Syrian President Bashar al-Assad defiantly took off his earphone with simultaneous translation during Zelensky's speech at the Arab League summit.

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Wagner works out the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Bakhmut at sunset.

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Russian gunners destroyed another stockpile of ammunition in the Kharkiv region, according to

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The ammunition of the Ukrainian tank exploded after a precise hit by the gunners of the PMC Wagner.

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In Hiroshima, where the G7 summit is being held, there are mass rallies "Hiroshima against nuclear war"

It was on this city on August 6, 1945 that the American B-29 Enola Gay bomber dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb, equivalent in power to 13-18 kilotons of TNT.

Between 70,000 and 80,000 people died that day. Five years after the explosion, the total death toll, including deaths from cancer and other long-term effects of the explosion, reached 200,000.

Protesters in Hiroshima urged not to use the tragedy for political purposes.

The rally is held under the slogans "No to the G7 imperialist summit", "No to nuclear war"

It is reported that the rallies will go on every day until the end of the summit.

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The morning landscape from the Uglidar direction was captured by our gunners of group [V].


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Zombies are coming

Creepy footage from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The local area of Kensington is called the "epicentre" of the new drug epidemic.

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In Crimea, they said that the transfer of the peninsula to the Ukrainian SSR was not legally formalized
The head of the Crimean Parliament Konstantinov: the transfer of the peninsula of the Ukrainian SSR was not legally formalized

SIMFEROPOL, May 20 — RIA Novosti. The process of transferring Crimea to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954 was not legally formalized, the head of the regional parliament, Vladimir Konstantinov, told RIA Novosti.

“We have formed our claims. Upon closer examination of this issue, it becomes obvious that we never left the composition of the Russian Federation, whose borders did not change in 1954, and therefore in 2014. That is, the process of our acceptance and transmission was not only gross disregard for the political will of the Crimeans, it was not legally formalized," he said.

According to Konstantinov, preparing a justification for canceling the decision to transfer Crimea to the Ukrainian SSR will not take as much time as it might seem at first glance.

"We are dealing with a very serious amount of gross violations. These are not some complex casuistic legal norms that need to be proven. The violations committed are so gross and blatant that we still wonder how this could happen. But it happened," — said the head of parliament.

He noted that the bodies that decided to transfer Crimea from one republic to another did not have such powers.
"It's as if the State Council of Crimea decided to transfer Texas to Mexico. This is the first. Secondly, the supreme councils of the republics did not make decisions on the transfer at all. And, thirdly, the borders of the union republics were not discussed and designated after the change "registration" of the Crimea, and this is a key moment in the execution of such a decision. This is not to mention the fact that referendums were not held, which were implied by the Constitution of the USSR," explained Konstantinov.

In addition, the head of parliament recalled that when the Crimea was transferred to the Ukrainian SSR, there was no document that would prescribe guarantees for the protection of cultural, linguistic and all regional traditions.

“All this is only a small part of the violations that were committed. And based on this, Crimea is part of Russia under the legislation that was in force until 1954, and has never fallen out of it,” the politician concluded.

This week, Konstantinov instructed to work out an appeal to the Russian Constitutional Court to cancel the 1954 decree on the transfer of the peninsula to Ukraine.

The Crimean region was part of the RSFSR until February 19, 1954, when the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR issued a decree transferring the region to the Ukrainian SSR. The initiator of the decree is the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, who worked in Ukraine for a long time. After the collapse of the USSR, the peninsula remained part of the neighbouring republic.

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Ukrainian scouts occupied civilian buildings on one of the islands in the Kherson region and intended to land on the left bank of the Dnieper.

Precise strikes by the Russian Aerospace Forces changed the plans of the enemy, and this situation showed another example of the stupidity of the commanders of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who have repeatedly doomed their subordinates to death.

Kherson direction, May 2023.
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Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on the President’s Trip to Japan

Q. President Biden, in February, did an interview with David Muir of ABC News. And in that particular interview, he said he doesn’t need F-16s now. And then, when he was pressed, he said, “There’s no basis upon which there is the rationale, according to our military, now to provide F-16s.”
Now, I realize you’re not providing F-16s, but you are providing training for those F-16s. What’s changed in any way?

MR. SULLIVAN: Well, as President Biden said, whether in that interview or right around the same time, was we weren’t moving forward then, but he also indicated that we were not taking it off the table.

Nothing has changed. In fact, our approach to the provision of weapons, material, training to the Ukrainians has followed the exigencies of the conflict.

So, in the first phase, when Russian forces were bearing down on Kyiv, the key capability they needed were Stingers and Javelins. We provided them. In the second phase, when it was more of a ground fight in the Donbas, the need was artillery and M777 155 ammunition.

