❗️Ukraine's attempts to strike Russian energy facilities are well known and Kiev has REPEATEDLY demonstrated its inability to negotiate, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.

At the same time, he emphasized that Russian President Vladimir Putin's order not to strike Ukraine's energy system is in effect and is being implemented by the Russian Armed Forces.

He added that the moratorium on strikes against the energy systems of Russia and Ukraine must be observed, and the agreement on this is "a good step forward."

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Democrats ‘LIE SO BADLY AND SO MUCH’ – Trump

"They [Democrats] say, ‘Oh, Trump wants to destroy social security.’ […] They make up stories. They're liars,” the US president told Newsmax.

Trump also referred to the “Russia hoax” story, which he said had been “made up” by Democratic Senator Adam Schiff and former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

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❗️Ukraine CONTINUES to damage the civilian energy infrastructure of the Russian Federation, trying to disrupt Russian-American agreements, Russia's Defense Ministry has said.

During a Ukrainian drone attack on a power facility in the Kursk region on March 25, substations were disconnected, leaving more than 4,000 people without power.

On the night of March 26 near the coast of Crimea in the area of Cape Tarkhankut, two Ukrainian attack drones were shot down by air defense systems. Their target was the ground equipment of the Glebovskoye underground gas storage facility.

Also, on March 26 at about 4:45 Moscow time in Russia's Bryansk region, a 10 kV high-voltage line was disconnected after an attack by a Ukrainian drone on a facility of the branch of Rosseti Center - Bryanskenergo. As a result, consumers in the Komarichsky district were left without power.

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📹 Putin had to deal with the legacy of Western-SUBSERVIENT Russian officials

Some of the top Russian government officials in the 1990s, like then-Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev, seemed to value the US’ interests more than Russia’s own.

“He said that Russia could not have interests differing from those of the United States. That is, whatever any US administration would do, Russia was supposed to express solidarity with it,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said referring to him.

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2021 Capitol riot: Dems ‘destroyed all evidence from that witch hunt’ – Trump

They did so “because it showed that we were totally innocent. It showed that Nancy Pelosi was in charge of security, which everybody knew anyway. She's actually on tape talking to her daughter. Now they can't find that tape,” Trump told Newsmax.

He also stressed that Joe Biden pardoned the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the US Capitol because “what they did is they found that we were right” and “they were wrong.”

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🇷🇺🪖More statements from the Russian MoD daily briefing on the special military operation's progress:    

▪️Ukraine lost up to 250 troops in the Russian Zapad Battlegroup's combat zone.

▪️Ukraine lost up to 310 servicemen in the Russian Yug Battlegroup's combat zone.

▪️Russian aviation shot down two Ukrainian JDAM bombs and 58 drones.

▪️Ukraine lost up to 480 troops in the Russian Tsentr Battlegroup's combat zone.

▪️Ukraine lost up to 65 soldiers and two infantry fighting vehicles in the area of responsibility of Russia's Battlegroup Dnepr.

▪️Ukraine lost up to 150 troops in the Russian Vostok Battlegroup's combat zone.

▪️Ukraine lost more than 230 militants and a tank in the Kursk region over the day.

▪️In total, during military operations in the region, Kiev has lost up more than 70,000 soldiers, the ministry added.

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🔍 Justice served: Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion crimes in the spotlight

A Russian court has sentenced 23 members of Ukraine's nationalist Azov* Battalion to prison terms ranging from 13 to 23 years for war crimes. What's known about the soldiers?

▪️David Kasatkin served in Azov since 2015. Arrested on May 20, 2022, in Mariupol, he was identified by neo-Nazi tattoos, including "Time to Kill" and Buchenwald's motto, "Jedem das Seine." His verdict was delivered in absentia.

▪️Artur Gretsky, an Azov member captured on April 24, 2022, at the Azovstal plant was found to have an SS division slogan tattooed on his body: "Meine Ehre heißt Treue!" ("My honor is loyalty!"). He is an open admirer of the Third Reich.

