❗️The death toll from the Ukrainian shelling of the market area in Donetsk increased to 13, ten more were injured, said the head of the Republic of DPR Denis Pushilin.

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❗️A criminal case has been opened on the fact of the plane crash in Afghanistan with Russian citizens on board - The Investigative Committee of Russia.

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❗️The village of Krakhmalnoye in the Kharkov region was liberated as a result of the successful actions of the Russian "Western" group of troops, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

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❗️Russian troops defeated the temporary deployment point of foreign mercenaries in the Konstantinovka area of the DPR and destroyed the ammunition depot of the Ukrainian armed forces.

🇷🇺🪖 Other statements from the Russian Defense Ministry briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️ In the Kupyansk region, Russian forces repelled seven attacks by Ukrainian troops. Ukrainian losses amounted to more than 55 soldiers;

▪️ In Krasny Liman, Russian troops repelled three attacks by Ukrainian Armed Forces' warplanes. Ukrainian losses amounted to 80 servicemen;

▪️ In Donetsk, Russian forces repelled two attacks in one day. Ukrainian losses amounted to 310 servicemen; in the south of Donetsk, Ukrainian losses amounted to 70 servicemen and two vehicles during the day;

▪️ Russian air defense systems destroyed 43 drones of the Ukrainian armed forces, repelled one Tochka-U missile and two HIMARS MLRS projectiles.

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🎯📹 Russian combat engineers in action

Russia’s Southern Group sappers discovered and destroyed Ukrainian Forces’ ammunition and explosive objects using drones.

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❗️The death toll from the shelling of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk by Ukrainian troops has risen to 18, the city's mayor announced.

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Red Sea Crisis - new opportunities for defense contractors?

The Sea Viper air defense system used by the Royal Navy in the Red Sea to shoot down drones will be upgraded with new warheads and new software worth $514 million, the UK Ministry of Defense said.
After the upgrade, the Sea Viper will be capable of countering ballistic missiles, the ministry added.

The contracts were awarded to the British division of MBDA, a missile joint venture owned by Airbus, the British military contractor BAE Systems and the Rome-based defense contractor Leonardo.

Earlier this month, a British destroyer operating alongside US warships in the Red Sea managed to repel "the largest attack" by the Houthis. In addition, the US and UK launched a series of strikes on Houthi positions in Yemen to "degrade their fighting capabilities."

In the wake of the recent escalation of the crisis in the Gaza Strip, the Houthis have begun attacking commercial ships in the Red Sea that are linked to Israel.

Russia strongly condemns the Houthi attacks in the Red Sea as well as the US-UK airstrikes on Yemen, calling the latter "another example of the Anglo-Saxon distortion of UN Security Council resolutions and complete disregard for international law.

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❗️The death toll from the shelling of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk has risen to 25, and the number of wounded to 20, the head of the Republic of the DPR Denis Pushilin announced.

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📹 Since the beginning of the year, the demining unit of the Russian engineer corps has defused about 800 explosive devices on the territory of the DPR.

The sappers are combing the area mined by retreating units of the Ukrainian armed forces. Russian engineers usually try to defuse dangerous grenades and booby traps on the spot. If this is not possible, they are taken to special dumps far from populated areas.

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‘Ill service’: Moscow criticizes Germany's support for Israel amid South Africa's genocide lawsuit

Moscow is not surprised that Berlin recently decided to counter South Africa in its International Court of Justice lawsuit accusing Israel of genocide against Gaza, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told reporters.

“This comes against the backdrop of Germany’s unconditional support for Israel, regardless of consequences. This policy line pursued by German authorities has long and firmly occupied an important place among the unspoken dogmas of the ‘rules-based order’ defined by Washington,” Zakharova pointed out.

"The German political elites seem to have done Israel an ill service,” she added. “In a corresponding government statement, Berlin refers to ‘the consideration of German history and the crime against humanity in the form of the Holocaust,’ thereby declaring itself an ‘expert’ in mass extermination-related issues. But what can we do with the crimes against humanity committed by Germany against other nationalities and ethnic groups during the Second World War?” the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said.

Apparently, she went on, Berlin “again forgot that according to the UN General Assembly resolution A/RES/60/7 and a number of other international documents, the Holocaust is the persecution and mass extermination of representatives of various ethnic and social groups by the Nazis.”

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s Berlin Declaration “reinforced the need to recognize the importance of respectful treatment of all ethnic and religious groups without segregation,” Zakharova pointed out.

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Statements of the Russian Foreign Ministry on the shelling of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk:

▪️The Russian Foreign Ministry calls the attack of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Donetsk a barbaric terrorist act against the civilian population of Russia;

▪️Russia calls on international structures and governments to condemn Kiev's attack on Donetsk, their silence means approval of the killing of civilians;

▪️The West's desire to inflict a strategic defeat on the Russian Federation has pushed Kiev to take even more reckless steps.

▪️Kiev's terrorist attacks clearly demonstrate its lack of political will to reach a peace settlement through diplomatic means.

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“This was an intentional targeting of a civilian market on a Sunday afternoon.”

Sputnik correspondent Russell Bentley reports from the scene of a Ukrainian artillery strike on the Tekstilshchiki market in Donetsk.

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Moscow berates Germany for supporting ‘Russophobic neo-Nazi Zelensky regime’

Germany is more active than other EU members in defending the Kiev regime that has proclaimed the glorification of Nazi collaborators as a core component of its domestic and foreign policy, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said in a statement on Sunday.

“Berlin supports militants who hold neo-Nazi torch-lit parades glorify World War II criminals, use SS division insignia and patches and put Wehrmacht symbols on Western-supplied military equipment. Berlin sponsors and arms them, as well as organizes treatment and provides assistance in the international arena to those who purposefully kill Russians, Russian citizens and Russian-speaking people,” Zakharova stressed.

The past few months have seen German authorities make more statements, in which they “questioned Berlin's condemnation of the country’s Nazi past,” she added.

“Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who publicly confirmed that Germany and Ukraine’s neo-Nazi regime of Ukraine ‘are on the right side of history,’ actually justified the current misanthropic and Russophobic regime of [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelensky, who has reincarnated collaborators of Nazi Germany and is trying to erase the memory about fighters against fascism,” the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said.

Previously, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock “proudly announced the death of her ancestors ‘during the defense of Koenigsberg’ [currently the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad]. This is how Germany’s ruling elite perceives the ‘right side’ of history,” Zakharova added.

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🗣 Hamas is pursuing “revolutionary politics” strategy in war against Israel

"It's intended to explode the paradigm, to break everything up. And yes, of course, there's a price in blood to be paid for revolutionary politics. We've seen the same in Algeria or elsewhere. Revolutionary politics is different. It creates an outrage. It creates an overreaction by the enemies deliberately. Yes, there's a price to be paid. But it does break and has broke the paradigm, completely shattered the paradigm, the paradigm of, if you like, the imprisonment of Palestinians into the small space of the [Gaza] strip," former MI6 agent Alastair Crooke told the New Rules podcast.

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Of the six people on board the plane that crashed in Afghanistan, four are tentatively alive and the fate of the other two is being clarified, according to the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency.

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How scientists manage to preserve Lenin’s body a century after his death

One hundred years after his death, the body of the legendary Soviet revolutionary leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin remains on display inside the Mausoleum in the Red Square in Moscow.

Thanks to a special embalming liquid they developed, Russian scientists have been able to preserve Lenin’s body to this very day, so that visitors from all corners of the world may marvel at the remains of the Soviet Union’s founder.

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