🤥 The United States is afraid crimes committed by Ukraine's Azov nationalists (terrorist organization, banned in Russia) will be made public, the Russian Embassy to the US said in a statement on Telegram.

▪️ Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) leader Denis Pushilin earlier said the DPR authorities would not delay the international tribunal for war criminals in the republic. He said the DPR Foreign Ministry is working to invite the international community to take part in the tribunal.

🗯 "We have taken note of another groundless accusation against our country related to the Tribunal over Ukrainian war criminals. The upcoming Trial is aimed at bringing justice to war criminals, among which there are Nazis from the Azov Regiment. Washington is clearly afraid of making public the evidence of the inhumane acts committed by the members of this terrorist organization," the embassy said.

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😳 📹 A policeman in St. Croix Falls refused to give his name after he allegedly searched a man’s car without getting his consent.

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⚡️ Russia's FSB foils terror attack in Kaliningrad planned by supporter of Azov neo-Nazis

⚡️ Gas prices in Europe exceeded $3,200 per thousand cubic meters for the first time since March, growing by 7% - ICE data

🤔 Elements within the US government have put the world on the edge of war due to reckless policy decisions with respect to the situations in Ukraine and Taiwan, former Virginia State Senator Richard Black told Sputnik.

🗯 "There are elements of the American government that are quite irresponsible right now. And they do reckless things. They're doing them in Ukraine, and they're doing them with Taiwan. And they're being recklessly provocative," Black said. "When a nation like the United States is reckless, when they gamble that they can do something that's provocative, then they depend on the sound judgment of the other country... and that's a very dangerous thing to do, because either side can make mistakes."

▪️ Black said he shares former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's concerns that the US is on the edge of war with Russia and China over issues "we partly created ourselves," without any idea where this is going to end or even where it is supposed to lead to.

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⚡️ 📹 On Thursday, the FSB published a video showing agents detain a man who had intended to carry out a terror attack in Kaliningrad, Russia.

▪️ According to the authorities, the suspect confessed to his plans, and the investigators discovered a stash with an IED with the explosive power of five kilograms (11 pounds) of TNT.

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🤑 The White House yesterday refused to say who will be on the hook for a massive $300 billion student loan forgiveness plan which was announced earlier by President Biden.

🥴 During a news briefing, WH Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre outlined the benefits of the plan but didn’t answer the questions about who will pay for it.

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🤨 The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) told its agents not to probe first son Hunter Biden’s so-called “laptop from Hell” for months, the New York Post has reported.

▪️ The newspaper referred to Republican Senator Ron Johnson’s letter to Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz, in which the GOP member in particular cited “individuals with knowledge” as saying that “local FBI leadership” had slow-walked the laptop investigation after the computer was recovered from a Delaware repair shop in December 2019.

🗯 “These new allegations provide even more evidence of FBI corruption and renew calls for you to take immediate steps to investigate the FBI’s actions regarding the laptop,” Johnson wrote, referring to Horowitz.

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📹 Watch footage of the combat operation of 203-mm Malka Western Military District self-propelled artillery units during the special military operation.

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⚡️MoD: Russian Iskander missile hits railway station, eliminating 200 Ukrainian troops

👮 “Turn in your badge and step down”

▪️ Embattled police chief Pete Arredondo, accused of botching the response to a lone gunman assault on a public school which resulted in the fatal shooting of 19 schoolchildren and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, has been fired.

▪️ Arrendondo received much of the blame for his officers’ 77-minute delay in tackling the teenage assailant and he is the first officer to have been dismissed.

▪️ Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District's board of trustees voted unanimously to fire Pete Arredondo. The decision generated cheering in the auditorium during the meeting; some in the audience jeered at him, shouting “Coward!”

▪️ At the same time, Arredondo’s lawyers, who were not at the meeting, called him “a courageous officer,” and condemned his firing as "an unconstitutional public lynching."

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⚡️ IAEA head says agreement on mission to ZNPP close, Moscow and Kiev agree that it is necessary

❗️🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran has received the US' response via the EU on the "final" agreement document on reviving the 2015 nuclear deal, the Iranian foreign ministry said on Thursday.

😳 📹 Footage shows a mob of UK teenagers breaking into a McDonald’s and stealing burgers and drinks.

▪️ According to local police, at least 50 youngsters aged between 14 and 16 attacked a McDonald's fast-food outlet in the British city of Nottingham, stealing food and drinks. The raid was coordinated by attacking and threatening McDonald’s employees who were unable to confront the fierce teenagers.

▪️ So far, no one has been arrested.

▪️ Police also said that the teens attacked another fast-food outlet in the same city about an hour later, but managed to escape before authorities arrived.

❓ Is this part of a new teenage movement in the UK?

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⚡️ President Putin signed a decree increasing the number of Russian military personnel by 137,000 to 1.15 million

🏀 Kobe Bryant's widow, Vanessa, received $16 million after winning the lawsuit against Los Angeles County over the sharing of photos showing the scene of the helicopter crash that killed her husband and 13-year old daughter, the ESPN broadcaster reported on Thursday.

📌 The late basketball star, his daughter Gianna and seven others were on their way to a girls basketball tournament but died in the crash after their helicopter flew into a hill in Los Angeles during poor weather conditions on January 26, 2020.

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📹 “We can’t keep up with the repairs needed”: A pensioner from the DPR shows how his house was turned into ruins as a result of Ukrainian shelling.

“At least we’re still alive," the man said while looking at what remains of his house.

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

▪️ Russian Air Forces performed a high precision strike on a military airfield in the Poltava region. As a result, five Ukrainian combat airplanes were hit, one Ukrainian SU-27 aircraft as well as one Ukrainian SU -24 aircraft were destroyed. Two Ukrainian SU-27 aircraft and one Ukrainian SU-24 aircraft were critically hit. The Ukrainian Army lost up to 30 neo-Nazis.

▪️ Russian Air Forces performed a high-precision strike in the Nikolayev region, eliminating the command post of the Ukrainian military group “Kakhovka”. 64 Ukrainian servicemen and seven combat vehicles were eliminated.

▪️ More than 200 Ukrainian reservists and 10 combat vehicles were eliminated as a result of an Iskander missile strike on the Dnepropetrovsk region.

▪️ Russian Air Forces destroyed the workshops of a facility for the repair of armored weapons and multiple launch rocket systems, including foreign-produced systems, in the Khmelnitsky region, and hit the production workshops of the Iskra in Zaporozhye. The production buildings of the Migremont aircraft repair plant were also destroyed.

▪️ As a result of the counter- battery fight, two Ukrainian Grad rocket systems and three Ukrainian platoons of D-30 howitzers were suppressed.

▪️ Russian anti-aircraft weaponry destroyed five Ukrainian UAVs and intercepted HIMARS rockets.

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👏 Teenager pilot Mack Rutherford, 17, has become the youngest individual to fly solo in a small aircraft around the globe.

🌍 Rutherford took off from Bulgaria's capital city Sofia in March 22 and travelled for five months in a swift ultralight Shark. With a high speed of 300 km/hour, he flew the plane across 52 nations, covering two oceans, five continents, and crossed the equator twice before landing in the Bulgarian capital on Wednesday.

👍 Hundreds of people including Rutherford's parents and sister Zara gathered at Sofia West Airport in Bulgaria on Wednesday to greet and congratulate him on achieving the feat.

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🇰🇷 South Korea says it has signed a $2.25 billion deal with a Russian company to provide components for its Egyptian nuclear plant - report

📹 “They left without telling us anything”: A Ukrainian POW recalls how his command abandoned him and his fellow fighters while under fire.

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