⚡️ DPR militia seizes control of downtown Mariupol, clearing operation is underway, DPR militia spokesman Eduard Basurin says

⚡️📹 Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has published footage of the assault on the Azovstal plant in Mariupol

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👏 Rapper Kanye West had a big win at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards on Sunday despite his absence and being barred from performing at the gala music award night held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

The 44-year-old rapper was honoured with two trophies in the best melodic rap performance for "Hurricane" featuring The Weeknd and best rap song for "Jail" featuring Jay-Z.

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

▪️ Three Ukrainian helicopters have been destroyed as a result of a strike on an airfield in the suburbs of Nikolayev.

▪️ Operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 14 Ukrainian military facilities overnight.

▪️ The troops of the DPR captured a fortified area and liberated the settlement of Novobakhmutovka.

▪️ Russian air defence systems shot down 6 Ukrainian drones.

▪️ Units of the people's militia of the LPR advanced 2 kilometres and blocked the settlement of Novotoshkovskoye from the east and south.

▪️ The command post of the Ukrainian 24th Separate Mechanised Brigade was destroyed as a result of an airstrike in the Lisichansk area overnight.

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⚡️📹 The National Police of Ukraine "cleaned up" Bucha the day before videos of "dead" people on the streets went viral.

According to the National Police of Ukraine on social media, on 2 April, the special forces "began cleaning the city of Bucha". After the completion of the "operation", the department published its video.

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⚡️ Russia will demand a UNSC meeting over situation in Bucha after UK’s refusal

🇬🇷A group of Ukrainians during a rally called "For Peace! For Russia! For Greece!" in Athens attacked a car, with a seven-year-old girl receiving a hand injury as a result, the child's mother said

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⚡️ Russia categorically rejects any accusations of involvement in death of people in Bucha, issue should be discussed at international level - Kremlin

❗️ Kremlin on situation in Bucha: Facts and calendar sequence speak against reliability of Ukraine's statements

⚡️ Lavrov calls the situation in Bucha a "fake attack"

The Russian MoD has published footage depicting the work of army aviation "Alligators" and "Pantsir" anti-aircraft missile and gun systems in Ukraine

⚡️ UN Under-Secretary-General says plans to discuss ‘humanitarain pauses’ in Ukraine, including in Kiev region, during meeting with Lavrov

🗣 📈 Elon Musk has announced that he owns 9.2% of Twitter shares, during a pre-auction the stock quotes of the social network increased by 21%

❗️ Former US Senate candidate and investigative journalist Mark Dankof has commented on the footage of dead bodies in the streets of the town of Bucha as well as a clip that appears to show fighters from Kiev's territorial defence being given the ok to shoot any man who was not wearing a blue armband - a sign worn by members of the Ukrainian forces.

"I have personally viewed the video ennoscriptd 'BOATSMAN BOYS Work in Bucha'. It is a classic case of what in our business is fairly classified as False Flag agitation-propaganda released as a prime example of the wholesale communications war being waged against Russia by the same globalist elite that facilitated the NATO expansions of 1999 and 2004, the bombing of Serbia in 1999, the 'Orange Revolution' of 2004-5 in Ukraine, the subsequent illegal coup d'etat in Kiev in February of 2014, the killing of some 14,000 people in the Donbass over the ensuing 8 years, and the global sanctions regimen foisted upon Russia after February 24th of this year after an 'invasion' launched by the latter in a situation of no-choice necessity in protecting ethnic Russians in Donbass and its own national security. This can fairly be seen as an ironic reversal of the circumstances of Back Yard Protection in the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962".

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🇬🇧 Boris Johnson ready to go beyond the types of military aid that the UK has already provided to Ukraine - UK prime minister's spokesperson

🧐 Adriel Kasonta, a London-based foreign affairs analyst and former chairman of the International Affairs Committee at the think tank Bow Group, has commented on a video depicting dead bodies in Bucha, Ukraine:

“The institutions involved in that conflict between Ukraine and Russia are evidently biased against Russia, and we know that the United States is putting enormous pressure on the so-called international institutions, which are under strong influence of the United States. So regardless, the fact that these crimes were allegedly committed by Ukrainians, the evidences will be fabricated and so-called witnesses on the ground will testify against Russia, telling that these crimes were committed by Russian, not Ukrainian thugs.

And we will see many more incidents like that and many more accusations from the so-called reputable institutions like Human Rights Watch and others.

I'm really confused and I think that all these actions are just telling us that the West or again, most importantly, the United States is dissatisfied with the fact that perhaps some people in the political entourage of Zelensky or perhaps even Zelensky himself, although that he's sending mixed messages, some people in his political entourage and perhaps himself might be willing to strike a peace deal with Russia.

But certain political powers in Washington, perhaps also in the United Kingdom are not allowing this peace to come to fruition. I think that these escalations are just a sign of frustration in the West, frustration that the propaganda is just falling on deaf ears, that many people are not buying their stories about the alleged defeat of Russian forces, although the Ukrainian forces are being supported by the West in terms of lethal weapons shipments".

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⚡️ GOP states file lawsuit to stop Biden lifting Title 42 order

❗️ Vladimir Putin signs a decree on retaliatory visa measures that entails the suspension of visa-free entry into Russia for holders of diplomatic passports from EU countries

❗️ Washington will seek to suspend Russia's activities in United Nations Human Rights Council - US ambassador to UN