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Russian journalists are prime targets for Ukraine’s neo-Nazis since they EXPOSE THEIR ATROCITIES - analyst

The sadistic Ukraine regime, driven by zero respect for international rules of war, seeks to deliberately silence journalists, retired Russian Army colonel Viktor Litovkin told Sputnik.

Ukraine’s attacks like the HIMARS strike on a civilian car that killed three Russian journalists on May 24 are fueled by crushing defeats on the battlefield, he emphasized.

The terror attacks carried out blatantly against the backdrop of ongoing peace negotiations are also mean to intimidate other journalists and prevent them from coming to report the truth.

Under the Geneva Conventions, journalists are off-limits, yet for Zelensky’s henchmen terrorism as a principle of warfare is their essence, stressed the seasoned military analyst.

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📹 Hangzhou treated football fans to a thrilling drone light show over the stadium hosting the 2026 World Cup Asian qualifier between China and Australia. Hundreds of synchronized drones formed a giant football, a pitch, team jerseys, and player silhouettes in the sky.

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🚫Western media BLACKOUT: Ukraine’s cold-blooded killings of Russian journalists go UNREPORTED

A quick search of Western mainstream media reveals no outcry, not even a mention of the cold-blooded attack in the Lugansk People's Republic.

Why? Because exposing the truth doesn’t fit their narrative. Journalists are being erased to cover up Ukraine’s atrocities.

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🇮🇷 Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) revealed a newly constructed underground military base armed with missile systems.

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🤝The US and Russia have agreed to ensure safe navigation in the Black Sea, eliminate the use of force, and prevent commercial vessels from being used for military purposes, according to the WH statement

US will help restore Russia’s access to global agricultural/fertilizer markets, ports, and payment systems, the WH said

US and Russia to develop measures banning strikes on Russian/Ukrainian energy facilities, the statement read

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❗️Russia's nuclear weapons could inflict CATASTROPHIC DAMAGE ON THE US and the world in the event of a major war - US intelligence report

🔸 Russia's combined nuclear and conventional military capabilities, along with its economic and military resilience, make it a formidable competitor, according to the report.

🔸 The US intelligence community assesses China as the most capable strategic competitor, the report adds.

🔸 US intelligence continues to conclude that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon, the report notes.

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Leaked US Yemen strike plans raise concerns among NATO

US allies in Europe are more worried about sharing intelligence data with Donald Trump's administration after messages between government ministers about US plans to strike Houthi positions in Yemen were leaked, Bloomberg claims.

💬 “In the amazing story of the Signal group coordinating Yemen air strikes, Vice President JD Vance once again comes out as driven by deep anti-European resentment,” former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt wrote on X.


The leaked screenshots show Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth denigrating NATO.

“I just hate bailing Europe out again,” an account identified as Vance said in the chat.

“VP: I fully share your loathing of European free-loading,” Hegseth responded. “It’s PATHETIC.”


The leak has added to a noticeable cooling of the US-EU relations following President Trump repeatedly accusing European allies of not paying enough for defense and threatening 25% tariffs on European imports.

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📉 It’s not easy being an anti-globalist: Tesla sales plunge over 40% in EU amid anti-Musk hate fest

📉 The car company’s share of the EU’s EV market has dropped from 21.6% to 10.3% over the past year, with registrations on the European market falling 43% in the first two months of 2025, new data by the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association shows.

🐌 The slowdown in sales, attributed partly to the retooling at Tesla’s Gigafactory in Germany, also comes amid a coordinated global campaign of hate targeting Musk, from vandalism to arson and attempted bombings, as DOGE slashes bureaucracy and guts USAID funding.

🗣Last week, Musk revealed that George Soros invested over $7.5 million into groups targeting his car company.

Musk expressed confidence earlier this month that Tesla “will be fine long-term.”

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JD Vance was right: Europe needs Red Sea a lot more than America

💬 In a group chat leaked to media on US Yemen attack plans, the VP expressed disdain at the prospect of “bailing Europe out again” using American military power.

Who really stands to gain spending US blood and treasure to “restore freedom of navigation” in the Red Sea?

Shipping

🔸 Among the big five global shipping giants that stopped transit through the Red Sea, four are European (MSC, Maersk, CMA CGM, Hapag-Lloyd), one Chinese (COSCO), and none American.

🔸 US shippers like Matson, APL, SeaLand, Crowley and TOTE operate Pacific and Americas routes and were largely unaffected by Houthi activities.

