[Breitbart] Iranian MMA fighter Ali Heibati has been given a lifetime ban from the Hard Fighting Championship (HFC) after kicking a ring girl.
“Iranian fighter Ali Heibati faced Arkady Osipyan at the Hardcore MMA tournament in Moscow on Friday night,” reported the Daily Mail. “Before the fight had even got underway, Heibati bizarrely stepped forward and kicked a ring girl in the derriere as she walked past holding up a card signaling that the opening round was about to start.”
“The woman turned around and was clearly taken aback by Heibati’s behaviour, approaching him to voice her disapproval before the referee stepped in to keep them apart and appeared to warn Heibati about his conduct,” it added.
The fight commenced moments later, with Osipyan handily beating Heibati with a technical knockout in the first round. Following his loss, Heibati’s antics continued when he started throwing cheap shots at Osipyan’s back as the referee walked him to his corner. After some people jumped into the cage to break the commotion, Heibati then got into a scuffle with a commentator and aimed a kick at his head. Later, the crowd could be seen rushing Heibati and proceeded to beat him severely.
Heibati later apologized for his actions on social media, specifically to the ring girl, Maria.
“Hello, everyone. This is for Maria. I didn’t act right with her. The reason was that before the MMA fight, there were a lot of fistfights. I stayed there in the cage, and I just wanted to go out and fight,” he said.
“I was tense and, as most understand, emotions flourish in the fight, so before the fight, I acted badly towards María,” he added. “I want to publicly apologise to her. I am a married man, so I respect the female gender. She was doing her job, and I, after the fight, didn’t admit my guilt either because they also hit me on the head. Tell María that I am sorry.”
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[NewsFront] 21:35 Statements by representatives of the "West", "South", "Center", "East" and "Dnepr" groups on the progress of the special military operation (as of April 23, 2024) —video. 20:33 "Tulips" of the 238th Brigade destroy enemy fortifications in Krasnogorovka -video.
19:17 Bombing strikes by operational-tactical aviation on the enemy in the Urozhainy area, South Donetsk direction -video.
18:55 Avdeevskoe direction. Northern flank —map.
By evening, the enemy failed to stabilize the situation in Ocheretino. Our guys continued to advance and clear the settlement.
At these moments there is a battle on the northwestern outskirts of Ocheretino, the enemy is trying to attack. We successfully repulse all counterattacks.
Also to the southeast and southwest of Ocheretino there is an expansion of the flanks and Novobakhmutovka is taken. There is an advance to the western outskirts of Novokalinovoe, as well as an advance to Solovyevo.
17:47 Special military operation. Situation on April 23 —map.
16:23 Avdeevskoe direction. Northern flank —map.
By lunchtime, successes were reported in Berdychi; progress was made in the western part of the village. to a depth of up to 500 meters.
The complete cleansing of Novobakhmutovka also ended; there is information about the entry of advanced groups into the village. Solovevo.
The assault and cleansing of the northern and eastern parts of the village continues in Ocheretino.
14:44 Situation in Chasov Yar:
Our unit, using the Kornet ATGM, destroyed an enemy antenna with repeaters and dome cameras.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine in the depths of Chasov Yar are setting up firing positions, preparing for active defense, and mining approaches and roads. Our 98th Airborne Troops continues active assault operations.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces are urgently preparing new lines of defense, and the main one is the Seversky Donets-Donbass canal. It was equipped during the assault on Bakhmut, and the canal itself is a natural anti-tank line, insurmountable for both armored vehicles and vehicles, and the enemy blew up all crossings across the canal during the assault on Bakhmut.
The deciduous forest has been completely cleared and is under the control of 217 RAPs.
13:25 Ka-52M helicopter crewstruckunits of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Avdeevsky direction. The strike was carried out by unguided aircraft missiles.
12:50 Right on target!
Over the past 24 hours, Crimean paratroopers carried out more than 20 strikes on Ukrainian Armed Forces targets in the Zaporizhzhya direction using FPV drones and quadcopters with drops -video.
11:22 In the morning the enemy admits the loss of the southern and central part of Ocheretino -map.
10:44 Statement by the head of the press center of the "West" group -video.
Units of the West group of troops continue to carry out combat missions.
Motorized rifle units, with the support of artillery and aviation, inflicted fire on manpower and equipment of 21 Mechanized and 95 Air Assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Tern regions. Four attacks by assault groups of the 12th Special Forces Brigade "Azov" were repelled in the Grigorovka area.
The artillery units of the group carried out fire strikes on over 170 Ukrainian Armed Forces targets.
During the counterbattery fight, artillery units destroyed: the 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery unit and nine mortar crews.
The group's air defense systems destroyed two Fury-type unmanned aerial vehicles.
