📌 The latest update from Russia's Ministry of Defence on the Ukraine crisis:

▪️ High-precision air-based missiles hit seven command posts, 11 missile and artillery weapons and ammunition depots, and 26 areas of concentrated Ukrainian manpower and military equipment;

▪️ Russian airspace forces destroyed one S-300 anti-aircraft missile system battalion and one Buk-M1missile system;

▪️ Operational-tactical and army aviation hit two command posts, as well as 58 areas of concentrated Ukrainian manpower and military equipment; more than 340 Ukrainian nationalists were eliminated, and up to 62 armoured and motor vehicles were destroyed;

▪️ Missile troops and artillery hit six command posts, 295 areas of concentrated AFU manpower and military equipment, 43 Ukrainian artillery and mortar units at firing positions and two radio-electronic warfare stations;

▪️ Russian air defence means have shot down 15 Ukrainian drones, including 1 Bayraktar-TB2; 12 Ukrainian Smerch multiple-launch rockets were also intercepted;

▪️ In total, 172 Ukrainian aircraft and 125 helicopters, 942 drones, 313 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,158 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 395 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,562 field artillery and mortars, as well as 3,026 units of special military vehicles were destroyed during the operation

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📹 Russia's Ministry of Defence has published new footage of defeated mercenaries from the Azovstal plant in Mariupol

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📹🎞 Ambulance services in Mariupol are now the real frontline of medicine in the devastated city. Mariupol paramedics and doctors manage to work without communication and with an acute shortage of fuel.

The medics have been working without salaries for three months now, surviving only on humanitarian aid

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⚡️⚡️ Turkey tells NATO it will say no to Swedish, Finnish membership in bloc, Erdogan says

⚡️ Five employees of Portuguese Embassy in Russia declared personae non gratae as retaliation, must leave in 14 days, Russian Foreign Ministry says

📹🎞 A resident of Orekhovo village told what her life was like under Ukrainian occupation

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📹🎞 Mariupol City Council Deputy Konstantin Ivashchenko addressed soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces

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Biden hosts the leaders of Finland and Sweden at the White House, a press conference is expected following the meeting

📹🎞 After the village Verkhnetoretskoye in Donbass was liberated from Ukrainian forces, relatives who used to live in two different parts of the village have reunited.

Earlier, this was impossible due to restrictions imposed by the Ukrainians, who were in control of one of the two parts of the village. The second part was controlled by the Donetsk People’s Republic

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"We are pilots just like you!": Highlight from a prank call to George W. Bush by Vovan and Lexus. The Russian pranksters introduced themselves to the former US president as Ukrainian pilots 😬

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⚡Biden says no question NATO is relevant, effective, and more needed than ever as Sweden, Finland set to join alliance

WATCH LIVE 👉 Press conference by US, Swedish and Finnish leaders after meeting in Washington

Biden says countries joining NATO are not a threat to any nation

Biden says his administration will submit to Congress report for Sweden, Finland's NATO accession today

❗Italy to send extra 1,000 troops to NATO's eastern flank

📞Russian Chief of General Staff Gerasimov spoke by phone with US counterpart Milley - Defence Ministry

Ukrainian servicemen in Mariupol looted all shops when they were in the city, leaving civilians with spoiled food, DPR resident Marina says.

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⚡The International Monetary Fund (IMF) maintains almost daily contacts with Ukrainian authorities to discuss Kiev’s financial needs, IMF spokesperson Gerry Rice says

❗BRICS foreign ministers call for strengthening arms control and disarmament treaty system - joint statement

"Once again I saw for myself that the command was constantly lying to us", Roman Timofeenko, officer in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, says. He refused to participate in hostilities and decided to wait with his family for the liberation of his native city.

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💭There would be "no more Ukraine" if Kiev stops fighting against Russian forces, Blinken says: "If Russia stopped fighting tomorrow, the war would end. If Ukraine stopped fighting, there would be no more Ukraine".