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Mass murder occurred at Texas elementary school for children aged 7 to 10. As a result, 19 kids and two adults died. The tragedy happened in the city of Uvalde, at Robb Elementary School. According to investigators, the shooter Salvador Ramos was 18 years old. He had an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, as well as a pistol. Texas Governor Greg Abbott said Ramos first killed his grandmother, drove to school and parked his truck nearby. A Border Patrol officer killed the shooter. Watch the details of this tragedy in the video. Do you think gun rights should be tightened? #breakingnews#Texas Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

‘You take and build something, get a result, and enjoy the process,’ says Aleksey Tsapok, a DIY YouTuber and engineer. Aleksey makes fun things like potato guns, squid launchers, and caramel-fuelled rockets. Aleksey says he’s been inventing since he was little. Find out more about what ordinary Aleksey has created with his hands in the clip. Then, watch the entire film DIY Da Vincis to meet other blogger-inventors. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

‘Azov shot. They [Azov fighters] simply shot him because he said: ‘There are people here, children here, don’t go. That’s it; there is no person’. Natalya, who lives in the village of Kamensk, explains how the ‘Azov people’ killed a man in front of his family, who just asked them not to come close to the house where there were people. Natalya is now in the Mariupol Cardiology Center, which turned into a general hospital during the fighting. The centre received minor damage, taking over the entire patient load. Now almost everything is treated there, including injuries from exploding mines. Natalya got there by accident. A Russian doctor noticed her on the road as she was ill due to serious heart problems. ‘The doctor said to me in the operating room: A little more, and you would have been gone; you just had time. I don’t even know how to thank you’. Learn about doctors who work on the front line in a future filmpremiering soon. #Donbass Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

Have you heard about such a language as Church Slavonic? Agafia Lykova was taught to read books in this language by her parents, hermit Old Believers. In the 1930s, the Lykovs fled from Soviet pressure to the taiga. In 1978, geologists accidentally discovered the family in Siberia. According to their recollections, the hermits dressed in homespun clothes, used primitive tools, did not recognise any blessings of civilisation, and prayed all the time. When RT Documentary met the recluse in 2014, she desperately needed an assistant. So, on the Day of Slavic Literature, we upload a video where Agafia writes to other Old Believers and asks for help. After filming, a lot has changed: a new hut with a solar panel appeared in the yard and new helpers joined the family. One of the last is Father Georgy from Orenburg. He helped Agafia manage the house this winter. #humanstories#culture Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

‘Before, I could never have imagined a person living with a doll, but now I can,’ says Senji Nakajima, 62. He lives with Saori, a silicone doll, and not just lives but takes care of her – washes, feeds, hugs, brings her to bed, and talks to her. Dolls are in high demand among the Japanese. Doll vendor Noboru Tanaka explains it this way: ‘When you make love to your wife, there can be some problems. With a doll, none matters!’ The dolls often replace real partners in Japan. Experts say it may be one of the reason births and the population is declining. But Mr Nakajima doesn’t care; he is sure Saori is the love of his life. Learn more about his story in the clip. Then, watch the full documentary Substitutes about people who have silicone dolls to help overcome loneliness. #Japan#humanstories Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

Another fake over Russian President Vladimir Putin’s health is being spread by the former head of British intelligence, Sir Richard Dearlove. The ex-MI6 chief speculated in a podcast that the Russian president would ‘be gone by 2023 - but probably into the sanatorium, from which he will not emerge as the leader of Russia’. But it's really too far-fetched as the President’s Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov has repeatedly said President Putin feels good and everything is all right with his health. Moreover, the Russian president appears at all his events with no any rescheduling. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

‘The children are crying. They’re calling for their mothers. Unfortunately, we cannot help them with this’. A Russian surgeon with the call sign ‘White’ works on the front line. In a field hospital in the DPR, he treats civilians who were blown up by mines or came under fire and Ukrainian prisoners of war - often wounded by their brother-soldiers. He is one of those doctors who desperately fight for everyone’s life, constantly risking his own. Unfortunately, the hospital is shelled almost every day by Ukrainian forces. This military surgeon and his colleagues are subjects in our new film about doctors who work on the front line. The premiere is coming soon. Donetsk doctors have been working on the frontline for eight years since the military conflict between Donbass and Ukraine started in 2014. Our excerpt from Trauma is about Oksi, a senior paramedic. She saves the lives of civilians suffering daily shelling. #Donbass Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

According to UNESCO, by 2030, the world will face water scarcity. It is already being seen in India, as many villages are forced to buy water. Our post tells of a woman who spends almost all her money on water. She has no one to help raise her five children. Watch the film H2WOE. #India#waterscarcity Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

‘I’m a person who does not deserve to be loved. I was, and still am, the product of a child molester’; these are the words of a man who a paedophile brought up. In Germany, the authorities allowed a criminal to take the child. Now he’s traumatised for life. Marco and Sven were not even 10 when they got into the house of a paedophile. The men agreed to be interviewed by an RT Documentary film crew on the condition that their faces are covered and their voices altered. For more than 30 years, homeless children lived with paedophiles in Germany. It was an experiment conducted by psychologist Helmut Kentler with the approval of the Berlin authorities. Watch our video and the film The German Paedo-Files about this. #Germany#humanstories Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

‘Unfortunately, some Ukrainian priests urged people to do these killings. They even blessed knives and axes in church.’ Polish priest Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski describes how the Ukrainian church blessed crimes in 1943. What the Ukrainian nationalists did in Volhynia would later be called the Volhynia Massacre. Poles were stabbed, their heads were cut off, nails were hammered into their bodies, their tongues were torn out, and they were gutted. Volhynia is a region in northwestern Ukraine. The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UIA*) slaughtered up to 100,000 Polish peasants during the massacre. On bloody Sunday, July 11, 1943, about 100 villages were annihilated under the banner ‘Death to Poles’. Eyewitness accounts of those events are in our post. The film Volhynia: No Statute of Limitations is available on our Telegram Channel. *recognised as extremist and banned in Russia #premiere#Ukraine#Poland#Volhynia Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

‘I told them [Azov fighters] that they were coming to life, I would have shot them myself... I don’t have an ounce of pity here...’ These are the words of labour veteran Tatyana Ivanovna. She lives in a village near Azovstal. Listen to her story of the Azov battalion shooting the animals in the area and how they almost killed her for trying to save her chickens. How they mocked her when she asked for water and food: I told their commander: ‘I want to eat, I haven’t eaten for six days …’ And he’s like: ‘I also want to’. But ‘DPR people... came, hugged me, one brought me stew, another brought me bread, and one even thought of bringing sweets’. We turned to the subjects of the film VolunTears. They helped Tatyana Ivanovna and other residents of the village of Uspenovka by bringing them food, water and medicine. #Ukraine#Mariupol#Azovstal Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

Swastikas, skulls, Nazi-symbol tattoos adorn surrendering Azov unit soldiers from Azovstal