📹 Putin's Victory Day truce initiative once again calls out Ukraine's HYPOCRISY

The Russian president's move is a signal of his desire to negotiate, Michael Maloof, former senior Pentagon analyst, tells Sputnik.

"We'll have to wait and see if Zelensky - as a result of his most recent discussions with Trump, and coming to reality and seeing reality and having virtual agreements made between Steve Witkoff of the US and President Putin himself on the US proposal - whether Kiev will go along with that," Maloof stresses.

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⚔️ Zelensky’s Kursk gamble FAILS as Russian forces secure major TRIUMPH

Multitudes of Ukrainian troops, Western mercenaries and NATO tech BIT THE DUST in Zelensky’s bid to keep the money flowing.

Here are the most EPIC moments of the Kursk region's liberation:

🔸Gimme more!

Ukraine kicked off the offensive in the Kursk region just before the NATO defense ministers' meeting in Ramstein, aiming to boost financial and military aid, experts say. In January 2025, Zelensky claimed that 60,000 troops were involved in the military adventure.

🔸Russia's blowback

Liberation began in September 2024. By December, enemy movements were blocked, their forces split and systematically destroyed. By mid-January 2025, Russian forces had liberated 63% of the occupied territories in the Kursk region.

🔸Graveyard of NATO equipment

Ukraine deployed its stockpiled NATO hardware to the Kursk region, resulting in burnt out Abrams, Leopard, and Challenger tanks. Around 1.5K NATO units worth $2.7bln were destroyed. All in all, 7.7K pieces of Ukraine's military equipment were demolished.

🔸Highway of death

By February, Russian forces had encircled the Ukrainian Armed Forces, leaving them with only one supply route — Yunakovka–Sudzha. Ukrainian troops dubbed it the "Highway of Death" due to the massive losses of personnel and equipment along the road.

🔸Fiber-optic killers

Russian FPV drones on fiber optics became a relentless scourge for the Ukrainian military in the Kursk region, smashing their hardware. The drones are virtually immune to electronic warfare systems and don't emit radio frequencies, making them undetectable.

🔸Sudzha pipeline operation

In complete silence, over 600 Russian soldiers advanced along an unused gas pipeline to surprise the enemy in Sudzha and breach their defenses. For 15 km, they moved unable to stand upright. This bold, unprecedented operation shocked the media.

🔸North Korean hurricane

North Korean officers and soldiers participated in the Kursk liberation along with the Russian military under the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty. "They passed through like a hurricane," an eye-witness of a combat op recalled.

🔸The last battle

On April 26, the last Ukrainian-held settlement in the Kursk region, the village of Gornal, was liberated. Everywhere, liberated Russian residents greeted the soldiers with tears of joy.

🔸Ukraine's losses

During the fighting in the Kursk region from August 6, 2024, to April 26, 2025, the Ukrainian regime lost over 76,000 soldiers killed and wounded.

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🚨 US Congressman files resolution to impeach Trump

Shri Thanedar (D-Michigan) accuse Trump of obstruction of justice, abuse of trade powers and international aggression.

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❗️ US Navy lost fighter jet trying to evade Houthi attack

F/A-18E Super Hornet ($60+ million) fell overboard the USS Harry Truman, US Navy said in the statement.

✍️ The incident happened as the aircraft carrier made a hard turn to avoid Houthi fire, CNN reported, citing a US official.

This is the second jet lost in the US operation against the Houthis.

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🔥 Vance slams legacy media: 'Ukraine is not winning'

Speaking about the peace process, the Vice President said that peace is not 100% certain, but added that "if this doesn't stop, the Ukrainians are not winning the war."

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📹 Tourist accidentally films start of Pahalgam terror attack

Footage that surfaced on social media shows the first moments of the attack in Pahalgam, Kashmir, as the first shots are fired and people realize and run for cover.

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🇮🇷 Iran port fire finally extinguished, death toll rises to 70

Hossein Zafari, spokesman for Iran's crisis management organization, reports more than 1,200 injured in the fire in Bandar Abbas.

