❗️ Ukrainian radicals were keeping 300 monks and civilians hostage in monastery, Russian MoD says

📌 The Russian MoD's latest statements on the Ukraine crisis:

🔸 Some 3,687 Ukrainian military infrastructure objects have been disabled during the special operation by the Russian Federation.

🔸 Russian units eliminated some nationalists during the liberation of Nikolskoye in Ukraine, the rest were dispersed.

🔸 "Aidar" militants, having equipped firing positions right on the premises of a monastery, held about 300 civilians and monks hostage.

🔸 The Russian armed forces advanced up to 14 km during the operation in Ukraine.

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📸 Ukrainian media has published a video allegedly showing Canadian mercenaries heading to Ukraine via Warsaw?

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🆘 🙏 Russian servicemen delivered more than 40 tonnes of humanitarian aid to the residents of the Borodyansky district in the Kiev region

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📸 The Russian MoD has published drone footage of the destruction of Ukrainian MLRS by precision-guided munitions from a height of more than 3,000 metres

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⚡️ Iran's Revolutionary Guards take responsibility for missile attack on Erbil - Iran state media

❗️ Iran's Revolutionary Guards warn Israel of "harsh, decisive and destructive response" in case of future attacks - state media

⚡️ Turkish foreign minister: Sanctions against Russia will not solve the problem

⚡️ The Turkish foreign minister claims that during a telephone call with Erdogan, Putin said that he was not against a meeting with Zelensky

⚡️ Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov says that the West is putting pressure on China to restrict Moscow's access to the yuan.

"We know that part of our gold and foreign exchange reserves is in the Chinese currency, the yuan. And we see Western countries exert pressure on China in order to limit [Russia's] mutual trade with Beijing", he told the Russian broadcaster Rossiya 1.

"No doubt, the pressure is being piled on in order to limit [Russia's] access to those reserves that we have in yuan", Siluanov added

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⚡️ LPR militia discovers site of mass killing amid counteroffensive in Donbass

❗️Sullivan says doesn’t have confirmation of US journalist being killed in Ukraine, but if true this is shocking, horrifying event

❗️Sullivan says he has communicated to Beijing that US will not allow any country to compensate Russia for losses from sanctions

⚡️ US doesn’t see signs of inevitable chemical or biological attack in Ukraine, but is monitoring the situation — Pentagon

❗️The New York Times has refuted claims that journalist Brent Renaud, who has reportedly been killed in Ukraine, was on assignment for the newspaper.

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⚡️ US delegation will discuss Ukrainian crisis, bilateral ties with China in Rome on Monday — White House

⚡️ US will investigate circumstances of death of US reporter in Ukraine to determine how to react — White House

⚡️ No US citizens were injured in shelling in northern Iraq, White House says

⚡️ IMF doesn’t see a threat of global financial crisis because of Ukrainian crisis or sanctions against Russia - head

⚡️⚡️Russian MoD: Up to 180 foreign mercenaries killed in Russian strikes on Ukrainian training centres

⚡️ US strongly condemns missile strikes on Erbil, Iraq last night that emanated from Iran — State Dept