🚨Russia's memorandum on Ukraine to outline peace terms & timeline, as well as ceasefire conditions - 🇷🇺MFA spokeswoman Maria Zakharova

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🇺🇸⚔️🇪🇺EU-US 'joint efforts' on anti-Russia sanctions ON LIFE SUPPORT?

The Europeans and Americans are no longer pulling in the same direction when it comes to enforcing sanctions, an internal report from the Federal Foreign Office on a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council revealed, Süddeutsche Zeitung reports.

According to the memo, EU sanctions chief David O'Sullivan is sounding the alarm: Transatlantic coordination on the issue has flatlined.

💬 “No more joint outreach,” he warned. And G7 efforts? Also losing steam.

How the West plans to agree on another sanctions package in this mess is anyone’s guess, the outlet remarks, especially with experts suggesting Donald Trump would like to do business with Russia again sooner rather than later.

So much for the “united front” on sanctions that never worked and only blew back in their faces.

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🔊LIVE NOW: Russian FM Sergey Lavrov holds talks with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan 🇷🇺🇹🇷

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🇷🇺🪖 RUSSIAN DEFENSE BRIEFING: CRUSHING STRIKES & ENEMY LOSSES

1️⃣ In response to massive Ukrainian drone strikes and provocations, Russian forces are conducting precise and necessary defensive operations.

2️⃣ The Russian MoD confirms that strikes are carried out EXCLUSIVELY against legitimate military objectives, including defense industry sites and enemy combat infrastructure.

3️⃣ The Ukrainian forces are attacking civilians, deliberately targeting residential areas. Russian operations strictly avoid civilian harm, focusing solely on degrading enemy combat capabilities.

❗️Russian air defense systems intercepted & destroyed 2,331 Ukrainian drones from the evening of May 20 to the morning of May 27 — with more than half of them outside the special military operation zone.

👉In response, the Russian Army struck (May 20-26):

🟠Ozernoye airfield and ammunition depots in the Dnepropetrovsk region.

🟠Infrastructure at the Starokonstantinov airfield in the Khmelnytsky region.

🟠Ammunition depots in the Kharkov region and DPR, as well as an S-300 SAM system control point in the Odessa region.

🟠Temporary mercenary base near Svyatogorsk in the DPR and an ammunition depot of Ukraine’s Kharkov military group in the Kharkov region.

🟠Pavlograd Chemical Plant, an aircraft repair shop, and air defense radar stations in the Krivoy Rog and the Nikolayev regions.

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⚡️🪖STARAYA NIKOLAYEVKA (DPR) LIBERATED - 🇷🇺MoD

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🗣'The escalation of Kiev's attacks on Russian territory is at odds with the aspiration for a peace process' – Kremlin spox

Other statements by Dmitry Peskov:

🟠Moscow condemns Ukraine’s attacks, as they do not contribute to advancing the peace process
🟠The work on the Ukrainian settlement is underway, it is a complex process
🟠The US and Trump are balanced in their approach to Ukrainian settlement
🟠Certain media outlets are actively sabotaging Ukraine negotiations, pushing the US toward new sanctions
🟠Russia and the US won’t agree on everything—differences remain
🟠On prisoner exchange talks with the US: There’s political will to honor agreements.
🟠Europe’s behavior regarding Ukraine does ‘nothing’ to promote peaceful resolution
🟠Discussions in Europe about sending troops to Ukraine mean direct involvement in the conflict
🟠Europe keeps fighting a proxy war in Ukraine by arming Kiev

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🔊LIVE NOW: Sergey Lavrov holds presser with Turkish FM Hakan Fidan after the talks🇷🇺🇹🇷

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🗣West’s anti-Russia narrative is a CONFUSED MESS – US veteran

Western claims of Russia’s weakness couldn’t be further from the truth, says retired Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis.

🔍He ridiculed the mixed messages spewed by Western mainstream media. On one hand, they say Russia’s on its last legs, he noted, yet in the same breath they warn it will be ready to take on all 32 NATO members in just two years once the Ukraine conflict ends.

❓So, which is it? Pick one, he challenged.

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💥 RUSSIA'S MASSIVE STRIKES: Why NOW?

🔥 Ukraine chose air terrorism – Russia chose PRECISION RETALIATION, says Igor Korotchenko, military analyst, editor in chief of "National Defense" magazine.

"Ukraine is a TERRORIST state — because sabotage operations have always been a strong suit of Ukrainian nationalists. They fully embraced this approach — through acts of sabotage & terror, including their current attempts to intimidate the Russian population with aerial strikes."

1️⃣ PAYBACK FOR DRONE TERROR

"Ukraine launched hundreds of drones daily since May, targeting Russian cities, civilians, even kindergartens. This is air terrorism. Russia’s response is inevitable."

Stats: 300+ Ukrainian drones intercepted DAILY across Russia.

2️⃣ DECAPITATING UKRAINE’S WAR MACHINE

"We strike ONLY military targets—factories making drones, missiles, and NATO weapons. Unlike Ukraine, we don’t target civilians."

Key Example: Antonov drone factories in Kiev (critical for UAV production).

3️⃣ CRIPPLING NATO LOGISTICS

"Ports like Odessa are hubs for Western arms. We destroyed 100+ containers with drone boats, Switchblade munitions, and artillery shells."

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🗣Lavrov: Russia's strikes on Ukraine are justified – the criminal must be punished

Other statements by Russian FM during a press-conference with Turkish counterpart Fidan:

🔸 Evidence suggests Germany secretly approved Ukraine's use of long-range weapons against Russian territory long ago

🔸 In response to French FM's claim about absence of their troops in Ukraine: "He's lying. France is fighting on Ukrainian territory."

🔸 European "hawks" realize they lack strength to continue war in Ukraine, fear Trump might "give up" on it

🔸 Trump is personally interested in ensuring negotiations between Russia and Ukraine keep going

🔸 Trump's Ukraine rhetoric can be explained by his frustration that "a clique of European officials" is sabotaging his peace efforts

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🇸🇰 Slovakia’s Fico blasts EU over 'unacceptable' threats: 'This marks the end of democracy in Europe'

Slovak PM Robert Fico called German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s remarks about potential EU sanctions against Slovakia unacceptable, after Merz suggested penalties could be imposed if Slovakia continues to distance itself from the bloc’s common course.

💬 “What the chancellor said is completely unacceptable for a sovereign country...if they carry on like this with other countries, it will end badly,” Fico told journalists.

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