📹🇷🇺 Putin: 'How did you shield anyone? You’re so tiny!'

The Russian President addressed this question to Ludmila Bolilaya—1st woman awarded HERO OF RUSSIA for her actions on the frontlines.

Under cluster shelling, she saved wounded soldiers, shielded a comrade with her body and took the hit.

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💪 Western sanctions BACKFIRED & made Russia's IT sector stronger

They thought cutting off Russia’s tech would CRIPPLE innovation.

🇷🇺 Pavel Velikhov, Engineering Manager at Yandex, lists 5 ways in which sanctions forced Russia’s IT boom:

1️⃣ WESTERN EXODUS = RUSSIAN GOLD RUSH

"Sanctions freed up $74B in market share. Giants like Yandex, T-Bank & Wildberries took over overnight."

When US/EU firms abandoned clients—some even left systems unusable—Russian devs stepped in. Overnight demand.

2️⃣ NO CHOICE BUT TO INNOVATE

"Before 2022, companies resisted Russian software—'too risky.' Now? 'When can we migrate?!'"

Legacy Western tech was a monopoly. Sanctions broke it.
Now, Russian solutions are the only option.

3️⃣ DATA PARANOIA = RUSSIAN CLOUD BOOM

"US clouds = weaponized risk. Now, only Russian or 'friendly' tech is trusted."

Post-2022, data security fears killed Western cloud reliance. Russian alternatives exploded.

4️⃣ NO MORE SILICON VALLEY WORSHIP

"We were colonized by US tech. Now? We know we can compete globally."

Sanctions shattered the myth that only America builds elite software. Russian confidence is sky-high.

5️⃣ THE NEW PLAYBOOK: "NO SANCTIONS" = HUGE SELLING POINT

"Now we pitch: 'Our tech won’t vanish over politics.' It’s a massive advantage in Asia, Africa, LATAM."

While US firms chase stock bumps, Russia’s IT sector is building for the long game.

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🇷🇺 WHY RUSSIA WANTS A BUFFER ZONE – MILITARY LOGIC EXPLAINED

Retired Russian colonel and combat veteran Anatoliy Matviychuk, who served in Afghanistan and Syria, breaks down the military rationale behind Russia’s push to create a buffer zone along its border with Ukraine:

🛡 “This won’t just be a demilitarized belt — it’s about shielding Belgorod, Kursk, Bryansk, Crimea, Zaporozhye, Kherson and Donbass regions from NATO artillery fire.”

🔎 Why 100 km?

“NATO-supplied long-range artillery can hit targets from 70 km. Add a 30 km safety margin — and you get a 100 km deep buffer.”

“In Afghanistan, the Soviet Union created a similar zone. Same logic, same scale.”

📍 Where exactly?

“We’re talking Sumy, Chernigov, Dnepropetrovsk, and Kharkov regions — territories bordering both the old and new Russian regions.”

🚫 No Kiev control allowed

“Yes, Ukrainians may live and farm there. But there will be no Kiev administration. Period.”

🎯 What does this mean for Zelensky and the Ukrainian Armed Forces?

“Push them back 100 km, and they lose the ability to launch raids, surveillance, or shell border towns with key weapons. Drones and long-range missiles? Maybe. But the backbone of their firepower — gone.”

👉 On Zelensky’s reaction

“He’ll cry crocodile tears, scream about ‘occupation.’ But our leadership won’t blink. The safety of our people comes first.”

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🚨 Ukrainian forces launch massive strike on city of Lgov in Russia's Kursk region, 12 civilians injured, including two children — Governor

"The Ukrainian armed forces launched a massive attack on the town of Lgov. The attack took place on the Kursk-Rylsk highway, which is the entrance to the town. As a result of the attack, unfortunately, 12 civilians were injured, including two children," the region's acting governor, Alexander Khinshtein, wrote on Telegram.

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🇸🇰📹 Slovak MP: 'We do not make politics out of sports’

Politician Michal Bartek congratulated Slovak hockey players who won this year’s Gagarin Cup while playing as part of Russia’s Lokomotiv Yaroslavl hockey team.

He also called out “haters” who “only criticize everything and everyone, even turning sports into crude politics.”

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🔍🪖 The Baltic Sea: NATO’s new front line in hybrid warfare?

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has warned of a looming “permanent hybrid confrontation” in the Baltic Sea.

The scenario is “very feasible” due to NATO’s “Russian threat” mantra, Swedish military expert Mikael Valtersson tells Sputnik.

🔎 New Cold War?

