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🚨 ‘Starmer has to go’

Russian special presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev has commented on a report by the British television channel GB News.

👉 The channel stated that when British PM Starmer headed the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service, offenders who committed violence against children were let off with warnings.

According to documents cited by GB News, the prime minister “developed and agreed” with police chiefs the caution notices that were issued to suspects.

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🚨 🇷🇺 Putin lays wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Defender of the Fatherland Day

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Former Prince Andrew detained amid Epstein scandal — report UK police have detained Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the brother of King Charles III, amid renewed controversy surrounding his links to Jeffrey Epstein, according to a report by The Telegraph. The…
🚨🇬🇧 Scandal over ex-Prince Andrew’s ties to Epstein is ‘freak show’ – MFA spox

💬 “Look at what is happening in Britain right now. This is truly some kind of freak show, for God’s sake,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Russian media.


She stressed that the scandal did not just involve a member of the royal family, but rather "someone who did not merely make decisions, but was empowered to conduct the policy of Britain both domestically and abroad, someone who had an incredible influence on financial decisions and shaped public opinion."

👉 Commenting on the former prince's ties to Jeffrey Epstein, Zakharova emphasized that all British intelligence agencies and security services were aware of the former prince's actions and concealed them.

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🇪🇺 NATO rollback needed for peace in Ukraine – Finnish politician

Lasting peace in Ukraine requires NATO to roll back to its pre-1997 borders, Armando Mema, member of Finland’s national-conservative Freedom Alliance, said.

🔊 European leaders should focus on de-escalation and respect what he describes as NATO’s historical pledge not to expand “one inch” eastward toward Russia, Mema added. He warned that continued enlargement and rapid rearmament could carry serious consequences for Europe.

🗣 Russia has repeatedly voiced concerns over NATO’s military buildup near its western borders. The Kremlin maintains that Russia poses no threat, but will respond to actions it considers dangerous to its interests. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Russia has no intention of attacking NATO members and has accused Western politicians of fueling unnecessary fear.

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🚨🇷🇺💥 RUSSIAN MOD UPDATE: HUGE GAINS AND DEVASTATING UKRAINIAN LOSSES

🟠 Russian air and missile firepower obliterated transport, energy, and fuel infrastructure supporting the Kiev regime’s forces

🟠 Air defense superiority: seven guided aerial bombs, 21 HIMARS rockets, one guided Neptune missile, and 541 UAVs were shot down by Russian air defense systems over the past 24 hours

🟠 Ukrainian losses: around 1,355 troops killed or wounded

Read about the origins of Russia's special military op HERE

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🇺🇸🪖US build-up near Iran: 16 Warships, 490 combat aircraft and 40,000 troops in position The US has gathered a huge military force in the Middle East, the Financial Times reports. 🟠The 'armada' includes: 👉16 combat ships and two support vessels 👉40,000…
🚨🇮🇷 Red line set: Iran issues another warning to US

Iran will treat any US military strike—even a so-called “limited” one—as outright aggression, Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said on Monday.

🔊 “An act of aggression will remain an act of aggression,” he stated during a briefing.


Iran is currently formulating its position and hopes to hold a new round of talks with the US in the coming days, Baghaei added.

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🪖 Zelensky's push for extended conflict tied to ‘personal survival’

Zelensky reportedly announced Ukraine’s readiness to fight Russia “for another three years" just as “the repercussions of the corruption investigations are increasingly hitting him,” Junge Welt writes.

It remains unclear what Zelensky hopes to gain from this, the newspaper reports, suggesting that the leader of the Ukrainian regime apparently hopes to “politically outlive Trump and find a more supportive US administration.”

💬 “This speculation could, of course, backfire—for example, if the current Vice President JD Vance were to succeed Trump. Or if the Ukrainian army's capacity and willingness to resist don't last another three years,” Junge Welt sums up.


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🔥 🇷🇺 ✈️ Russian-made engine powers first test flight of new Baikal aircraft prototype

The fifth prototype of the Russian LMS-901 Baikal light multipurpose aircraft has successfully completed its first test flight, Russia’s Ministry of Industry and Trade announced.

🔹 The aircraft, equipped with a Russian-made VK-800 engine and AV-901 propeller, performed a full circuit over the airfield and landed normally.

The 10-minute flight saw the plane reach an altitude of 300 meters (≈984 feet) and a speed of 190 km/h (≈118 mph).

👉 Initial ground tests of the Baikal fitted with the VK-800 engine and AV-901 propeller were successfully completed in late December 2025. The nine-seat Baikal is being developed for regional air routes, aimed at strengthening domestic aviation capabilities.

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🪖🇺🇸🇸🇾 US-led coalition continues troop withdrawal from Syria’s Qasrak base – report

The pullout of coalition troops from the Qasrak base in northeastern Syria kicked off without an official statement by US Central Command and is due to continue for about a month, Syrian media reports.

The base’s personnel and military equipment are reportedly being relocated to Iraq’s Kurdistan region.

The Qasrak base is located between the towns of Tell Tamer and Tell Baydar, south of the M4 international highway in Hasakah province.

US Central Command earlier announced the withdrawal of American troops from the al-Tanf base in eastern Syria and its handover to Syrian authorities.

