⚡️ The Izhevsk school attacker was wearing a black T-shirt with Nazi symbols and a balaclava; he committed suicide, his identity is being identified, the Investigative Committee of Russia says

📹 WATCH how a polling station in the DPR has organised the process of voting in the referendum on joining Russia.

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

▪️ Russia’s operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery have neutralized five AFU command posts as well as 56 artillery units and 163 manpower and military equipment concentration areas.

▪️ Russian Aerospace Forces fighters have shot down one UAF Su-24 jet over the DPR.

▪️ Russian air defense units have shot down 13 unmanned aerial vehicles over the past 34 hours.

▪️ 19 projectiles launched by HIMARS and Olkha multiple rocket-launching systems have been destroyed in air.

▪️ Kiev continues its provocations near the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.

▪️ The radiation level at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant remains normal.

▪️ Some 302 airplanes and 155 helicopters, 2,087 unmanned aerial vehicles, 377 air defense missile systems, 5,114 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 845 combat vehicles equipped with MRLS, 3,417 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 5,904 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.

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⚡️ The death toll in the Izhevsk school shooting has increased to 13, including 7 children, the Investigative Committee of Russia says

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The Investigative Committee of Russia has published footage showing the scene of the shooting at a school in Izhevsk

🦠German chancellor Olaf Scholz reportedly tests positive for COVID-19, he is in isolation and has mild, cold-like symptoms

⚡️Russian President Vladimir Putin grieves the death of people in the Izhevsk school, where a terrorist attack, apparently by a neo-fascist organization, was committed, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.

📹 Russia's MoD has revealed a video showing the combat work of the crews of Mi-28 and Mi-24 attack helicopters within the special military operation.

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❗️Major points from the Putin-Lukashenko meeting in Sochi:

▪️Russia and Belarus will not tolerate humiliation from the West;

▪️The two countries are good at solving import substitution problems against the background of sanctions imposed by the West;

▪️Minsk and Moscow have managed to find trading partners with mutual interest in developing cooperation under economic pressure by the West;

▪️Belarus's joint projects with Russia are concerned with import substitution which will allow them to replace products previously supplied from unfriendly countries;

▪️The governments of Belarus and Russia fulfill all the instructions given to them by the presidents of the two countries on time.

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🇷🇺“For me, Russia is the foundation of the basics”

📹WATCH how a DPR pensioner votes in the referendum on joining Russia

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📹 “The referendum will change everything”: A woman from Donetsk explains why she’ll vote ‘Yes’ to joining Russia.

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⚡️US announces $457.5 million in new civilian security assistance for Ukraine, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says

🇺🇸 The majority of the Democratic party advocates would not support the candidacy of incumbent US President Joe Biden for the elections scheduled for 2024, according to a poll, commissioned by the Washington Post and ABC News.

▪️ A total of 56% of people Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents stated that they would like the party to nominate someone other than Biden as its candidate for president, and 35% of the respondents supported his candidacy.

▪️ When answering a similar question concerning former US President Donald Trump as a candidate for the Republican Party in 2024, some 47% of people leaned Republican said they support Trump's candidacy, and 46% said they would nominate someone other than Trump.

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⚡️ The death toll in the Izhevsk school shooting has increased to 15, including 11 children, the Investigative Committee of Russia says

“What is happening here – are events that are forcing the world to change”

Watch how the foreign minister of the LPR explains how the current events in Donbass impact the world order.

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📹 🇷🇺 A refugee from a previously Ukrainian-held territory who’s now living in Sevastopol working as a Sputnik correspondent explains why "every vote is important" in the ongoing referendum and describes friendly relations with Russian forces in his hometown, agreeing he was “happy that they were there.”

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❗️67% of Cuban residents voted in a referendum for a new Family Code that recognizes same-sex marriages, allows same-sex couples to adopt and legalizes free surrogacy