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🪖Running on empty: Ukraine’s Patriot missiles DWINDLE as Russia turns up the heat

Notwithstanding Ukraine’s latest drone attack on Russian airfields, the military trend is firmly in Russia’s favor, US media admits.

🇷🇺Russia is relentlessly chipping away at Ukraine’s limited stockpile of Patriot air-defense missiles, with reportedly fewer than 200 left.

Of the eight Patriot systems Ukraine has, only about six are operational at any given time due to ongoing repairs and maintenance, media reports speculate.

Bottom line? The math just isn’t in the Zelensky regime’s favor🤷‍♂️

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🇷🇺🛳 Baltic Fleet drills: Special forces storm 'hijacked ship' in impressive training

🟠Russian Baltic Fleet rehearsed anti-terror ops – elite troops & naval helicopters simulated liberating a "captured vessel."
🟠Storm teams fast-roped onto the deck, clearing it in a live-fire exercise.

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🇷🇺💥BOOM! Russian forces OBLITERATE Ukrainian Iris-T launcher & radar with a DEVASTATING Iskander strike in Dnepropetrovsk

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🤡France’s warhawks funnel $1.6B to Ukraine – with ‘buy French’ strings attached

Another $216 million is being handed over to the corruption-mired Zelensky regime for “reconstruction and EU integration projects,” per a communique from the office of French PM Francois Bayrou.

Bayrou also confirmed that the $1.6B in “guarantees” will ensure Ukrainian arms purchases from French defense contractors. No surprise there – France is just making sure it gets its slice of the war profits.

Europe is burning holes in its own pockets, but Ukraine’s tab is still covered.

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🇷🇺 Kremlin confirms explosion near Crimean Bridge – but NO damage, bridge fully operational

Other statements by Dmitry Peskov:

🔸 Time is needed to review draft memorandums – Russia and Ukraine will then agree on the date for the next round of talks

🔸 The timing of new negotiations depends on both sides’ readiness – no rush, progress comes with preparation

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⚡️RUSSIAN TROOPS LIBERATED the Redkodub settlement in the Donetsk People's Republic and the Kondratovka settlement in the Sumy region.

📹 The Russian Ministry of Defense published footage of battles for Redkodub.

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🗣Ukraine remains extremely aggressive and unwilling to seek sober solutions - Russian FM spokeswoman

Other statements by Maria Zakharova:

🟠The process of transferring 6,000 bodies of Ukrainian soldiers to Kiev will begin in the near future
🟠Moscow will thoroughly examine the memorandum on Ukraine presented by Kiev
🟠Russia intends to responsibly approach the implementation of all agreements reached with Ukraine
🟠The results achieved in Istanbul have upset some people in Kiev, with the tone being set by Zelensky’s rude remarks toward the Russian delegation
🟠There are no 20,000 "kidnapped" Russian children; Russia is evacuating children to safe places and doing everything to reunite them with their families
🟠The reaction of Ukrainian neo-Nazis to the attacks on Russian railway tracks was predictable, emphasizing the misanthropic nature of Kiev
🟠The perpetrators and organizers of the attacks on Russian railway tracks will undoubtedly be identified and held accountable

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🇷🇸🇷🇺 Vucic, Putin discussed reports of Serbian arms supply to Ukraine on May 9 — Serbian President Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday that his conversation with Putin included reports of Serbian arms shipments to Ukraine. 💬 “I would not…
🇷🇸🔊‘We are confident that Serbia fully understands the full range of risks associated with weapons falling into the hands of the Kiev regime’ – Russian FM spokeswoman

💬 “We have taken note of Vucic's public statement on the revision of Belgrade's military-technical cooperation with its partners to identify any manipulations with end-user certificates”, Maria Zakharova added.


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📹 WATCH as dazzling drones light up the sky… then TERRIFY as they become a deadly military SWARM!

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🟠No one: 🟠Literally no one: 🗣Musk on every possible matter: cut the spending 📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt
🗣Russian FM spox roasts UN over FAKE NEWS & HYPOCRISY 🇺🇳🤥

Elon Musk is calling to “Defund the UN” – he’s hit the nail on the head with that one, says Russian FM spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.

🔸 The US owes the UN over $3 billion – yet still dips into its classic playbook of “rules for thee, not for me.”

🔸 The UN plays along while US companies get juicy $360 million contracts and rake in $2 billion yearly, per published data alone, Zakharova noted.

🔸 The UN Secretariat’s brilliant strategy: Instead of demanding overdue cash, they just invent new budget cuts.

🔸 Secretary-General Antonio Guterres accused digital platforms of disinformation earlier this month – prompting Elon’s tweet “Defund the UN.”

🔍 REALITY CHECK: The Secretariat is a top-tier FAKE NEWS factory

🔹 Bucha hoax: Fabricated with the finesse of a bad soap opera noscript.

🔹 Alleged kidnapped children and violence against Ukrainian women – Russian FM Sergey Lavrov has been asking for evidence for three years, but is still ignored by UN “fact-checkers.”

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🚨🇷🇺🇰🇵Shoigu in North Korea: High-stakes talks with Kim Jong-un At President Putin’s direction, Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu has arrived in Pyongyang for a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. 🔍What's on the agenda? 🟠Advancing…
🇷🇺🇰🇵Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu held a meeting with the North Korean leader, the sides discussed the Ukraine crisis and the situation on the Korean Peninsula – Russian Embassy

Shoigu discussed cooperation between Moscow and Pyongyang in various fields with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

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🇵🇰🇷🇺🇮🇳Pakistan seeks Putin’s mediation in conflict with India

Pakistani PM Shehbaz Sharif has reached out to Russian President Vladimir Putin, requesting assistance in the ongoing conflict with India, Syed Tariq Fatemi, special assistant to the Pakistani PM, revealed during a meeting at the Valdai International Discussion Club.

