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According to a recent survey in Russia conducted with over 1,600 participants, the most popular place to find love was at work, with a percentage of over 20%. Meanwhile dating apps received only 5-8%.

Other popular approaches included meeting potential partners at home/were neighbours, in parks, at parties, in stores, and other locations, totaling 27% of respondents.

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US top General says not surprised Ukrainian counteroffensive going slower than predicted

US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley said on Friday he does not find it surprising that the Ukrainian counteroffensive is going slower than predicted as he personally said before that it will be very long and difficult.

Milley also said that in his view time is not particularly on either side of the conflict because the latter continues to be very dynamic.

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Former Pentagon analyst: Sweden should reconsider ‘Turmoil’ it would become part of in NATO

A new rift has opened between Muslim-majority Turkiye and Sweden, where a legal protest was allowed to take place involving the public burning of a Quran.

Michael Maloof, a former senior security policy analyst in the US Office of the Secretary of Defense, told Sputnik that both Sweden and NATO should consider what benefit is gained by adding the Scandinavian state to the alliance, especially given the kind of tensions that further NATO expansion to the East is likely to create in the region.

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Australian ‘garage sale’ APCs pawned off on Kiev worse than useless

A scandal is brewing in Australia over Canberra’s decision to pawn its Vietnam War-vintage military equipment off on Kiev, with local military experts questioning how the aid that has been announced could possibly add up to $110 million AUD.

“You can’t just clear out the garage from Defense of old vehicles that you don’t want anymore. That’s not the response of a developed nation like ours,” the opposition leader Peter Dutton said, dubbing the aid package the equivalent of a “garage sale”.

Other observers said Canberra’s “stingy” “hand-me-down aid” is fueling perceptions of Australia as “using Ukraine as a dumping ground.”

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❗️ Mali made "a sovereign decision on future parameters of ensuring security & protecting civilians in the country," Russian Deputy Permanent Representative at UNSC says

🗣 "Russia supported the draft UNSC resolution (put forward by France) on withdrawal of #MINUSMA. It is important that the Council reacted to the request of #Mali who made a sovereign decision on future parameters of ensuring security & protecting civilians in the country," DPR Anna Evstigneeva stated.

The Russian DPR at UNSC has also pointed out that "Russia will continue providing comprehensive bilateral assistance to Mali with the purpose of ensuring stabilization in the country."

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Pentagon admits Chinese ‘spy’ balloon ‘did not collect’ data during US overflight

Five months after accusing China of dispatching a spy balloon across US airspace and producing another rift in US-China relations, Washington has quietly admitted that the balloon neither collected or transmitted any data during its several-day trip across the US.

Asked a question about what he called a “PRC high altitude balloon,” Pentagon spokesperson Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder told reporters on Thursday that while the US believed the airship had “off the shelf” equipment made in the United States, it did not collect data during its flight over the United States in late January and early February.

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T-80 tank in action (video courtesy of Russian MoD)

The T-80 tank destroyed Ukrainian Army positions using the 125mm cannon

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EU’s new anti-Russian asset grabbing scheme is ‘theft’, ‘act of war’

Belgium plans to collect 3 billion euros a year in windfall profits from Russian assets frozen in the country’s coffers to give to Ukraine for “reconstruction” purposes, Prime Minister Alexander De Croo announced Friday.

Asked to comment on Brussels’ plans, Christopher C Black, an international criminal and human rights lawyer with over 20 years’ experience, said that if realized, they would constitute “theft twice over” - first by seizing the money in the first place, and then preventing Russia from collecting its due interest.

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🇺🇸 US lawmaker files amendments to ban Kiev-bound shipments of F16s, long-range missiles

US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said that the US should be “pushing for peace, not funding war,” adding that she filed an amendment to prohibit all funding to Ukraine until a diplomatic solution to the Ukrainian crisis is reached.

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🇧🇾 Lukashenko confident nuclear weapons stationed in Belarus will never be used

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