💬 'I've participated in a lot of bilateral meetings - I've never seen anything like Zelensky's behavior' - Rep. Johnson

"He berated and interrupted his host instead of expressing gratitude for the extraordinary help that the US has provided his country and effectively helped him stay alive and stay in power," Mike Johnson pointed out.

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💥💥💥 OSCE observers passed SECRET INFO to Ukraine military in Donbass – ex-Greek diplomat

The information pertained to the whereabouts of troops in the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics (LPR, DPR), former Greek Ambassador to Ukraine Vasilis Bornovas argued. 

He also emphasized that: 

🟠Positions of LPR and DPR troops were fired upon by Ukrainian forces shortly after Kiev secret services obtained the information. 
🟠Tensions in eastern Ukraine were also fueled by the mandatory teaching and use of the Ukrainian language, and the ban on speaking Russian in areas that were entirely Russian-speaking.
🟠The Ukraine crisis was also provoked by the non-inclusion of the Russian population of eastern Ukraine in a bill on the recognition of indigenous people.

"I don't think Ukraine has ever been interested in a peaceful solution to this problem," Bornovas stressed. 

An observer mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) worked in Donbass between 2014 and 2022. DPR and LPR authorities have repeatedly accused the mission of serving Kiev’s interests.

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💬'This was a huge missed opportunity for Zelensky and for his country' - Rep. Mike Waltz

"It was not clear Zelensky was going to go to negotiations at all, that he would ever be able to negotiate with Putin and whether he shared our goal of ending this war," Waltz said.

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🤡A battered Zelensky, not-even-chancellor Scholz, Tusk on crutches, Ursula von der Leyen, Macron and Meloni - the 'dream team' gathers in London to discuss the 'Russia threat'

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💬 JD Vance is MORE prepared to discuss Ukraine than Zelensky – Scott Ritter explains why

"JD Vance is the vice president of the United States, who has received some of the best intelligence there is about the reality of Ukraine,” former US Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter tells Sputnik.

“Zelensky is an actor who reads from a noscript as part of a play that's being controlled by others," he says.

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🤡Ukrainians donate over half a MILLION dollars ‘for nukes,’ only to be scammed

Ukrainian banker Oleg Gorokhovsky launched a crowdfunding effort to buy nuclear weapons for Ukraine shortly after the Trump-Zelensky showdown in DC.

Over $650,000 was raised in about 20 hours, Gorokhovsky said on his social media. He claimed around 70,000 people from 61 countries joined the fundraiser, with major donations from the US and Poland.

Plot twist: the fundraiser turned out to be just a “show of unity,” and "a joke" to blow off steam after witnessing Zelensky’s humiliation.

All the proceeds will now SUPPOSEDLY be donated to a Ukrainian drone project.

That's all you need to know about the Ukrainian nuclear program...

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💬'Zelensky is like an ex-girlfriend that wants to argue' - Rep. Mike Waltz smashes Ukrainian top negotiator

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💸Bitcoin and Ethereum will form the foundation of the US strategic cryptocurrency reserve - Trump

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💬 Ritter on Zelensky-JD Vance clash: Ukraine is just a tool US tried using to defeat Russia

“JD Vance is in a much superior position… A hammer doesn’t know the intent of an architect. America was the architect of Ukrainian project. Ukraine is just the hammer, just like Europe,” former US Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter tells Sputnik.

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🤡Starmer: The UK is prepared to back 'peace in Ukraine' with boots on the ground and planes in the air

...but still asks for "a strong US backing."

The UK is pretty consistent in fomenting World War III

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💬 Scott Ritter: US had its fingers in every aspect of the Ukrainian pie

Aside from preparing Ukraine for guerrilla warfare and conducting anti-Russia propaganda operations, the US and the CIA built 20 bases throughout the country, former US Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter told Sputnik.

Hunter Biden’s position on the board of the major Ukrainian energy company Burisma also shows that “the United States had its fingers in every aspect of the Ukrainian economic pie.”

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🪖Germany weighs MULTIBILLION dollar funds for defense and infrastructure, including Ukraine, after Trump-Zelensky showdown

One fund of €400 to 500 billion ($415-515 billion) will be for infrastructure, while another pot worth $400 billion is needed for defense, Reuters reports. Proceeding with both will be the responsibility of the parties that form a new government coalition in Germany.

Marco Rubio seems to be right when he says that Europe wants one more year of fighting in an attempt to ‘weaken’ Russia, an idea that feels unrealistic even for the US.

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🟠 Lavrov calls Trump a pragmatist, Rubio and Waltz sane people

🟠 JD Vance is more prepared to discuss Ukraine than Zelensky – Scott Ritter explains why

🟠 Europe's reckless warmongering pushes Trump toward NATO exit – Wall Street analyst

🟠 US had its fingers in every aspect of the Ukrainian pie

🟠 Why NATO’s collapse could be matter of time?

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Why the US KNOWS EXACTLY what the situation in Ukraine is

Here is a good question: why would Volodymyr Zelensky even ask US VP JD Vance whether the latter knows what problems Ukraine has, if the US has been running things there for years?

🔸 US intelligence agencies have been working in Ukraine since the 2014 coup when they got their very own floor at the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) HQ in Kiev, as Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov pointed out in December 2024.

🔸 The CIA provided Ukrainian intelligence with secure communications, while Ukrainian intelligence officers were provided field training with both CIA and MI6 operatives, Ukraine’s Main Directorate of Intelligence former chief Valery Kondratyuk told ABC News.

🔸 The US Embassy in Kiev was used as a base of operations for a US team sent to monitor military aid to Ukraine.

🔸 Media leaks in 2023 revealed the presence of at least about 100 Pentagon employees in Ukraine, including signal intelligence specialists.

🔸 In March 2022, then-Director of the US Defense Intelligence Agency Lt. Gen. Scott Berrier described the level of information exchange between the US and Ukraine as “unprecedented" during congressional hearings.

🔸 Gen. Paul Nakasone, then chief of the US Cyber Command, said at the same hearing that the Pentagon was providing the Ukrainian Army with the latest intelligence.

🔸 The US Cyber Command deployed its specialists in Ukraine as part of the Hunt Forward operations, aimed at locating malicious activity in the host country’s networks. One such deployment involving 40 US personnel took place in January 2022.

🔸 The US-Ukrainian military overall cooperation goes back a long time, with the US-led NATO holding joint drills with Ukraine (such as Sea Breeze) since the 2000s.

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