❗️ Russia expels three Norwegian diplomats

⚡️ 📹 The Russian MoD has published footage depicting trophies of the Russian Armed Forces from the captured Ukrainian warehouse

◽️ Many objects were hastily abandoned by the nationalist units of Ukraine during their retreat from the territory of the Lugansk People's Republic.

◽️ Among the captured weapons there are both Soviet samples and modern samples of anti-tank guided missiles and man-portable air defence systems of NATO countries.

📊 In total, about one thousand weapons of various types and ammunition for them were found in the field warehouse captured by the Russian military.

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❗️ Exchange of Russian pilot Yaroshenko happened in Turkey, his wife says

🗣 Russian Foreign Ministry: After long negotiations, Russia and the US carried out a prisoner exchange on Wednesday, trading US Marine vet Trevor Reed for the Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko,

The footage shows Reed being taken to Moscow's Vnukovo airport.

⚡️ 📹 A resident of one of the villages in the DPR tells about the consequences of the shelling of the village where she lives by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

According to her, the intensity of the bombings at the present time is much stronger compared to 2014.

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❗️⚡️ WATCH LIVE | President Putin holds meeting with Russian lawmakers in St. Petersburg

⚡️ 📹 A resident of Mariupol urged not to believe Ukrainian propaganda and said that local residents had been waiting for the arrival of the DPR for 8 years

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⚡️ 📹 People of Volnovakha: “The Ukrainians have really tortured us”

Natalya lost two loved ones – her grandmother and mother-in-law. Ukrainian servicemen left Natalya’s grandmother outside in the cold in just a bathrobe and slippers.

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😳 Depp v Heard: Amber turns out to suffer from personality disorders

Amber Heard suffered from "histrionic and borderline personality disorders" and "grossly exaggerated symptoms of PTSD", as revealed by a clinical and forensic psychologist who evaluated her mental state after she split with Depp.

Doctor Shannon Curry said that borderline personality disorder was "a predictive factor in women who implement violence against their partner".

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⚡️ Putin vows swift response if anyone intervenes in Ukraine, posing a strategic threat to Russia

⚡️ 📹 Listen to what this woman has to say.

The Nazis held her captive near the Azovstal steel works for more than fifty days until Russian soldiers rescued her, along with fifty other hostages.

⚡️ 📹 The saviour dog: A resident of Mariupol tells how pet warned them of incoming shells

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🇺🇸 The family of ex-US marine Paul Whelan, who is serving a 16-year prison term in Russia after being convicted of espionage, says they are happy Reed has been released, but fear the Biden administration may be unwilling to make "difficult decisions to free their son."

❗️President Biden earlier said that the talks to bring Reed home required "difficult decisions" that he does "not take lightly."

He pledged he won't stop until Whelan and others are back home.

⚡️ 📹 Like in spy films: The prisoner swap of Reed for Yaroshenko saw the two convicts simultaneously escorted past each other on a Turkish airfield.

Reed's parents said that the exchange of their son for Yaroshenko resembled a scene from a spy film.

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❗️ Biden to travel to Alabama to visit Lockheed Martin facility producing Javelins, which US is providing to Ukraine - White House

⚡️ 📹 "I wished I would die": A former prisoner of the Aidar Battalion speaks of the horrors he witnessed there.

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❗️Italy's ENI preparing to open ruble accounts in Gazprombank, Bloomberg reports citing sources

⚡️ Russian MoD warns West that Kiev plans to spread 'bloody fakes' about Russian 'atrocities' soon

⚡️❗️ The Russian MoD: The Kiev regime continues provocations to discredit the Russian Armed Forces, with another staged alleged massacre of civilians as a result of a fabricated shelling by Russian units set to be spread through the media soon.

In order to conduct staged photo- and video shooting, broken equipment, ambulances and the bodies of Ukrainian servicemen dressed in civilian clothes are being brought to Lisichansk central market, which was mistakenly shelled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine the day before. The representatives of Ukrainian and Western news agencies (including the United States, Latvia, Great Britain and Poland) have been invited there.

🗣 The Russian MoD calls this scenario cynical towards its own people, as well as to the dead Ukrainian servicemen, adding that it resembles the atrocities of the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War.

❗️🇺🇸🇷🇺The US will continue imposing sanctions on Russia in the weeks ahead in response to its special military operation in Ukraine, Antony Blinken said on Wednesday

🇺🇸The White House has been in contact with government officials from Poland and Bulgaria in the last 24 hours following Russia's decision to suspend natural gas supply for failing to make payments in rubles