⚡️⚡️ Move by Sweden and Finland to Join NATO is a mistake with far-reaching consequences, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister says

WATCH: Russian sappers remove mines left by the Ukrainian armed forces near a thermal power plant in the Lugansk People's Republic

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⚡️⚡️ China voices firm protest over G7 statement regarding Taiwan and Xinjiang

📹🎞 Albina, a resident of Mandrykino village near Donetsk, said that two people were killed as a result of Ukrainian armed forces shelling in the morning. According to her, the village has been constantly shelled over the two past months

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📌 The latest updates on the Ukraine op from the Russian Defence Ministry:

▪️ Russian air defence has shot down two Ukrainian Su-25 fighter jets in the Nikolaev and Kharkov regions;

▪️ Operational-tactical and army aviation hit three Ukrainian command posts, and 104 areas where Ukraine's troops and military equipment were concentrated;

▪️ Russian air defence has shot down one Ukrainian Su-24 near Snake Island;

▪️ High-precision air-based missiles hit the command post of the 72nd mechanised brigade near Kharkov region

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Russian servicemen and Cossacks delivered 55 tonnes of humanitarian aid to residents of Zaporozhye region

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⚡️⚡️ Russia plans to launch UN investigation into violation of biological weapons convention in Ukraine

🎞📹 Mariupol residents has been left without electricity since the middle of March. With the help of Russian forces, the power and the water supply have been restored. People say that they've “come back to life” and are very thankful for the help

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⚡️ No telephone talks scheduled between Biden, Putin, Moscow says

🎞📹 A resident of the city of Rubezhnoe in LPR describes the tactics Ukrainian nationalists used to kill locals using mortars. They hid a small mortar in car and drove around the neighbourhood firing shells. It was impossible for civilians to even bury their loved ones due to the constant shelling

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❗️ Kremlin concerned about decision of Finland and Sweden to join NATO, will conduct in-depth analysis of consequences - Peskov

⚡️ Kremlin: Ukraine joining NATO would lead to bloc having territorial dispute with Russia

❗️McDonald's leaves Russian market, begins sale of outlets - the company

❗️ US intends to ratify Finland's NATO membership by autumn - Senate Minority Leader McConnell

📹🎞 A woman from Mandrykino village had a heart attack caused by Ukrainian shelling

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❗️ NATO aggressively building up its muscles - Belarus President Lukashenko

📹🎞 A little boy from Mariupol has lost his father. When a Ukrainian Grad rocket hit the neighbour’s garage, his father went to put the fire out but suddenly he was hit by yet another Grad rocket. His mother also suffered from the strike, as according to medics, she is 40% covered in burns

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⚡️ Putin: US biolabs in post-Soviet states gather biological material, study virus spread patterns

⚡️ President Putin addresses the situation in Ukraine, Nazism and NATO policies:

▪️ Nowhere is Nazism being encouraged at a state level, except for Ukraine

▪️ NATO is being aggressively used as a US foreign policy instrument

▪️ Monuments are demolished in Europe, history is cynically rewritten. The feats of those who helped bring victory in WW2 are destroyed

▪️ The West condones blatant Russophobia

▪️ Russia has no problem with Finland and Sweden joining NATO, their accession bids do not pose a threat but will trigger a response

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🎞📹 A 13-year-old boy was shot by a Ukrainian sniper who impeded people from being evacuated from Mariupol. The boy survived, and now hopes to see his dad, return to school and play football

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❗️ Russian and Ukrainian troops agree to pull out injured from Azovstal plant, MoD says