‘Isaac is a very fast and intelligent rat. He is good at concentrating on finding TNT.’

In Tanzania, giant hamster rats are trained to be professional bomb disposal experts. They work in minefields in former hotspots. The rodents can easily smell carefully camouflaged explosive devices thanks to their excellent sense of smell.

Do you want to see how a bomb-sniffing rat is trained? Then, watch the clip and film Isaac: The Story of a Little Giant.

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‘Mom always worries about it so it doesn’t hurt’. Oksana is comforted that her son died without pain. He died defending the inhabitants of the LPR from Ukrainian shelling.

Oksana lived in Moscow, and when she came to collect her son's body, she decided to stay in the Donbass and become a volunteer: ‘I realized that pain, sorrow and grief are everywhere here. I realized that I need to do something for people’.

Her story will be featured in a new RT Documentary film. In the meantime, watch our video about her.

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‘The Ukrainian forces began to shell heavily… they burnt my house down. They kicked my parents out, they had a 3-storey house. They’re in their 80s.’ Mariupol residents speak of their experience while the city was occupied by Ukraine's Armed Forces. The Ukrainian army left behind destroyed houses and continued shelling buildings even as they retreated.

See people's recollections and war correspondents' stories in our premiere - Battle for Mariupol.

#premiere #Ukraine #Mariupol

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Did you know the British have carried out military training operations in Ukraine since 2015? Read the post by a former Security Service of Ukraine employee’s channel to learn how much Ukrainian soldiers were trained by Britain as part of Operation Orbital.

Join the channel UKR LEAKS of Vasily Prozorov, who you can also meet in our documentary Donbass: Battle of Debaltsevo. There he theorises Kiev never intended to negotiate with southeast Ukraine. So tap the button and watch the film.

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Massive Smoke Column after Blast in Donetsk – reports

Video emerging on social media appears to show an explosion near Soledar in the DPR. Online footage shows heavy black smoke in the area.

According to preliminary reports, the blast might have been the result of shelling on local Ukrainian positions.

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‘I am a black gay immigrant woman ... to hold this position’. So the new White House Press Secretary decided to talk about just that at her first briefing.

Karine Jean-Pierre is 44 years old, and she raises a daughter with her lesbian partner. She has an ideal profile for the US Democratic Party: Jean-Pierre is an African American with Haitian roots, a representative of the LGBT community who studied at the prestigious Columbia University.

Karine Jean-Pierre replaced Jen Psaki as US President’s spokeswoman. Previously Karine stood behind the podium only when Psaki was ill or on vacation.

Now, this is who we’ll learn about the administration’s policy direction and possible further sanctions against Russia. But do sanctions have a strong bite? Watch the film Sanctions: Opportunity in Disguise.

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‘I walked into his room and saw… a little bag of powder lying on the floor; I took it to a lab. They said, ‘Yes, it’s meth’. No addict would ever admit, ‘Dad, it’s awful, but I’m doing drugs”.

Victor found out his son was using drugs when Valentin was in the 8th grade. He died of an overdose, never cured of his addiction. More and more young people are becoming victims of drugs because of the contactless online drug shopping system on the Dark Net. You can buy drugs and pick it up on the street in two clicks.

Watch our video about how the drug business works on the Dark Net and how it is being fought.You can learn more about the Deep Web in our Dark Net Dope Deals premiere.

#premiere #drugs

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‘Azov came and said: ‘Come to the factory, to the bomb shelter!’. And then they say: 'We're going to die, and all of you will die here with us!'.

Michael, a worker at the Azovstal plant, talks about how the Azov fighters lured people to the facility to use them as human shields. Today, when the Ukrainian media call the surrender of nationalists ‘evacuation’, I want to show them this video. And to convey the words of an Azovstal worker, where his colleagues who were held hostage died: ‘They're not human! They must be exterminated! They don't deserve a trial’.

This is an interview from our new film. The premiere is coming soon.

#video #Ukraine #Mariupol

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‘Living here is hell.’ In 2021, people in the Lugansk region told reporters they had been living under constant shelling from the Ukrainian military. ‘It was scary because, at any moment, you could lose your life, which has hardly begun’, says schoolgirl Valeria.

This is a clip from the film Donbass: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. It’s about the ‘anti-terrorist operation’ in Ukraine, the brutality of neo-Nazi battalions, and what they did to civilians.

