⚡️Republic of Korea and the United States to hold military exercises, with hypothetical scenario of a nuclear strike by South Korea.

Earlier, South Korea warned its northern neighbor it will sever diplomatic ties if North Korea violates its airspace.

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russia and Ukraine agree on another prisoner of war exchange of 40 people each.

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Foreign Policy publishes unconfirmed information that Turkey has been sending "improved, dual-use ammunition” to Kiev since November 2022.

These munitions are designed to destroy tanks - they break into smaller munitions, which can remain on the battlefield for years, long after a conflict. Each projectile scatters about 88 bombs.

There are 100+ signatories to the international Convention on the Prohibition of Cluster Munitions - however, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, and the US are not party to it.

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⚡️Yevgeny Prigozhin, Head of Wagner Private Military Company publishes footage from inside the Soledar salt mine, Donetsk Republic - Ukrainian positions are less than 2km from here above ground, and maybe even underground...

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⚡️Armenian radicals march to the Russian embassy in Yerevan - police are on the scene

Earlier, they attempted to block the Russian military base in Armenia, in connection with the Russian peacekeeping mission in Nagorno-Karabakh (disputed region).

🗣🇦🇿 President Aliyev of Azerbaijan has said - If you [residents] want the Lachin corridor to be open, you need to become citizens of Azerbaijan.

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FOG OF WAR: Group of Ukrainian soldiers are stuck in a trench, without any coordinates of Russian positions given by their command. With clowns in charge, it's best to surrender to see another day....

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⚡️🇺🇦 Zelensky visits Lvov cemetery, Western Ukraine, together with the Lvov Mayor - they pay their respects to the fallen.

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⚡️🇺🇦 Orthodox Church of Ovadnoe, Volyn region (far Northwestern Ukraine) mysteriously catches fire, after the rector refused to transfer from the Moscow to the Kiev Patriarchate.

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🇺🇸🇺🇦 ELON MUS-T SEND MORE: Ukrainian soldier is PISSED off this Starlink router did not survive a Russian bullet; Elon Musk's Starlink system is absolutely KEY to Ukraine's internet and communications infrastructure.

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⚡️City mayors of four European capitals are currently in Kiev - Mayors of Warsaw, Prague, Bratislava and Budapest; no mutual reason has been communicated.

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⚡️🇩🇪 Police in Luzerath, Germany face off against eco-activists in the area where coal mining is being planned.

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⚡️CNN says situation so critical in Soledar, Donetsk Republic - no one counts the Ukrainian dead.

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⚡️Turkey offers to treat Ukrainian wounded, open 'humanitarian corridor' out of Ukraine.

Earlier last year, Turkey housed many key members of the openly nazi Azov Battalion, Kiev’s main fighting force, in a prisoner exchange with Russia. They have asylum in Turkey until the end of hostilities.

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⚡️❗️ President Zelensky is meeting with Polish President Duda in Lvov.

Against the backdrop of Soledar's, Donetsk Republic, imminent fall - Zelensky may be discussing Poland officially occupying Western Ukraine, in exchange for security guarantees - Ukrainian MP Goncharenko.

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⚡️Estonia kicks out 8 out of 17 Russian diplomats in the country.

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MEDDLERS 'R US: LEAKED phone call catches USA meddling in top-level internal affairs of Kyrgyzstan - red handed.

🇺🇸 Nolan Johnson (left), from the US Embassy in Kyrgyzstan, calls Turat Makenbaev, a media assistant of the embassy (right), to discuss how to best support opposition journalist Bolot Temirov.

Johnson asks Makenbaev to call Temirov and ask whether the US embassy should openly provide assistance in his name, or will such close association with the West be detrimental to him? Bit of a fail.

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⚡️ Zelensky holds meeting in Lvov, Western Ukraine, on strengthening the border around Belarus.

He is due to meet with Polish President Duda later today.

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