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All the censorship in the world can’t hide that the West is failing

The elite of the US and the collective West cannot hide the fact that it is a declining empire that has been fleecing its taxpayers for decades to maintain and improve the lifestyles of the most wealthy.

“[Americans are] forced to each and every day walk outside their house, go to work, eat lunch on the street, in the drive to work, and go, ‘Wow, there's a lot of tents up here. Wow, that's a lot of trash. Wow, a lot of shuttered businesses. What is going on?’” explained the host of AM-Wake Up, Steve Poikonen, while on Sputnik’s The Critical Hour.


That wealth inequality is becoming so drastic that Americans have been seeing its effects for themselves, no analysis or news reports needed. As of December, chronic homelessness hit an all-time high in the US. In February, the collective credit card debt of Americans also reached an all-time high, surpassing $1.13 trillion.

The censorship is “about all [the elite] have, with a bunch of other histrionics and then whatever version of events they can manufacture to try to sell the story,” Poikonen said earlier. “But we see them fall apart in real-time, thanks to the legitimate independent media and as citizen journalists on the ground in places where things are happening.”


Fifty-five percent of Americans believe that the US economy is in a recession, despite a high stock market, low unemployment, a rising GDP and countless officials and articles and news reports telling Americans that they are wrong, the economy is actually doing great.

As of 2023, the top 10% financially in the US controlled 66.9% of the wealth, with the top 1% holding 30.6% of the wealth on its own. Meanwhile, the bottom 50% of the country held only 2.5% of wealth.

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Ukrainian army hit a residential house in Krivoy Rog, the underground reported

Ukrainian militants struck a residential house in Krivoy Rog, the SBU immediately arrived at the scene and blocked the passage with roadblocks, Nikolaev underground coordinator Sergei Lebedev told Sputnik, citing his colleagues.

According to the agency's interlocutor, an explosion was heard in Krivoy Rog. It was claimed that the a residential house was hit and there were dead and wounded, while reports of a "Russian missile" immediately began circulating, but no parts of it were ever found, he said.

"In Krivoy Rog there are many targets to hit with missiles, but in that place there are simply none. And the missile had to get very lost to end up in that high-rise building. And our comrade is right: the reports went at once, photos and videos appeared at once, and professional ones at that.... The only logical conclusion is that there was no Russian missile at all. A tragedy was needed. The Banderites simply took a blow to a residential building themselves. That's why reports, photos, videos went out immediately. And, of course, no one found the "Russian missile", it did not fly there," Lebedev said.


Furthermore, the SBU officers instantly arrived at the scene of the emergency, and set up checkpoints, Lebedev added.

"The road was blocked for everyone by checkpoints with the SBU. Rescue workers and ambulance staff gave signatures of non-disclosure," he explained.


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Zelensky urges Ukrainians to come back home and go to the trenches

The call from Zelensky for Ukrainians to return to the country is a thinly veiled attempt to press-gang them into service and send them to the frontlines as cannon fodder, Mark Sleboda, a security and international relations expert told Sputnik’s The Critical Hour.

Zelensky is hoping Ukrainians come back so their “press gangs can beat, connoscript [them] off the streets, like we’ve seen in hundreds after hundreds of Telegram videos from people filming from the streets as the press gangs seize their husbands and their sons and fathers and drag them off to the trenches,” Sleboda warned.


Last week, a video appeared on social media showing what appeared to be a Ukrainian border guard planting landmines along the border of Romania. Days later, media reported that several Ukrainian men had been killed by the mines.

Additionally, according to Ukraine’s State Border Service, at least 45 Ukrainian men have died in recent weeks attempting to cross the Tisza River into Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and Serbia.

“Men haven’t been able to leave the country since 2022,” Sleboda noted, calling it “a giant prison for the Ukrainian people.”


“So, as Zelensky is begging people to come back, his own citizens are desperately trying to flee the country,” added Sleboda later. “Many of them dying in the process.

According to Russian Defense Minister Andrey Belousov, 35,000 Ukrainians died on the front lines in May alone, the very same month, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Kiev, where he went to a bar and played a rendition of Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World.”

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📹"From the smallest pickups to tanks, a little carrot [drone] like this recently destroyed an Abrams. The key is to hit the target," Russian fighter from the Tsentr battle group explains how a FPV drone destroyed another Abrams tank.

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️ The G7 countries reportedly agree to give $50 bln to Ukraine using Russia’s frozen assets

️ Watch Russian Northern Fleet ship group arriving off the coast of Cuba

Elon Musk: US should sanction Ukraine NGO for targeting Americans on an enemies list

️ Zelensky urges Ukrainians to come back home and go to the trenches

️ Dozens request medical care after violent protests against PM Pashinyan in Armenia’s Yerevan

️ Argentina’s Senate approves President Milei’s reforms amid clashes between protesters and police

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📹Within the framework of the second stage of the exercises of non-strategic nuclear forces, the personnel of the missile unit of the Leningrad Military District worked out combat training tasks for covert advance to the designated position area and carried out electronic missile launches against conditional enemy targets.

The personnel participating in the training of naval crews carried out sea voyages to the designated patrol area.

