⚡️ More footage of Russian overnight strikes taking out Ukrainian forces over Kiev, as several locations across Ukraine come under fire.

Thunderous impact of multiple blasts heard then seen as strikes meet air defenses (01:02).

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💸 Ukraine's budget deficit is $42 billion, but it will be covered by partners - Ukrainian Finance Minister Marchenko.

🗣 Ukraine will receive funding from the EU, the US, Canada, Japan, Britain and other countries for $42.3 billion, which allows covering the country's budgetary needs until the end of the year. At the moment, Ukraine has already received $16.7 billion - Marchenko.

Classic Ukrainian corruption - your taxpayers pay, we pocket!

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🇫🇷⚽️ French Sports Minister Oudea-Castera calls for SANCTIONS against African and Muslim footballers refusing to wear pro-LGBTQ+ jerseys.

🗣"Respect is a value that I hold in great esteem. It extends to others, but it also encompasses respect for my own personal beliefs. Hence, I don’t believe I am the most suitable person to participate in this campaign," Toulouse team defender Moroccan Aboukhlal.

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⚡️Deputy FM of Russia Ryabkov says some Eastern European countries violated the provisions of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces (CFE) in Europe.

He also adds Russia is finding a way to respond to the deployment of the US Military in Finland.

🗣"It will not work to intimidate Moscow; issue of Gershkovich is being politicized by Washington."

UPDATE: Russian parliament adopted a law on the denunciation of the CFE Treaty, signed in 1990. Russia can produce any number of weapons without being in violation of an arms reduction treaty with Europe, who themselves are largely funding and arming Ukraine.

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⚔️SITREP⚔️ 15 May

▪️Russia's artillery cut off supply lines to Ukrainian forces left in Artyomovsk-Bakhmut, Donetsk People's Republic (ex-Ukraine).

▪️ 215 Ukrainian soldiers eliminated in DPR (ex-Ukraine).

▪️ US-made Patriot anti-aircraft missile system hit by Moscow's Kinzhal ("Dagger") missile.

▪️Russia's air defenses intercept 7 British-supplied Storm Shadow long-range cruise missiles.

▪️At night, Russia's army attacked Kiev's army points of deployment and warehouses storing Western-supplied ammunition and weapons with high-precision weapons.

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Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) officers detain 25-year-old Ukrainian citizen for espionage.

The agent leaked information to Ukrainian intelligence on positions of Russian Vostok grouping of troops.

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🇿🇦 Head of South Africa says that on behalf of African countries, he spoke with Putin and Zelensky.

He added that the two leaders agreed to accept the mission of African leaders on a peace initiative.

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🍎 HOW FAR DID THE APPLE FALL? The esteemed progeny of 50s-era reformist ex-Prez Krushchev HAILS Zelensky's fight for "democratic values" of Europe in interview - the same woman, who has a cushy academic job in New York, that called Putin's previous speeches "insane" and her own native country as "preparing for something DISASTROUS."

The Krushchev heir is just a more OVERT sellout and shameless apologists for those "European values" Kiev is sponsoring.

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🇷🇺🇿🇦 Russian and South African ground forces' commanders agree to build up military cooperation.

On May 15, South African military delegation, headed by Pretoria's Grand Commander Mbatha, arrived in Moscow to discuss issues of bilateral military cooperation between the two countries.

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🇩🇪🇸🇦 German FM praises Saudi efforts to ‘find solutions for regional crises’ while also warning kingdom against 'unconditional normalization' with Syria.

Thanks for all your diplomacy! Except when it's with governments we don't like.

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🇵🇸 ONE'S DREAM is a millions' NIGHTMARE - Member of the European Parliament Clare Daly joins Braveheart Wallace in being the FEW EU Parliamentarians to SLAM statements by President of the European Commission and Chief Gynecologist Ursula von der Leyen describing early Israeli occupation as "the realization of a dream".

Von der Leyen, insensitively praising Israel ahead of Nakba Day, describes a dream that was a never ending nightmare for over a million Palestinians, their descendants, and their families.

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🇺🇦 Ukraine officially joins NATO cyber center - Ukrainian Foreign Ministry.

Above, Ukrainian flag officially raised at headquarters of the NATO Cyber Defense Cooperation Center in Tallinn, Estonia.

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