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📹 Footage of a FPV kamikaze UAV called Boomerang in action has been unveiled by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
In the drone world, FPV stands for “first-person view” and it means that the pilot can see what the drone sees. An FPV drone is easier to control, than a conventional one, and is able to follow a route or chase a target at speed up to 170 km/h.
In addition, the Boomerang drone has no satellite communication, so anti-drone guns are powerless against it.
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In the drone world, FPV stands for “first-person view” and it means that the pilot can see what the drone sees. An FPV drone is easier to control, than a conventional one, and is able to follow a route or chase a target at speed up to 170 km/h.
In addition, the Boomerang drone has no satellite communication, so anti-drone guns are powerless against it.
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⚡️ Finnish parliament approves bill on joining NATO with 184 votes out of 200
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🇷🇺 Russia is modernizing and expanding its transport infrastructure despite Western sanctions
🚇 Today Russian President Vladimir Putin and Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin launched the so-called Big Circle Line of the Moscow metro.
Putin stressed that the Big Circle Line is the largest in the world in terms of its length, topping the Beijing metro circle line. As a meeting with China's Xi Jinping is expected soon, Russia's president said that he intends to show him the Big Circle Line personally, or, "at least, to the delegation [of China].”
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🚇 Today Russian President Vladimir Putin and Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin launched the so-called Big Circle Line of the Moscow metro.
Putin stressed that the Big Circle Line is the largest in the world in terms of its length, topping the Beijing metro circle line. As a meeting with China's Xi Jinping is expected soon, Russia's president said that he intends to show him the Big Circle Line personally, or, "at least, to the delegation [of China].”
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🇷🇺 Russia is modernizing and expanding its transport infrastructure despite Western sanctions 🚇 Today Russian President Vladimir Putin and Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin launched the so-called Big Circle Line of the Moscow metro. Putin stressed that the…
📍 The Moscow metro’s Big Circle Line is the world's largest metro construction project, which includes 31 stations and is 70 kilometers long
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Keir Simmons, an NBC journalist, has been added to the Ukrainian "kill list" website Mirotvorets
He is accused of entering the Crimean Peninsula through the Russian mainland and "participation in propaganda activities against Ukraine."
Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture said today that they are very concerned about the NBC TV report that featured Crimean citizens saying they are Russian and will defend the peninsula if Ukrainian forces attack.
A number of people whose names have appeared on the Mirotvorets website have been killed. Oles Buzina, a prominent Ukrainian journalist, and ex-Rada lawmaker Oleg Kalashnikov are among them. Likewise, Italian photojournalist Andrea Rocchelli, who was blacklisted, was killed by the Ukrainian Armed Forces during the Donbass war in 2014.
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He is accused of entering the Crimean Peninsula through the Russian mainland and "participation in propaganda activities against Ukraine."
Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture said today that they are very concerned about the NBC TV report that featured Crimean citizens saying they are Russian and will defend the peninsula if Ukrainian forces attack.
A number of people whose names have appeared on the Mirotvorets website have been killed. Oles Buzina, a prominent Ukrainian journalist, and ex-Rada lawmaker Oleg Kalashnikov are among them. Likewise, Italian photojournalist Andrea Rocchelli, who was blacklisted, was killed by the Ukrainian Armed Forces during the Donbass war in 2014.
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Phil Kelly, a political commentator and socialist activist based in Belfast, joins us to speak about the European hypocrisy in relation to the migration problem
🗣️“If you think back to the kind of moralistic arguments that the Europeans made when Trump was building his wall on the Mexican border, well, these liberals that condemned Trump are now using the Mediterranean as a watery grave, as a wall for migrants from Africa,” he says
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🗣️“If you think back to the kind of moralistic arguments that the Europeans made when Trump was building his wall on the Mexican border, well, these liberals that condemned Trump are now using the Mediterranean as a watery grave, as a wall for migrants from Africa,” he says
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What is behind Western values? Phil Kelly, a political commentator and socialist activist based in Belfast, joins us to discuss the impact the US has on Europe as well as the policy the West conducts with the countries of the Third World
🗣️”I think the Ukrainian conflict has shown that many countries within Europe are willing to basically, harry carry their own economies, their own national sovereignty to become puppets of US imperialist foreign policy. And that should worry any European is how quickly Germany was willing to destroy its own economy and turned the other way when Nord Stream was destroyed by an act of terror and fall in line with US geopolitical interest,” he claims
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🗣️”I think the Ukrainian conflict has shown that many countries within Europe are willing to basically, harry carry their own economies, their own national sovereignty to become puppets of US imperialist foreign policy. And that should worry any European is how quickly Germany was willing to destroy its own economy and turned the other way when Nord Stream was destroyed by an act of terror and fall in line with US geopolitical interest,” he claims
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Survey results show Erdogan as frontrunner in Turkish presidential race
According to the outcome of a poll conducted by the Areda Survey research center, 49.8% of the respondents said they would vote for Erdogan, while 21.7% chose Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the leader of the Republican People's Party. Mansur Yavas, who is currently Ankara’s mayor, was backed by 9.6% of the survey’s participants, and Ekrem Imamoglu, Istanbul’s incumbent mayor, got 6.9%.
