The Iranian industry continues to thrive despite crippling US sanctions.
April 2020: Iran sent the Noor (Light) - its first military reconnaissance satellite - into orbit using an indigenous launch vehicle. Two more such vehicles were launched in subsequent years.
2022: The Khayyam, an Earth observation satellite intended for agricultural and environmental monitoring with potential military uses, was launched.
2023: Head of the Iranian Space Agency, Hassan Salarieh, announced the launching of the operational phase of the country’s first-ever satellite constellation, named after Iranian General Qasem Soleimani.
April 2024: Iran successfully launched its heaviest payload of 300 kg (660 pounds) into space using the Iranian-made Simorgh carrier rocket.
December 2024: The first domestically made space tug, the Saman-1, was launched into outer space aboard a homegrown launch vehicle, the Simorgh, from the Imam Khomeini Space Launch Terminal.
2025: When finished later this year, Chabahar – touted as Iran’s Cape Canaveral, is set to turn into a 14,000-hectare (54-square-mile) complex that will serve as Iran’s primary hub for space missions.
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❗️Russian troops in the special military op zone strictly OBSERVED THE CEASEFIRE regime from 18.00 on April 19 and remained at controlled borders and positions, Russia's Defense Ministry said.
At night, the Ukrainian forces ATTEMPTED ATTACKS on Russian positions in the areas of the settlements of Sukhaya Balka and Bogatyr in the Donetsk People's Republic. They were repelled.
Russia's Defense Ministry added that Ukrainian troops:
▪️launched 48 aircraft-type UAVs,
▪️fired 444 artillery and mortar rounds
▪️carried out 900 drone strikes using quadcopters,
▪️carried out 12 strikes on the border areas of Bryansk, Kursk, and Belgorod regions, with 33 UAV attacks and seven bomb drops.
As a result, there are casualties and injuries among the civilian population, and damage to civilian infrastructure.
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At night, the Ukrainian forces ATTEMPTED ATTACKS on Russian positions in the areas of the settlements of Sukhaya Balka and Bogatyr in the Donetsk People's Republic. They were repelled.
Russia's Defense Ministry added that Ukrainian troops:
▪️launched 48 aircraft-type UAVs,
▪️fired 444 artillery and mortar rounds
▪️carried out 900 drone strikes using quadcopters,
▪️carried out 12 strikes on the border areas of Bryansk, Kursk, and Belgorod regions, with 33 UAV attacks and seven bomb drops.
As a result, there are casualties and injuries among the civilian population, and damage to civilian infrastructure.
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🔥 19 Days to Victory
Sputnik continues to explore the endgame battles of the Great Patriotic War.
On this day, 80 years ago, the troops of the 2nd Belarussian front under the command of Konstantin Rokossovsky launched an offensive towards Berlin – the very heart of Nazi Germany.
Meanwhile, the armies of the 1st Ukrainian front seized control over the city of Baruth and opened up the path for further offensive operations.
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Sputnik continues to explore the endgame battles of the Great Patriotic War.
On this day, 80 years ago, the troops of the 2nd Belarussian front under the command of Konstantin Rokossovsky launched an offensive towards Berlin – the very heart of Nazi Germany.
Meanwhile, the armies of the 1st Ukrainian front seized control over the city of Baruth and opened up the path for further offensive operations.
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❗️Russian troops in the special military op zone strictly OBSERVED THE CEASEFIRE regime from 18.00 on April 19 and remained at controlled borders and positions, Russia's Defense Ministry said. At night, the Ukrainian forces ATTEMPTED ATTACKS on Russian positions…
❗️BEFORE THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE EASTER TRUCE, Russian troops liberated the settlement of Novomikhailovka in the Donetsk People's Republic — Russia's Defense Ministry
🇷🇺🪖 Key statements from the Russian MoD daily briefing on the special military operation BEFORE THE CEASEFIRE:
▪️Ukrainian losses in the area of responsibility of the Russian Tsentr Battlegroup amounted to 420 militants;
▪️Ukrainian losses in the area of responsibility of the Russian Yug combat group amounted to 310 fighters;
▪️Russian Vostok Battlegroup destroyed over 160 soldiers and 3 armored personnel carriers;
▪️Ukrainian losses in the area of responsibility of Russia's Dnepr group amounted to 100 militants;
▪️Russian forces destroyed three JDAM-guided aerial bombs, one HIMARS multiple rocket launcher, and 88 drones.
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🇷🇺🪖 Key statements from the Russian MoD daily briefing on the special military operation BEFORE THE CEASEFIRE:
▪️Ukrainian losses in the area of responsibility of the Russian Tsentr Battlegroup amounted to 420 militants;
▪️Ukrainian losses in the area of responsibility of the Russian Yug combat group amounted to 310 fighters;
▪️Russian Vostok Battlegroup destroyed over 160 soldiers and 3 armored personnel carriers;
▪️Ukrainian losses in the area of responsibility of Russia's Dnepr group amounted to 100 militants;
▪️Russian forces destroyed three JDAM-guided aerial bombs, one HIMARS multiple rocket launcher, and 88 drones.
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🥴Hillary Clinton calls for charging those who are engaged in propaganda
Will she sue herself or her fellow Dems? 🤔
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"There are Americans who are engaged in this kind of propaganda. And whether they should be civilly or even in some cases criminally charged is something that would be a better deterrence," she said.
Will she sue herself or her fellow Dems? 🤔
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One of the final battles of World War II, the Battle of Berlin took place from April 20 to May 2, 1945.