Today is LPR Constitution Day. Its development and discussion began in a tent camp near the SSU building in Luhansk. The document’s creation was almost a spontaneous idea because there was no time for it: there were Ukrainian troops on the outskirts of the republic. The constitution became the first legislative act of the newly born republic.

#video #LPR #Donbass

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Today is the Day of the Baltic Fleet, the oldest naval formation in Russia. For some time, it included the submarine Magnitogorsk. It was so silent NATO dubbed the type ‘the black hole’. The submarine Magnitogorsk can dive to a depth of 350 meters and is capable of being at sea for up to 45 days.

See our video about it in the first episode of The Baltic Fleet series.

#series #Russia #NATO

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'Kids picked on and laughed at me'. Lalit from India remembers how schoolmates bullied him. His body is covered with excessive hair due to a faulty gene. It was hard to be different when he was a child, but as he grew up, Lalit accepted his identity. Now he is a very famous person in India and has many friends. See what he says about how he overcame all the difficulties on the video.

There are more than 25,000 genes in human DNA. If one behaves differently, it can cause various changes. Watch our documentary We Are Different to learn the stories of Lalit and two other people whose appearance is different due to an altered gene and how it affected their lives.

#video #India

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Have you already heard how former US President George W. Bush misspoke in a speech about the situation in Ukraine, condemning the 'invasion of Iraq'? His gaffe led people to remember the U.S. campaign in 2003 after the Bush administration accused Iraq of having weapons of mass destruction. Later it turned out that there was no evidence for this. Watch the video.

The consequences of the U.S. invasion were terrible. The Iraq conflict turned into a war with ISIS*. We have a film about Mosul, one of the largest Iraqi cities. Watch how it was recovering after wars in our film Mosul Between War & Peace.

*considered as terrorist banned in the Russian Federation

#video #Ukraine #Iraq

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‘They provide medical care, make dressings, feed. Not everything is as they tell us on TV’. The captured Ukrainian Navy sniper Andrey Kavyuk was frightened by tales about the atrocities of the DPR militias. They said, ‘in captivity, they cut their ears and noses’. How the surrendered enemy is treated in the Donetsk People’s Republic, Kavyuk himself saw when he laid down his arms together with his colleagues.

Kavyuk was a sniper at the Ilyich plant, where 1,300 marines of the 36th brigade of the Ukrainian Army surrendered in April. During the retreat, he came under fire, and the car turned over. Together with other Ukrainian soldiers, Kavyuk fled. The Marines reached the river but could not cross. They were found there.

This story will be included in a new RT Documentary film about doctors who work in a war zone. They save the lives of civilians and militias and operate on captured Ukrainian soldiers. The premiere is coming soon.

#video #Ukraine #Donetsk

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‘They were beating me; there was torture and everything. Well, precisely in these basements,’ Ivan Kostenkov from the village of Muratovo recounted how the Aidar* battalion tortured him.

The nationalists tried to force him to spy on his friends who supported the LPR leadership, but he refused to do it even under torture. He was held captive for more than a month. Look at this brave man.

*Ukrainian radical nationalist formation

#video #Ukraine #Lugansk

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'There are never kisses at weddings. We will start talking to each other in a month or so'. These are the words of the Kalderash Gypsy Andrei, who was married at 12. When he turned ten, his parents started looking for a young bride.

Child marriage is common in Roma villages. Whether the kids want it or not, no one asks. Watch Andrei's story in our video.

What goes on inside this unusual culture? Check out the film Romany Romance.

#video #marriage

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‘It’s quiet here! In Mariupol, there’s heavy shelling’. Seven-year-old Dima talks about what he went through. The boy's parents died, hiding him from Ukrainian shelling. Finally, Russian soldiers found him and brought him to the Children's Social Centre in Khartsyzsk.

‘The kid’s very scared. He blinks a lot and squeezes his eyes’, - the centre’s teachers haven’t told Dima about his parents. He thinks he lost them. Ten days after filming, Dima was taken by his uncle.

There are 17 children in the Children's Social Centre. Most of them were taken out of the war zone by volunteers. Those who risk their lives to save others are featured in our video premiere of VolunTears.

#premiere #Mariupol #Ukraine

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