❗️ Chinese FM on Moscow-Kiev talks: There are differences, but every point of agreement is strengthening hope for peace

❗️ Turkey ready to host next meeting between Russia and Ukraine — foreign minister

📈 The German company Gasag has announced an increase in gas prices for customers starting 1 May.

The rise for an "average Berlin apartment" will be 26 percent, according to the company

⚡️ The US has delivered Patriot missile systems to Poland - Vice President Kamala Harris

"We have directed Patriot missile systems to Poland this week and today I can announce that we have delivered those Patriot systems to Poland, we do this as a reminder and demonstration of our commitment to Poland," Harris said during a visit to Warsaw.

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Sergey Lavrov meeting with Vice President of Venezuela Delcy Rodriguez on the sidelines of the Antalya Diplomacy Forum.

❗️ Russian MoD on US biolabs: One goal was to create bioagents that can target certain ethnic groups

🤔 Footage, allegedly showing Ukrainian civilians protesting against the installation of Ukrainian artillery near their houses, has emerged online.

"Put your guns in the field, there are two schools and a kindergarten here!", the people are heard demanding in the video.

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🔔 Check out some news you may have missed:

▪️ The European Union has reached the limit of its capabilities to impose financial sanctions on Russia, Josep Borrell said.

▪️ Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has stated that anyone who attacks the Russian military in Ukraine will become a target.

▪️ The Russian Defence Ministry has announced that US-funded biological labs in Ukraine were conducting experiments with bat coronavirus samples.

▪️ The Russian Foreign Ministry has announced that Moscow will no longer participate in Council of Europe sessions.

▪️ Former Bolivian President Evo Morales has claimed that Ukrainian troops committed a crime against humanity by killing 14,000 pro-Russian civilians in the country's east since 2014.

▪️ Russia has said a Ukrainian claim that it bombed a children's hospital in Mariupol is "fake news" because the building was a former maternity hospital that had long been taken over by Ukrainian nationalists.

▪️ Russian FM Lavrov met with his Ukrainian counterpart Kuleba in Antalya, Turkey today. There were no plans to negotiate a ceasefire, Lavrov said, adding that the Russia-Ukraine talks in Belarus have no alternatives.

▪️ The US has delivered Patriot missile systems to Poland, said US Vice President Harris.

▪️ Gas prices in Berlin will rise 26%, the German company Gasag has announced.

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📹: Vladimir Putin holds government meeting to discuss Russia's response to economic sanctions

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⚡️ Putin: US trying to deceive its population by blaming Russia for rising energy prices

❗️Igor Kirillov, the head of radiation, chemical, and biological defence of the Russian Armed Forces, has held a briefing on American biolabs in Ukraine.

Key takeaways:

🔹 Pentagon-funded bio-laboratories in Ukraine developed, among other things, projects for the spread of biological weapons to Russia via bats;

🔹 One of the possible goals of the labs was the creation of bioagents capable of selectively affecting various ethnic groups;

🔹 The US has already evacuated most of the materials and data from its biolabs in Ukraine;

🔹 Research for Project R-781, where bats are considered as carriers of potential biological weapons, was conducted near Russia’s borders, namely in the South Caucasus and on the Black Sea coast;

🔹 The goal of Project UP-4 was to study the possibility of spreading particularly dangerous infections through migratory birds, including the highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza, the lethality of which for humans reaches 50%;

🔹 As part of the project, migratory birds that pass mostly through Russia were detected in Ukraine.

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⚡️ Western Union suspends work in Russia, Belarus - company

⚡️ Russian President Putin backs external management of assets belonging to foreign firms that leave Russian market

❗️Russia will repay external debts in rubles, and then it will be possible to convert them into foreign currency when Russia's gold and foreign exchange reserves are unfrozen, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said.

"A special procedure has been established for servicing external debts, including state debts. We will repay our external obligations in rubles, and we will carry out the conversion by unfreezing gold and foreign exchange reserves," Siluanov said at a meeting of Russian President Putin with members of the government.

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⚡️ Russian Foreign Ministry: Nuclear war is impossible, it would be the end of civilisation

⚡️ Biden blames Putin's actions for US inflation reaching new 40-year high

⚡️ Intel director: US provided biosafety assistance at around a dozen biolabs in Ukraine

⚡️ Russian MoD: Alleged Mariupol 'airstrike' nothing short of provocation to fuel anti-Russian hysteria