🚨 NATO and the EU have launched programs aimed at preparing the collective West for a DIRECT MILITARY CONFLICT with Russia, Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu said.

"These aggressive steps, as well as NATO's continuing advance to the east, to Russia's borders, are justified by Russophobic fabrications in the best traditions of Goebbels' propaganda," Shoigu added.

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❗️ Pentagon slashes number of general officers

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has called for a 20% reduction in general officers in the Army and Air National Guard.

"My noscript is 'Less generals, more GIs'.... More generals and admirals does not equal more success."

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🔥 Want Ukraine in the EU? Get ready for MAFIA and UNEMPLOYMENT, says Szijjarto

"On the one hand, tens or even hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian workers would flood the Hungarian labor market, depriving tens or hundreds of thousands of Hungarians of employment. And the Ukrainian mafia, the infamous Ukrainian mafia, could use Hungary as a gateway," Hungarian Foreign Minister told journalists.

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🇰🇷🪖🇨🇦South Korea pitches GIANT deal to arm Canada

The program aims to provide Canada with submarines, artillery and armored vehicles, CBC reported.

▪️ Shipbuilders Hanwha Ocean and Hyundai Heavy Industries have prepared a joint plan worth $14.4-17.3 billion to build four KSS-III class submarines by 2035.

▪️ Hanwha Aerospace will supply the Canadian army with self-propelled howitzers, rocket artillery similar to HIMARS, and a large batch of armored vehicles, potentially exceeding $700 million.

Guess Canada-US military bromance went sour🤔

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ISRAEL’S CHILLING ULTIMATUM: Occupy & raze Gaza if no deal by Trump’s visit

Israeli officials have announced that President Trump's upcoming visit to the Middle East next week will serve as the deadline for securing a new hostage and ceasefire agreement, with a major ground operation planned if no deal is made, Axios reports.

Earlier, the Israeli plan Gideon's Chariots designed to "completely defeating Hamas" has been approved. According to it, the IDF would invade Gaza with four or five armored and infantry divisions and gradually occupy and hold most of the strip.

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🇮🇳💥India’s navy nails it!

Armed Forces ace trials of homegrown multi-role underwater sea mine, boosting maritime might.

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📊Trump’s trade tariffs hit global markets HARDER than 2008 crisis

The levies caused a "collapse of financial markets” that also exceeded the speed of economic decline during the 2020 crisis, a study by Russia’s Roscongress Foundation and obtained by Sputnik reveals.

The global economic implications from the Trump tariffs were even more serious than from:

◻️The 2011 US rating downgrade.
◻️The 2008 Lehman Brothers bankruptcy.
◻️The 9/11 terrorist attacks.

The Russian economy stayed afloat following the Trump tariffs thanks to the specific structure of its foreign trade, the research underlined.

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🚨 BREAKING: Foreign Business Activity in Russia SURGES Past Pre-Sanction Levels! 🇷🇺📈

VTB reports a MAJOR rebound, with companies from China, Belarus, and even NEW players (like UAE firms) rushing in!

🔥 Top Sectors:
- Electronics 🖥📱
- Wholesale & Retail 🛒
- Cosmetics & Pharma 💄💊

Key Takeaway: Despite sanctions, Russia’s market is HOT—new entrants are seizing the opportunity!

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❗️Merz defeated in first round of Federal Chancellor Elections

Members of the German Bundestag didn't elect CDU leader Friedrich Merz as the 10th German Chancellor in the first round of voting.

👉He received 310 votes, while 316 were needed for victory.

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🚗📉 EU’s OWN policies TORCH its auto industry

This is the ONLY major global market that hasn't returned to its pre-COVID levels, remaining in decline for five years now, Stelantis Chairman John Elkann pointed out, according to Le Figaro.

Here is why:

🕜Excessive regulations: Renault CEO Luca de Meo cautioned that the European automotive market “could be more than halved within a decade” if the EU fails to simplify and reduce the number of regulations.

2️⃣Green agenda kills the industry: Elkann and de Meo attributed a significant rise in prices for cars to tightening environmental standards and shifting to EVs. Fines for exceeding emission limits make the production of regular cars unprofitable.

🕣Uncompetitiveness: China could overrun the EU and the US in terms of manufacturing cars by the end of 2025, and “Europe risks losing its status as the center of the auto industry,” automakers warn.

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📹🇾🇪 Four killed and 39 wounded in US-Israeli airstrikes on the Hodeidah province yesterday, Yemen's Ministry of Health in the "Ansar Allah" government reports.

Video showing damage at the cement factory in Bajel, western Yemen.

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

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❗️Putin's initiative for a truce during the Victory Day is relevant, and the relevant instructions have been given, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.

But if the Ukrainian Armed Forces try to strike at the positions of the Russian military, an adequate response will be given immediately, he stressed.

More statements by Peskov:

▪️Putin is preparing for a marathon of bilateral meetings and negotiations that will take place over the next four days.

▪️A reception is planned in the Kremlin in honor of the heads of foreign delegations and honored guests on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the victory.

▪️Russia is closely monitoring the international situation; excessively high or low oil prices have a detrimental effect on the global economy.

▪️The Kiev regime continues to demonstrate its position focused on continuing the war, trying to strike at civilian infrastructure facilities.

▪️The work of Russian air defenses is effective.

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🇷🇺📞🇮🇷 Putin has held a telephone conversation with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian — Kremlin

Putin expressed his sincere condolences over the deaths in the Shahid Rajaee port blast

The presidents have discussed progress of Oman-mediated Iran-Us talks on Iranian nuclear program

The Iranian president warmly congratulated Putin and all Russian citizens on the 80th anniversary of victory in WWII.

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📹 T-90M Proryv, 'world’s best tank,' GETS KILLER UPGRADE to crush Ukraine in battle

Over 200 upgrades have been made to tanks, boosting their power, protection, and mobility, according to Russia’s arms manufacturer Uralvagonzavod.

New batches of T-90M and Т-72Б3М were delivered to Russian troops on the eve of Victory Day.

The upgrade includes:

🔻electronic warfare systems to suppress enemy UAVs.
🔻special nets to tackle enemy first-person view drones.
🔻rubber-reinforced protection installed on the rear of the turret and the engine-transmission compartment.

Putin earlier touted the T-90M Proryv as “the best tank in the world.”
He stressed that the mere appearance of such a tank on the battlefield can drive the enemy out of action.

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📹 The American roots of German Nazism, Part 11: How Hitler drew parallels between Nazi expansion and US practices

"The Volga [river] will be our Mississippi," Adolf Hitler claimed, justifying the need to conquer Soviet territories.

In his rhetoric, the Nazi leader drew comparisons between the borders of what he saw as two worlds: the civilized and the wild. "We have only one task: to achieve Germanization through the settlement of Germans, and with the indigenous people, we will treat them like the Indians," explained the Führer.

In this video of Sputnik's exclusive series, historian Yegor Yakovlev, who studies the rise and evolution of Nazism, explains how Hitler himself justified parallels between Nazi Germany's bloody plans and those already carried out by the US.

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📹 ‘Merz should RESIGN IMMEDIATELY’ – AfD co-chair Weidel

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