❗The EU has published a new package of sanctions against Russia entering into force today

📹🎞 A resident of Mariupol talks about how she ran in front of bullets to take food from her kitchen and bring it to a church to help other people

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📹🎞 Ukrainian forces blew up a railroad tank car with poisonous substances in Rubezhnoye in early April. The explosion was so powerful that it blew away residential houses and only ruins remained of them

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Who is included in the new EU sanctions list?

▪Arkady Volozh (co-founder of Yandex);

▪Andrei Lipov (head of Russia's media watchdog Roskomnadzor);

▪Tatiana Navka, Nikolay Peskov, Elizaveta Peskova (Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov's wife and children);

▪Marina Mordasheva (wife of Alexey Mordashov, chairman of the company Severgroup);

▪Alina Kabaeva (chairwoman of the Board of Directors of the National Media Group);

▪Russian enterprises on the sanctions list are: Voentorg, Kamaz, Tatneft-Neftekhim, Remdiesel,
Oboronenergo, UAZ, and Voentelecom;

▪Sberbank, Credit Bank of Moscow, and Russian Agricultural Bank will be disconnected from the SWIFT system

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❗Russian Foreign Ministry adds 41 Canadians to its travel ban list

❗China has reached out to Pentagon about a meeting between US, Chinese defense ministers in Singapore this month - report

⚡An explosion has occurred at sea near Mariupol's Azovstal plant, a mine may have detonated. There are no casualties, a Sputnik correspondent reports

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‘I was tortured with a stun gun and sticks’: The story of a man who returned from Ukrainian captivity

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❗Ex-White House adviser Peter Navarro indicted for contempt of Congress

‘They shouldn't be exchanged’: Anna from Mariupol explains why captive Azov neo-Nazis shouldn't be exchanged

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Two people killed, including a child, after explosive device detonates in Mariupol, territorial defence HQ says

⚡Erdogan says Sweden, Finland must stop supporting terrorism, lift sanctions against Turkey, show allied solidarity for NATO membership

‘We reserved a place in this queue back in 1991’: Crowds of people apply for Russian passports in Melitopol

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10-year-old resident of Mariupol Nikita told a reporter about how he was sheltering in a basement

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❗Moscow: New package of US 'military assistance' to Ukraine includes four Mi-17 helicopters Russia previously transferred to US for Afghanistan

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⚡Putin: Europe's short-sighted policies provoked energy crisis

Russian President Putin addresses the supply chain and energy crises:

▪The supply chain crisis started during the pandemic, long before Russia's special operation;

▪The situation with fertilizers will worsen due to sanctions, food prices will only go up;

▪Sanctions against Russian fertilizer producers will affect the world's crop prospects;

▪Statements that Russia "does not allow" the export of Ukrainian grain are "a bluff";

▪Russia is ready to raise wheat exports to 50 million tonnes;

▪Ukraine should demine its ports, and there will be no problems with grain exports, Russia will not interfere with this;

▪Ukrainian grain could be exported through the Danube, Poland, and the cheapest way is through Belarus, but then sanctions must be lifted;

▪The West has overestimated the possibilities of alternative energy;

▪Decent people in the US, like the Treasury Secretary, admitted that they had made mistakes that caused the crisis;

▪The acceleration of inflation is connected with the US' actions to inject funds into the economy, and not with Russia's actions in Ukraine

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