“It turned out that we had a zero level of training!”

A Ukraine Army soldier who has laid down arms, recalls how he was sent to the frontline without any military training.

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📹The Russian Ministry of Defense has released footage of Russian KA-52 helicopter crews in combat action.

The crews have stopped the Ukrainian Army from crossing the Dnepr river near the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, attacking them with Vikhr missiles.

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❗️Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Kazakhstan on first foreign trip since start of pandemic

❗️The US announced on Wednesday it wll transfer $3.5 billion to a Swiss fund created to stabilize Afghanistan's economy. The new fund will be shielded from the Taliban* government, the US Treasury noted.

*under UN sanctions for terrorist activities

Kremlin presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov, speaking about Kiev's document about security guarantees: The reasons for the special military operation are becoming more relevant

"No one has concealed the fact that they had this document in mind before Ukraine's accession to NATO, and that means that the reference point for NATO membership remains. Thus, the main threat to our country remains and even becomes more relevant, which is one of the main reasons to conduct a special military operation," Peskov said.

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❗️Russia’s MoD briefing on the progress of the special military operation:

▪️Russian Forces have destroyed eight Ukrainian tanks, 13 infantry combat vehicles, and 11 other armored vehicles, as well as eliminating more than 150 Ukrainian servicemen at the Nikolayev-Krivoy Rog front;

▪️Russian aviation has performed high-precision attacks at the Ukrainian brigades' temporary deployment points in the DPR. As a result, up to 250 Ukrainian servicemen and more than 20 units of military equipment have been eliminated

▪️Russian Air Forces have performed high-precision strikes on the positions of the Ukrainian 65th Mechanized and 68th Chaser Infantry brigades in the Zaporozhye region, eliminating up to 70 Ukrainian servicemen as well as five units of military equipment;

▪️Russian Forces have launched massive fire attacks against the Ukrainian manpower and military equipment of the 14th and 93rd mechanized brigades of the Ukraine’s Army in the Kharkov region. As a result, up to 150 Ukrainian servicemen and more than 10 units of military equipment have been eliminated

▪️Russian Forces destroyed four Ukrainian missile, artillery armament and munitions depots in the Kharkov region, as well as a Ukrainian combat vehicle for Uragan MLRS in the DPR;

▪️Russian Forces have destroyed one US-made counter-battery interception radar and one radar for illumination and guidance of the Ukrainian S-300 air defense missile system in the Nikolayev region;

▪️Russian Air Forces have destroyed a Ukrainian MI-8 helicopter with a sabotage and reconnaissance group on board in the Kherson region;

▪️Russian air defense have destroyed four Ukrainian UAVs in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, as well as intercepted one Tochka- U ballistic missile in the Kherson region;

▪️Russian Forces have also intercepted 33 shells of MLRS in the Kherson region and in the DPR

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🇪🇺🇭🇺 The EU plans to cut funding for Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s administration, because of concerns about "widespread corruption" in Hungary, Bloomberg reports, citing senior EU officials

The flight containing the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II became the most tracked in history, according to FlightRadar24

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⚡️Armenian MoD accuses Azerbaijani military of shelling Russian FSB transport. Azerbaijan denies all accusations.