Enemy losses in the Kupyansk direction amounted to 25 military personnel, two vehicles and two UAV control posts.
09:41 Criminal Kyiv regimecontinuesto fire at the civilian infrastructure of settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired from cannon artillery:
-- n.p. Kakhovka five rounds;
-- n.p. Kazachi Lagery two rounds;
-- n.p. Dnepryan three rounds;
-- n.p. Alyosha four rounds;
-- n.p. Novaya Kakhovka four rounds.
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the village. Aleshki, n.p. Staraya Zburevka, settlement Golaya Pristan, n.p. Kakhovka firing a total of 16 rounds from cannon artillery.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being determined.
09:27 Telegram channel «WarGonzo":
Frontline report for the morning of 04/23/2024
- Zaporozhye Front. Fighting continues in Rabotino and northwest of Verbovoy. LBS has not changed significantly.
— Donetsk front. The Russian Armed Forces finally drove out the Ukrainian garrison from Novomikhailovka. Encounter battles in Krasnogorovka, in the area of ??Netailovo and Umansky. LBS unchanged. In the Semyonovka area and in Berdychi, assault operations by the Russian Armed Forces continue, without significant success.
But there is success in the Ocheretino region. There, the Russian Armed Forces, during successful assault operations, made good progress. And even though the remnants of the Ukrainian garrison are still on the outskirts of the settlement, its complete liberation is a matter of time.
— There are no special changes in the Chasovoyar direction. Fighting continues in the Bogdanovka area and on the eastern outskirts of Chasov Yar.
08:53 Telegram channel "Fisherman":
Chronicle of a special military operation for April 22, 2024
— Russian troops attacked enemy targets in Kharkov and Odessa, as well as on the territory of the temporarily occupied part of the DPR. The enemy once again fired at Belgorod, all targets were shot down on approach.
— In the Artemovsky (Bakhmutsky) direction, Russian troops are conducting positional battles in the Kanal microdistrict on the outskirts of Chasov Yar. Due to the transfer of reserves, the Ukrainian Armed Forces manage to hold the front line.
— In the Avdeevsky direction, north of Avdeevka, assault groups of the Russian Armed Forces are rapidly moving forward and have taken control of most of Ocheretino. At the moment, Russian forces have entrenched themselves on the southern outskirts and in the center.
— In the Ugledar direction, naval infantry from the 155th Naval Infantry Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces finally liberated Novomikhailovka. At the moment, the settlement is under complete control of Russian forces; the enemy has retreated to the Konstantinovka area.
08:00 Official summary of Representative offices of the DPR in the JCCC:
A total of 17 facts of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC.
One civilian was reported injured.
Damaged:
Two residential buildings.
A total of 11 attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donetsk direction,
Six attacks from the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Gorlovka direction.
In total, the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired 52 units of various ammunition.
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[Korrespondent] 21:58 The US Senate supported consideration of the bill on assistance to Ukraine under a shortened procedure - now senators have 30 hours to hold a final vote. Continued on Page 49
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[Korrespondent] Defense forces continue to contain the enemy in the Novopavlovsk direction.
In the Kherson direction, the occupiers do not abandon their intention to oust units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from their bridgeheads on the left bank of the Dnieper. Continued on Page 49
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation. Continued on Page 49
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[REGNUM] While Kiev is waiting for weapons supplies from the United States and promising to launch a new counter-offensive in the coming months, Russian troops are advancing along the entire front line.
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[Regnum] In the capital of Bulgaria, the dismantling of the monument to the Soviet army has resumed. Conservation work on the pedestal began on April 22, the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency (BTA) reported.
Workers began dismantling after the Supreme Administrative Court declared the decisions of the Administrative Court of the City of Sofia invalid due to lack of legal interest.
By order of the chief architect of Sofia, the facing slabs with inscriptions were removed from the monument.
The monument to the Soviet Army was erected in Sofia in 1954 as a sign of gratitude to the Soviet liberator soldiers. Since 1993, city authorities have repeatedly attempted to dismantle the monument.
As reported by IA Regnum, disputes about the dismantling and relocation of the monument to the Soviet Army have been going on for a long time, however, thanks to the resistance of the Bulgarian Socialist Party and its supporters, the dismantling work was constantly postponed. In March 2023, deputies of the Sofia City Council by a majority of votes supported the initiative of right-wing political associations to dismantle and move the pedestal.
On December 12, 2023, the dismantling of the monument to the Soviet Army in Sofia began. The governor of the Sofia region, Vyara Todeva, signed a decree on the demolition of the monument based on the latest inspection of its condition. Allegedly, as a result of an inspection, cracks and erosion were found on the monument, posing a danger to people. According to Todeva, after dismantling the bronze figures will be transferred to the ownership of the state. A week later, the court suspended the work at the request of the Revival party.
