❗Russia to start serial production of Checkmate fighters in 2027 - Rostec CEO

Russian MoD video: In the area about the settlement of Podgornoye, Russian UAV crews located a Ukrainian firing position of US-made 155mm M777 howitzers

1⃣UAV operators launched a missile attack on the firing position of a battery of American howitzers: as a result several guns were damaged;

2⃣After the drone strikes, Ukrainian militants tried to hide in the forest with the M777 howitzers;

3⃣As soon as the Ukrainian militants hid in the forest, Russia's artillery hit there;

4⃣All the equipment and the American howitzers were destroyed. Ukrainian artillerymen who managed to survive fled

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❗Turkey blocks negotiations on Finland and Sweden's entry into NATO - FT

⚡️ Yellen says it would not be legal now in US to seize Russian assets to pay for Ukraine reconstruction

Yellen: The licence allowing Russia to service dollar debt is unlikely to be extended, but the final decision has yet to be made

🎥🎞 Azov neo-Nazis used people as human shields. According to Vladislav, who describes the inhumane behaviour of the Azov militants, they held 12 people hostage in a building where an airstrike hit. Everyone who was there was trapped under concrete slabs

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❗Moscow shutting down Canadian broadcaster CBC's office in tit-for-tat move

⚡According to Russia's estimates, there are over 400 American biological laboratories around the world - Deputy Secretary of Russia's Security Council

⚡️Sixth package of EU's Russia sanctions blocked, European Commissioner Gentiloni says

❗George Floyd death: Former Minneapolis officer Thomas Lane pleads guilty to manslaughter charge

❗Russia's response to Finland's NATO bid will be a 'surprise', measures will be of military nature, Zakharova says

⚡Providing medical assistance to Ukrainian soldiers from Azovstal is the highest priority, everything else will be decided later - Russian Foreign Ministry

🎥Sputnik video from Kharkov region: LPR sappers neutralise explosive objects in the liberated village of Kozachya Lopan

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🎥"They were shot without trial": While Kiev talks about the "evacuation" of Azovstal and discusses the possibility of a prisoner exchange, reality turns out to be quite the opposite – apparently, executions are common practice on the Ukrainian side

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⚡Sweden will not become NATO member until Turkey's justified concerns resolved - Erdogan's office

❗The US Department of Homeland Security is suspending the activities of its Disinformation Governance Board just weeks after its launch due to criticism of board chief Nina Jankowicz, The Washington Post reports

"They were using civilians, children as shields": Serviceman of the DPR People's Militia on the tactics of Ukrainian forces in the village of Verkhnetoretskoye, Donetsk region

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⚡Biden: US to help Finland & Sweden 'deter, confront any threats' as their NATO bids being considered

⚡Biden: US to help Finland & Sweden 'deter, confront any threats' as their NATO bids being considered

❗US Defense Secretary Austin says addition of Sweden to NATO will make them better at defending themselves, which is "important at this crucial time"

"Many thanks to our colleagues who didn’t abandon us when in need": Doctors from Moscow and Donetsk have helped to reopen an outpatient clinic in Mariupol