⚖️ Russian law firm sues Apple for $1.3 million after the company pulled Apple Pay services.

Moscow-based law firm Chernyshov, Lukoyanov and Partners has filed a lawsuit against Apple seeking $1.26 million (90 million roubles) in damages after the company pulled its payment service from the country, accusing it of violating Russian consumers' rights when it restricted the use of its Apple Pay.

The law firm said it filed the lawsuit with a Moscow court and is seeking compensation for damages, including "moral damage.” It also wants Apple to resume full operation of its payment service in Russia.

The same law firm filed a lawsuit against Netflix, which also suspended its service in Russia, in April.

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🗣 President Biden busted out his comedy chops during the White House Correspondents' Dinner, and his jokes were kinda hit or miss, but he took his shots regardless. Joe acknowledging the "Let's go Brandon" gag, sort of embracing it. He ended with a more serious note, saying America is "not a reality show,”.

♻️ California takes on Big Plastic over recycling myths

California will investigate whether fossil fuel companies have broken the law by perpetuating myths about plastic recycling, Attorney General Rob Bonta announced.

The investigation marks a fresh attempt to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable for downplaying the harm their products inflict on the planet. The reality is that the vast majority of plastic, more than 90 percent of all plastic ever made, never gets recycled.

Plastic is actually difficult to recycle and degrades each time it gets rehashed, which is one reason why it’s unlikely your plastic bottle will become another bottle. The state issued its first subpoena to ExxonMobil, one of the world’s biggest plastic producers. Similar lawsuits are still making their way through court.

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⚡️ Russian investigators say civilian ships flooded in Mariupol

⚡️ Ukraine’s foreign minister says Kiev offering China to become security guarantor

🎞📹 Dramatic footage of a tornado ripping through Andover, Kansas, was captured by a Dominator Drone.

Extreme Meteorologist and storm chaser, Reed Timmer, says the tornado developed so rapidly that it went "from 10 [mph] to 300 mph in seconds"

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⚡️ Ukrainian forces shell Donetsk Republic 12 times in 24 hours, DPR says

Watch: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meets House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is visiting Kiev as part of a Congressional delegation

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⚡️ Ukraine disconnects Kherson region from mobile communications and Internet

About 150 demonstrators in Ahrensburg tried to derail a speech given by German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock about delivering heavy weapons to Ukraine. They turned on sirens and were chanting "warmonger" and "liar".

Another event at which Baerbock was due to speak had to be cancelled because of security concerns

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Video: Russian Ka-52 helicopters destroy Ukrainian military targets and assets

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❗️ Russian Onyx missiles destroy warehouse with US and European weapons, ammo near Odessa, MoD says

📌 Russia's Defence Ministry has given a briefing on the Ukraine op:

▪️ Russian air defence forces shot down two Ukrainian Su-24M jets, destroyed 12 drones and two Tochka U missiles;

▪️ Russian aviation hit two Ukrainian S-300 missile defence systems;

▪️ Russian Aerospace Forces launched a missile strike at seven Ukrainian military targets, including missile and artillery weapons depots, and ammunition warehouses;

▪️ Russian missile troops hit 786 areas of concentrated manpower and Ukrainian military equipment over the past 24 hours;

▪️ A total of 145 Ukrainian warplanes, 112 helicopters, 672 drones, 281 missile systems, 2,703 tanks and other combat armoured vehicles, 312 MRLS, 1,203 field artillery and mortars, and 2,514 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed since the launch of the special operation

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⚡️🎥 Watch a Mariupol resident tell how Ukrainian neo-Nazis killed civilians who went to get water at a local reservoir.
Igor Zheltouhov lost his arm during one of these trips to get water.

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📹 A 74-year-old Mariupol resident tells how Russian servicemen saved children’s lives while Ukrainian forces were shooting.

🗣 “Soldiers were risking their life. [Russian soldiers] were carrying children on their shoulders”

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⚡️🎥 A Ukrainian woman recalls the nightmare locals went through after Ukrainian forces opened fire at civilians trying to flee their homes.

🗣 "They wanted us to speak Ukrainian. But I have been speaking Russian all my life. They don't like it! We should all speak Ukrainian and nothing else! What does it matter?"

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⚡️🎥 A video shows the launch of a Russian high-precision Onyx missile, which destroyed a hangar at a military airfield near Odessa with weapons supplied to the Ukrainian forces by western countries, according to Russia's MoD.

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🎞📹 Russian military police helped evacuate a family whose child had health issues so that they could receive necessary treatment. The mother appealed to the military commandant’s office in the town of Izyum, where the decision to evacuate them to Russia was made within an hour

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🎞📹 Azov neo-Nazis didn’t tell people about humanitarian corridors and enjoyed planting seeds of doubt that civilians' lives would be in danger if they left:

“You are free to go but there are no guarantees that you will get out of here"

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Watch: Wounded Mariupol resident tells how he was hit by Ukrainian armed forces when he drove up to take relations away from the basement

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