⚡⚡ Series of explosions rock Transnistria's Ministry of State Security: Correspondent

🎥A resident of Mariupol spoke about the shelling of residential areas from the territory of the Azovstal plant and also provided harsh criticism of Zelensky, for whom she voted.

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🇺🇸 🇫🇷 Biden said he tried to call Macron on the phone yesterday, but the French president was busy celebrating his re-election and didn't answer

❕German defence minister to attend US-hosted military meeting at Ramstein base, spokesman says

"All the girls were shred into pieces": A Mariupol resident spoke about her terrible experience in the city, mentioning the role of Zelensky and the Ukrainian government, which she called "a bunch of junkies and criminals"

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"Everyone is alive, the rest… I don't want to get upset": Locals describe what living in the frontline area of the DPR looks like

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🎥Ukrainian neo-Nazis brought military equipment into a maternity hospital and hospital church, said Archpriest Alexander Novikov, who served at Mariupol's Church of the Intercession of the Mother of God

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❗A New York State Supreme Court judge has found Donald Trump in contempt of court for failing to comply with a subpoena to hand over documents as part of a probe into his business dealings, Attorney General Letitia James said.

💸 Now he must pay $10,000 per day every day that he defies the subpoena

Briefing of Russia's Ministry of Defence:

▪6 traction substations near railway stations used for the delivery of foreign weapons and military equipment to the Ukrainian Army have been destroyed with high-precision long-range weapons;

▪4 Ukrainian Army command posts, an ammunition depot near Slavyansk, and the headquarters of the Right Sector in Novogrodovka have been destroyed with high-precision missiles;

▪Missile forces hit a Ukrainian Tochka-U complex, an artillery battery, and 10 areas of concentration of manpower and equipment;

▪Russian air defence systems shot down four Ukrainian UAVs near Izyum, Donetsk, and Kharkov

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❗Poland hands over tanks to Ukraine, Polish PM says

🎥Neo-Nazis who planned the murder of prominent Russian journalist Vladimir Solovyov on the instructions of Kiev, were detained by the Russian Federal Security Service

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Russian MoD statement on solution to humanitarian crisis in Ukraine:

▪As of 25 April, at 20:00 (Moscow time, 5:00 PM GMT), no one has used the proposed humanitarian corridor for evacuation from the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. The Kiev authorities have again cynically disrupted the humanitarian operation. Such illogical and inconsistent behaviour confirms Kiev's indifference to the citizens of its own country;

▪Ukrainian neo-Nazis continue to hold hostage 90 foreign citizens from 5 countries as a "human shield";

▪76 foreign vessels from 18 states remain blocked in Ukrainian ports;

▪Despite the obstacles created by Kiev and without their help, 9,285 people have been evacuated to the territory of Russia from Ukraine during the past day, including 733 children;

▪In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 975,234 people have been evacuated, including 178,091 children

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⚡⚡Elon Musk reaches deal to buy Twitter for $54.20 per share - company statement

Today, Biden managed to get on the phone with Macron: the US president congratulated him on his re-election and hailed the strong relationship between the US and France, the White House said.

❗Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk agreed to buy Twitter Inc. for $44 billion

📲The board of directors of Twitter said Monday afternoon that it had accepted a $44 billion offer by Tesla CEO Elon Musk to buy the company.

Musk, who has said he wants to buy Twitter in order to restore the platform’s adherence to free speech principles, will pay $54.20 per share for the company, which he has vowed to take private.

“I also want to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spambots, and authenticating all humans. Twitter has tremendous potential – I look forward to working with the company and the community of users to unlock it.”

Musk’s acquisition of Twitter has unnerved many of the site’s more liberal users while it has energized pro-Republican voices who want the platform to reinstate former President Donald Trump. Trump was banned by Twitter and other large social media companies for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 rioting at the US Capitol.

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