🚨🇷🇺 RUSSIA PREPS FOR UKRAINE TALKS IN ISTANBUL THIS THURSDAY

Kremlin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirms Russia is gearing up for talks with Ukraine.

Key highlights:

▪️Europe’s stance? Clear. It’s about pushing war

▪️Europe completely siding with Ukraine - no room for a balanced approach in negotiations

▪️ Russia does not accept biased conclusions regarding the MH17 case.

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

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🔥🚤Drone armada rising: Russia’s navy gets AUTONOMOUS firepower

◻️The new military units will feature robotic systems, including aerial UAVs, ground drones, unmanned surface vessels, and underwater uncrewed vehicles.

◻️They will be capable of both reconnaissance and offensive operations, including attacks on coastal targets and mine neutralization.

◻️Drone units could be deployed in the Pacific Fleet, Caspian Flotilla, and Dnepr Flotilla.

◻️Orlan, Forpost, and Lancet loitering munitions, along with new advanced UAVs, will likely form the backbone of the new regiments.

◻️Naval academies now offer UAV courses taught by instructors with real combat experience to learn drone structure, features, and use.

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Labour and Tories are “two cheeks of the same backside” – George Galloway to Sputnik

Imagine that for a second — freezing your own pensioners while funding someone else’s war.

This is the UK’s reality now, and no one from either of the two major British political parties is speaking up against this.

“The Labour minister's talk is indistinguishable from the Conservative ministers' talk. It's like that moment in Orwell's Animal Farm when the animals looked from man to pig and pig to man and they could no longer tell the difference,” the former British parliamentarian told Sputnik.

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💬As Putin unveils his peace proposal on Ukraine, EU may see its own plan IMPLODE

If Trump is convinced of the merits of linking a ceasefire to direct high-level talks between Ukraine and Russia, then, without US support, EU leaders will be forced to deep-six their own initiative, Gunnar Beck, ex-AfD MEP, told Sputnik.

Any future peace deal can succeed only if it incorporates some of Russia’s conditions, Beck adds.

➡️Putin's offer to hold direct Russia-Ukraine talks has garnered widespread support, with Trump quickly hailing the move, along with Slovak PM Robert Fico and Hungary’s ruling party.

➡️Also backing the offer were the Chinese Foreign Ministry and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

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📉Ukraine’s army broke & begging: military BUDGET HOLE exposed

Ukraine’s military is running on fumes, with a $4.8 billion budget gap to fill by year-end, admits Ukrainian MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak, adding that budget changes are coming soon.

Let us guess about these "changes": Zelensky will hit the road for another desperate money-begging tour?

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🎥🎥 Putin holds meeting with 'Business Russia' members

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Trump's envoys to fly to Turkiye for Russia-Ukraine talks - report

Steve Witkoff and Keith Kellogg will head to Istanbul to attend the negotiations proposed by President Putin, Reuters reports, citing sources.

Separately, CNN reported that the two officials intend to "observe" the talks.

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🗣Trump abandoning Ukraine would HUMILIATE Britain’s Labour and Conservative parties – George Galloway to Sputnik

Don’t believe Keir Starmer’s threats to send British troop to Ukraine, the former British parliamentarian told Sputnik.

“Let me make a risky analogy. Mussolini went around the world threatening people with Germany's army. The French and the British go around the world threatening people with the American army. But if the American army isn't turning up, has decided that this conflict no longer matters to them, then the rest is just wind. It's just toxic wind.”

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‘Catching people like dogs in the streets’ – Putin on forced mobilization in Ukraine

"If the Kiev authorities are conducting forced mobilization—catching people like dogs in the streets—here, our guys are volunteering, they come on their own. They’re currently catching about 30,000 there, while here, 50-60,000 come on their own every month," the Russian President said at the meeting with members of the Business Russia organization.

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Manipulation, drugs, abuse: Prosecutors RIP into P. Diddy AT TRIAL LAUNCH

As Sean “Diddy” Combs' trial opened in New York on Monday, chilling new details about his alleged “freak offs” emerged.

🔸Prosecutors described Combs as a manipulative "MONSTER" who controlled others through drugs, threats, and money, according to legal analyst Gregg Jarrett on Fox News.

🔸In their opening statement, prosecutors alleged Combs drugged his ex-girlfriend, singer Cassie Ventura, and forced her into intimate acts with male escorts during so-called “freak offs.”

🔸While the defense acknowledged incidents of domestic violence, they denied all sex trafficking charges. Previously, disturbing footage of Combs assaulting Ventura in a hotel hallway appeared on CNN.

Star witness DISAPPEARED

🔸A pivotal witness, identified as “Victim 3” in court documents, went missing before the trial. The witness was expected to share “VERY PERSONAL AND EXPLOSIVE” TESTIMONY.