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Dmitry Medvedev urged in response to the new Western sanctions to do everything possible to inflict maximum damage on the countries that imposed them.

According to the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, retaliatory measures should affect all possible spheres, and there can be no rules against the enemy.

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Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan noted that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan did not announce the republic’s withdrawal from the Collective Security Treaty Organization: Whoever decided so is mistaken. 📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt
❗️The next logical step after the membership freeze will be Armenia's withdrawal from the Collective Security Treaty Organization, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has said that neither he nor any other Armenian official will visit Belarus as long as Alexander Lukashenko is president.

Pashinyan said that Yerevan could change its attitude toward the CSTO if Lukashenko apologizes to Armenia or Belarus withdraws from the organization

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❗️The Chinese Foreign Ministry condemns new American anti-Russian sanctions, calling them illegal and unilateral.

The United States is constantly supplying weapons to Ukraine and using the crisis as an opportunity to impose sanctions, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced.

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Protests against Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan have erupted again in Yerevan:

The government building is cordoned off by police, supporters of protest leader Bagrat Galstanyan hold a march.

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☄️ A social media video appears to show an Israeli soldier using a trebuchet to launch fireballs across the border with Lebanon

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'Not escalation' Stoltenberg style?

NATO chief attempts to justify Ukraine's strikes into Russian territory.

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Hezbollah published footage of its large-scale missile attack against Israel yesterday.

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Germany cannot supply additional Patriot air defence systems to Ukraine, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said

"We already provided three [Patriot] systems, that means a quarter of our capacities, so there is no space for providing even more than those three systems ... it is on other partners to provide assistance," Pistorius said ahead of the NATO defense heads' meeting.


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Zelensky still bowing & begging before Swiss summit, this time in Saudi Arabia

Volodymyr Zelensky met with the Middle Eastern country’s leader, Mohammed bin Salman, to ask the latter to participate in the Swiss "peace summit" on Ukraine scheduled for June 15-16, the media say.

The meeting was "meaningful and energetic," Zelensky has claimed, while local media were far more restrained, admitting only the fact that "during the talks, the leaders discussed issues of bilateral relations."

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Alexander Maltsev secures gold in synchronized swimming at BRICS Games, the second for Russian team

Russian athlete Alexander Maltsev won the solo technical routine in synchronized swimming at the BRICS Games in Kazan, scoring 267.3216 points. Thailand's Kentan Adisaesiributr claimed silver with 209.9667 points. Only two athletes competed in this event.

This victory marks Russia's second gold at the BRICS Games after Svetlana Kolesnichenko took home the women's equivalent earlier.

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❗️At the second stage of the drills with non-strategic nuclear weapons, the Russian troops worked out the provision of combat duty with training nuclear warheads, the Defense Ministry reported.

Issues of joint training of Russian and Belarusian units have already been worked out, the delivery of training nuclear warheads to field storage points has been ensured.

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❗️The United States has introduced new anti-Russian sanctions that affect more than 300 individuals and legal entities in Russia, Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Africa, the US Treasury has announced. The Moscow Exchange and the National Clearing Center…
❗️The Central Bank of Russia is able to ensure stability in the markets, which is what is being done, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, commenting on the new US sanctions.

According to him, Moscow is considering retaliatory measures “that will best suit our interests.”

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Israel’s ‘all-out war’ with Hezbollah: what the US thinks about this scenario

The US is "scrambling" to prevent a full-blown conflict between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, according to Axios, citing unnamed American officials.

The Biden administration is extremely concerned about a scenario in which the current bilateral tensions escalate into an "all-out war." The White House is also alarmed by the possibility that Israel could start or be drawn into a war with Hezbollah "without a clear strategy or consideration of the full implications of a wider conflict.”

In recent weeks, Washington has reportedly cautioned Tel Aviv against the notion of a "limited war" in Lebanon, warning that Iran could intervene.

The Biden team is trying to address the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah while working to secure a hostage-ceasefire deal in Gaza, which the US sees as the only measure to de-escalate tensions on the Israeli-Lebanese border.

Hezbollah, meanwhile, has vowed to intensify its attacks along the border to avenge Israel's killing of the group's top military commander, Taleb Sami Abdullah. Hezbollah fired hundreds of rockets into northern Israel on Wednesday, hours after Abdullah was killed in an Israeli airstrike.

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❗️Russian TV channel NTV correspondent Alexey Ivliev and two other channel employees were seriously injured in the village of Golmovskiy in the Donetsk People's Republic while performing their professional duties, Mayor Ivan Prikhodko said.

The channel's employees were taken to hospital, according to the NTV Telegram channel.

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🥵✈️ Passengers trapped in a Boeing plane suffered temperatures of 52 degrees

The Boeing 737-800 of Mavi Gok Airlines was flying from Turkiye to Germany. According to media reports, the aircraft's air conditioning unit broke down before takeoff. The plane stood on the hot asphalt for almost an hour, as a result of which the air temperature in the cabin rose above 50 degrees.

The airline, which did not even offer water to sweltering passengers, said after the incident that, “the safety and well-being of our passengers and crew is our top priority,” according to media quoting eyewitnesses.

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