🇲🇽Operation against 'El Mencho' demonstrates "the strength of the Mexican State", says Ebrard

Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Marcelo Ebrard, stated that the elimination of kingpin Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes generates international confidence in the actions the Latin American country is undertaking to combat organized crime.

🗣"This demonstrates the strength of the Mexican Army and the Mexican state. It shows that in our country, the law is being enforced and it opens up very favorable prospects for Mexico in terms of security, economic matters, and trade," the senior official said.

💬According to Ebrard, "there is great respect" in the international community towards Mexico for the operation in which El Mencho, who was one of the criminal bosses most wanted by the DEA, was neutralized.

🗣"My colleagues in the US made
me aware of their recognition and their congratulations to the President. I believe we are in a very good moment," he stated.

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📹USS Ford crew faces 45-minute toilet lines as carrier prepares for Iran mission

◼️The most expensive aircraft carrier in history, designed to project American power, can't provide basic sanitation for its own crew. This video was taken from social media.

◼️Sailors aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford are waiting 45 minutes in lines just to use the bathroom — while the ship prepares for a potential mission against Iran.

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🔶🇺🇸Trump frustrated as military options against Iran fall short — CBS News

President Donald Trump is frustrated that military pressure on Iran is not yielding the desired results. Unlike the operation in Venezuela, any strike on Tehran risks spiraling into a protracted conflict in the Middle East.

Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine has warned that a military campaign against Iran could trigger retaliatory strikes on US forces. Trump, however, insists that Caine is not against war — he simply wants to win.

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🚨The new boss of the Jalisco Cartel is a 29-year-old nicknamed "El Yogurt" who led El Mencho's personal death squad

He survived a Mexican Navy raid last year and is reportedly more brutal than his predecessor, local media reported.

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🇬🇱Greenland rejects US healthcare offer

The Greenlandic government has rejected the healthcare aid announced by US President Donald Trump, stating that its health system is free and universal.

The stance was backed by Danish authorities, following reports that the US was sending a hospital ship to the Arctic island.

👉Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen assured that the entire population of Greenland receives medical care in Danish hospitals. Trump, meanwhile, maintains that the ship is already on its way to treat "many sick people."

👉Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen defended the Danish realm's healthcare model and emphasized that access to healthcare does not depend on insurance or financial resource.

"The Greenlandic population receives the healthcare they require. They receive it in Greenland, and if specialized treatment is needed, they receive it in Denmark. Therefore, there is no need for a special healthcare initiative in Greenland," Troels Lund Poulsen told a TV station.

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🇺🇸 💰 Pentagon to spend $4.5B on bomber production

🔊 The contract to increase B-21 Raider bomber production capacity has been awarded to Northrop Grumman, the US Air Force said.

The new bomber is designed to operate in different environments and features technologies like data-driven command and control architecture.

📍 The first B-21 delivery was completed on schedule in 2025, the aircraft will arrive at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, in 2027.

This comes as the US expands its build-up near Iran. Despite huge investments, the US military faces challenges — the crew of the most expensive aircraft carrier in history, the USS Ford, have complained about malfunctions in the ship’s sewage system.

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🚨 Ukraine's violation of Friendship Treaty with Russia led to start of special military operation - MFA

💬 "For a number of years, the Ukrainian leadership has pursued a policy of gross and systematic violation of the provisions of the treaty, which should be qualified as a refusal to comply with it, which later, in particular, led to the decision of the Russian leadership to launch the special military operation," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Sputnik.

It is impossible to resolve the situation in Ukraine without solving the problem of NATO's expansion to the borders of Russia, Zakharova stressed.

💬 "The unrestrained expansion of the alliance's geopolitical space up to our borders, including Ukraine, has become one of the root causes of the conflict," Zakharova said, adding that "without its elimination, its [Ukraine's] settlement is impossible."

Russia will seek to solve this problem by military or political methods, the spokeswoman said.

