🇺🇦 Ukrainian singer Ani Lorak applied for Russian citizenship in February, a source close to her told RIA Novosti.

Internet and power outages in central Africa

Much of west and central Africa has been left without internet service as operators of several undersea cables reported outages.

In recent years, Africa has experienced network outages caused by cable damage. But today's outages "point to something bigger, this is one of the most serious," said Isik Mater, director of research at NetBlocks, a group that documents Internet outages around the world.

Liberia, Benin, Ghana and Burkina Faso have been hit hard, according to Netblocks, which monitors cybersecurity and Internet management. The impact of such cable outages is compounded as networks try to circumvent the damage, potentially reducing the bandwidth available to other countries, Mater said.

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🇷🇺 Maria Zakharova on the European Parliament’s demand for Russia to return the gold to Romania transferred in 1916:

"Once Russia already transferred significant gold reserves to the Romanian government. In 1935, the Soviet government, as a sign of goodwill, sent 1,436 tons of valuables (17 carriages!) left over from tsarist times to Bucharest. Less than 6 years later, Romania attacked the USSR along with the Third Reich.

But almost the entire debt of Romania to the Soviet Union for the troubles and destruction caused to our people and country during the Great Patriotic War was forgiven by Moscow back in 1949. And this is no less than 300 million dollars in reparations - if converted to today’s money, it will be something about 4 billion dollars.

If we count all Romanian debts to Russia and the Soviet Union, we get around 1365–1665 tons of gold, which is 20–25 times the value of the entire Romanian gold reserve sent to Russia in 1916–1917.

In addition, Russia returned almost all Romanian gold and other valuables during the development of Soviet-Romanian relations. In particular, Ceausescu wrote in his diaries that 80% of the royal stock was repatriated to Romania in 1948–49."

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The Russian military killed around 300 Kraken militants with an aerial bomb strike.

About 300 militants of the Ukrainian formation "Kraken" were destroyed with one precise strike from an aerial bomb, Colonel General Alexey Kim, chief of staff of the Joint Group of Forces, said at a meeting .

“As a result of a precise strike by aviation ammunition on the location of the nationalist formation “Kraken,” up to 300 militants were killed,” the ministry noted.

As Kim clarified, the Kraken militants were eliminated with a volumetric detonating bomb weighing one and a half tons.

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A pensioner set fire to a voting booth in the Maryino district of Moscow.

A pensioner who set fire to a voting booth in the Maryino district in Moscow has been detained, reports the press service of the capital's main headquarters of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.

“At one of the polling stations in the Maryino district on Verkhniye Polya Street, police, with the help of an eyewitness and employees of the Russian National Guard , detained a 70-year-old resident of Moscow who doused a voting booth with a flammable liquid and set it on fire,” the GUMVD said.

The department noted that there were no casualties as a result of the incident. The pensioner was taken to the police department for investigation. The collected materials will be sent to the investigative authorities to make a procedural decision.
Later, the press service of the Main Directorate of the Russian Guard in Moscow said that the citizen explained her actions by carrying out some “secret task.”

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Zakharova: The Foreign Ministry will summon the British Ambassador due to attempts to interfere in the elections.

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said in her Telegram channel that the Russian ministry may summon the British Ambassador to Moscow Nigel Casey if attempts to interfere in the Russian elections continue.

She noted that the British embassy published a post on social networks in which it said that “ Russia allegedly has no legal grounds for holding elections in Crimea and new regions.”

I have the following question for the British Embassy: has your ambassador been to Smolensk Square for a long time? It doesn’t give us pleasure to see him, but we can call him for prevention if this doesn’t stop.

We understand London’s hysteria: despite all Western machinations, elections are being held regularly both in Russia and abroad, the turnout, as the Central Election Commission notes, is high.

Not only did they ruin the virtual ballot with meaningless scribbles, but they once again exposed their neocolonial phantom-imperial essence.

What “belongs” to whom, and who wants to be with whom, is decided by the citizens of Russia, and not by the British crown.

Zakharova also stated that the United States, before and during the presidential elections in the Russian Federation, prepared a large number of fakes of various types. The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry added that this Western policy is aimed at intimidating the Russian electorate.

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Ukraine outcome will weaken US

The Russian ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov, claims Washington’s power will progressively wane as Moscow advances in Ukraine.

