⚡️🇮🇷 Huge explosion (check 00:01) followed by active Iranian air defenses presumably trying to shoot down target over Iranian city of Karaj

Iranian sources say sounds and aerial fire are part of ongoing military exercises.

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🎆 BURSTS OF PRIDE: Fireworks light up Russian skies in honor of the Defender of the Fatherland Day.

Photos show festive joy sending the holiday night out with a bang, with bright shots of even brighter bursts pictured in Moscow, St. Petersburg in West Russia and Vladivostok, Far East Russia.

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MINISTER OF HYPOCRISY?: Humza Yousaf, first non-white and Muslim Scottish Minister of Health, complains that the Scottish government is too .... Scottish?

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🇨🇳China's Foreign Ministry proposes 12 point "peace plan":

▪️Respect for the sovereignty of all countries.

▪️Abandoning the Cold War mentality.

▪️Cessation of hostilities.

▪️Resumption of peace talks.

▪️Humanitarian crisis solution.

▪️Protection of civilians and prisoners of war.

▪️Ensuring the safety of nuclear power plants.

▪️Reducing strategic risks.

▪️Promotion of grain export.

▪️End unilateral sanctions.

▪️Supporting the stability of industrial chains and supply chains.

▪️Promotion of post-war reconstruction.

🗣It is important to support the reciprocal steps of Moscow and Kiev in favor of the speedy restoration of direct dialogue, the gradual reduction of tension in the situation and the complete cessation of hostilities; the use of nuclear weapons unacceptable.

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Russian-led forces officially liberate the village of Berkhovka near Artyomovsk-Bakhmut, Donetsk Region (ex-Ukraine).

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⚡️Included in London's sanctions is Nord Stream 2 CEO Matthias Warnig, a citizen of Germany.

Warnig is a former East German Stasi officer (East German secret police) and currently a Russia-based businessman.

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REMOVE THAT RAG! Belarusian representatives DEFIANTLY demand, as deputies brandish Ukrainian flag in front of their delegation during a speech at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Parliamentary Assembly in Vienna, Austria.

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🇰🇵 If the US and South Korea continue to ignore North Korean protests over military exercises, Pyongyang may consider this declaration of war - North Korean Foreign Ministry

North Korea launched four Hwasal-2 cruise missiles towards the Sea of Japan on February 23 in response to US and South Korean exercises.

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⚡️🗣 It is important to achieve all goals of Special Operation; push borders of threats as far as possible, even to Poland, destroy neo-Nazism so as not to have to catch the remnants of Bandera gangs in Russian forests, and world finds long-awaited peace - Deputy Chairman of Russian Security Council Medvedev.

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🇲🇩🇷🇺 Unknown people pour red paint on building of Russian Center for Science and Culture in Chisinau, capital of Ukraine-neighboring Moldova.

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OGRES AT THE OSCE: We get the impression, the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is populated entirely by buffoons; starting with the US Ambassador, to the naive Latvian deputy, who quoted Western propaganda in the "heroic" Ukrainian spectacle in the battle for Snake Island - "Russian Warship, go fuck yourself."

A representative of Belarus aptly asked to "remove the rag" as delegation with Ukrainian flag intruded on a speech during their address.

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🇩🇰🇺🇦 Acting Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen does not rule out that his country could send fighter jets to Ukraine

🗣 At the same time, the condition for the transfer of aircraft will be their delivery by other countries, as of now, no decisions have been made yet.

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