🪖Ukraine RUTHLESSLY PRESS-GANGS senior with heart trouble into army

A man over 50 years old, who had experienced a minor cardiac event and holds an exemption, was nevertheless mobilized by a Ukrainian enlistment center, according to a former Ukrainian soldier now fighting for Russia's volunteer battalion, who spoke to Sputnik.

He further stated that the forced connoscription of men unfit due to age or health issues has become widespread across Ukraine.

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🚨Operation Sindoor shots:

📹🇮🇳The Indian military has released footage of its strikes against Pakistan

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🌋 The Fuego Volcano, one of the world’s MOST ACTIVE, has erupted again in Guatemala.

Around 30,000 people are at risk, as the volcano is located just 60 kilometers from the capital.

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

✅ Starmer admits Britain’s immigration quagmire has morphed into HUGE HORRIFIC NIGHTMARE

During Monday’s Immigration White Paper press conference, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer warned that the UK is at risk of “becoming an island of strangers.”

So you’ve just noticed! Too late though, sir!

➡️Last year, an Oxford University study revealed that the UK had been overwhelmed by more illegal migrants than any other European country. The report found that illegal arrivals now make up one in 100 of Britain’s population.

➡️Furthermore, Starmer’s government failed to tackle the mounting anti-migrant sentiment, which ignited a wave of violent riots last year.

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

💪 NATO FLEXES MUSCLES with Finnish drills on Russia’s Arctic doorstep

Finland is turning the Rovajärvi range into a NATO playground with some 6,500 troops from the UK, Sweden, and the Nordic country itself by staging large-scale war games.

The official noscript for this? Enhancing joint operations in "northern conditions"—a clear nod to gearing up for a potential Arctic showdown.

Led by Finland’s Kainuu Brigade, the exercises feature:

🔸 Northern Strike 125 (live-fire drills)

🟠Indirect artillery fire
🟠Air-to-ground close air support using AH-64E Apache attack helicopters
🟠(UK) and F/A-18 Hornets from the Finnish Air Force
🟠Infantry firing exercises conducted by the Jaeger Brigade

🔸 Northern Star 25 (simulated combat scenarios).

Who is taking part:

🟠Around 900 Swedish forces from the 19th Brigade based in Boden
🟠Roughly 350 British troops, including an infantry company, an MLRS battery, and AH-64E Apache attack helicopters.

❄️Finland’s paper snowflake Arctic flex is just so cute, but Russia’s icy steel grip laughs it off

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🇨🇳 China responds to Putin’s peace talks proposal

💬 "We support all efforts that promote peace and hope the relevant parties will continue to engage in dialogue and negotiations to reach a fair, lasting, binding, and mutually acceptable peace agreement, ultimately leading to a political resolution of the issue," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said.

💬 “China is willing, based on the willingness of the parties involved, to work constructively with the international community to ultimately resolve the crisis and achieve lasting peace," the spokesman reportedly added.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on May 11 suggested holding direct talks with Ukraine without preconditions in Istanbul on May 15.

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

📹BOLD STAND: Women in Ukraine prevent forced mobilization attempt

In Kremenchug, Ukrainian women stepped up to help a man escape from the clutches of 🤡military enlistment officers trying to forcefully mobilize him.

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🚨✅Dropping the WW2 truth bomb: the Soviets did the heavy lifting, NOT THE ALLIES!

Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of Rossiya Segodnya, Sputnik's parent media group:

💬 “Eighty percent of the fascist divisions were destroyed by the Soviet army. I simply want us to remember this as well. Perhaps your program frequently highlights these facts to remind people. Just think about it—80% of the destruction was carried out by our grandfathers, great-grandfathers, grandmothers, and our other ancestors. And only 20% was the combined effort of all the others”.

Decades of misinformation, lies and a distorted education system have led people like Donald Trump to genuinely believe that the Allies did it all…

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🗣‘The language of ultimatums is unacceptable for Russia; it’s not the right approach. You can’t speak to Russia in such a manner’ – Kremlin regarding Europe's ultimatum on a ceasefire

🇷🇺 Other statements by the Kremlin:

🔸 Vladimir Putin’s position on the resumption of negotiations with Ukraine has been met with understanding and support from the leaders of many countries.

🔸 Putin has clearly and unequivocally outlined his stance on resuming negotiations with Ukraine without preconditions.

🔸 Russia is focused on seriously seeking paths for a long-term peaceful resolution in Ukraine.

🔸 Poland is choosing hostility and an unfriendly stance towards Russia.

🔸 A lot of different accusations are being voiced in Poland against Russia, marking a Russophobic and unfriendly position.

