🎙AI-powered reporting: Sputnik correspondent covers Victory Day parade in multiple languages

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🚀🇷🇺 COSMIC TRIBUTE: Russian cosmonauts unfurl victory banner in space

Just before, they also celebrated the 80th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War, sharing their heartfelt congratulations with everyone.

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🇮🇱🕵🏻‍♂️Israeli spyware-maker ordered to PAY BIG in WhatsApp hacking lawsuit

✔️A US federal jury has slammed Israeli spyware firm NSO Group with $167 million in punitive damages—plus $440,000 more in compensatory costs—for hacking WhatsApp users through its notorious Pegasus tool.

Meta*, WhatsApp’s parent company, filed the lawsuit in 2019 after discovering NSO had deployed its spyware to hijack user devices in 20 countries.

➡️A judge had already ruled in December that NSO was liable for hacking and breaching WhatsApp’s terms of service.
NSO’s “zero-click” spyware, which doesn’t need the target to click on a link or open a message, was central to the trial.

➡️The US banned American companies from buying the infamous Israeli spyware package Pegasus after it was revealed that it was being abused around the globe by governments intent on spying on journalists, activists, and political dissidents.

* Banned in Russia for extremism.

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🤡 Moldovan history textbook insults Soviet soldiers who liberated Berlin

The authors of the textbook also failed to mention the Moldovans who fought alongside Soviet troops.

✅ It emphasizes the "fierce resistance" from the Germans and dwells on the horrors experienced by Berlin's residents.

However, it overlooks the suffering inflicted on Soviet citizens, such as the Siege of Leningrad, which is not even mentioned.

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🚨 Explosions rock Samba as India intercepts Pakistani drones

Blasts are heard in Jammu as Indian air defenses open fire, a local correspondent in the Jammu and Kashmir region reports.

Complete blackout is in force in the city, with sirens blaring throughout the region.

Tensions rise as security forces respond to the threat.

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❗️Houthis target Israeli Ben Gurion airport

Ansar Allah movement (Houthis) launched a hypersonic missile at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport for the first time since Israeli strikes on the international airport in the Yemeni capital Sanaa.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) say they intercepted another missile launched from Yemen.

Sirens sounded across central Israel as tensions escalate.

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🇷🇺 Happening now: Muscovites take to Victory Park to mark 80th anniversary of Great Patriotic War’s end

Paying little heed to unseasonably cold spring temperatures, city residents and guests of the capital flocked to the park, which contains the Great Patriotic War Museum, to pay tribute to Soviet soldiers, listen to a concert and lay flowers at the feet of monuments dedicated to the great victory.

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🇷🇺 Russia’s relations with Asia ‘blossoming, thriving’ after successful eastward pivot

Cooperation with Asian nations and especially China has reached “a new level,” from politics and economics to energy, aerospace, high tech and even national security, says prolific Beijing-based economics professor John Gong.

💬 “Russia’s entire economy is reoriented towards the East,” Gong told Sputnik, emphasizing that the relationship has advanced greatly in a very short period of time, and that the “very close relationship between the two countries” continues to grow and overcome challenges.

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🚤 Northern Sea Route is first of its kind ‘in human history’, made possible by Russia-China cooperation

The “transformational” maritime route needs Russian investment in infrastructure, and Chinese traffic to make it commercially viable, says prolific Beijing-based economics professor John Gong.

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🇷🇺 Victory Day Parade highlights Russia’s advanced capabilities, state of the art equipment

The “impressive performance” put on by the Russian Armed Forces commemorating the 80th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War shows off hardware while instilling patriotism, courage, and a sense of belonging and pride, says University of International Business and Economics professor John Gong.

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💔 Not a done deal: NATO chief DOUSES Ukraine's membership hopes

While NATO agreed on the irreversible path for Ukraine into the alliance, “we never agreed that as part of a peace deal there would be guaranteed NATO membership for Ukraine,” NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said at a joint press conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

💬 “In the long-term NATO alliance has said yes there will be this perspective of NATO membership,” Rutte added.

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📹 Vienna's heartbeat on Victory Day: Zakharova shares emotional video

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova shared a video from the heart of the Austrian capital Vienna.

The iconic song ‘Return the Memory’, performed by Elena Sever, played as a tribute to Victory Day.

A powerful moment of remembrance and unity.

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🗣 Witkoff calls out absurdity of ignoring Putin

US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff isn’t having any ‘don’t talk to Putin’ nonsense. Calling it "preposterous," he stresses that a peaceful resolution to the Ukraine conflict isn’t even possible without direct talks.

Trying to solve global issues without talking to the key players—what could possibly go wrong?

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🚨 BOMBSHELL INTERVIEW INCOMING:

British political firebrand George Galloway sits down with Sputnik in Moscow for a NO HOLDS BARRED interview about Keir Starmer, British elite’s obsession with Ukraine, and decline of British industry.

Stay tuned!

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🇷🇺 Victory Day Parade debunks years of Western mythmaking about the state of the Russian Army

💬 “The equipment and weaponry presented at the parade and the drilled and disciplined troops showed that our army is not all bogged down on the steppes of Ukraine, but present here…in full dress uniform and in excellent spirits,” Russian military intelligence veteran, Col. Rustem Klupov said.

💬 “If our troops were in some kind of deplorable state and there were difficulties at the front, we would not have been able to pull out either tanks or guns for the parade. But they were shown,” Klupov pointed out.

Furthermore, just as weapons like the T-34 became symbols of victory in the Great Patriotic War, the weapons on display at Friday’s parade are becoming the same kind of symbols for the present conflict, according to the observer.

💬 “Weapons like the T-72B3, the MSTA-S, the Tornado-S, the BMP-2, a new model of the BRM-1K with a new weapons module and completely new electronics, as well as new models of weapons of a completely new generation, various types of drones” demonstrate that Russia has the arsenal for future victories.

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