Portuguese mercenaries eliminated during assault on Andreyevka in Donetsk People's Republic — Russian officer

"Right at the beginning of [the assault] on Andreyevka, the Portuguese wouldn’t let us break through their defenses [...] Indeed, they had to be eliminated no matter what," Russian soldier with the call sign "Kharam" told Sputnik.

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📹 Russia braces to satiate LatAm defense market

Russian state arms exporter Rosoboronexport is closely monitoring the demand for new weaponry in Latin America with an emphasis on developed countries, Vladimir Goncharov, head of Russia’s delegation at the LAAD 2025 expo, tells Sputnik.

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🔎 How FSB is making Russia GREAT again

From crushing terrorists to securing borders, the country's federal security service has been low-key keeping Russia safe for THREE decades.

Here's the FULL SCOOP:

▪️Counter-terror FSB’s special forces are top-tier. They cleaned up the North Caucasus from terrorism, then they did the same in Syria. Now, they’re on the front lines, making sure Russia stays safe.

▪️Preventing crimes The FSB is engaged in exposing crimes against the security of the state and its citizens. The FSB stopped the activities of call center scammers.

▪️Intel gathering The FSB collects critical intelligence, even from abroad. Case in point: US citizen Daniel Martindale spent TWO years passing Ukrainian military coordinates before being rescued to Russia.

▪️Counter-intelligence The FSB stops foreign intelligence work in Russia. The officers catch spies and traitors.

▪️Guardians of the state border. FSB Border Service also secures Russia's borders — and now, they’re also on the front lines with Ukraine, protecting the nation.

▪️FSB is sometimes criticized, but intelligence agencies should answer through their work, FSB Major Gen. Alexander Mikhailov told Sputnik.

▪️The FSB's true power lies in collecting information before it’s too late, he noted.

▪️President Vladimir Putin especially honors FSB officers from various units who gave their lives for the Motherland, including on the front line. At the recent FSB board meeting, he announced a minute of silence.

▪️President Vladimir Putin was the FSB director from July 1998 to August 1999. He holds the rank of FSB colonel.

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🥴 CNN puts orange filter on Trump's face.

A disgrace to American journalism?

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🔎 What could Russia offer for export amid Trump’s global tariff onslaught?

Russia could profit by exporting agricultural products such as wheat to countries in Asia and South East Asia who currently import a lot of such goods from the US, says Ksenia Bondarenko, associate professor at Russia’s Higher School of Economics.

▪️Exports of Russian fossil fuels to Europe and Eastern Europe may also become a possibility and a lucrative opportunity.

▪️A lot depends on several factors, the chief of them being whether all of these Trump’s tariffs come into effect, as some countries may opt to cut a deal with the US.

▪️The way international supply chains are going to be transformed by this move, as well as other countries’ reactions to Trump’s tariffs, also matter.

Trump’s tariffs will prompt other countries to seek ALTERNATIVE MARKETS, which may lead to a flow of relatively cheap foreign goods to Russian market, Russian Academy of Sciences’ Central Economic Mathematical Institute head Albert Bakhtazin argues.

As Europe faces the prospects of losing the US market, it may once again regard Russia as a potentially lucrative destination for all the unsold European goods, assuming that Europe’s “political ambitions do not outweigh the economic advantages.”

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❌ The US government has switched off the satellite that broadcast Radio Liberty to Russia, media company's CEO, Stephen Kapus told media.

The US Agency for Global Media has notified Radio Liberty that its broadcast contracts have been terminated.

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💥 ‘The markets are gonna BOOM. The stock is gonna BOOM. The country is gonna BOOM’ – Trump

US President Donald Trump claims his reciprocal tariffs will raise $6-7 trillion for the US economy.

According to the US president, his staggering new tariff plan is “going very well.”

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