BATTLEFORWORLD.COM | May 26, 2022: - Russian troops destroyed the Ukrainian electronic intelligence center in the Mykolaiv region. 15 foreign specialists who arrived with the protection of the facility, as well as 11 military personnel of the combat crew, were also destroyed there, the Russian Defense Ministry reports. In addition, units and equipment of the 10th Ukrainian Mountain Assault Brigade, which arrived to strengthen the AFU grouping in the Donbass, were destroyed at the Pokrovsk railway station in the DPR during unloading.

- An asymmetric response. If YouTube blocks the briefing of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Moscow will respond by expelling Western media journalists. This was stated by Maria Zakharova of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

- Russia is not going to leave the global economic arena, Putin said. "They want to squeeze us out, but this is unrealistic and impossible in the modern world."

- Western sanctions have led to the "suicide" of holders of world reserve currencies. This was told by the EEC Integration Minister Sergey Glazyev on the sidelines of the EAEU Economic Forum in Bishkek. "We did not start this turning point, the world was approaching it gradually. We have been working on the transition to national currencies for a long time, but sanctions and the seizure of assets led to the fact that the holders of world reserve currencies committed collective "suicide".

- Like Ukraine, Evidence Points to US Continuing Biological Research in Indonesia Despite Lab Ban. After Russia launched a probe into biological research by the United States in Ukraine, similar suspicions were raised in other parts of the world, including in Indonesia, which former US Ambassador Cameron Hume once described as a "reservoir of emerging infectious diseases." Indonesian news media Detik broke a story in April about a covert US operation to collect human blood and rabid dog samples during the 2016 Pacific Partnership exercise in the West Sumatran coastal city of Padang. Documents obtained by reporters suggest that American naval surgeons operated on local patients aboard hospital ship USNS Mercy and transported three rabid dogs from West Sumatra - all without permission of the Indonesian Health Ministry. Padang health officials also told Detik that the Americans wanted to harvest samples of dengue fever virus from local mosquitoes. "I only knew their lab is very closed. And the researchers were American Marines, all of whom had diplomatic immunity… We never knew what they were carrying in their diplomatic briefcases. There were also some researchers from Indonesia helping them," Siti Fadilah Supar explained to Sputnik.

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