❗️🇬🇧 Foreign Office claims the UK will not rest until the Russian economy is destroyed

❗️House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she wants to provide Ukraine with $600 million in lethal defense weapons

⚡️🇺🇦Volodymyr Zelenskyy has declared to hold general mobilization in Ukraine within the next 90 days.

⚡️⚖️ A US jury found three former Minneapolis police officers involved in the murder of George Floyd guilty on civil rights violation charges, the Star Tribune reported on Thursday.

The jury found Tou Thao, Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane guilty on civil rights charges, including failure to render medical aid to Floyd and failure to intervene to stop fellow former officer Derek Chauvin from kneeling on his neck, the report said.

The jury also found that the officers’ actions resulted in Floyd’s death, which could lead to them receiving significantly higher sentences. The jury delivered its verdict after approximately 13 hours of deliberation.

🔎 Convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell's bid for a retrial over jury guidance

Lawyers for the disgraced socialite filed a 37-page appeal on Friday evening at a New York court claiming “erroneous” jury instructions made her conviction unfair.

They discovered that one of the jurors lied during jury selection. That juror failed to disclose his criminal conviction and contact with law enforcement, which would have led the court to have excused him for the cause.

U.S. Federal Judge Alison Nathan said Thursday that she denied Maxwell's motion for a new trial "on the current record" because the current record relies extensively on the juror's public statements, which the court is not allowed to consider under a federal rule of evidence.

🇷🇺🇺🇸 Russia will respond to the unprovoked expulsion of the No.2 diplomat from the US, Ambassador Antonov says

❕Read the full statement of Russia's ambassador in Washington regarding the expulsion of the minister counselor:

"We regard the new expulsion as another unfriendly step aimed at reducing the Russian diplomatic presence in the United States. Our retaliatory measures are predictable," Ambassador Anatoly Antonov said in a statement published by the Russian Embassy.

"We have made a lot of efforts to stop the escalation imposed by the Americans. We urged the State Department to reconsider its position in order to avoid an exchange of blows. However, we faced a categorical refusal, accompanied by a threat to arrest our diplomat if he stayed even for one more day in Washington," the diplomat added.

❗️🇯🇵🇷🇺 Japan has hit Russia with new sanctions, freezing the assets of Russian citizens and entities and banning visas to Russians

📣 Florida House passes ‘Stop WOKE Act’ to limits talks on race, gender, and discrimination in schools, workplaces.

Dubbed the “Stop WOKE Act,” which stands for “wrongs to our kids and employees,” it bans the teaching of critical race theory, which addresses systemic racism in the U.S., alleging it widens racial divisions.

Florida legislators made their opposition to teaching gender identity and race in public schools official, as the state’s House of Representatives passed the “Stop WOKE Act” on Thursday.

Senate Bill 148 still needs to be signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, but if it becomes law, it would limit protected speech in workplaces with more than 15 employees and classrooms, banning lessons about gender identity and race that could make students feel “discomfort.”

❗️🇨🇦🇷🇺 The Canadian Foreign Ministry has announced another round of sanctions, this time against Russian lawmakers who voted for the recognition of the Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics, as well as Putin's "inner circle".

❗️📞 Macron claims he called Putin at Zelensky's request

❗️🇪🇺 The EU has made a "political decision" to slap another batch of sanctions on Russia, which, according to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, will hit 70 percent of the Russian banking sector, key state-run corporations and deprive Russia of access to modern technologies

🏛🇺🇸 JUST IN: Biden has decided on his Supreme Court pick, will announce it on Friday, US media report

📸 The consequences of the overnight shelling of the outskirts of Donetsk. A road near a stele in the northern part of the city was damaged. The front line is a little less than a kilometre away.

⚡️ Russian MoD: Russian Airborne Troops have taken full control of the territory near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant

❗️ Russian MoD: 82 Ukrainian soldiers laid down their arms and surrendered in the area of Snake Island (Odessa region) taking a pledge refusing to participate in battles, and in the near future they will be returned to their families

⚡️ 11 more servicemen of the 53rd Ukrainian mechanisd brigade surrendered in the Nikolaevsk region, one of the units of the 36th brigade of the Ukrainian marines requested a corridor to enter the DPR, after surrendering their weapons they will be able to return to their families, Russian MoD says

⚡️ Russian MoD: Forces destroyed 18 Ukrainian tanks, 7 multiple rocket systems, and 41 motor vehicles

❗️ Marine unit of 36th brigade of Ukrainian forces surrenders, asks DPR for corridor to enter Republic - Russian Defence Ministry

⚡️ Moscow bans UK aircraft from using Russian airspace in retaliation for Aeroflot sanctions

📸 Ukrainian troops put "Grad" multiple rocket launchers up in residential areas of Kharkov.

Footage with installations of multiple launch rocket systems right inside residential areas of the city has been published on Ukrainian social networks, information about the installation of "Grads" on the streets of the city was later confirmed to RIA Novosti by a resident of Kharkov.