UKRAINE CONTINUES TO DEFY PUTIN AS THEY KILL HIS FOURTH GENERAL - PLUS MANY OTHER HIGH RANKING OFFICIALS

 Russia loses a FOURTH general and seven SWAT fighters from elite unit under Putin's direct control - as top Russian airman warns scale of losses will 'horrify' the nation when they learn the truth

• Major-General Oleg Mityaev, 47, commander of Russia's 150th motorised rifle division, reportedly killed
• Kyiv claims Mityaev died fighting near the city of Mariupol and released a photo purporting to show his body  
• Moscow has not confirmed the death, but if true it would be the fourth general and 13th officer Russia has lost 
• Seven members of an elite SWAT squad under Vladimir Putin's direct control were also revealed to have died 
• FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10618211/Ukraine-war-Russian-loses-fourth-general-Kyiv-claims.html

'Your country doesn't have that many rubles to buy it back!' Social media users mercilessly mocks Russia after Kremlin apparatchik demanded US give it back Alaska

• Many took to social media on Tuesday to mock the Kremlin's demands that the U.S. return Alaska and California's Fort Ross to Russia
• The Kremlin's 'spin doctor,' Oleg Matveychev, had called on America to return the properties despite the fact that the U.S. legally purchased Alaska in 1867
• Many on social media called it ironic for Russia to demand American land that was purchased for $7.2 million but is now worth more than $144 million 
• Russia was also mocked for the sanctions it placed against 13 Americans, including Joe Biden, Hilary Clinton and Hunter Biden 
• 'I want to thank the Russian Academy for this Lifetime Achievement Award,' Clinton tweeted as she poked fun at the sanction that would not affect her https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10616485/Jen-Psaki-mocks-Russia-sanctioning-Hilary-Clinton-calls-honor.html

Chilling warnings that Chernobyl is in danger of a new nuclear accident because the 100 staff at the stricken plant being kept ‘hostage at gunpoint’ by the Russians are on the edge of collapse.

• Slavutych was purpose-built for staff after Chernobyl disaster left contamination
• Yuri Fomichev, mayor of Slavutych, issued plea as staff are held 'hostage' he says
• He said the decommissioned plant's nuclear waste must be constantly cooled to stop radiation leaking through vaporisation but fuel to do so is now running out
• FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10616879/IAN-BIRRELL-Chernobyl-staff-battling-avert-nuclear-disaster-warns-mayor.html