Ukrainian forces have shown weapons used in the WWI and the Great Patriotic War, saying that they were forced to use them against modern helicopters and artillery.

According to them, "if they had stayed in their positions, no one would have survived". Their company commander decided to retreat when helicopters, planes and Grads began to attack their positions.

🗣 "Now our command wants to make us deserters. We ask our senior leadership to make a decision and give a legal assessment to our command," they said in the video

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❗ 'How To Murder Your Husband' author Nancy Crampton Brophy from the US found guilty of murdering her husband

⚡The US will build a "China House" (a State Department team to coordinate and implement US policy across issues and regions,) Blinken announced

📹🎞 Donetsk volunteer Andrey Lysenko recalls the moment he realised the war was in Donetsk and would last for a long time

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Pew's survey conducted in the US:

▪ 51 percent of the respondents know that the US Secretary of State's name is Antony Blinken;

▪ 8 percent think the US Secretary of State's name is Mike Pompeo, 2 percent think it's Hillary Clinton;

▪ 79 percent recognised Kim Jong-un in the photo;

▪ 41 percent know what the flag of India looks like;

▪ 67 percent were able to recognise the euro symbol;

▪ 48 percent know that the capital of Afghanistan is Kabul;

▪ 65 percent are aware that the Prime Minister of the UK is Boris Johnson

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⚡️ Erdogan and Macron discuss Finland & Sweden's NATO accession

📹🎞 Azov neo-Nazis shot civilians in the back and in the soles of the feet when they were allowed to leave the Azovstal plant in Mariupol

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🎞📹 DPR journalist Vittorio Nicola Rangeloni who works almost exclusively in Donbass' "hot spots" tells how Italian TV channels ask him to provide material and offer him a lot of money for his work. However, the TV channels want to reserve the right to supply commentary that does not correspond with reality at all

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🎞📹 A resident of Volnovakha said that Ukrainian forces were killing civilians in open view when they left the basements waving white sheets to denote that they came in peace

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🎥 WATCH LIVE | Aftermath of deadly shooting in Texas school

🇰🇷Joe Biden to meet South Korean K-pop band BTS in the White House next week to “discuss Asian inclusion and representation”, as well as to “address anti-Asian hate crimes and discrimination” - WH statement

🎥‘Headquarters under churches’: Captured Ukrainian soldier speaks out about hundreds of neo-Nazis hiding in the basements of churches in Kharkov, using civilians as human shields

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❗Actor Kevin Spacey charged with four counts of sexual assault against three men in UK

🎥Natalia from Novotoshkovskoe, LPR told a reporter how she milked a cow despite fearing that shelling could begin any second. The woman is sad that the Ukrainian Army took her car and tractor

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⚡US does not support Taiwan independence, will continue to expand relationship with Taiwan - Blinken

⚡Several Ukrainian neo-Nazis hiding at Azovstal have surrendered - DPR representative

❗Court rules Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and Ivanka Trump must answer questions under oath in a New York state civil investigation

‘We try to make children study distantly’: A resident of the village of Zemlyanki, DPR speaks out on how to live under the permanent danger of being shelled

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❗Putin told Mario Draghi that the current food difficulties are connected with failures in supply chains, as well as with the financial policies of Western countries

⚡MoD: Russian Navy has cleared Mariupol port of mines

“As for the 450 fellows of mine who refused [the orders], they were taken away in a car, nobody knows what happened to them”, a captured Ukrainian soldier said, speaking about his service.

"It's better to lay down your arms and go back to your families before it ends badly", he told his brothers-in-arms.

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