🎞 📹 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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"None of them died quickly": A Ukrainian soldier spoke about how the Ukrainian army treats prisoners of war. He confessed that captured Russian pilots are being killed and tortured

'The Azov battalion can say whatever it wants, but I have been there and I have seen what is going on there', French volunteer says

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💭German economy minister: EU membership offer to Ukraine 'should not be fake'

⚡Assistant Secretary Donfried: There's 'no question' of US providing nuclear weapons to Ukraine

Andrey Borisovich Grishin, a resident of Mariupol, has revealed how Azov neo-Nazis tried to steal his car and, after failing, trashed it

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⚡⚔The United States is willing to start incentivizing its allies and partners to move away from using Russian-made military equipment amid concerns about spare parts and technical assistance while offering US weapons instead, Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs Jessica Lewis said: “We will encourage partners to diversify their equipment inventories away from Russian systems. This could include support for select partners providing equipment to Ukraine and other incentives to donate additional systems. It could also include strategically timed grant assistance to support procurements of US platforms instead of Russian systems”.

⚡️The EU is likely to decide on whether to ban imports of Russian oil in the coming weeks, the US State Department says