❗️"We take no pride in the suffering of the Russian people," the White House claimed Sunday.

"These are Putin's sanctions. And this is Putin's hardship he's putting on the Russian people," Daleep Singh, the deputy national security adviser for international economics, said.

Is he being serious?

🇺🇸🇨🇳 Chinese consul in Lebanon Cao Yi jokingly wondered on Sunday if the world is going to cancel Neil Armstrong for the Iraq war.

Earlier, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human being in outer space, was stripped of his honors by the Space Foundation, "in light of current world events" (more accurately, just because he was Russian).

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‼️The law enforcement agencies of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) plan to collect evidence of all the crimes committed by the Ukrainian nationalist battalions in the city of Mariupol, DPR Human Rights Envoy Daria Morozova tells Sputnik.

"We will continue the same work that is being carried out right now in all the liberated territories, for example, in the town of Volnovakha. And all those who have broken the law, all those who have violated the Geneva Convention and the norms of international law, and actually their own, Ukrainian, legislation, will face trial. This will be judged in the future in the tribunal, we will not back down," Morozova said.

📲🥊A British UFC star said he wants to fight "bully" Mark Zuckerberg after he was reportedly banned from his Instagram* account.

"Who do I want to fight? Mark Zuckerberg," UFC fighter Paddy Pimblett said Saturday after his defeat over Rodrigo 'Kazula' Vargas at UFC London, according to the Liverpool Echo.

"Lad, I'm going to punch your head in, I am sick of you. Sick of you shutting my Instagram accounts down when all I do is help charities and help people with mental health problems," he continued.

"The hypocritical nature of Instagram and Facebook* is just disgusting, and what they get away with," Pimblett said at UFC Fight Night press conference after the ban.

"It kills me. Mark Zuckerberg's a lizard. I've got to be a lot smarter on my social media, because as you know, I've had two accounts took off me now, and the second account had 120,000 followers."

*Meta, Facebook, and Instagram are banned in Russia over extremist activities.

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⚡️The Biden administration has sent Patriot missiles to Saudi Arabia within the past month, The Wall Street Journal reports

The defensive munitions are needed to fight off drone and missile attacks by Houthi rebels in Yemen, an official told the newspaper.

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🚫A dangerous new TikTok challenge has police across the country reporting incidents of injury to people and even arrests of teenagers.

The "Orbeez challenge" encourages users to sneak attack unsuspecting people with a gel pellet gun.

Reports have come out about incidents in areas surrounding Philadelphia, Orlando, Atlanta, Phoenix, the Bay Area, and more. "We continue to see teenagers … discharging splat ball guns (Orbeez) at other people … even at innocent bystanders. Now they are modifying the beads to be more painful," Peachtree City Police in Georgia wrote on Facebook.

"These kids think it’s funny. They’re violating the law. They’re committing a battery. If the pellet happens to injure the person to the point it breaks the skin, could be looking at a felony charge. These things don’t go away. Could affect your future," Winter Garden, Florida Police Captain Scott Allen told FOX 35 Orlando.

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⚡️🚢🇸🇪 Thirteen warships from several NATO countries are heading to Stockholm after military drills, the Swedish Aftonbladet newspaper reports.

According to Aftonbladet, the ships’ movement has nothing to do with the situation in Ukraine.

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❗️🇺🇸🇵🇱 US President Joe Biden will head to Poland after the NATO summit scheduled to be held in Brussels on March 24, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki says.

According to the White House, the Brussels talks between NATO allies, G7 and EU leaders, will focus on "international efforts to support Ukraine and impose severe and unprecedented costs on Russia for its invasion."

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📸A YouTube group reportedly helped find the body of a Pennsylvania man who was missing for almost 20 years.

"It’s my brother," the victim's brother Stephen Amabile told The Philadelphia Inquirer when remains were found inside a car in a body of water Saturday. "They found him." The victim's brother says a family member reached out to a group called Adventures with Purpose leading up to Saturday's discovery.

Adventures With Purpose runs a YouTube channel with over 2 million subscribers and is renowned for its ability to solve missing-person cases in bodies of water. They reportedly discovered a car at Darby's Creek in Pennsylvania on Saturday evening that is believed to be James Amabile's.

"I’ve gotten used to not expecting anything, and I tuned a lot of things out," Stephen Amabile told The Philadelphia Inquirer. "But it didn’t take them very long to figure out there was an SUV down there."

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🔹China has fully militarized at least three of several islands it built in the disputed South China Sea, arming them with anti-ship and anti-aircraft missile systems, laser and jamming equipment, and fighter jets in an increasingly aggressive move that threatens all nations operating nearby, a top U.S. military commander said Sunday.

U.S. Indo-Pacific commander Adm. John C. Aquilino said the hostile actions were in stark contrast to Chinese President Xi Jinping’s past assurances that Beijing would not transform the artificial islands in contested waters into military bases.

"China has sovereignty over the Spratly islands, as well as surrounding maritime areas. Stay away immediately to avoid misjudgment," one of the stern radio messages said in a veiled threat.

But a U.S. Navy plane dismissed the multiple warnings and pressed on defiantly with its reconnaissance in brief but tense moments witnessed by two AP journalists invited onboard.

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😳 The satirical site The Babylon Bee's offical Twitter account was suspended from the Big Tech platform on Sunday for "hateful content" after posting a joke making fun of US Assistant Health Secretary Rachel Levine, a biological male who identifies as transgender. The joke called Levine the satire website's "Man of the Year".

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⚡️ Russian paratroopers drive nationalist battalions out of Kiev suburbs, MoD says

📹 Footage of militants shelling a group of Russian and international journalists in Mariupol

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⚡️ Two civilians killed, 28 people, including two correspondents from Сhina, injured in DPR over past day due to shelling - DPR mission to JCCC

📹 Russian paratroopers have ousted Ukrainian troops and nationalist battalions from a suburb of Kiev, which, retreating, abandoned armoured vehicles and weapons.

They will be handed over to the forces of the DPR and the LPR.

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⚡️ The People's Militia of the DPR has published a photo of a Chinese television journalist injured in the shelling

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⚡️ Russia eliminates 80 mercenaries, Ukrainian radicals in cruise missile strike on training centre in Rovno region

⚡️ Ukrainian nationalists carried out provocation in Sumy that Russia warned about - MoD

❗️ Catch up with the Russian MoD's latest statements on the Ukraine crisis:

▪️ A planned provocation by Ukrainian nationalists was carried out at night in Sumy, about which the Russian MoD officially warned a few days ago.

▪️ The ministry reiterated that Russian forces have not planned and are not inflicting any strikes on Ukrainian facilities for the storage or production of toxic substances.

▪️ The Kiev nationalist regime is directly responsible for any possible incidents with Ukrainian storage facilities for poisonous substances.

▪️ Russian units advanced 4 km overnight and took control of Sladkoe, destroying scattered groups of the nationalist battalion "Donbass".

▪️ DPR forces completed the defeat of the 53rd mechanised brigade of the Ukrainian armed forces, developing an offensive in the direction of Novomikhailovka, in just one night; up to 50 militants, 3 tanks, 4 infantry fighting vehicles, and 2 artillery pieces were destroyed there.

▪️ 216 Ukrainian drones, 180 anti-aircraft missile systems, 1,506 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 152 MLRS, 592 field artillery pieces, and mortars have been destroyed since the beginning of the operation.

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⚡️ Boeing 737 passenger plane reportedly crashes in South China

⚡️ 📹 Video allegedly from the crash site