Putin is receiving real-time reports from Shoigu and Gerasimov on the development of the offensive in the Avdeyevka area, Dmitry Peskov said.

"At the moment, the minister of defense and the chief of the General Staff are reporting to the president that our units are developing an offensive, preventing the enemy from gaining a foothold on new frontiers," Kremlin spokesperson said.

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❗️The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 1,500 servicemen in the defense of Avdeyevka.

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

▪️In the southern DPR, Ukrainian losses amounted to more than 190 soldiers;

▪️Near Krasny Liman, Ukrainian troops lost up to 100 servicemen;

▪️In the Kherson region, Russian troops took more advantageous positions and defeated Ukrainian forces in four districts;

▪️In the Kupyansk area, Ukrainian losses amounted to 40 soldiers;

▪️ Russian air defenses destroyed 105 Ukrainian drones.

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The Russian Ministry of Defense has released footage depicting the disorderly retreat of Ukrainian Armed Forces units from Avdeyevka.

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Ukrainian militants at the Avdeyevka coke plant are not offering much resistance, Igor Kimakovsky, adviser to the head of the DPR, said.

According to him, the Ukrainian soldiers prefer to surrender and leave the factory alive.

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Surrogat-V: What’s known about Russia’s secret, stealthy super-heavy sub imitator

🔺The Surrogat-V is the Rubin Design Bureau’s latest multi-purpose autonomous underwater drone design, with the system envisioned as a wingman for manned submarines.

🔺The drone sub’s capabilities include searching for naval mines, conducting reconnaissance in ice-covered waters, and doing other missions which are dangerous or time-consuming for manned boats, like terrain mapping. One of its crucial functions is the imitation of noises generated by manned nuclear and diesel-electric subs to take enemy subs and warships off the scent of manned Russian submarines.

🔺The underwater vehicle is expected to displace a whopping 40 tons, with a 17-meter length and a cruising range up to 800 miles at speeds of 5 knots (accelerating to up to 24 knots for short bursts).

🔺The vessel will be powered by lithium ion batteries, but an electrochemical power plant is also said to be in the works.

🔺Rubin is one of the top submarine developers in the world, creating many of Russia’s most iconic submarines, submersibles and unmanned underwater drones and robotic equipment.

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American freedom unshackled everything that was taboo in humanity, Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, commented after the march of the neo-Nazi group Blood Tribe in Nashville.

"They staged their demonstration right outside the administrative buildings, and then marched through the central streets of the capital of Tennessee. They had ‘2218’ written on their backs — apparently the alphanumeric code of the neo-Nazi chant 'Bring back Adolf Hitler,'" Zakharova wrote in her Telegram channel.

The spokeswoman was outraged by the behavior of the US, which every year votes against the United Nations resolution on "combating the glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to the escalation of modern forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance" on the pretext that it is a "violation of freedom of speech and assembly."

"But resistance to this evil [neo-Nazism] is punishable, according to American freedom, as a violation of it," she added.

While Russia is fighting neo-Nazism in Ukraine, the West demolishes monuments to WWII heroes and applaud a Nazi collaborator in the Canadian parliament. "After all, this is exactly what all NATO bosses, led by the United States, do."

Coverage of the deaths of American journalist Gonzalo Lira and Alexey Navalny in leading American and British media, number of publications according to Sputnik calculations.

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It turned out who Kuleba was imitating when he was smoking a cigar.

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🇺🇸 Separatist sentiments are growing rapidly in Alaska: about 36% of residents would support secession from the United States.

The list of those who support secession from the United States also included Texas (31%), California (29%) and New York (28%).

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Avdeyevka’s liberation shows Ukrainian front ‘has begun to crack’

Russian forces fully liberated the heavily fortified Donetsk suburb of Avdeyevka this week, breaking out and advancing over 8.5 kilometers beyond the city amid a disorganized and chaotic retreat by Ukrainian forces.

“This is the first city that we’ve taken since Artemovsk, that is, since May of last year. The city…is essentially the last fortified area remaining in the suburbs of Donetsk, which the Ukrainian side has been fortifying since 2014,” Sergei Poletaev, cofounder of the Vatfor media project, told Sputnik, commenting on the significance of Avdeyevka’s liberation.

From here on out, everything will depend “on how big the hole in the front” Russia manages to puncture, with advances threatening to snowball and push Ukrainian forces back rapidly if Kiev proves unable to set up new defensive lines. Avdeyevka’s liberation is an important sign that “the (Ukrainian) front has begun to crack,” Poletaev stressed.

For the West, Avdeyevka’s loss serves as “embarrassing proof that what Ukraine and our intelligence services have done with Western money and Ukrainian lives has been an exercise in waste, and wasted aggression,” former US Air Force officer and DoD senior analyst Karen Kwiatkowski told Sputnik.

“The liberation of Avdeyevka means that soon the arc of Druzhkovka, Kramatorsk and Slavyansk will come under Russian attack,” veteran Russian military expert Ivan Konovalov told Sputnik.

“And this, in fact, is the last defensive belt Ukraine’s military has in the context of fortified defenses. That is, our troops are already approaching these areas, and beyond that is territory that’s less heavily fortified.” The closer Russian forces approach to these areas, the more desperate fighting will become, Konovalov said.

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🔺Avdeyevka’s liberation shows Ukrainian front ‘has begun to crack’

🔺American freedom unshackled everything that was taboo in humanity, Maria Zakharova stated

🔺Sputnik compared how Western media covered the deaths of Gonzalo Lira and Alexey Navalny

🔺Surrogat-V: What’s known about Russia’s secret, stealthy super-heavy sub imitator

🔺Key points from Putin's statement on gas supplies to Europe in interview with journalist Zarubin

🔺Russian President Vladimir Putin has commented on the historical part of his answer to Tucker Carlson during his interview

🔺Separatist sentiments are growing rapidly in Alaska

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📹 Soldiers of the Russian Armed Forces discovered captured Western weapons at the location of the Ukrainian Armed Forces unit in Avdeyevka, a video of the raid of the Viking detachment on the liberated city was at the disposal of Sputnik

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Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has proposed that countries whose defense budgets do not meet the alliance's 2% of GDP obligation for members be expelled from NATO.

"I want to have a system where if you don't pay, you get kicked out," he told CBS News.

As Graham noted, 19 of NATO's 31 members now fail to meet this condition on defense spending.

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🔥 A group of Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen tried to leave Avdeyevka in an infantry fighting vehicle, but Russian loitering ammunition disrupted their plans and destroyed the combat vehicle along with its personnel with an accurate hit.

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