🪖💫 Russian Buk-M3 crews thwart Ukrainian strike on civilian infrastructure

Air defense units intercepted the attack, neutralizing enemy reconnaissance drones and guided aerial bombs.

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❌ Ukraine has no significant success on battlefield due to Russian army’s efficiency — expert

💬 "I think the challenge Ukraine has is that they too are trying to expand their strike campaign against Russia, but they are also pressed against time given growing exhaustion within the force and the Russian strike campaign, which has been particularly effective this year," military analyst Michael Kofman says in an interview with the New York Times.

Ukraine also faces other issues — its dependence on the unstable Western support and a high number of exhausted troops deserting from the battlefield that undermine the capabilities of the Ukrainian army, the expert explains.

💬 "Ukrainian effective combat strength at the front line has slowly been shrinking," Kofman notes, adding that Russia has a significant advantage in manpower.

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🇴🇲🇺🇸🇮🇷Oman’s foreign minister to meet US vice-president for talks on Iran — report

The meeting between Omani Foreign Minister Badr Al Busaidi and JD Vance aimed at preventing a US-Iran war is to take place on Friday in Washington, MS Now reports.

The talks have not been officially announced beforehand, the outlet notes, adding they are to take place amid Steve Witkoff engaging in indirect talks with Iran’s Foreign Minister Araghchi in Geneva.

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🇵🇰⚔️🇦🇫Pakistan-Afghanistan conflict: Here's what you need to know

◻️ Pakistan launched strikes on the Afghan cities of Kabul and Kandahar in the early hours of Friday

◻️ Pakistani aircraft reportedly remain in Afghan airspace seeking new targets

◻️ Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Asif declared an "open war" with Afghanistan

◻️ Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Friday that his country's armed forces could "crush" aggressors and that the nation stands "shoulder to shoulder with its armed forces"

◻️ Earlier, Afghanistan launched a military operation across the border into Pakistan late on Thursday in retaliation for Pakistani airstrikes on Afghan border areas on Feb. 22

◻️ The Afghan side claimed to have captured more than a dozen Pakistani army posts along a wide stretch of the border, including at the Torkham border crossing — a major crossing point into Afghanistan, according to Al Jazeera

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🔸 Pakistan launched airstrike on Kabul

🔸 Pakistani Defense Minister announces 'open confrontation' with Afghanistan

🔸 Maduro accuses the US of violating his constitutional rights

🔸 The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford has departed its base on Crete and is heading to the eastern Mediterranean

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🇺🇸 Trump’s State of Union Address was nerve-wracking for Zelensky and his Western puppeteers — journalist

Trump’s grand speech during the State of the Union Address, while being one of the longest ever, barely tackled the topic of Ukraine, Cypriot journalist Alex Christoforou says.

"10-20 seconds on Ukraine. That’s it. That’s got to make the green goblin [Zelensky] and the Europeans very nervous," he notes, adding "that was pretty much it with regard to Project Ukraine."

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📹 LIVE NOW: Sputnik Hosts Media Forum Moscow-Islamabad

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❌ 'Deepfakes have become a global-scale threat: Russian MFA spokeswoman Maria Zakharova

What was once used to target individuals can now blur reality itself.

“In the past year or two, we can no longer tell whether we’re looking at reality — or an AI-generated video,” she warned.

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📲 'Technology isn’t the enemy. Unquestioned technology is,' Russian MFA spokeswoman tells Moscow-Islamabad media forum hosted by Sputnik

💬 "All these technologies, they may seem amusing and interesting today, but in fact they pose a great threat," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

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🚨 Russian MFA spokeswoman: Bucha was 'a horrible fake'

Russia sent an inquiry to the General Secretary of the UN and urged the United Nations to become the mediators in the case, publishing the list of the people who got killed, Maria Zakharova said.

💬 "But behind the stage, we got a response that they knew this was a provocation, and that's why they keep silent. No proof," she told the Moscow-Islamabad media forum hosted by Sputnik.

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💬 “What we see today is not soft power. We are facing a war with all its attributes, and this new reality stems from automation, from speed and audience reach and big data:” Russian FM spokeswoman Maria Zakharova at Moscow-Islamabad media forum hosted by Sputnik

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💣 World сries for Punch the Monkey, but ignores bombed kids in Donbass: Russian MFA spokeswoman

💬 "People come from other countries to see the suffering of this baby monkey [from the Japanese Zoo]. I feel pity for the baby monkey. I love pets. At the same time, there are thousands of children suffering," Maria Zakharova told the Moscow-Islamabad media forum hosted by Sputnik.

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🚨 Zakharova on West shaping public opinion: Propaganda always precedes bombings

Yugoslavia. Iraq 2003. Same playbook: propaganda first, strikes second, Maria Zakharova told the Moscow-Islamabad media forum hosted by Sputnik.

💬 "Their goal is not to convey the truth about themselves. It's about changing public opinion in those countries they're aiming at. Faking was not invented recently. The West invests in shaping public opinion prior to bombing — like Yugoslavia, like Iraq in 2003."

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🚨 Economic and political power shifting from the West to the East: Pakistani Senator Mushahid Hussain Syed

💬 "President Putin has talked of a new world order that is emerging before our eyes. President Xi Jinping of China has talked of changes that have not been seen in a century that we are witnessing today."

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🪖💣 Zakharova: World silent as memorials to WWII heroes are erased

💬 "They deprive us of the right to honor heroes who saved the world from Nazism. Monuments are demolished across Europe. Graves are desecrated. Not a single global structure speaks up," Russian FM spox told the Moscow-Islamabad media forum hosted by Sputnik.

Zakharova also thanked Islamabad for supporting Russia in combating the glorification of Nazism

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🚨Media ignores the elephant in the room when covering Epstein files: Pakistani Senator Mushahid Hussain Syed at Moscow-Islamabad media forum hosted by Sputnik

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🚨 Zakharova: Russia's Sputnik Pro trains 10,000+ journalists globally

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🇵🇰🤝🇷🇺 Zakharova thanks Pakistan for combating Islamophobia & glorification of Nazism

Russia and Pakistan stand united against mounting hatred and historical revisionism, Maria Zakharova told the Moscow-Islamabad media forum hosted by Sputnik.

March 15 is now recognized as UN day against Islamophobia, which is a major achievement, she stressed, adding:

💬 "In a normal situation, we would not have to fight so much. But now we have to prove that those who represent world cultures, have the right to their own feelings, their own views, their own faith,” she said.

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🚨Pakistan and Russia see each other through common lenses now, Senator Mushahid Hussain Syed tells Moscow-Islamabad media forum hosted by Sputnik

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🚨🇵🇰 Pakistani ambassador reveals huge news: PTA deal, business forum & $1B trade target on the horizon

At the Moscow-Islamabad media forum hosted by Sputnik, Pakistani Ambassador to Russia H.E. Faisal Niaz Tirmizi announces major steps ahead of PM's visit:

💬 "We will start the process of signing PTA (Preferential Trade Agreement) with the Eurasian Economic Union and the Russian Federation... I'm very happy to announce that Pakistan is also organizing the second Russia -Pakistan Business Forum during this visit, in which over 100 leading companies are coming from Pakistan to interact with the Russian partners."

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