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⚡📹 Russia's FSB has published a video of the suspect in the murder of Daria Dugina showing her entering Russia, moving into the same house as the victim, and leaving for Estonia

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A gay festival named after Stepan Bandera in Kiev and gay units in the Ukrainian Army: guess who Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus have called?

▪️Ian McKellen, an openly gay British actor who played Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings, has become the latest target in a new prank call;

▪️In the first part of the video, McKellen and the pranksters, who are speaking on behalf of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, discuss LGBT rights in Ukraine. "Zelensky" says he feels like Frodo (a character in The Lord of the Rings) who is about to destroy homophobic Ukraine

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📹 "We will make a tolerant army in Ukraine": "Zelensky" asks McKellen to send LGBT people to the Ukrainian Army

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📹 "Zelensky" invites McKellen to visit an LGBT festival named after Stepan Bandera in Kiev. The British actor doesn't seem to know who Bandera is, but he accepts the invitation. "What a contrast with Moscow, where gay pride is illegal!" McKellen observes.

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📹 The pranksters, posing as Volodymyr Zelensky, say the Ukrainian president has huge plans: he wants to conquer Moscow and hold a gay pride parade there with McKellen among the guests. The British actor appreciated the military approach and promised to give “Zelensky” Gandalf's sword.

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🤪 "You shall not pass, Vovan and Lexus!" Ian McKellen says, after being asked to address "Volodymyr Zelensky's friends"

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📹 "Zelensky" shares a personal story about how Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko is unable to accept his own homosexuality and come out. What will McKellen's advice be?

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Towards the end of the prank call, "Zelensky" says he is also "kind of gay" because of the Russian Army’s activities in Ukraine, with McKellen appearing to like the joke

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📹 Residents of the Mironovsky settlement have said that they want to stay in the DPR and join Russia

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💬 "A dedicated public servant": Biden confirmed that Fauci is resigning as the White House’s chief medical advisor, thanking him for his work

🇺🇸 Marijuana and hallucinogen use is at an all-time high among US young adults (19 to 30 years old), the University of Michigan claims in a study

❗Russia to raise murder of Daria Dugina at emergency UNSC meeting on Tuesday - Ambassador to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzia

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree awarding Daria Dugina the Order of Courage (posthumously) for her courage and dedication shown in the performance of professional duty

📹 A captured Ukrainian soldier has described how he was taken from work in handcuffs to the military unit saying he was hiding from the army

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Two US B-52H strategic bombers have been captured on camera flying low over Montenegro, Croatia, Albania, and North Macedonia today. It is noteworthy that such aircraft took part in the bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999.

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❗️State Department on Daria Dugina's murder: US unequivocally condemns targeting of civilians