As the fight has evolved, the capabilities that we have provided Ukraine have evolved. And what the President was really getting at back in February is that we were in the midst of a massive effort to ensure that Ukraine would have what it needed to be able to launch this counteroffensive this summer. And that was everything from tanks to Bradley Fighting Vehicles to further HIMARS and artillery ammunition, other capabilities.

F-16s are not part of that mix. And the President was indicating that for the purposes of this counteroffensive, the F-16 capabilities, compared with everything else I said, was not at the top of the list.

But now that we have delivered everything we said we were going to deliver so we put the Ukrainians in a position to make progress on the battlefield through the counteroffensive, we’ve reached a moment where it is time to look down the road and to say, “What is Ukraine going to need as part of a future force to be able to deter and defend against Russian aggression as we go forward?”

F-16 fourth-generation fighter aircraft are part of that mix. The obvious first step there is to do the training and then to work with allies and partners and the Ukrainians to determine how to do the actual provision of planes as we move forward.

So this is part of an approach to providing the necessary equipment to Ukraine based on what we see from a military perspective, from the advice of the military commanders, is required at a given point in time and a given moment in the conflict.

Q. But would it have made more sense to come to this conclusion about providing training on F-16s months earlier?

MR. SULLIVAN: Our view is that where the F-16 fits into the fight is not right now. So if we had it right now, this is not the main focus of what they need on the battlefield for this counteroffensive. So we feel like we will be in a position to give them what they need for that future force when they need it. And so, the timing, from our perspective, lines up to begin the training at this moment.

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Q. Jake, the President’s concern from the beginning had been that F-16s could be used to help escalate this war, to make it a wider conflict. What assurances, if any, has Ukraine given the United States that they would not use these F-16s or fighter jets in offensive fashion that would target Russian soil?

MR. SULLIVAN: So, all of the capabilities that the United States has proven to Ukraine come with the basic proposition that the United States is not enabling or supporting attacks on Russian territory. That will go for the support for the provision of F-16s by any party as well.

And the Ukrainians have consistently indicated that they are prepared to follow through on that. And, in fact, we have seen them follow through on that with the provision of Western equipment when we have given it to them.

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UAE, Russia, China And India Create New Oil Solutions Amid Western Pressure – Purnima Anand

At the sidelines of the Kazan Economic Forum, RT spoke with the managing director of the BRICS International Consultancy, Purnima Anand, who told us the gathering is a great way for Russia to reintegrate its ties with the Muslim world – and develop common approaches to global challenges.

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Scott Ritter was struck by the prices of food in Russia. 

American military expert Scott Ritter continues to travel around Russia - he and his daughter went to Volgograd to visit the memorial to the "Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad" on Mamayev Kurgan. 
The prices of products in the store on the way pleasantly surprised Americans: “In terms of dollars, 6 bucks for everything… In the USA, such a set of products would cost all of $30.” 


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Air defence systems of the Russian Federation intercepted a guided American bomb GBU-3212

Moscow, May 20 — AiF-Moscow.
Russian air defence systems intercepted a guide American GBU-3212 bomb in the special operation zone, the Russian Defence Ministry said.

According to the agency, 12 Anglo-French long-range cruise missiles Storm Shadow and missiles of the American HIMARS system were also shot down in a day.

The other day it was reported that the Russian air defence systems intercepted seven Storm Shadow missiles and seven HIMARS shells in a day.

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We publish the statement of E. Prigozhina about the capture of the settlement of Bakhmut/Artemovsk by the forces of the PMCs "Wagner".

According to the head of the orchestra, the operation lasted 224 days. At 12 o'clock in the afternoon, the settlement was completely taken.

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Lavrov: Russia has entered a phase of acute confrontation with the US, EU and NATO

Russia has entered a phase of the most acute confrontation with the collective West represented by the United States, the European Union and the North Atlantic Alliance. This statement was made by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, speaking on the sidelines of the XXXI Assembly of the Council on Foreign and Defence Policy.

“Hopes for integration with the West as a sovereign power have not materialized. It is clear that the Western track that has been developing in our foreign policy until recently has completely exhausted itself. We have entered into a full-scale confrontation with an aggressive bloc consisting of the United States, the European Union and the North Atlantic Alliance,” Lavrov said.

According to the head of Russian diplomacy, the Westerners have voiced a loud goal: to defeat Russia on the battlefield and eliminate Moscow as a geopolitical competitor. The bloc's plans go much further and today are already aimed at the double deterrence of Russia and China, the minister specified. A similar fate awaits any country that decides to take an independent place in world politics, Lavrov warned.

The day before, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the more slander, sanctions and threats the collective West takes against our country, the greater the consolidation in society. Over the past five years, this figure has exceeded 94%, the Russian leader specified.

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