⚡️❗️ The Russian MoD's latest statements on US biolaboratories in Ukraine:

▪️ Ukrainian specialists, under the supervision of American scientists, took water samples from major rivers in Ukraine in order to establish the presence of especially dangerous pathogens and draw conclusions on the possibility of their being spread via water within the framework of Project 3007 "Monitoring of the epidemiological and environmental situation regarding dangerous water-origin diseases in Ukraine".

▪️ The results of these surveys could be used to create an unfavourable biological situation not only in Russia, but also in the Black and Azov Seas, as well as in Belarus, Moldova, and Poland.

▪️ American scientists from a laboratory in Merefa (Kharkov region) tested potentially dangerous biological drugs on patients at the Regional Clinical Psychiatric Hospital No. 3 in Kharkov from 2019 to 2021.

▪️ The work of the laboratory in Merefa was stopped, equipment and preparations were taken to Western Ukraine in January 2022.

▪️ On 9 March, in the Kherson region, Russian intelligence officers found three drones with 30-litre containers and spray equipment.

▪️ In January, Ukraine purchased more than 50 such devices through intermediary organisations, which could be used to apply biological formulations and toxic chemicals.

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⚡️📹 According to the Russian president, banks from "unfriendly" nations are delaying payments for Russian energy resources and called to speed up the process of the complete rejection of the dollar and euro in foreign trade and switching to national currencies instead.

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⚡️ Russia says 2 Ukrainian combat helicopters invaded Russian airspace, struck residential buildings

❗️ Eight people were injured as a result of the Ukrainian shelling in Russia's Bryansk region on Thursday, the Russian Health Ministry says.

Out of the eight wounded, six people have been hospitalised and two are in serious condition.

The Ukrainian soldiers who laid down their arms were brought to the site of a mass grave of those killed as a result of Ukrainian shelling.

A woman who has lost her children and a 5-year-old grandson approached them, saying that the Ukrainian army didn't even let her bury her children properly.

A DPR military serviceman who was one of the first to enter Mariupol and was wounded in action, explained the tactics used by Ukrainian combatants in the city.

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🇨🇳 CIA director dubs CHINA "single most important" CHALLENGE for US in 21st century

"The second [challenge to shape the future] is the longer term problem posed by China's ambitious leadership, the single most important geopolitical challenge as far out I can see into the 21st Century," Burns said during remarks at Georgia Institute of Technology.

❗️ US continues to build a 'coalition of the willing against the Russians', UN envoy says

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, US Ambassador to the UN, made the remark on Thursday as she insisted that Washington has not run out of options to "put pressure" on Moscow amid its special military op in Ukraine

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💰Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $43 billion In just ten days, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has gone from popular Twitter contributor to the company’s largest individual shareholder to a would-be owner of the social platform — a whirlwind of activity that could change the service dramatically given Musk’s self-identification as a free speech absolutist. Twitter revealed in a securities filing Thursday that the sometimes-whimsical billionaire has offered to buy the company outright for more than $43 billion, saying the social media platform “needs to be transformed as a private company” in order to build trust with its users. The turnabout led CEO Parag Agrawal to warn employees earlier this week that “there will be distractions ahead” and to “tune out the noise and stay focused on the work.”

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