🇨🇦Justin Trudeau raises Maple Leaf over the embassy in Kyiv as it reopens

🗣 "NATO is a killer": A large-scale action against NATO took place in Verona, Italy.

The protesters carried posters against the bloc's aggressive policy and chanted "NATO is a killer."

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⚡️🎥 Video: Ukrainian troops shoot Odessa residents in the legs

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❗️US embassy in Kiev to resume operations in coming weeks, reports indicate.

Washington diplomats recently visited the embassy, and the State Department expects to resume the diplomatic mission's work soon, CBS reports.

❗️Blinken informed Ukraine's Kuleba of US diplomat's Kiev visit to conduct diplomatic engagement ahead of embassy reopening - State Department

⚡️🇷🇺 The US is introducing a new package of Russia-related sanctions:

▪️US sanctions eight executives from Sberbank, 27 from Gazprombank.

▪️US suspends general export licenses for raw materials, special nuclear material, byproducts and deuterium.

▪️US sanctions the Moscow Industrial Bank and its ten subsidiaries.

▪️US sanctions seven shipping companies, which own or operate 69 vessels.

▪️US sanctions Promtekhnologiya, which produces rifles and other weapons.

▪️US imposes new restrictions on Russia's industrial sector, including wood products, industrial engines and motors.

▪️US sanctions Russia’s TV stations: Channel One, Rossiya-1, NTV

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🗣 Medvedev: Russia won’t tolerate ‘West's blindness’ that ignores neo-nazism in Ukraine

⚡️🎥 "They were shooting, killing, destroying homes": Donetsk residents spoke about the behaviour of Ukrainian soldiers during their retreat from the village.

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⚡️ The Russian Defence Ministry's Sunday statement on the Ukraine op:

▪️ Russian air-launched missiles have hit 19 areas where AFU troops and military equipment were concentrated, as well as six ammunition depots.

▪️ Missile troops destroyed the Osa-AKM air defence system, the Smerch MLRS and the aircraft detection radar.

▪️ Russian artillery hit six headquarters, 179 concentrations of Ukrainian forces and military equipment, and two ammunition depots

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces' air defence systems destroyed the Ukrainian Air Forces' Bayraktar TB2 UAV and the Su-25 jets, as well as two reconnaissance drones.

▪️ Some 157 aircraft and 116 helicopters, 298 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2,933 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, and 1747 field artillery and mortars of the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been destroyed since the beginning of the operation.

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🗣 "Melnik, out!" This is how Ukraine’s Ambassador to Germany Andrei Melnik is "welcomed" by German activists as he was laying wreaths at the Soviet memorial in Berlin.

Not long ago, Kiev’s envoy insulted Chancellor Olaf Scholz calling him an “offended liverwurst” for his reluctance to pay a state visit to Ukraine.

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

▪️ Russian MoD urges the West, which is supporting the Kiev regime, to stop turning a blind eye to Ukraine's war crimes.

▪️The Zaporozhye authorities prevent civilians from evacuating to use them as human shields

▪️ Russian and Moldovan TV channels have been banned in the Odessa region

▪️ In Kramatorsk, Ukrainian militants are keeping civilians in basements

▪️ Kharkov's Children's Hospital is equipped as a Ukrainian Army ammunition depot. Staff and seriously ill children were forced to leave.

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⚡️NY Gov. Kathy Hochul has tested positive for COVID-19

🏊‍♂️🦈 A Florida sheriff’s office released aerial footage last week of shark-infested waters off the Gulf Coast near Tampa in a warning to swimmers

🏁🚩Shortly after arriving in the United States, the British racing driver Lewis Hamilton visited Michelle Obama and spoke dipped into the Roe v. Wade debate. He protested a ban on wearing jewelry while racing by sporting three watches, eight rings, and multiple necklaces in Miami.

The seven-time world champion prepared for Formula One’s debut in South Florida, Hamilton hosted former first lady Michelle Obama in his pit for practice and qualifying.

Hamilton remains a change agent 16 years into his career as when he became the first Black winner in F1 in 2008. The British racer is now 37 years old, is the winningest driver in series history, and is tied with Michael Schumacher with a record seven noscripts. Hamilton remains the only Black driver at the most elite level of motorsports.

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❗️🇷🇺 Russia will not allow Nazism to resurface and will push back against attempts to ridicule the legacy of the soldiers that defeated it, Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov said on Sunday

🇷🇺🚀Russian space agency Roscosmos says the next adjustment of the International Space Station's (ISS) orbital altitude is planned for May 14 to create ballistic conditions before launching of Russian cargo spacecraft Progress MS-20, which is scheduled to take off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on June 3.

Photo credit: Roscosmos
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🇨🇦🇺🇦 Canada will provide an additional $38.7 million (50 million CAD) in military assistance to Ukraine and is introducing new sanctions against 40 Russian individuals, including 19 people in the defense sector, and five entities, the office of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said after he visited Kiev on Sunday.

🇺🇸🎗US WWII veteran Alfred Corby salutes the Immortal Regiment in an online conference in the United States

“I have the honor to participate in the Immortal Regiment. And I join you in paying tribute to the memory of war veterans, whose courage and dedication defeated the evil of Nazism,” said Corby.

Corby, who entered the U.S. army as an 18-year-old after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and served 3 years as aircraft mechanic on the Asia-Pacific front, declared his desire to see the fraternal bonds which once existed between the Russian and American people restored:

"I sincerely hope that we can revive the spirit of the Elbe for our two great states, [so that we can once again] appeal to the common interests of the mankind.”

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😳😂‼️VIDEO: A thief was captured in a video stealing a lawnmower, but before that, he filled it up with gas and mowed the victim's front and back yards.

Texas police are looking for Marcus Hubbard, who is wanted for the burglary of a building, according to the Port Arthur Police Department.

The police department said that Hubbard was caught on a security video burglarizing a home last month on its Facebook page. According to police, Hubbard took a lawnmower from the house "without owners' consent" and mowed their front and back yard.

The video unleashed all kinds of comments on social networks.

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