As for party preferences, the ruling Justice and Development Party took first place, securing the approval of 38.5% of those surveyed, according to the poll’s results, followed by the Republican People's Party, which got 22.8% of the votes, and the Peoples' Democratic Party with 10.5%.
The election would most likely take place as planned on May 14.
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According to the outcome of a poll conducted by the Areda Survey research center, 49.8% of the respondents said they would vote for Erdogan, while 21.7% chose Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the leader of the Republican People's Party. Mansur Yavas, who is currently Ankara’s mayor, was backed by 9.6% of the survey’s participants, and Ekrem Imamoglu, Istanbul’s incumbent mayor, got 6.9%.
As for party preferences, the ruling Justice and Development Party took first place, securing the approval of 38.5% of those surveyed, according to the poll’s results, followed by the Republican People's Party, which got 22.8% of the votes, and the Peoples' Democratic Party with 10.5%.
The election would most likely take place as planned on May 14.
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🇨🇩🇫🇷 Demonstrators with Russian flags protest against Macron's visit to DR Congo
Local media have posted footage of several dozen gathered in front of the French embassy in Kinshasa. They reportedly chanted the slogan "Macron is a killer, Putin to the rescue!" and also unfurled banners reading "Macron is the godfather of DRC balkanization", "Congolese say no to French policy" and "Macron is an unwanted guest in DRC".
On Wednesday, French President Emmanuel Macron is starting his African tour, encompassing Gabon, Angola, Republic of the Congo and DR Congo
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Local media have posted footage of several dozen gathered in front of the French embassy in Kinshasa. They reportedly chanted the slogan "Macron is a killer, Putin to the rescue!" and also unfurled banners reading "Macron is the godfather of DRC balkanization", "Congolese say no to French policy" and "Macron is an unwanted guest in DRC".
On Wednesday, French President Emmanuel Macron is starting his African tour, encompassing Gabon, Angola, Republic of the Congo and DR Congo
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⚡️ US House committee passes bill allowing Biden to ban TikTok nationwide
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US 'Doomsday Plane' Capable of Ordering World-Ending Nuclear Strikes Spotted in Europe
Wing One is the US Navy’s nuclear command and control wing. Based out of the Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma, the unit’s primary mission consists of receiving, verifying and retransmitting “Emergency Action Messages (EAMs) to US strategic forces.” In Pentagon jargon, EAMs are messages directing US nuclear forces to launch strikes against enemy targets in conditions of nuclear war. In addition to its ability to deliver launch orders to ballistic missile submarines, the planes can remotely order ground-based operators of Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile silos to launch their payloads.
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Wing One is the US Navy’s nuclear command and control wing. Based out of the Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma, the unit’s primary mission consists of receiving, verifying and retransmitting “Emergency Action Messages (EAMs) to US strategic forces.” In Pentagon jargon, EAMs are messages directing US nuclear forces to launch strikes against enemy targets in conditions of nuclear war. In addition to its ability to deliver launch orders to ballistic missile submarines, the planes can remotely order ground-based operators of Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile silos to launch their payloads.
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Kiev Urged to 'Start Its Own Defense Spending Planning' as Costs of Arms Shipments to Ukraine Soar
The Kiev regime should begin to cover at least part of the cost of arms shipments it receives, instead of totally relying on an endless supply of free weapons from the West, US Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Celeste Wallander said.
Ukraine's authorities “haven’t done any big figure procurement from American companies,” Wallander told Congress.
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The Kiev regime should begin to cover at least part of the cost of arms shipments it receives, instead of totally relying on an endless supply of free weapons from the West, US Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Celeste Wallander said.
Ukraine's authorities “haven’t done any big figure procurement from American companies,” Wallander told Congress.
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East Palestine Residents Reportedly Suffering From ‘Chemical Bronchitis’ After Train Derailment
Health workers treating people from East Palestine, Ohio and the surrounding communities have reported a pattern of worrying symptoms. These include what they say could be a form of chemical bronchitis (also known as industrial bronchitis) – an inflammation of the lining of bronchial tubes carrying air to and from the lungs typically caused by prolonged exposure to chemical fumes, acids or dusts.
