Suicide bomber behind explosions near Brazil's Supreme Court and Congress – reports

The explosions near Brazil's Supreme Court and Congress earlier today were carried out by a suicide bomber, according to the G1 news website.

The attacker reportedly detonated explosives in his car before attempting to target the Supreme Court building. He threw additional explosive devices toward the building and triggered another device on himself, the report said, citing Celina Leão, Vice Governor of the Brazilian Federal District.

The suspect is said to have been a candidate for the Libertarian Party in Brazil's 2020 municipal elections but was not elected.

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THROWBACK: Trump's pick for US Attorney General, Matt Gaetz, schools Biden admin officials on their “unachievable goal” of inflicting a “strategic failure” on Russia in Ukraine

On April 10, Dr. Celeste Wallander, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, testified before the House Armed Services Committee and was educated on the Ukraine conflict, thanks to Gaetz’s assertive questioning.

“I think that we're never repatriating Crimea back to Ukraine. And I think that if you set that as the objective, then we perpetuate this new forever war that's going to have a lot of death and a lot of destruction. And it's for an unachievable goal. And I worry that's driving our thinking,” Gaetz emphasized.

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✍️ THROWBACK: Tulsi Gabbard placed on Ukrainian “kill list”

Tulsi Gabbard who has just been nominated by Donald Trump as Director of National Intelligence, is blacklisted by the Ukrainian government-linked Mirotvorets (“Peacekeeper”) hit list.

She was reportedly included for "participation in special information operations of Russia against Ukraine and the civilized world at the expense of the Kremlin" and being "probably an agent of Russian special services".

Mirotvorets is a notorious online database that doxxes people considered "enemies of Ukraine" and urges their murder – that’s why the website is often considered a “kill list” of the Kiev regime.

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📹 THROWBACK: Ukraine to be set back 100 years - Rubio

Trump’s pick for Secretary of State Marco Rubio warns that continuing the NATO proxy war against Russia will destroy Ukraine.

“We’re funding a stalemate that is costing lives, (Ukraine) is gonna be set back 100 years” - Rubio stated.

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❗️Russian troops have completely liberated the settlement of Novoselidovka in the western part of the Donetsk People's Republic of Ukrainian troops and raised a battle flag there, Vladimir Rogov, the head of the Zaporozhye public movement ‘We are together with Russia’, told Sputnik.

Earlier, he reported that Russian forces had dug in near the railway station on the eastern outskirts of Kurakhovo and were already approaching the town centre. Novoselidovka lies to the north of Kurakhovo.

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❗️Russian troops liberated the village of Voznesenka in the Donetsk People's Republic, the Russian Defense Ministry announced

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💬 Ex-CIA analyst: Trump’s foreign policy team will ‘double down on stupid’ in Ukraine, the Middle East, and China

Donald Trump's foreign policy appointments for his incoming administration show that “he didn’t learn a thing during his first term,” Larry Johnson, retired CIA intelligence officer and State Department official, told Sputnik.

“He talked one thing during the campaign about ending needless wars. And yet he is staffing himself with really a lot of young people who are locked up with old ideas,” Johnson noted.

❌ In his opinion, Pete Hegseth, Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, is “just an absurd joke.”

❌ Florida Сongressman Michael Waltz, tapped as Trump’s national security advisor, is also “a disaster,” Johnson argued, underscoring that he “represents everything that Donald Trump said that Donald Trump stood against.”

❌ New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, tapped to serve as US ambassador to the United Nations, “comes in with a very strident pro-Zionist point of view,” the expert remarked.

👉 With a foreign policy team like that, Johnson said, Trump is “going to double down on stupid” when it comes to most important international areas, such as Ukraine, the Middle East, and China.

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A parody ad for a fictional company called ‘Cryo’ offers to cryogenically freeze liberals and wake them up when Trump’s presidency is over.

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🇷🇺🪖 Key statements from the Russian Defense Ministry's daily briefing on the special military operation's progress:

◻️ The Russian Armed Forces hit military airfield and energy facility infrastructure of Ukraine's military-industrial complex.

◻️ Ukrainian losses amounted to up to 570 troops and three warehouses in Battlegroup Zapad's area of responsibility.

◻️ Russian air defenses shot down six HIMARS missiles and 78 Ukranian drones.

◻️ Ukrainian losses amounted to 655 militants and three tanks in Russia’s Battlegroup Yug area of responsibility.

◻️ Ukrainian forces lost up to 485 militants, one German-made armored vehicle and five Kozak armored fighting vehicles in Russia’s Battlegroup Tsentr area of responsibility.

◻️ Ukrainian losses amounted to 90 soldiers in Russia’s Battlegroup Dnepr area of responsibility.

◻️ Ukranian forces lost up to 80 servicemen in Russia’s Battlegroup Sever combat zone.

◻️ Russia's Battlegroup Vostok repelled two counterattacks. The Ukrainian forces lost up to 145 soldiers.

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