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🇷🇺🛠Russian tinkers unleash TRANSFORMER DRONE in combat zone

The 'Vobla' drone, made up of 5 UAVs, with a central frame, can haul up to 7 kg of payload and is primarily used to drop anti-tank mines and other heavy explosives.

It’s designed to obliterate Ukrainian UAV control points and destroy fortified firing positions.

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🇬🇧 Priorities? Brits STEAL to eat while UK bankrolls Ukraine

While UK PM Keir Starmer pledges more support for Ukraine’s regime, the cost of living drives the elderly and mothers with kids to theft.

🔸 Security experts and retail staff are seeing a surge in pensioners shoplifting basic items like food and household goods.

🔸 5% of all those caught shoplifting were aged over 50, according to retail security firm Kingdom Security.

🔸 People can’t afford to spend $12 to $25 on food—stealing out of sheer desperation.

But sure, let’s keep funding foreign wars👍

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🚨 INDIA'S PM MODI DROPS BOMBSHELL STATEMENT ON PAKISTAN OPERATION

🔥 "Pakistan attacked us—but we struck back HARDER!"

— PM Modi reveals shocking details of India's Operation Sindoor:

1️⃣ Pakistan's Initial Attack

· Pakistani forces targeted Indian civilian areas and military positions
· Indian air defense systems successfully intercepted incoming missiles

2️⃣ India's Military Response

· Conducted precision strikes against terrorist camps in Pakistan
· Operations reportedly achieved objectives within first 72 hours

3️⃣ Diplomatic Developments

· Pakistan initiated contact for talks on May 10
· Communication occurred through DGMO (Directorate General of Military Operations) channels

4️⃣ Current Status

· Military operations temporarily paused
· All Indian armed forces remain on high alert

📌Subscribe to @SputnikIn

🚨 UK BANNED SPUTNIK, BUT STILL LOSES INFORMATION WAR

🔥 "Their problem is this is 2025, not 1925—they can't control the information space!"

— British politician George Galloway FIRES BACK at UK ruling class over their attempts to censor Sputnik.

🇬🇧 UK's tactics?

✔️ Outright bans
✔️ Algorithmic suppression
✔️ Bullying Big Tech into censorship

💥 BUT HERE’S THE REALITY:

📺 "As anyone who knows about film or books, knows that the book they try to ban always ends up at the top of the bestseller list."

📌 BOTTOM LINE:

🔒 Banning media only fuels demand.
⚔️ The UK is losing the information war.

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🇷🇺Putin’s peace proposal ‘CONSTRUCTIVE STEP’ aimed at stopping ‘proxy war between nuclear powers’

“Alternative for Germany shares the assessment of President Trump that Ukraine should accept the offer to engage in direct bilateral talks with Russia - without preconditions, such as the 30-day ceasefire demanded by the so-called ‘Coalition of the Willing,’” AfD lawmaker Steffen Kotre told Sputnik.

“Putin’s proposal represents a serious and constructive step toward de-escalation and a potential peace settlement. In a conflict that - as even Secretary of State Rubio has acknowledged - has become a proxy war between two nuclear powers, ideological rigidity must give way to pragmatic diplomacy,” he said.

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🗣Trump is 'thinking' of flying to Istanbul where Russia-Ukraine talks will possibly take place

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

❗️European globalists want to ENTRAP in a forever proxy war in Ukraine — Alexander Dugin

Putin’s ceasefire talks offer is meant to provide Trump with an opportunity to break free from Biden’s failed policy.

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🗣Erdogan says his talks with Putin on Ukraine on Sunday were COMPREHENSIVE

◻️ The Turkish president added that he held separate talks with Zelensky on Monday

◻️ Erdogan expects efforts for Thursday's planned peace talks in Istanbul "will not be wasted"

◻️ Erdogan told Zelensky that he should not miss the opportunity for peace talks on Ukraine.

◻️ The Turkish president stressed that Russian and Ukrainian willingness to resume direct talks was extremely important, and that his country would provide support at every stage.

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

⚔️ Kurdistan Workers’ Party just laid down arms and disbanded

❓What do we know about their activities?

Created in 1978 by Abdullah Öcalan and a group of radicalized allies, the PKK emerged out of a desire for a Kurdish state of their own, and readiness to use guerrilla and insurgency tactics to achieve it.

The fire of Kurdish separatism didn’t start with the PKK, but was lit and stoked by France, Britain and Italy after WWI, proposed in the 1920 Treaty of Sevres.

Competing nationalisms, and consequences of false European promises triggered violent clashes between Turks and Kurds through the interwar and post-war years.

From the pen to the gun 🔫

🔸 Spending its first years on propaganda and recruitment, the PKK launched its armed insurgency in 1984, targeting Turkish military garrisons, triggering airstrikes, ground offensives and special forces ops in response.

