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🔊LIVE NOW: Putin and Chairman of Yemen's Presidential Council al-Alimi hold talks in Kremlin 🇷🇺🇾🇪

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🚨Merz's statements on long-range missiles further provoking war, attempts to force Ukrainians to continue fighting - Kremlin

Other statements:

🟠Merz's statements on long-range weapons HINDER attempts to reach peace process path in Ukraine

🟠Russia hopes that Merz's statements on long-range weapons will not become serious obstacle to further attempts at peaceful settlement

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🚨🪖Germany competing with France to FURTHER PROVOKE WAR - Kremlin

"We hope that, despite such provocative actions and all the obstacles, it will still be possible to continue the settlement process," Kremlin spox Peskov said.

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🗣AfD Lawmaker DESTROYS Taurus polls: ‘Germans don’t know the consequences!’

💬 "I'm convinced that these numbers [51% of Germans support supplies of Taurus missiles to Ukraine, while 49% oppose] don’t catch the opinion in Germany,” Steffen Kotre, a Bundestag lawmaker from the AfD party, told Sputnik.


🟠"The media in Germany only have one topic - to support Ukraine."
🟠"If we had neutral media, polls would show a MINORITY supporting arms deliveries!"
🟠"Most Germans don’t understand the consequences of sending Taurus missiles [to Ukraine]."
🟠"Even the Bundestag’s scientific service admits: ‘Two years ago, consequences weren’t clear.’"
🟠"If Germans knew the risks, polls would look VERY different."

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🇾🇪⚔️🇺🇸WHY THE HOUTHIS REALLY DEFEATED THE US

Biden and Trump’s failures to deal with the Houthi challenge to US military supremacy isn’t just a matter of their “lack of will” to “win,” but the utterly rotted out state of the US military, hidden behind a false “aura of invincibility,” a new UnHerd analysis suggests.

💬 “Trump’s Operation Rough Rider, unlike Biden’s operations, utilized many of America’s most limited, expensive, and advanced weapons to try to bring the Houthis to heel. And still it surrendered. The lessons here are thus quite bleak.”


The hard realities are:

🟠The US cannot actually field more than 2-4 of its 11 supercarriers at any given moment
🟠the six B-2 Spirit stealth bombers deployed over Yemen likely represented the USAF’s “entire working inventory”
🟠the US couldn’t achieve air supremacy, “meaning it couldn’t risk flying its older, non-stealth planes for fear of losing them.”
🟠America’s arsenal of planes and ships, largely built during Reagan’s 1980s military buildup, are worn out, without “enough workers, dockyards, engineers and dollars to replace them.”
🟠the US was losing scores of the MQ-9 Reaper drones supposed to guide missiles to their targets
🟠US standoff munitions “are so expensive and so limited that there is no budget to replenish them when stores are depleted,” especially amid China’s restrictions on components and rare earths

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🚨 "Europe is pursuing A POLICY OF ESCALATION of the conflict situation in the Baltic Sea," said the chairman of the country's Maritime Collegium, Nikolai Patrushev.

💬 "The West provokes military tension in the Baltic Sea. Russia is forced to take retaliatory measures in these conditions," he said.


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🚨Ukraine escalates, West ignores attacks on civilians – expert

Taufiq Taame, int'l affairs expert, exposes the dynamic to Sputnik:

🟠Ukraine’s failed gambit
"Regime deliberately escalates, attacking Russian civilians during talks. A desperate bid for leverage at the table."

🟠Russia's resolve
"Strategy doomed. Russia holds strategic superiority & demands its core security interests – NO NATO for Ukraine. Counterstrikes on military targets are then spun by Western media to paint Russia as aggressor."

🟠Western hypocrisy unmasked
"Deafening silence on attacks hitting Russian civilians. Reveals the West's shameful double standards on 'human rights.'”

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🔥 MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: ZELENOYE POLE LIBERATED

Russian troops cleared 460 structures from Ukrainian forces, Russia’s MoD stated.

