❗️Tens of thousands of Ukrainian troops fighting against Russia were trained by NATO, according to NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg
👎81💩52😱6👍2
❗️ Stoltenberg: if Finland and Sweden decide to join NATO, the alliance will find ways to do it "relatively fast"
💩96👎32👍3
❗️ Russian Defence Ministry rejects accusations Russian troops have killed civilians in Kiev's region
👍93❤14
Sputnik International
❗️ Russian Defence Ministry rejects accusations Russian troops have killed civilians in Kiev's region
❗️Russian MoD: Scenes in city of Bucha were staged to distribute photos, videos via western media
👍101❤15😱1
Media is too big
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
A Florida high school principal has been reassigned after accusations that she "shoved" students during a student walkout protesting the so-called "Don't Say Gay" bill. Footage appearing to depict the incident has emerged online amid an investigation by the Broward County School District.
🤔 Does this really look like a 'shove'?
🤔 Does this really look like a 'shove'?
👍25😱6👎3
Forwarded from Sputnik
🇺🇸🇷🇺The US has increased imports of Russian oil by 43% over the past week, reaching 100,000 barrels per day, after pressuring Europe to introduce harsh anti-Russian sanctions, Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council Mikhail Popov says.
😱113💩34👍25👎5
❗️ The Russian MoD's latest statements on the Ukraine crisis:
▪️ A strike on the Vasilkov airfield near Kiev disabled the Ukrainian air force's centre for aviation and air defence control.
▪️ A strike on the Balovne airfield near Nikolaev destroyed grounded Ukrainian aircraft and fuel stores
▪️ DPR troops are fighting near Novobakhmutovka and Troitsky, and have killed more than 40 members of the Ukrainian 25th brigade and destroyed seven pieces of its equipment near Novoselovka
▪️ Russian Armed Forces have destroyed large fuel storage facilities supplying fuel to Ukrainian troops in the Nikolaev and Donetsk regions
▪️ About 40 military facilities belonging to Ukraine were hit in a day, including three launchers of air defence systems and two MLRS
▪️ 386 of Ukraine's unmanned aerial vehicles, 224 anti-aircraft missile systems, 1,918 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 209 multiple rocket launchers, 814 field artillery and mortars have been destroyed since the beginning of the special military operation.
Subscribe to @sputniknewsus
▪️ A strike on the Vasilkov airfield near Kiev disabled the Ukrainian air force's centre for aviation and air defence control.
▪️ A strike on the Balovne airfield near Nikolaev destroyed grounded Ukrainian aircraft and fuel stores
▪️ DPR troops are fighting near Novobakhmutovka and Troitsky, and have killed more than 40 members of the Ukrainian 25th brigade and destroyed seven pieces of its equipment near Novoselovka
▪️ Russian Armed Forces have destroyed large fuel storage facilities supplying fuel to Ukrainian troops in the Nikolaev and Donetsk regions
▪️ About 40 military facilities belonging to Ukraine were hit in a day, including three launchers of air defence systems and two MLRS
▪️ 386 of Ukraine's unmanned aerial vehicles, 224 anti-aircraft missile systems, 1,918 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 209 multiple rocket launchers, 814 field artillery and mortars have been destroyed since the beginning of the special military operation.
Subscribe to @sputniknewsus
❤94👍33
🚔 Sacramento mass shooting: 6 dead, 18 injured in California
Six people were killed and 18 injured in a mass shooting early Sunday as bars and nightclubs were closing in downtown Sacramento. Police in California’s state capital were searching for at least one suspect.
Sunday’s violence was the third time in the US this year that at least six people were killed in a mass shooting. Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg decried rising gun violence at the news conference, and said city officials would support the victims.
The area where Sunday’s shooting occurred is packed with restaurants and bars. Nightclubs close at 2 a.m. and it’s normal for streets to be full of people at that hour.
Subscribe to @sputniknewsus
Six people were killed and 18 injured in a mass shooting early Sunday as bars and nightclubs were closing in downtown Sacramento. Police in California’s state capital were searching for at least one suspect.
Sunday’s violence was the third time in the US this year that at least six people were killed in a mass shooting. Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg decried rising gun violence at the news conference, and said city officials would support the victims.
The area where Sunday’s shooting occurred is packed with restaurants and bars. Nightclubs close at 2 a.m. and it’s normal for streets to be full of people at that hour.
Subscribe to @sputniknewsus
👍29👎8❤2
✈️ Airlines cancel more than 3,300 US flights over weekend
Airlines have canceled more than 3,300 US flights this weekend and delayed thousands more, citing weather in Florida and other issues. Local news reported storms in Florida on Saturday. Several airlines said Sunday that operations are returning to normal.
Alaska Airlines said its weekend flight cancellations that began Friday have affected more than 37,000 customers, and said on Sunday that further cancellations were possible.
The spate of cancellations arrived as air travel is rebounding from the pandemic, with strong demand for spring-break flights. People on social media complained about hourslong hold times and lines to get their canceled flights rescheduled.
Subscribe to @sputniknewsus
Airlines have canceled more than 3,300 US flights this weekend and delayed thousands more, citing weather in Florida and other issues. Local news reported storms in Florida on Saturday. Several airlines said Sunday that operations are returning to normal.
Alaska Airlines said its weekend flight cancellations that began Friday have affected more than 37,000 customers, and said on Sunday that further cancellations were possible.
