“If I hear another American saying: “Ah, Putin is a dictator and the Russians love autocrats, they are ignorant…” The Russians are deep, they are deeper than we are, they think things through in a deep and brooding fashion. And they are good people, they are kind people, they would take the shirt off their back to help you.”
The head of the medical service of the consolidated Cossack brigade "Don" with the call sign Duga said that on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, there is a targeted hunt for Russian military doctors, a reward has been announced for their heads.
The show from which The Island (2005) took its inspiration, with in fact so many similarities that it received a comfortable out-of-court settlement when the Island was released.
▫️The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation in Ukraine.
✈️?During the day, operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces and missile troops hit 65 military assets of Ukraine. Among them: 4 command and communication hubs, 3 logistics depots, as well as 41 strong points and areas of Ukrainian military equipment concentration.
?Russian air defence means shot down 3 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle in the air, 2 near Mariupol and Kalininskoe, and 1 Bayraktar TB-2 near Sakhnovschina, Kharkov region.
?In total, 127 aircfaft and 98 helicopters, 428 unmanned aerial vehicles, 2,037 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 229 multiple launch rocket systems, 886 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,941 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.
▫️The Kiev regime has not abandoned its attempts to evacuate the leaders of Azov nationalist regiment and foreign mercenaries from Mariupol. Previous actions to evacuate them by helicopter have failed.
❗️On the evening of April 8, the Kiev regime made another unsuccessful attempt to evacuate the Ukrainian Nazi leaders by sea.
▫️The Ukrainian Apache, a Maltese-flagged dry-cargo ship assigned to the Maltese port of Valetta, was sailing in a caravan of ships from the Gulf of Taganrog to the Kerch Strait in the nighttime.
▫️At 22:38 Moscow time, 30 km southeast of Mariupol, the dry-cargo ship suddenly changed its course and attempted to break through to the Mariupol seaport blocked from the sea by the Black Sea Fleet.
▫️The Ukrainian dry-cargo ship did not respond to Russian border guards' demands to contact them through the international channel and continued heading in the direction of Mariupol port.
▫️Warning artillery firing by two border patrol ships along the vessel's course did not cause the dry cargo ship to change course or slow down.
▫️While heading towards Mariupol port, the ship was engaged in radio communication, transmitting the messages "I am 'Maniac', coming for you". At the same time, signal fires were observed on the shore.
▫️To block the movement of the intruder vessel, from 22.53 to 23.30, the Black Sea Fleet and the border patrol ships opened artillery fire on the Apache dry-cargo ship.
▫️A direct hit caused a fire in the stern of the ship.
▫️The Ukrainian dry-cargo ship then went adrift, the crew got in touch with the border ships with a request to cease fire and confirmed their readiness to comply with all the demands of the Russian sailors.
❗️No crew members on the ship were injured as a result of the firing. The fire was extinguished by the ship's crew themselves.
▫️After being inspected, the Ukrainian Apache and its crew are convoyed to the Yeysk port.
Our comrades from the 247th Guards Regiment, who won many glorious victories at the front during the year.
Touching shots of the first moments of the meetings of relatives after a long separation.
Footage uploaded to social media shows a group of Serbian fans flying the Russian tricolor proudly outside the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, where the quarter-final match between Andrey Rublev and Novak Djokovic took place.
One flag can be seen with the Russian president’s face on it; another appears to represent the region of Donetsk.
Australian Open officials have banned the Russian tricolor at the event along with other items that may hint towards the country or the ongoing special military operation.
Ukrainian security forces fired HIMARS rockets at the pre-trial detention center near Yelenovka in the Donbass, where Ukrainian military prisoners of war, including militants of the Azov formation, are being held, 40 Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed and 75 wounded, and 8 employees of the detention center were also wounded.