🎥🇷🇺 The Russian Defense Ministry has shared footage showing Russian troops crossing a water barrier in the Kiev area and the destruction of a UAV

😅 Did Will Smith just cuss out Chris Rock and punch him?

Oscars 2022 in pictures

❗️ Jane Campion wins Best Director Oscar for 'Power of the Dog'

Last year, the Best Director Oscar went to Chloe Zhao ("Nomadland"), while the first woman to win a directing Oscar is Kathryn Bigelow, who got the award for "Hurt Locker" in 2010.

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❗️🎥 Will Smith wins Best Actor Oscar for his role 'King Richard'

Smith got his Oscar minutes after he hit Chris Rock in the face after Rock made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith's shaved head. Will Smith’s wife has been struggling with alopecia (an autoimmune disorder) and did not appear pleased when Rock joked on Sunday saying "Jada I love you, 'G.I. Jane 2,' can't wait to see it."

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❗️🎥 Jessica Chastain wins Best Actress Oscar for 'The Eyes of Tammy Faye'

‼️🎥🏆 'Coda' wins Oscar for Best Picture

⚡️ Some 681 people were evacuated from Mariupol to the DPR over the past 24 hours, including 142 children, the DPR says

⚡️ US Secretary of State Blinken will test for COVID after having met Bennett, spokesperson says

📹 Army aviation helicopters provide reconnaissance and security for columns of the Russian armed forces in the Chernigov region

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⚡️ Russian forces down four Ukrainian Su-24 planes and one Su-27, MoD says

⚡️ Units of the LPR advanced 5 kilometres during their offensive, capturing Ivanovka, Novosadovoye, and reaching the line of Novolyublino, Tern, the Russian MoD says

❗️ The Russian MoD's latest statements on the Ukraine crisis:

▪️ More than 11,500 refugees from the LPR and the DPR crossed the border with Russia over the past 24 hours.

▪️ A group of Russian armed forces wedged 2 km deep into the defences of the 95th airborne assault brigade of Ukraine and reached the southern outskirts of Novoselovka.

▪️ In the area of the Chernobaevka airfield, Kherson region, 5 Ukrainian Smerch missiles were shot down.

▪️ Russian operational-tactical aviation and missile forces hit 36 military facilities of Ukraine over the past 24 hours.

▪️ 19 Ukrainian drones were destroyed over the past 24 hours.

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❗️ There are more than 300 US-funded civilian and military biological laboratories in the world, the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova says

⚡️ Turkish Defense Ministry says mine detected in Black Sea near border with Bulgaria

⚡️ Biden's remarks about Putin were made on emotions and do not reflect the official course of the White House - US State Department adviser

🔥 And that's how it happened!

Nicole Kidman's reaction to the incident from social networks

❗️ Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov gives interview to Serbian press

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❗️ The West will always find a reason for sanctions, their goal is to restrain the development of Russia, Lavrov says

❗️ Putin has never turned down a meeting with Zelensky, but now a meeting to exchange views would be counterproductive, Lavrov says