❗️ EU's Von der Leyen says "state-owned Russia Today and Sputnik, as well as their subsidiaries will no longer be able to spread their lies to justify Putin's war and to saw division in our union"

❗️EU сompletely сloses its airspace to Russian airlines

❗️ Russian MoD: Our losses are many times less than those of nationalists and Ukraine's army

Recap – Russia held strategic deterrence forces drills with ballistic missile tests a week ago

❗️ Russian MoD: The tortures committed by Ukrainian Nazis are the same as those carried out by German Nazis during WWII

Russia will continue to treat all Ukrainian soldiers who have surrendered with dignity – Russian Ministry of Defence

⚡️⚡️Three Bayraktar drones shot down, Ukrainian S-300 complex destroyed during Sunday ops: Russian MoD

⚡️Russian MoD: Our losses are many times less than the destroyed nationalists and losses among military personnel of Ukrainian armed forces

Since the beginning of the special operation, Russian Armed Forces have hit 1,067 objects belonging to Ukraine's military infrastructure, including 27 command posts and communication centres – Russian MoD

⚡️Ukrainian Health Ministry urges WHO to stop any cooperation with Russia

❗️15 civilians were killed, 34 injured in Kiev's shelling of DPR in the past 11 days

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇧🇾The Ukrainian delegation is still on its way to the negotiations, a source familiar with the matter told Sputnik. The talks won't start anytime soon, another source said

UPDATE❕The talks between Moscow and Kiev will be held on Monday morning in Belarus' Gomel region, a source confirmed to Sputnik

‼️The UN Security Council has requested an emergency session of the UN General Assembly on Ukraine, it should take place within 24 hours, a Sputnik correspondent reports.

The emergency session of the UN General Assembly will be convened for the first time in decades, the US envoy said.

🕶 TIME mum on infamous 2021 cover of sunglasses-wearing Biden ‘taking on Putin’ as Ukraine crisis unfolds

Last year, TIME was widely mocked ahead of Biden’s summit with Putin once the magazine’s cover image of a sunglasses-wearing president was revealed. The over-the-top, flattering image of the Democratic president featured Biden in his signature aviator shades with the headline, "Taking on Putin."

The flattering Biden cover came after years of TIME publishing unflattering illustrations of former President Donald Trump, complete with a pair of covers showing his "meltdown" stages and another set of covers showing Trump’s Oval Office filling up with water amid a "stormy" situation. The magazine even morphed Trump and Putin together ahead of their summit back in 2018.

But things are much different with Biden in office

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🔎 Jessie Smollett's lawyers claimed that the court made various errors during the trial, and they've asked a Chicago judge to toss out his conviction.

Smollett, 39, was found guilty in December of lying to police when he told cops that admirers of former President Trump had beat him up for being black and gay.

Jussie Smollett’s lawyers asked a Chicago judge Friday to toss out his conviction for staging a hate crime — or grant him a new trial — claiming that his constitutional rights were violated by the court during the jury selection process.

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😷 New Research Claims Wuhan Market as Pandemic Origin

Scientists released a pair of extensive studies on Saturday that point to a market in Wuhan, China, as the alleged origin of the coronavirus pandemic.

Analyzing data from a variety of sources, they concluded that the coronavirus was very likely present in live mammals sold in the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in late 2019 and alleged that the virus twice spilled over into people working or shopping there. They said they found no support for an alternate theory that the coronavirus escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan.

“When you look at all of the evidence together, it’s an extraordinarily clear picture that the pandemic started at the Huanan market,” said Michael Worobey, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona and a co-author of both studies.

The two reports have not yet been published in a scientific journal that would require undergoing peer review.

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❗️🗯🇷🇺 Russian envoy to the UN, Vasily Nebenzia, spoke on Sunday about the tremendous amount of fake news circulating on social media about the Russian spec op in Ukraine:

"Today we witness an information war on Russia in social media. Since there are no proofs that Russian military destroy civilian infrastructure, Ukrainian strikes and occasional hits are presented as such, as well as photo and video footage from Donbas that again depict crimes committed by Ukrainian nationalists. Besides, in social media one can easily find tutorials that teach how to shoot fakes that should defile our special operation. All in all, there are 1.2 million such fakes in Ukrainian social media."

"I call on our colleagues to not promote the spread of such misinformation, though I am afraid my calls will not be heard," the envoy added.

🇷🇺☝️Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov mocked the leaders of the EU in a Sunday Telegram post, suggesting harsh mirror measures to possible sanctions against Russia. Those include:

🔸 closing the Chechen Republic's airspace to EU jets;
🔸 freezing all of Boris Johnson's ruble assets in Chechen banks;
🔸 imposing an embargo on all assets of the UK's oligarchs in Achkhoy-Martan and, if the situation escalates, in Samashki (a rural district in the Chechen Republic);
🔸admitting that left-hand traffic is a "heinous relic of the Middle Ages";
🔸and (this might be the most frightening one!) finally acknowledging that "there is no English tea" ☕️

Kadyrov set February 31 as the deadline for the EU leaders to walk back on their "sassy" statements, otherwise, the damage will be done

📉 The president’s approval rating has plummeted to 37 percent – with 55 percent disapproving – down 4 percentage points since November and 15 points since April 2021, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll.

Dragging down Biden’s poll numbers are his handling of the economy (37 percent approve, 58 disapprove) and the coronavirus pandemic (44 percent approve, 50 percent disapprove).

The poll also shows that Americans believe Republicans would do a better job handling the economy than Democrats by 54 percent to 35 percent – an increase of 7 percentage points since November.

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