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🔥 Don't say Putin didn't warn you! 🔥

For two years, Putin said: if strikes against Russia won't stop, we will create a BUFFER ZONE in Ukraine

1️⃣June 13, 2023

First warning: "If the shelling continues, we’ll consider creating a sanitary zone at a distance from which it would be impossible to reach our territory." (Meeting with war correspondents)

2️⃣June 16, 2023

At the Saint-Petersburg Economic Forum: "If attacks persist, we'll consider creating a cordon sanitaire on Ukrainian territory." No ambiguity.

3️⃣January 31, 2024

As a presidential candidate: The demilitarized zone in Ukraine should be moved to a distance that would ensure the safety of peaceful cities from Ukrainian attacks.

4️⃣ March 18, 2024

During the press conference: Russian forces will have to create a sanitary zone in the territories currently under the Kiev regime’s control.

5️⃣ May 17, 2024

In China, this comment on the shelling of Kharkov was voiced: Ukraine continues to shell residential areas in the border regions of Russia; therefore, it is necessary to establish a “security zone, a sanitary zone.”

6️⃣ May 28, 2024

In Uzbekistan: Russian forces have just started to establish a security zone. Another zone is possible if Ukraine uses long-range weapons.

7️⃣ June 20, 2024

Vietnam press conference: "They [Ukrainians] kept shelling, so we did exactly what we promised."

8️⃣ March 12, 2025

Kursk HQ: Troops push into Sumy, expanding the zone. Putin issues instructions to work on a security zone along the state border.

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🚨 DEEP STATE FEEDS TRUMP PRO-UKRAINE LIES?🤔

Trump's getting only one side of the story on Ukraine, while neo-conservatives and "allies" ignore his push for peace, believes ex-Pentagon analyst Michael Maloof 👆

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🚨 French Special Forces Colonel BLASTS Taurus Decision: ‘Germany will be punished!’

Colonel Jacques Hogard (26-yr French Army veteran, ex-NATO Kosovo commander) – to Sputnik:

💬 "I think it's a very bad idea, a very bad decision of Chancellor Mertz. I think this guy is a bit crazy. I have no explanation."

💬 "The European leaders... want their war. It's incredible, but that's it."

💬 "This decision could be a catastrophe... For Western Europe it's a criminal decision."

💬 "If they provoke a Russian reaction, this reaction will be terrible for Germany or NATO countries."

💬 "Germany will be punished. That's evident."

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🚨☠️TAURUS WILL SHARE PATRIOT'S FATE — RUSSIAN RETALIATION READY IF GERMANY ESCALATES

If Germany sends Taurus missiles to Ukraine, it’s a direct declaration of war against Russia, says Colonel Srbobran Radic (Retd).

Once Bundeswehr enters Ukraine, they become lawful targets for Russian strikes. Taurus will share the fate of Patriot—ANNIHILATED.

Radic warns: "Russia could take ‘certain measures’—like targeting Germany from Kaliningrad."

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🚨 GERMANY HEADING FOR COLLAPSE? 🇷🇺RUSSIAN FM DROPS TRUTH BOMB

Germany is sliding down the same deadly path that once led to its downfall, Lavrov commented on German Chancellor Merz's plan to arm Ukraine with Taurus missiles.

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🚨Russia will respond harshly, asymmetrically and sensitively if Germany supplies Taurus missiles to the Kiev regime, State Duma Defense Committee Chairman Kartapolov told Sputnik

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⚡️🇷🇺JUST IN: Presidential aide Medinsky called Ukraine's defense minister to propose exact DATE & PLACE for exchange of memoranda

I read the news, distributed by all world agencies, that allegedly R. Umerov called me about the Memorandum, which we, allegedly, have not prepared yet. Like, the Russians are in no hurry.

I will comment. Everything was almost like that. Only the other way around.

I called Umerov today and proposed an exact date and place of the meeting for the exchange of memoranda. There, right there, we are ready to begin a meaningful, substantive discussion of each of the points of the package agreement on the future ceasefire.

