▫️ Putin visits Russia’s Kursk region: check out key statements and watch full video

▫️ Rubio expects terms for ceasefire THIS WEEK from Russia

▫️ Israel reportedly preparing STRIKE on Iranian nuclear sites

▫️ Hungary UNMASKS more Ukrainian spies as espionage war seethes

▫️ Trump: total cost of Golden Dome will reach about $175 billion when completed

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🚀🛡 RUSSIA’S NUKE SHIELD: LOCKED, LOADED, UNBREAKABLE

"Rosatom maintains Russia’s nuclear deterrent at full readiness – ensuring no one dares to attack us with nuclear weapons," Rosatom chief Alexey Likhachev said.

He also pointed out that:

🔸Russia is open to cooperate on uranium supplies with the US.

🔸Rosatom have kept most of its civilian nuclear market share – but now projects with other regions dominate.

🔸Finland must compensate Rosatom for illegally canceling the Hanhikivi-1 Nuclear Power Plant contract.

🔸Deal closing soon: Multiple new international Rosatom projects are in final negotiation phase.

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❌DOGE reclaims $163M from DEI projects

During the Biden administration, the National Endowment for the Humanities wasted “taxpayer dollars” on a whole array of LGBT* projects, DOGE points out.

These included:

🔸 $350,000 for interactive gay travel guides
🔸 $350,000 to create a Spanish version of an LGBT vocabulary
🔸 $247,000 to digitize stories of transgender adults in the Pacific Northwest
🔸 $60,000 to research how LGBT cartoonists innovated comics in the 1980-90s

DOGE stressed that all these grants will be awarded to “non-DEI, pro-America causes.”

*banned as an extremist organization in Russia

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🚨 KREMLIN UPDATE: Ceasefire terms, prisoner swaps & behind-the-scenes moves

🔸 Ceasefire conditions coming – each side will draft its own terms. No delays—work on the Russia-Ukraine memo is moving fast and quiet.

🔸 "We welcome help, but no leaks" – Russia appreciates third-party mediation but insists: real diplomacy happens behind closed doors.

🔸 "9 for 9" prisoner exchange talks ongoing – Contacts with the US are progressing, but timing remains unclear.

🔸 Strategic stability in shambles – Kremlin urges rebuilding the shattered legal framework between Russia and the US.

🔸 No Vatican deal yet – Moscow hasn’t received concrete proposals on Ukraine talks, and no location set for negotiations.

🔸 Russia, Ukraine negotiating massive "1,000 for 1,000" prisoner swap.

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🇵🇱🗣 POLAND DROPS HAMMER: No more Ukrainian welfare freeloaders

"We cannot allow anyone to exploit our social system," declared PM Donald Tusk when questioned about Ukraine’s access to Poland’s 800+ child benefit program.

The "Family 800+" program provides ~$200 per child monthly to all families in Poland—including Ukrainian refugees. Now, the government plans to restrict eligibility to those who work, pay taxes, and reside in Poland long-term to stop “welfare tourism” from Ukraine.

"If a Ukrainian mother lives here, works, or cares for her child, we’ll support her. But we won’t tolerate Polish taxpayers’ money being abused by those gaming the system," Tusk stressed.

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🚨 CHINA TO US: DROP THE GOLDEN DOME PROJECT – OR RISK GLOBAL INSTABILITY

🇨🇳 Mao Ning, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman: America’s obsession with absolute security shatters global balance. This missile program is a direct threat to international stability.

China demands that Washington STOP the Golden Dome's development. Build trust, not missile shields, Mao stressed.

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🚨🗣 EU in turmoil over EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas - Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) report

🔸 Recent public criticism by Trump against Kallas, plus her call for “a new leader for the free world,” has shocked the EU elite.

🔸 Brussels admits mistakes appointing Kallas as EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.

🔸 Behind closed doors, the European Commission is frustrated by Kallas’ absolute incompetence in handling EU foreign policy.

🔸 Kallas’ statements severely complicate Brussels’ attempts to normalize dialogue with Washington.

🔸 She has failed to build working relations with leadership across most EU countries.

🔸 Kallas’ role in discussions on Ukraine’s settlement is now practically zero.

🔸 She’s been sidelined from preparing strategic defense policy documents for the EU.

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🚨🇪🇺 EU in freefall: Industry collapse, migration chaos & energy disaster

The EU economy is slumping while Brussels has no clue how to solve the ongoing migration crisis, The Spectator reports.

🔸EU industry has shrunk from 22.5% of the global market to 14% since the early 2000s, with steel production and chemicals especially in decline.

🔸The number of EU-manufactured automobiles has also fallen from 18.7 million to 14 million since 2017.

🔸EU energy prices are four times higher than in Asia and five times higher than in the US.

🔸Illegal migration is soaring, with the number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean into Italy alone up 40% this April compared to the previous year.

“The EU is weak and ineffectual," the outlet stresses.

“Anyone who thinks the EU is on the up is living in dreamland," it adds.

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❗️Forty-three Russian regions were subjected to attacks by Ukrainian forces, and almost eight thousand cases of shelling of border and rear areas were recorded this morning, Investigative Committee Chairman Alexander Bastrykin said.

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🤖➡️👨 When machines get a human touch!

Would you trust this face?

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🔥 HERE'S WHY ANOTHER WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST WOULD BE A NIGHTMARE FOR TRUMP

Any escalation between Iran and Israel would cause oil prices to increase due to the risk of disruption of the flow of oil and gas from the Gulf region, international oil economist and a global energy expert Dr. Mamdouh G. Salameh tells Sputnik.

