Russian troops defeated a Ukrainian unit near Artemovsk in the DPR, named after former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the commander of the assault unit told Sputnik. He showed the trophy his unit took away from the battles.

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Greta Thunberg and environmental activists continue blocking government buildings in Oslo, with the protest ongoing for several days. According to local media, the police took Thunberg away, while several other people were arrested.

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🇷🇺Russia's top diplomat seemed to be in an upbeat mood this morning when meeting with his Indian colleague Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.

ℹ️Moscow and New Delhi both take part in G20, BRICS, Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Russia-India-China format.

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❗️Russian MoD briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️The Russian Army has thwarted a massive drone attack on Crimea by Ukrainian forces, 6 UAVs shot down, four more disabled via electronic warfare;

▪️Russian troops eliminated to 90 Ukrainian servicemen and destroyed three pickup trucks and one D-30 howitzer in the Kupyansk direction;

▪️Ukrainian losses in the Krasniy Liman direction amounted to more than 150 servicemen, with four armored fighting vehicles as well as Msta-B and D-30 howitzers destroyed;

▪️Russian forces eliminated up to 190 Ukrainian servicemen, destroyed two armored fighting vehicles, 16 motor vehicles, as well as two D-30 and one D-20 howitzers in the Donetsk direction;

▪️A Ukrainian ammunition depot was destroyed near Ochertino in the DPR, and another one was destroyed near Aleksandrovka in the Kherson region;

▪️Ukrainian losses in the South Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions amounted up to 80 servicemen, with one tank, four armored fighting vehicles, and one D-30 howitzer destroyed.

▪️Russian troops eliminated up to 85 Ukrainian servicemen, one tank, three armored fighting vehicles, 12 motor vehicles, and two Akatsia self-propelled howitzers in the Kherson direction.

▪️The Russian Air Force shot down a Ukrainian Su-24 aircraft near Druzhkovka in the DPR.

▪️Russian air defense systems shot down 15 Ukrainian UAVs.

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Peruvian Man Caught Carrying Ancient Mummy in Delivery Bag

A young man in Peru has been caught carrying around a mummy wrapped in his saddle bag. Police officers were carrying out a routine check when they found that the 26-year-old man's thermal bag bearing the name of a Latin American food delivery app, contained a mummy estimated to be between 600 and 800 years old.

The man told police that “Juanita” was his "spiritual girlfriend” whom he would occasionally take out to show his friends in the neighborhood. “At home, she’s in my room, she sleeps with me. I take care of her,” he was reported as saying.

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📹 Footage of a FPV kamikaze UAV called Boomerang in action has been unveiled by the Russian Ministry of Defense.

In the drone world, FPV stands for “first-person view” and it means that the pilot can see what the drone sees. An FPV drone is easier to control, than a conventional one, and is able to follow a route or chase a target at speed up to 170 km/h.

In addition, the Boomerang drone has no satellite communication, so anti-drone guns are powerless against it.

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⚡️ Finnish parliament approves bill on joining NATO with 184 votes out of 200

🇷🇺 Russia is modernizing and expanding its transport infrastructure despite Western sanctions

🚇 Today Russian President Vladimir Putin and Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin launched the so-called Big Circle Line of the Moscow metro.

Putin stressed that the Big Circle Line is the largest in the world in terms of its length, topping the Beijing metro circle line. As a meeting with China's Xi Jinping is expected soon, Russia's president said that he intends to show him the Big Circle Line personally, or, "at least, to the delegation [of China].”

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📍 The Moscow metro’s Big Circle Line is the world's largest metro construction project, which includes 31 stations and is 70 kilometers long

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Keir Simmons, an NBC journalist, has been added to the Ukrainian "kill list" website Mirotvorets

He is accused of entering the Crimean Peninsula through the Russian mainland and "participation in propaganda activities against Ukraine."

Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture said today that they are very concerned about the NBC TV report that featured Crimean citizens saying they are Russian and will defend the peninsula if Ukrainian forces attack.

A number of people whose names have appeared on the Mirotvorets website have been killed. Oles Buzina, a prominent Ukrainian journalist, and ex-Rada lawmaker Oleg Kalashnikov are among them. Likewise, Italian photojournalist Andrea Rocchelli, who was blacklisted, was killed by the Ukrainian Armed Forces during the Donbass war in 2014.

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Phil Kelly, a political commentator and socialist activist based in Belfast, joins us to speak about the European hypocrisy in relation to the migration problem

🗣️“If you think back to the kind of moralistic arguments that the Europeans made when Trump was building his wall on the Mexican border, well, these liberals that condemned Trump are now using the Mediterranean as a watery grave, as a wall for migrants from Africa,” he says

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What is behind Western values? Phil Kelly, a political commentator and socialist activist based in Belfast, joins us to discuss the impact the US has on Europe as well as the policy the West conducts with the countries of the Third World

🗣️”I think the Ukrainian conflict has shown that many countries within Europe are willing to basically, harry carry their own economies, their own national sovereignty to become puppets of US imperialist foreign policy. And that should worry any European is how quickly Germany was willing to destroy its own economy and turned the other way when Nord Stream was destroyed by an act of terror and fall in line with US geopolitical interest,” he claims

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Survey results show Erdogan as frontrunner in Turkish presidential race

According to the outcome of a poll conducted by the Areda Survey research center, 49.8% of the respondents said they would vote for Erdogan, while 21.7% chose Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the leader of the Republican People's Party. Mansur Yavas, who is currently Ankara’s mayor, was backed by 9.6% of the survey’s participants, and Ekrem Imamoglu, Istanbul’s incumbent mayor, got 6.9%.

As for party preferences, the ruling Justice and Development Party took first place, securing the approval of 38.5% of those surveyed, according to the poll’s results, followed by the Republican People's Party, which got 22.8% of the votes, and the Peoples' Democratic Party with 10.5%.

The election would most likely take place as planned on May 14.

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⚡️ US House committee passes bill allowing Biden to ban TikTok nationwide