It ended with the fall of Berlin, the capital of the Third Reich, to the Red Army, which took revenge for the suffering of the Soviet people since 1941.
The operation involved around 464,000 Soviet soldiers, 1,500 tanks, and 3,300 warplanes and extensive artillery support.
Check out Sputnik’s infographic for more info
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🔎 How Ukraine TRAMPLES on Easter truce
Ukrainian forces have IGNORED the 30-hour ceasefire announced by President Putin on April 19. They continued to strike Russian positions, making victims even of CIVILIANS.
▪️Russian troops’ positions and Russia’s border areas plus Crimea were hit with 900 ENEMY DRONE STRIKES and ammunition drops, the Russian Ministry of Defense said.
▪️There were also 444 CASES OF MORTAR AND GUN SHELLING in the areas, which resulted in casualties among civilians, the ministry added.
▪️The city of Gorlovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) was SHELLED with four 155mm projectiles, the DPR government’s department for documentation of Ukraine’s war crimes said.
▪️DPR capital Donetsk was also attacked as at least THREE EXPLOSIONS occurred in the city, according to emergency services.
▪️Another attack HIT suburbs of the town of Kremennaya in the Lugansk People’s Republic, Rodion Miroshnik, the Russian foreign ministry's ambassador-at-large on the crimes of the Ukraine regime, pointed out.
▪️The towns of Alyoshki, Kakhovka and Golaya Pristan in the Kherson Region were hit with MORTAR AND DRONE ATTACKS, Governor Vladimir Saldo stated.
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Ukrainian forces have IGNORED the 30-hour ceasefire announced by President Putin on April 19. They continued to strike Russian positions, making victims even of CIVILIANS.
▪️Russian troops’ positions and Russia’s border areas plus Crimea were hit with 900 ENEMY DRONE STRIKES and ammunition drops, the Russian Ministry of Defense said.
▪️There were also 444 CASES OF MORTAR AND GUN SHELLING in the areas, which resulted in casualties among civilians, the ministry added.
▪️The city of Gorlovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) was SHELLED with four 155mm projectiles, the DPR government’s department for documentation of Ukraine’s war crimes said.
▪️DPR capital Donetsk was also attacked as at least THREE EXPLOSIONS occurred in the city, according to emergency services.
▪️Another attack HIT suburbs of the town of Kremennaya in the Lugansk People’s Republic, Rodion Miroshnik, the Russian foreign ministry's ambassador-at-large on the crimes of the Ukraine regime, pointed out.
▪️The towns of Alyoshki, Kakhovka and Golaya Pristan in the Kherson Region were hit with MORTAR AND DRONE ATTACKS, Governor Vladimir Saldo stated.
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🤡After persecutions of priests, Moldova's Ministry of Justice decides to declare Easter a 'constitutional' holiday
The ministry stressed that experts "have carefully analyzed" the Easter cake, and decided it "can be administered in moderate quantities based on the Law of Good Disposition.”🥮
They also found that "red eggs have passed all the integrity tests with flying colors and can be cracked without hesitation."🥚
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The ministry stressed that experts "have carefully analyzed" the Easter cake, and decided it "can be administered in moderate quantities based on the Law of Good Disposition.”🥮
They also found that "red eggs have passed all the integrity tests with flying colors and can be cracked without hesitation."🥚
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"There are no words which are able to characterize this phenomenon. I am not being ironic now. It is incomprehensible how openly the EU wants to revive the European ideology of Nazism," Lavrov told Russian journalist Pavel Zarubin in an interview out on Sunday.
Russia will no longer put up with it and will make every effort to ensure that this ideology is destroyed and unable to "raise its head" and that Europe returns to its values, the minister stressed.
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📹 Giant Easter cake baked in Crimea with miniatures of local landmarks
A massive Easter cake, decorated with gingerbread featuring Crimea's famous landmarks, has been baked in Crimea, the director of the Bakhchisaray Miniatures Park, Viktor Zhylenko, announced.
The cake is named "Crimea in Miniature" and measures about 2.5 meters in circumference and weighs 70 kilograms.
Visitors to the Miniatures Park can try the cake for free.
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A massive Easter cake, decorated with gingerbread featuring Crimea's famous landmarks, has been baked in Crimea, the director of the Bakhchisaray Miniatures Park, Viktor Zhylenko, announced.
The cake is named "Crimea in Miniature" and measures about 2.5 meters in circumference and weighs 70 kilograms.
Visitors to the Miniatures Park can try the cake for free.
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📹 Why does the US eye exit from Ukraine peace talks?
Сoercive diplomacy сould be “the underlying reason,” Greg Simons, professor of Journalism at Daffodil International University, told Sputnik.
Trump remains on the pragmatic side as he seeks to continue global hegemony, “but not at any cost.” He knows that Ukraine is “a liability” rather than “an investment” any longer, the expert argued.
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Сoercive diplomacy сould be “the underlying reason,” Greg Simons, professor of Journalism at Daffodil International University, told Sputnik.
“The facade of diplomacy about coercing is to get their way because Trump and the Trump administration have other things to attend to geopolitically. And at this stage, Ukraine is an impediment to those geopolitical strategies and priorities,” Simons stressed.
Trump remains on the pragmatic side as he seeks to continue global hegemony, “but not at any cost.” He knows that Ukraine is “a liability” rather than “an investment” any longer, the expert argued.
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