A high-level meeting in a quadrilateral format on the grain deal will be held on May 10-11 in Istanbul, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Vershinin said

The grain deal was brokered by the UN and Turkiye between Russia and Ukraine in July 2022 to facilitate exports of grain and fertilizer from Black Sea ports amid hostilities. It was renewed for 120 days in November 2022 and would be due to automatically renew for another 120 days on March 18 unless either of the signatories object.

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An aggressive crowd blocked the way of the Russian ambassador to the memorial cemetery in Warsaw, where he had come to lay flowers

The participants demanded that the diplomat remove the St. George ribbon from his jacket.

Last year, the ambassador was attacked on Victory Day and covered in red liquid.

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⚡️🇵🇰 Ex-Prime Minister Khan detained in Pakistan - local media

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📹 President Putin blames Western globalist elites for provoking bloody conflicts and coups around the globe

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📹🇵🇰 Footage allegedly showing the detention of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan

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📹👩‍🚀 Russian cosmonauts from the ISS offered Russians a Victory Day message and reminded them of the need to preserve and promote the memory of those who fought to defeat Hitler in the Great Patriotic War

How Kiev Nazis turned sacred May 9 Victory Day into massacre in 2014

On May 9, 2014, the Kiev regime sent nationalists and the heavily armed military to prevent the citizens of the then-eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol from holding a Victory Day parade. The move came as part of brazen Russophobic policies pursued by the post-coup Ukrainian authorities and their Western backers following February 2014.

Eight years after the Mariupol Victory Day massacre, the city was finally liberated by Donbass and Russian military forces in May 2022.

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📹 "Immortal Regiment" march takes place in Berlin, where hundreds of people have gathered to commemorate the Great Victory

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

▪️ Last night, the Russian Armed Forces launched a concentrated long-range, sea- and air-launched high-precision attack on temporary Ukrainian reserve areas and ammunition depots. The purpose of the strike has been achieved. All the assigned targets have been engaged. As a result of the strikes, the movement of reserves as well as the delivery of ammunition to combat areas has been thwarted.

▪️ Russia’s aviation and artillery have engaged the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kharkov region. Over the past 24 hours, up to 35 Ukrainian troops, one tank, two motor vehicles, and one Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system have been neutralised in this region.

▪️ The Operational-Tactical and Army aviation and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces have inflicted fire damage on Ukrainian manpower and hardware in the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR). The Ukrainians suffered losses of up to 75 troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, three pick-up trucks, one Grad MLRS, and two D-30 howitzers.

▪️ Russia’s Operational-Tactical and Army aviation inflicted fire damage on the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR. Russian aircraft have conducted five sorties in this area during the past 24 hours. The artillery have performed 73 fire tasks overnight. The Ukrainians have suffered losses of over 465 troops and mercenaries, two tanks, six armoured fighting vehicles, six motor vehicles, one Grad self-propelled artillery system, and two D-20 and D-30 howitzers in the past 24 hours.

▪️ Russian troops have neutralised up to 30 Ukrainian troops, five motor vehicles, and two Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems during the day in the Kherson region.

▪️ The Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Armed Forces have engaged 72 Ukrainian artillery units, manpower, and hardware in 94 areas during the day.

▪️ Some 419 airplanes and 230 helicopters, 4,052 unmanned aerial vehicles, 421 air defence missile systems, 9,046 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 1,098 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 4,774 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 10,077 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.

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📹 Participants of the special military operation congratulated veterans of the Great Patriotic War on Victory Day from the front lines

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📹 Full video of the Victory Parade held this morning on Red Square.

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