📹 A resident of Severodonetsk, Nikolai Pogorelov, left for a shift in Novy Urengoy in early February, and hasn't since seen his wife and three-year-old son, who remained under Ukrainian shelling; for the last month and a half did not even know if they were alive. The man was not afraid to return to the war zone for his family.

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⚡️ The Russian MoD’s latest statements on the Ukraine crisis:

▪️ On June 21, a high-precision attack launched by the Russian Aerospace Forces resulted in the elimination of up to 500 servicemen from the 59th Mechanised Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), as well as their arms and military equipment, deployed in the workshops of the Okean shipyard, located in Nikolayev.

▪️ Operational-tactical and army aviation have eliminated 5 AFU munitions depots and one Buk-M1 air defence missile system in the DPR.

▪️ Missile troops and artillery have neutralised 253 areas where AFU combatants and military equipment were concentrated, as well as six munitions depots in the LPR.

▪️ Attacks launched by aviation, missile troops and artillery have resulted in the elimination of more than 620 combatants, 24 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, as well as 27 special vehicles.

▪️ Russian air defence units have show down a Ukrainian Air Force Su-25 in the Nikolayev region and 1 MiG-29 in Dnepropetrovsk region.

▪️ Some 211 airplanes and 132 helicopters, 1,308 unmanned aerial vehicles, 349 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,733 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 594 combat vehicles equipped with multiple rocket-launching systems, 2,081 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 3,801 units of special military equipment have been destroyed since the beginning of the special military operation.

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📹 A doctor from the LPR says that while providing medical assistance to the soldiers of the Ukrainian armed forces, they said that they'd had an order to destroy the city of Kremennaya during the retreat.

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▪️ The Tuesday hearing with the January 6 Committee marked the fourth session of the panel's investigation into the causes of the Capitol breach that took place in January 2021.

🧐 With two more hearings to come, here is a quick round-up of the takeaways from both the Tuesday hearing and the previous assemblies by the panel.

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📹 A Deputy Prosecutor who defected to Donbass speaks up about Nazis abducting people: "They could walk into any house at any time, take a person in an unclear direction, tie him up with duct tape, and take him away, and no one would knew his fate."

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📹 A clergyman tells how Ukrainian nationalists tortured people using stun guns and firing at prisoners who were unable to move.

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🚭 The US Food and Drug Administration is preparing to order Juul Labs Inc to take its e-cigarettes off the market in the United States, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

▪️ The health agency could announce the decision as early as today, the report said.

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📹 Well-known military correspondent Andrei Rudenko comments on the fake news put out by Ukrainian provocateurs about the DPR bombarding itself.

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❗️ US did not allow arrival of special flight of Russian state aviation to take out employees of Russian foreign institutions, family members - Moscow

🧐 The unyielding inflation growth in the United States suggests that the Federal Reserve needs to accelerate rate hikes, probably even make them restrictive, to curb price pressures already at 40-year highs, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Wednesday.

🗯 "I think that the most recent inflation indicators, [the] various kinds, suggest to us that we need to accelerate the pace at which we can get up to a level that is neutral," the Fed chief said in his biannual testimony to the US Senate Banking Committee. "And we know we need to have restrictive policy, and that's where we're headed."

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📹 Children from the city of Gorlovka play only in front of their entrances in order to have time to run and hide in their basements if the shelling starts.

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❗️🇺🇸A new study has found that Washington, DC, ranks as the worst-run city in the United States. The study by WalletHub ranks cities using metrics including safety, financial stability, education, health, economy, infrastructure and pollution.

📹 The Ukrainian military fired cluster warheads at peaceful neighbourhoods in Makeyevka. The shelling of the city's Chervonogvardeysky district with Uragan MLRS resulted in damage to many houses in the residential area, several people were wounded, and one died.

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⚡️ US working on normalization 'road map' for Saudi Arabia, Israel - Axios, citing four US sources

⚡️ Afghanistan earthquake death toll reaches 1,100, more than 1,650 injured - reports

📹 The wounded boy said how he and his mother came under shelling in Donetsk. Nine-year-old Maxim is now in the hospital undergoing treatment for concussion and multiple shrapnel wounds. One of the fragments directly hit the boy's chest.

Maxim said that when the shelling started he was at the market with his mother. He claims the shell exploded nearby.

According to available reports, the boy's mother is now in another hospital. She was hit in the face by shrapnel.

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😯 Ecommerce giant Amazon is afraid its warehouses have such high turnover rates that within the next few years, they will have employed or fired the entire workforce around their warehouses, according to leaked internal research by the company.

🗯 “If we continue business as usual, Amazon will deplete the available labor supply in the US network by 2024,” said the research, according to Vox’s tech-focused subsidiary Recode, which printed the quote in a Friday report.

▪️ The publication noted that this doesn’t refer to the entire US labor force, but to populations within a certain radius around Amazon’s existing or planned facilities and of the socioeconomic milieu from which Amazon typically hires.

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⚡️ Biden asks Congress for three-month fuel tax holiday amid record gas price hike

⚡️ Biden admits US anti-Russia response led to higher gas prices, would not have spiked this way otherwise

📹 Dmitry Ponomarenko, a former soldier of the Ukraine Armed Forces (UAF), said that he decided not to take part in combat operations, stashing his weapons and staying at home.

He said that under the Kiev regime, they [soldiers] received “forged” bills for utility services in Kherson. According to Ponomarenko, the local oligarchy simply siphoned money off the population. Now, the man said, the city has settled down to a calm and peaceful life.

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🚘 Tesla accused of violating federal law over ‘mass layoffs’ at Gigafactory

Two former Tesla employees have filed a lawsuit claiming the company violated federal law for failing to provide 60 days’ notice for a mass layoff. The two former employees allege they were among “more than 500” Gigafactory employees who were terminated.

The mass layoff violates the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, which requires employers to notify workers at least 60 calendar days in advance before shutting down a facility or laying off 50 or more workers from the same site.

This followed a company-wide email by Musk detailing a worldwide hiring freeze and a plan to slash the company’s workforce by about 10 percent. In the email, Musk said the layoffs were because he had a “super bad feeling” about the US economy.

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