalation" of violence, reports Anadolu agency.

"We call on the parties involved in the conflict to refrain from confrontational steps, to act in the interests of preventing further escalation, ending violence and restoring a sustainable cease-fire," a Foreign Ministry statement said.

MOSCOW, April 7. /TASS/: Russian air defense forces intercepted two rockets of the US-made HIMARS multiple launch rocket system and destroyed 11 Ukrainian drones over the past day during the special military operation in Ukraine, Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov reported on Friday.

MOSCOW, Apr 7 (NNN-TASS) – Russian President, Vladimir Putin, and Belarusian President, Alexander Lukashenko, vowed yesterday to push ahead the integration process between the two countries.

The two leaders made the remarks when jointly chairing a meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State of Russia and Belarus at the Kremlin.

At the meeting, Putin noted that, “significant achievements” had been made in the integration of 28 prioritised sectors, approved during the previous Supreme State Council meeting in 2021.