❗️Russian MoD briefing on progress of special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️In the Kupyansk direction, Russian forces destroyed up to 50 Ukrainian troops and two armored fighting vehicles;

▪️In the Krasny Liman direction, Ukrainian losses amounted to 60 personnel, two tanks, two armored fighting vehicles as well as D-20 and one Gvozdika self-propelled howitzers;

▪️In the Donetsk direction, Russian forces destroyed more than 470 Ukrainian troops, three tanks, five infantry fighting vehicles, six armored fighting vehicles, a Grad MLRS combat vehicle, one Msta-B howitzer as well as one ammunition depot;

▪️In the South Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, Ukrainian losses during the day amounted to 30 soldiers, one armored combat vehicle and one D-30 howitzer;

▪️In the Kherson direction, Russian troops neutralized up to 15 Ukrainian troops, a US-made M777 artillery system and two Msta-B howitzers;

▪️Russian air defense systems intercepted three Ukrainian UAVs in the LPR, DPR.

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🇷🇺 Russia's Pacific Fleet shows off skills during drills

Large-scale exercises of the Russian Pacific Fleet, which started earlier this week, have involved 25,000 military personnel, 167 surface combat ships, 12 submarines supported by naval aviation and combat aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces.

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📹🚀 SpaceX Launches Starship For First Orbital Flight

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❗️SpaceX's Starship spacecraft lifts off from Texas after minor delay, thus making its first successful takeoff

❗️An emergency situation occurred three minutes after the launch of Starship, the rocket began to "spin", the first stage did not separate

🇨🇳🇮🇳The population of India is expected to surpass that of China by mid-2023, according to a United Nations Population Fund report.

Western media has been hyping up this development, which China's state broadcaster CCTV claims is being used to further the United States' agenda.

China has faced declining birth rates and an aging population, leading to concerns about the country's economic future. Chinese authorities have relaxed their one-child policy, allowing couples to have up to three children.

China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson emphasized the importance of quality talent as well as population quantity.

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🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin holds meeting of the Council for the Development of Local Self-Government.

“The trend for multipolarity will only intensify. Those who do not follow this trend will lose,” Putin said.

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☄️A NASA solar flare observatory dubbed RHESSI, which was confused with a space object observed over Ukraine’s Kiev, descended from Earth's orbit and burned up in the atmosphere.

The information comes from the website Space-Track.оrg, which publishes data from the United States Space Command.

The website lists the space object, included in the catalog of the North American Aerospace Defense Command under the number 27370, as having descended from orbit.

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☦️The Ukrainian police have once again come to the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. The Union of Orthodox Journalists reported that there is an attempt to seize one of the monastery's buildings.

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Danish Energy Agency recommends lifting sea restrictions at Nord Stream explosions sites

"Today, the Danish Energy Agency recommended that the Danish Maritime Authority lift the existing restricted areas around the leakage sites on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in the Baltic Sea, as the agency assesses that these areas pose no threat for ships anymore," the Danish Energy Agency said.

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❗️Russia completes surprise inspection of Pacific Fleet, Ministry of Defense says

❗️Latest statements by Russian FM Lavrov in joint presser with Cuba’s foreign minister after wrapping up LatAm tour:

▪️Russia does not currently have any special relations with the United States, and contacts between the two countries occur as needed;

▪️Cuban Foreign Minister invited to visit Russia: the dates will be announced "in the foreseeable future."

▪️The issue of fuel supplies from Russia to Cuba will be discussed during the upcoming meeting of the intergovernmental commission;

▪️The agreement on the terms of restructuring Cuban debt has essentially been finalized;

▪️The next meeting of the intergovernmental commission between Russia and Cuba will take place in Havana in a month;

▪️The prime minister of Cuba will participate in the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF-2023) in June;

▪️The US stance towards Russia, including with regards to arming the Kiev regime, is hopeless.

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🇺🇸Thursday marks the 90th anniversary of the April 20, 1933 proclamation by President Franklin Roosevelt on the suspension of the convertibility of dollar notes into gold, the nationalization of private stocks of the precious metal, and the effective suspension of the gold standard, with dollars convertible into gold only in official international transactions from thereon out.

Why did Roosevelt kill the Gold Standard? What prompted his decision and what were its consequences?

🗣”Regional politics have shifted, and not even just over these last 12 years, but more importantly, I think just in the last year or even six months. How dramatically everything has shifted because obviously, this détente between Syria and Saudi Arabia and the reestablishment of relations comes following the detente, the rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran that was brokered by the Chinese”: Rania Khalek, journalist with Breakthrough News and co-host of the Unauthorized Disclosure podcast

🎧Listen to more of Khalek's analysis in our podcast By Any Means Necessary

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