⚡️ The Russian MoD’s latest statements on the Ukraine crisis:

▪️ The Russian Aerospace Forces have hit 5 command posts and 2 ammunition depots near Spornoe and Berestovoe in the DPR using high-precision air-based missiles.

▪️ Operational-tactical and army aviation have hit 43 Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) troop and military equipment concentration areas.

▪️ Missile troops and artillery have hit 18 command posts, 543 areas of troop and military equipment concentration, one ammunition depot near Lubomirovka, Kherson Region, as well as 23 AFU artillery units at firing positions near Verkhnekamenskoe, Krasnyi Liman, Drobyshevo, Yarovaya, Korobochkino and Gusarovka overnight.

▪️ Russian air defence units have shot down 13 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles near Chkalovskoe, Demetievka, Klinsk, Glubokoe, Balakleya, Goptovka in Kharkov Region, Staromikhailovka, Spartak, Elenovka in the DPR, Petrovenki and Severodonetsk in the LPR, including one Bayraktar-TB2 over Mankovka in Kharkov Region overnight.

▪️ Some 165 Ukrainian aircraft and 125 helicopters, 858 unmanned aerial vehicles, 304 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,051 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 372 multiple-launch rocket systems, 1,507 field artillery and mortars, as well as 2,898 special military vehicles have been destroyed since the beginning the operation.

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❗️ 📹 Before the beginning of the Russian special op in Ukraine, Victoria was a paramedic in the military hospital of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Already during the special operation, she ended up at the Azovstal plant, where she also acted as a doctor and provided medical assistance to Ukrainian nationalists.

In the video, Victoria says that after she left the territory of the Azovstal plant, she found herself in Donetsk. According to her, she is being treated well in the DPR and refuted Ukrainian propaganda, which convinces the population that only horrors await Ukrainian servicemen who surrender to the DPR’s forces.

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❗️ 📹 Refugees from Severodonetsk in the LPR tell how Ukrainian troops used residential areas in the city as coverage, digging trenches right in front of the houses where locals lived.

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❗️🎥 Plans to encircle and take over the city of Novoazovsk in the DPR have been discovered at one of the bases of the Ukrainian Azov battalion, the LPR military source told Sputnik

After the capture, nationalists planned to reach the Russian border.
According to the marks on the map, the offensive was due to begin on 8 March.

🔥 📹 "They completely plundered all the apartments, destroyed furniture and things and let strangers into our apartment", a resident of Mariupol told the military investigators of the Russian Investigative Committee about thefts and looting by Ukrainian militants.

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👶 Murray Kessler, CEO of Perrigo Company, the US maker of store-brand baby formulas for Walmart and Amazon, has warned of the product’s looming shortage in the country for the rest of 2022.

🤭 In an interview with Reuters, Kessler said that although the company’s manufacturing facilities in Ohio and Vermont are now running at 115% capacity amid the nationwide crisis, shortages and heightened demand for baby formula could last for the “balance of the year”.

🗯 “We have stepped up and are killing ourselves to do everything we can,” the Perrigo CEO pointed out.

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⚡️ Talks with Ukraine de facto on hold as Kiev not interested in dialogue, Putin says

❗️ Key points from the conversation between Russian President Putin and his Finnish counterpart on Helsinki's announced intention to apply for NATO membership:

▪️ Finland's rejection of the traditional policy of military neutrality would be a mistake.

▪️ There are no threats to the security of Finland.

▪️ Changes in Finland's foreign policy may have a negative impact on relations with Russia.

▪️ Putin also shared his assessments of the state of the negotiation process on Ukraine, which was actually suspended by Kiev.

▪️ It was noted that Kiev hasn't shown interest in a serious and constructive dialogue.

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📹 ⚡️ A DPR resident tells how she witnessed the shelling of the centre of Donetsk by militants from the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the May holidays.

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⚡️ 📹 Russian military personnel ensured the safe removal of 127 citizens from Russia, Syria, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Tajikistan and Ukraine from the territory of the Kherson region.

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❗️🎥 Ukrainian POWs confess that they received orders to shoot at civilians and were attacked by their own artillery.

"I don't know why they put him in power", one of the Ukrainian militants was heard saying about Zelensky, calling him a "clown".

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😱 Move aside, Elon: there is a new buyer for Twitter, and he already has a bunch of cool ideas for the platform.

🔥 Snoop Dogg has jokingly voiced his readiness to buy Twitter now that the Tesla founder appears to have slowed his multi-billion-dollar takeover down.

😂 "May have 2 buy Twitter now," Snoop tweeted, going on to list his ideas for the platform.

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❗️🎥 "They were just shooting where they wanted to": Mariupol resident Vladimir Marushin reveals that there were no Russian or DPR troops or military equipment in their area, and Azov fighters just fired at civilians.

"He destroyed the country, he created this chaos", the man speaks of President Zelensky.

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⚡️🎥 "A tank was shelling the church for one hour": a Mariupol resident recalls how Ukrainian militants were bombing the local place of worship.

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🎥 Russia's MoD has released footage of its troops destroying a Ukrainian pontoon crossing the Seversky Donets river, as well as some Ukrainian armoured vehicles.

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❗️🎥 An Azovstal employee tells how he and his family were hiding for almost two months in a bomb shelter at the plant occupied by the Ukrainian military.

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⚡️🎥 A Mariupol family speaks about its evacuation through the "green corridor" declared by Ukraine.

As they were trying to leave, a Ukrainian sniper opened fire on the wheels of the car, wounding everyone in the legs.

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❗️🎥 Residents of Rubezhnoye in the LPR spoke about the latest shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the positions adopted by Kiev's military between residential buildings and the development of biological weapons in one home.

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⛽️ US fuel prices hit an all-time record on Saturday, according to AAA.

According to estimates, a gallon of petrol (3.785 litres) has risen in price to $4.452, with diesel up to $5.565. A year ago prices were $3,039 and $3,160, respectively.