❗️🇺🇸🇺🇦Wily Joseph Cancel, 22, an employee of a US private military company, has been killed in Ukraine, CNN reports

🪅Latin America has been a region that has been hit hard by the pandemic, with nations like Brazil and Peru registering some of the world’s highest death tolls. But cases and deaths fell this month in most places to lows resembling levels last seen in the first two months of the pandemic.

Even as coronavirus cases grow half a world away in China and authorities there impose new lockdowns, plummeting infection rates in Latin America have countries eliminating restrictions on mass gatherings, lifting some travel requirements, and scrapping mask mandates that have been in place for two years.

Most countries in the region have met the World Health Organization’s target of vaccinating 70% of their people with at least two doses. As case numbers and hospitalizations decline, so do many restrictions on social life.

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⚡️ MoD: Russian Aerospace Forces eliminate missile plant in Kiev

⚡️ The Russian MoD’s latest statements on the Ukraine crisis:

▪️ The Russian Aerospace Forces have destroyed the production facilities of the Artem missile and space enterprise in Kiev.

▪️ 1 Ukrainian Tochka-U missile launcher, from which a strike was launched yesterday against residential areas in the city of Kherson, has been destroyed near Gorokhovskoe, Nikolaev Region.

▪️ Sea-based Kalibr missiles have destroyed three traction power substations near the Fastov, Krasnosyolka and Polonnoe railway hubs.

▪️ Ten military facilities of Ukraine were hit by air-launched missiles, including nine areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment and an ammunition depot near Ilyichevka.

▪️ Russian aviation hit 112 military facilities of Ukraine overnight, missile troops hit 13 military facilities and 6 areas where troops and equipment were concentrated, destroyed 3 artillery batteries and a MLRS division; artillery was fired 975 times.

▪️ Over 280 nationalists and 38 armoured and motor vehicles were taken out as a result of strikes.

▪️ A Ukrainian Smerch multiple-launch rocket system missile was shot down near Kamenka.

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⚡️ DPR forces have liberated and established control over 173 settlements, the republic says

❓ Will Israel spoil ties with the US by sidelining the dollar?

💱 Starting in 2022, the stockpile will also include Canadian, Australian and Japanese currency, in addition to yuan.

🇮🇱 Israel’s move is hardly surprising, especially given that Israel is moving towards signing a free trade agreement with China, reportedly by the end of 2022, Dr. Alex Coman, an expert of economics at Tel Aviv University, says.

🤔 According to the shaping deal reported by the Israeli press, there will be no customs duties on most Chinese goods in bi-lateral trade, while others will see a significant reduction in tariffs.

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⚡️ President Putin and Zelensky invited to G20 Summit - reports citing Indonesian president

⚡️ The Investigative Committee of Russia will give a legal assessment of information about the activities of military instructors from Canada who trained Ukrainian neo-Nazis from the Azov Battalion

⚡️ 📹 Russian servicemen have delivered another batch of humanitarian aid to the liberated territories of the LPR.

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⚡️ 📹 In the front-line village of Aleksandrovka, several residential buildings were damaged by Ukrainian armed forces’ shelling.

House 167 on Lenina Street was almost completely destroyed by a direct hit from a shell.

At the time of the shelling, the owners were not in the house; around midnight, neighbours called them and informed them of the tragedy.

Larisa and Nikolai showed what was left of their house.

“This is the fifth time we've been hit. The garage is burnt out, the kitchen is ruined. On 8 March it hit the roof, and now this is all that is left from our 35 years of life”, Larisa says.

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⚡️📹 Denis Serous, a former member of Ukraine's nationalist Aidar Batallion who was convicted in Russia of drug trafficking, says that the extremist group's fighters could kill one another in a quarrel without any consequences, and that such cases were hushed up.

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❗️ 📹 The Russian MoD has revealed footage showing the launch of Kalibr missiles from a Black Sea Fleet submarine at the military infrastructure of Ukraine.

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⚡️ Kremlin: US bill allowing transfer of seized assets to Ukraine is 'flagrant' distortion of international law

⚡️ Indonesia's president says he refused Ukraine's request to supply weapons, but is ready to provide humanitarian aid, a report says

⚡️ 📹 A woman from the town of Severodonetsk in eastern Ukraine speaks about the Armed Forces of Ukraine launching strikes on civilians

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⚡️ 📹 "When they leave, they destroy all that's left"

Viktor Kiyashchenko, head of the liberated village of Sopino in Donetsk region, described the tactics of the Ukrainian armed forces during their retreat.

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