⚡️The death toll from the explosion in Istiklal street rises to six; 53 injured, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says

⚡️Turkrish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called the explosion in the center of Istanbul a "bomb attack"

⚡️Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that preliminary data after the explosion in the center of Istanbul indicates that it was a terrorist attack

🚁Helicopter patrols the area of the explosion in Istiklal street, Sputnik correspondent reports in the vicinity of the area rocked by the explosion

📹The video has emerged showing the aftermath of the explosion in Istiklal street

⚡️Turkish Interior Minister and the Turkish Justice Minister have arrived in Istanbul in connection with the explosion in Istikal street

❗️Turkish authorities consider the Istanbul explosion a terrorist attack - vice president

⚡️The number of injured in the explosion in Istanbul has risen to 81, with two in critical condition, the country's vice president has said.

Sputnik correspondent shares photo from the area of the Taksim square

📹WATCH: Russian T-80 and T-82 tank crews manned by mobilized troops attend their training course in the rear area of the special military operation in Ukraine (video is courtesy of Russia's MoD)

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🏆Russian film "100 Minutes" directed by Gleb Panfilov and based on Alexander Solzhenitsyn's novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich won the top prize at the 44th Efebo d'Oro international film festival in the Italian city of Palermo, the festival's organizers told Sputnik on Sunday.

💬"Panfilov is a master of cinema, he filmed only the most necessary. The film based on the story by Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich contains eternal poetry where suffering, freedom and humanness are intertwined," the jury said also highlighting great acting in the film.

The movie tells the story of a Soviet soldier who was accused of becoming a spy after being captured briefly by the Germans as a prisoner of war during the Second World War and sentenced to 10 years in a Soviet forced labor camp.

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⚡️Woman suspected of causing Istanbul explosion, Turkish Justice Ministry says

📹 “The area is shelled every day”: A man came to pick up his elderly mother from a house damaged by Ukrainian shelling in Donetsk

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