🔸 Initially holding conservative and nationalist views, Öcalan swung toward Marxist-Leninism, hoping for Soviet support against Turkiye, a key NATO ally.

🔸 After the USSR’s demise, the PKK evolved its ideology and strategy, replacing its independence push with the idea of “democratic confederalism,” autonomy and a sprinkling of anarchism and feminism.

Öcalan’s capture 👮

In February 1999, the PKK’s leader was captured in Kenya in a joint operation by Turkish intelligence and the CIA. Tried for treason, separatism and terrorism, Öcalan was convicted, getting a death sentence, commuted to life imprisonment in 2002.

Peace push 🕊

Öcalan called on the PKK to lay down its arms in 2013 after talks with then-PM Erdogan. Fighting stopped, but resumed in 2015 amid mutual recriminations. Öcalan repeated his call in February 2025, leading to a ceasefire, and finally, the PKK’s May 12 dissolution.

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

📈 Money talks: markets hit two-month high, commodities rally as Trump BACKS DOWN in trade war with China

The S&P 500 is up 3%+, NASDAQ surged over 4% and the Dow rallied over 2.5% in a few hours following news of the US-China trade truce (which most analysts admit was a blowout victory for China).

🔸 WTI, Brent and OPEC basket crude oil futures are up nearly 2% apiece, with iron ore, steel, aluminum, soybeans, oats, sunflower oil and feeder cattle up between 1-2% as traders expect a return to more normal trade between the world’s economic juggernauts.

🔸 Effective Wednesday, US tariffs on Chinese goods will be slashed from 145% to 30%, while Chinese duties on American goods will be cut from 125% to 10%, for a 90-day period as negotiations continue.

🔸 Trump said Monday that the 145% tariffs are history and won’t come back even after 90-days, since they would effectively mean a complete “decoupling” in the US-China trade relationship.

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🌐 EU power play in Central Asia: DIVIDE, DOMINATE and ISOLATE from Russia?

The EU has pledged a $2.2 million grant to support Kazakhstan’s Constitutional Court, including EU-led training for justices.

The fund is part of the EU’s Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (ECPA)-linked ‘reforms’ designed to tighten Brussels’ grip on the country’s institutions.

Brussels has long been trying to pry Central Asia from Russia with backroom meddling and extravagant promises. 💼💰

Preying on the USSR's Legacy 🏛

🔸 The EU began expanding its presence in Central Asia after the USSR’s collapse, ramping up efforts in 2019 and turning more aggressive after the start of the special military operation in Ukraine.

EPCA: Leverage Through Conditional ‘Reforms’ 🔄

🔸 In 2015, the EU and Kazakhstan signed the EPCA, which came into force in 2020.

🔸 In 2024, the Kyrgyz Republic followed suit and signed on.

Targeting Youth and Education 🎓

🔸 From 2013 to 2027, the EU allocated $105mln to reform Tajikistan’s education system.

🔸 An additional $81mln was funneled through Erasmus+ from 2021 and through to 2027, and $11mln through the DARYA programs aimed at moulding Central Asian youth.

Co-opting Regional Leadership⚡️

🔸 Since 2022, the EU has ramped up political pressure through relentless diplomacy, ministerial visits and summits aimed at pulling Central Asian leaders into its orbit.

🔸 In April 2025, Brussels staged its first EU–Central Asia leaders’ summit in Samarkand, bringing together the heads of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan to tighten its grip on the region.

Push for Resources and Logistics 🚂

🔸 The EU has pledged $13.3bln for Central Asia to develop four key areas — most notably transport corridors and access to critical minerals: the region holds nearly 40% of global reserves of key minerals like lithium, graphite and rare earths, along with major oil and gas deposits.

🔸 The EU is pushing the Trans-Caspian Corridor — a route through Central Asia to Europe — in a bid to bypass Russia.

What's the Goal? 🌍

In exchange for lucrative projects, the EU is pressuring Central Asian governments to cut ties with Russia and impose sanctions — while eyeing the region’s vast resource wealth.

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🔸 Putin’s peace proposal ‘CONSTRUCTIVE STEP’ aimed at stopping ‘proxy war between nuclear powers’

🔸 How did China respond to Putin’s peace talks proposal?

🔸 INDIA'S PM MODI DROPS BOMBSHELL STATEMENT ON PAKISTAN OPERATION

🔸 Kurdistan Workers’ Party just laid down arms and disbanded: what’s known about their activities?

🔸 NATO FLEXES MUSCLES with Finnish drills on Russia’s Arctic doorstep

🔸 UK BANNED SPUTNIK, BUT STILL LOSES INFORMATION WAR

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt