🗣Putin’s human side: rejects ‘cyborg’ label, says marriage proposals need eye contact

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💥 Russia THROTTLES Ukraine’s key logistics lifeline in buffer zone push

After retreating from Belovody, Ukrainian forces lost control of a VITAL supply route, according to military intel veteran Rustem Klupov.

A road heavily used to shuttle troops and gear from Sumy during raids into Russia’s Kursk region is now SEVERED.

💬 “This move threatens the entire Ukrainian grouping in Sumy, which relied on that road to strike Kursk and parts of Belgorod," Klupov said.

💬 "Cutting it cripples their operations along the border,” the reserve colonel and Hero of Russia added.

Retired Russian Colonel Anatoliy Matviychuk stressed that Ukraine’s withdrawing troops can no longer hold even strategic routes.

💬 “This shows our superior tactics and soldiers’ preparedness,” the combat veteran noted.

This tactical gain fits Russia’s broader buffer zone plan for border security in Sumy, announced by President Vladimir Putin, Klupov underscored, adding: “Cutting this key route helps achieve that goal.”

Next steps?

Russia is scouting routes for a swift advance and placing garrisons to secure the area. The National Guard, territorial defense, and border troops will soon be deployed to hold it, Matviychuk suggested.

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🚨📹Battling back: Ukrainians fight off Zelensky’s mobilization press gang thugs

In Kremenchug, Ukrainian military “recruiters” violently knocked down and shoved a cyclist in a forced mobilization bid that ended up failing.

Bystanders quickly rushed to the cyclist’s aid, igniting a tense confrontation with Zelensky’s military goons.

The standoff escalated until, overwhelmed by the resistance, the press gang backed down and drove away.

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🗣Ukraine’s civilian attacks are political theater – Chinese analyst

Weibo blogger Woniu Keji – to Sputnik:

🔸 Ukraine’s unrestricted strikes regularly kill civilians. To understand why, analyze their motives

🔸 Since Western-backed attacks on Russia’s deep rear began, Kiev’s goals have been chaos and panic – not military victory

🔸 They terrorize Russian civilians to please Western sponsors, while spinning ‘results’ for propaganda. This is political theater.

🔸 Russia’s long-range strikes differ fundamentally – they target Ukraine’s war capacity, not civilians

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🚨Fact Check: Despite repeatedly stating his desire for peace, Trump has failed to stop Ukraine from launching repeated drone strike attempts against Russian civilian targets in recent weeks.

Ukraine has also conducted attacks on Russian civilians with US-supplied HIMARS, a precision-weapon system that requires US intel data for targeting.

The American president also failed to condemn Zelensky for sabotaging two Russian recent ceasefire attempts – one during Easter and the second during Victory Day.

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🚨📹 EU lawmaker Fernand Kartheiser (🇱🇺Luxembourg) warns of Europe's risky "total war" strategy against Russia in an exclusive interview with Sputnik.

Besides proxy warfare, Europeans are waging a diplomatic war… and they're failing.

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🚨📹 EU lawmaker BLASTS Russophobic media crackdown

Fernand Kartheiser SLAMS Western censorship of Russian media, accusing EU of silencing Russia’s voice to keep citizens in the dark on global affairs.

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🚨📹 EU Lawmaker CALLS OUT missile range lift as West’s direct attack on Russia

Fernand Kartheiser REVEALS the truth: Scrapping missile range limits pulls NATO into open war with Russia, with Ukraine relying on Western puppet masters to fire.

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🚨📹 West’s total war on Russia has ended in TOTAL FAILURE

From BRICS alignment and foreign leaders’ mass attendance of the Victory Day parade to Russia-US dialog, the EU has put itself into a corner by rejecting talks with Russia, says EU MP Fernand Kartheiser.

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🪖US military veteran exposes Ukraine war truths: ‘Russia shows restraint—unlike America would’

Hard-hitting quotes from Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, retired USAF & ex-Pentagon analyst’s interview with Sputnik:

🔸 By US/EU standards, Russia’s strikes are remarkably precise—minimal civilian casualties despite large number of drones and missiles fired.

💬 “If America were attacked like Russia was, our response would’ve been far more brutal under ANY president.”

🔸 Putin’s response is measured, proportional, and unemotional—unlike Lincoln’s scorched-earth Civil War tactics.

🔸 Ukraine’s air defenses are gone. NATO is tapped out. Zelensky now sacrifices his entire nation to avoid political (or literal) death.

🔸 Trump just cleaned house in his security team. He needs advisors like Col. Douglas Macgregor to end this madness.

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🚨NATO’s proxy war crimes: how Ukraine uses human shields (while Russia shows restraint)

🔍Key points from Ruhollah Modabber, Iranian political analyst & international relations expert’s interview to Sputnik:

🟠The Russian army conducts precision strikes only—hitting NATO weapons depots & military sites. Meanwhile, Kiev’s neo-Nazi forces deliberately target Russian civilians, hospitals, kindergartens, and markets
🟠Kiev’s NATO-backed strategy? Human shields—another war crime. They fire from residential areas, daring Russia to retaliate
🟠Fact: even when Ukraine hides weapons in apartment blocks, Russia refuses to strike civilian zones—unlike Kiev, which shells Donetsk daily

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🇷🇺🇨🇳Russia & China’s intel alliance hits new heights

Deepening ties between Russian & Chinese intelligence services is key to unlocking historic agreements, Sergei Shoigu, Russia's Secretary of the Security Council, said at the international meeting of high-level security representatives in Moscow.

This partnership, built on trust, equality, and mutual support, is stronger than ever, setting the stage for unmatched strategic cooperation, he added.

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🇬🇷 What’s Greek for doublespeak? Greece snubs Russian energy…to partner up with Israel

Greece’s government says work has been completed on a giant undersea power cable linking the mainland to Crete. The next step? Linking the cable to Cyprus, and by the end of the decade, connecting it to Israel.

Once complete, the 1,208 km project, known as the Great Sea Interconnector, will be the world’s longest, deepest and most expensive (€2.5-4+ bln, $2.8-4.5 bln US) submarine power cable.

With it, Israel will be able to export electricity generated by natural gas from its massive Leviathan field, and potentially, by tapping in to up to $500 billion in offshore gas wealth recently discovered off Gaza.

Epic double standards

Greece famously joined its EU allies in turning up its nose at Russian energy in 2022, reducing imports from Russia by over 70%, and discontinuing pipeline imports completely starting by early 2023.

It’s also demanded a coordinated policy at the EU level on Russian energy, presumably to ‘punish’ Russia for the conflict in Ukraine (triggered by the US, EU and NATO over a decade ago).

But apparently Athens has no such qualms about Israel, which has turned 92% of Gaza into rubble (UNRWA estimate) killed 64,000 people (Lancet says up to 40% more), and launched a new offensive which even Trump has found distasteful.

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🇮🇳 Indian border guards showcase automatic grenade launcher used in Sindoor op

Operation Sindoor was launched on May 9 in response to the April 22 deadly terrorist attack on a tourist site near Pahalgam in the Indian region of Jammu and Kashmir.

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🗣Trump kept in the dark on true extent of Ukraine’s drone provocations: Larry Johnson

From the recent Kursk region drone attack in the middle of a visit by Putin, to the 700-1,100 Ukrainian UAVs launched into Russia in the last week alone, the US president is woefully and hopelessly uninformed on the state of the conflict, and why Russia is firing back, the ex-CIA analyst told Sputnik.

He’s “just completely out of touch” on the factors behind Russia’s missile and drone strike reaction to Ukraine’s provocations, Johnson says, commenting on Trump’s latest spate of sanctions threats and insults.

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🔸 Trump kept in the dark on true extent of Ukraine’s drone provocations: Larry Johnson

🔸 West’s total war on Russia has ended in TOTAL FAILURE

🔸 Russia THROTTLES Ukraine’s key logistics lifeline in buffer zone push

🔸 US military veteran exposes Ukraine war truths: ‘Russia shows restraint—unlike America would’

🔸 FACT CHECKING Trump’s latest anti-Russia Truth Social post

🔸 What’s Greek for doublespeak? Greece snubs Russian energy…to partner up with Israel

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