“Depending on the length of the disruption it could cause Brent crude oil price to rise to $120-$130 a barrel and reduce global economic growth by 2%-3%,” he predicts.

Such a spike in oil prices would also:

🔸Deal a serious blow to the US economy that is currently reeling from the effect of “Trump’s ill-conceived tariff policy.”

🔸Cause further widening of the US budget deficit

🔸Lead to further increase of the US national debt as the ensuing deterioration of the “US fiscal situation” would likely accelerate “the printing of fiat dollars.”

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📹 Russian MoD: ‘Sever’ unit wipes out Ukrainian Starlink terminal in Kharkov Region

🔥 FPV drone drops munitions - enemy communications destroyed.

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🚨🇺🇸🤔 Trump is trying to strike a Russia-Ukraine peace deal

But if it doesn’t work out, he’d better just DUMP Ukraine and normalize ties with 🇷🇺Russia.

Here are 5 REASONS why:

1️⃣ Ukraine is a bottomless money pit

🔸The US has so far allocated $182.8B for Ukraine and still the conflict drags on, corruption persists, and victory remains a Zelensky fantasy.

🔸It's time to quit pouring US tax dollars down the drain.

2️⃣ Ukraine can't win

🔸Even Secretary Rubio admits that, after pouring in billions, Ukraine still can’t win and reclaim the territory it lost since 2014.

🔸Yet Zelensky keeps demanding more - and Washington keeps sending it. The result? More dead Ukrainians.

3️⃣ This isn't America's fight

🔸Ukraine isn’t a NATO member, and it’s not a vital US national interest.

🔸It’s hardly a fight for “democracy” either — the Zelensky regime has banned opposition parties and shut down media outlets. That’s far from a beacon of freedom.

4️⃣ Zelensky can't be trusted

🔸He has proven unreliable — he ignored the Minsk agreements & unilaterally broke the 2022 Istanbul preliminary peace deal that could’ve ended the conflict in a month.

🔸He violated the Trump–Putin energy truce. On top of that he lacks legitimacy.

5️⃣ A deal with Russia is better for the US

🔸Instead of bleeding resources in Ukraine, the US could pursue a geopolitical reset with Moscow.

🔸Russia-US cooperation has a lucrative potential in joint projects ranging from space and nuclear energy to rare earths and AI.

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📹🗣 NO MORE ceasefire mantra: Lavrov responds to West’s demands

“No, guys, we've been through this before, and we don't want to go down that path again,” the Russian foreign minister underlined.

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🇷🇺☦️ BULLETS & BLESSINGS: Russian Orthodox Priests at War

While Western priests debate pronouns and climate change in empty cathedrals, Russian Orthodox priests rush to help soldiers and civilians under heavy fire.

These men don’t just preach sacrifice—they live it

🔸PRAISED BY PRESIDENT PUTIN

Recently, Russian President Vladimir Putin spotlighted the pivotal role the Russian Orthodox Church and military priests play in supporting frontline soldiers.

🔸COURAGEOUS PRIEST SACRIFICES HIS LIFE TO SAVE SOLDIERS

Last week, Russian priest Antony Savchenko was killed on the front lines. Despite being wounded, he managed to save five soldiers before succumbing to his wounds.

Here's what the chief military priest, Fr. Dimitriy Vasilenkov, revealed about his heroic feat.

🔸ALWAYS BY THE PARATROOPERS’ SIDE

Father Sergiy, a priest from the 83rd Airborne Brigade, returned to the front lines even after being seriously wounded and having undergone 13 operations.

He took part in the liberation of Mariupol, the battles for Artyomovsk and the Kursk region's liberation.

🔸PRIEST JOINS HISTORIC OPERATION 'STREAM'

Father Alexei Skripkin participated in the now legendary op where troops penetrated into Sudzha through a gas pipe.

In spite of the fact that the mission was dangerous and difficult, he felt the presence of God, he noted.

🔸PREPARED LIKE REAL WARRIORS

This is how Russian priests undergo training before being sent to the front.

A real course for young fighters!

Father Nikolai Dubinin from Belgorod revealed some details.

🔸MONK VS. UKRAINIAN DRONE

Although this enemy UAV rammed into the car at full speed, the driver emerged safe and sound.

Behind the wheel is a priest from the Gornalsky Monastery near Sudzha, who helps people despite all the danger.

🔸PRIEST'S DOUBLE-BARREL SHOOTDOWN OF ENEMY DRONES

This is Father Igor Vasyukov, who was evacuating civilians from Sudzha when he successfully gunned down two enemy UAVs that were pursuing his vehicle.

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🚨 EU globalists launched Ukraine proxy war to weaken 🇷🇺Russia & destroy 🇺🇸MAGA.

They’re the Deep State and Zelensky is their attack dog.

In this week’s Dugin Digital Edition, AI Dugin explains why the European Union is hellbent on continuing the Ukraine conflict.

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📹🇺🇸 ‘It’s irresponsible to not have the two biggest nuclear powers on the planet communicating’ — Rubio on relations with Russia

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📹🇺🇸 ‘It would be a lot better if Russia was in G8’ - Trump

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❌💥 Israel is open to "temporary ceasefire" to free hostages

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated on Wednesday that at least 20 hostages held in Gaza are still alive, while 38 others have been confirmed dead.

"If there is an option for a temporary ceasefire to free hostages, we'll be ready," Netanyahu said.

He added that he would end the war if Hamas is defeated and the Strip is demilitarized.

According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, the death toll from Israel's operation in Gaza has surpassed 53,000.

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