🪖🇷🇺 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

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

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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🚨🇷🇺 The enemy failed to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia on battlefield, resorts to individual attacks and terrorism - Putin

Other statements by the Russian president:

🟠 FSB employees are now in a unified, cohesive combat formation, defending the homeland

🟠 Conducting the special military operation requires the FSB to be fully focused and concentrated

🟠 The FSB makes an essential contribution to ensuring Russia's sovereignty and the safety of its citizens

🟠 FSB employees in 2025 effectively tackled tasks across all areas of work

🟠 Putin thanked FSB employees for their service to Russia and noted their personal courage

🟠 The enemy does not hesitate to use any means in the fight against Russia, and there is information about the possibility of transferring nuclear components

🟠 Russia's enemies are doing everything to destroy what has been achieved on the negotiating track

🟠 There is information available about the preparation of a possible bombing of TurkStream, Blue Stream

🟠 Russia has promising military developments that are in the implementation stage

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🚨 ‘They handed a person an explosive device and then remotely detonated it’

Putin suggests the explosion at Savelovsky railway station could have been the result of online recruitment.

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🚨🇷🇺 Russia launches active work on int’l platforms following information about UK-French intention to help Ukraine acquire nukes – MFA

Other statements by the Russian Foreign Ministry:

🟠 There is plenty of evidence that Ukraine wants to obtain nuclear weapons

🟠 The consequences of this reckless stance of the UK and France threaten not only Russia's security

🟠 Any attempts to review Ukraine's nuclear-weapon-free status or the acquisition of nuclear arms by Ukraine are unacceptable

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🚨🇷🇺🇺🇸 Russia will inform the US about the likely emergence of nuclear weapons in Ukraine

💬 "We will specifically discuss this with the Americans," Putin's aide Yuri Ushakov said.

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📹 The Russian Interior Ministry publishes a video of explosion at the Savelovsky railway station

What’s known so far:

🟠 The person responsible for the explosion was a 22-year-old native of the Republic of Udmurtia

🟠 He arrived in Moscow by train from St. Petersburg. Investigators are determining the motive for his actions.

🟠 The bomber and one police officer died, and two other police officers were hospitalized

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💬 Ukraine's nukes-free status must be preserved - Russian Federation Council Speaker

The senators' immediate reaction serves to highlight the seriousness of the Foreign Intelligence Service's findings and to drive home a firm red line: Ukraine acquiring nuclear weapons or related components is absolutely inadmissible, in any shape or form, said Upper House Speaker Valentina Matvienko.

Other statements by Matvienko:

🟠 Ukraine's non-nuclear status was one of the key conditions for its recognition as an independent state. This status is non-negotiable. There should be no nuclear weapons in Ukraine

🟠 We expect that British and French parliamentarians, along with the relevant international institutions, will respond to our appeal by making their position clear on this covert conspiracy between Starmer and Macron. They must either hold these actors accountable on behalf of the international political community or fully share responsibility for actions that blatantly contravene international law

🟠 Such moves seriously undermine the security of the entire continent—but most of all, they jeopardize the British and French people themselves

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📹 Ukraine conflict: From Euromaidan to the special military operation. Part 4

In the final part of the documentary on the origins of the Ukraine crisis, Sputnik examines the progress of the special military operation since its launch on February 24, 2022, highlighting key developments and how the operation has unfolded over time.

(00:00) Russian troops launched missile and air strikes on Ukrainian military infrastructure in the first days of the special military operation

(00:17) By mid-March, Russia had gained control of most of Kherson and parts of Zaporozhye

(00:31) Russian forces advanced toward Kiev, but Western countries pushed for a withdrawal to enable peace talks

(00:41) Russia-Ukrainian negotiations began in Turkiye on March 29, 2022, with Ukraine considering a neutral, non-aligned status

(01:22) Mariupol was fully liberated in May 2022 after intense fighting, with Ukrainian military personnel using civilians as human shields

(03:11) On October 8, 2022, Ukrainian special services carried out a terrorist act on the Crimean Bridge

(03:26) In June 2023, the Kakhovka dam was destroyed by Ukrainian sabotage, flooding Kherson

(03:46) Ukrainian troops suffered massive losses during their counteroffensive in the Zaporozhye region but failed to breach Russian defenses

(04:36) Russian troops pushed the front line away from Donetsk and advanced into Ukrainian territory in 2024

(06:05) On May 16, 2025, Russia and Ukraine resumed negotiations after a three-year pause, with talks focusing on a settlement

Check out the previous parts:

👉 Part 1
👉 Part 2
👉 Part 3

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🚨 Ukrainian nukes: UK and France trying to drag US into nuclear conflict with Russia – military expert

The UK and France are preparing to hand Ukraine a nuclear bomb to strengthen its leverage in forcing more favorable terms to end the conflict, according to Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR).

