🇬🇧 UK Prince Harry had a heart-to-heart conversation with his father, King Charles III, before agreeing to attend his upcoming coronation, the British tabloid reported on Sunday, citing sources.

▪️ Earlier in the week, Buckingham Palace issued a statement saying Prince Harry would attend the coronation, but his wife Meghan Markle would remain in California with their children. Previously, the couple did not want to come to the coronation because Buckingham Palace refused to invite one-year-old Princess Lilibet and Prince Archie, who turns four the same day as the king is crowned, to the event.

📌 The sources said the king and the prince had a heart-to-heart talk before the latter agreed to attend the ceremony, and there was a "willingness and wanting to mend on both sides."

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📹 The Pacific Fleet's Air Defense enters combat duty, positioned in new areas, as part of the Pacific Fleet's snap combat readiness inspection (video by Russian MoD)

▪️ S-400 SAM systems, Pantsir-S AAMGS, and radar stations with various operating ranges were alerted for air defense in the new positioned areas to repel any air attack in the district.

▪️ During the marches, the personnel trained to repel attacks by the sabotage and reconnaissance groups of a mock enemy, as well as detect aerial targets using Pantsir-S systems.

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Bavaria Urges Germany's Federal Government to Devolve Nuclear Power Plant to Local Control

The German state of Bavaria is urging the federal government to grant it decision-making autonomy on the future of the recently-deactivated Isar 2 nuclear power plant, Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Soeder said on Sunday.

On Saturday, Germany switched off its last three functioning nuclear power plants — Isar 2, Emsland and Neckarwestheim 2 — as a part of the country's nuclear phase-out policy.

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

▪️ Russian artillery neutralized Ukrainian units in Kharkov region and the LPR. The enemy losses were 35 Ukrainian servicemen, 2 motor vehicles and 1 D-20 howitzer.

▪️ The attacks, launched by Ground-Assault and Army aviation, artillery, and heavy flamethrower systems, have resulted in the neutralisation of Ukrainian units in the LPR and DPR. The enemy losses were up to 80 Ukrainian servicemen, 1 armoured fighting vehicle, 2 motor vehicles, and 1 D-30 howitzer.

▪️ Near Donetsk, Wagner assault troops have liberated two neighbourhoods in the north-western and south-eastern part of Artyomovsk during an offensive. Airborne Troops units were constraining the enemy movement on the flanks of the assault troops.

▪️ Russian aviation and artillery operations have resulted in the neutralisation of Ukrainian units in the DPR. The enemy losses were over 45 Ukrainian servicemen, 2 motor vehicles and 1 D-30 howitzer. One U.S.-manufactured AN/TPQ-37 counterbattery warfare radar has been destroyed in Zaporozhye region.

▪️ In Kherson region, as a result of shelling, enemy losses were over 30 Ukrainian servicemen, 3 motor vehicles and 1 Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer.

▪️ Operational-Tactical Aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Armed Forces of Russia have neutralised 92 Ukrainian artillery units at their firing positions, manpower and hardware in 127 areas.
Air defence facilities have intercepted 10 projectiles, launched by HIMARS and Smerch MLRS, as well as 3 HARM anti-radar missiles. In addition, 4 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles have been shot down in the LPR and DPR.

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🇨🇿📹 About 30-35 thousand people are participating in an anti-government rally on Wenceslas Square in the center of Prague

▪️ The participants want to draw the attention of the authorities to the rapid deterioration of the standard of living of ordinary citizens, who have recently been hit by a rise in the price of energy, products, and gasoline.

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⚡ French journalists have arrived in the city of Gulyaipole, Zaporozhye region, likely to prepare provocative videos about alleged Russian strikes on civilian infrastructure - Russian MoD

📹 Pacific Fleet counter-sabotage forces detachment practice

▪️ The Pacific Fleet counter-sabotage forces detachment had the exercises of practising actions as part of the snap combat readiness inspection in the waters of the Pacific Ocean submarine base.

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Italy Sends Two Dozen M109L Self-Propelled Howitzers to Ukraine

🇮🇹 Italy is seemingly shipping by rail to Ukraine around 20 M109L self-propelled howitzers, Italian media report, citing footage shot by eyewitnesses at a railway station in the city of Udine in the northeast of the country.

📹 The clip appears to show a train carrying around 20 self-propelled howitzers mounted on special transport wagons moving at a speed of around 5-10 km/h (3.1-6.2 m/h), Italian newspapers reported. The weapons did not appear to have any insignia or identification numbers. One of news outlets identified the cargo as 155 mm M109L self-propelled howitzers, adding that several similar howitzers had already been transferred to Kiev in October 2022.

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UK King Charles III's Personal Net Worth Amounts to $745Mln

The personal fortune of UK King Charles III amounts to 600 million pounds ($745 million), surpassing that of his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II, the British newspaper reported on Sunday. In 2022, the queen's fortune was estimated at 370 million pounds, the newspaper said.

King Charles III set aside some of the profits he received from the Duchy of Cornwall, which he owned in his former capacity as Prince of Wales. This reportedly led to the accumulation of a substantial fortune.

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⚡ Vladimir Putin held a working meeting with Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says

🇷🇺🇨🇳 Putin at meeting with Chinese defense minister: There is good development in all areas, including between defense ministries

▪️ Xi Jinping's recent visit to Russia 'was very productive’, Vladimir Putin added.

▪️Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu: Cooperation between Russia and China is developing very well, greatly contributing to development of global security.

▪️ Cooperation between Russia and China is developing at all levels, we will continue to work in the interests of the prosperity of the whole world, Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu said.

▪️ We have a strong relationship, it is superior to Cold War alliances, Li Shangfu added.

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Sunak’s Ex-Minister Accused of Berating Staff as UK PM Braces for Raab Bullying Report

UK Conservative MP and former UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) President Alok Sharma has been accused of berating civil servants, a US news agency has quoted unnamed officials as saying.

Sharma, who also served as secretary of state for business, energy and industrial strategy (BEIS), is said to have been “difficult, unpredictable and could quickly lose his temper,” according to the sources.

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🇷🇺🇨🇳 Vladimir Putin held a meeting with the member of the State Council and the Minister of Defence of the People's Republic of China Li Shangfu in the Kremlin. Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu also attended the meeting.

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📹 Airborne assault units train in rear area of special military operation (video courtesy of Russian MoD)

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Ukrainian Forces fire ‘Happy Easter’ shells in Russia's Zaporozhye region, Energodar authorities state

🗣"On the great Orthodox Easter holiday, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (UAF) fired several 120mm caliber shells in the direction of settlements in the area of Energodar. One of the shells did not explode completely, entered the soft ground. A fragment read ‘Happy Easter.’ This serves as more proof of the inhuman appearance of the UAF," a representative of the Energodar administration said.

▪️Later, the city authorities added that there was a video on the Internet in which Ukrainian militants were seen loading 120mm shells with a similar innoscription.

🗣"We do not exclude that these were exactly the ammunition from the video," the authorities noted

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Yellen: US Dollar Global Hegemony Could Be Undermined by Western Sanctions

More than a year after the United States and its allies imposed numerous economic sanctions against Russia over the escalation of the conflict in Ukraine, US Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen has stated the obvious: the sanctions may threaten the hegemony of the US dollar, the world’s reserve currency.

"There is a risk when we use financial sanctions that are linked to the role of the dollar that over time it could undermine the hegemony of the dollar," she said during an interview with a US media outlet.

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📹 SMD BM-21 Grad crews launch artillery strike against AFU positions

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Arab League Council Demands Immediate Ceasefire in Sudan

The Council of the Arab League demanded an immediate cessation of hostilities in Sudan at an emergency meeting of permanent representatives on Sunday.

According to the statement issued at the meeting, the Council of the Arab League "has demanded an immediate cessation of hostilities and warned against the escalation of violence in the country."

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🇧🇬 Bulgaria is mulling the possibility of introducing a temporary ban on grain imports from Ukraine, following the lead of Poland and Hungary

🗣 "Bulgarian interests must be safeguarded, particularly when two of the countries react in this way. If we do not react in a similar manner, the accumulation [of Ukrainian grain] on Bulgarian territory may become even bigger," Bulgarian Agriculture Minister Yavor Gechev was quoted as saying by a Bulgarian news agency.

▪️ On Saturday, Poland and Hungary said they were banning imports of Ukrainian agricultural products until June 30, citing the need to protect domestic farmers from the uncontrolled influx of cheap grain from Ukraine.

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