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Update to the report about the attack carried out on Leonid Volkov.

Leonid Volkov told the details of the attack “They wanted to make a chop out of me. Naturally. A man attacked me with a chop hammer right in the yard of the house. He hit me on the leg 15 times, but for some reason my leg remained intact. It hurts to walk, but they say there is no fracture. But he broke my arm. Well, nothing. It’s a profitable business. The main thing is that we will work and will not give up.”

Volkov called what happened "an obvious, typical criminal ‘hello’ from Putin, from criminal Petersburg”. A few hours before the attack, he told Meduza that Navalny’s team was reviewing security protocols.

“The key risk now is that we will all be killed. Well, that’s a pretty obvious thing.”

Lithuania blamed Moscow on Wednesday for the overnight attack by a hammer-wielding assailant.

President Gitanas Nauseda said the attack on the Navalny aide was clearly pre-planned and tied in with other provocations against Lithuania. "I can only say one thing to Putin - nobody is afraid of you here," Nauseda said.

Lithuanian Foreign Affairs Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis called the incident shocking and said the perpetrators must "answer for their crime". Lithuania's police commissioner Renatas Pozela said police were devoting "huge resources" to investigate the assault.

Lithuania's State Security Department counter-intelligence agency said the attack was probably carried out to stop the Russian opposition from influencing Russia's presidential election.

The Kremlin views Navalny's team as "the most dangerous opposition force capable of exerting real influence on Russia's internal processes", the Lithuanian security agency
said.

Russian pro-war blogger Vladislav Pozdnyakov, who harasses oppositionists and civil activists, claims that his followers are behind the attack on Volkov. He showed screenshots of correspondence with a person who allegedly followed the oppositionist and his car.

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More pictures from the results of the DragonFire tests. You can see how it fired a 120-mm mortar shell, cut the metal plating and burned the camera of the copter.

DragonFire was successfully tested in January this year. The laser strikes with a direct beam and can hit visible targets at the speed of light. The system's accuracy is described as pinpoint - the weapon can hit a £1 coin from a kilometer away. A ten-second shot is equivalent in cost to using a conventional heater for an hour. The cost of laser operation does not exceed £10 (492 hryvnias).

Photo: Dstl

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Poignant words of the famous Ukrainian poetess Lina Kostenko on the body armor of a Ukrainian soldier.

Love! Because time is not waiting for you.
It takes your days and nights.
Love while the body is thirsty and young.
Because only the eyes love in old age.

❤️
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Good morning Resisters everywhere

Goodnight Resisters

Dramatic.

⚖️ 15 russian servicemen were sentenced to 12 years in prison for brutal treatment of civilians in the village of Yaghidnoye in Chernihiv Oblast

🔷According to the public indictment of the prosecutors of the Chernihiv Regional Prosecutor's Office, they were found guilty of violating the laws and customs of war.

🔹Each of them was in absentia sentenced to 12 years in prison.

🔹It has been proven that at the beginning of March 2022, the military forces of the Russian Federation, being in the occupied village. Yagidne district of Chernihiv district, 368 people, including 69 minors, were deprived of their liberty and forcibly kept in the basement of the Yagidne school as "human shields".

🔹Thus, local residents were used to cover the command post from possible offensive actions by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

🔹Due to inhuman conditions of detention and failure to provide necessary medical care, 10 civilians died in the "cellar of death".

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Rest in Peace

Sofya Zayets was killed by airstrikes of the Russian army on the village of Chorne, Kupyan district, Kharkiv region, on February 15, 2024.
Aunt and uncle died nearby.

The girl was 17 years old. Studied in the first year of Kharkiv National Pedagogical University named after Hryhoriy Skovoroda, studied history.

She dreamed of becoming a psychologist and helping others. Relatives affectionately called her Sonya. She is the eldest daughter in a large family.

"She was a very serious girl, responsible, persistent, kind and fair. I grew up a real patriot," cousin Yulia said.

Sofia is survived by her mother, grandmother, sisters Anya and Vika, brother Nikita.

Rest in Peace

🕯 Two soldiers of the Georgian Legion, Nodar Nasirov and Giorgi Gogiashvili, were killed while performing combat duties on the front line.

The Georgian Legion on facebook expressed its condolences to the families of the deceased.

🫡 Glory to the heroes!
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After graduating from the officer training acadamy, this woman chose infantry.

Russian headquarters destroyed

Goodnight Resisters everywhere

Let's go with this one.

Rest on Peace

Air force major, fighter pilot, 33-year-old Andriy Tkachenko died in the sky over the Donetsk region during a combat mission.

He was from the city of Sambyr, Lviv Region.

The hero has a small son left.

🕯Rest in Peace

Fighter pilot Andrii Tkachenko KIA in Donetsk Oblast

Fighter pilot Andrii Tkachenko, Major of Ukraine’s Air Force, has been killed in Donetsk Oblast while undertaking a combat mission.

Plast Sambir said that Tkachenko was killed in the skies over Donetsk Oblast on 8 March 2024, while undertaking a combat mission.

Tkachenko served in Ivano-Frankivsk, then Kharkiv, and then again in Ivano-Frankivsk. Since the beginning of the war in 2014, he carried out combat missions as part of the Anti-Terrorist Operation and the Joint Forces Operation, the designations of Ukraine’s efforts to oppose russian forces in Ukraine's east in 2014-2022.

Following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Tkachenko operated in the country's east and south.

He is survived by his wife and his six-year-old son. Tkachenko will be buried in Ivano-Frankivsk.

🫡Glory to the Hero!
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☢️ At the end of 2022, the Biden administration was "thoroughly preparing" for a possible nuclear strike by russian forces on Ukraine. This was no ordinary concern—the apprehensions were based on intelligence information.

Citing sources, CNN writes that the US wanted to prepare and do everything possible to prevent Russia from taking this step. Against the background of the then military defeats (the loss of Kherson and the lands of the Kharkiv region), Russian officers and officials discussed a nuclear strike.

The US discussed deterrence plans with its allies, as well as with India and China. The leaders of the last states helped prevent a nuclear crisis. The threat has decreased somewhat, but no one rules out further tensions.

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28-year-old junior sergeant Vadym Kobzar died on October 29, 2023 in Donetsk region.

Vadim was from Odesa. He was fond of fishing and computer games. After marriage, he moved to Chernihiv. He worked as a sales manager at a food wholesale base.

During the full-scale war, he joined the ranks of the 92nd separate assault brigade named after Ivan Sirk, the chieftain of the region. He was the commander of the sapper unit.

"Vadim was purposeful, kind, brave, always moving forward, devoted himself to his work. He mastered the profession of a sapper in such a way that he taught everyone, he was called an "encyclopedia man", - said his wife Olga.