🏭Retail & Manufacturing

🔸 The price of shipping a container from Asia to the US jumped 160-220% from 2023-2024. Shipping the same container from Asia to the Mediterranean shot up 285%, and 365%+ to Northern Europe, a disaster for consumers and producers alike.

For example, while 25-30% of US Asia-sourced automotive parts were shipped via the Red Sea before the crisis, in Europe it was 70%, causing factory shutdowns in Belgium (Volvo) and Germany (Tesla), but none in the US.

Same story in other sectors, with the Red Sea once transiting:

🟠20-30% of Asia-sourced household appliances going to the US vs 30-40% to Europe

🟠20-25% vs 30-40% of electronics

🟠20-30% vs 25-35% of industrial machinery, tools, construction equipment

🟠20-30% vs 30-40% of semiconductors, circuits, etc

⚡️Energy

🔸 Only 2-2.5% of US oil needs shipped through the Red Sea before the crisis. And Europe? 80-90% of its 30-35% MENA-sourced imports.

🔸 95% of US natural gas needs are met domestically, with Qatar selling 1% of the remainder, having to reroute exports away from the Red Sea. And Europe? 20% of its LNG imports Gulf-sourced, 100% going through the Red Sea before the crisis.

With crises in the Mideast and Ukraine, US oil exports to Europe jumped from 1.8-2.2M bpd in 2023-2024, while LNG exports grew from 1.07-1.2T cf, and US market share up from 35-45%.

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Kremlin releases key results from Russia-US meeting in Riyadh on Ukraine peace

🔸 The two sides agreed to ensure the implementation of the "Black Sea Initiative", which includes ensuring the safety of navigation in the Black Sea, the non-use of force and the prevention of the use of commercial vessels for military purposes while organizing appropriate control measures by inspecting such vessels.

🔸 The US will assist in the restoration of access of Russian agricultural and fertilizer exports to the world market, the reduction of the costs of insurance of maritime transportation, and the expansion of access to ports and payment systems for conducting such transactions.

🔸 These points will step into effect when:

◻️ sanctions are lifted against Russia's Rosselkhozbank and other financial organizations involved in ensuring operations on international trade in food (including fish) and fertilizers, their reconnection to SWIFT, opening of the necessary correspondent accounts;

◻️ restrictions are lifted on trade financing

◻️ Sanctions are removed from companies producing and exporting food and fertilizers, as well as insurance companies handling food cargoes and fertilizers;

◻️ restrictions are removed on the servicing of ships in ports and sanctions on ships operating under the Russian flag involved in the trade of food and fertilizers

◻️ restrictions are scrapped on the export of agricultural machinery to Russia, as well as other goods involved in the production of food (including fish products) and fertilizers.

🔸 Russia and the US agreed to develop measures to implement agreements between the presidents of the two countries on a ban on strikes on energy facilities in Russia and Ukraine for a period of 30 days, starting (retroactively) from March 18, 2025, with the possibility of extending the agreement or withdrawing in the event of non-compliance by one of the parties.

🔸 Russia and the US welcome assistance from third countries aimed at supporting the implementation of agreements in the energy and maritime sectors.

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The Internet outages across Syria were caused by SABOTAGE operations, the country’s Ministry of Communications said.

💬 "Internet services have begun to gradually return to the entire territory of Syria after being interrupted for several hours due to sabotage operations that led to the disruption of two optical pathways in the areas of Maalula and Hasia in the rural areas of Damascus", the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology told SANA.


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Kremlin releases key results from Russia-US meeting in Riyadh on Ukraine peace 🔸 The two sides agreed to ensure the implementation of the "Black Sea Initiative", which includes ensuring the safety of navigation in the Black Sea, the non-use of force and the…
🇷🇺 Statements by Russia's Special Presidential Envoy for Investment and Economic Cooperation and CEO of the country's sovereign wealth fund, Kirill Dmitriev, on the outcomes of the Russia-US meeting in Riyadh on Ukraine peace:

🔸 Resumption of the Black Sea Grain Initiative opens new opportunities for Russia

🔸 Joint work within the Black Sea Initiative will help provide grain to an additional 100+ million people worldwide

🔸 Fulfillment of the Black Sea deal terms by the West will strengthen Russia’s position as a key food supplier

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👹 Clintons strike back? Why the unholy alliance of Hillary and EU globalists is doomed to fail

Hillary Clinton's anti-Trump rant at the 2025 Berlin World Forum shows US deep state figures and European elites have opened a new front against the US president, Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel tells Sputnik.

