📸 📹 Russian"Forpost" attack drones destroyed Ukrainian military equipment.

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⚡️ More than 12,000 refugees from Donbass have crossed the border with the Russian Federation over the past 24 hours - Border control in the Rostov region

⚡️ The head of the Investigative Committee of Russia Bastrykin has instructed to probe the circumstances of the shelling of a school in the LPR, the mining of a chemical plant in Sumy, and a school in the Nikolaev region, the Investigative Committee of Russia says

❗️ The Russian National Guard has captured the leaders of national formations and accomplices of the SBU during an operation to free Izyum, capturing important documents - the National Guard

⚡️ Erdogan to attend NATO summit in Brussels on March 24 - Turkish foreign minister

⚡️ Biden not planning to visit Ukraine yet - US envoy to the UN

⚡️ US won't send troops to Ukraine to avoid war with Russia - Permanent Representative to the UN

⚡️ Zelensky signs law extending martial law in Ukraine for 30 days starting from March 26 - Verkhovna Rada website

Russia has used the TOS-1A thermobaric rocket launcher in Ukraine.

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⚡️ Russian forces close to defeating Ukrainian nationalist battalion 'Donbass', Defence Ministry says

🤯 📹 Ukrainian neo-Nazis from the Azov Battalion deliberately destroyed a swimming pool in the centre of Mariupol, killing many civilians inside it, refugee Nina Kulaeva says

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❗️ Catch up with the latest Russian MoD’s statements:

▪️ Units of the Russian Armed Forces are close to completing the defeat of the nationalist battalion "Donbass".

▪️ DPR troops are fighting for the capture of the settlements of Kamenka and Novoselivka-2.

▪️ Russian air defence systems shot down seven Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles.

▪️ Operational-tactical and Army aviation of Russia hit 89 Ukrainian military facilities over the past 24 hours.

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🤔 📹 Boris Johnson has found himself in hot water for comparing Ukrainians to people in Britain voting for Brexit.

In a speech, he said Britons, like Ukrainians, had the instinct "to choose freedom" and cited the 2016 vote to leave the EU as a "recent example".

Many experts condemned the comparison, calling it an attempt to score political points against the backdrop of the prime minister's falling approval ratings amid Partygate and general dissatisfaction with the Conservative Party.

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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian MoD calls on Kiev to take back its order to militants to become "martyrs of Mariupol"

🔎Hunter Biden, second son of US President Joe Biden, is being investigated by the Justice Department over his finances including, according to US media reports, some of his business dealings in China.

During the 2020 election campaign, he and his father were frequently accused by Donald Trump and his associates of wrongdoing in regards to China and Ukraine, allegations which they both denied.

The New York Post reported on an alleged email in which an adviser from a Ukrainian energy company, Burisma, apparently thanked Hunter for inviting him to meet his father, Joe Biden.

Asked about the allegations, Joe Biden told a reporter it was a "smear campaign". No criminal activity has been proven, and no evidence has emerged that Mr. Biden did anything to intentionally benefit his son.

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Official Kiev encouraged nationalists in the besieged city to become an "example of resilience," sacrifice themselves so that they would be given the status of "martyrs of Mariupol," according to the the head of the Russian National Defense Control Center, Mikhail Mizintsev.

To achieve this goal, they were given the green light to use more than 200,000 of the city residents as "human shields," he noted.