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

▪️ Units of the Airborne Forces of Russia tied down the actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the flanks during the battles for the city of Artemovsk;

▪️ Russian assault squads continue to fight in the western part of Artemovsk;

▪️ More than 385 Ukrainian soldiers and mercenaries were destroyed in the DPR this day;

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces destroyed the ammunition depot of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Sumy region;

▪️ Russian troops destroyed more than 50 soldiers and two howitzers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Krasny Liman in a day;

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces destroyed over 70 Ukrainian troops and the Giacint-B howitzer in the south of the DPR and in the Zaporozhye region;

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces hit units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Grigorovka and Bogdanovka in the DPR.

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📹🇬🇧 Police have opened an investigation after a driver collided with a Just Stop Oil protester in north London

The incident happened at the latest slow march by the group, which has been happening every day for two weeks across London.

Footage emerged online showing an activist holding a Just Stop Oil banner and wearing an orange high-vis jacket in Holloway Road in Islington, north London, in front of a grey Renault, before falling down on to the street.

Just Stop Oil confirmed it would continue with the slow marches it has held across London over the past week “because that’s what people have always done to protect their rights, lives and livelihoods.”

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In this episode of our fresh New Rules podcast we are joined by Pepe Escobar, Brazilian journalist, geopolitical analyst and author. Find out in the video:

🔹 how a multipolar world is established
🔹 if US hegemony is over
🔹 how the global trend of de-dollarization is going... and even more

🎥 Enjoy our new show!

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White House officials have already made internal projections that migrant arrivals to the US southern border could spike to between 10,000 and 13,000 per day after the expiration of Title 42.

So what is Title 42? What may happen after Title 42 expires?

European Commission to earmark over $1.6bln for ammo production for Ukraine

The European Commission will set aside another €1.5 billion ($1.66 billion) for the production of ammunition for Ukraine, its President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday.

The EU body has proposed allocating €500 million to expand the manufacturing of ammunition in Europe. In addition, EU members will supply Ukraine with more ammo from their existing stockpiles with the support of the European Peace Facility to the tune of €1 billion.

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📹 On World Press Freedom Day, demonstrators interrupted a conversation with US Secretary Of State Antony Blinken and called for the release of WikiLeaks' Julian Assange.

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EU Commission says ammunition to fully support Kiev 'lacking' due to intensity of conflict

The European Union and its allies are "lacking" the capability to fully support Ukraine with ammunition due to the high intensity of the conflict, EU Commissioner for Internal Markets Thierry Breton said on Wednesday.

"We are lacking of this kind of ammunition to support Ukraine, but everywhere, not only in Europe between our allies, the US is lacking, everyone is lacking," Breton told reporters.

Earlier in the day, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that the EU would allocate a total of €1.5 billion ($1.66 billion) for the production and supplies of ammunition for Ukraine, with EU member states sending to Kiev additional ammunition from their existing stocks worth €1 billion with the support of the European Peace Facility. Another €500 million have been allocated for the expansion of ammunition production in Europe.

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Iran to participate in building multipolar world with BRICS’ 🌐 help

President of the Islamic Republic of Iran 🇮🇷 Ibrahim Raisi said that Tehran intends to join BRICS in order to contribute to creating a multipolar world, when speaking to the Lebanese press on Tuesday.

💭 "After joining the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, we decided to apply to BRICS and are preparing to join this group of countries," the Iranian leader said. "We condemn the unipolar system, which allows the United States and three or four other powers to consider themselves rulers of the world."

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📹 Joe Biden greets Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. by revealing a strange nickname for Jill Biden: "This is my wife, Jill... I call her 'Professor'"

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❗️ The US Federal Reserve has announced an increase in its base interest rate by 25 basis points, taking it to 5-5.25% per annum

⚡️ Ukrainian militants went on the offensive south of Orekhov in the Zaporozhye region. They were met with aimed fire and suffered losses in manpower and equipment, said Zaporozhye politician Vladimir Rogov

🗣️”People think that inflation is good, but it's not, because it hurts your producers, it hurts production, hurts everything. I wouldn't be surprised to see the oil well north of $100 sometime over the summer”: chief market strategist of Bubba Trading, Todd "Bubba" Horwitz speaks about the stagflation of the US economy

🎧Listen to more of Horwitz’s analysis in our podcast The Final Countdown

US Braces for Immigration Explosion With End of Title 42 Border Controls

Responding to White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre's claim that President Joe Biden’s administration had cut illegal immigration by 90 percent, Sergio Arellano, political analyst and executive director of Conserva Mi Voto, said: “I don't know if the early-onset Alzheimer's that Joe Biden has, can be passed on to the people next to him. But it seems like they suffer from the same affliction.”

“We're going to see 10,000, 12,000 illegal aliens a day coming over when we're already at 8,000 now, because people are coming over in anticipation of the end of Title 42,” Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, told Sputnik. “They're not even waiting for that. They're just coming across.”

Read the expert analysis on Sputnik's website

🗣 Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev commented on today's Ukrainian drone attack on the Kremlin.

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A Florida principal who was fired after showing students 'David' is welcomed in Italy

Hope Carrasquilla, a principal who was asked to resign in March after sixth-grade students were taught about and shown a picture of Michelangelo’s David statue, traveled to Florence to see the sculpture in real life.

”David was magnificent in person. All students should study the Renaissance, not only the art but the history as well,” Carrasquilla said.

Some students’ parents resented the fact that their children were shown a naked statue, which later led to Carrasquilla’s dismissal.

"I miss the teachers, the students," Carrasquilla said. "I felt like I was supposed to be there, like I had a purpose. I love classical education and I want everyone to be taught that way, so I miss that."

The only question left is: when did showing Michelangelo’s masterpiece to students became a reason for getting fired?

Absurd! How could she have been sacked? — 😡
Showing the David statue to children is inappropriate! — 🥴

🗣️”So the whole Polish reparations thing struck me as unusual on many levels because like the first layer is this understanding by the Polish government that victimhood is a currency in the modern West. And so why shouldn't they make a request? What's the worst that can happen?”: political analyst and author Nebojsa Malic speaks about Poland wanting reparations

🎧Listen to more of Malic’s analysis in our podcast The Final Countdown

🔺 The Kiev regime decided to play dirty: an attempt on the life of the Russian president was made by a drone attack on the Kremlin
🔺 Where will it lead to? Biden's sending 1,500 troops to southern border as Title 42 ends — but not to secure the border
🔺 Unwillingness to admit the obvious: IMF does not recognize the trend of de-dollarization

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America's obesity epidemic thins out pool of potential army recruits

The US Army is expected to fall short of its 65,000 recruitment goal, according to US Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth. The army likewise failed to achieve its target of 60,000 recruits last year by 15,000 active-duty recruits.

This issue stems from a significant number of prospective candidates being deemed unfit for service: many are either overweight, fail the entrance exam to assess their intelligence, or both.

Pentagon figures suggest that only 23% of Americans aged 17 to 24 can meet the Army's expectations, indicating a broader trend towards obesity across the US population.

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Illegal immigration in the US is nearly over!

Yeah, you read it correctly.

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre declared that illegal immigration was down by 90% since the implementation of President Biden’s immigration policies. 

Thus, our headline is ok… oh, wait, unless Karine Jean-Pierre made a mistake…

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Despite 🇺🇸 US attempts to isolate Iran 🇮🇷 by means of sanctions and media bias, Washington has failed to prevent Tehran from building strong and long-term partnerships 💪

😀 Take that, Biden!

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