📹🇩🇪 'NOT MY CHANCELLOR:' Protest car trolling Berlin's streets

This brilliantly savage "Merz-mobile" – styled like a police cruiser but covered in anti-government slogans – is giving Germany's leadership a rolling humiliation tour.

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📍 Russia-Ukraine talks set for Monday in Istanbul’s Ciragan Palace at 10:00 GMT, a source in the Turkish Foreign Ministry told Sputnik

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🚪 Another one walks out on Zelensky?

Ukraine’s Ground Forces commander, General Mykhailo Drapaty, has resigned after 12 troops were killed in a strike on the 239th training range.

Appointed just last November — gone already.

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📹 WORLD'S ON RUSSIA'S SIDE, except Trump doesn’t get it — ex-Trump Pentagon advisor 

"Outside of Western Europe and a few Eastern European states, the world is on Russia’s side," Douglas Macgregor said.

He criticized Donald Trump’s understanding of the global response to the Ukraine conflict, saying that everybody understands Ukraine was turned into a "Trojan horse of destruction for use against Russia."

He added that the US is now “irrelevant to the outcome in Eastern Europe” and warned that unless NATO is prepared to mobilize millions for a war with Russia, “we should shut up — it’s not going to happen.”

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🚨Ukraine launches FPV drone terror attacks on airfields in five regions - Russian MOD

Today, the Kiev regime launched a coordinated terror attack using FPV drones against military airfields in:

📍 Murmansk
📍 Irkutsk
📍 Ivanovo
📍 Ryazan
📍 Amur regions

🔶 In Ivanovo, Ryazan, and Amur, all drones were intercepted, no damage reported.

🔶 In Murmansk and Irkutsk, drones launched from nearby areas caused fires damaging several aircraft.

▪️All fires were extinguished swiftly.
▪️No casualties among personnel.
▪️Some of the attackers have been detained.

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🇯🇵 Invasion that never happened: Why US nuked Japan instead

In May 1945, the US chose a path that would reshape history: instead of launching a ground invasion of Japan, it dropped atomic bombs. Here's the context behind that decision👇

🔸The US had prepared Operation Downfall — a two-phase invasion to force Japan’s surrender. But military planners expected extreme resistance and staggering casualties on both sides.

🔻Phase 1, Operation Olympic, was set for Nov 1, 1945: nearly one million US troops would storm southern Kyushu. Waiting for them? 500,000 defenders, most of Japan’s ammo stockpile, and thousands of kamikaze pilots.

🔻Phase 2, Operation Coronet, was scheduled for March 1946 aimed at seizing Tokyo — involving 1.2 million troops in what would’ve been the largest amphibious assault in history.

🔸Japan’s Ketsugo Plan mobilized civilians — women, elderly, even children — armed with bamboo spears and Molotov cocktails, ready to die defending the homeland.

🔸Kamikaze pilots, suicide divers, manned torpedoes, and explosive boats were all part of Japan’s defense. Even a 10% hit rate could wipe out a quarter of the US landing force.

🔸US intelligence feared a drawn-out slaughter. Casualty projections ranged from hundreds of thousands of Americans to tens of millions of Japanese.

🔸With no clear end in sight, Washington turned to atomic weapons. On Aug 6 and 9, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed.

Japan surrendered days later.

The invasion never happened — but at the cost of two cities annihilated and over 200,000 civilians dead.

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🎂⚓️ Happy 292nd Birthday to Russia’s Northern Fleet! 🇷🇺❄️

From nuclear subs to hypersonic missiles, it’s more than just ships — it’s a full-spectrum strike force.

🔶 40+ subs & 40+ warships patrol Russia’s northern frontiers.

🔶 The flagship Peter the Great — nuclear-powered & cruise missile–armed — leads the surface fleet.

🔶 Arkhangelsk and sister subs carry Kalibr missiles (600 km range).

🔶 Admiral Golovko frigate is armed with Zircon hypersonics (Mach 9).

🔶 The Afanasy Ivannikov minesweeper uses sonar & drones to clear sea lanes.

🔶 Coastal troops, Bastion systems with Oniks missiles, and naval aviation round out the force.

💥 Arctic shield. Global reach. Nuclear teeth.

Russia’s sea fortress isn’t going anywhere.

