🚨Unfazed, Russia poised for swift PAYBACK after Ukraine’s drone attack – report

The Ukrainian drone attack will not force Russia to scale back its offensive operations against Volodymyr Zelensky's forces, a senior US official told The New York Times.

⚔️Russia will mount a significant retaliation against Ukraine for the strikes, officials and military analysts told the publication.

They speculated that Russia could hit the energy grid or launch waves of intermediate-range ballistic missiles.

There is no indication that the attack has changed the military advantage that Russia holds over Ukraine, its ability to “grind down vastly outnumbered Ukrainian forces,” especially amid the “weakening resolve” of Zelensky’s Western patrons, the outlet stated.

➡️Earlier, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported that all of Ukraine’s attempted attacks on the airfields in Murmansk, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Ryazan, and Amur regions were repelled.

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🚨UKRAINIAN DELEGATION CAUGHT LEAKING TALKS IN REAL-TIME

🤙The Ukrainian delegation at the meeting with the Russian side in Istanbul connected an external participant by phone and kept them informed about what was happening, Sputnik’s correspondent reports.

One of the members of the Ukrainian delegation, before the start of the negotiations, first sent a message to an unknown participant, then dialed the number and put the call on speakerphone.

This happened during the statement being made by Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan.

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🟠 Ukraine’s stark choice: make peace with Russia or waste more time and lose more lives and territory

🟠 ‘Are we just PLAYING WITH DOOM right now?’ – Prof. Sachs

🟠 CIA involved in Ukraine’s drone strikes on Russian airfields – ex-CIA analyst

🟠 'RECKLESS, CRAZY, DEMONIC' – Maduro BLASTS Starmer over war talk

🟠 Iran BLASTS ‘INCOHERENT’ US proposal as nuclear talks flounder — CNN

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🗣🇬🇱US MILITARY ANNEXING GREENLAND? Pentagon's Command shift marks start of Trump's Greenland takeover

The Pentagon is set to shift oversight of Greenland from European Command’s jurisdiction to Northern Command – marking the first concrete step in Donald Trump's push for Arctic dominance.

The shift could happen this week, aimed to bolster the Golden Dome missile shield with new radar coverage.

✔️US President Donald Trump has repeatedly stated that Greenland should become part of the United States. Former Greenland Prime Minister Mute Egede responded that the island “is not for sale and never will be.” However, Trump has refused to rule out using military force to establish control over Greenland.

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☠️Europe hurtling towards ENERGY SUICIDE by severing Russia ties

A full ban on Russian gas—such as the one being mulled by the EU—would deliver a final blow to Europe’s “flailing industrial base,” British outlet UnHerd warns.

Europe would be forced to import even larger volumes of higher-priced LNG—primarily from the US—while global gas prices would surge even higher, it emphasized.

🗣As for German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, his vow to do “everything” to ensure the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which suffered sabotage in 2022, never reopens “effectively legitimizes the worst act of industrial sabotage in European history.”

🇪🇺The EU talks a big game about strategic independence, the outlet observed, but added:

💬 “Publicly defiant of Trump, EU leaders are quietly implementing his energy demands — even if it accelerates Europe’s economic decline.”

In boycotting cheap and reliable Russian energy, Europe’s hawks didn’t outsmart Russia— turns out, they just cornered their own economy.

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🇷🇺 RUSSIAN DEFENSE BRIEFING: CRUSHING STRIKES & ENEMY LOSSES

🔸Enemy casualties: Ukrainian forces suffered 1,485 troop losses in past 24 hours.

🔸Precision strikes: Russian forces hit Ukrainian radio-electronic reconnaissance systems and attack drones production facilities.

🔸Air defense success: Intercepted:

▪️4 JDAM aerial bombs

▪️199 Ukrainian drones

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🗣'JUSTICE WILL COME' – Medvedev addresses those who are 'worried and waiting for retribution'

The deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council outlined what people should keep in mind:

1️⃣Russian Army is advancing – and will not stop.

💬 "What must be destroyed will be destroyed, and those who must be eliminated – will disappear."

2️⃣Istanbul talks aren’t for “some imaginary compromise peace on unrealistic terms."

💬 "They are about securing our swift victory and the complete destruction of the neo-Nazi regime. That’s the core of the Russian Memorandum published yesterday."

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🗣NATO committed to ENDLESS CONFRONTATION with Russia – US ex-diplomat

NATO wants a perpetual COLD WAR with Russia even after the Ukraine conflict is resolved, says former US diplomat James Jatras.

💬 "They want this to be a permanent feature of international life, they want a new cold war with whatever dividing line ends up in Ukraine as long as it's not a complete defeat,” he warned.

