Igor, a resident of Makeyevka, miraculously survived today's shelling of the city by the Ukrainian Uragan multiple rocket launcher system.

🗣 "I went to the hospital and took cover there because there were explosions. And when I came back, I already saw the couple. The woman was lying down and the man, who was holding onto a tree with one hand, was being supported by the guys,” he told the Donbass Decides channel

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Pentagon Chief Hosts Meeting on Ukraine at Germany's Ramstein Base

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⚡️ Poland imposes sanctions against Gazprom, Novatek, other companies and individuals from Russia, Belarus, Interior Ministry says

📌 Russia's Defence Ministry has briefed the press on the operation in Ukraine:

▪️ High-precision air-based missiles hit four Ukrainian military targets during the night;

▪️ Operational-tactical and army aviation hit 87 military targets of Ukraine, 79 areas where Ukrainian troops were concentrated, killing up to 500 Ukrainian servicemen;

▪️ Russian air defence shot down 13 Ukrainian drones;

▪️ Russian anti-aircraft missiles shot down a Ukrainian Tochka-U missile and two Ukrainian S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems;

▪️ Missile troops and artillery performed 1,299 firing tasks during the day;

▪️ In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 141 warplanes, 110 helicopters, 583 drones, 269 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2,576 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 287 multiple rocket launchers, 1,111 field artillery and mortars, as well as 2,392 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed

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⚡️ UK scales up humanitarian support of Ukraine by sending aid to health facilities

⚡️ Transnistria raises terrorist threat level, says 3 terrorist attacks occurred in republic, the head says

🗣 "Daughter, say hello to Europe and thank the nationalist battalion for what they did to Mariupol”.

Emilia is only three years old, but she already knows exactly when there is danger, when to hide and when not to. This footage shows the work of Russian aviation, but people know that Russian fighter jets are targeting neo-Nazis, so they no longer pay attention to the rumbling.

The girl's father sends his regards to Zelensky: "I want him dead!"

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Russian FM Lavrov, UN Secretary-General Guterres Meet in Moscow Amid Special Op in Ukraine

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🗣 "The nationalists drove us into basements. And then they declared us hostages”.

A resident of Mariupol tells how the Russian side received them when they miraculously managed to escape

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⚡️ Kremlin closely monitoring situation in Transnistria, concerned over recent events

⚡️ Poland will not pay for Russian gas in rubles, government commissioner says

Literally every patch of garden in Mariupol serves as a makeshift cemetery where people have buried their loved ones and neighbours who have been killed by shelling.

Footage shows a woman showing the place where her mother is buried

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Ukrainian tanks were firing on houses in Mariupol as the ground shook to the rumble of their artillery.
Local residents told the Donbass Decides channel about it.

🗣 "There was consecutive outgoing artillery fire from the 23rd neighborhood. And tanks drove around the streets and fired on residential houses to this noise,” they said. All of this was happening as if according to a schedule: at five in the morning, five in the evening and at night.

🗣 “There were no Russian army units or DPR units in the city at that time. The fighting was taking place in the outskirts of the city,” the residents said

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A direct hit from a Ukrainian shell destroyed a house in the village of Abakumov Mine in the Kirovsky District of Donetsk to ruins.

🗣 “At the time, my husband was in the bathroom and my son was in the bedroom. I was at work. My husband is shell-shocked, the child is scared. We were just lucky that everyone survived,” says Oksana, resident of the city

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Mariupol residents thank Russian soldiers for humanitarian aid: “And butter, and tinned meat, and condensed milk”.

🗣 “I wanted to say a huge thank you to Lugansk for the Easter bread, for congratulating us on the holiday, and for their help,” said a resident of Mariupol

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⚡️ Kiev seeks to involve Moldova, Transnistria into conflict, this is evidenced by shelling and terrorist attacks, source in Transnistria gov't circles says

⚡️ Moscow declares three diplomats of Swedish Embassy personae non gratae

🎥Russian MoD video: Units of the Russian Armed Forces have taken control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces storage and repair base

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Russian FM Lavrov, UN Secretary-General Guterres Hold Joint Press Briefing in Moscow

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❗Russia would like to avoid scenario in which Moscow has to intervene in Transnistria conflict - Foreign Ministry

❗It's early to say who's responsible for terrorist attacks in Transnistria before investigation is over, Russian deputy foreign minister says