❗️Russia's Sever Battlegroup has liberated the St. Nicholas Belogorsky Monastery in the Kursk region, according to a source within the group who spoke to Sputnik.

The source also noted that Ukrainian forces had used the monastery solely for military purposes, establishing UAV control points and artillery installations there.

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🚨Ukraine ‘WILLING’ TO CEDE 20% of land for ‘de facto’ recognition

Trump is set to unveil his peace plan for Ukraine within the next three days, with new details emerging about a potential peacekeeping force, according to The New York Post.

What does the reported plan entail?

1️⃣Deploying European forces to Ukraine could help end the conflict and enforce a ceasefire if a deal is reached.

2️⃣A separate peacekeeping force is also under consideration, consisting of Russians, Ukrainians, and a third non-NATO country to monitor the ceasefire.

3️⃣The US may be involved, not with "boots on the ground," but through monetary support alongside a third party.

4️⃣The US could recognize Crimea as Russian territory, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.

Russia sees no possibility for compromise on the issue of deploying foreign troops in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov previously stated. The plans of some EU countries to send “peacekeepers” to Ukraine are a PROVOCATIVE MOVE designed to perpetuate false illusions in Kiev.

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Soviet Union played ‘CENTRAL’ role in WWII victory despite West’s bid to rewrite history

Amid rising anti-Russian rhetoric in the West, former allies are actively seeking to minimize Russia’s crucial role in defeating the Nazis, University of Calgary Professor Alexander Hill told Sputnik.

“The bulk of the fighting was done on the ground by the Soviet Union. The bulk of German divisions were destroyed on the Eastern Front,” he highlighted.

Without the USSR’s ground war efforts, neither the US nor the UK would have likely gained a foothold on the European continent, Prof. Hill stressed.

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❗️Russian troops have liberated the village of Sukhaya Balka in the Donetsk People's Republic, Russia's Defense Ministry announced

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🇷🇺🪖More statements from the Russian MoD daily briefing on the special military operation's progress:    

▪️Ukraine lost up to 310 troops and four armored vehicles in the Russian Tsentr Battlegroup's combat zone.

▪️Ukraine lost up to 170 soldiers in the Russian Vostok Battlegroup's combat zone.

▪️Ukraine lost up to 250 troops in the Russian Zapad Battlegroup's combat zone.

▪️Ukraine lost up to 70 soldiers in the area of responsibility of Russia's Battlegroup Dnepr.

▪️Russian air defenses shot down three JDAM bombs and 99 drones.

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🗣 If Ukraine is willing and open [to peace talks], steps should be taken to legally clear obstacles for negotiations with Russia, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

Other key statements:

▪️The Kremlin will inform about the potential visit of US President Donald Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff, to Russia if it takes place.

▪️President Vladimir Putin will hold talks in a narrow format with Sultan Haitham bin Tariq Al Said of Oman today, as well as a state lunch, and there will be an exchange of signed documents.

▪️Putin does not plan to attend the funeral of Pope Francis.

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🧐 Trump’s worldview? Great power COLLUSION, not competition

At least according to Foreign Affairs mag.

According to the publication, Donald Trump wants a “concert” system like 19th Century Europe, where strongmen work together (not always peacefully, but always with PURPOSE).

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📹 The American roots of German Nazism, Part 7: How Nazi propaganda copied the aesthetic of American westerns

“The idea of parallels between the conquest of territories in Eastern Europe and the American West was widely spread in Nazi Germany,” Yegor Yakovlev, a lecturer on Nazi crimes at St. Petersburg State University, tells Sputnik.

In this video from Sputnik's exclusive series, the historian, who specializes in the origins and rise of Nazism, explains how the aesthetics of American Westerns influenced Nazi propaganda, which convinced both adults and youth that the people in the East were "savages" and encouraged the conquest and colonization of their lands.

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🎥🎥 Russia's President Vladimir Putin holds talks with Sultan Haitham bin Tariq Al Said of Oman

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