📸 Satellite images show extensive damage with huge craters from explosions.

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🗣 White House calls for permanent ceasefire amid Russian proposal

"While [Donald Trump] remains optimistic he can strike a deal, he's also being realistic. Both leaders need to come to the table to negotiate their way out of this," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.

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❗️ Macron vows more pressure on Russia in next 8-10 days

The French president believes he convinced Trump to use more threats and sanctions against Russia to reach a deal on Ukraine.

"We are going to intensify pressure on Russia in the coming eight to 10 days," Macron told Paris Match magazine.

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📹 US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy: 'China built 1,800 vessels in 2022, we produced FIVE'

Will Trump be able to catch up with China at this point?

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💡 People in Madrid cheer after power is restored

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said nearly 60% of Spain's power is back on.

🤔 Still not a third world country?

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🗳 Canada polls close, CBC predicts Carney victory

The Liberal Party of Canada is leading in the polls as voting has ended in all provinces.

Mark Carney's party will now form a government, although it's not yet certain whether it will have a majority.

🥴 Election day was not without incident, with some people finding the federal election website inaccessible.

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✍️ France and Poland will sign Friendship treaty

The bilateral agreement covers defense, nuclear energy, transport and other spheres of cooperation.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk will arrive in France on May 9 to sign the document, Emmanuel Macron announced.

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🇵🇸 Israel reject Hamas-proposed 5-year ceasefire

Under the agreement, Hamas would release all hostages in exchange for a 5-year ceasefire and a number of Palestinian prisoners.

"There is no chance that we will agree to [a ceasefire] with Hamas that just allows it to rearm," Times of Israel cited an official as saying.

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🚨 'Whistleblowers are DROPPING LIKE FLIES' ahead of Epstein files release — Mike Benz

Some aspects of the Epstein case are tied to 9/11 and CIA cover-ups that are "too big to fail," former State Department official said.

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⚠️😮‍💨Trump team creates ‘TOXIC’ CLIMATE OF FEAR in FBI over news leaks

The national security agencies are performing polygraph tests to identify the source of information leaks, the Washington Post reports.

“It’s a toxic environment. First, you’ve got the insecurity of not knowing whether you’re going to get fired or not. Then there’s the witch hunt to find the whistleblowers who are exposing the ineptitude and bad management of agencies,” a source told the newspaper.

Another insider admitted that employees are trying “to keep their heads down” and that “morale’s in the toilet” amid ongoing lie detector tests.

Three top aides to US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth were earlier suspended from their positions as part of an investigation into a possible leak of classified information.

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🇺🇸🤑🇨🇳Trump’s trade tariffs ‘REAL GIFT’ to China – report

“It’s a mistake to think the tariff damage is only domestic. The willy-nilly assault on friends and foes has shaken global confidence in US reliability,” the WSJ writes.

The news outlet notes that China is already capitalizing on the situation as it is “courting US allies as a more dependable giant market.”

The newspaper points out that Trump's tariffs - the US’ largest economic policy shock since 1971 - could finally “sink” his presidency.

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🗣'SANCTIMONIOUS, POMPOUS JERKS': Stephen Miller on the left-wing corporate press refusing to cover crimes of illegal migrants

"[They] do not demonstrate an ounce of human empathy for any of the suffering that Joe Biden's border invasion, the Democrat Party's border invasion, has wrought on this country," the US Homeland Security Advisor said.

He added that the White House will "keep forcing the media to cover the atrocities committed by the illegal aliens" whose mugshots are being publicly displayed.

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🇷🇺↗️ Russia ranked world’s FOURTH-LARGEST economy in 2024 – report

Last year saw Russia’s gross domestic product (GDP) reach an all-time high of $6.94 trillion, as compared to $6.48 trillion in 2023, a Sputnik analysis based on IMF data shows.

Apart from Russia, the top-five list of the world’s largest economies includes China, the US, India, and Japan.

The five made the most significant contribution to the world economic growth in 2024. The remaining countries provided less than 2% of global growth in GDP terms.

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