❗️ Russia's Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov has spoken out on the reasons behind the Russian special op in Ukraine:

▪️ "The special operation in Ukraine is the result of the unwillingness of the Kiev regime to stop the genocide of Russians by fulfilling its obligations under the international commitments"

▪️ "The NATO member countries have commenced a military exploration of Ukraine. It was flooded with Western weaponry while President Vladimir Zelensky announced Kiev's plans to acquire nuclear weapons which would threaten not only neighboring countries, but also the entire world"

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⚡️ Anatoly Antonov said that the goal of the Russian special operation "is to put an end to the genocide perpetrated by the Kiev regime and ensure a nuclear-free and neutral status of Ukraine"

⚡️ Actions of the West in Ukraine could lead to 'military confrontation' between US & Russia, Antonov says

⚡️ Ukrainian forces fire 20 rockets from Grad launchers at Donetsk - DPR

⚡️ 📹 The Russian MoD has published footage of Su-30CM and Su-35 sorties that destroyed a Ukrainian radar and Buk-M1 anti-aircraft complex

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⚡️ Kiev preparing provocation to accuse Russia of mass killing of civilians in Ukraine's Irpen - MoD

⚡️ Ukraine to present bodies of Russian soldiers killed by nationalists under torture as part of provocation in Irpen - MoD

⚡️ 📹 The Russian MoD has published drone footage showing the destruction of a Ukrainian tank, the crew of which was operating from behind a shelter in an industrial building

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❗️ Provocation in Irpen organised to distribute video material through western media - MoD

⚡️ 📹 Captured Ukrainian soldiers Dmitry Burlakov and Ivan Gavrilenko, who tried to evacuate Azov neo-Nazis from Mariupol with a helicopter that was shot down by Russian forces on 5 April, thanked the Russian military and doctors for rescuing them

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⚡️ What else did the Russian MoD say about the Ukrainian provocation in Irpen?

▪️ Units of the Russian Armed Forces left the town more than a week ago.

▪️ The Security Service of Ukraine plans to bring the bodies of local residents killed by Ukrainian artillery shelling from the morgue of the town hospital on Polevaya Street to the basement of a building on the eastern outskirts of Irpen.

▪️ Then an incident with shooting and the "destruction" of an alleged "Russian reconnaissance group" that arrived in Irpen "to kill witnesses of Russian war crimes" will be staged by the Security Service of Ukraine.

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Russian Defence Ministry briefing on Ukraine:

▪The Russian Aerospace Forces and Rocket Forces have hit 85 Ukrainian military facilities;

▪A large Ukrainian military ammunition depot in the Dniepropetrovsk region has been destroyed by high-precision missiles;

▪A Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter and Mi-8 helicopter as well as a warehouse with aviation weapons have been destroyed at a military airfield in the Poltava region;

▪Russian air defence systems have shot down four Ukrainian drones

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📹 Russian MoD video: A camouflaged Ukrainian Armed Forces ammunition depot has been detected by a UAV and destroyed with high-precision missiles

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❗Paying for Russian gas in rubles will not violate EU sanctions as Budapest and Moscow have bilateral contract - Hungarian Cabinet of ministers

How can multi-tonne tanks and trucks drive through a river barrier? Watch a Russian Defence Ministry video of a pontoon crossing of the Seversky Donets River in Ukraine

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🍦The US President has lost his “friendly ice cream Joe” image among the American public, former Hillary Clinton adviser and pollster Mark Penn says

❓“Show us evidence that it wasn’t staged”: in an interview with Bild, Zelensky quoted "a European leader" who expressed doubts about the Ukrainian version of the events in Bucha. The Ukrainian president refused to name the politician, but underscored that "it wasn’t Scholz".

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The LPR's People Militia reported that they'd found a US radioisotope dosimeter in the liberated territories, which is supplied only to American law enforcement agencies.

The dosimeter was probably abandoned by American instructors when they were leaving Ukrainian positions

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❗German defence minister says Berlin reached limit in arms supplies to Kiev

💬Russia won't tolerate killings of civilians in Ukraine, torture of Russian soldiers, Russian ambassador to US says