👑💀 Wait, what? The "Grim Reaper" has been spotted at King Charles' coronation

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🇸🇾 Arab FMs to hold emergency meeting over Syria's return to Arab League

The meeting has been confirmed by Gamal Rushdy, a spokesman for the League of Arab States. The move follows recent decision by some Arab countries, including Egypt and Saudi Arabia, to resume diplomatic relations with Syrian President Bashar Assad.

Syria's membership in the LAS was suspended in 2011 after the start of the armed conflict in the country.

In mid-April, foreign ministries of several Arab nations urged the LAS to resume Syria's membership, while also stating the need to end the humanitarian crisis in Syria and asking Arab countries' leadership for help in resolving the situation in the country.

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❗️Prilepin has been successfully taken out of the medically induced coma, he is conscious and feeling well, his press service says

🇷🇺🫡 Russia marks the 31st anniversary of its Armed Forces

On May 7, 1992, Russia’s first president Boris Yeltsin issued an executive decree establishing the Russian Armed Forces and assumed control as supreme commander.

Huge Sputnik explainer is coming soon so stay tuned!

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 RFK Jr: Russia 'cannot lose in Ukraine' as this is 'existential for it'

💬 "We are being told they are losing, but they cannot afford to lose," Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said as he spoke with the hosts of the All-In Podcast.

Russia has been “building up” its forces, and it has “an artillery advantage,” pointed out the Democratic presidential candidate, adding that the US, which has been funneling vast amounts of weapons to Ukraine, does not have the ability to replace the arms lost in the conflagration.

Washington has been doing everything to prolong the Ukraine conflict, and the US administration has been displaying "absolute intransigence" regarding the many opportunities to end the conflagration. But this can be explained by the fact that the US has been on "a mission to maximize casualties, to prolong what is, essentially, a war of attrition," RFK Jr. said.

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🇷🇺🫡 Born in chaos, forged in combat: How today's Russian military structure came to be

▪️Sunday marks the 31st anniversary of the creation of the modern Russian military.

❓What is its makeup and composition? What does the letter ‘Z’ painted on Russian vehicles in Ukraine mean? How does Russia’s military stack up against NATO?

From the rough start after the collapse of the USSR until today:
Read this Sputnik explainer to find out how the Russian Army came to be

🇹🇷🇺🇸🇷🇺 US asked Turkiye to send its S-400s to Ukraine, but Ankara refused, Turkish FM Cavusoglu says

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📹 Russian forces seize trophy Humvee in Artemovsk

The Ukrainian security forces attempted to destroy the abandoned Humvee with artillery, and as a result, it sustained minor damage. The vehicle’s wheels were damaged by shrapnel, but because the tires have special rubber inserts inside, this allowed the trophy to be successfully evacuated.

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⚡️Russia’s FSB in coordination with the Interior Ministry stopped a sabotage attempt planned by Ukrainian intelligence at the airfield in Ivanovo region using drones

🇺🇸🇪🇺 US fuelling breakdown of France, Germany, while capitalizing on 'weak Europe'

💬 “The US is luring over European industry with cheaper energy, lower taxes… creating a division between France and Germany… And on top of that, the Americans are shifting the center of Europe from Western Europe to Eastern Europe, because Western Europe is too much of a headache," Elijah Magnier, a veteran war correspondent, told Sputnik.

While in France “today you have Macron, tomorrow you will have Marine Le Pen,” in Germany, "Scholz is standing in support of the US interests, no longer supporting the German population and their needs,” underscored the veteran war correspondent.

Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz are “no longer leaders even in their own countries,” he pointed out. While there has always been rivalry between France and Germany, Magnier reflected since the Ukraine crisis escalated in early 2022, the self-harming Western sanctions has exacerbated the energy crisis, so the two European countries could not put up “a united front” against the US.

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🇷🇺 Russia regains spot among world's top-10 largest economies

The country produced $2.3 trillion worth of goods and services in 2022, data from the World Bank and statistical services analyzed by Sputnik showed.

In 2014, Russia ranked the ninth in the list of the world's major economies by manufacturing $2.05 trillion worth of goods and services, while in 2021 the country was in the 11th place, the data said.

The data showed that the US's economy topped the rating in 2022 with its nominal gross domestic product (GDP) estimated at $25.5 trillion, while China ranked the second ($17.9 trillion), followed by Japan ($4.2 trillion), Germany ($4.07 trillion), and India ($3.4 trillion).

In addition, the UK's economy remained the sixth ($3.07 trillion) in the list and France ranked the seventh ($2.8 trillion), according to the statistics.

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⚡️ Arab League has approved Syria's return to organization, Iraqi foreign ministry spokesman says

Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has announced that Wagner will receive ammunition and weapons, and that General Sergey Surovikin will oversee the interaction of the group with the Russian Defense Ministry.

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📹 Russian Su-25 aircraft destroys Ukrainian armored vehicles

The ministry added that the Su-25s carried out missile strikes, performed a maneuver by releasing decoy flares, after which they returned to their departure airfield.

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❗️Russian MoD briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️In the Kupyansk direction, Russian forces destroyed up to 85 Ukrainian troops, one armored fighting vehicle, one D-30 howitzer, as well as one ammunition depot;

▪️In the Krasny Liman direction, Russian forces neutralized up to 75 Ukrainian personnel, three armored fighting vehicles, two Akatsiya self-propelled howitzers, and one D-30 howitzer;

▪️In the Donetsk direction, Ukrainian losses amounted to over 340 Ukrainian troops and mercenaries, two armored fighting vehicles, one D-20 howitzer, as well as two US-made counter-battery warfare radars;

▪️In the South Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, Russian forces destroyed over 55 Ukrainian troops, two armored fighting vehicles, three pick-up trucks, a Msta-B and one D-30 howitzer, as well as a US-made AN/TPQ-50 radar system;

▪️In the Kherson direction, Russian troops neutralized up to 40 Ukrainian servicemen;

▪️During the night, 22 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were detected by air defenses over the Black Sea. All Ukrainian UAVs were destroyed by anti-aircraft missile systems or suppressed with electronic warfare;

▪️Air defenses shot down one Mi-8 helicopter, five HIMARS projectiles, a Grom-2 and a Tochka-U ballistic missile, and 10 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the LPR, DPR, and Kharkov region.

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