A Russian kamikaze FPV drone destroyed a Starlink stationary communications module, UAV crew commander with the call sign “Topaz” told Sputnik.

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🇷🇺 Western intelligence is alarmed by the scale of the work of the Russian intelligence services following the leak of a recording of a conversation between German officers, the Financial Times reports.

The newspaper's sources believe the operations of Russian intelligence now may be even more serious than during the Cold War.

One unnamed Western intelligence official admitted that the Russians "can also do some very sophisticated operations that, in intelligence terms, are stupendously cool."

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Despite criticism of his militaristic statements even from his European counterparts, French President Emmanuel Macron has backed a Czech plan to deliver hundreds of thousands of artillery shells to Ukraine from countries outside the European Union.

France will take part in the initiative, Macron said, without giving financial details, adding that the EU's European Peace Fund could be partly used to finance it. Earlier, a French official said no such mechanisms would be used.

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❗️ Vladimir Putin will meet IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi in Sochi to talk about the latter’s negotiations with Rosatom head Alexey Likhachev, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

In addition, the president will talk to the participants of the World Youth Festival in Sirius and deliver a speech at the closing ceremony.

🇱🇧 Illustration from a Lebanese newspaper showing an American airplane dropping food for the Gaza Strip and weapons for Israel

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🇷🇺🇨🇳 Russia, China plan on building lunar nuclear power plant

Russia and China are mulling jointly building a lunar nuclear power plant, said Yuri Borisov, the head of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos.

“At the turn of 2033-2035 we plan to deliver and install a power unit on the lunar surface together with our Chinese colleagues,” Borisov said.

▪️ The installation will be done in an automated mode, without the presence of humans, and the technology required for the construction of the lunar nuclear power plant is almost ready.

▪️ Russia is also working on building a nuclear-powered cargo spaceship, called the Zevs (Zeus).

In 2021, Russia and China presented a road map for building a scientific station on the Moon by the end of 2035. The project includes technical lunar rovers for research, a jumping robot, and several smart mini-rovers designed to explore the surface of Earth’s natural satellite.

The director general of Roscosmos emphasized that, “Of course, space should be free of nuclear weapons.”

This echoes what President Vladimir Putin reiterated at a meeting with the country's Security Council members on March 1, saying that Russia does not plan to deploy nuclear weapons in space.

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In the Russian federal territory of Sirius there is a long line for a lecture by Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s press secretary.

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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the Transnistria issue relevant, and said the situation there is far from predictable and calm.

The Kremlin hopes that Kishinev will take into account the opinion of the region's residents, while Moscow is in favor of dialog with Moldova.

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❗️ After his meeting with the Russian delegation, Grossi said that the negotiations were tense, but he was able to assess the situation around the ZNPP.

Rosatom reports that, in addition to the ZNPP, they discussed promising areas of nuclear power development.

Main points of Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto’s interview with RIA Novosti:

▪️ NATO's decision not to intervene in the conflict in Ukraine remains in force, neither Germany nor France have asked for a revision of this.

▪️ Everything possible must be done to prevent a clash between Russia and NATO.

▪️ Sending forces from NATO member states to Ukraine would violate the alliance's decision not to intervene in the Ukraine conflict, and Budapest would oppose it.

▪️ Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban will meet with Donald Trump in Florida on March 8, with plans to discuss bringing peace to Ukraine.

▪️ Budapest believes "peace in Ukraine is President Trump."

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❗️ The Russian Ministry of Defense has confirmed the destruction of a US-made Abrams tank, saying that it was hit by a T-72B3 crew in the Avdeyevka area on the first shot.

This is the third destroyed Abrams reported by the Defense Ministry.

🇷🇺 Latest statements by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov:

▪️ US tanks are moving through Russian territory. That's not good. They drive up to a point, and then they burn.

▪️ Russia will do everything to make American airplanes that encroach on Russian territory "burn and fall"

▪️ We don't like those American leaders who insult our president, we don't like them

▪️ We never dictate how someone should live and we don't want to be dictated to.

▪️ Russia will not interfere in the 2024 US elections. We will thwart any attempt to interfere in Russia's presidential election from the outside

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📹 Former Pentagon senior security policy analyst Michael Maloof told Sputnik that the intercepted conversation between German officers has become a warning to other countries.

"I think that the revelation was important to get out because it does put these countries on notice that if they want to continue this war and use Ukraine as a proxy, it's only going to affect their economies, their industries, their people. And it could have dire geopolitical consequences," he said.

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