🪖🇺🇸 White House announces sanctions against Wagner Private Military Company, US Treasury officially brands it "Transnational criminal organization."

UPDATE: US will impose additional sanctions next week - Reuters.

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☑️ IRON-GRAD RULES: For Kiev troops, rule no. 1: peeking their heads out of trenches means their swift DESTRUCTION, Russian Grad (“Hail”) multiple rocket launchers staying true to their namesake as all-enveloping HAIL of fire lands around Ukrainian army positions (00:22).

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✍ CAPTION ACTION - You write, you win

😍 Instagram and Facebook boss does NA-ZEE any reasons for openly-Nazi Azov Battalion, Ukraine’s main fighting force, to continue to be blocked on their sites.

Fakebook and Insta owner Meta now letting extremists (Azov’s Nazi Wolfsangel logo pictured) loose on their social media accounts without threat of having their content removed.

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💨 NEED FOR SPEED: Starstruck onlookers capture moment Russian jets WHOOSH past, launching flares into skies and pushing onwards toward enemy, steering their craft in tight turns to get better shot at Ukrainian army positions.

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⚔️SITREP⚔️

◾️Russian forces break through Ukrainian defenses in Zaporozhye region, South Russia (ex-Ukraine) and advance 7 kilometers in past 24 hours.

◾️Russian troops fighting to capture at least 7 settlements in Zaporozhye region including key city of Orekhov, as Russian forces begin push past Ukrainian positions on outskirts of city.

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🐊 SEE YA LATER ALLIGATOR: As Russian Ka-52 "Alligator" attack chopper lifts off to follow scent of Ukrainian armored vehicle, CLAMPING its jaws around target as it lets loose missile and claims its prey in bright white BOOM (00:16).

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