⚡️ 📹 Residents of Mariupol recall mass abuse by Ukrainian nationalist fighters.

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❗️ 📹 Ukrainian troops fired a "Tochka-U" at the city of Hola Prystan near Kherson. As a result, four people were injured and 10 houses were damaged, our Sputnik correspondent reports.

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⚡️ 📹 Refugees from Mariupol describe how the Ukrainian national battalions used civilians as human shields.

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⚡️ 📹 A refugee from the Kharkov region explains why he left for Russia.

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❗️ 📹 A Russian woman living in Spain was attacked with pepper spray by a refugee from Ukraine, whom she'd hired.

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❗️ 📹 A Dibrova resident on the border of the LPR and the DPR has shared how life there has become a living hell, with constant shelling by Ukrainian Nazi battalions.

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⚡️ Russian downs 2 Ukrainian warplanes, 3 helicopters, 2 drones near island Zmeiniy, MoD says

❗️ UK, Belarusian citizens detained near launch pad in Baikonur - Rogozin

❗️ The death toll from the gas explosion at the Saratoga Hotel in Havana has risen to 32; 19 others remain missing, Cuban news agency reported citing Red Cross

⚡️ The Russian Defense Ministry's Saturday statement on the Ukraine op:

▪️ During the day, Ukrainian aircrafts, including drones, were destroyed by high-precision weapons at military airfields in the Odessa region

▪️ Western weapons and military equipment were taken out by the Iskander missiles at the two railway stations in the Kharkov region

▪️ Russian Aerospace Forces's high-precision missiles hit 42 areas of concentration of Ukrainian forces and military equipment, as well as two ammunition depots

▪️ Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed 26 Ukrainian military facilities, as well as downing up to 210 nationalists

▪️ Missile troops and artillery hit 31 Ukrainian command posts and 245 strongholds

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⚡️ Sinn Fein lands historic election victory, securing majority in Northern Ireland assembly

⚡️ The Russian Defense Ministry's latest statement on the Ukraine op:

▪️ Some 51 people including 11 children were rescued during humanitarian operation at the Azovstal steel plant

▪️ On May 8, the Kiev regime plans false flag attacks using "Tochka-U" missiles in Western Ukraine to blame Russia

▪️ Mainstream media outlets turn a blind eye to Ukrainian nationalists' atrocities, fuel anti-Russian hysteria

▪️Ukrainian mined the dam at the Kurakhovskaya thermal power plant in DPR

🇧🇷😰Deforestation detected in the Brazilian Amazon broke all records for April, which followed similar new records set in January and February, replicating a worrisome uptick in destruction in a state deep within the rainforest.

“The April number is terrifying. Due to the rain, it is traditionally a month with less deforestation,” Suely Araújo, senior public policy specialist at the Climate Observatory.

Satellite alerts of deforestation corresponded to more than 1,000 square kilometers (nearly 400 square miles), the highest figure for that month in seven years of record-keeping and 74% more than the same month in 2021, which was the prior record.

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⚽️💰Chelsea Football Club on Saturday confirmed its new owner is a consortium led by Todd Boehly, an American billionaire investor and part-owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers. The deal was closed for £4.25 billion ($5.2 billion), though the purchase is yet to be approved by the UK government and the Premier League.

The high price, one of the highest that has ever been paid for a professional sports team, follows a bidding war that went on for nearly two months.

Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich owned the club for 19 years before putting it up for sale this March amid his alleged ties to Russia's Vladimir Putin. The English Premier League team said it had "agreed on terms," but exact details of the sale, which is expected to be completed by the end of May, would come later.

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⚡️🇺🇸Country music legend Mickey Gilley has died at 86

🇷🇺LIVE UPDATES: Russian MoD Says Operation to Evacuate Civilians From Azovstal Concluded

☕️👀Over 500 kg (1,102 lb) of cocaine estimated to be worth more than 50 million Swiss francs ($50.65 million) have been found in a container of coffee bean bags for Nestle's (NESN.S) Nespresso factory in Romont in western Switzerland, the cantonal police said on Thursday.

Police were informed on Monday night by Nespresso that staff had found an undefined white substance while unloading bags of coffee beans that had just arrived from Brazil, the police said in a statement. Analyses showed the substance was cocaine. "The substance in question did not come into contact with any of our products or production equipment used to make our products," Nespresso said in an emailed statement.

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🇫🇷French President Emmanuel Macron was sworn into office for a second term on Saturday after his election victory over far-right rival Marine Le Pen. In his short speech to nearly 500 invited guests, the president spoke of the need to innovate at a time of unprecedented challenges for the world.

"We will take action relentlessly with a goal, which is to be a more independent nation, to live better, and to build our own French and European responses to the century's challenges," Macron said.

Macron answered criticism from many voters, who say he came across as out of touch and arrogant during his first term. He promised to act with "respect" and "consideration." He also vowed to "build a planet that is more livable, a France that is more alive and a stronger France."

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