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A refugee from Kiev said that when he was in Warsaw, unknown people encouraged him to lie that he was from Bucha and testify on camera about the "killings of Bucha inhabitants by the Russian military" in exchange for a paid trip to EU countries, but he refused

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The UK has sent about 20 people from the Special Air Service (SAS) to Ukraine: Two groups of eight to 10 agents who are specialists in sabotage, guerrilla warfare and coups have been deployed near Lvov.

They are expected to help the Ukrainian special services to organise acts of sabotage in Russian-controlled regions of Ukraine. An employee of the Russian law enforcement agencies shared this information with Sputnik, citing data received from a source in the Ukrainian armed forces.

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Residents of the town of Kremennaya in western Lugansk region say they had been waiting for LPR and Russian troops to arrive.

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German journalist Thomas Röper says that the inhabitants of Melitopol are asking Russian soldiers not to leave: they are afraid of reprisals from the Ukrainian neo-Nazis.

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🎥The Holy Fire has descended

❗️DPR People's Militia: Ukrainian neo-Nazis have disrupted the evacuation from Mariupol: they opened fire from mortars at the place where the citizens had to gather

🎥Mine clearance in the Kharkov region: After engineering reconnaissance, the Russian Armed Forces' anti-mine team is clearing the area of explosive objects. Safe detonation using TNT is shown at the end of the video

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"Our whole class was asking the teacher to speak Russian": Mariupol residents on how the imposition of the Ukrainian language became absurd in recent years

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🎥Russian MoD video: Ukrainian army warehouses containing ammunition and weapons are destroyed

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❗German Finance Minister Lindner urges Berlin to supply Kiev with heavy weaponry

A woman from Mariupol told journalists that a Ukrainian tank shot her son at point-blank range

❗US has moved on to WMD provocations after economic pressure against Russia failed, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zakharova says

⚡'It's right time for Helsinki to apply for NATO membership', Finland's foreign minister says

A resident of Volnovakha talks about how the Ukrainian military robbed civilians during their retreat

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❗DPR People's Militia: Ukrainian troops have shelled the territory of the DPR 216 times today, hitting 11 settlements

Russian MoD briefing:

▪️A logistics terminal at a military airfield near Odessa with a large batch of foreign weapons that Ukraine received from the US and European countries has been destroyed with high-precision long-range air-based missiles;

▪️The Russian Aerospace Forces have hit 22 Ukrainian military assets with high-precision air-bases missiles;

▪️Four anti-aircraft missile systems have been destroyed by operational-tactical and army aviation: three Buk-M1s and one Tor;

▪️Russian air defences have destroyed three Ukrainian UAVs near the settlements of Izyum and Kherson;

▪️Missile troops and artillery have carried out 102 nighttime fire missions, destroying six command posts, 84 strongpoints, and 10 artillery batteries

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💬Gerhard Schroeder says impossible to isolate Russia long-term, German industry needs Russian resources

⚡The US wants to settle the S-400 matter with Turkey and Ankara is waiting for a new proposal from Washington on the Patriot air defence system, Turkey's Foreign Minister Cavusoglu says

⚡US Secretary of State Blinken to visit Kiev on Sunday: Zelensky

Gonzalo Lira Case: Why does US keep silent on Ukrainian spooks intimidating American journo?

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