⚡️ DPR head says Ukrainian military hiding at Azovstal plant territory found and detained

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

▪️ Russia's armed forces destroyed two artillery batteries and two ammunition depots near the Nikolaevka and Berestovoye areas in the DPR;

▪️ Russian air defences have shot down a Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopter in the Kharkov region;

▪️ Russian air defences have shot Ukrainian aircraft delivering ammunition and weapons in the Odessa region;

▪️ Russian aviation hit two weapon ordnance and two Ukrainian mortar crews; eliminated more than 350 nationalists;

▪️ Russian armed forces shot down two Soviet-made Tu-143 "Reys" jet drones near the LPR;

▪️ Russian armed forces destroyed 15 foreign specialists with their technical and operational personnel security near Nikolaev;

▪️ Russian armed forces destroyed an Osa-AKM anti-aircraft missile system and a Ukrainian S-300 anti-aircraft missile system

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📹🎞 More than 300 people were buried in the trenches back in March in Mariupol, when the city was under Ukrainian neo-Nazis control. The remains of people are being unearthed so that their identities and the cause of their death can be established

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⚡️ Ukrainian forces strike settlement in Donbass with 40 Grad rockets, JCCC in LPR says

⚡️⚡️ Kremlin: West should abolish illegal decisions that prevent grain export from Ukraine

📹 Russia’s MoD has published footage showing the launch of the R-500 cruise missile by the Iskander-K complex at a Ukrainian military facility

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❗Sanctions affect everyone, developed nations haven't seen inflation this high in decades, Putin says

❗Putin: The development of Eurasian integration is not connected with the present situation in the world

A parent of one of the children who was killed in the Texas school shooting blames the police that they "didn’t do a darn thing [until] it was far too late".

“Let’s just rush in because the cops aren’t doing anything like they are supposed to,” Javier Cazares reportedly said he told other onlookers at the scene.

A witness who lives across the street from the school also said onlookers begged the police to do something. An alleged video from the scene shows someone pinned to the ground by officers, while everyone around demands answers from law enforcement

📹🎞 A resident from a village near Popasnaya in the LPR has told how Ukrainian forces fired near people to frighten and prevent them from collecting water

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⚡️ It's important for the EAEU to accelerate talks on the transition from the SWIFT banking system to its own alternative, Putin says

💭A number of provocative acts by the US and NATO to justify their presence in Ukraine prompted Russia to launch a military operation in that country, Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Ukrainian forces have shown weapons used in the WWI and the Great Patriotic War, saying that they were forced to use them against modern helicopters and artillery.

According to them, "if they had stayed in their positions, no one would have survived". Their company commander decided to retreat when helicopters, planes and Grads began to attack their positions.

🗣 "Now our command wants to make us deserters. We ask our senior leadership to make a decision and give a legal assessment to our command," they said in the video

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❗ 'How To Murder Your Husband' author Nancy Crampton Brophy from the US found guilty of murdering her husband

⚡The US will build a "China House" (a State Department team to coordinate and implement US policy across issues and regions,) Blinken announced

📹🎞 Donetsk volunteer Andrey Lysenko recalls the moment he realised the war was in Donetsk and would last for a long time

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Pew's survey conducted in the US:

▪ 51 percent of the respondents know that the US Secretary of State's name is Antony Blinken;

▪ 8 percent think the US Secretary of State's name is Mike Pompeo, 2 percent think it's Hillary Clinton;

▪ 79 percent recognised Kim Jong-un in the photo;

▪ 41 percent know what the flag of India looks like;

▪ 67 percent were able to recognise the euro symbol;

▪ 48 percent know that the capital of Afghanistan is Kabul;

▪ 65 percent are aware that the Prime Minister of the UK is Boris Johnson

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⚡️ Erdogan and Macron discuss Finland & Sweden's NATO accession

📹🎞 Azov neo-Nazis shot civilians in the back and in the soles of the feet when they were allowed to leave the Azovstal plant in Mariupol

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🎞📹 DPR journalist Vittorio Nicola Rangeloni who works almost exclusively in Donbass' "hot spots" tells how Italian TV channels ask him to provide material and offer him a lot of money for his work. However, the TV channels want to reserve the right to supply commentary that does not correspond with reality at all

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🎞📹 A resident of Volnovakha said that Ukrainian forces were killing civilians in open view when they left the basements waving white sheets to denote that they came in peace

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