⚡️ Three houses, school damaged after Ukraine shells Russian border village

⚡️⚡️US unties Russia's hands by forcing Finland and Sweden to join NATO, says Russian Foreign Ministry

⚡️ US has become a hostile state to Russia, Peskov says

🇮🇳 The Indian government has issued a decree banning the export of wheat to ensure food security and to help neighbouring and needy states. At the same time, Indian authorities allowed the supply of cereal crops, for which irrevocable letters of credit were issued until 13 May.

The US criticised the move, calling for "transparency" in trade:

🗣 "What we need is a market that is helping to get goods to those who are in need," US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said;

🗣 “We are encouraging countries not to restrict exports because we think that any restriction on exports will exacerbate the food shortages,” US Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, stated.

Demand for Indian wheat and wheat-based products has increased by more than 40 percent since February. According to India’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry, the sudden spike in prices and the need to preserve India's food security have forced New Delhi to impose the export restrictions.

Moreover, a heatwave that hit India cut wheat output in March

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📹🎞 A Donetsk resident has told about how three Ukrainian shells hit the school

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Speaking about the West's confrontation with Russia, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia has all the resources it needs to weather the conflict. He stressed it is impossible to isolate Russia politically, economically or informationally.

🗣 "I am convinced that any war will end in peace, and this will be a kind of peace that will make our voices heard, comfort us and ensure we can stand securely on our feet"

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⚡️ Moscow sees Finland, Sweden bid to join NATO only as geopolitical move to contain Russia

❗️Ukrainian negotiators guided by London, Washington - Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov

West not ready to provide security guarantees to Ukraine - Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov

WATCH: Footage of the combat work of Orlan-10 drones

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📹🎞 Nina Ivanovna, a Mandrykino resident, is trying to rebuild her house after Ukrainian shelling. She said that five windows of her house were blown out and a fence fell down

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⚡️ Russia expels two employees of the Finnish Embassy in Russia as a retaliatory measure, Foreign Ministry says

Russia's Ministry of Defence has published a video of Kalibr missiles striking arms shipments from the US and Europe and Ukrainian reserve formations in the Lvov region

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A Russian MoD video shows the surrender of 265 Azov neo-Nazis and Ukrainian servicemen from the Azovstal plant in Mariupol

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❗️Twitter has filed a preliminary application with the US regulator for the sale of the social network to Elon Musk. The company aims to close the deal as soon as possible

📹🎞 Ukrainian forces constantly shell a Mandrykino village near Donetsk. Albina, a resident of the village, recalls how people were killed as a result of shelling

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▪️ The Kremlin considers that using assets belonging to Russian banks in Ukraine for the needs of Kiev to be theft;

▪️ Peskov on the idea of easing restrictions on exporting Russian fertilisers for the passage of grain ships from Ukraine: the ports there are mined, shipping dangerous;

▪️ The Kremlin on Turkey's refusal to support accession of Sweden and Finland into NATO: Moscow would not want to interfere in these relations

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"'Regards' from Ukraine": A local from Rubezhnoe in the Lugansk People's Republic region on Ukrainian shelling of his neighbourhood

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Drone footage of Ukrainian servicemen and Azov neo-Nazis leaving the Azovstal plant in Mariupol: some of them are severely injured

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📹🎞 Neo-Nazis, retreating from Rubezhnoe city, placed grenades under the bodies of the dead local residents while leaving the city

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▪️ The West is seeking to create conditions whereby a regime controlled by westerners in Russia can be established, as it has been worked out in a number of countries, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev says;

▪️ Ukraine has become an excuse for the West to wage an undeclared war against Russia, Patrushev says

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