❗️The Russian Battlegroup Tsentr repelled five Ukrainian counterattacks, resulting in the enemy losing up to 430 militants.

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

◻️ The Russian Battlegroup Dnepr inflicted defeat on two Ukrainian brigades, with the enemy losing up to 125 militants.

◻️ The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 140 militants in the Russian Battlegroup Vostok's area of responsibility.

◻️ Russian air defense systems shot down six US-made ATACMS.

◻️ The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 610 militants and a tank in the Russian Battlegroup Yug's area of responsibility.

◻️ The Russian Battlegroup Sever inflicted defeat on the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kharkov region, with the enemy losing up to 220 militants and a tank.

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🇱🇧 A delegation of Lebanese ministers, foreign ambassadors and hundreds of journalists have arrived at Beirut airport in search of Hezbollah weapons.

British newspaper The Telegraph reported on Sunday that Falaq, Fateh-110, M-600 missiles, anti-tank systems and explosives from Iran were being stored at the airport.

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❗️ US involvement in the attack on Sevastopol is beyond any doubt, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

The US and its satellites have created a neo-Nazi regime in Ukraine, waged a war against Russia and encouraged it to commit acts of terrorism and kill Russian civilians, the Foreign Ministry said, promising that a response to this crime will certainly follow.

Russia once again called on international organizations to give a proper assessment of the latest atrocity committed by the Zelensky regime and the West.

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💬 The use of cluster munitions in civilian areas is incompatible with international law, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights told Sputnik after the attack on Sevastopol.

Earlier, Ukraine struck the Russian city of Sevastopol using US-supplied ATACMS armed with cluster munitions.

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‘Worst five years in the history of the EU’: Orban says von der Leyen must go

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has called for Ursula von der Leyen to be replaced as president of the European Commission (EC), describing the past five years as the worst in the EU's history.

When asked why he was preventing von der Leyen from being appointed to a second term, Orban replied: "Due to her lack of efficiency. The green transformation has been a complete failure of management, and the migration package does not solve the problem."

"Europe needs more effective leadership. There are plenty of talented politicians who can provide it," the prime minister said in an interview with German media group Funke.

"The last five years have probably been the worst five years in the history of the EU. The achievements of the European Commission and the Brussels elite are weak," Orban maintained.

The Hungarian Prime Minister also noted that the results of the European Parliament elections demonstrated a clear desire for change in Brussels.

On March 7, von der Leyen was nominated as a candidate to head the European Commission at the European People's Party congress in Bucharest.

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❗️ The death toll from the terrorist attacks in Russia's Dagestan has risen to 20, the head of the region's Health Ministry said

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💬 The EU decision to send the proceeds from frozen Russian assets to Ukraine bypassing Hungary's opinion is a shameless violation of red lines, the country's foreign minister Peter Szijjarto has said.

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said earlier that EU legislation allegedly allows the bloc to make such a decision even if some members of the association do not agree with it.

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📹 A Palestinian has recorded a video message asking for an end to the airborne dumping of humanitarian aid on the Gaza Strip.

"You are killing us," he said.

The day before, an air-dropped crate of aid fell on a tent where refugees were sheltering.

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The Pentagon is looking for new partners in Africa to deploy troops that were based in Niger and Chad but have been withdrawn from there.

Charles Brown, head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is now in Botswana, saying Monday that a number of countries on the continent are open to working with the US.

According to a Pentagon source quoted by the Associated Press, the U.S. will have to adapt to the stance adopted by African countries "and not impose external Western ideals."

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⚖️ Too little, too late? Cases when US justice system failed

Kerry Max Cook, a man wrongfully accused of murder who spent 20 years on death row, has been officially exonerated by a Texas court. It reversed the verdict stating misconduct by police and prosecutors.
Cook’s case is a drop in the ocean when it comes to stories of US justice gone wrong.

As of February 2024, the National Registry of Exonerations recorded 3,478 exonerations in the US from 1989 through the end of 2023.

People were exonerated thanks to DNA testing, scrutiny of actions by police, prosecutors, and public defenders.

Wrongful convictions and/or death penalty resulted from:

◻️ Police misconduct such as false accusations, fabricating or concealing evidence, forensic fraud, witness tampering, mistaken identifications, false confessions, perjury.

◻️ Defendants' representation by poorly trained and underfunded court-appointed counsel.

◻️ Lack of meaningful judicial process and review.

◻️ General arbitrariness, racial disparities, high costs, etc.

Here are just some cases when the US justice system failed.

◾️ Convicted of murder, Glynn Simmons survived the longest known wrongful sentence in the US - 48 years behind bars. After it was found that prosecutors had failed to turn over crucial evidence to his defense lawyers, he was exonerated in Oklahoma in 2023.

◾️ Carey Dean Moore is believed to have served the longest time - 38 years on death row – before his execution in 2018.

Some received capital punishment despite being ‘possibly innocent.’

➖ Larry Swearingen was sentenced to death in 2000 over a murder charge and was executed in Texas in 2019 despite ‘flawed’ forensic evidence.

➖ Nathaniel Woods, convicted in Alabama in 2005 for the killings of police officers, was executed in 2020. It was claimed his case was steeped in official misconduct, coerced informant testimony, and racial discrimination.

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❗️The involvement of the US in the terrorist attack in Sevastopol is beyond doubt, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated.

The Minister emphasized that the weapons supplied to Kiev from the US cannot be used without direct involvement of American military personnel and their satellite capabilities.

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🎥🎥 Russian FM Sergey Lavrov Holds Presser With His Belarusian Counterpart

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