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📹 Russian military FPV drones destroye positions of the Ukrainian forces in the Donetsk People's Republic Subscribe to @sputnik_africa 🔸 TikTok | Sputnik Africa | Boost us on Telegram 🔸

❗️Russian forces liberated the village of Semyonovka in the DPR, the Russian Ministry of Defense reports More statements from the daily briefing of the Russian Defense Ministry on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine: 🟠Ukraine lost up to 395 servicemen due to the successful combat operations of the Russian "South" battlegroup; 🟠Russia's "Centre" group of forces repelled 10 Ukrainian counterattacks; the enemy losses amounted to 370 militants; 🟠Russian air defences shot down 22 UAVs. 🟠Russian battlegroup "East" repelled two Ukrainian counterattacks in the Donetsk People's Republic. The enemy losses amounted to up to 125 militants, three pickup trucks, a US-made 155 mm M777 howitzer, and two 152 mm Msta-B howitzers; 🟠The Russian Armed Forces hit an assembly shop of Ukrainian drones, as well as the manpower and military equipment of Ukraine in 110 locations. Subscribe to @sputnik_africa 🔸 TikTok | Sputnik Africa | Boost us on Telegram 🔸

🦾 "We don't understand how it happened." AI has skills it wasn't taught, Russian scientist says Trained on huge amounts of data, it has developed "multiple, unusual and surprising" skills, Professor Konstantin Vorontsov of the Russian Academy of Sciences told Sputnik. ☝️ What's more, the GPT-4 model acquired most of its abilities on its own without being given any examples, the researcher said. He admitted that the scientific community is at a loss to explain this result.

"We say that 'quantity has become quality'," he noted, adding, "but this philosophical explanation doesn't make up for our lack of understanding and confusion."

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🇰🇪 Dam burst tragedy claims at least 42 lives in Kenya as floods devastate East Africa The incident occurred on Monday near the town of Mai Mahiu in Kenya's Rift Valley, according to local authorities. The surging waters unleashed by the dam burst swept away homes and severed a key road, leaving a trail of destruction in their wake. Rescuers are working tirelessly to locate survivors amidst the debris.

"Forty-two dead, it's a conservative estimate. There are still more in the mud; we are working on recovery," Nakuru Governor Susan Kihika described the situation.

This latest tragedy brings the death toll during the March-May wet season to a staggering 120 as East Africa grapples with unusually heavy rainfall exacerbated by the El Niño weather pattern. Distressing video footage circulating online and on television depicted the size of the tragedy. Subscribe to @sputnik_africa 🔸 TikTok | Sputnik Africa | Boost us on Telegram 🔸

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🇲🇱 Russia helped Mali to "decolonize" minds of its people, rector of the University of Social Sciences and Management in Bamako says 🗣 "My country, Mali, has been cooperating with Russia since 1962. We have at least 10,000 Malian cadres trained by the Soviet Union. Without the Russians trying to take advantage of this training," Anna Traore told Sputnik Africa. Subscribe to @sputnik_africa 🔸 TikTok | Sputnik Africa | Boost us on Telegram 🔸

📹 Russia's Su-25 attack aircraft disrupt the rotation of the Ukrainian forces in the area of responsibility of the Russian "Southern" group of forces As a result of the flight mission, the enemy's special equipment and personnel were destroyed. Subscribe to @sputnik_africa 🔸 TikTok | Sputnik Africa | Boost us on Telegram 🔸

🇸🇱 "We are not given the free will to make decisions on our own mineral resources": Sierra Leone's first lady criticizes neocolonialism

"There's always a big brother who decides. And when you fight and say "no, we are not going to do this" they use the system to stop you. It's either they set you up with the opposition and they will be supporting the opposition against you from the back, or they cause unnecessary chaos in your country so that you are not able to even govern your own people. They will do things to make you not to be functionable," Fatima Maada Bio added.

She noted that almost all of Sierra Leone's mining and electricity companies are foreign owned, and the country struggles to have enough electricity, which in turn affects the country's infrastructure development, education and health systems. 🗣 "These are the things I believe that are stopping Africa from progressing. [...] I don't know why we celebrate independence, because we are not free. [...] Things need to change," she concluded. Subscribe to @sputnik_africa 🔸 TikTok | Sputnik Africa | Boost us on Telegram 🔸

Insanity and forever war: Musk slams US approach to Ukraine Elon Musk called the work of Ukraine and the United States on a security agreement, as well as US measures to support the Kiev regime, madness. This is how he commented on a post by US David Sacks on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter). Sacks noted that Ukraine and the US are developing a security agreement that “will fix levels of support for the next 10 years.”

"The $61 billion was just the beginning. The next two U.S. presidents won’t be able to switch it off," the businessman added.

Responding to Sacks, Musk wrote in the comments that the development of events is “insane” and labelled it a “forever war.” Boost us! | Subscribe to @geopolitics_live

🇧🇫 More international news media suspended by Burkina Faso Among the media that have been suspended are: 🔹 The French newspaper Le Monde; 🔹 The British publication The Guardian; 🔹 The German broadcaster Deutsche Welle; 🔹 The French broadcaster TV5 Monde; 🔹 The French regional newspaper Ouest-France; 🔹 APAnews; 🔹 Agence Ecofin. Their suspension came after they covered a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report that said the Burkinabe army was guilty of killing 223 civilians, including more than 50 children, in the country's villages of Nodin and Soro on February 24, 2024. The country's government denied and denounced these allegations and accused HRW of trying to to discredit Burkina Faso's image and the professionalism of its armed forces. An official inquiry into the reported killings has been launched, the country's public prosecutor said. On Thursday, broadcasts by the Voice of America and the BBC were also suspended for two weeks after they aired the HRW report. Subscribe to @sputnik_africa 🔸 TikTok | Sputnik Africa | Boost us on Telegram 🔸