🇺🇸💲 DOLLAR DOMINATION: Indian banker and billionaire Uday Kotak calls the US dollar "the biggest financial terrorist in the WORLD," referring to crushing influence Washington's currency has worldwide.

The CEO of Kotak Mahindra bank adds that the whole world is "looking for an alternative reserve currency," suggesting that the Indian rupee may fill this gap, criticizing the way the dollar has dominated global transactions and forces dollar dependency on worldwide transactions.

🤑 World dominator exports political terrorism as well as enforces financial terrorism. Is anyone surprised?

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🇧🇷🇮🇳 Brazil, India, Pakistan, Egypt and other developing countries do not want to take one of the sides in the US-Russia conflict, latest docs posted to The Washington Post say.

Classified US docs say rising powers and large developing states don't want to be caught in political crossfire - but you didn't need any "leaks" to tell you the world is tired of Washington's pedantic power plays.

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🇺🇦 Attack on Crimea oil depot is one element of preparation for the Ukrainian offensive - Press Head of Southern Ukraine Defense Forces Gumenyuk.

"Preparation" or just provoking Russia to distract against offensive that will never come?

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🇷🇺 Russian Embassy ready for any decisions by Moscow after seizure of building of the Russian school by the Polish authorities - Russian Ambassador on possibility of breaking diplomatic relations with Poland.

UPDATE: School at Russian Embassy in Warsaw will resume work on May 10 in another building.

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💅POLISH-ED UP SCHOOL: Polish authorities don't even wait to revise past to scrub their institutions of all things Russian - its capital Warsaw, says it will only check if seized Russian school at Moscow's embassy is up to par on meeting "educational requirements" (like seizing money from embassy is only to check to see if funds match financial requirements.)

However, Moscow regards this as move to repurpose building, as Russian Ambassador Andreev stresses plans for his country's embassy to protest the upcoming seizure this upcoming Tuesday.

🤦‍♂️ First monuments, then language, now EMBASSIES - how long can the pro-West, Eastern European world try to pretend Russia just doesn't exist?

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🇺🇦🇹🇷 Ukraine signs three new agreements with the Turkish manufacturer Baykar, which produces drones - Minister of Turkish Strategic Industry Kamyshin.

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🚀🎯 MOVING TARGET: Even buzzing and zigzagging around doesn't stop Ukrainian drone from escaping the shooting down by Russian-operated Tor-M2 anti-aircraft missile system, SOARING through skies like a jet plane before meeting it midair and BLASTING Kiev's paper plane upon impact (0:44).

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🇺🇸 US "hostile" to Ukraine's NATO membership and prefers to provide it with bilateral security guarantees.

Crybaby Kuleba on suicide watch.

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⚔️SITREP⚔️

◾️Russian missile strikes on Ukrainian forces in Donetsk People's Republic (ex-Ukraine) eliminate more than 745 Ukrainian troops.

◾️ Russian-led assault units continue to push out Kiev's forces in Western Artyomovsk-Bakhmut, DPR (ex-Ukraine), capturing four new quarters.

◾️Up to 200 tons of ammunition destroyed as a result of a Russian attack on a Ukrainian position near a railway station in Kramatorsk, DPR (ex-Ukraine).

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🚹🥇🥈LOST IN TRANSLATION: Russian FM says International Olympic Committee (IOC) move to accept transgender participation "threatens" existence of women's sports, questioning claims to fairness of a move that poses glaring contradiction to supposed claims to "fair play" and equal access.

Move to provoke enemy countries with sane gender politics like Iran or Russia? Or a move to redefine reality for the sake of keeping US #1 in something, even if it means stepping on backs of women?

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