Actions against Russian culture and language by the West are disgusting - Venezuelan Foreign Ministry

⚡ Almost 250,000 refugees from Donbass have moved to Russia - EMERCOM

⚡️ As a result of the explosion of a cluster warhead in the center of Donetsk, 20 civilians were killed and another 28 were seriously injured, MoD says

According to Russian Defense Ministry:

⚡️ The equipping of “Tochka-U” missiles with cluster munition proves that the goal of the nationalists in Donetsk was to kill as many civilians as possible;

⚡️ The Tochka-U rocket strike on Donetsk once again confirms the Nazi and anti-human essence of the current ruling regime in Ukraine

Venezuela condemns Western sanctions against Russia as illegal and violating the UN charter.

▪️ Foreign Minister Felix Plasencia emphasised that the Russian government opposed the sanctions against Venezuela, and now Caracas will object to restrictions against the Russian people and the Russian government.

▪️ Plasencia also condemned actions against the Russian culture in the West as xenophobic

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❗️ The Russian delegation suspends work in PACE, will not take part in meetings, one of its members Senator Bashkin said

⚡️ DPR ombudsman calls shelling of Donetsk with Tochka-U missiles monstrous war crime and genocide

"NATO itself is an anachronism. It should not exist at all. NATO exists and was established to attack the east, and there is no need for it today... No one can reach an agreement, and the expansion of NATO to the very limits of Russia is in itself aggression. We condemned it in the past and we condemn it today," Plasencia said.

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❗ US-made lethal weapons found at nationalist positions in Volnovakha - adviser to the head of the DPR government

Amazon has started selling clothes, patches and cups with the insignia of the Ukrainian nationalist regiment – "Azov"

London police smash door of alleged Deripaska mansion seized by anarchists

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❗ Member of Ukrainian delegation says there is ‘technical break’ in talks with Russia until Tuesday

❗ Zelensky will adress both houses of US parliament tomorrow via videocall, Democrats' majority leaders say

❗ Israel rules out providing 'route to bypass sanctions' imposed on Russia

⚡ Russian MoD: Key Neo-Nazi forces in Mariupol residential areas destroyed

⚡ Western countries, UN & OSCE fail to condemn neo-Nazism in Ukraine, Russian MoD says

❗ The flow of refugees across the western border of Ukraine is growing, people under pressure from the Kiev authorities are forced to go to Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Romania - Russian MoD

Adviser to the DPR prime minister showed Sputnik the American lethal weapon found at the positions of nationalists in Volnovakha

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💬 The plan to implement Minsk agreements hasn't been approved for seven years because of Ukraine and US - ex-Ukraine president Yanukovych to Sputnik

Yanukovych says he offered Donbass conflict settlement plan to Zelenskiy, but he refused

⚡ UN Secretary General urged to be prudent amid calls for a no-fly zone over Ukraine, which could lead to escalation