⚡️ Air defence in Russia's Kursk region shot down Ukrainian drone in border zone, governor says

What else has the Russian foreign intelligence chief said:

▪The US State Department has given controlled NGOs the task of launching a campaign to discredit the special operation in Ukraine in Russian society, according to information obtained by Russian intelligence;

▪In order to spread panic, fake slogans about a “democratic Ukraine” and “totalitarian Russia” will be used;

▪To increase the impact on the audience, “obscene language and vulgar images” will also be used;

▪The State Department believes that this approach is most effective for urban youth

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🎞 📹 Ivan Valerievich Bidenko, an eyewitness to UAF atrocities and a survivor of Mariupol, told Sputnik how Ukrainian snipers burnt down houses and killed civilians in Mariupol at 160 Nakhimova Avenue as they were leaving their firing posts

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❗Kremlin: Residents of Kherson region should decide whether it will become part of Russia or not

🎞 📹 "I am fake": An emotional video from Donbass people about how the whole world turns a blind eye to Ukrainian aggression.

According to the UN, more than 13,000 people have been killed during the conflict in Donbass, including over 100 children. But neither this death toll nor all the other horrors suffered by the people of the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics because of UAF shelling during eight years of hostilities has attracted any interest from the world's media.

To feel sorry for Ukraine is much trendier, and everything else is “fake”, they say nowadays. As it happens, the whole region of four million people has become “fake”

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⚡️ Kremlin says possibility of Sweden, Finland joining NATO subject to careful analysis

Top Finnish, Swedish diplomats to join NATO meeting in Berlin on 14-15 May, German ministry says

⚡️ Polish ambassador and US ambassador Sallivan arrive at Russian Foreign Ministry

Downing Street: UK signs agreement on mutual security guarantees with Sweden, similar declaration to be signed with Finland

US Ambassador Sullivan leaves Russian Foreign Ministry without commenting on purpose of his visit

Polish Ambassador leaves Russian Foreign Ministry without answering reporters' questions

⚡️⚡️ US consumer prices rise by 8.3% in year to April, easing slightly from 8.5% in March, labor department says

15 North Carolina students have been sent to hospital after a school bus collided with a dump truck. The bus driver was also injured and a police investigation is underway

🎞 📹 Ukrainian snipers didn't let people out of the house, not even as fire broke out.

Kristina, a resident of Mariupol, described how gunfire was coming from a business centre next to an apartment building, where dozens of people were hiding in the basements

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⚡️⚡️ Democratic Party's leaders are ideologists behind US military biological activities in Ukraine, MoD says

📹 🎞 Nadezhda Stepanovna Zinchenko, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, cannot understand why Ukraine tried to kill her. The pensioner painfully recalled the death of her son-in-law, who was killed during shelling by the UAF.

For three days, she was unable to leave the house. Then a miracle happened: exhausted from hunger and cold, the frightened woman made her way out of the yard and met people

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The firing position of Ukrainian militants was found in one of the apartments in Mariupol by Russian military investigators

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❗Head of Russia's Chechen Republic says over 200 Ukrainian neo-Nazis killed and over 10 pieces of military equipment destroyed in LPR