🇷🇺🇺🇦 PMC Wagner fighters demonstrated the American 155-mm M777 howitzer destroyed in the Bakhmut direction.

🇬🇧💵 Living standards in Britain really are cratering. And in April energy bills rise around 50%.

- Philip Pilkington

🇨🇳📈 China’s economy is firing on all cylinders.

■Americans will be sending their sons and daughters to the war and they will be dying - Zelensky says at a press conference

■ Good luck, Americans!

■ Follow @UkraineHumanRightsAbuses

🇺🇦🇺🇲 NBC journalist Keir Simmons got into the Peacemaker resource base for a story from Crimea.

He is accused of encroaching on the sovereignty of the Independent and of participating in Russian propaganda.

Earlier, Simmons came to the peninsula to chat with local residents who consider themselves Russians, and Crimea is Russian territory.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Our snipers continue to destroy khokhols

🇷🇺🇺🇦 This picture shows a list of 150 foreign mercenaries who came to kill the Russians, but are now lying in the ground.

And this is only a very small part.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️Ukrainian TG channels report explosions in Kremenchug district of Poltava region

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ Explosions are reported in the Sumy region

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Air alert declared in a number of Ukrainian regions.

Enemy resources declare the activity of strategic aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces.

🇷🇺 Video of the A-50 aircraft "destroyed by copters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine" at the Machulishchi airfield in Belarus.

Hello to everyone who dispersed fakes 😁

🚨🇺🇦🇷🇺 “Ukrainian volunteers running civilian evacuations in Donbas say they've stopped going to Bakhmut as there's now a direct threat of Russian ATGMs along the remaining roads into the city. Hard to see how it can hold out much longer.”

- Neil Hauer

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇷🇺 US seeks allies' backing for possible China sanctions over Ukraine war

The United States is sounding out close allies about the possibility of imposing new sanctions on China if Beijing provides military support to Russia for its war in Ukraine, according to four U.S. officials and other sources.

The consultations, which are still at a preliminary stage, are intended to drum up support from a range of countries, especially those in the wealthy Group of 7 (G7), to coordinate support for any possible restrictions.

Among the challenges the United States faces in putting sanctions on China, the world's second-biggest economy, is its thorough integration in the major economies of Europe and Asia, complicating the talks. U.S. allies from Germany to South Korea are reticent to alienate China.

- Reuters

🇺🇸📉 Deeply dysfunctional, and they’re going to continue funding Ukraine regardless.

🇪🇺📉 European inflation expectations remain elevated despite impeding recession. This means (i) an inflationary recession that will crush living standards and (ii) European manufacturing becoming uncompetitive while being shaken by recession, so first pangs of deindustrialisation.

- Philip Pilkington

Here’s one of the five “young men”.

📎 Heriberto Santiago

🇺🇸 Does anyone remember the murder of Staff Sgt. Logan Melgar?

After finding that US forces in Mali were on the take, Melgar was silenced by his fellow troops. They said they wanted to rape him and film it after beating him unconscious, but they just beat him to death instead.

None of the killers were charged with rape or murder, and apart from one guy who got 10 years, the rest got slaps on the wrist. No investigation of corruption either. One of the killers apparently tried to pick up Sgt. Melgar's grieving widow.

- Snekotron