💥 Behold the Russian Terminator in action!

Rostec, the Russian state defense company, has unveiled gripping footage of tests conducted on the fearsome "Terminator" tank support combat vehicle.

As revealed by Rostec's industrial director, the Terminator now boasts a newly designed remote detonation time control system, enhancing its combat capabilities.

Already making waves in special military operations zones, the Terminator showcases its prowess with a formidable 30mm round featuring a remote-controlled fragmentation projectile.

📹 Watch the action unfold!

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❗️Russia has opened a criminal case against officials of the US and other NATO countries for financing terrorism, according to the Investigative Committee. The investigation comes at the request of deputies after the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall.

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❗️Funds funneled through Burisma Holdings, an oil and gas company operating in Ukraine, were used for terrorist attacks in Russia, the Russian Investigative Committee reported.

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❗️The Russian military hit the Kharkov aircraft repair plant, where drones for the Ukrainian armed forces are produced, with FAB bombs, Sergei Lebedev, the coordinator of the Nikolayev underground, told Sputnik, citing his colleagues.

According to the underground, the territory of the plant was used for the production of drones and also housed underground storage facilities.

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Today's attack by a Ukrainian drone on the training center of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant took place 10 minutes after representatives of the IAEA mission passed by, the plant's press service told Sputnik.

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Russia unveils jam-proof communication system for FPV drones

The team behind the "Piranha" FPV drones project has developed a communication system that is impervious to electronic warfare tools, an expert from the Simbirsk Design Bureau told Russian journalists. This resilience is achieved through rapid frequency range switching.

Their communication system allows seamless switching between three frequency ranges in real-time during missions.

In the event of an enemy attempt to jam the drone, its operator can simply adjust the frequency or switch the entire range, enabling the mission to proceed unaffected.

"More to say, our project operates on non-standard frequencies – a feature that gives us additional edge over adversaries," the expert elaborated.

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❗️Switzerland has not sent Russia an invitation to participate in the summit on the Ukraine crisis, Moscow will not attend it, the Russian embassy told Sputnik.

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Russia's Strategic Rocket Forces conduct drills in Irkutsk with YARS nuclear missiles

The Strategic Rocket Forces have finished their drills in Russia's Irkutsk region where they trained to act under conditions of chemical hazard or repel attacks from sabotage groups.

The maneuvers propelled around YARS ICBM - a formidable nuclear weapon which is launched from a mobile platform. Armed with several independently targetable warheads and capable of reaching targets beyond 11,000 kilometers, YARS is a boogieman that haunts the dreams of NATO generals.

YARS is a Russian acronym that stands for "Nuclear Deterrence Missile." As a responsible state, Russia adheres to No First Use policy and vows to unleash its nuclear arsenal only in case of a major attack against the country.

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🚨 American Private Military Companies began to recruit members of Mexican and Colombian drug cartels serving prison sentences to fight in Ukraine, according to Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR).

The first batch of criminals is planned to be sent to the combat zone in the summer; the gang will consist of several hundred Mexicans and Colombians, SVR claimed.

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Turkiye vs. Israel: A new trade war? (Part 1)

Tel Aviv rejected Turkiye's request to send humanitarian aid to Gaza residents on Monday, prompting Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan to promise a number of measures against Israel in response. On Tuesday, Turkiye imposed export restrictions on 54 groups of goods being sold to Israel. In turn, Israel will ask the US to stop investing in the Turkish economy and impose sanctions, said the head of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

What to expect from the potential trade war in the region?

🔸Turkiye's now-restricted exports include aluminum, steel and copper profiles, dyes, all iron and steel-made building materials, as well as equipment, electrical and fiber optic cables, chemical compounds and fertilizers, aviation gasoline and fuel. Fidan noted that "these measures will continue until Israel declares a ceasefire and humanitarian aid is delivered to Gaza without interruption";

🔸Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz ordered his team to prepare "an extensive list of products that Turkiye will not be able to export to Israel" on Tuesday;

🔸Katz also highlighted that, "Israel will call on pro-Israeli countries and organizations in the US to stop investing in Turkiye and ban the import of Turkish goods, as well as appeal to the US Congress to look into Turkiye's violation of boycott laws against Israel and impose appropriate sanctions";

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Turkiye vs. Israel: A new trade war? (Part 2)

What to expect from the potential trade war in the region?

