⚡️ Foreign Ministry statement regarding Twitter’s act of censorship ⚡️

❗️ On April 5, the US social media company Twitter resorted to a blatant act of censorship by concealing a post on the Russian Foreign Ministry’s official account in English behind a warning that it violates the platform’s rules. The post covered the main points of the Russian Defence Ministry’s statement about the provocation in the Ukrainian town of Bucha and a link to the full text of the statement. The material was marked as "offensive" (supposedly violating "abusive behaviour"... with facts apparently) and the ability of Twitter users to share it has been drastically curtailed. This is the first time such a restriction has been placed on the Foreign Ministry’s verified account since it was created in 2011.

We regard this step as clear confirmation that Twitter as well as other US tech companies are direct participants in an unprecedented act of information aggression launched by Washington and its satellites, which is designed to shape international public opinion, creating a vastly distorted picture of events in Ukraine. Large-scale measures are being taken to conceal the horrendous crimes committed by the Kiev regime that is steeped in Nazi ideology. The fabrication of pretexts for ramping up political and sanctions pressure on Russia and flooding Ukraine with an endless supply of weapons continues unabated. Before it was censored, the post was seen by over two million users, mainly outside of Russia. Obviously, the widespread interest prompted Twitter executives to resort to these unscrupulous methods.

☝️ We demand that Twitter immediately restore access to this post. There can be no place for bias in the company’s content moderation in the future. Otherwise, it may acquire a reputation as an accomplice to the Kiev regime’s atrocities.

🚛Russian servicemen provided another handover of humanitarian aid to the civilian population.

▫️More than 10 tonnes of food and basic necessities delivered from the Russian Federation were distributed to residents of Kherson.

▫️Every day, hundreds of civilians in Kherson come to the food distribution points.

▫️Women and children, as well as the elderly and disabled, are the first to recieve of aid from Russia.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry (video) (April 5, 2022)

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🇷🇺🇺🇦Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry

▫️The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation in Ukraine.

💥On the morning of April 6, high-precision air- and ground-based missiles destroyed 5 fuel storage bases near Radekhov, Kazatin, Prosyanaya, Nikolaev and Novomoskovsk. These facilities have been used to supply fuel to Ukrainian military formations in Kharkov, Nikolaev and Donbass areas.

✈️💥During the night, operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 24 military assets of Ukraine. Among them: 1 Osa-AKM anti-aircraft missile system, 5 logistics depots, as well as 11 strong points and areas of Ukrainian military equipment concentration.

💥Russian Air Defence means shot down 4 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the air near Berdyansk, Gornyak, Uvanskoe and Chernobaevka.

📊In total, 125 Ukrainian aircraft and 93 helicopters, 407 unmanned aerial vehicles, 227 anti-aircraft missile systems, 1,981 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 215 multiple launch rocket systems, 854 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,882 units of special military vehicles were destroyed during the operation.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry (video)

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🇷🇺Russian Armed Forces launch high-precision missile attack on Ukrainian military infrastructure

▫️Bastion missile system from the Black Sea coast has launched two Onyx high-precision missiles at ground targets in Ukraine.

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🏥 Russian military medics saved Izyum resident who covered orphaned children during artillery shelling by Ukrainian national battalions

▫️The wounded man was promptly taken to a military field hospital, where he underwent a complex operation.

▫️Thanks to the prompt and skilful actions of military medics, the patient survived.

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💬 "In the neighboring house No. 21, a female sniper was sitting, as well as soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. They constantly ran from house to house, changed their positions, they shot at the local population..."

▫️Residents of Mariupol rescued by Russian servicemen and Donetsk People's Militia revealed crimes against civilians by the Ukrainian Armed Forces and Ukrainian nationalist battalions.

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💬"....I passed by a kindergarten, the Azov people settled there. We saw how they left the kindergarten in search of convenient positions, they came into our yard..."

▫️Alexei, a resident of Mariupol, was shot in the leg as he walked by a kindergarten turned into a fortress by nationalists. He is now being treated in a Donetsk People's Republic hospital.

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💬"When we tried to get out on the bridge in order to calmly leave the city, snipers fired at us. They were "Azov", with blue armbands..."

▫️Russian servicemen and Donetsk people's militia assist civilians and organise evacuation of residents from Mariupol who are being held in the basements of buildings by Ukrainian nationalists.

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🇷🇺Russian servicemen provided aid to residents of Izyum in Kharkov Region who were hit by the Ukrainian Armed Forces' multiple rocket launchers.

▫️Ukrainian military hit residential area of Izyum with cluster munitions using multiple rocket launchers.

▫️As a result of the strike, several civilians were killed. Seven civilians with fragmentation wounds were treated by Russian military doctors.

🚑Russian servicemen evacuated civilians and took them to the field hospital, where they provided the necessary medical treatment.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦Statement by Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine

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💬"...They occupied the floor of the traumatology department in the hospital, installed grenade launchers and started shooting. There were about forty people - bedridden patients..."

▫️According to Mariupol residents, soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and nationalist battalions used kindergartens, schools and hospitals to set up permanent firing positions.

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Fake:
A young Ukrainian girl was murdered in Bucha. Her photo and obituary spread across the net. "Raped and murdered by Russians just because they are Ukrainians," the caption says.

Reality:
The girl in the photo is named Anastasia Savchishina and she is alive and well. She organized this photo shoot with herself in the main role.
As she explained on her Facebook page, she arranged this performance for "foreigners to understand what the situation in Ukraine is like now." Anastasia's followers reacted to her prank mostly in a negative way.
A photo shoot with the "dead girl from Bucha" was published by Radio Liberty correspondent Lidia Guzhva. The publication caused a great resonance, but in the end it turned out to be a fake.

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💬"...And then all the houses were shot from machine guns.
– Who shot?
– Azov. Azov.
– Did they shot children and women?
– Yes..."

▫️Residents of Mariupol rescued by Russian servicemen and Donetsk People's Militia revealed crimes against civilians by the Ukrainian Armed Forces and Ukrainian nationalist battalions.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry

▫️The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation in Ukraine.

💥High-precision ground-based missiles in Donetsk Region destroyed the command post of Ukraine's 56th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade near Novogrodovka, as well as a nationalist base in Grodovka.

💥High-precision air-based missiles in Kharkov Region destroyed a fuel depot near Chuguev from which fuel was supplied to Ukrainian troops.

💥In addition, a concentration of foreign-made weapons and military equipment supplied to the Ukrainian Armed Forces was destroyed at Lozovaya railway station in Kharkov Region.

✈️💥During the day, operational-tactical aviation hit 34 military assets of Ukraine. Among them: 1 artillery battery, 2 logistics depots, and 9 strong points and areas of Ukrainian military equipment concentration.

💥Russian anti-aircraft defence means shot down Bayraktar TB-2 unmanned aerial vehicle near Taranovka, Kharkov Region.

📊In total, 125 Ukrainian aircraft and 93 helicopters, 408 unmanned aerial vehicles, 227 anti-aircraft missile systems, 1,987 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 216 multiple launch rocket systems, 862 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,888 units of special military vehicles were destroyed during the operation.

❗️According to confirmed information, the Ukrainian special services are preparing a serious provocation using poisonous substances in Pervomayskiy, Kharkov region.

▫️Security Service of Ukraine has mined a storage facility containing 120 tonnes of chlorine on the territory of the Khimprom production association.

▫️This storage facility is planned to be blown up in order to accuse Russia of allegedly causing a chemical disaster, which caused the death of local residents.

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