⚡️ Macron to hold phone conversation with Hungarian PM and European Commission head on question of embargo on Russian oil

📌 The latest update on the Ukraine operation from Russia's Defence Ministry:

▪️ Units of the DPR Militia, with support from the Russian armed forces, have reached the administrative border of the LPR;

▪️ DPR Militia and Russian armed forces eliminated up to 120 nationalists, 13 armoured vehicles, and 12 vehicles;

▪️ Russian army aviation hit 16 areas of concentrated manpower and military equipment;

▪️ Russian air defences shot down three Ukrainian drones and a Tochka-U missile overnight;

▪️ A Ukrainian SU-25 was hit during an aerial battle;

▪️ 300 anti-aircraft missile systems have already been destroyed during the special operation

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🎞 📹 The Mayor of Kremennaya, Volodymyr Struk, was tortured and killed by Ukrainian militants. Local residents say that he was dragged out of his office by people wearing masks. There were no Russians anywhere nearby

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🎞 📹 A Mariupol resident tells a shocking story of how a Ukrainian female sniper killed an innocent civilian right in front of his family, and how Ukrainian forces drove people into a basement, locked them there and set it on fire

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❗Two people killed, five injured, including child in shelling of Donetsk - DPR

⛽ The cost of gasoline in the US rose to $4.4 per gallon, beating the previous record set in March, according to the American Automobile Association.

At the end of March, Biden announced that the US would release a million barrels of strategic reserves a day for six months to curb rising petrol prices.

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"We can finally breathe": Starobelsk residents on the long-awaited restoration of Victory Day celebrations

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Some entrepreneurs have lost their business as a result of today's shelling of Donetsk

A gaggle of journalists from the Washington Post (a newspaper owned by Jeff Bezos) have won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service because of their coverage of the storming of the Capitol on 6 January 2021. The building came under attack by Donald Trump supporters convinced the election had been stolen by the Democrats and the newspaper related the affair in an article entitled 'The Attack'.

The Pulitzer committee said in its citation that the paper had won "for its compellingly told and vividly presented account of the assault on Washington on 6 January 2021, providing the public with a thorough and unflinching understanding of one of the nation's darkest days."

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💭The former president has taken a dig at the winners of the prize, recalling the reporters’ role in spreading a debunked conspiracy theory that he colluded with the Kremlin to steal the 2016 presidential election from Hillary Clinton: “Why should the Fake News Media and their ‘journalists’ receive a Pulitzer Prize for their totally incorrect reporting on Russia, Russia, Russia? It was a complete HOAX. The Pulitzer committee is in turmoil,” Trump wrote in a post.

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"A month-and-a-half in the basement": A DPR soldier tells how the evacuation of civilians from the Ilyich plant in Mariupol was conducted

❗Germany to reduce its dependence on Russian energy resources to 'zero', German foreign minister says

German foreign minister: There will be no lifting of sanctions against Russia behind Ukraine's back

❗Lavrov calls Borrell’s proposal to transfer Russia's frozen assets to Ukraine ‘theft’

🎞 📹 A Mariupol veteran couldn't help crying while talking to DPR head Denis Pushilin. He said that people have been waiting to be liberated for so long and thanked Pushilin for fighting.

He's wearing his St. George's ribbon, which he has kept all these years despite it being banned in Ukraine

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⚡The US does not currently see a "viable negotiating path" to resolve the conflict in Ukraine, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines says

❗Ankara hopes for success in F-16 deal with US, Turkish defence minister says

🛢Brazilian oil giant Petrobras declined a US request in March to boost crude output after the US’ embargo on Russian oil sent prices up, Reuters reports