⚡️📹 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.

❗️Sullivan: Russian strike on NATO nation supplying materiel to Kiev would invoke Article 5

⚡️ Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs 15-week abortion ban into law

❗️ Ukraine shells Russian village in Belgorod region, governor says

❗️ Biden: US has not made decision yet on sending senior officials to Ukraine

🇨🇳 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

⚡️ British Daesh 'Beatles' Jihadist found guilty of kidnap and murder of US hostages in Syria

⚡️ Biden says he's ready to go to Ukraine

‼️ Pentagon not ruling out future security aid for Ukraine that includes more Stingers. LIVE UPDATES

‼️ Russian Defense Ministry: Damaged Moskva cruiser sunk after entering stormy waters

💰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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✍️ Abortion ban after 15 weeks signed into law in Florida

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a 15-week abortion ban into law Thursday as the state joined a growing conservative push to restrict access to the procedure ahead of a US Supreme Court decision that could roll back abortion rights in America.

Republicans nationwide have moved to place new restrictions on abortion after the US Supreme Court signaled it would uphold a Mississippi law banning abortions after 15 weeks. The high court’s decision, expected this summer, could potentially weaken or overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that established the nationwide right to abortion.

The law DeSantis signed Thursday also deals a blow to overall abortion access in the South, where Florida has provided wider access to the procedure than its regional neighbors.

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