🇪🇺😁In the EU sanctions list, Lvov, a city in Western Ukraine, has been defined as a city located in the Russian Federation.

Someone give them a map, please

🇸🇾 Syria's envoy to the UN, Bashar Jaafari told Sputnik that the US 🇺🇸 had been developing a plan and provoking a conflict in Ukraine🇺🇦 to block the supply of Russia's gas 🇷🇺 to Europe long before the beginning of Moscow's special military operation in Ukraine.

"The West did understand that it was pushing the Ukrainian president into a conflict in order to explode the situation in Ukraine. That is why they held a summit of gas exporting countries in Doha and then summoned the Qatari emir. All this shows that President Putin has been in the position of a defendant rather than an attacker all this time," the deputy minister said.

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🇷🇺🇺🇳Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN Vassily Nebenzia blasted the role that his “Western colleagues” played in “fueling the Ukrainian crisis” in his speech on Monday.

Nebenzia says Western nations gave Kiev “carte blanche” to commit the “unspeakable” acts that have taken place since the 2014 coup, including:

❗️ “flagrant discrimination” against Russian-speaking people
❗️ “glorification of Hitler’s accomplices”
❗️ “arranging a religious schism in Ukraine”

What he also said:

◾️Russian mission blocked “anti-Russian” resolution because it left out how the “junta that rose to power after the unconstitutional coup d'état in Kiev in February 2014 waged war on the people of eastern Ukraine.”

◾️We received letter from Ukrainian rights organization denouncing Ukrainian regime’s decision to release from prison “convicts… who committed felonies” including murder, and arm them with assault rifles.

◾️Nationalists now hold the Ukrainian people “as hostages and use [them] as a human shield… Basically, it is the same tactics as that of ISIL* terrorists.”

◾️“Since there is no proof that the Russian military [destroyed] civilian infrastructure, Ukrainian strikes and occasional hits are presented as such” amid an all-out “information war on Russia.”

* A terrorist group banned in Russia

⚡️🇺🇸URGENT: multiple victims are reported at an active shooting scene at a church in the Arden area of Sacramento County

⚡️🇺🇸 Local law enforcement are responding to a mass casualty shooting in Sacramento

📽✖️🇷🇺 Disney is putting the release of theatrical films in Russia on hold over the Ukraine situation.

UPDATE: A man shot four people, including his three children, and then committed suicide, local TV report

🔔 Here are the latest updates on the Ukraine crisis in case you missed something:

🤝Russian and Ukrainian negotiators have found some points of contact from which common positions can be built on, said the head of the Russian delegation, adding that the sides agreed to meet on the Polish-Belarusian border next time;

❗️BUT Ukrainian President Zelensky claims that “so far” the Kiev delegation has yet to reach “a result that we would like to achieve.”

🇺🇳🇷🇺Meanwhile, Russia's envoy to the UN says received letter from Ukrainian rights organization denouncing Ukrainian regime’s decision to release from prison “convicts… who committed felonies” including murder, and arm them with assault rifles.

⚽️❕ FIFA and UEFA say all Russian teams “shall be suspended from participation… until further notice,” leaving Russian participation in the World Cup in doubt. The Russian Football Federation said it “categorically disagreed” with the decision, which it denounced as going against the “spirit of sports.”

🇹🇷 Turkish President Recep Erdogan moved to restrict the passage of warships through the Bosphorus & Dardanelles 🌊⛴ but says the country “won’t turn away from Russia or Ukraine.” ⬇️ Unclear which side will be more affected by the decision since most of Russia’s relevant naval assets are already in position in the Black Sea

❗️🇷🇺Mastercard says it has “blocked multiple financial institutions from the Mastercard payment network” as part of the West's anti-Russia sanctions

⚡️⚡️🇸🇾 Damascus does not rule out the possibility of the US airlifting IS* and other terrorists from Syria to Ukraine

*a terrorist organization banned in Russia

🔹AOC and Bernie Sanders' ‘Democratic Socialists group’ blames the US for Russia's special operation in Ukraine and demands NATO is scrapped: 'US must end the imperialist expansionism that set the stage for this conflict'

The Democratic Socialists of America's statement blaming the West for Russia's spec op was shredded by Democrat lawmakers

Immediately after demanding a ceasefire the progressive group also called for an end to 'further intervention' by the allies

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❗️Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Bashar Jaafari told Sputnik that the United States had transferred terrorists from Syria to Afghanistan and Burkina-Faso and that the use of mercenaries is Washington's well-established practice.

Given that, US special services have all the capabilities of sending members of the Islamic State* and other radical groups in Syria, to Ukraine

*a terrorist organization banned in Russia

❗️🎥 Warner Bros. says it has pulled this week's release of 'The Batman' from Russian screens

💉🦠 The coronavirus vaccine made by Pfizer-BioNTech is much less effective in preventing infection in children ages 5 to 11 years than in older adolescents or adults, according to a large new set of data collected by health officials in New York State — a finding that has deep ramifications for these children and their parents.

The Pfizer vaccine is the only Covid shot authorized for that age group in the United States. It still prevents severe illness in the children, but offers virtually no protection against infection, even within a month after full immunization, the data, which were collected during the Omicron surge, suggest.

The findings, which were posted online on Monday, come on the heels of clinical trial results indicating that the vaccine fared poorly in children aged 2 to 4 years, who received an even smaller dose.

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⚡️ Ukrainian forces shelled Gorlovka using prohibited 120mm mortars, DPR says

According to US Senator Chris Murphy, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, the West is preparing further restrictive measures against Moscow, including against Russian President Vladimir Putin.

🗣 "The U.S. and allies are coordinating to not only freeze the assets of Putin and his oligarch allies, but to seize those assets as well. This is likely a further step than Putin’s inner circle anticipated," Murphy said

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⚡️ Visa has made an official statement saying that it "is taking prompt action to ensure compliance with applicable sanctions, and is prepared to comply with additional sanctions that may be implemented"

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According to The Hollywood Reporter, both Warner Bros. and Sony followed Disney’s suit, announcing similar moves later on Monday.

WarnerMedia is putting a pause on the release of its feature film The Batman in Russia, while Sony said that it was pausing the release of Morbius

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⚡️ Tochka U missile shot down over DPR, cassette part of charge could contain phosphorus, fragments damaged houses, Donetsk says

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