📹🇲🇩The march dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Moldova from Nazi invaders took place in Chisinau.

The march was organized by the national coordination committee "Victory" and attended by representatives of the opposition, members of parliament from the bloc "Victory", and those from the Party of Communists.

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Coup, not peace - RFK reveals goal of Biden’s Ukraine policy

"In April 2022, President Biden sent Boris Johnson [former Prime Minister of the UK] to Ukraine to force President Zelensky to tear up a peace agreement that he and the Russians had already signed," the politician revealed. 

He also noted that Biden's objective in the Ukraine conflict was to instigate a coup in Russia:

"President Biden stated that month that his objective in the war was regime change in Russia. His Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin simultaneously explained that America's purpose in the war was to exhaust the Russian army to degrade its capacity to fight anywhere else in the world."

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🤔Comrade Kamala Harris - yay or nay?

Donald Trump polled supporters on nickname for Harris

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❗️Zelensky signed a law banning the canonical Orthodox Church.

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Taiwan's local administration embarks on military buildup incited by US hawks

Taiwan's local authorities proposed increasing the island's defense spending to a record NT$647 billion ($20.2 billion) next year, an increase of 7.7% from 2023 that accounts for 2.45% of estimated GDP in 2025.

🔸 The defense spending hike, proposed by the island's local leader, Lai Ching Te, is the continuation of a trend set by his predecessor, Tsai Ing-wen. During her tenure between 2016 and 2024, Tsai pushed through seven consecutive increases, almost doubling the island's defense budget.

🔸 The US is forcing the island to step up its military spending, citing an alleged “threat" of China's "invasion." China considers the island as its inalienable territory.

🔸 The Taiwan Enhancement Resilience Act (TERA), signed by President Biden on 23 December 2022, authorized $2 billion of annual military grant assistance to the island from 2023 to 2027. The US even attempted to designate the island a "major non-NATO ally."

🔸 In April 2024, the US authorized another $8 billion in military aid for Taiwan and other allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific. US weapons are now directly transferred from the Pentagon stockpiles to the island under the Presidential Drawdown Authority.

🔸 Over the past several years, Taiwan has, in particular, acquired 108 General Dynamics' M1A2T Abrams tanks ($2.2 billion), 66 Lockheed Martin's F-16V fighter jets ($8 billion) and 29 M142 HIMARS systems ($1.06 billion) from the US. US Big Five arm-makers have boasted of increased profits stemming from the US-driven tensions in Europe, Middle East and Asia-Pacific.

🔸 China strongly opposes Washington's push for Taiwan's militarization, saying this "sends a wrong signal to the Taiwan separatist forces."

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NATO's 75-year bloody legacy

Today marks the 75th anniversary of a legal document that would forever alter the landscape of global politics. On August 24, 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty, commonly known as the Washington Treaty, was officially enacted following the completion of its ratification process.

The late 1990s and early 2000s turned out to be the bloodiest decades for the victims of NATO's aggression. The bloc’s attacks on Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya exemplify the alliance's disturbing pattern of impunity, which has resulted in countless people ending up displaced, wounded, or killed.

Originally conceived as a collective security alliance to counter the Soviet Union, NATO has since morphed into a tool to assert Western dominance worldwide.

What will the coming decades bring?

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📹The Houthis share footage of an attack on a Greek ship in the Red Sea.

In November 2023, Yemen's Houthi rebels vowed to attack any ships associated with Israel until it halts military actions in Gaza.

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❗️The Russian Zapad Battlegroup improved its tactical position and repelled six counterattacks, inflicting losses of up to 520 Ukrainian militants.

🇷🇺🪖 More statements from the Russian Defense Ministry’s daily briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️ Units of the Russian Yug Battlegroup secured more advantageous positions, with Ukrainian forces losing up to 690 militants.

▪️ The Russian Vostok Battlegroup repelled four Ukrainian counterattacks, resulting in up to 130 militant casualties.

▪️ The Russian Tsentr Battlegroup enhanced its tactical position, inflicting a loss of over 580 Ukrainian militants.

▪️ Russian forces struck a Ukrainian S-125 SAM launcher, two electronic warfare stations, a fuel depot, and a drone production facility.

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❗️Russia brought back 115 servicemen ensnared in the Kursk region from Ukrainian captivity; 115 Ukrainian prisoners were transferred in return, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

All Russian military personnel are in Belarus, where they are receiving medical care. During the return of Russian servicemen from Ukrainian captivity, the UAE provided humanitarian mediation, the ministry added.

All released military personnel will be taken to Russia for treatment and rehabilitation in medical institutions of the Russian Defense Ministry.

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😳Wait, whaaat..??

One of the largest diamonds in the world (2,492 carats) was found in Botswana, Africa.

What's more stunning: the diamond or the reaction of the country's president, Mokgweetsi Masisi?😁

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❗️Vladimir Putin met with leadership of united group of troops:

▪️The Russian President has heard reports from the leadership of the general staff on countering and destroying invading enemy forces in the Kursk region.

▪️Putin listened to the reports of the commanders of the groups of troops on the operational situation in the Kursk direction by telephone.

▪️At a meeting with the leadership of the united group of forces, Putin heard reports on the current results of the special military operation.

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❗️The identification and destruction of enemy sabotage groups that were attempting to penetrate deep into Russian territory continues, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

Over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian forces have lost more than 360 servicemen and 29 armored vehicles.

During the military operations in Russia's Kursk region, the enemy lost more than 5,500 servicemen and 71 tanks, the Russian Defense Ministry added.

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Russia's Defense Ministry shared a video of the return of Russian captives.

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💥A Lancet barrage munition destroyed a Ukrainian tank hidden in a wooded area in the border area of the Kursk region. 

As a result of a direct hit by the Lancet barrage ammunition, the tank of Ukrainian militants was hit, as confirmed by objective control footage obtained in real time.

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115 Russian PoWs back home, Zelensky issues threats, Russia continues to thwart Ukraine's Kursk incursion

Russia has swapped 115 servicemen captured in the Kursk region by the Ukrainian military for 115 Ukrainian captives, the Russian Defense Ministry announced on Saturday.

According to the ministry, all the Russian military personnel returned from captivity are now receiving medical care in Belarus. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) provided humanitarian mediatory assistance in the Russo-Ukrainian prisoner swap.

▪️Russian President Vladimir Putin met with the leadership of the Joint Group of Forces and was briefed on progress in countering enemy forces in the Kursk region, as well as the measures taken to destroy the aggressor. The Russian president also heard reports from Russian military commanders on the operational situation on the Kursk front by phone.

▪️Troops of the Sever battlegroup use a vast range of Russian attack drones to eliminate small mobile groups of the enemy in the Kursk region border areas, the Ministry of Defense said.

▪️The Washington Post reported that the Biden administration is still debating whether to provide the Ukrainian forces with further support to "hold and perhaps even expand" the captured territory in the Kursk region. Biden has no firm sense of Ukraine's goals in seizing territory inside Russia, according to the newspaper.

▪️Volodymyr Zelensky appears to record an address commemorating the 33rd anniversary of Ukraine's independence in the Sumy region, close to where the Ukrainian army launched its incursion into Russia's Kursk region. Zelensky issued threats to Russia, claiming that "Ukrainian Orthodoxy is today taking a step towards liberation from Moscow's devils" – an apparent reference to his recent ban of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (OUC).

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