Russian President Vladimir Putin called the destruction of monuments ignorance with bad consequences. The Russian leader recalled that in European countries, memorials to heroes of the Great Patriotic War and simply Russian and Soviet monuments, for example, monuments to Pushkin, are being demolished.
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[Regnum] The North Atlantic Alliance (NATO) troop group near the Russian border numbers up to 33 thousand people, about 300 tanks and more than 800 other combat vehicles. This was announced by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu at a meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Defense on April 23.
“The entry of Sweden into the North Atlantic Alliance in early March increased military-political tension in the Western and North-Western strategic directions. Today, the NATO reinforcement force at our borders numbers up to 33 thousand people, about three hundred tanks and more than eight hundred other armored combat vehicles,” the head of the Defense Ministry informed.
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[Regnum] The Ukrainian government on Tuesday, April 23, fired the country's Deputy Defense Minister Vitaly Polovenko. This was reported by the press service of the country's Cabinet of Ministers.
The Ukrainian government fired Deputy Defense Minister Polovenko
“At a meeting on April 23, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine adopted an order to dismiss Vitaly Nikolaevich Polovenko from the post of Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine,” the statement says.
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[Regnum] The Supreme Court of the DPR sentenced two militants of the Ukrainian formation “Azov” (a terrorist organization whose activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation), who killed a civilian resident of Mariupol, to prison terms of at least 25 years. The regional prosecutor's office reported this on April 23.
“The Supreme Court of the Donetsk People’s Republic issued a verdict in a criminal case against 34-year-old Stanislav Dutov and 24-year-old Andrey Bogdan,” the prosecutor’s office said.
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[Regnum] Czech counterintelligence prevented an assassination attempt on the elected President of Slovakia, Peter Pellegrini, which was planned to be carried out by 24-year-old Ukrainian citizen V. Marunich, the STK news agency reported on April 23.
As the publication says, the attacker, who is described as a mentally unstable and nationalist-minded person, was detained in the city of Brno in the southeast of the republic when he took weapons from a cache.
My first au pair was a Brno girl. Lovely, bright — and such a brilliant ping pong player that the local club offered her anything she wanted to stay on and play for them when her year with the Wife family was up. She and her boyfriend did mixed doubles at a regional tournament in Germany for fun one weekend, and came third. She ended up doing post-doc computer research at a university in the Northwest, married to a statistics professor there. We’re very proud of her.
The agency clarifies that Marunich V. is a native of Vinnitsa and has been in the Czech Republic since 2021. In 2021, he was detained in Ukraine for distributing child pornography and fraud.
The attacker came to the attention of Czech counterintelligence in December last year, the agency notes.
As Regnum reported, the Al Khaleej newspaper previously wrote that the election of Peter Pellegrini as president of Slovakia was a “political blow” for the United States, the EU and Ukraine, since Russian President Vladimir Putin had a new ally in Europe.
According to the newspaper's author, Kyiv has lost another ally, which provided it with military support worth $750 million between 2022 and 2023. The material emphasizes that, despite the fact that presidential powers in Slovakia are limited, Pellegrini is now the commander-in-chief of the Slovak army and has the right of veto in parliament.
After his election, Pellegrini said that he would do everything to ensure that Slovakia was always “on the side of peace, not war.” He also said that he would not allow the Slovak military to be sent to Ukraine.
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[KavkazUzel] The ruling political force is consistently consigning to oblivion the Armenian genocide of 1915-1923 in Ottoman Turkey, said participants in the torchlight procession in Yerevan. As the "Caucasian Knot" reported, on April 23 and 24, residents of Armenia and representatives of the diaspora in different countries of the world annually hold events in memory of the victims of the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire. The stories of ancestors who survived the genocide are passed down in Armenian families from generation to generation, participants in the commemorative events in 2023 told the Caucasian Knot.
The events of 1915 in the Ottoman Empire were recognized as the Armenian genocide by over 30 countries, including Russia. The Turkish authorities do not consider the events of 1915 to be genocide, says the “Caucasian Knot” document “ Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire ”. News about the attitude of different countries towards the Armenian genocide is published by the "Caucasian Knot" on the thematic page " Armenian Genocide: 100 years of confessions and denials ".
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[REGNUM] On Saturday, the US House of Representatives finally voted to allocate new military aid to Ukraine. The long-awaited amount is impressive - $60.8 billion, and representatives of the Ukrainian Presidential Office hastened to thank the congressmen: after all, this “increases Ukraine’s chances of winning.” However, not by much, since most of the allocated money will be spent by the Americans themselves. Let’s be honest: for six months, the fuss around “aid to Ukraine” has nothing to do with either aid or Ukraine as such. It is simply an excuse to fight over whose side the American military-industrial complex will be on, from which the Democrats received benefits until the end of 2023.
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