⚡️🇺🇦 The Ukrainian forces have lost access to the Sea of Azov as a result of the special operation of the Russian armed forces, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry admitted

‼️🇺🇸 The United States will neither engage in hostilities in Ukraine, nor establish a no-fly zone over the country, the Pentagon chief says

📉Maryland suspended its gasoline tax Friday in a month-long reprieve to prices swollen by inflation and geopolitics.

The emergency bill, signed by Gov. Larry Hogan (R) and the General Assembly’s Democratic leaders, lifts the 36-cent-per-gallon levy and urges gas station owners to immediately pass along those savings at the pump.

For motorists with a typical 12-gallon tank, that would amount to about $4.32 in savings per tank.

Hogan and others backed a longer holiday, but one month was a compromise with Democratic lawmakers, who noted that a lot could change within 30 days.

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🔷The State Department on Friday refused to detail what "red lines" the U.S. would draw with respect to China’s support for Russia amid its special military operation in Ukraine.

President Biden warned Chinese President Xi Jinping in a call Friday morning that there would be "consequences" if Beijing provides Moscow with "material support".

China has so far remained neutral on the Ukrainian crisis. On Friday, Xi argued the U.S. and NATO should hold talks "with Russia to address the crux of the Ukraine crisis and ease the security concerns of both Russia and Ukraine."

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⚡️Russian forces carry out rocket attacks on enhanced team sites of Ukrainian nationalists, camouflaged armored vehicles destroyed, Defence Ministry says

⚡️Moscow working on response to illegitimate sanctions imposed by US, EU, Russian foreign ministry tells Sputnik

⚡️Russia's Bastion coastal missile system destroys centers of radio intelligence of Ukrainian troops in Odessa region, Russian Defence Ministry says

⚡️Russia's Kinzhal hypersonic missiles complex destroys large underground missile depot of Ukrainian troops in Ivano-Frankovsk region, Russian Defence Ministry says

📸The Russian Defence Ministry on Saturday released video footage showing Ka-52 helicopter attacks against enhanced team sites of Ukrainian nationalists and the destruction of one of them

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⚡️Russian media regulator urges Google to quit restricting Russian press, resources on YouTube, warning of technological impact measures

❗️Crew of 4 dead after US military aircraft crash in Norway on Friday, police say

⚡️Four civilians die over past 24 hours in DPR as a result of shelling by Ukrainian troops, Donetsk says

📸 On Saturday, the Russian Defence Ministry released video footage of the Russian armed forces destroying Ukrainian intelligence, subversion units with precision weapons

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❗️ The Russian MoD latest's statements:

▪️ The "Kinzhal" missile system with hypersonic aeroballistic missiles was used to destroy a Ukrainian underground ammunition depot for the first time during the operation.

▪️ The "Bastion" coastal missile system destroyed Ukrainian radio and electronic intelligence centres in the Odessa region.

▪️ Sixty-nine Ukrainian military facilities were hit, including three S-300s and one Buk-M1.

▪️ 196 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles, 1,438 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, and 145 multiple rocket launchers have been destroyed since the beginning of the special military operation.

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❗️ The United States is considering disconnecting Russia from GPS - Roscosmos head Rogozin

📸 📹 Footage of the destruction of a warehouse with Ukrainian weapons by a Russian high-precision missile.

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❗️ Lavrov on Russia's special operation: We had no other choice, we managed to disrupt the anti-Russian project of the West

⚡️ Pentagon chief advises China against supporting Russian special operation in Ukraine

The United States has made it clear to China that extending support to Russia's military operation in Ukraine would be a "bad choice," US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said

⚡️ Russia's demands in negotiations on a settlement with Ukraine are minimal, Lavrov says