❗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

❗Explosions heard in centre of Kherson, it's likely that Ukrainian neo-Nazis are shelling the city, Sputnik correspondent says

⚡⚡Russia requests UNSC meeting on Friday to present new evidence on US military biological activities in Ukraine

❗Russian air defence shot down 2 Ukrainian cluster warhead missiles in Kherson - source

Russian Defence Ministry on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪Russian aviation has hit 45 areas of concentration of troops and a Ukrainian military fuel storage site;

▪The Russian Aerospace Forces have destroyed four ammunition depots, a US-made radar station, and more than 170 neo-Nazis;

▪Russian artillery has destroyed an S-300 missile complex, 14 command posts, and almost 360 areas of concentration of manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;

▪Russian air defences have destroyed five Ukrainian drones and 10 Smerch MLRS missiles;

▪A Ukrainian drone and three Tochka-U missiles have been destroyed in the air over Snake Island

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🎥Svetlana from Mariupol describes how she, her husband Igor, her daughter, and her five-year-old granddaughter found housing after they lost their home

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⚡Russia's position on Kiev's desire to join the EU has changed, and now it is similar to the position on Ukraine's accession to NATO, said Deputy Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyansky

⚡Russian Deputy Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyansky: Sweden and Finland joining NATO is not a threat to Russia’s security, as the country is ready to confront the threat posed by the alliance

At the same time, he noted that as soon as Finland and Sweden become NATO members and the alliance has a military presence, their territories will become a possible target for the Russian military