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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⚡Kiev is not ready to de-blockade Mariupol by military means, Zelensky says

⚡According to the Russian Defence Ministry, Ukrainian special services are planning a provocation using chemical substances to accuse Russia of allegedly striking civilian infrastructure near the Yuzhniy port in Odessa.

Kiev is expected to imitate a missile strike by the Russian Armed Forces on the Ukrainian Navy base there, blowing up a cold storage facility in the port in Odessa. The Kiev regime has sent a tank with 10 tons of ammonia there. Law enforcement and special services in the Odessa region have been issued personal protective equipment

❗Employees of the Security Service of Ukraine and UK special services are preparing a provocation in the LPR's Lysychansk, while the media that participated in the staged video filming in Bucha has arrived there – Russia’s MoD

⚡The Kiev regime is preparing provocations to discredit the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate on Easter Eve - Russian MoD

Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church have received recommendations from President Zelensky’s office: "Avoid holding traditional Easter celebrations on the night of 23-24 April, replace them with an online broadcast of divine services in churches". At the same time, these notifications have not been sent to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate in order to organise a mass gathering of believers in the churches.

Kiev is creating a situation where an incident in churches provoked by the Security Service of Ukraine can be used to start a new wave of Russophobia in Ukraine and abroad, the Russian Defence Ministry says in a statement.

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💬"The SBU officers together with secretive agencies of the United Kingdom are planning yet another fake in Lysychansk in the Lugansk People's Republic. Representatives of Ukrainian and Western media, who had previously conducted staged photo and video shoots in Bucha, arrived in the city in advance to this end," Mikhail Mizintsev, the head of the Russian Defence Ministry's National Defence Control Centre, said.

"We are warning the so-called 'civilized West' in advance that these fakes made by Kiev authorities about alleged 'atrocities of Russians' will soon be widely distributed through Western media," he said.

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⚡Russian Ambassador to Canada Oleg Stepanov said he had sent personal notes to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Foreign Minister Melanie Joly asking the government of Canada to influence Washington to prevent a tragedy that may be caused by the weapons of mass destruction.

The chief of Russia's Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Protection Troops have earlier revealed US plans to stage provocations to accuse Moscow of using chemical, biological, or even tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine to discredit its ongoing military operation in the country.

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‼️ Trudeau discriminates against Russians when speaking of "consequences" for operation in Ukraine, Embassy says

⚡️ Pentagon has no comments on Zelensky's statement about Austin, Blinken Visiting Ukraine

🏙 County grants approval for Amazon’s helix-shaped HQ tower

The Arlington County Board gave unanimous approval Saturday to Amazon’s plans to build a unique, helix-shaped tower as the centerpiece of its emerging second 350-foot tower headquarters in northern Virginia. The spiral design features a walkable ramp wrapping around the building with trees and greenery planted to resemble a mountain hike. Amazon has said it hopes to complete the project in 2025.

The new office towers will support a second headquarters for Amazon that is expected to welcome more than 25,000 workers when it’s complete. Because skyscrapers are banned in the District of Columbia, and the Amazon buildings will be among the tallest in Arlington County, from some vantage points the helix will dominate the region’s skyline like no building other than the Washington Monument.

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US military drops appeal of Hawaii order to drain fuel tanks

The US government on Friday dropped its appeals of a Hawaii order requiring it to remove fuel from a massive military fuel storage facility that leaked petroleum into the Navy’s water system at Pearl Harbor last year.

Petroleum leaked from the Red Hill tanks into a Navy drinking water well late last year, sickening 6,000 people mostly living in military housing. Medical teams treated people complaining of nausea, headaches, rashes and other symptoms. The military put about 4,000 families in hotels for several months while it cleaned its water pipes.

The tanks also pose a threat to water consumed by 400,000 on Oahu. That’s because they sit 100 feet (30 meters) above an aquifer that serves the Honolulu Board of Water Supply, in addition to the Navy’s water system.

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⚖️ First-ever military trial of an Air Force general The charge faced by Maj. Gen. William Cooley during the weeklong court-martial at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio had three specifications, one alleging a forcible kiss and two alleging forcible touching in 2018. Cooley was convicted Saturday of the forcible kissing specification but acquitted of the other two. Officials said the verdict marks the first court-martial trial and conviction of a general officer in the Air Force’s 75-year history. Cooley was to be sentenced Monday morning and could face as much as seven years in jail as well as loss of rank, pay and benefits.

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‼️ Israel’s Prime Minister discusses Gaza tensions, Russia-Ukraine crisis with UN Secretary-General Guterres

🪚 Why so many hourly workers are choosing to unionize?

With stagnant wages, enthusiasm for unions has snowballed among low-wage workers, with successful union elections at an Amazon warehouse on Staten Island and a pair of Verizon stores in Washington state. Earlier this week, five Starbucks locations in Virginia, all overwhelmingly voted to unionize. 

But another motivation for workers is the fact that this summer, the federal minimum wage will have remained frozen at $7.25 for 13 years. As the federal minimum wage has lagged behind price increases over the last 13 years and lost about 21% of its value, income inequality has soared. Economist Dean Baker reports that had the federal minimum wage kept up with worker productivity, it would now be over $20 per hour.

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