❗️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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📹 ‘You’re terrible reporter!’ Trump slams NBC reporter for question about the Qatar jet

“You don’t have what it takes to be a reporter, you are not smart enough,” Trump told an NBC correspondent who tried asking him about the certain expensive gift from Qatar.

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💲 'GOLDEN DOME’ – US’S UNBREAKABLE SHIELD OR $175B FANTASY?

Trump’s $175 billion plan to build a comprehensive ground- and space-based missile shield, while ambitious, may not yield the results the POTUS seems to be hoping for.

The system’s name, ‘Golden Dome,’ was likely inspired by Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system.

The problem is, the Iron Dome is only effective against lone targets or small groups of targets and cannot handle a massed attack, military expert and air defense forces’ historian Yuri Knutov told Sputnik.

🔸 The Iron Dome is also meant to intercept jury-rigged rockets fired by Palestinian resistance whereas Trump’s Golden Dome is supposed to tackle intercontinental ballistic missiles, points out Igor Korotchenko, military analyst and editor in chief of "National Defense" magazine.

🔸 Technology- and composition-wise, Trump’s plan appears similar to Reagan’s failed Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) that proposed using lasers, particle beams and even space-based missiles to intercept ballistic threats.

Yet even 40+ years after the SDI was pitched, the US lacks the technology to build such a system, to “reincarnate Reagan’s idea,” as Korotchenko put it.

🔸 The development of the Golden Dome is further hampered by the fact that while its ground component essentially means upgrading the existing US anti-ballistic weapons such as THAAD, Aegis and Patriot, the missile shield’s space component would have to be built from scratch, Knutov points out.

All in all, the Golden Dome is not going to be capable of repelling a mass ICBM launch.

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❗️ Colonel-General Andrei Mordvichev, Hero of Russia, took over as Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces and was officially presented with the command standard by Belousov

🇷🇺 The Russian Defense Minister noted that the general demonstrated his prowess as a military commander during the special operation, with the Tsentr Battlegroup under his command achieving remarkable successes.

🇷🇺 Mordvichev replaced General Oleg Salyukov, who was appointed Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council by presidential decree.

🇷🇺 In 2024, Mordvichev led the liberation of Avdeyevka in the Donetsk People's Republic and was awarded the noscript of Hero of Russia.

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🤡 REP. TED LIEU DEMANDS WWIII AGAINST RUSSIA

💬 "I urge you to defeat Putin on the battlefield," declared warmongering Rep. Ted Lieu, pushing Secretary of State Marco Rubio toward all-out war.

From Napoleon to Hitler—all failed. Now Lieu wants to try.

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❗️💸 BITCOIN SURGES PAST $110,000 FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY

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💥🏦 CARLSON FLOATS ‘CRUSH THE BANKS’ POLITICAL PARTY

💬 “I've often thought if I were to retire, maybe I’d start a political movement whose whole purpose is to bring the banks to their knees and shut them down,” said Tucker Carlson. “How about 100 million people stop paying their car loans, their mortgages, and their credit cards?”

💬 “If you take a big enough loan from the bank, it's their problem. You're kind of in charge of the bank at that point,” Carlson added, quoting Trump.

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