Azov neo-Nazis tricked Mariupol residents into believing they would spend the night at a local hospital and leave - before they blocked all the doors, and seized the medical facility together with 120 civilians who were taken hostage.

One of the witnesses says no one except the neo-Nazis knew that there were civilians there, so when they were liberated by the Russian and Donbass forces, the soldiers were stunned to find out that there were over 100 hostages hiding in the basement.

‼️Russia's MoD delivers a briefing on the ongoing special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️A workshop for the production of explosives and gunpowder for the Ukrainian armed forces has been destroyed in a high-precision strike in Pavlograd;
▪️Nine Ukrainian military facilities targeted in a high-precision missile strike;
▪️Operational and tactical and army aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 26 military facilities of Ukraine. Up to 150 nationalists and up to 40 armoured vehicles and vehicles have been destroyed;
▪️Missile troops and artillery completed 423 fire missions at night. As a result of the strikes, 26 command posts, 367 strongholds and areas of accumulation of manpower and military equipment, as well as 25 positions of artillery batteries were hit. Four depots of rocket-artillery weapons and ammunition were destroyed too.
▪️Russian air defense systems destroyed 10 Ukrainian drones;
▪️In total, 141 planes, 110 helicopters, 551 drones, 264 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2,496 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 282 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,093 field artillery and mortars, as well as 2,343 units of special military vehicles, have been destroyed since the launch of the operation.

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🥵Chris Rock's mother breaks silence on Will Smith Oscars smackdown

"When [Will Smith] slapped Chris, he slapped all of us. He really slapped me, because when you hurt my child, you hurt me," Rose Rock told South Carolina television station WIS-TV.

At first, she thought that the Oscars slapping incident was staged, right until Smith yelled at the comedian from his seat: “Take my wife's name out your f*****g mouth.”

Chris Rock made a joke about Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett, who has been struggling with a medical condition called alopecia that causes acute hair loss. Rock quipped he couldn't wait to see her in the sequel G.I. Jane, where Demi Moore plays the first woman recruit to the US Marines.

The 53-year-old rapper-turned-actor was filmed laughing but seconds later, Smith got up on stage and slapped Rock across the face. Smith has since apologised and has been banned from all Academy events for 10 years.

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An example of vigilantism in Ukraine-controlled Dnepropetrovsk: a victim with his face painted black begs to be untied from the tree as he cannot breathe.

❗Anti-Russia sanctions not conductive to peace, Argentine foreign minister says

🎥The Orthodox Church of the Intercession of the Mother of God in Mariupol filmed from a drone on the eve of Easter

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🎥Russia's military saved the life of a wounded officer who was abandoned by the Ukrainian army: he is surprised by the good treatment from Russians.

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❗Switzerland bans Berlin from re-exporting ammunition for combat vehicles to Ukraine

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🎥Russian Ministry of Defence video: Military engineers carry out humanitarian mine clearance of private houses in the Kherson region

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🎥“A base for the military”: The archpriest of the Holy Trinity Church in Mariupol told why Ukrainian neo-Nazis kicked people out of the church.

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A veteran of the Donbass militia, Vyacheslav "Azik", spoke about the state of affairs at the military front and how Ukrainian propaganda has been encouraging people to attack and kill Russians for several years.

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🎥Volunteers in Mariupol, supported by the Chechen special forces, were evacuating a family with a baby, but the nationalist battalions in a neighboring house tried to interfere.

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💬DPR head Denis Pushilin says the neo-Nazis at the Azovstal plant won't last long due to "various circumstances".

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Easter cakes are being distributed in the Cheryomushki district in Mariupol

🎥Valentina from Volnovakha told reporters about how she experienced Ukrainian army shellings

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💬Mariupol resident Inna, who was in hospital in late February, said her husband was ordered to take her home after Ukrainian militants took over the medical building for surgery

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⚡UK to supply Ukraine with 20 AS90 howitzers, 45,000 shells next week, reports say

🟥The flag of victory in the Great Patriotic War was raised in the town of Novotoshkovskoye in Lugansk region.

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⚡Macron leads French presidential elections with 55%-58% projected, Belgian media report, citing polls

❗Pope Francis invites Russian Patriarch Kirill to become 'true peacemakers', Moscow Patriarchate says

"May the Holy Spirit transform our hearts and make us true peacemakers, especially for war-torn Ukraine, so that as soon as possible the great Easter transition from death to new life in Christ may become a reality for the Ukrainian people who long for a new dawn," the pontiff said in an Easter greeting published on the website of the Moscow Patriarchate.

⚡Russian consulate in NY threatened with bombardment by Molotov cocktails, acting consul general says