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Hungary hints at Ukraine’s role in Serbia pipeline explosives find; Kyiv denies
Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry rejected any suggestion that Kyiv was behind the discovery of explosives near the TurkStream pipeline in Serbia. Spokesperson Heorhii Tykhyi said Ukraine had no involvement in the incident and called it a Russian false-flag operation carried out as part of Moscow’s broader interference in Hungary’s elections.
Telegram now flags accounts using unofficial versions of the app
A wheat cargo ship sank off the coast of Kherson, and Russian state media says a deadly drone attack is to blame
Putin orders transfer of 2 medieval icons from Tretyakov Gallery to Russian Orthodox Church, patriarch says
Patriarch Kirill said at an April 4 service in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior that President Vladimir Putin had personally ordered the transfer of the Vladimir and Donskaya icons of the Mother of God to the Russian Orthodox Church.
Ukrainian drones damage oil pipeline near Russian port and spark fire at refinery
Ukrainian drones struck Russia’s Leningrad and Nizhny Novgorod regions overnight on April 5, regional governors reported. Air defenses shot down 19 drones over the Leningrad region, Governor Alexander Drozdenko said. Debris from the drones damaged a section of an oil pipeline near the port of Primorsk, he added, with no injuries reported. “Safe burnoff from the shut-off pipe is underway,” he said.
Russia’s internet regulator orders outlets to delete reports linking bank disruptions to its website-blocking activity
Russia’s federal internet regulator, Roskomnadzor, has ordered Russian outlets to delete reports linking a widespread disruption at major Russian banks on April 3 to the agency’s website-blocking activity.
Dozens gather outside Presidential Administration in Moscow to submit petitions against messaging app blocks and mobile internet shutdowns
Dozens of people gathered outside the Presidential Administration in Moscow to submit petitions against the blocking of messaging apps and the shutdown of mobile internet access.
Siberian regional TV releases video of ‘grateful farmers’ who lost livestock to government seizures, but journalists identify participants as local officials
OTS, a television channel owned by the Novosibirsk regional government, has released a video featuring what it calls “grateful farmers” describing how they received compensation for livestock that was destroyed. The video is available on OTS’s VK page.
Russia begins emergency hepatitis A vaccination in flood-hit region as more than 30 people are poisoned by drinking water
Armenia’s parliamentary speaker says country will leave CSTO and Eurasian Economic Union if Russia raises gas price
Armenia’s parliamentary speaker Alen Simonyan said his country would leave the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the Eurasian Economic Union if Russia raises the price of gas it supplies to the republic.