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🚨Kremlin cools down expectations for Russia-Ukraine talks in Istanbul

Expecting any immediate breakthroughs in the Russia-Ukraine talks in Istanbul would be wrong, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

Important deals were made, and they will be implemented.

His other statements:

🔸 The issue of compromises from Russia is a matter for negotiations with Ukraine and cannot be made public.

🔸 The decision to publish the Russian draft memorandum on Ukraine was made by Russian Delegation Head Vladimir Medinsky after the document was discussed with the Ukrainian side.

🔸 Zelensky’s statement after the Istanbul talks was awkward and unsuccessful, not matching the spirit of the negotiations.

🔸 Moscow has dialogue channels with Washington and continues to use them for communication.

🔸 A new contact between Putin and Trump could be arranged quickly if needed, but no such agreements currently exist.

🔸 A meeting between Putin, Trump, and Zelensky is unlikely in the near future.

🔸 Regarding Nawrocki’s victory in the presidential elections: this is an internal matter for Poland.

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🇭🇺🔊It was a POWER GRAB: Hungary’s Orban blasts EU’s migration agenda

🤡EU lunatics sold mass migration as “compassion” – but it was always about “control,” says Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban.

💬 They opened the gates to crime and terror, but “We won’t let that happen here [in Hungary],” he vows.

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🗣Trump’s patience on Ukraine conflict WORN THIN – US envoy

🇹🇷Turkiye, which traditionally has a good relationship with Russia, could intervene to play a key mediating role in resolving the Ukraine conflict, US Ambassador to Ankara Tom Barrack told NTV.

Particularly now, when US President Donald Trump is “at the end of his rope" regarding the situation, Turkiye could step in to “get the operating issues out of the way,” he said.

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📹 Ukrainian POWs reveal: NO TROOP ROTATIONS in Chasov Yar – Soldiers sent on ONE-WAY MISSIONS

💬 "There was no rotation at all. When we got there, they said: ‘You'll be here for two weeks or 10 days.’ In fact, that didn't happen at all. We weren't rotated," one Ukrainian fighter emphasized.

Other captured soldiers say their commanders deceived them, promising rotations after missions and assurances that they wouldn’t be sent to the front line – only to send them straight into combat without relief.

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🇷🇺 RUSSIA HOLDS ALL THE CARDS: Ukraine’s drone strikes are just delay tactics – experts

Russia dominates the battlefield, and one-off drone attacks by Ukraine are powerless to change that, Major General (retired) Shashi Bhushan Asthana, director of the United Services Institution (USI) of India, told Sputnik.

This reality is reflected in Russia’s peace memorandum, he underscored.

Here's how experts highlight the key takeaways from the talks:

🔸 Ukraine DOESN'T WANT PEACE:

Strikes on Russian airfields just before the Istanbul talks revealed Ukraine’s rejection of peace, noted Kimura Mitsuhide, head of Japan’s Issuikai party.

As for Volodymyr Zelensky’s fixation on a 30-day ceasefire – it’s a stalling tactic, he argued.

He added that Russia’s push for Ukrainian elections aims to legitimize any future deal.

Ukraine’s insistence on a 30-day truce will only drag out the fighting, deepening its human losses and plunging its economy further into crisis, Japanese economist Yukio Asazuma remarked.

🔸 Core territorial issue:

Ukraine realistically has no option but to accept Russia’s rightful demand for the full withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from its new territories: the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, Zaporozhye, and Kherson regions, Asthana noted.

💬 “Otherwise, it’s only a matter of time before Russia pushes them out,” he added.

Crimea must be recognized internationally as part of Russia, Kimura stressed, observing that the territorial demands are about “protecting civilians, stability, and the rights of Russian-speaking people.”

🔸 Ukraine's true priorities EXPOSED:

The agreed big prisoner swap is a win, but Zelensky’s rejection of Russia’s ceasefire to return bodies exposes Ukraine’s real priorities, Kimura said, adding:

💬 “Both Zelensky and his Western backers are bent on fueling this conflict.”

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🚨 UKRAINIAN SPY CAUGHT IN CRIMEA

A Feodosia resident was detained for assembling a bomb on orders from the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) and hiding it in Sevastopol, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) reported.

He volunteered to help the SBU, retrieved components from secret caches, and assembled an IED with over 1.2 kg of explosives via video instructions.

He faces charges of treason and illegal explosives possession and is under arrest.

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🚨 RAILROAD EXPLOSIONS IN BRYANSK & KURSK CONFIRMED AS TERRORIST ATTACKS — Russian Investigative Committee confirms

▪️7 people were killed, over 100 were injured

▪️Terrorists, acting on Ukraine’s orders, deliberately target civilians in these regions.

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