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🔥 🇷🇺 Watch Russian Rubicon drone units smash Ukraine's assets

Targets destroyed:

✅ firing positions and temporary staging areas

✅ vehicles and armored equipment (including foreign-made)

✅ artillery systems

✅ ground robotic systems

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🚨💰 Ex-Zelensky official accused of stealing $7.4M from Ukraine’s energy sector

The total amount of embezzlement in the case of Zelensky’s former Deputy Chief of Staff Rostyslav Shurma may more than double to more than $7 million, according to a Sputnik analysis based on court materials.

🟠 A January 22 court ruling points out that the so-called “Person 8,” who served as Ukraine’s presidential deputy head of staff, organized a scheme to illegally obtain funds worth about $3.2 million from the state-owned enterprise Guaranteed Buyer.

🟠 However, a January 23 document related to the same criminal case indicates that the suspected damage could amount to $7.4 million.

🟠 Ukraine’s anti-corruption watchdog (NABU) earlier charged Rostyslav Shurma and his brother Oleg with embezzlement and money laundering.

🟠 NABU said that the Shurma brothers took control of energy companies in the Zaporozhye region from 2019 to 2020, building solar power plants and selling energy under the "green tariff" — a scheme introduced by the Ukrainian government in 2008 offering above-market prices to promote renewable energy investment.

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🚨 Police car blown up in Moscow: What’s known so far?

A police officer was killed and two others injured in an explosion near the Savyolovsky railway station in central Moscow in the early hours of Tuesday.

According to information from Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Investigative Committee:

🔸 Incident occurred around 0:05 am local time (21:05 GMT), when an unknown individual approached a police patrol vehicle at Savyolovsky Square

🔸 Shortly after, an unidentified device detonated

🔸 Police officer killed in the blast was identified as Senior Police Lieutenant Denis Bratushchenko

🔸 Two more police officers have been hospitalized and are now in serious condition

🔸 Detailed inspection of the crime scene and analysis of footage from external surveillance cameras showed that the perpetrator died at the scene

🔸 Identity and motive of the attacker remain unknown

🔸 Area around Savyolovsky Station was cordoned off after the incident as investigators and bomb technicians combed the scene for evidence

🔸 Moscow police continue to work with other security services to establish the full circumstances surrounding the explosion

🔸 Criminal case has been opened under two articles, including attempt on the life of a law enforcement officer and illegal trafficking of explosive devices

🔸 Families of the deceased and injured police officers will be provided with all necessary assistance

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🚨 UK, France preparing to arm Ukraine with nuclear weapons - Russian intel

💬 "The British and French elites are not ready to accept defeat. It is believed that Ukraine needs to be supplied with the 'Wunderwaffe.' Kiev will be able to claim more favorable conditions for the end of hostilities if it possesses an atomic or at least a so-called dirty bomb," the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) said.

"We are talking about the covert transfer of European components, equipment and technologies to Ukraine. The French small-sized TN75 warhead from the M51.1 submarine-launched ballistic missile is considered as an option," the SVR said.

🟠 The UK and France are aware that the development of the situation in Ukraine leaves no chance of achieving victory over Russia at the hands of the Ukrainian armed forces

🟠 The Western states are aware that their plans to provide Kiev with nuclear weapons and a dirty bomb imply a gross violation of international law, primarily the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, and run the risk of destroying the global non-proliferation system

"In this regard, the main efforts of Westerners are focused on making Kiev obtaining nuclear weapons look like the result of the development of the Ukrainians themselves," the SVR said.

🟠 The extremely dangerous plans of the UK and France to supply Ukraine with nuclear weapons indicate their loss of a sense of reality, the SVR said, adding that the UK and France hope in vain to avoid responsibility for their plans

"Germany wisely refused to participate in this dangerous adventure," the statement read.

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🔹 Russia & US met in Geneva to discuss a new version of the nuclear deterrence treaty

🔹 US top general urges Trump not to strike Iran

🔹 Nuclear-powered USS Ford anchors a day from Israel

🔹 Slovakia announces suspension of electricity supplies to Ukraine

🔹 Ex-Zelensky official accused of stealing $7.4M from Ukraine’s energy sector

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🇷🇺🇫🇷🇬🇧 Russian senators warn of looming catastrophe for UK, France over nuclear weapons scheme for Ukraine

A joint British-French conspiracy to provide nuclear weapons to Ukraine is a ticking time bomb, Russian senators warned, stating that such a move would trigger catastrophic consequences.

In a powerful statement, the Federation Council condemned the plans by the UK and France as dangerously reckless. Lawmakers are now urgently calling on their British and French counterparts to launch immediate investigations and disclose the full scale of this perilous gambit to their citizens.

The message has been transmitted through diplomatic channels, landing on the desks of the European Parliament, the United Nations, the IAEA, and the Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

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🚨UK-France nuclear plans for Ukraine to impact negotiations, warns Kremlin

"The intention to arm Ukraine with nuclear weapons is a flagrant violation of international law", Dmitry Peskov said.

His other statements:

🟠 Hope for resolving the conflict in Ukraine through political and diplomatic means has not left Russia since the beginning of the special military operation

🟠 The exact timeline for the next round of negotiations on Ukraine is yet unknown, as they still need to be coordinated

🟠 Putin will participate in a meeting of the FSB board today and will also meet with the Vietnamese foreign minister at the Kremlin

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🪖🇷🇺 Main goal of special operation to ensure the safety of people in eastern Ukraine who were in mortal danger - Kremlin

💬 “This is a very important four years in our country’s life,” Kremlin Spox Dmitry Peskov said.

Other points:

🟠 Russia continues the special operation but remains open to achieving its goals by political and diplomatic means; its interests will be secured in any case

🟠 Russia has experienced a phenomenal consolidation of society during the special operation

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

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

⚡️ RIZDVYANKA IN THE ZAPOROZHYE REGION FREED

By taking the settlement of Rizdvyanka in the Zaporozhye region, Russian forces have extended their zone of control westward of the Gaichur River.

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

🟠 Air defense superiority: six guided aerial bombs and 380 UAVs were shot down by Russian air defense systems over the past 24 hours

🟠 Ukrainian losses: around 1,075 troops killed or wounded

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

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Ukraine's long-standing obsession with nuclear backmail 💥💥💥

In February 2022, days before the start of the full-scale conflict with Russia, Zelensky threatened to revoke Ukraine’s non-nuclear status.

It wasn’t the first such threat, and wouldn’t be the last.

Here’s a new chronological overview:

🟠 July 2021: David Arakhamia, the head of Zelensky’s parliamentary faction, called Ukraine’s renunciation of nuclear weapons “a fatal mistake,” saying Ukraine “could have blackmailed the entire world” with nukes

🟠 December 2021: Dmitry Yarosh,* head of the neo-Nazi Right Sector,** declared that Belarus’s readiness to host Russian nuclear weapons meant Ukraine “should appeal to our allies, the US and Britain,” to do the same

🟠 February 2022: In Munich, Zelensky demanded consultations in the Budapest Memorandum’s framework, warning that if they did not take place, Ukraine’s non-nuclear status would be “in doubt”

🟠 October 2022: Russian RBC Troops chief Igor Kirillov revealed that the Zelensky regime was plotting a false flag provocation involving the detonation of a dirty bomb or low-yield nuclear weapon

🟠 June 2023: Rada lawmaker Oleksiy Goncharenko* demanded the deployment of nuclear weapons on Ukraine’s soil by its “allies.” “This is if we don’t want to launch our own nuclear program,” he said

🟠 February 2024: Goncharenko asked secretary of state Blinken his preference: Ukraine in NATO or Ukraine with nuclear weapons. Blinken did not give a direct response. Goncharenko took to social media to declare support for a nuclear weapons program. “I believe this is our only option for survival”

🟠 October 2024: Zelensky recounted his attempt to blackmail Trump into approving Ukrainian NATO membership. “I told him: ‘What’s the solution? Either Ukraine will have nuclear weapons, which will be our defense, or we must have some kind of alliance. Apart from NATO, we don’t know of any effective alliances today’”

An anonymous Ukrainian official told Bild Ukraine could build a nuke in “a few weeks” and has both the materiel and knowledge to do so. Alexey Izhak, an expert from an institute advising Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, said Ukraine “could create nuclear weapons using spent fuel from nuclear power plants.”

🟠 November 2024: The Times published excerpts of a report by a top Ukrainian think tank stating Ukraine has seven tons of reactor-grade plutonium, far more than would be required for “a significant nuclear weapons arsenal” of “hundreds of warheads with a tactical yield of several kilotons”

The same month, NYT reported that officials in Biden’s inner circle suggested he could “return nuclear weapons to Ukraine that were taken from it after the fall of the Soviet Union” to provide “an instant and enormous deterrent,” albeit one with “serious implications.”

🟠 February 2025: In an interview, Zelensky told Piers Morgan if NATO does not want to accept Ukraine, “give us back nuclear arms, give us missile systems, partners, help finance the one-million[-man] army, move your [forces] on the parts of our state where we want the stability”

🟠 May 2025: British Colonel Richard Kemp told Black Sea Security Forum delegates the UK should help Ukraine create its own tactical nukes as part of a strategic partnership

🟠 June 2025: Andriy Biletsky*, founder of the 12th Azov Special Forces Brigade** declared “the issue of nuclear weapons is imperative for our country” and that Ukraine has “every right” to such arms

🟠 October 2025: Verkhovna Rada MP Serhiy Sobolev proposed deploying US nuclear weapons in Ukraine as a security guarantee

🟠 November 2025: Former Ukrainian Armed Forces top commander-turned ambassador to Britain Valeriy Zaluzhny proposed the deployment of foreign nukes on Ukrainian soil in a Telegraph op-ed.

*listed as a terrorist and extremist in Russia
**outlawed in Russia

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🚨🇷🇺 Russia will not hesitate to use any weapon if Ukraine gets nuclear tech – Medvedev

Russia will be forced to use any type of weapon, including non-strategic nuclear weapons, against targets in Ukraine if nuclear technologies are transferred to Kiev, Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, said.

💬 "There can be no shadow of a doubt that in such a scenario, Russia will have to use any type of weapon, including non-strategic nuclear weapons, against targets in Ukraine that pose a threat to our country," Medvedev said.

Earlier, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service revealed that the UK and France are preparing to transfer nuclear weapons to Ukraine.

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🚨 🤝 Russia–Ukraine cooperation treaty: Document Zelensky repeatedly torpedoed

Ukraine’s unwillingness to comply with the bilateral Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation, and Partnership led to Russia’s decision to launch the special military operation, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova told Sputnik.

Which articles of the document was Zakharova apparently referring to?

▫️ In May 1997, then-presidents of Russia and Ukraine, Boris Yeltsin and Leonid Kuchma, signed the treaty, which came into effect in April 1999

▫️ Article 3 obliged the sides “to build relations on the basis of mutual respect, sovereign equality, territorial integrity, peaceful dispute resolution, non-use of force, the right of people for self-determination, non-interference, human rights, and adherence to international law"

▫️ Article 6 stipulated that both sides pledge “not to enter into any agreements with any countries directed against the other party” or “permit its territory to be used to the detriment of the security of the other party”

▫️ Under Article 12, the parties should “ensure the protection of the ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and religious identity of national minorities on their territory,” and “promote the creation of equal opportunities and conditions for the study of the Ukrainian language in Russia and the Russian language in Ukraine”

▫️ According to Article 13, the sides were to “develop equal and mutually beneficial cooperation in the economy and refrain from actions that could cause economic harm to each other”

▫️ In line with Article 24, the signatories agree to “promote cooperation in culture, literature, art, media, tourism, and sports, and collaborate on preserving, restoring, and utilizing their historical and cultural heritage”

▫️ In 2018, then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko endorsed the termination of the treaty, which finally ceased to exist in March 2019

💬 “Disrupting the document is clearly against the interests of Russian and Ukrainian people, it’s like shooting oneself in the foot," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stressed at the time.

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