📹 Italian journalist Eliseo Bertolazi, an expert on eastern Europe, voiced his opinion about the way western media is hiding the truth of Ukrainian atrocities in the Donbass

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Russia's Ambassador to Afghanistan Dmitry Zhirnov told Sputnik that Afghanistan plans to buy 2 million tons of wheat and 5,000 tons of oil, other energy sources and flour. He also said that negotiations on the supply of glass, timber, and duty-free bilateral trade are underway

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The airport resumed operations after the shooting

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Nancy Heche, an 85-year-old Christian psychologist, is in the tragic position of having survived four of her five children, after her youngest child Anne Heche, the Hollywood star, died two days ago at the age of 54 from complications sustained during a car crash.

Before Anne was born, her sister Cynthia died of a heart defect at the age of two months. Anne's brother Nathan died in a car accident aged 18, three months after the death of Nancy's husband Donald, who died of AIDS in 1983. Another sister, Susan Bergman, who wrote her own family memoir called 'Anonymity', died in 2006 from brain cancer.

Only one Heche sister, Abigail, remains

⚡️ Razoni cargo ship with Ukrainian grain anchors at the Syrian port of Tartus, Reuters reported citing sources

🧀 France's cheese, Salers, is facing a production crisis because of the shortage of grass. The semi-hard cheese, made from unpasteurized cow's milk has been produced in the Salers region in the Auvergne for two millennia.

However, one of the stipulations behind its manufacture is that the Salers cow should live on a diet of which at least 75% is pasture grass. Because of the drought the green pastures have dried up

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🥴 Amnesty International has initiated the process of reviewing its report, in which the Ukrainian military has been accused of violating the laws of war

❓Amnesty International says it wants to “understand exactly what went wrong". The organization also admits that it reacted incorrectly to the scandal around the report:

“The findings were not conveyed with the delicacy and accuracy that should be expected from Amnesty. This also applies to subsequent communications and the reaction of the International Secretariat to public criticism.”

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▪️Earlier, Amnesty International, which is a recipient of funding and grants from the Rockefeller Foundation and the US State Department, said in its report that Ukrainian forces are setting up military bases in residential locations, including schools and hospitals, as well as launching attacks from peopled regions

▪️To arrive at this conclusion, the Amnesty experts examined 29 schools, 22 of which were used by Ukrainian soldiers to some extent

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⚡️ An explosion occurred in the "Surmalu" shopping center in Yerevan, people are injured, the Ministry of Emergency Situations told Sputnik

📹 Social networks users say that fireworks are burning

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💬 “The West is not satisfied with the results,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said regarding a forthcoming review of the Amnesty International report on Ukrainian forces violating the laws of war

“The result [of the report] should be different [for the West]. The one that suits the mainstream ... The facts are of no interest ... It’s an anti-scientific approach,” Zakharova explained.

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📹 Eyewitnesses at the scene report that there may be victims under the rubble

⚡️⚡️Repeated explosions have occurred in a shopping center in Yerevan, eyewitnesses report. The video shows people running away in panic from the site of the explosion

⚡️ Several people dead among 55 injured in Cairo church fire, health ministry says

📹 Residents of Novoluganskoe told how Ukrainian forces threatened people saying they would smash the village to pieces

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President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi expressed his condolences to the families of the victims of a fire accident at a church in Cairo

📌 The Russian MoD’s latest update on the Ukraine crisis:

▪️Russian forces have liberated Udy settlement in Kharkov region;

▪️Russian air forces killed up to 35 neo-Nazis, destroyed 15 units of armored vehicles and equipment near Belaya Krinitsa and Belogorka settlements, Kherson region; and eliminated almost 40 nationalists and nine military equipment assets near Dzerzhinsk, DPR;

▪️More than 200 Ukrainian servicemen have refused to perform combat tasks and voluntarily abandoned their positions because of heavy losses near Opytnoye and Pervomayskoye, DPR;

▪️Russian artillery destroyed two Ukrainian missile and artillery weapon depots in Artemovsk, DPR and near Bereznegovatoye in the Nikolaev region;

▪️Russian air defences have shot down two Ukrainian drones near Lisichansk, LPR and near Glubokoye in Kharkov region; one Ukrainian Tochka-U was intercepted near Lisichansk in LPR;

▪️In total, 267 Ukrainian airplanes and 148 helicopters, 1,738 drones, 365 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4,303 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 798 multiple launch rocket systems, 3,298 field artillery and mortars, as well as 4,888 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed during the operation

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