Ukrainian forces in January tried to attack using drones a hangar in the Smolensk region where parts of the Polish Tu-154 that crashed in 2010 are stored, DPR head Denis Pushilin's advisor Jan Gagin told Sputnik.

He provided the route of one of the downed drones that was taken from the device's memory card.

Kiev was trying to destabilize the situation in Russia by doing so - it believed that it would be able to claim that Russia was trying to destroy evidence so that it would not be able to reinvestigate the case.

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⚡️The military IL-76 crashed during takeoff in Russia's Ivanovo region, the Ministry of Defense said.

There were eight crew members and seven passengers on board.

The cause of the plane crash was a fire in one of the engines during takeoff. A commission from the Main Command of the Russian Aerospace Forces flew to the scene of the incident.

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🗣 Tucker Carlson about Moscow city:

"No homelessness, no graffiti. It's spotlessly clean. The public spaces are beautiful. The architecture has not been degraded by post-modern, the oppression of postmodern architecture, which is designed to demoralize and hurt you and destroy your spirit. I believe that because it's true".

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🇵🇱 Warmongering Poland wants 300 thousand NATO soldiers on its territory

Three hundred thousand NATO soldiers are ready to relocate to Poland, said Deputy Chief of the Polish General Staff Dymanowski.

Previously there were 40 thousand of them, now there are 300 thousand - they will arrive in the country “not after the start of the war, but before it,” Dymanowski emphasized.

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🧑‍🚀 The crew of the Crew Dragon ship with Russian cosmonaut Borisov returned to Earth from the ISS, splashing down off the coast of Florida.

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❗️The settlement of Nevelskoye has been liberated in the DPR, the Russian Ministry of Defense stated.

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❗️The Russian Armed Forces repelled 11 counterattacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) near Avdeyevka; the enemy lost more than 380 servicemen.

🇷🇺🪖 More statements from the Russian MoD’s daily briefing on the progress of the special military op in Ukraine:  

▪️Russian air defense shot down 11 missiles from the HIMARS, Grad, and Vampire systems, as well as a Tochka-U missile.

▪️The Russian Armed Forces repelled seven attacks and counterattacks near Kupyansk.

The Russian Armed Forces took more advantageous positions south of Donetsk and repelled the attack of the UAF; the enemy lost more than 145 military personnel and 11 pieces of equipment.

▪️The Russian Armed Forces defeated the formations of two brigades of the UAF near Novomikhailovka and Belogorovka.

▪️Ukrainian losses near Donetsk amounted to up to 350 servicemen.

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⚡️A Ukrainian drone crashed into a store building in the Russian city of Belgorod: no injured, four cars damaged, the governor of the region said.

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Scandals onslaught threaten to overwhelm Japan’s pro-Ukraine Prime Minister

Two senior members of PM Fumio Kishida’s Liberal Democratic Party have stepped down after an exposé of their entertainment by scantily clad dancers at a party for government supporters.

The impropriety came on the heels of a slush fund scandal that saw the Japanese public expressing outrage over politicians under-reporting at least $6.5 million worth of income. Kishida is also facing a backlash over his party’s ties to the Unification Church, which critics describe as a cult that pressured its followers into making exorbitant donations.

Since taking office in 2021, Kishida has abandoned his predecessors’ efforts to improve relations with Russia, instead opting to support the US-led sanctions campaign and pledging over $10 billion in aid to Ukraine. The future of this policy is now in jeopardy, however. The Kishida cabinet's approval rating has fallen to a mere 16%, according to a recent poll from the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper.

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Russian troops destroyed another US-made HIMARS multiple-launch rocket system vehicle.

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