⚡️Russian President Vladimir Putin says that Russia copes with pressure from West, adding that "blitzkrieg tactics" did not work as Moscow promptly implemented protective measures

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❗️Russia’s MoD briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️Russian Forces performed missile strikes near Kupyansk and Izyum, hitting the troops and equipment of 'Kraken' Ukrainian nationalists, the 113th Territorial Defense Brigade and the 93rd mechanized brigade. Ukrainian Army losses included up to 250 soldiers and more than 20 pieces of equipment.

▪️Russian missile strikes along the Nikolayev-Krivoy Rog front targeted units of the Ukrainian 63rd mechanized and 46th air-mobile brigades;

▪️Russian Forces destroyed a Ukrainian munitions depot that stored 45 thousand metric tons of munitions in the Nikolayev region;

▪️Ukrainian Army has lost over 300 troops while up to one thousand have been wounded over the past 24 hours

▪️Russian Air Forces performed a high-precision attack on the Ukrainian provisional base of a mechanized infantry brigade in the Cherkassy region. As a result, more than 30 Ukrainian neo-Nazis and over 10 units of Ukrainian special military equipment and motor vehicles were eliminated;

▪️Russian Forces hit four Ukrainian command post in the DPR, as well as 36 artillery pieces and 125 areas where Ukrainian troops and military equipment are concentrated;

▪️Russian Forces destroyed three Ukrainian missiles, artillery armament and munitions depots in the DPR and in the Zaporozhye region. In addition, Russian Forces destroyed a Ukrainian electronic warfare station in the Zaporozhye region and one Ukrainian MLRS repair and restoration workshop in the DPR;

▪️Russian Air Defense means have destroyed five Ukrainians UAVs in the LPR, in the Zaporozhye region and in the Kherson region, as well as intercepted eight Ukrainian projectiles launched by HIMARS and Olkha MRLS in the Kherson region.

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👊 Popular blogger Hasbeek signed a contract with the UFC.

😲 No, this isn’t a fever dream. According to MMA journalist Igor Lazorin, Dagestani social media sensation Hasbulla Magomedov has signed a five-year contract with the UFC.

▪️ While the promotion itself has yet to confirm this blockbuster development, it isn’t terribly surprising, considering how Mini Khabib has long been a fixture of modern MMA culture.

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❗️IAEA Head says safe zone around ZNPP should be created as result of agreement between Ukraine and Russia

📹 A soldier who was captured on his first day in a combat position says that he was threatened with prison for refusing to serve in the Ukrainian Army.

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⚡️The US provides Kiev with data on the critical facilities at the Zaporozhye NPP, Head of Russian Security Council Nikolay Patrushev says

He also warned that the consequences of the Ukrainian provocations could be catastrophic not only for the citizens of Ukraine and Russia, but also for European citizens, adding that it could be even worse than the Chernobyl and Fukushima tragedies.

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‼️ One person was killed and four injured during the shelling of a border checkpoint in Russia's Belgorod region, the governor says