❗️ One killed, seven wounded as a result of Ukrainian shelling of Solokhi village in Russia's Belgorod region, governor says

⚡️⚡️ Bitcoin price drops bellow $27,000 - first time since December, 2020

⚡️⚡️ Finnish president, PM support the country joining NATO

⚡️ Sweden reportedly plans to apply for NATO membership on Monday

🎞 📹 Tatiana Viktorovna Chernykh, a resident of Mariupol, reveals how the Ukrainian military held civilians hostage and intimidated them

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📌 Russian MoD’s latest statement on the Ukraine crisis:

▪️ High-precision air-based missiles hit 34 areas of concentrated Ukrainian manpower and military equipment as well as two ammunition depots, more than 320 nationalists were eliminated during the day;

▪️ Operational-tactical and army aviation hit 120 areas of concentrated Ukrainian manpower and military equipment; one Ukrainian S-300 anti-aircraft missile system was destroyed;

▪️ Missile troops and artillery destroyed 405 areas of concentrated manpower and military equipment, 12 command posts and 26 artillery units at firing positions; one S-300 anti-aircraft missile system and three Smerch multiple-launch rockets were also destroyed;

▪️ Air defence have shot down 13 Ukrainian drones, including one Bayraktar-TB2 near Snake Island;

▪️ In total, 164 Ukrainian aircraft and 125 helicopters, 821 drones, 303 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,013 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 364 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,471 field artillery and mortars, as well as 2,824 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed during the operation

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⚡️One million US citizens died of coronavirus, says Biden

⚡️⚡️Finland's accession to NATO would 'certainly threaten' Russia's security, Kremlin says

🎞 📹 A Ukrainian artilleryman testified to Russia's Investigative Committee about attacks on civilians and told how the Ukrainian command abandoned soldiers in Mariupol without shells and food

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🎞 📹 A Mariupol resident, Alexander, has told how members of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi Azov battalion was killing civilians who didn't leave their home after the Ukrainian militants tried to drive all residents of the apartment block where Alexander lived out of their flats

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📌 Russian Foreign Ministry’s statements on Finnish NATO membership:

▪️ The Finnish president’s statement in favour of Finland's accession to NATO is a radical change in the country's foreign policy;

▪️ Helsinki should be aware of the responsibility and consequences of its decision;

▪️ Finland's accession to NATO will cause serious damage to bilateral Russian-Finnish relations;

▪️ Russia will be forced to response both of a military-technical and other nature in order to prevent threats to its national security;

▪️ Joining NATO will be a direct violation of Finland's international legal obligations;

▪️ By including Finland, NATO wants to create a new military threat to Russia

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❗Mark Milley, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, while speaking to congress members said that the US continues surveillance in Afghanistan and has the capability to conduct strike operations if “we see a threat emanating from the land of Afghanistan”

⚡️ Blinken to attend NATO foreign ministers meeting in Berlin on May 14, US-EU trade meeting in Paris on May 15, State Department says

Russia's MoD has released footage of 2S19 Msta self-propelled howitzers in operation

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📹A rally to support the special military operation in Ukraine has started near the US Embassy in Moscow

🎞📹 A Ukrainian artilleryman has revealed that his command claimed that its servicemen had no option but to continue fighting, and if they surrendered they would be killed.

Just the opposite - Russian armed forces provided captives with food, water and a shower

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