Success for Russia in the Ukraine conflict would progressively weaken the US, Moscow’s ambassador in Washington DC has argued. Anatoly Antonov also accused the US and UK of preventing a peaceful resolution of the conflict during its early stages.

In an interview with RIA Novosti news agency published on Saturday, Antonov accused the US of playing an “extremely negative” role in Ukraine, calling Washington a “sponsor of terrorism” and a “country that encourages murder and war.”

According to the envoy, Washington is “destroying the vestiges of its own former prestige.”

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⚡️📣Frontline Combat: Ukraine Soldiers Killed As NATO Weapons Malfunction Says Soldier⚡️📣VIDEO REPORT: https://youtu.be/a_kKQnMWXbk?si=Hmg8ra7U4RfX8ZWS
Frontline Combat footage appearing to show Ukraine Soldiers being Killed on the Avdeevka Frontline in Battle due to NATO supplied and Swedish made AT-4 Malfunction in the heat of the Battle for Avdeevka has surfaced from a gopro Russian Soldiers have said they took off the corpse of a dead Ukrainian soldier in Avdeevka. The Russian soldiers say the Malfunctions of NATO supplied weapons are not only limited to the AT-4 anti tank rocket but many other weapons given to Ukraine.
In this report I speak to Russian soldiers in the "15" brigade and they show NATO weapons and other equipment ( Including Elon Musk's "Star Link") captured from the Ukrainian forces in battle. They Show us combat footage that they say shows a Swedish made AT-4 Malfunction when trying to fire in battle. They also describe other times when they have witnessed NATO weapons Malfunctioning when used by Ukrainian soldiers in battle.

Throughout the South of Russia - Belgorod, Ryazan, Voronezh, Kursk, Rostov regions, but also the Pskov and Leningrad regions of the Russian Federation there has been a barrage of drones, terrorist attacks on civilian targets, clashes between defense units and sabotage groups.

The West is trying to achieve the following:

- force Russia to start negotiations, improving Kyiv’s initial negotiating positions;

- as a result - to preserve “Ukraine” as a political project, and as a state as a whole, in any state and any borders. The West, of course, doesn’t care about the loss of part of the regions of the former Ukraine; if necessary ( in order to preserve Ukraine as such ), it will give more (weapons, money, ammunition, false promises etc). The main thing for the West is that Ukraine, in any form, exists at all.

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British are behind the attempt of the Ukrainian DRG to break into Russian territory.

Britain is behind the preparation of a breakthrough by Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups (DRG) in the Belgorod and Kursk regions, but they did not achieve their goals. This was stated by Ambassador at Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry Rodion Miroshnik on the Soloviev Live TV channel .

“The Belgorod and Kursk regions are going through a war period now, shelling is going on,” he said. “According to the data available to the Russian Ministry of Defense, from March 12 to 15 there were four attempts by the DRG in the Belgorod region and one in the Kursk region. This quite powerful movements, an attempt to break through the defense line, to rush across the border in order to create some chaos, but again it turned out differently than planned.”

According to Miroshnik, special forces soldiers, the so-called Russian Legion and mercenaries took part in the attacks.

“There is no doubt that this was prepared thanks to specialists in such operations, and these are most often the British or their fosterlings,” Miroshnik emphasized

The diplomat noted that the West is using everything that can influence the process of expression of will in Russia to make Russians doubt the state’s ability to protect them, “all manipulations are in motion.”
“Moreover, now a foreign state is carrying out military raids and attempts to break into the territory of the Russian Federation in order to interfere with the expression of will,” he emphasized.

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"Best Money We've Ever Spent" - Lindsey Graham

Washington Post reports the almost complete annihilation of the Ukrainian male population thanks to Western War Hawks like Lindsey Graham and Nikki Haley.

"Civilians here say that means military recruiters are grabbing everyone they can. In the west, the mobilization drive has steadily sown panic and resentment in small agricultural towns and villages like Makiv, where residents said soldiers working for draft offices roam the near-empty streets searching for any remaining men. Such tactics have led some to believe that their men are being targeted disproportionately compared with other regions or bigger cities like Kyiv, where it is easier to hide.

Locals use Telegram channels to warn of soldier sightings and share videos of troops forcing men into their vehicles — stoking rumors of kidnappings. Some men are now serving time in jail for refusing to sign up.