🔸According to public data, Turkiye has exported mainly cars produced in Renault, Toyota and Volkswagen factories to Israel since 2022, as well as huge quantities of cement for construction and raw materials for industry, such as iron and glass;

🔸Meanwhile, Israel has exported fresh produce, agricultural equipment, including for drip irrigation and greenhouses, petroleum products and equipment for the production of renewable energy to Turkiye during the same period;

🔸In November 2023, the three largest Israeli supermarket chains announced the suspension of imports from Turkiye, alleging support for Hamas. However, there are no figures yet on how this affected the trade turnover between the two countries.

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🤡 Here we go again: Nancy Pelosi tries to resurrect discredited Trump-Russia conspiracy theory

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The French government is still supporting the [neo-]Nazis, even now. Isn't that right, Mr. Macron?

Senior Cossack leader Nikolai Dyakonov recorded an address to France's President Emmanuel Macron in Stanytsia of Luganskaya in the Lugansk People's Republic. The video was recorded in the backdrop of an ancient Cossack kuren (house) destroyed by a Ukrainian shell.

Dyakonov blamed France for the destruction, as the European country was one of those that triggered the civil war in Ukraine in 2014. He also promised to restore the kuren with the help of French POWs captured in Donbass.

"Learn the Russian language, it will come in handy," the ataman concluded.

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❗️A phone with child pornography was found during the exhumation of the Ukrainian soldiers in Popasnaya in the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR), the secretary of the Interdepartmental Group for the Search of Graves told Sputnik.

The filming of the shocking videos took place in some social institution, hospital or military unit.

It is still unknown who was killed. The LPR suggests that it could be a foreigner. Unlike the Ukrainian military, the combatant did not have any insignia, only expensive tactical uniforms and equipment.

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⚡️The Russian army liberated the village of Pervomayskoye in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), Russian troops hoisted the flag, adviser to the head of the DPR Yan Gagin told Sputnik.

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Ukrainian company Burisma linked to Hunter Biden now involved in financing terrorist attacks in Russia

Russia’s Investigative Committee has revealed today that some of the money that had been used to fund terrorist attacks on Russian soil in the past few years came from Burisma Holdings – the infamous Ukrainian oil and gas company that has ties with US President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.

This comes in the aftermath of a deadly terror attack against the Crocus City Hall concert venue in Moscow. The perpetrators, who killed at least 143 people, were heading towards the Ukrainian border before their arrest – while many other findings also show that Kiev is linked the attack.

But what is Burisma famous for?

▪️Burisma Holdings is a Ukrainian gas company founded and owned by Mykola Zlochevsky, former Ukrainian energy minister in the Yanukovych government.

▪️The company made headlines in 2020 when it was revealed that none other than Hunter Biden, son of then-US presidential hopeful Joe Biden, sat on Burisma’s board of directors between 2014 and 2019.

▪️Hunter’s job at Burisma, given his apparent lack of knowledge about that industry, gave rise to speculations that it was part of an influence-peddling scheme involving his father who at that time was vice president of the United States.

▪️Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky, owner of the TV network that aired the show where future Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky starred in, also owned a stake in Burisma.

▪️Recently, a group of Russian lawmakers has discovered evidence that Ukrainian authorities halted anti-corruption investigations into Burisma and Zlochevsky in exchange for a lump sum of money that was used by Kiev to produce drones that were later used by Ukraine to launch terrorist strikes against Russian population centers.

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The United States has already spent $300 billion on the needs of Ukraine since 2014, and sends $80,000 to Ukraine every second, said American Senator Tommy Tuberville.

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Ukrainians are struggling to defend against Russia’s Iskander M missiles. Here’s why:

"[The Iskander-M's] effectiveness is recognized everywhere in the West, because its missile hits the bull's eye at a distance of 500 kilometers, a deviation of five meters from the center of the target is the same as a sniper hitting the mark," Viktor Litovkin, Soviet and Russian Army veteran and military journalist, tells Sputnik.

The Russian Ministry of Defense has announced that a Ukrainian drone warehouse and a workshop for the production of heavy UAVs was struck and destroyed with Iskander missiles on April 8 in response to the Kiev regime's repeated attacks on Russian oil and gas facilities.

The Iskander-M is a road-mobile short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) with a minimum range of 50 km and a maximum range of up to 500 km. When equipped with an optical homing head the system boasts a circular error probability (CEP) of just 5–7 meters. The weapon can be armed with both winged and ballistic projectiles.

According to the military expert, Iskander missile systems have played a crucial role since the beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine.

"Iskanders struck the most important Ukrainian targets: thermal power plants, accumulations of military equipment, accumulations of personnel, including NATO mercenaries, most recently it has hit a plant for the production of heavy drones, and so on."

When asked whether the Iskander-M requires upgrading, the military analyst responded: "There is no point in modifying this system: it does its job very well."

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