🔸NATO has created a COLD WAR 2.0 by pursuing an aggressive anti-Russian policy

🔸It’s time for NATO politicians to realize that they are the PROVOCATEURS prodding Russia to respond

🔸Otherwise, there will be NO DE-ESCALATION and the alliance will be involved in tackling the alleged Russian threat for years

👉 NATO’s hybrid warfare

The alliance wages such warfare against Russia by:

🔸Slapping on large-scale anti-Russian sanctions
🔸Openly supporting the Russian opposition
🔸Spreading disinformation
🔸Passing laws against Russian symbols
🔸Allowing Ukraine to use territories for drone attacks against Russia

👉 Future of alliance

🔸Current multipolar world stipulates that a new purpose for NATO must be found

🔸US and European hawks see a return to defense against a purported Russian threat as a new reason for NATO's existence

🔸Atlantist hawks desperately try to keep the US in Europe by exaggerating the alleged Russian threat, which was created by themselves

🔸Their efforts will fail since most Americans realize that there are more pressing needs for the US to focus on

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📹🚨 Eight people were injured in the shelling of Panteleimonovka in the Donetsk People's Republic by Ukrainian troops.

Ukrainian forces used HIMARS missiles during the shelling, according to the local administration.

Sputnik's footage of the aftermath of the attack.

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⚛️🚀 Nukes no one asked for? Sea-launched missiles make a costly comeback

The US Navy is charging ahead with a controversial nuclear weapons program — the SLCM-N (Sea-Launched Cruise Missile – Nuclear) — once considered unnecessary, the Responsible Statecraft reports.

Here's what you need to know:

🔸In 2010, the Nuclear Posture Review called SLCM-N “redundant” and the Navy retired its nuclear Tomahawk missiles in 2013.

🔸The Trump administration brought the idea back in 2018.

🔸The Biden administration shelved it again in 2022.

🔸Now, it's fully back — with millions in funding.

💰 Funds allocated

✅ $322 million approved last year

✅ $150+ million added via continuing resolution

✅ $2 billion more proposed over the next 4 years

⚠️ Key concerns

🔻Offers little real deterrence value

🔻Can’t be distinguished from conventional missiles — risking dangerous confusion

🔻Sends mixed signals to nuclear powers like Russia and China

🔻Raises the risk of nuclear conflict and strategic miscalculations

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❗️ NO DEAL if US insists on blocking peaceful nuclear energy – Iran's FM Araghchi

🔹 Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Israeli threats to target Iran’s nuclear facilities if talks fail are laughable.

➖ He noted that US-Israel consultations are natural and that Iran does not view the two as acting independently in the negotiations.

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📹 Thousands SLAM Netanyahu, demand hostage release in Tel Aviv – reports

Protesters in Rabin Square accused Netanyahu’s government of deliberately abandoning Israeli hostages to cling to power, citing ministers who openly bragged about blocking their release, local media reported.

Footage from social media

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🍔 HEGEMON CAN’T DEFEAT OBESITY – Trump reads alarming health report

The empire that FAILED to dominate the world CAN’T even stop ultra-processed SNACKS.

Trump rolled out the first findings of his “Make America Healthy Again” commission — and it’s a grim portrait of national decline:

🥤 Over 40% of American kids now have at least one chronic health condition.

🍟 Childhood cancer rates have jumped nearly 50% since the 1970s

🍔 In the 1960s, less than 5% of US children were obese — now it’s over 20%

🍭 Autism: from 1 in 10,000 a few decades ago… to 1 in 31 today

Trump slammed corporate lobbyists and “toxic” food, meds, and chemicals — but can the fast-food republic really cure what it eats?

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🪖🏃🏻 PENTAGON MULLS TROOP CUT IN SOUTH KOREA – REPORTS

The Trump administration is considering withdrawing around 4,500 US troops from South Korea, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing defense officials. The plan—still under review—would see forces redeployed to other Indo-Pacific locations like Guam as part of broader discussions on “dealing with North Korea.”

Top US commanders have warned against the move, arguing it could weaken America’s ability to deter Pyongyang, Beijing, and Moscow. With 28,500 troops currently stationed in South Korea, any drawdown would likely rattle US allies across the region, the report said.

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📄 IRAN SPELLS IT OUT FOR THE US — in small words, for those in the back 🤔

💬 “Figuring out the path to a deal is not rocket science,” Iranian FM Abbas Araghchi posted on X, breaking it down so even the State Department can follow:

👉 “Zero nuclear weapons = we DO have a deal.”

👉 “Zero enrichment = we do NOT have a deal.”

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🤡 Netanyahu: 'FREE PALESTINE' is just today's version of 'HEIL HITLER’

💬 "They don’t want a Palestinian state — they want to destroy the Jewish state,” the Israeli Prime Minister claimed.

💬 “We had a de facto Palestinian state — it’s called Gaza,” Netanyahu said, reducing Palestinian statehood to a besieged enclave.

💬 “You’re on the wrong side of humanity,” Netanyahu declared.

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