⚡️ 📹 A resident of Mariupol tells about how the Ukrainian militants equipped positions in the city's schools and wanted to shoot him because he was against the deployment of Ukrainian military equipment near residential buildings.

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⚡️ 📹 A resident of liberated Mariupol tells about how her family had to survive and deal with Ukrainian nationalists, who threatened to fire a grenade launcher into the entrance of her house.

The woman also focuses on the help provided to her family by the Russian military, who literally saved her wounded daughter.

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🤔 Twitter's new boss Elon Musk has suggested a new name for former US President Donald Trump's platform Truth Social, the top downloaded app on Apple's app store.

Sharing a screenshot showing Truth Social topping the Apple Store's "Top Charts" list, Musk has suggested that the platform should be renamed "Trumpet.”

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⚡️ White House: Biden to unveil plan on Thursday to seize Russian businessmen's assets to 'aid Ukraine'

⚡️ 📹 A 70- year-old Mariupol resident blames Zelensky for the destruction of her city, noting that she was left homeless.

She and other residents were locked away in a basement by Ukrainian forces and weren’t let out for a long period. They only allowed them to leave under the condition that they told no one where they were

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⚡️NATO spends $8bln in military support of Ukraine, set to provide more

⚡️ 📹 Yet more video evidence of Ukrainian atrocities in Donbass.

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#LIVE | US President Biden Delivers Remarks on Ukraine

❗️ Biden: We are not attacking Russia, we are helping Ukraine to defend itself

❗️ Biden: US to continue to supply military assistance to Ukraine until Russia's operation ends

❗️ Biden says that he just signed request to Congress for critical security, economic and humanitarian assistance to help Ukraine

⚡️ 📹 Mariupol citizen tells how the Security Services of Ukraine shot people who gathered for evacuation at the drama theatre building.

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🗣 US president Joe Biden's request to Congress for an additional $33 billion in security, economic and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine is not an escalation to the conflict, a senior US defense official said on Thursday.

"Not all of that $33 billion is going to be dedicated to defense," the defense official told a press briefing. "I mean, it's worth $16 billion will be dedicated to the Defense Department's ability to continue to help Ukraine and again, you'll hear more from the Secretary about that later, but it's a continuation, it's not an escalation."

The defense official insisted there had been no change to Biden's policy of not deploying US forces to Ukraine or to the US stance on imposing a no fly zone.

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⚡️ 📹 "Why are you shooting at civilians?": Kherson residents curse Kiev regime for shelling civilians and thank Russian soldiers for their help.

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❗️Air defense system activated in Russia's Belgorod region, blast heard, correspondent says

Democrats have prepared new legislation in both chambers of Congress to punish major oil corporations for market manipulation and price gouging.

🗣 "The House and the Senate have been hard at work for weeks [on the new legislation]," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said. "Big Oil has exploited the market place. They are hoarding the windfall. There is no excuse for the big oil companies to price-gouge. They have made $200 billion in profits over the past year.”

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the new legislation would strengthen the powers and expand the staff and capabilities of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to expose and enforce penalties on major oil companies for their price gouging and other practices.

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📊 The US should prepare for a recession after avoiding a depression from the coronavirus outbreak, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Thursday as she urged policy-makers to insulate the economy from the next downturn — after growth turned negative in the first quarter of the year.

🗣 "It is imperative to build and maintain an effective and efficient set of recession remedies," Yellen said in a speech after the United States posted a 1.4% decline in gross domestic product (GDP) growth between January and March. "Over the long run, such measures will reduce volatility while [they] also lessen the depth of future recessions."

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❗️ The US is prepared to deter nuclear aggression - ambassador to Russia

"We are prepared to deter nuclear aggression against the United States as we have been for decades," Ambassador in Moscow John Sullivan said.

❗️🇺🇸The US is awaiting formal decisions from Sweden and Finland about whether to join NATO in the buildup to an alliance summit in June, Blinken says

❗️🇺🇸The House has approved a bill to allow Biden to lend, lease military equipment to Ukraine, Other Eastern European countries

😲💸Elon Musk, the billionaire behind Tesla and SpaceX, chipped in at least $500,000 to ex-girlfriend Amber Heard’s donation to the American Civil Liberties Union, the organization’s general counsel testified Thursday.

Terence Dougherty said Heard never made good on her $3.5 million pledge to the group, paying only $350,000, according to the ACLU exec’s taped deposition played during Johnny Depp’s defamation trial against his ex-wife.

The rest of the $1.3 million the ACLU eventually received came from Depp, who forked over $100,000, and a donor Dougherty believes was Musk.

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