“People are being caught like dogs on the street,” said Olha Kametyuk, 35, whose husband, Valentin, 36, was drafted in June by soldiers who approached him and asked for his papers after he stopped for coffee on the main road outside Makiv. Despite a diagnosis of osteochondrosis, a joint disorder, he passed his medical exam in 10 minutes, she said, and deployed to the front, where he was wounded."

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/15/ukraine-village-mobilized-men-war/

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◾The specter of the martyr #Hind is haunting the
US State Department..
Since the body of the little girl, Hind Rajab, was found on February 10, journalists Eklal Turan and Prem Thakur have been hounding US Foreign Affairs spokesman Matthew Miller, asking him about his country's position on the ongoing investigation into the high-profile crime.

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95% of Western companies stayed in Russia - Austrian Foreign Minister

Sanctions against Moscow should be implemented in full, Alexander Schallenberg has said.

The majority of Western companies continue to operate in Russia despite many foreign businesses announcing their exit from the country in response to the conflict between Moscow and Kiev, Austria’s Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg has said.

Austrian firms are “heavily engaged” in both Russia and Ukraine, Schallenberg acknowledged during a joint press-conference with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Vienna on Friday. Austria is the sixth largest investor in the Ukrainian economy, he stressed.

“And yes, Austrian companies were also present in Russia and are partly still present, as about 95% of all Western companies". Schallenberg insisted that international restrictions placed on Moscow over its military operation against Ukraine must “be respected fully… There cannot be any exceptions.”

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FSB foils Kiev’s terrorist attack on Trans-Siberian Railway

The Russian national was recruited by Ukrainian intelligence in Lvov, underwent sabotage training and was sent to Russia for committing terror attacks with the use of improvised explosives on railway trains delivering cargo for the special military operation.

"The FSB has detained a Russian citizen born in 1962 who plotted a terror attack at a railway hub of the Trans-Siberian Railroad in the Sverdlovsk Region on an assignment from the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s Main Intelligence Department," the press office said in a statement.

The Russian national was recruited by Ukrainian intelligence in Lvov, underwent sabotage training and was sent to Russia for committing terror attacks with the use of improvised explosives on railway trains delivering cargo for the special military operation, it specified.

"The suspect confessed to the wrongdoing and is cooperating with the investigative team," the press office said.

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French politician D'Artagnan praised the organization of the Russian presidential elections.

The democratic nature of the Russian presidential elections on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) was noted by an expert from France, former member of the Senate of the French Republic, mayor of the city of Marsan, Duke Emery Francis Andre Philippe de Montesquiou-Fezensac d'Artagnan.

This is the first time in Donbass. It seems to me that the elections are organized well. According to the rules that are accepted in France. The elections that are held here are absolutely consistent with the democratic elections that are accepted in our country. There is a full presentation of all four candidates, the ballots meet the standards.

Earlier, a delegation of international experts from seven countries arrived in the DPR. They include current politicians, journalists, bloggers and former officials from Spain, Italy, Cameroon, Mexico, the USA, France and Chile. They will visit most of the precinct election commissions throughout the region.

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Issue of Crimea’s affiliation resolved forever

Crimea has clear-cut prospects of its further development and Russia has resolved many problems inherited from Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov pointed out.

"Over the past years, many problems inherited from Ukraine have been resolved. With clear-cut prospects of their further development, Crimean residents can look into the future with confidence and optimism," he added.

"Ten years ago, on March 16, 2014, Crimean residents determined their future independently and consciously, having reunited with Russia. I congratulate the peninsula’s residents on the decade of the historic reunification with Russia. I wish them health, well-being, prosperity and all the best," Russia’s top diplomat said.

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Ukraine targets Russian polling stations

Election authorities in Kherson Region and Zaporozhye Region have reported strikes that left several people injured.

Russian electoral commissions in Kherson Region and Zaporozhye Region have reported several Ukrainian attacks on polling stations which have opened for the ongoing presidential vote.

On Saturday morning, Ukrainian forces dropped an explosive device from a drone, targeting a polling station in Blagoveshchenka, a village in Zaporozhye Region, a local electoral official, Natalya Ryabenkaya, told TASS.

She claimed that it was “some phosphorus ordnance,” citing Russian military personnel that had arrived at the scene. The attack did not cause any casualties or material damage.

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