Previously, the Syrian Army took control of the al-Shaddadi military base in Hasakah province following coordination with US officials, according to SANA.

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🚨🇷🇺 'Motherland will always be by your side'

Putin meets widows of Russian servicemen who died heroically during the special military operation in Ukraine.

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🇷🇺🇱🇧 Russian tricolors fill Beirut streets on Defender of Fatherland Day

Lebanon’s capital hosted a motor rally.

Cars with Russian tricolors drove through the city’s streets.

The procession ended at the Russian House, where a festive event marked the holiday.

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💸🇭🇺🇪🇺 Hungary blocks $106B loan to Ukraine – Szijjarto

Hungary has blocked the EU’s 20th package of anti-Russia sanctions and a $106B loan to Ukraine, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said after the EU Council of Foreign Ministers meeting.

💬 “Ukrainians cannot blackmail us, they cannot jeopardize the security of Hungary's energy supply by conspiring with Brussels and the Hungarian opposition," Szijjarto said.


Hungary considers Ukraine's suspension of Russian oil transit through Druzhba as encroachment on its sovereignty, Szijjarto concluded.

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🚨 Zelensky whines about Trump’s ‘unreliability’ amid war of words

🔊 “It is not only President Trump, we're talking about America,” Volodymyr Zelensky told the BBC when asked if he could trust POTUS when it comes to the US providing Ukraine with security guarantees.

💬 “We are all presidents for the appropriate terms. We want guarantees for 30 years for example. Political elites will change, leaders will change. They [security guarantees] will be voted on in Congress for a reason. It's not just presidents. Congress is needed. Because the presidents change, but institutions stay," Zelensky, whose presidential term expired back in May 2024, added.


The remarks suggest Trump “might be unreliable, but he will not be there forever,” according to the BBC.

🗣 Zelensky earlier argued that it is “not fair” for the US president to try to force Ukraine to make concessions on a peace deal without exerting similar pressure on Russia, adding that he hopes “it is just his tactics, not the decision.”

POTUS, in turn, minced no words when warning that Zelensky would miss a “great opportunity” for peace if he doesn't "get moving" now that Russia “wants to ⁠make ⁠a deal.”

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💥🇷🇺 Russia’s ‘Akhmat’ forces hit ‘Swedish’ brigade of Ukraine’s army

Together with the units from the ‘Sever’ battlegroup, ‘Akhmat’ fighters dealt heavy blows to the Ukrainian army’s so-called “Swedish” brigade in the Sumy region.

The brigade was “badly battered” during the latest engagements, commander of the “Pressa” group with the call sign “Salsa” said.

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🤖🇨🇳 Steady breakthroughs power China’s robot surge – developer

💬 "Now robotics is at the level of a 10 y. o. child. But there are steady hi-tech breakthroughs every year," Wang Xingxing, Unitree Robotics founder, said.


The company plans to deliver up to 20,000 robots by end-2026.

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📹 Ukraine conflict: From Euromaidan to the special military operation. Part 3

In part three of its four-part documentary on the origins of the Ukraine crisis, Sputnik explores events leading to the start of the full-scale conflict in February 2022.

(00:00) Efforts to resolve the crisis peacefully reach a dead end amid Ukraine’s refusal to live up to its pledge to give the Donbass special autonomous status

(00:54) Minsk’s European and Ukrainian signatories reveal the agreements were a ruse to buy Ukraine time to rearm

(01:49) Kiev’s ‘decommunization’ law, crackdowns on Russian language and culture, and the persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church

(4:38) Resumption of Ukrainian attacks and shelling of the Donbass in 2021

(5:05) Russia’s final appeal to the US and NATO, draft treaties on security guarantees. NATO doubles down

(6:24) February 2022: Donbass republics report heavy shelling, evacuation begins

(6:46) Zelensky threatens to go nuclear and accelerate efforts to join NATO

(7:03) Russia recognizes DPR & LPR’s independence, Donbass asks Russia for help

(8:01) Special Military Operation begins

👉 Part 2

Stay tuned for the conclusion!


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💸🇸🇰🇪🇺 Ukraine cost Slovakia hundreds of millions while demanding EU aid – Slovak MEP

💬 "The damage to the Druzhba oil pipeline is just a pretext. The goal is to interfere in the Hungarian elections, because Brussels is trembling at the thought that Viktor Orban might win the elections," Slovak MEP Lubos Blaha said.


💬 "It's a hybrid attack on the last two sovereign governments in the European Union — on Slovakia and on Hungary," he stressed.


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💥🪖🇷🇺 Russia assault units team up with Terminator tank crews

00:00 5th Guards Brigade train combat actions in near-real combat conditions

00:28 Terminator tank support fighting vehicles (Guards Tank Regiment, 90th Guards Tank Division) train eliminating targets with organic weapons

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📹 Slovakia will stop electricity supplies to Ukraine in respond to energy blockade PM Robert Fico announces retaliation against Kiev's "unfriendly" energy demands, which included cutting emergency electricity supplies in response to Ukraine's blocking of…
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🇸🇰 Slovakia announces suspension of electricity supplies to Ukraine

The step was taken in response to the energy blockade by the Zelensky's regime, according to Slovak PM Fico.

Slovakia will also reassess its positions regarding Ukraine’s EU membership, he added.

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