Ukrainian citizens ran illicit drug laboratories in Russia with the help of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). According to a man named Alexander Z., who had to procure chemicals, the Ukrainian security service made people pass a polygraph test before they could leave for Russia to engage in drug trafficking.

🗣 “Production of drugs in Russia earns you big money, which could go anywhere, for example, to pay for mercenaries. [...] And maybe the fact that we were detained in Russia is not the worst way out of this mess”, Alexander sums up

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⚡️ Moscow to convene START Consultative Commission as soon as US ready, Russian diplomat says

⚡️ Russian Forces destroy training centre for mercenaries northeast of Odessa, MoD says

📌 The latest on the Ukraine operation from the Russian Defence Ministry:

▪️ Operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 81 Ukrainian military facilities;

▪️ High-precision air-launched missiles destroyed weapons and military equipment of the Ukrainian military reserves arriving in Donbass;

▪️ Russian air defence systems shot down 5 Ukrainian drones and one aircraft

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Watch: Russian forces provide residents of Izum in the Kharkov region with 60 tonnes of humanitarian aid

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⚡️ Moscow vows to respond to Tokyo's expulsion of Russian diplomats

⚡️ Japan declares 8 Russian diplomats persona non grata

The Russian Armed Forces have evacuated more than 300 civilians from the Kherson region

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Watch a video of Onyx supersonic missiles hit a Ukrainian training centre for mercenaries near Odessa

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⚡️ France: Police op underway as man attacks Sexton at Toulouse Cathedral, media reports

⚡️ Ukrainian troops fire Tochka-U missile at Kramatorsk, Ukraine, DPR says

⚡️ Up to 30 killed in Ukrainian provocation at Kramatorsk railway station in Donbass, DPR militia spokesman says

❗️Russian MoD: The Kiev regime’s statement on an alleged Russian “rocket attack” at the railway station in Kramatorsk is a provocation

⚡️ Estonian authorities release head of Sputnik Meedia Cherysheva - Russian Embassy

📌 Russia's Ministry of Defence on what happened in Kramatorsk:

▪️ Ukraine’s claim about the so-called Russian missile attack on the Kramatorsk railway station is a provocation;

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces didn’t have any strike missions on 8 April in Kramatorsk;

▪️ Missile fragments which were found near the railway station were from the Tochka-U variety used by the Ukrainian armed forces;

▪️ On 14 March, the same missile was used to attack central Donetsk, as a result of which 17 people died and 36 were injured

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💬Bulgaria isn’t expelling Russia’s ambassador, the country’s PM says

⚡️ Finland Foreign Ministry has permitted Russia to return home its artwork