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The FSB has warned about a sharp increase in the number of phone calls to teenagers in Russia from the territory of Ukraine after the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall. During these calls, teenagers are urged to carry out terrorist attacks in Russia. The scammers offer the teenagers money.

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Russian court arrested eighth defendant in the case on the terrorist attack on Crocus City Hall Alisher Kasimov.

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American journalist Evan Gershkovich, who has been accused of espionage, has had his arrest extended until June 30.

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Key statements by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov at his latest briefing:

▪️On statements by the British secretary of defense concerning nuclear policy: The position of the British leadership is hostile to Russia, there is nothing new;

▪️On the possibility of contacts between Russia and the USA: We are for a comprehensive discussion of all issues;

▪️Those who gloat about the tragedy in Crocus City Hall are bastards;

▪️Putin will hold several international conversations on Tuesday.

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🔥 Russia's Uragan MLRS missiles strike Ukrainian forces on the right bank of the Dnepr river

Artillerymen destroyed a Ukrainian temporary deployment point on the right bank of the Dnepr. Aerial reconnaissance helped identify the target.

Several successive missile strikes carried out by artillerymen at the coordinates destroyed buildings and fortifications, as well as enemy equipment and troops.

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❗️Russian armed forces struck Ukrainian decision-making centers, facilities of the Ukrainian Security Service and the enterprises of the military-industrial complex with high-precision weapons, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

"Goals of the strike have been achieved, all objects have been hit," the Ministry announced.

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❗️In the Avdeyevka area, Russian troops repelled four counterattacks by Ukrainian troops. The enemy lost up to 280 soldiers;

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

▪️ In the DPR, Russian troops destroyed four electronic warfare stations and one anti-battery warfare station of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. In the south of the DPR Ukrainian troops lost up to 105 military personnel direction during the day;

▪️ The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation hit the personnel and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 114 districts;

▪️ The Russian air defense systems destroyed 131 Ukrainian drones in one day, shot down two S-200 missiles and 15 HIMARS and Vampire MLRS shells.

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An employee of Russian Foreign Ministry was killed in the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall, the ministry told Sputnik.

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⚡️The London court ruled in Assange's favor, allowing him to continue to challenge the decision to extradite him to the United States in British courts.

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⚡️Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said Ukraine was behind the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall.

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"ISIS* or Ukraine?" — "Of course Ukraine!"

Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said Ukraine was behind the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall outside Moscow.

*Terrorist groups banned in Russia and many other countries.

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London High Court sets next hearing for Assange on May 20, if parties submit necessary documents.

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Investigators are carefully establishing the details of the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall, establishing the roles of the terrorists, Vladimir Putin said at a meeting of the board of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation.

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I hope that the prosecutors will do everything necessary to ensure that the terrorists are punished, Putin said at a meeting of the board of Russia's Prosecutor General's Office.

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🤯 Jill Biden's math: Banning sexually explicit content in elementary schools equals Nazi Germany during WWII

Speaking at the Human Rights Campaign dinner in LA, the first lady noted that the end of democracy begins with banning such content from books.

"Before World War II, I'm told, Berlin was the center of LGBTQ* culture in Europe. One group of people loses their rights. And then another, and another. Until one morning you wake up - and you no longer live in a democracy," she said.

* LGBTQ* has been recognized by the Russian Supreme Court as an extremist movement

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The Crocus City Hall terrorist attack and Ukraine's shelling of civilians have a common goal of intimidating people, but the masterminds will be punished, the prosecutor general of Russia said.

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📹 Julian Assange’s wife on the possible extradition of the Wikileaks founder to the United States: The justice system is not working. In fact, the justice system is being instrumentalized. It's being used as a weapon against those who tell the truth.

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🚜 Farmers are protesting in Brussels: hundreds of tractors are on the streets of the city, dumping manure and hay on the roads. The police are using tear gas and water cannons.

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⚡️The Ukrainian special services facilitated the terrorist attack and it was prepared by radical Islamists, Russia's Federal Security Service Director Alexander Bortnikov has said.

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