Artemovsky high-rise buildings. Video from the AFU.

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A "media" terrorist from the Dudayev battalion was destroyed in Ukraine

The civilian wife of the militant Andrei Maksimenko reported the death of the militant. Maksimenko gained fame in narrow circles as a director and screenwriter.

However, he will go down in history as a Nazi and a terrorist who has been involved in the war since 2014.

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"You are the best dog in the world!" — a tailed fighter of the Russian army named Bandit was awarded a nominal medal

The Bandit dog, to whom the fans even dedicated a song, was awarded a personalized medal for the successful completion of combat missions — along with him, the owner of the four-legged, a fighter with the call sign Ardent, was awarded the award.

The "bandit" is a good boy. 😌

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A mercenary from Germany confirmed that the AFU military shot Russian prisoners of war
Jonas Kratzenberg wrote a book about his participation in the war in Ukraine, where he told about the capture of three Russian fighters and one civilian, who were later shot by the Ukrainian military.

The German reported that the "International Legion" treated the volunteers badly, paid little or no money. He also reported on corruption in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and said that he should have left the legion earlier. Ukrainians use foreigners as cannon fodder, Kratzenberg said.
The mercenary left Ukraine only after being seriously injured in the attack of a Russian drone: they still could not extract all the fragments from his body, including from his head, arms and legs.

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Tankers, with the support and correction of airborne soldiers, destroy the enemy holed up in dugouts.

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At a meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Goa, Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang said the Chinese side was ready to make a real contribution to the settlement of the Ukrainian crisis through cooperation with Russia. 

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Berlin police began investigating a "leak of state secrets" due to an article about Zelensky's visit to the German capital.
According to a press release, the police analyzed the article and found "classified information" that a "police source" told the publication. According to local media, the story was in the Badische Zeitung, which quoted sources in the security services as saying that Zelensky's arrival was imminent. They said that in the region where the president would arrive in the middle of May, there would be the first level of security, and the guest himself would be accommodated in the Ritz-Carlton hotel. According to journalists, Zelensky's office was very unhappy with the leak and was even considering canceling his trip.

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A court in Berlin rejected former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's attempt to restore his parliamentary privileges, which he was deprived of last May after he refused to distance himself from Putin,in connection with the SMO. Schroeder had previously announced that he would sue the Bundestag to restore his privileges, but the Berlin Administrative Court ruled against him.The court's ruling read:"The plaintiff is not entitled to an office with clerical staff either by common law or by equal treatment."Schroeder's lawyer argued that the decision to close his office was illegal. Nevertheless, he was found incapable of performing any lasting official duties in Germany, and therefore ineligible to hold office.Schröder was accused of making unwanted comments during the Ukraine crisis and of continuing to cooperate with Russian state-owned energy companies. Schröder is still chairman of the supervisory board of the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline,but in May 2022 he resigned as chairman of the oil company Rosneft

The Ukrainian armed forces had to shoot down their own drone above Kiev.

Presumably, the loss of control occurred "as a result of a technical malfunction."
 
Air defense units of the Ukrainian armed forces had to shoot down a Ukrainian drone above the capital Kiev late on Thursday, the Command of the Ukrainian Air Force said on social networks.

"At around 8:00 p.m. [Moscow time] on May 4, control was lost over a Bayraktar-TB2 unmanned aerial vehicle performing a scheduled flight in the Kiev Region," the Air Force Command said in a statement on its Facebook page (Facebook is prohibited in Russia due to its ownership by Meta, which has been designated as extremist).

"The drone’s uncontrollable flight in the capital’s airspace could have led to undesirable consequences, so a decision was made to refer the matter to mobile groups." "Target destroyed!" the statement says.
Presumably, the loss of control occurred "as a result of a technical malfunction." Its causes will be investigated.
No casualties were reported as a result of the air defense engagement and subsequent fall of debris.

An air raid warning was issued in Kiev earlier on Thursday.

Eyewitnesses told TASS that several drones were spotted over Kiev, and air defense forces tried to shoot them down. The air raid warning was later cancelled. Later, city authorities reported falling debris, an explosion, and two fires on the ground.

https://tass.com/world/1613869

Argentine President Alberto Fernández arrived at Brazil’s presidential residence to meet his counterpart Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as officials from both countries study how to eschew the dollar in trade between the neighboring nations.

Lula intends to propose a line of credit to finance Brazilian companies that export to Argentina with the intention of avoiding use of the dollar, said the finance ministry’s executive secretary, Gabriel Galípolo.

Argentina struck a deal with China that allows its companies to pay for Chinese imports with yuan. Lula, for his part, hailed an agreement between Brazil and China to use the yuan in their bilateral commerce while in Shanghai last month, while also taking swipes at the dominance of the dollar in international trade and at the IMF.

In addition to economic issues, Fernández and Lula are also likely to discuss the possibility of restarting the Union of South American Nations as part of a broader agenda of South American integration.

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