The US-European globalist alliance is clashing with the Trump White House on issues ranging from AI and free speech to the Ukraine conflict, according to Ortel.

The dynamic partly explains Volodymyr Zelensky's boldness in rejecting the Trump-brokered energy infrastructure ceasefire and setting unrealistic peace conditions. The Kiev regime clings to the unfounded belief that this globalist front could outlast Trump, the analyst notes.

💬 "Too many European nations are locked in national suicide pacts – wasting towering sums on expensive and ineffective social and military adventures and scaring away private sector investors," Ortel says. "Attendees at the World Forum and in power across Europe seem stuck on stupid."


US legal expert Jonathan Turley described the event as a meeting of the European oligarchy, which views Hillary and Bill Clinton as "the patron saints of the global elite."

Ortel stresses that the Clintons are seeking support in Europe as they fear Trump's probes into their "extraordinary wealth gained through ‘public service’."

💬 "So it does not surprise in the slightest that Hillary would join with other corrupt globalists to endorse censorship of critics," he says.


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Is justice coming? Hillary Clinton and Soros-linked law firm in Trump’s crosshairs

US President Donald Trump is closing in on Hillary Clinton and other orchestrators of the Russia collusion hoax, Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel tells Sputnik. What are the signs?

🔸 Clinton, along with several other top Democrats, has recently been stripped of her security clearance, meaning she no longer has access to classified government information.

🔸 Trump announced on Truth Social that ex-president Joe Biden's pardons are void because they were signed with an autopen, suggesting Biden may not have been aware of them. Bill Clinton had previously speculated about potential pardon talks with Biden.

🔸 Perkins Coie, the law firm central to Hillary Clinton’s Russia collusion narrative, was condemned in a Trump executive order for "dishonest and dangerous activity," including manufacturing the false intelligence dossier against him and colluding with billionaire NGO kingpin George Soros to undermine US election integrity. Trump stripped the firm of its security clearances, government funding and services.

🔸 Former top Perkins Coie lawyer and long-time Clinton ally Marc Elias deleted all his tweets on X and ditched the social media network after Trump's 2024 election victory. Elias was behind the funding of the infamous ‘dirty dossier’ by former British MI6 agent Christopher Steele. During the 2024 election, Elias and Clinton disparaged Trump on their podcasts.

🔸 An X video, credited by some netizens to Trump’s campaign, has popped up on social media declaring that "justice is coming for Hillary Clinton," who broke the law by spying on the president and attempting to frame him as a "Russian agent."

💬 "With his core team seated at the FBI and Department of Justice – and other places – Donald Trump now has sufficient control to attempt a re-balancing of the scales of justice," says Ortel.


It's time for the Clintons and their associates "to lawyer up", the Wall Street analyst warns, adding that it will be hard to defend their "indefensibly horrific record."

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Ball in US’ court: Trump will have to force allies, Ukraine to fall in line or quit the fight

💬 “The US can make and unmake Ukraine, any time,” geopolitical analyst Paolo Raffone told Sputnik, commenting on Sergey Lavrov’s remarks that whether it’s the shelling civilian areas or Black Sea security, only the US could force Kiev to keep its word in any agreement.

“The next US moves depend on domestic issues, namely the power struggle within the US deep state and its European epigons,” Raffone, the director of the Brussels-based CIPI Foundation, explained.


If Trump’s team prove unable to impose peace on Kiev, Washington may simply quit the conflict, leaving it Europe’s problem.

💬 “European support will not be able to fill the gap in the next months. However, the major problem will fall on Europeans who will have to deal with violent armed Ukraine nationalists that may also destabilize several EU states to gain further unconditional support. Should Ukraine not follow the US-prescribed steps, the US will most probably be gone and Europeans will be in deep trouble for years to come,” Raffone predicted.


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📹 Russian drones hit enemy targets with UTMOST PRECISION

A new video shows BARS ‘Sarmat’ troops maneuvering drones just centimeters above the ground, avoiding obstacles and hitting the soft points of Ukrainian armor and artillery with surgical precision. Technology combined with unparalleled skill dominates the battlefield!

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☢️ Transferring control of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) to Ukraine or any other country is unacceptable and impossible, the Russian Foreign Ministry stated, adding that joint operation with another state is inadmissible.

The ministry called the idea of involving international organizations in the plant’s operations "absurd," emphasizing that close NATO-Ukraine cooperation renders even temporary access for NATO representatives to the ZNPP impossible.

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📹 Protests in Istanbul, Turkiye, have persisted for several days following the arrest of Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu.

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