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According to the deputy regional director of UNICEF, Rania Dagash, 386,000 children in Somalia need treatment due to malnutrition caused by a long drought and the lack of humanitarian aid. Experts say the COVID-19 pandemic and anti-Russian sanctions have caused difficulties in helping people. For example, about 92% of Somalia’s wheat needs came from Ukraine and Russia, but now supply chains are disrupted, said Rania Dagash. But the main reason is drought linked with global climate change. Today’s most suffer from freshwater shortages, and more frequent droughts regions are Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya. Droughts are just a part of a global water crisis. Watch the documentary No Way Back: Water to learn more about what’s happening to the water cycle and our planet’s water resources. #children#Somalia Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

‘Just as the Nazis were tough, the SS in the Great Patriotic War, so they [Azov fighters] were. They didn’t even spare their own’. A Vostok Battalion soldier, codenamed Forest, said what he thought of the Azov fighters. He participated in the liberation of Azovstal and Mariupol from nationalist battalions and the Ukrainian military. Forest saw the Ukrainian side shooting at civilians and not sparing their own people. According to the soldier, when Russian troops entered Mariupol, residents were slow to evacuate and afraid: ‘For eight years, Ukrainian propaganda told them that Russians would come and kill everyone, but in the end, it turned out the opposite’. Our new film will include an interview with a Vostok Battalion soldier. It will premiere soon. #interview Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

‘I still enjoy travelling in a special train with 500-600 other fans to go and have a fight because you’re representing your city,’ says a football hooligan. The ’firm’ members participate in fierce fighting voluntarily – for the sake of their football club’s honour. ‘Chef’ is a founder of one of the most violent gangs of football hooligans in Europe. He’s been injured a lot: ‘I was stabbed, I got my ribs stamped… Arm broken. And stabbing, I was stabbed in the face’. He doesn’t stop fighting. What does his hooligan band mean to him? Find out in the clip. Watch the film Football Beasts in full to meet some other violent individuals and find out what makes them tick. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

‘I incredibly regret that I went to serve in the Azov regiment, on the one hand. But, on the other hand, if not me, then someone else would be in my place. I don’t hate a guy I don’t know enough to let him go through all this hell’. This is an interview with the captured Azov fighter Pavel Ilnitsky, who talks about his service in the battalion. Ukrainian radicals, neo-Nazis and foreign mercenaries joined Azov. In Mariupol, they shot at civilians, used them as human shields, and hit houses with tanks. In the battalion, Ilnitsky heard some fighters call for the return of the Donbass by force and its inhabitants ‘kicked out to Russia’. At the end of June, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation will consider a lawsuit to recognise Azov as a terrorist organisation. In Russia, Azov fighters face 10 to 20 years in prison if passed. Ilnitsky’s revelations will be included in the new RT Documentary film, don’t miss it. #Donbass#interview Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

Meet intelligent creatures helping people. These African giant pouched rats can detect explosives and diseases and are now learning how to help survivors of earthquakes. ‘We kit them out with a rat backpack, and train them to trigger a switch when they find a victim & come back for a tasty treat’, says Dr Donna Kean, who is teaching rats. One of those little heroes is in our documentary film Isaac. The Story of a Little Giant. Watch it to learn more about how rats can be trained to help people. #animals Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

'We don’t lay claim to any other state’s territories or interests. Our task is to ensure security and peace on our lands and nations.' Stanislav Zas, the Secretary-General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, explains why it was necessary to create a new military-political bloc 30 years ago. The CSTO was founded after the fall of the USSR. The organisation includes six countries: Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. At any moment, they are ready to protect each other in case of outside aggression. And they are fighting terrorism, extremism, and drug trafficking together. Watch our video to find out how special forces counteract modern-day threats. In our new documentary CSTO Allies: 30 Years Protecting Collective Security, you can learn more about the organisation. #premiere#history Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

‘Jorge was my only son, he meant everything to me. He and his pregnant wife were taken from their home in handcuffs with bags over their heads.’ Delia de Califano from Argentina has never seen her son or daughter-in-law after the event she describes. From 1976 to 1983 Argentina was ruled by the junta. Those who disagreed with the military dictatorship were kidnapped and tortured. Children of opposition members were given away to childless military families. For more than 30 years Delia hasn’t lost hope to find her grandson. Those women, whose kids were kidnapped back then created a group and became known as mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. Mostly being 80+, they are still looking for their children. Their stories are in the documentary Argentina’s Stolen Children. #humanstories#children Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

The UK will appeal against the possible conviction of two Britons in the DPR. Shaun Pinner and Aiden Aslin are accused of taking part in combat operations for Ukraine as mercenaries and receiving training for terrorist activities in the DPR. The POWs face…

‘Luckily, the cat was lying on her chest. An artillery shell landed where the bus is. Glass shards flew through the room, killing the cat, but she lived.’ Liliya Chernova described how her young daughter Sasha survived Ukrainian army shelling. Their house in the Lugansk region is close to the frontline. But it is hard to call it home now. ‘The fence is in shambles, and the roof is full of holes and leaking,’ says Lilia. According to her, Ukrainian soldiers have been bombing them for eight years, and Sasha is no longer reacting to it: ‘It’s been like this eight years, what do you think? We’ve been under constant fire.’ The story of mother and daughter is included in the film Battle for Freedom: On the Frontline. #Ukraine#humanstories Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

On 9 June, International Archives Day is celebrated around the world. Often these documents are classified for decades. Only the next generation can learn about the reasons and details of the event in a reliable way. Our post is about the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, which American President Harry Truman advocated. The declassified archives make it clear the bombing of Japan was to be a rehearsal for a possible nuclear war between the US and the USSR. Watch the entire film Atomic Message for details. #history#disasters Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

‘They [the Ukrainian military] use standard ammunition: engineer ammunition and small arms artillery and aviation. But that is not true. You can see the IED [improvised explosive device]. You see, they make IEDs very skillfully to use them against our armed forces’. The Russian military exclusively showed RT Documentary an ammunition depot at the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, where Azov fighters and the Ukrainian army took refuge. Among the weapons, they found a lot of improvised explosive devices. These are the shots of the Russian servicemen that destroyed one of the explosive devices using a pressure charge. This excerpt is a part of our future documentary. The premiere is coming soon. #Ukraine Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

Would you like to sail around the world? Russian Anatoly Kulik and four friends travelled on an inflatable sailing catamaran. There were night watches, huge waves, sharks and even an attack by pirates. The oceans and man are inextricably linked. These reservoirs cover more than 70% of the Earth. In 2008, the UN General Assembly proposed that June 8 be World Oceans Day. Watch the Sailing Seven Seas documentary today. #travel#nature Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary