📹 According to Tucker Carlson, Ukraine has not been a sovereign country since 2014, when the CIA staged a coup there. Moreover, in his opinion, the US is also not a sovereign nation because of its policies towards other countries

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🇷🇺🇮🇷 Russian warships have arrived in Iran for "Maritime Security Belt - 2024" international naval exercises. The Varyag missile cruiser is at the head of the squadron.

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❗️ A Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group tried to break into the village of Tyotkino in the Russia's Kursk region, there was a firefight, but no breakthrough occurred, the governor said.

The award ceremony for the Ukrainian "documentary" 20 Days in Mariupol was not included in the shortened international TV broadcast of the Academy Awards.

Disney Entertainment explained that this was due to time limits provided for the short version of the show.

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Boeing reportedly fails more than third of FAA quality control inspections

Boeing has failed 33 of 89 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) inspections stemming from a January incident in which part of the fuselage of an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX was lost, The New York Times reported, citing FAA data.

The inspections lasted six weeks and involved both Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems, which makes the fuselage for the Boeing 737 MAX.

FAA documents show that its representatives saw Spirit AeroSystems mechanics use a hotel key card to check the door seal, and that liquid soap was used "as a lubricant in the assembly process" when working on the seal.

Boeing has faced several challenges in recent years, most notably the Boeing 737 MAX crisis, which involved a series of technical issues and two fatal plane crashes. On January 5, Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, carrying 171 passengers and six crew members, made an emergency landing shortly after takeoff in Portland, Oregon after a door plug detached midair.

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Local authorities found Boeing whistleblower John Barnett dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the state of South Carolina over the weekend, the Charleston County Coroner's Office said in a press release.

Barnett was recently cross-examined by Boeing's lawyers and his own attorney, and he was scheduled to answer more questions this past Saturday but failed to appear, media reported.

Barnett, who worked at Boeing for over three decades before retiring in 2017, accused the company of cutting corners in order to get its 787 Dreamliner jets out of production quickly at the North Charleston plant, compromising the safety of the aircraft.

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❗️ Several attempts to violate the state border by Ukrainian units have been prevented in Russia's Belgorod and Kursk regions since March 10, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) reports.

Over 100 enemy personnel, six tanks, a Caesar self-propelled gun, 20 armored combat vehicles and a stronghold were destroyed.

The strikes against armed formations in the Ukrainian border region continue, the FSB said.

The FSB added that reports of Ukrainian armed formations entering some border settlements in Belgorod and Kursk regions are untrue.

The Russian State Duma adopted an appeal to the Bundestag calling on it to investigate the participation of Bundeswehr soldiers in hostilities in Ukraine.

The reason was the publication of an audio recording of a conversation between German officers about possible attacks on the Crimean Bridge.

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❗️This morning, the Russian military, together with the Federal Security Service border guards, thwarted Ukraine’s attempt to make a breakthrough into the territory of Russia’s Belgorod and Kursk regions, reports the Russian Ministry of Defense.

Other statements by the Defense Ministry on Ukrainian saboteurs:

▪️ There were no violations of the state border as a result of an attempted breakthrough by Ukrainian forces;

▪️ The terrorist formations of the Kiev regime, having suffered significant losses, were driven back from the Russian border;

▪️ Thanks to the selfless actions of the Russian military, all attacks by Ukrainian forces were repulsed; air, missile forces and artillery strikes were launched against the enemy.

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Ukrainian forces in January tried to attack using drones a hangar in the Smolensk region where parts of the Polish Tu-154 that crashed in 2010 are stored, DPR head Denis Pushilin's advisor Jan Gagin told Sputnik.

He provided the route of one of the downed drones that was taken from the device's memory card.

Kiev was trying to destabilize the situation in Russia by doing so - it believed that it would be able to claim that Russia was trying to destroy evidence so that it would not be able to reinvestigate the case.

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⚡️The military IL-76 crashed during takeoff in Russia's Ivanovo region, the Ministry of Defense said.

There were eight crew members and seven passengers on board.

The cause of the plane crash was a fire in one of the engines during takeoff. A commission from the Main Command of the Russian Aerospace Forces flew to the scene of the incident.

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🗣 Tucker Carlson about Moscow city:

"No homelessness, no graffiti. It's spotlessly clean. The public spaces are beautiful. The architecture has not been degraded by post-modern, the oppression of postmodern architecture, which is designed to demoralize and hurt you and destroy your spirit. I believe that because it's true".

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🇵🇱 Warmongering Poland wants 300 thousand NATO soldiers on its territory

Three hundred thousand NATO soldiers are ready to relocate to Poland, said Deputy Chief of the Polish General Staff Dymanowski.

Previously there were 40 thousand of them, now there are 300 thousand - they will arrive in the country “not after the start of the war, but before it,” Dymanowski emphasized.

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🧑‍🚀 The crew of the Crew Dragon ship with Russian cosmonaut Borisov returned to Earth from the ISS, splashing down off the coast of Florida.

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❗️The settlement of Nevelskoye has been liberated in the DPR, the Russian Ministry of Defense stated.

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