🦠 Steve Wilhite, the creator of the GIF, died at age 74 due to complications from COVID-19.

The GIF allowed slow modem connections of the 1980s to transfer images more efficiently. Today, they are a mainstay of communication on the internet.

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A residential building in the city of Volnovakha, Donetsk Region, has been left in ruins after the Ukrainian military took shelter there, firing from British grenade launchers.

A Sputnik correspondent found a UK-issued training certificate for Ukrainians who fought in the Donbass in the courtyard of this house.

It turns out that the Royal Tank Regiment, the oldest tank unit in the world, took part in the training of Ukrainian soldiers

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⚡️ North Korea fires 'what could be a ballistic missile', Japan says

⚡️ Ukrainian military fires 15 Grad rockets and five 120mm mortars at Donetsk, DPR says

North Korea fires suspected long-range ballistic missile, Seoul says

⚡️ Over 402,000 Donbass refugees have already arrived in Russia, Emergency Services say

🇬🇧🇺🇦UK instructors trained Ukrainian soldiers who fought in Donbas in weapons use and navigation, according to a document found by a Sputnik correspondent in the liberated city of Volnovakha in the Donetsk Region.

A certificate confirmed that Ukrainian serviceman Borys Kazarian had completed junior sergeant training courses with the participation of British instructors. The training consisted of four modules: "weapons training", "navigation", "medical training" and "pairs movement."

Russian servicemen have defused more than 12,000 explosive objects while demining farmland in the Kherson region, the Russian Defence Ministry says

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Russia's Defence Ministry has published footage of Su-34 bombers destroying Ukrainian Army military equipment and warehouses for weapons

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❗️ Ankara urges West to supply Turkey with F-35 Fighters & Patriot Systems without preconditions

⚡️ Russia's Defence Ministry reports that Russian military experts have uncovered new facts proving the direct involvement of the US Department of Defense in the development of biological weapons components in Ukraine

The MoD will soon present original documents showing the Pentagon's direct involvement. According to the documents, the main goal of the project was to conduct a molecular analysis of especially dangerous infections in order to obtain new strains of anthrax.

The US Department of Defense also worked with the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense to test unregistered medicines on the Ukrainian military

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⚡️ Moon says N.Korea's Kim violated moratorium on ICBM launches

📌 The Russian Defence Ministry has provided a briefing on the Ukraine op:

▪️ The Russian armed forces have taken control of the city of Izyum in the Kharkov region;

▪️ Air and sea-based high-precision long-range weapons have hit the military facilities of the Ukrainian Armed Forces over the past 24 hours;

▪️ As a result of strikes, 13 anti-aircraft missile launcher systems were destroyed, including 9 S-300 and 4 Buk-M1 systems, a formation headquarters, and a missile and artillery weapons depot, as well as a temporary deployment point of the nationalist battalion;

▪️ Operational-tactical and army aviation hit 60 military assets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

▪️ The warplanes and air defence units of the Russian Aerospace Forces have shot down 2 Ukrainian drones near Kharkov;

▪️ In total, 257 drones, 202 anti-aircraft missile systems, 1,572 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 160 multiple launch rocket systems, 633 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,379 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been destroyed during the operation

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Video footage from the Russian Defense Ministry shows the letter “Z” that appeared in the sky during Russia’s front-line aviation sorties to destroy Ukrainian military facilities. The defense ministry said that it was a “natural phenomenon.”

The Russian military delivered humanitarian aid to residents of a suburb of Chernigov in Ukraine. Those who wanted to leave were evacuated

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❗️ South Korea 'fires multiple ballistic and guided missiles' following alleged ICBM launch by DPRK

South Korea 'ready' for precision strike against North Korea's ICBM launch location 'if needed'

⚡️ UK adds 59 new listings under the Russia sanctions regime and 6 new listings under the Belarus sanctions

⚡️ UK adds Gazprombank to sanctions list

UK imposes sanctions against Belarusian Defense Ministry, Minsk tractor plant, document says