❗️ 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

❗️According to preliminary info, there were 133 passengers on board

⚡️ According to preliminary info, it is Flight MU5735 from Kunming to Guangzhou

⚡️ 📹 Video allegedly from the crash site

⚡️ A representative of Meta stated that a Russian court has no right to consider a claim against her and that this can only be done by a court at the place of registration - in the United States

❗️ EU's Borrell: We are ready to talk about energy sanctions

❗️ The aviation authority of the People's Republic of China has confirmed the crash of a China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737, there were 132 people on board - 123 passengers and 9 crew members

⚡️ The chief of EU diplomacy said that the heads of the foreign ministries of the union will discuss sanctions against Russia's oil industry

🤯 📹 The head of the Ukrainian project "Mobile Hospital" Gennady Druzenko made a shocking statement live on air of the TV channel "Ukraine 24".

He called for the castration of captured soldiers of the Russian armed forces.

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⚡️ The court refused to postpone the lawsuit to ban Facebook and Instagram in Russia

❗️ Oil embargo would hit energy balance in Europe, Kremlin warns

⚡️ 📹 The Russian Defence Ministry has published footage depicting the destruction of a training centre for the 132nd reconnaissance battalion of the air assault troops of Ukraine in the Zhitomir region.

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⚡️ An Azerbaijani nationalist fighting against the Russian military in Ukraine tells Italian journalist Claudio Locatelli that "Christians and Muslims are all brothers", yet says that "Armenians are worse than animals".

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😳 Polish social media users are surprised by such a “peaceful refugee“ from Ukraine

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🤔 Ukrainian social media users have been asked not to post videos of military equipment so as not to disclose its location. Yet, the fact that this very equipment is located in residential areas is always hushed up.

The video appears to show a Ukrainian military MLRS near the Retroville shopping centre in Kiev, the target of a strike tonight.

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⚡️ UK Defence Ministry summons Russian military attache over situation in Ukraine

❗️ Russian court bans Facebook and Instagram for extremism - Sputnik correspondent

⚡️ Moscow: Biden's remarks about Putin put US-Russia ties on verge of being severed

Volnovakha will have to be completely rebuilt: 85% of the houses cannot be restored after the fighting, during which Ukrainian forces placed firing points in residential areas, Mayor of Dokuchaevsk (DPR) Alexander Kachanov told Sputnik.