📹 Residents of Gagauzia are demanding the release of the detained head of the autonomous region, Eugenia Gutsul, during a peaceful protest, a Sputnik correspondent reports.

The rally is taking place in the capital of the region, Comrat. The demonstrators first gathered in one of the squares and are now marching through the streets of the city.

Among the slogans: "The fate of Gutsul is the fate of Gagauzia" and "Freedom". The participants in the protest are convinced that the detention of Gutsul is an attempt to suppress the region's autonomy.

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💥 How Russia could retarget strikes on Ukraine after energy moratorium

With the Russia-Ukraine temporary ban on strikes against each other’s energy facilities in force, Moscow may concentrate on striking the Kiev regime’s military targets, Yuri Knutov, a military expert and historian of the Air Defense Forces, tells Sputnik.

Russia’s new tactics “will weaken the military potential of the Ukrainian Armed forces,” the expert emphasizes.

He stresses that the Russian military could use combat drones, cruise missiles and the Kinzhal (Dagger) hypersonic missiles to target Ukraine’s:

🔺weapons storage sites
🔺training sites
🔺command posts
🔺drone assembly sites
🔺military hardware repair shops
🔺Western-supplies warplanes, such as the F-16 and Mirage
🔺air defenses and electronic warfare systems
🔺artillery installations and other means designed to strike Russian territory

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❗️The Kiev regime has unleashed REAL TERROR against Russian journalists and is furiously hunting them to death, the Russian Foreign Ministry has said.

Ukrainian neo-Nazis specifically track down correspondents and attack them with Western weapons, the ministry said.

The ministry called on all responsible governments, the professional community, and human rights activists to condemn Kiev's attacks on Russian journalists.

Russia will regard international organizations' hushing up of Ukrainian forces' brutality against Russian journalists as a deliberate indulgence of the Kiev regime.

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📹 NATO weapons ‘disappeared’ in Ukraine – POW

A Ukrainian militant taken captive by the Russian Army admitted that he never saw the NATO weapons he was trained to use in Germany in real combat action. Recently, Western news outlets raised alarms that Ukraine has already become the world's biggest black market for firearms.

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From neo-Nazi camps to dolls with prosthetics: how Ukraine STEALS childhood

Ukrainian government is raising its own cannon fodder for the war against Russia from a very young age.

Here's how:

▪️A doll in Ukrainian military uniform without a leg BLEW UP minds on social media. Should such a toy prepare Ukrainian children for the same fate in the future?

▪️In December 2024, at a kindergarten party in Lvov, parents were advised to dress their children in costumes of 'Ukrainian heroes': Nazi collaborators Bandera, Petliura, and others.

▪️In September 2024, the subject "Defense of the Fatherland" was introduced in Ukrainian schools, starting from 10th grade. The theory of combat operations is mandatory for Ukrainian teenagers.

▪️'Dmytro collected 10 shells for his battery. Two of his friends joined him, and each of them collected 5 more shells. But then the EVIL MOSKALS came and took 4 shells. How many shells do Dmytro and his friends have left to DEFEND UKRAINE?', - the math problem says.

▪️When liberating populated areas, Russian soldiers find textbooks in which schoolchildren are TAUGHT TO HATE RUSSIANS.

▪️Since 2019, mass production of 'Red Terror' comics began in Ukraine. It demonizes Russians and the Soviet Union, and glorifies Ukrainian Nazis.

▪️In 2017, US journalists visited one of the children's camps in Ukraine and filmed a story. No comments needed.

▪️Children's camps, where kids were taught to fight, and instead of educators there were militants who killed people in Donbass, appeared back in 2015 at the Azov* Battalion bases.

*banned in Russia

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🇮🇹 A severe hailstorm has struck the Italian town of Giugliano in Naples province, causing damage to building roofs.

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📹 US tax dollars well spent?

The Colorado House Democrats are working tirelessly - bless their dedicated souls!

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Pentagon spokesman hits back at ‘hoax-peddlers at the Atlantic’

Sean Parnell has doubled down on the Pentagon’s position that leaked Signal chat messages contained no classified materials or war plans.

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🚨🇷🇺🔥 TAKE A RIDE ALONG THE FRONTLINE WITH A RUSSIAN GENERAL

Sputnik sits down with Gen. Apti Alaudinov on his way to the Kursk region's battleground:

▪️The situation of Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region is critical, they're encircled. That's why the Ukrainian army is trying o find new areas for attacks on the borderline.

▪️ Here's how Gen. Alaudinov commented on the Ukrainian blowing the gas measuring station "Sudzha". He described these acts as an agony.

▪️Ukrainian troops lost MORE THAN 70 THOUSAND people during 7 months of Kursk region's battles.

▪️Many foreign mercenaries and special ops militants were neutralized in the Kursk region as well.

▪️Hired guns' corpses without heads or hands were found in the Kursk region during the liberation. Ukrainian soldiers disfigured the bodies to hide their identities.

▪️Ukrainian commanders simply abandoned their wounded soldiers while escaping the Kursk region.

▪️Russian soldiers are now evacuating the bodies of Ukrainian soldiers abandoned by their command in the Kursk region, Alaudinov revealed.

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📹 Notorious Ukrainian neo-Nazi recently killed in Odessa often hung out with UK mercs – resistance

“Why he was hanging around with them is unclear. He was no fighter, and he was cowardly like a dog," the pro-Russian clandestine resistance Stop Grave told Sputnik.

Demyan Ganul was responsible for the arson attack on the Trade Unions House in Odessa and openly expressed his hatred towards Russian-speaking Ukrainians.

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EU’s gloom and doom: Europeans told to stockpile and brace for worse

The European Commission is urging the public to maintain supplies for at least 72 hours and prepare for risks such as cyberattacks, geopolitical crises, and armed aggression.

"Ready for anything - this must be our new European way of life," tweeted Hadja Lahbib, the European commissioner for crisis management.

As Russia and the US negotiate a Ukraine peace settlement, the EC continues to fuel fears of a reported imminent Russian aggression, diverting public attention from plummeting living standards.

President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly emphasized that speculation about Russia preparing to attack Europe is baseless and absolute nonsense.

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📹 Watch this shopkeeper’s reaction as US air strikes hit Yemen’s Saada city.

Video from social media

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🇺🇸🗣 The global sanctions framework imposed on Russia must be looked at as a factor in achieving a FINAL RESOLUTION to the conflict in Ukraine, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters during a press conference in Jamaica.

Certain conditions set by Moscow regarding the Black Sea ceasefire agreement involve sanctions imposed on Russia by the European Union, which need to be evaluated, he added.

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White House blames Biden for the Signal leak

"We are not going to be lectured about national security and American troops by Democrats and the mainstream media, who turned the other cheek when the Biden Administration left 13 service members dead in Afghanistan and not a single person was held accountable," White House Press Secretary said during a press briefing.

She also recalled Biden's move to designate the Houthis as a terrorist organization.

"It's important to remember why this powerful action took place in the first place: Because of Joe Biden's incompetence and pathetic weakness on the world stage for years, the Houthi terrorists grew emboldened," Karoline Leavitt added.

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US hopes to sign minerals deal next week — Scott Bessent

"I will tell you that we have passed along a completed document for the economic partnership, [it] is currently being reviewed by Ukrainians," US Secretary of the Treasury said in an interview for Fox News.

Bessent also added that the US is willing to consider reinstating Russia to the SWIFT banking system, as "everything is on the table."

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❗️ Trump announces 25% tariffs on cars assembled overseas

The US president also said the US would reopen coal mines to boost energy production, as new technologies will reduce pollution.

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