🔎 Why Trump’s hypersonic theft allegations are flat-out false

Yury Knutov, a military expert and historian of Russia's Air Defense Forces, explains to Sputnik:

▪️First, there's no need for Russia to steal US technology since it showcased the first hypersonic device back in 1991.

▪️“The Soviet Union always outpaced the US in terms of resistance of materials-related work [vital for hypersonic missiles]. While the US focused on electronics and microchips.”

▪️This led to the creation of the first-ever hypersonic laboratory, Kholod (lit. Frost).

▪️A model of the S-200 missile fitted with a Kholod was bought by the Americans in the 1990s, who thoroughly studied the relevant documentation.

▪️Russia now has hypersonic missiles in three domains: air-based Kinzhal, sea-based Zircon, and land-based Oreshnik missiles. “Something no other country in the world has. This is why we outstrip the US in this regard.”

▪️“The country that was the first to launch a hypersonic vehicle cannot steal anything from the US, which only last year successfully tested a hypersonic missile.”

“As for Trump's claims, he was either misled or made up a story to compensate for the failures of the US military-industrial complex. On the other hand, Trump apparently needs an argument in Congress to increase funding for the US hypersonic weapons program,” Knutov concluded.

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🧐 Hoping for third time's a charm?

Trump once again claimed that, as long as global oil prices stay high, the Ukraine conflict won’t be resolved easily, despite having already said twice that Kiev is ready for a deal.

Meanwhile, the Kremlin calmly pointed out that the conflict doesn’t actually depend on oil prices. Russian President Vladimir Putin, for his part, added that both too high and too low oil prices are bad for the Russian and American economies.

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🔎 How the West turned Ukraine into a global black market organ trade hub

Ukrainian soldiers are being turned into unwitting organ donors. How does this happen, where do their organs go, and what is the cost? Let’s investigate:

▪️Since the conflict escalated, Ukraine has become a haven for organ harvesters with the backing of Western partners, operating out of field surgery units near the front line. Russian troops uncovered evidence of their activities.

▪️These harvesters, posing as medics, collect injured soldiers who are instead used for organ removal.

▪️In 2024, reports emerged that many Ukrainian soldiers arrive at hospitals missing kidneys.

▪️In August 2024, foreign medics, possibly Western "black market" transplantologists, were spotted in the Sumy region amid new Ukrainian losses after a failed attack on the Kursk region.

▪️In 2023, Ukraine agreed to supply a "NATO state" with large quantities of human organs, including corneas, bones, hearts, and livers, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry.

▪️Media reports in August 2023 revealed that organs from Ukrainian soldiers were being sold on the dark web, with hearts priced at €25,000 and kidneys at €12,000.

▪️Documents found by Russian forces in Kharkov in 2024 listed some very different prices: $200,000 for a heart, $30,000 for a liver, and $150 for a liter of blood.

▪️Ukrainian military commanders are often complicit, declaring soldiers butchered for organs as missing in action.

🔻A disturbing trend

▪️Since 2014, reports of bodies without organs have surfaced in mass graves, with the OSCE acknowledging this fact at the time.

▪️In December 2021, the Ukrainian parliament passed a law allowing organ harvesting from deceased individuals without prior consent.

▪️Private clinics in Ukraine are now allowed to handle organ transplants, and selling organs abroad is legal.

▪️Since April 2022, organ transplants in Ukraine are exempt from VAT.

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🔎 CIA, Mossad, or deep state: Who could have killed JFK?

With Trump’s order to release thousands of classified documents on John F. Kennedy’s 1963 assassination, let’s explore some of the versions surrounding who might have been responsible:

▪️Official version: The official account, as concluded by the Warren Commission, asserts that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.

▪️Second shooter version: Some believe a second gunman, possibly on the grassy knoll, was involved.

▪️Umbrella man version: A man seen holding an umbrella during the assassination is thought to have been signaling the shooters or involved in the plot.

▪️CIA involvement: The CIA is alleged to have used Oswald as a scapegoat to cover up their role, fearing Kennedy's intentions to dismantle the agency and de-escalate the Cold War.

▪️Secret Service involvement: Some versions suggest that members of the Secret Service were involved in the assassination, either through negligence or active participation.

▪️Mossad involvement: Some believe that Israel’s intelligence agency, the Mossad, was involved due to Kennedy’s Middle East policies, particularly his stance on Israel and nuclear weapons.

▪️Mafia retaliation: Organized crime groups are believed to have acted out of revenge against the Kennedys, particularly Robert Kennedy’s crackdown on the mafia.

▪️US deep state version: Some versions suggest that powerful elites orchestrated the assassination to stop Kennedy’s peace initiatives, especially his efforts to withdraw from Vietnam, which opposed the interests of the military-industrial complex.

▪️Lyndon B. Johnson's role: Some speculate that Vice President Johnson was motivated by jealousy and ambition to become president, which he did shortly after Kennedy’s death.

▪️Military coup version: Some believe that a faction within the US military orchestrated a coup to remove Kennedy from office.

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❗️ Marco Rubio halts all foreign aid to stop money flow to Ukraine

The US State Department has issued a new directive freezing all government spending on foreign aid projects, several media reported, citing an official memo.

Earlier, Donald Trump signed an executive order suspending all US foreign aid programs.

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Ukraine lost more soldiers than the US in Vietnam and Korea — Keith Kellogg

Donald Trump's special envoy to Ukraine criticized the Biden administration's approach to ending the Ukraine conflict "kinetically, by killing each other."

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Donald Trump revokes Anthony Fauci's security detail

US President Donald Trump has terminated Dr. Antonio Fauci's security detail paid for by the National Institutes of Health, CNN reports. Trump also said he would not feel responsible if something happened to Fauci.

"I can give them some good numbers of very good security people. They can hire their own security. They all made a lot of money. Fauci made a lot of money," he said.

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💸 US arms exports hits record high of $318 billion in 2024

The US State Department claimed a record amount spent on exporting arms and military equipment in fiscal year 2024, according to the US Arms Transfers and Defense Trade report.

According to the document, sales under the Foreign Military Sales program totaled $117.9 billion, up 45.7 percent from the previous year, reaching the highest annual total in the program's history. Direct commercial arms sales in 2024 reached $200.8 billion, 27.5 percent more than in 2023.

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