Residents of the small Ohio community on the border with Pennsylvania have spent weeks now reporting various symptoms, including shortness of breath, severe headaches, dizziness, coughing and odd rashes. They have also reported the deaths of pets and farm animals, and spotted hundreds of dead fish washing up on the shores of local creeks.
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Health workers treating people from East Palestine, Ohio and the surrounding communities have reported a pattern of worrying symptoms. These include what they say could be a form of chemical bronchitis (also known as industrial bronchitis) – an inflammation of the lining of bronchial tubes carrying air to and from the lungs typically caused by prolonged exposure to chemical fumes, acids or dusts.
Residents of the small Ohio community on the border with Pennsylvania have spent weeks now reporting various symptoms, including shortness of breath, severe headaches, dizziness, coughing and odd rashes. They have also reported the deaths of pets and farm animals, and spotted hundreds of dead fish washing up on the shores of local creeks.
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'Buildup for War': US Spins COVID Lab Leak Narrative to 'Pin Blame on China'
US-China relations have been gripped by weeks of heightened tensions of late, amid the shootdown of an alleged Chinese spy balloon over the United States by the Biden administration, with Beijing insisting the flying craft was part of a civilian weather research initiative. This was followed by bellicose warnings that the US "would respond" if it determined China had in fact provided any form of lethal arms to aid Russia in its operation in Ukraine. Such claims have been dismissed by Beijing, which underscored that, "China has been actively promoting peace talks and the political settlement of the crisis.”
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US-China relations have been gripped by weeks of heightened tensions of late, amid the shootdown of an alleged Chinese spy balloon over the United States by the Biden administration, with Beijing insisting the flying craft was part of a civilian weather research initiative. This was followed by bellicose warnings that the US "would respond" if it determined China had in fact provided any form of lethal arms to aid Russia in its operation in Ukraine. Such claims have been dismissed by Beijing, which underscored that, "China has been actively promoting peace talks and the political settlement of the crisis.”
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Biden’s Semiconductor Bid Comes Too Little, Too Late
The White House has outlined the details of a $39 billion program of subsidies meant to incentivize companies to build semiconductor manufacturing capacity in the US. What are the terms of the subsidies? Could they restore the US’ long-lost domestic semiconductor sector?
Sputnik spoke to a pair of veteran investment experts to find out
The White House has outlined the details of a $39 billion program of subsidies meant to incentivize companies to build semiconductor manufacturing capacity in the US. What are the terms of the subsidies? Could they restore the US’ long-lost domestic semiconductor sector?
Sputnik spoke to a pair of veteran investment experts to find out
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The so-called “Havana Syndrome” illness did not result from the actions of a foreign adversary using an energy weapon to harm the health of US diplomatic staff overseas, US media claims, citing a new intelligence report.
Five US intelligence agencies concluded it was “very unlikely” that any foreign adversary targeted US diplomats and intelligence staff with the help of some sort of energy weapon that caused strange and painful acoustic sensations, according to the report.
The report contradicts repeated claims by victims of the alleged attacks and US lawmakers and officials who claimed that Russian intelligence agencies could've been behind "the illness."
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Five US intelligence agencies concluded it was “very unlikely” that any foreign adversary targeted US diplomats and intelligence staff with the help of some sort of energy weapon that caused strange and painful acoustic sensations, according to the report.
The report contradicts repeated claims by victims of the alleged attacks and US lawmakers and officials who claimed that Russian intelligence agencies could've been behind "the illness."
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US Reporter Hyping on Wuhan Lab 'Leak' Claims Pushed Iraqi WMD Lies
The accusations resurfaced as China presented a 12-point peace plan for Ukraine that included the need to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries, the resumption of direct dialogue between Moscow and Kiev, and a call to prevent further escalation.
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The accusations resurfaced as China presented a 12-point peace plan for Ukraine that included the need to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries, the resumption of direct dialogue between Moscow and Kiev, and a call to prevent further escalation.
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NATO Bid Finnished? Helsinki Police Probe Burning of 'Erdogan Photo' Outside Turkish Embassy
Finnish authorities have been on their toes looking out for possible anti-Turkish demonstrations and actions amid fear of a Sweden-style scenario in which the actions of local protesters prompted Ankara to threaten to withhold approval for the country’s entry into the NATO alliance. Last month, Finnish police reported preventing the burning of a Quran at a rally in Helsinki by threatening legal action against protest organizers.
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Finnish authorities have been on their toes looking out for possible anti-Turkish demonstrations and actions amid fear of a Sweden-style scenario in which the actions of local protesters prompted Ankara to threaten to withhold approval for the country’s entry into the NATO alliance. Last month, Finnish police reported preventing the burning of a Quran at a rally in Helsinki by threatening legal action against protest organizers.
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