⚡️ 📹 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

😢🔥'Mommy, they lit me on fire' were the words of a 6-year-old who suffered third-degree burns to his face, arms, hands, and chest after gasoline was splashed on the boy.

The bully, identified as an 8-year-old neighbor, lured Krankall to meet him around the corner when he poured gasoline on a tennis ball, lit it, and threw it. The youngster, identified as Dominick Krankall, survived the vicious attack but is suffering from severe second-and-third degree burns to his face and legs.

The awful attack happened Sunday when Dominick was playing in the backyard of his family's home located on Louisiana Avenue in Bridgeport, Connecticut, with a group of children, who are reportedly tenants in the home.

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❗️🇺🇸🇨🇳 The House on Wednesday passed legislation requiring the State Dept to report to Congress on any efforts by the Chinese gov't to provide support for Russia’s spec op in Ukraine

‼️🇺🇦 The center of Kherson has been hit by at least two Tochka-U missiles, several Uragan Missiles - Sputnik correspondent

❗️The shelling came from Ukrainian positions

There were reportedly no people outside due to the curfew, no injuries have been reported yet

⚡️🇺🇸The House has passed a bill allowing the seizure of foreigners' assets, giving the funds to Ukraine

Ukrainian troops fired three Tochka-U missiles at Kherson, two of them were shot down, a Russian military source told Sputnik

😁Biden referred to Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona as "Senator Cardona"

⚡️🇷🇺Russia will hold an informal UNSC meeting May 6 to present first-hand information about the situation on the ground in Ukraine

🙌📚President Joe Biden wants to help, a lawmaker who discussed the issue with him said Wednesday. Biden has discussed with lawmakers how to forgive some student loan debt and further extend the federal moratorium on repayments.

The White House was notably more measured about Biden’s stance, but such moves would be a boon to many of the 43 million Americans carrying student loans worth $1.6 trillion, according to federal figures.

Tony Cardenas, D-Calif., was among them. He said in an interview Wednesday that he asked Biden to extend the moratorium on debt payments through this year, instead of letting it expire on Aug. 31.

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⚡️The footage shows the moment of the attack on Kherson on Wednesday night

❗️🇷🇺The flow of fake news won't shield Ukrainian Neo-Nazis, foreign mercenaries & their sponsors from accountability for heinous crimes - statement by Russia's representative at UNSC

"Multiple witness statements and evidence to that effect are being collected right now across Ukraine, including in Mariupol," he said.

❗️🇺🇸🇰🇷🇯🇵 Biden to visit South Korea & Japan on May 20, 24 - White House