▪️Lieutenant Colonel Anatoly Gritsyk served in Azov from 2015 to 2019 and was responsible for training recruits. Fighters under his supervision shelled civilian infrastructure in Donbass and fought against the DPR militia.

▪️Major Oleg Tyshkul served in Azov until 2021. His subordinates repeatedly engaged in combat with DPR forces.

▪️Lieutenant Oleg Mizhgorodsky left Azov in 2021. He previously commanded a material and technical support company.

Heirs of the Nazis

▪️The Azov Battalion embraces Nazi ideology, displaying insignia, spreading extremist literature, and indoctrinating youth.

▪️In 2022, Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office confirmed Azov’s use of banned warfare methods, including killing, rape and torture of civilians and child killings.

▪️In May 2014, Azov executed Mariupol police officers who refused to disperse protestors opposing the February 2014 coup in Kiev, then opened fire on a peaceful demonstration.

*banned as a terrorist organization in Russia

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🗣 Elon Musk confirms integration of Grok AI assistant into Telegram

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💢 Kallas’ warmongering UNNERVES the EU – report

Since assuming the mantle of the EU’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas has adopted an extremely hawkish stance towards Russia, going beyond what other European officials consider “settled language,” Western media reports. For instance, while on a trip to Kiev, she tweeted that Brussels “wants Ukraine to win this war.”

“If you listen to her, it seems we are at war with Russia, which is not the EU line,” one EU official complained.

Kallas’ “leadership style” is another point of frustration as she is “floating heavy proposals without buy-in” and “is still acting like a prime minister,” another EU official added.

Earlier, Kallas came with a €40 billion ($43 billion) military aid plan for Ukraine – a move that deeply unsettled key Eurozone contributors like France and Italy.

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❗️The European Commission is going to manually control leading media outlets to 'correctly present the Russian issue' - the Russian Foreign Intelligence agency (SVR)

The leadership of the EU is using the propaganda techniques of the Third Reich, it has drawn up a plan to spread Russophobic narratives among the population of Europe, the SVR stated.

"Similar to Goebbels' Ministry of Public Education and Propaganda, the Directorate General of the European Commission for Public Affairs has drawn up a plan for a centralized campaign to introduce persistent Russophobic narratives into the public consciousness," the SVR added.

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🇨🇳✈️ China’s futuristic J-36 fighter makes impressive landing

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🔎 Soros’ insatiable GREED FOR POWER in Russia and Ukraine

George Soros saw the collapse of the USSR as an opportunity to fill the power void. How has this played out?

▪️The 'Soros empire': "When the Soviet Empire collapsed, I moved in and picked up the pieces — first in Hungary in 1984, then in Poland in 1987. This is how the Soros Empire [was] replacing the Soviet Empire," Soros stated in April 2015.

▪️Russians opposed Western influence: Soros expanded in Russia since the late 1980s but admitted in a 1995 interview that Russians resented Western interference. In 2003, he closed Open Society Foundations'* offices in Russia.

▪️'Resurging' Russia: In 2015, Soros emphasized his active involvement in Russia and lamented that the country was "resurging" while the EU was "disintegrating." That same year, OSF was designated as an "undesirable organization" in Russia.

▪️OSF’s influence in Ukraine: Reflecting on 25 years of work in Ukraine, Soros stated in 2015 that these efforts had "paid off". He hailed post-coup Ukraine - a country overtaken by nationalists - as a new Ukraine eager to be part of the EU."

▪️Soros and Ukrainian youth: After losing influence in Russia, Soros’ OSF focused on Ukraine’s youth. "Ukraine is making strides in... rebuilding trust in its schools," he tweeted in 2017, as Kiev removed the Russian language from schools and ramped up nationalist indoctrination.

▪️Russia as a global 'threat': In a May 2022 article, Soros denounced Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine as a major threat to the world. "The best and perhaps only way to preserve our civilization is to defeat Putin," he claimed.

▪️The end of George's 'imperial' reign: In March 2023, Soros predicted a "powerful Ukrainian offensive" would turn the conflict's tide. But Russia's defeat never came. In June 2023, he handed control of his $25 billion "empire" to his son, Alex.

*Designated as undesirable organization in Russia

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