❗Senior US defence official: Over 90% of 90 howitzers that were pledged to Ukraine are actually in Ukrainian forces' hands

❗The US is prepared to respond to “purposeful attempts” of other countries to devalue the dollar, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says, adding that she doesn't see a currency that can begin to rival the US dollar.

🇲🇱From ‘collateral damage’ to an airstrike on a wedding party: a list of possible criminal activity by French forces in Mali over the last 9 years

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❗Biden brands Trump Republicans the most ‘extreme political organisation’ in recent US history

❗The Biden administration's decision to sanction Russia's central bank was not one that was taken lightly, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said.

"We have only rarely, I believe in the case of Iran and North Korea, imposed sanctions on a country's central bank, and the decision to do that to Russia is not one that was undertaken lightly," Yellen said.

❗The United States has seen no indications that any Western aid intended for Ukraine has been impeded, or even struck, a senior defence official said

Not a day goes by without a gaffe by Joe Biden: While posing for a photo with members of the US Olympic team, among whom were wheelchair basketball players and a visually impaired girl, the US president shouted “don’t jump” and then asked the athletes to look at the photographer. After his remarks, the broadcast’s sound was suddenly interrupted 😬

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❓How many Ukrainian soldiers has the US trained in past several years?

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A resident of Rubezhnoye in the Lugansk region has explained how Azov fighters forced civilians out of a bomb shelter at a bread-baking plant

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❗Slovak energy minister: Russian oil imports ban will 'destroy' European economy, affect Slovakia, Austria, Czech Republic, Ukraine

⚡US Federal Reserve increases interest rates by 0.5% in biggest hike of 21st century

❗Coca-Cola may completely exit Russia if Ukraine crisis becomes protracted, CEO says

Black smoke is seen over Stary Saltov in the Kharkov region for the third day: units of the Ukrainian Army, Security Service of Ukraine, and the Kraken battalion – assembled from amnestied Ukrainian criminals, have entered the village.

According to a Sputnik correspondent, as well as eyewitnesses who managed to leave the village, Ukrainian forces launched an attack on the peaceful settlement that was not occupied by anyone.

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