🇹🇷Turkish emergency services managed to rescue a man from under the rubble in Adiyaman and are now transporting him to a medical facility. According to data obtained by our Sputnik correspondent, 3 other people died while trapped under the wreckage.

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📹 Assault of Russian artillery and airborne assault units of the Airborne Forces on a Ukrainian strongpoint (video by Russian MoD)

With the help of UAVs, scouts discovered a subdivision of the Armed Forces of Ukraine advancing to the forest plantation to equip a strong point and an ammunition depot.

Their coordinates were transmitted to the artillery control point. With precise blows, the enemy was destroyed.

Massed fire from the standard weapons of the BTR-82A and automatic grenade launchers AGS-17 "Flame" suppressed the resistance of the remaining militants.

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⚡️ Eight people were arrested in the Turkish province of Sanliurfa over constructing buildings with defects that collapsed as a result of the earthquake.

RMT Trade Union Turns Down 'Dreadful' Offer by UK Rail Firms Amid Souring Job Dispute

The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) rejected pay offers proposed by train firms and Network Rail, British press reported on Friday.

Rail bosses offered a minimum 9% pay increase - 5% and 4% for 2022 and 2023, respectively. However, the RMT rejected the deal after consulting with 40,000 of its members, citing safety concerns. The union stressed that accepting the deal would have led to "a severe reduction in scheduled maintenance tasks making the railways less safe" and job cuts in the industry.

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Japan's Abe, European Leaders Opposed Sanctions Against Moscow at 2014 G7 Summit, Memoir Reveals

The memoirs of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, which were written in the form of interviews recorded from October 2020 to October 2021, were published earlier this week. They cover comments on the 2014 G7 Summit which looked at the situation with Crimea and Moscow's exclusion from the G8. In accordance with results of the 2014 Crimea referendum, the region became part of Russia in 2014, prompting calls for sanctions.

In the book, Abe recalled that at the meeting in Brussels, then-US President Barack Obama took a tough stance against Russia and personally handed out a document containing several points of sanctions against Moscow to the summit's participants, a move which surprised everyone present.

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📹 Orlan-10 UAVs assist Akatsiya artillery system crews in launching strikes as part of the special military operation in Ukraine (video by Russian MoD)

The crews of the Orlan-10 unmanned aerial vehicles launch drones for reconnoitering and searching for targets, further fire adjustment, as well as recording the damage to the facilities, manpower, and vehicles of the enemy.

Once the targets are received, the Akatsiya self-propelled artillery systems head to their positions.

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❗️The latest briefing from Russia's MoD on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️Russian troops inflicted a strike with long-range precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles on critical facilities of the energy system that ensures the functioning of enterprises of the military-industrial complex and the transport system. All assigned objects were hit. The work of energy-intensive industries of the military-industrial complex was stopped. The transfer of foreign weapons, ammunition and reserves by rail to the areas of hostilities was also blocked.

▪️In the LPR and Kharkov region, Russian air strikes and artillery fire inflicted a defeat on the troops and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Up to 40 Ukrainian soldiers, two vehicles and a D-30 howitzer were destroyed. In addition, the depot of artillery ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed.

▪️ In the DPR and LPR, as a result of Russian air strikes, artillery fire and heavy flamethrower systems, enemy units were defeated. Up to 120 Ukrainian soldiers, an infantry fighting vehicle, four armored fighting vehicles, a Grad MLRS, and two D-20 howitzers were destroyed.

▪️ In the Donetsk People's Republic, as a result of the offensive of Russian troops, air strikes and artillery fire, more than 140 Ukrainian troops, two infantry fighting vehicles and six vehicles, two US-made M777 artillery systems, a Polish-made Krab self-propelled howitzer, and Giacint-B howitzers were destroyed alongside a D-30, as well as a US-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar. In addition, three ammunition depots of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed.

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▪️ Russian aviation and artillery inflicted a complex defeat on the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Ugledar, Pavlovka and Novoselka of the Donetsk People's Republic. Enemy losses were more than 95 Ukrainian troops, four tanks, two infantry fighting vehicles, two vehicles, an M109 Paladin artillery system made in the USA, three D-20 howitzers, and a Giacint-B howitzer. In addition, three ammunition depots were destroyed.

▪️ In the Kherson region, two Msta-B and D-30 howitzers were destroyed during a counter-battery fight. The ammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was also hit.

▪️ Russian aviation, missile forces and artillery defeated the 92nd Artillery unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at firing positions, manpower and military equipment in 116 districts.

▪️ In the Nikolaev region, the radar guidance station of the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system was destroyed. In the Kharkov region, a radar station for detecting air targets 35D6 was destroyed.
Nineteen unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed by means of air defense.

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Finnish President Believes Helsinki, Stockholm Will Join NATO by July

Niinisto told a Finnish news agency on Saturday that if Helsinki and Stockholm's NATO membership was not achieved by the summer, the process of joining the bloc would become even more uncertain.

The Finnish leader recalled that NATO had promised Helsinki and Stockholm rapid accession to the alliance, but the process has unexpectedly stalled due to Ankara's position.

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