❗️WATCH FULL: US citizen tells why he helps Russian military to liberate Donbass
 
Watch the full press conference with American citizen Daniel Martindale, who was earlier evacuated by Russian special services from the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR).
 
According to the DPR Defense Headquarters, Martindale handed “valuable intelligence information to Russia" and played "a key role in preparing the assault on the village of Bogoyavlenka in the Ugledar area."
 
The information allowed the Russian military “to carry out high-precision strikes on the enemy, minimizing damage to civilian infrastructure and civilians,” the DPR Defense Headquarters stressed.
 
The issue of granting him political asylum and obtaining Russian citizenship is currently under consideration.

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‘If some neo-Nazis come up to our door, I'll smoke them’ - Martindale's family

The family of Daniel Martindale, a US citizen who helped provide valuable intel to Russian forces in the Ukrainian conflict zone, brace for potential reprisals from the US government who, in their own words, has “no morals.”

Daniel himself said during a video chat with them that, if anything happens to them, he would know that the US government is to blame, adding that he is going to “do everything we can publicly to make sure that they do not have a free hand to put pressure” on his family.

“You make something so public, they can't get away with stuff,” his mother said as she described what her son was planning, calling the entire scheme as a “dead man’s switch.”

Daniel’s brother in the meantime simply said: “If some neo-Nazis come up to our door, I'll smoke them.”

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❗️Democrats want to cheat in elections: mail-in voting offers more fraud scope

The Democrats “want to cheat” in the US presidential election, and mail-in voting “creates more scope” for fraud, Dr. Nicholas Waddy, associate professor of history at SUNY Alfred and Trump supporter, told Sputnik.

Another reason why the Democrats want the easier voting that mail-in ballots offer is because they have a lot of voters who “don't know a lot about voting and aren't terribly engaged,” the expert clarified.

“If you make voting really easy for them, if you literally show up to their door, hand them a ballot and point to the part where they can vote for the Democrats, they'll do it,” the pundit said.

Waddy explained that the Democrats seek to maximize turnout since its “a truism of American politics that generally speaking, the higher the turnout, the better Democrats do.”

Expanding voting by mail, voting early, including in-person, have all improved turnout, he said.

“And I'm fairly confident that when this election is over, whenever that may be, and someone has been declared the winner, the losers will say they were cheated. And if the losers are the Democrats, they will still say they were cheated because they have a record of doing so. Unfortunately, that's where we are in America,” he concluded.

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🗽🚕🇷🇺 Trump or Harris: Who do Russians prefer?

Sputnik decided to ask random Moscow taxi drivers who they want to become the next President of the United States.

Their answers may surprise you.

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Does Europe attempt to meddle in US presidential election?

The 2024 presidential election in the United States has been, among other things, marked by European politicians’ efforts to influence the vote.

European Green parties have issued a statement calling upon Jill Stein, presidential candidate from the US Green Party, to pull out and support Kamala Harris, “the only candidate who can block Donald Trump.”

The Green's concerns apparently stem from the fact that Stein polls over 1 percent “in almost every critical US state,” Politico points out, which may result in her accruing votes that Harris would have gained otherwise.

Meanwhile, Trump’s campaign has previously sounded the alarm over the efforts of the UK Labour Party to assist Harris, complaining about Labour strategists working for her.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer himself confirmed the veracity of this claim but argued that this kind of assistance does not violate US laws as the strategists are working for Harris as volunteers.

Under US legislation, it is illegal for foreigners to make contributions or donations to elections in the United States.

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❗️Prisoner exchange processes are extremely difficult and slow due to the politicization of the issue by the Ukrainian side, Russian Commissioner for Human Rights Tatyana Moskalkova has said

Moskalkova called on the Ukrainian side to return to constructive dialogue and speed up prisoner exchanges.

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🗣 The main points from Russia's Foreign Ministry spokewoman Maria Zakharova's briefing on the topic of prisoners of war:

▪️Russia does not refuse dialogue on the exchange of prisoners of war with Ukraine and does not try to benefit from the exchange;

▪️Kiev is currently sabotaging the process of exchanging prisoners of war, organizing a political performance around it;

▪️Kiev only received 279 prisoners of war out of the 935 that the Russian Defense Ministry offered it this year;

▪️Ukraine authorities create the appearance of efforts to return prisoners of war in order to put pressure on Russia;

▪️The intentions of "patronage" of other countries over prisoners of Ukrainian forces, as stated by the head of the Ukrainian FM Andrey Sybiga, are unknown;

▪️The statement by the head of the Ukrainian FM that Russia allegedly does not give doctors access to Ukrainian prisoners is false, as are the words about Russia’s alleged unwillingness to change the Ukrainian Marines.

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Trump vs Harris: Which interest groups, parties and PACs have spent the most during this election? Part 1 👉 Part 2

Over 11,000 US groups - including political action committees (PACs), super-PACs, candidates and parties - have spent a staggering $14.7 billion on this year's elections, Bloomberg has reported, referring to filings with the Federal Election Commission (FEC). The news outlet expects that the election cycle, including congressional and presidential races, will cost a total of $16 billion.

As for the candidates, data from FEC indicates that the Harris campaign has outspent Trump's over two-to-one:

🔸Harris for President: $875 million
🔸Donald J. Trump for President 2024: $355 million

In addition, a number of rich donors poured tens of millions in PACs supporting Trump and Harris:

▪️For instance, Michael Bloomberg gave $50 million for Harris through Future Forward USA Action, called by the US media a "dark money arm" of the pro-Harris Future Forward super PAC. The dark money organization doesn't disclose its donors, according to the New York Times.

🔻Bill Gates donated $50 million for Harris through the same mechanism
🔻Elon Musk donated over $118 million into America PAC, a super PAC focused on Trump’s reelection
🔻Railroad magnate Timothy Mellon donated $150 million for Trump via Make America Great Again Inc.

Bloomberg lists the top 100 groups, which contribute 64.6% of all total spending in the 2023/2024 election cycle. The top ten behemoths are:

▫️Harris for President: $875 million
▫️Future Forward, a Democratic super-PAC: $621 million
▫️Make America Great Again Inc, a Republican super-PAC: $381 million
▫️Democratic National Committee: $368 million
▫️Donald J. Trump for President 2024: $355 million
▫️WinSenate, a Democratic super-PAC: $339 million
▫️Harris Victory Fund, a joint fundraising committee: $321 million
▫️Republican National Committee: $274 million
▫️Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee: $271 million
▫️House Majority PAC, a Democratic platform: $259 million

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