🔸Law enforcement sources surmised Victim-3 has gone off the radar out of concern for her safety, as quoted by Deadline news media.

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Europe’s Ukraine 'peace' flop SHAMED by Putin’s diplomatic power play – AfD MP

Resuming Russo-Ukrainian talks in Istanbul that were derailed by the Kiev regime in 2022 is “strategically very clever,” Dr. Rainer Rothfuss, a German geopolitical analyst and AfD MP, tells Sputnik.

What are the wider implications of Putin’s move?

◻️“This is a signal that neither Russia nor President Trump supports [Europe's] ultimatums without concrete perspectives for peace negotiations,” Rothfuss says, noting Trump’s call for Zelensky to immediately rejoin the talks.

◻️“The aggressive and military-biased leaders of the EU" who rely solely on military force and sanctions rather than diplomacy "get humiliated and stopped in their aggressive moves towards escalating war in Ukraine.”

◻️“It shows once again that Russia was always open for peace talks but could not find any reliable partner in the West.”

◻️The choice of Istanbul over Switzerland or any other European city signals a shift. Europe’s warmongering stance has disqualified it, while BRICS and its partners are emerging as the new peace brokers, Rothfuss concludes.

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🔥🇾🇪Houthis deal MAJOR BLOW to US and allies’ reputation

America has the world’s GREATEST military budget. The Houthis have nothing — and still, they won a decisive VICTORY over the US. Here’s how.

◼️Reaper ripped

▪️One more advanced US MQ-9 Reaper drone was recently shot downed by the Houthis.
▪️A total of eight such drones – worth a whopping $30 million each - have been destroyed by the Houthi group in less than six weeks.

◼️Hunting for predators

▪️Houthi militants also managed to obliterate US MQ-1 Predator drones in two separate attacks in 2019 and 2022.
▪️Each and every such UAV costs about $20 million.

◼️Air blockade of Israel

▪️The Houthis continue their “comprehensive” air blockade against Israel, the closest US ally in the Middle East.
▪️Houthi fighters conduct the anti-Israel air siege almost all by themselves.

◼️Target: US warships

▪️The Houthis claimed to have staged attacks on the USS Harry Truman aircraft carrier and its escorting warships in the Red Sea in April.
▪️The attacks came after the Houthis targeted US Navy destroyers – the Stockdale and the O’Kane - in the area late last year.

◼️Hornet’s last buzz

▪️The US lost an F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet worth about $60 million last month.
▪️The plane rolled into the Red Sea from the Harry Truman aircraft carrier as the vessel was dodging a Houthi attack.

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💬 US hopeful Putin will attend the Istanbul talks - Kellogg

“We’re hoping President Putin shows up as well, and then President Trump will be there. This could be an incredible meeting with him,” US special envoy Keith Kellogg told Fox Business.

Putin proposed that Russia and Ukraine resume direct talks without preconditions in Istanbul on May 15. Trump quickly supported the idea, calling on Zelensky to accept Putin's offer immediately. Zelensky has since confirmed he will attend the talks in Turkiye.

◾️ Kellogg believes a deal on Ukraine is "a lot closer" than many think, with a potential ceasefire leading to ongoing peace negotiations.

◾️ The US already has a "term sheet" ready for the talks, outlining key negotiation topics, and discussions about troop deployments post-ceasefire are underway.

◾️ The US discusses the deployment of UK, French, German, Polish troops west of the Dnepr River as part of 'post-ceasefire resiliency force', Kellogg said.

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Legacy media in UK keeps public in the dark about Ukraine — Former MP

The British media is far more tightly controlled than most citizens realize, Matthew Gordon-Banks, former MP and retired senior advisor at the UK Defense Academy, told Sputnik.

“There is unfortunate in-built Russophobia in many areas of public life — and through the media, it spreads into the general population,” he says.

Many in the UK are beginning to understand that the Russian special military operation in Ukraine was not “unprovoked,” just as the public eventually saw through the Iraq WMD narrative, Gordon-Banks points out.

With the UK already having depleted much of its military stock and under financial pressure, calls to end arms supplies to Ukraine are growing louder, he adds.

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📹 Russia still supplies nuclear fuel to the US — Putin

"The United States, despite everything, acts very pragmatically, they do not forget themselves. We still supply nuclear fuel to the United States ... But that's just the way it is. Why? Because it's profitable. And this is good for them. And they have such a significant economic growth, quite decent for them. It is not 4.3%, but still very decent," Putin said at a meeting with members of the Business Russia organization.

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📹🪖 Watch Russia's Black Sea Fleet unleash its DEVASTATING might

Sleek deadly warships, swift attack helicopters and formidable coastal defenses – this is Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in action!

Oh, wait, didn’t Ukraine claim that it was wiped out? 😂

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