💬 "France and the UK are likely acting with the goal of pulling the US more directly into the situation," military analyst Alexei Leonkov, editor of Arsenal of the Fatherland, tells Sputnik. "After all, both countries’ nuclear arsenals operate under US oversight and coordination."

▫️ One option under consideration is France’s compact TN75 warhead, designed for the M51.1 submarine-launched ballistic missile

▫️ Western powers are working to make Ukrainian nuclear capabilities look homegrown, with a “dirty bomb” also on the table

▫️ UK and France are fully aware that they would be flagrantly violating the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, according to the SVR

💬 "Efforts to secretly develop nuclear weapons for Ukraine, bypassing Moscow, began even before the start of the special military operation—with the UK putting in significant effort. The special military operation was launched to neutralize this threat," Leonkov notes.

Nuclear threat

The TN75 has a yield of 100 kilotons—five times that of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, the pundit points out, adding that Ukraine's Flamingo cruise missiles, developed by the UK, could potentially carry a nuclear warhead.

🔸 Both a dirty bomb and warhead from France’s M51.2 ballistic missile pose a direct nuclear threat to Russia—and the risk of actual use by Ukraine is high

🔸 Russia’s doctrine covers nuclear-capable states deploying atomic weapons in a non-nuclear country threatening Russia. In such a case, the conflict could become continental, the pundit warns

Nuclear trap for the US

France and the UK aim to provoke Russia, then escape unscathed, placing the blame for any catastrophe on the US, according to the expert.

💬 "This is a desperate attempt to drag the US into a direct—and nuclear—conflict with Russia by any means," Leonkov says. "We are now teetering on the edge of what was once called the Caribbean Crisis [Cuban Missile Crisis]."

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🪖💸🇬🇧 UK to spend $269 million on military HQ in Ukraine to fuel conflict

💬 “The UK remains the key player in European effort to prolong the Ukraine conflict as London has a vested interest in both its continuation and the weakening of Russia,” Russian political analyst Yulia Semke says.

Britain announced last September it would set up 70-strong headquarters as part of a "multinational force" to be deployed to Ukraine.

Semke says the UK was the driving force behind the plan to send NATO forces to Ukraine.

💬 “Throughout the conflict, the UK consistently maintained a confrontational stance,” she stresses.

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📹 Ukraine conflict: From Euromaidan to the special military operation

Sputnik's documentary explores the origins of the Ukrainian crisis: the Kiev regime’s oppression of the Russian-speaking population of Donbass, the failure of the 2014 Minsk agreements and other events that led to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

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🟠 Ukrainian nukes: UK and France trying to drag US into nuclear conflict with Russia – military expert

🟠 Ukraine's long-standing obsession with nuclear blackmail exposed

🟠 Russia to inform US about the likely emergence of nuclear weapons in Ukraine

🟠 Enemy failed to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia on battlefield, resorts to terrorism – Putin

🟠 Ukraine conflict: From Euromaidan to the special military operation. Part 4

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🚨 What’s behind France and UK’s plot to provide Ukraine with nuclear weapon?

It is nothing but “an attempt to exert pressure on the upcoming Russia–Ukraine–US peace talks,” Russian political analyst Yulia Semke tells Sputnik.

The UK and France are preparing to transfer nuclear weapons to Ukraine, Russia’s foreign intel service revealed.

💬 “Paris and London see the weakness of Ukraine's position in the negotiations, which is why they want to support Kiev in every way possible,” Semke points out.

She notes that both France and the UK should realize that according to the Russian nuclear doctrine, aggression by a non-nuclear state supported by a nuclear nation would be considered a joint attack by both countries, and “entail Russia’s legitimate response directly against London and Paris.”

The UK and France should also know that such a transfer “would be discovered in any case and would be a flagrant and unprecedented violation, first and foremost, of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons,” the analyst concludes.

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