The spate of cancellations arrived as air travel is rebounding from the pandemic, with strong demand for spring-break flights. People on social media complained about hourslong hold times and lines to get their canceled flights rescheduled.
Subscribe to @sputniknewsus
👍34💩1
🏠 Battle heats up over remaining federal rental assistance
The debate is playing out across the country as the Treasury Department begins reallocating some of the $46.5 billion in rental assistance from places slow to spend to others that are running out of funds.
Treasury announced earlier this month that over $1 billion of ERA1 funds would be moved, for a total of $2.3 billion reallocated this year. Larger states like California, New York, New Jersey and Texas are getting hundreds of millions of dollars in additional money. Native American tribes, including the Oglala Sioux Lakota in South Dakota and Chippewa Cree in Montana, are also receiving tens of millions of dollars in additional help.
Several states argued the reallocation addresses a flaw in the program, which created a funding formula based on population, not the number of renters in a state.
Subscribe to @sputniknewsus
The debate is playing out across the country as the Treasury Department begins reallocating some of the $46.5 billion in rental assistance from places slow to spend to others that are running out of funds.
Treasury announced earlier this month that over $1 billion of ERA1 funds would be moved, for a total of $2.3 billion reallocated this year. Larger states like California, New York, New Jersey and Texas are getting hundreds of millions of dollars in additional money. Native American tribes, including the Oglala Sioux Lakota in South Dakota and Chippewa Cree in Montana, are also receiving tens of millions of dollars in additional help.
Several states argued the reallocation addresses a flaw in the program, which created a funding formula based on population, not the number of renters in a state.
Subscribe to @sputniknewsus
👍32💩3
‼️Russia requests UN Security Council meeting on Kiev's ‘provocation in Bucha’ - Envoy to UN
❤78👍36
💊 States look for solutions as US fentanyl deaths keep rising
As the addiction and overdose crisis that has gripped the US for two decades turns even deadlier, state governments are scrambling for ways to stem the destruction wrought by fentanyl and other synthetic opioids.
In statehouses across the country, lawmakers have been considering and adopting laws on two fronts: reducing the risk to users and increasing the penalties for dealing fentanyl or mixing it with other drugs. Meanwhile, Republican state attorneys general are calling for more federal action, while some GOP governors are deploying National Guard units with a mission that includes stopping the flow of fentanyl from Mexico.
For the first time, more than 100,000 Americans had died of drug overdoses over a 12-month period. In January, 16 GOP state attorneys general sent a letter to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken calling on him to exert more pressure on China and Mexico to stop the flow of fentanyl.
Subscribe to @sputniknewsus
As the addiction and overdose crisis that has gripped the US for two decades turns even deadlier, state governments are scrambling for ways to stem the destruction wrought by fentanyl and other synthetic opioids.
In statehouses across the country, lawmakers have been considering and adopting laws on two fronts: reducing the risk to users and increasing the penalties for dealing fentanyl or mixing it with other drugs. Meanwhile, Republican state attorneys general are calling for more federal action, while some GOP governors are deploying National Guard units with a mission that includes stopping the flow of fentanyl from Mexico.
For the first time, more than 100,000 Americans had died of drug overdoses over a 12-month period. In January, 16 GOP state attorneys general sent a letter to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken calling on him to exert more pressure on China and Mexico to stop the flow of fentanyl.
Subscribe to @sputniknewsus
👍37💩8👎2
🎶 The annual Grammy Awards are officially back Sunday night in Las Vegas, Nevada, after having been delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. LIVE UPDATES
Ahead of the official start of the night's big event, various awards were given out in the following categories:
🔹Best Pop Solo Performance: Olivia Rodrigo for "Drivers License"
🔹Best Rock Performance: Foo fighters for "Making a Fire"
🔹Best Alternative Music Album: St. Vincent for "Daddy's Home"
🔹Best Traditional R&B Performance: H.E.R. for "Fight for You"
🔹Best R&B Song: Brandon Anderson, Christopher Brody Brown, Dernst Emile II and Bruno Mars) for "Leave the Door Open"
🔹Best Rap Album: Tyler, the Creator for "Call Me If You Get Lost"
Ahead of the official start of the night's big event, various awards were given out in the following categories:
🔹Best Pop Solo Performance: Olivia Rodrigo for "Drivers License"
🔹Best Rock Performance: Foo fighters for "Making a Fire"
🔹Best Alternative Music Album: St. Vincent for "Daddy's Home"
🔹Best Traditional R&B Performance: H.E.R. for "Fight for You"
🔹Best R&B Song: Brandon Anderson, Christopher Brody Brown, Dernst Emile II and Bruno Mars) for "Leave the Door Open"
🔹Best Rap Album: Tyler, the Creator for "Call Me If You Get Lost"
💩27👎6👍4
Sputnik International
🎶 The annual Grammy Awards are officially back Sunday night in Las Vegas, Nevada, after having been delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. LIVE UPDATES Ahead of the official start of the night's big event, various awards were given out in the following categories:…
🏆 'Song of the Year' Goes for Hit 'Leave the Door Open' by Bruno Mars and Anderson Paak
💩31👎5
Sputnik International
🎶 The annual Grammy Awards are officially back Sunday night in Las Vegas, Nevada, after having been delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. LIVE UPDATES Ahead of the official start of the night's big event, various awards were given out in the following categories:…
🏆 'Best Country Album' Goes to Chris Stapleton for 'Starting Over'
💩27👍7👎3