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

“We've been living under fire for the past eight years”, the woman says, describing her life with her mother and daughter Sasha in the LPR's Popasnaya settlement.

The family is the only one still living on the street. There are no other residents.

🎥LPR residents welcome a column of Russian troops

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⚡⚡Macron on course to securing second presidential term, leading against Le Pen with 57% of vote - TV

💬Le Pen addresses her supporters, says she views her result as a victory

⚡⚡Le Pen admits defeat in struggle for presidency with Macron

🎥WATCH LIVE | Protesters take to Paris' streets after French presidential election runoff

🔥 One dead and at least three hurt in Nebraska wildfires

Blazes have been reported in 12 counties in around the state since Friday. The state agency said they were still burning Saturday night in five counties in Nebraska’s southwest: Perkins, Hayes, Furnas, Red Willow and Frontier counties.

The person who died was in Red Willow County in the southwest corner of the state, Nebraska Emergency Management Agency spokeswoman Jodie Fawl said. She said she didn’t have details about that person or where the firefighters were injured.

The Nebraska National Guard deployed three helicopters and several support trucks to help battle the blazes.

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