⚡️🇵🇭🇺🇸 Philippines and US Armed Forces begin 3 week military exercises.

A total of 3,000 troops from both sides are taking part - exercise scenarios include defending the Philippines archipelago from foreign aggressors.

Washington is beginning to develop closer relations with Manila, drawing it into its game against China.

The Philippines has offered the United States construct a new military base on its territory, to strengthen US influence in the region.

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◾️ Russian Forces (RF) destroyed more than 60 Ukrainian military personnel over the course of the day in Kupyansk, Kharkov region (East Ukraine);

◾️ RF destroyed up to 60 Ukrainian soldiers, as well as D-20 and D-30 howitzers in the Yuzhno-Donetsk and Zaporozhye region (ex-Ukraine);

◾️ RF destroyed up to 190 Ukrainian soldiers in Donetsk, Donetsk Republic (DPR, ex-Ukraine);

◾️ Russian air defense systems shot down 12 HIMARS multiple rocket launch system shells, 1 high-speed, anti-radiation (HARM) missile, and destroyed 16 drones;

◾️ Armed Forces of Ukraine lost up to 110 servicemen and a Gvozdika (Carnation) self-propelled gun in Krasnoliman, DPR.

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⚡️Jinping to come to Moscow next week, then call Zelensky.

No further detail at this stage, as advised by Kremlin Spokesman Peskov.

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DE-NAZIFIED MARIUPOL: The site of the infamous Azovstal factory, a former Neo-Nazi, Azov Regiment stronghold, Mariupol (Donetsk Republic, ex-Ukraine) is being actively rebuilt by Russia.

Video shows Russia's servicemen of the V group bringing humanitarian aid, food and clean water to the residents - despite seeing some of the worst fighting this conflict, Mariupol is slowly resuming everyday life.

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⚡️Navalny's wife, son and daughter at the Oscars ceremony in Los Angeles - clearly a very heart broken family.

Weird, regular Russians can't even get visas.

Earlier, the make-belief story about 'Russian opposition' (American anti-Russian opposition personified by Yale University semi-graduate Navalny) won an Oscar.

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⚡️American taxpayers will not suffer losses from bankrupt banks, Biden promises.

The banking system is safe - the Federal Reserve will always print more money. Earlier, Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank went bust.

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⚡️Anti-war protests continue in Czech Republic - people with Ukrainian flags, American and NATO flags vs. Czech people (pulling the finger.)

Correction: The footage is from the same protest yesterday, linked above.

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⚡️🇰🇿 Kazakhstan arrests property of Roscosmos - Russian Space Agency.

US Secretary Blinken barely had time to leave - as the work of the operator of Russian spaceports (Center for the Operation of Ground-Based Space Infrastructure) falls under investigation.

The formal reason is debt to a contracted company for an environmental impact assessment of the Soyuz-5 rocket.

Kazakhstan has forbidden the Center to withdraw assets from the country, and its Head is forbidden from leaving the Republic.

Baikonur, a Russian cosmodrome, is located on the territory of Kazakhstan.

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⚡️ US stops trading shares of First Republic bank - which have plummeted by 66%.

Will it be the 3rd bank to collapse in 3 days?

Correction: It would be the 4th bank - after Silvergate, Silicon Valley and Signature Banks.

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🇲🇩🪧Moldovan protestors start blocking roads as pro-Western government continues to ignore their demands.

Protestors demand Moldova's pro-Western government stop dragging them into EU, NATO and stop pursuing anti-Russian rhetoric and policies that are resulting in sky-high energy costs.

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⚡️🗣 Relations between Russia and China have reached an unprecedented high level and have become a pillar of global stability - Russian Defense Minister Shoigu

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ACT DEAD: To save your life! (Or just surrender!) Ukrainian fighters scatter around as a Russian drone blankets their poorly obscured trench in a cloud of thick, black smoke - leaving the wounded behind, the video cuts out at a most pivotal moment, did the other 2 make it out alive?!

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💥 Neighborhood devastated with destruction due to Ukrainian criminal shelling of Volnovakha, Donetsk Republic (ex-Ukraine).

2 women killed, 14-year-old girl injured in latest deliberate Ukrainian shelling of civilians.

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