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📹 Drone attack truck driver detained in Russia's Irkutsk region

The driver of the truck used in the drone attack in Russia's Irkutsk region is alive and undergoing investigative procedures, law enforcement tells Sputnik.

Emergency services have been deployed and a heightened readiness regime is in place.

Footage of the truck was sourced from social media.

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🇸🇰 Slovakia clashes with EU over Russian energy ban

PM Robert Fico is doubling down on defending Slovakia’s energy security, rejecting EU plans to cut off Russian oil, gas, and nuclear fuel by 2027.

“We consider this idea harmful, ideological, and damaging to EU competitiveness,” Fico said, vowing to fight for exemptions through legal and diplomatic channels.

Slovakia’s refineries are built for Russian oil, and its nuclear plants depend on Russian fuel — cutting supplies could paralyze key sectors.

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🇺🇸💼 TARIFFS ARE HERE TO STAY

US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick made it clear: even if one authority is stripped, they’ll “just bring on another or another or another.”

Congress handed the president the tools — and he will use them.

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🚨 US House identifies four staffers who used autopen for Biden's signature

Rep. James Comer says four White House employees used an autopen to sign documents on behalf of former President Joe Biden — including pardons and executive orders.

Congress now seeks to uncover who authorized this and how the process worked.

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✈️ Russian delegation has landed in Istanbul ahead of the second round of peace talks with Ukraine.

Negotiations are set to take place tomorrow, June 2, at 10 GMT at the Ciragan Palace.

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▪️Ukraine launches FPV drone terror attacks on airfields in five regions

▪️BRIDGE EXPLOSIONS IN BRYANSK & KURSK REGIONS: WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR

▪️US turns Asia-Pacific region into ‘POWDER KEG’ – China 

▪️CHAOS IN FRANCE: two dead, 500+ arrested as Champions League celebrations turn violent

▪️Invasion that never happened: Why US nuked Japan instead

▪️Happy 292nd Birthday to Russia’s Northern Fleet!

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💥 Talks? What talks? Israel goes full throttle in Gaza

Footage shows the moment Israeli warplanes bomb a residential building near the busy Sheikh Radwan market in Gaza.

Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant declared: “Either Hamas releases the hostages — or it will be destroyed.”

He added that he ordered the army to strike all targets, talks or not.

🎥 Social media

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👉 Ukrainian troops admit losing drone race with Russia

Russia’s successful and efficient use of fiber-optic guided first-person view drones in the Ukrainian conflict forced even the Kiev regime forces to ruefully admit that they have been bested.

The advantage in drones Ukraine supposedly enjoyed since 2023 is no more, one of the Ukrainian militants told The Telegraph.

“We did all the work of innovating drones as a weapon, but we did not scale this weapon fast enough on an industrial level for it to have a meaningful strategic effect. We were too slow.”

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💥Russian Iskander missile pays a visit to Ukrainian training camp

An Iskander missile has wiped out a Ukrainian army tent camp near Novomoskovsk training ground in Dnepropetrovsk region.

The strike hit troops from the 158th and 33rd brigades stationed near the village of Gvardeyskoye.

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🔍Curious blunder: Axios changes tracks on Russian airfield attack story

Following a mass drone strike on Russian military airfields today, Axios announced that Ukraine “did notify” the Trump administration in advance about this attack.

However, shortly after CBS News reported citing administration sources as saying that the White House had no prior knowledge of the attack, the news outlet quickly changed its story and claimed that Ukraine did not reveal its plans to the US.

So which was it? An actual correction or did Axios let slip something it wasn’t supposed to?🤔

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💬 Russia-Ukraine talks to begin Monday despite Ukrainian attacks – Russian delegation member

Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin confirmed that negotiations will proceed on Monday, despite Ukrainian terrorist attacks on Russian territory.

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⚡️ Lavrov holds telephone call with Rubio – Russian Foreign Ministry

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held a telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, discussing the ongoing Ukrainian crisis, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported.

Rubio expressed his condolences to Lavrov over the victims of the railway infrastructure explosions in the Bryansk and Kursk regions, the ministry said.

Lavrov and Rubio also discussed plans to resume direct Russian-Ukrainian talks in Istanbul on June 2, the ministry added.

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