The Ukrainian side went to confer. Apparently, the meeting dragged on. We are waiting for confirmation from them as soon as possible and are ready to meet in person on the date we have designated - in the coming days - and start working. In the interests of long-term peace and saving human lives.


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🚨Merz's Bark is Bigger than Germany's Bite

Merz said that Germany will be the first military power in Europe in a few years.

But what happens if Russia decides to take military action against Germany over the latter potentially supplying Taurus missiles?

Then Merz will be powerless to punch back, said Col Jacques Hogard, who served 26 years in the French Army.

💬 "The economy of Germany is decreasing very quickly. They had a stupid energy policy. They have a lot of difficulties from an economic point of view. So I think it's sort of a dream."


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🚨Russia does not know whether Ukraine has handed over to the United States a list of the terms of the peace agreement, as well as in what form the document was, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

"...Our delegation proceeds from the agreement reached on May 16 during direct Russian-Ukrainian talks in Istanbul," Zakharova added.

At the talks in Istanbul, the delegations of Russia and Ukraine agreed to prepare documents with their vision of resolving the conflict and then exchange them, the diplomat noted.

US President Donald Trump's special envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, said that Washington had received a list of conditions from Kiev.

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🚨Second round of talks between Russia, Ukraine to take place in Istanbul on June 2 - Lavrov

Other statements by Lavrov:

🔶 Russian delegation headed by Medinsky is ready to present a memorandum to the Ukrainian delegation during the second round of negotiations in Istanbul

🔶 Moscow expects that those interested in the success of the peace process will support a new round of direct Russian-Ukrainian negotiations

🔶 Russian delegation ready to provide necessary clarifications on memorandum at second round of resumed direct talks in Istanbul on June 2

🔶 Lavrov expresses gratitude to Turkiye for providing platform for talks with Ukraine.

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🚨Germany is already a party to the conflict: its equipment and military specialists are directly fighting against Russia – Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council

Other statements by Medvedev:

🔶 This isn’t just about arms deliveries. In essence, it’s full-scale participation in the conflict, not some hybrid involvement.

🔶 That means Germany is once again an enemy of Russia, once again taking part in a war — this time driven by the same Nazi ideology it once created. And Merz is simply a loyal heir to his relatives who fought in the Wehrmacht.

🔶 If there is confirmed evidence that German military specialists are involved in launching long-range missiles against Russian territory, any response measure could be considered.

🔶 Such decisions fall within the authority of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. No one can deny Russia the right to fully defend itself — a point our head of state has emphasized more than once.

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🚨Second round of talks between Russia, Ukraine to take place in Istanbul on June 2 - Lavrov Other statements by Lavrov: 🔶 Russian delegation headed by Medinsky is ready to present a memorandum to the Ukrainian delegation during the second round of negotiations…
🚨Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan have held a phone call, during which they discussed initiatives to end the Ukrainian conflict, a Turkish diplomatic source told Sputnik.

Turkiye is fully prepared to host the second round of Russia-Ukraine negotiations in Istanbul on June 2, the source added.

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🇬🇧❄️ UK plans Arctic deployment to confront Russia

The Royal Navy is planning joint Arctic patrols with Norway, has shared defense tech with Oslo, and wants to build an AI-based scheme with Iceland to detect hostile vessels.

“The Arctic is fast becoming an area of intense focus for geopolitical competition – and a key flank of NATO’s defenses,” foreign secretary David Lammy told The Telegraph.

“As ice caps in the region melt, new shipping routes and resources will be exposed, further heightening the risk of confrontation. That’s why we must take action to deter threats in the Arctic,” he added.

Lammy didn’t clarify how the Northern Sea Route, the “new shipping route” which falls entirely within Russia’s Arctic territory, is a “threat” to the UK, which has zero claim to the area, or the broader region.

It’s also unclear what he means by “risk of confrontation,” unless NATO actively tries to poke its nose in Russia’s Arctic territories.

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