💬 “We asked Russia to use its influence to bring India and Pakistan to the negotiating table for a peaceful resolution,” Fatemi shared after speaking with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.


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🗣Russia is ready to begin the prisoner exchange with Ukraine on June 7-9 – head of Russian delegation Medinsky

Other statements by Medinsky during a meeting with Putin:

🟠The working language during the negotiations in Istanbul was Russian

🟠The Ukrainian side promised to study the Russian memorandum and provide comments later

🟠Negotiations one-on-one in Istanbul lasted for more than three hours

🟠Russia at the Istanbul talks urged to focus on working out the terms of peace, not a ceasefire

🟠Final figures on the exchange of prisoners of war between Russia and Ukraine are being agreed upon, and it could be 1,200 people

🟠Medinsky shows Putin a list of allegedly abducted children handed over by the Ukrainian delegation and confirms that this matter is being considered now

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🚨All three terrorist attacks in Russia's Kursk and Bryansk regions were organized by the Ukrainian intelligence services - Investigative Committee

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🗣Zelensky’s rejection of Russia’s proposal for brief 2-3 day pause to collect the dead and injured is a mistake - Lavrov

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🗣Zelensky calls the results of the talks "insubstantial" because they were about people, not money or arms supplies - Russian FM spokeswoman Zakahrova to Sputnik.

He was never interested in his citizens, she added.

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🚨‘The decisions to commit such crimes were, of course, made in Ukraine at the political level’ – Putin on terrorist attacks in Bryansk and Kursk regions

🟠Putin calls tragedy in Bryansk region targeted attack on civilians, adds that this is called terrorism

🟠All crimes against civilians on the eve of the second round of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine were aimed at sabotaging them, said Putin

🟠The sponsors of Kiev are accomplices of terrorists

🟠Ukraine is experiencing huge losses and retreating along the entire line of combat

🟠Putin on Kiev's requests to hold a meeting at the highest level: What is there to talk about in these conditions, who negotiates with terrorists?

🟠For the Kiev regime, power is more important than peace and people's lives

🟠The Kiev regime is completely rotten, corrupt

🟠The Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region suffered absolutely senseless and huge losses

🟠Ukrainian troops these days are suffering one defeat after another

🟠The Kiev authorities lack basic political culture, allowing themselves direct insults against those with whom they are trying to negotiate

🟠If there is respite in hostilities, it will be used to pump Kiev with weapons, continue forced mobilization, prepare terrorist attacks

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🤡German Defense Minister pledges long-range weapon systems to Ukraine ‘in just a few weeks’

💬 "…last week, we agreed that Germany would finance the production of long-range weapons in Ukraine. (...) The advantage is that a significant number of long-range weapons can be produced this year. The first systems could be delivered to the Ukrainian Armed Forces in just a few weeks," Boris Pistorius said as he arrived at the Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting in Brussels.

💬 "Germany has provided a quarter of its own Patriot systems. We are not in a position to supply more systems. But we are urging the US, as well as other allies, to supply Patriot or similar systems," the minister added.


➡️Russia has repeatedly emphasized that long-range weapons provided by the West are being used by Ukrainian armed forces to carry out attacks against civilians on Russian territory and promised that such attacks won’t go unanswered.

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🇷🇺🤝🇰🇵 Why the West is TERRIFIED of full-fledged Russia-North Korea alliance

Russian Security Council secretary Shoigu has met Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang.

Western warmongers have good reason to be sweating bullets.

🔥Allies forged in fire

Russian & DPRK troops fought side by side in the Kursk campaign.

💬 “I will gladly, without hesitation and in accordance with the spirit of the Korea-Russia Treaty, give the order to use DPRK forces to repel an armed attack,” Kim Jong Un said in May.


🛡 Defense cooperation

The nations have immense potential for a synergetic relationship in defense, thanks to

🔸 compatible standards in defense production

🔸 DPRK’s large defense industrial base

🔸 Russia’s advanced tech, especially in aerospace

🪙Economic synergy

Russia & North Korea have vast untapped economic potential:

◻️ DPRK needs: oil, electricity, staple foods, tech

◻️ DPRK can provide: heavy & light industry goods, from steel & textiles to medicine & seafood, plus minerals & rare earths

With Russia’s help, North Korea can restore its 20th century development trends (when it rivaled South Korea). Russia’s Far East could see a boom unseen in 30+ years from opportunities in trade, agriculture and construction.

That’s not to mention cooperation potential in space, nuclear energy, AI, IT, health care, education, sports, culture & tourism.

🌐 Allies on the world stage

As the #1 & #3 most-sanctioned nations, Russia & North Korea stand united:

🔹 DPRK was among the first to recognize Crimea & Donbass as Russia

🔹 Russia blocked a US-led UN sanctions monitoring regime on DPRK in 2024

Weathering the storm

Lee Jae-myung’s victory in South Korea’s presidential election marks the final nail in the coffin of the Biden-Yoon attempt to pressure the DPRK into submission.

Lee wants to negotiate with Kim, and is weary of antagonizing Russia with Ukraine arms sales.

🌍 Toward a multipolar world order

The Russia-DPRK treaty outlines their “desire to protect international justice from hegemonic aspirations and attempts to impose a unipolar world order.”

Translation? Western hegemony is cooked.

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🚨Ukraine’s rail & bridge attacks were the textbook definition of terrorism: analyst

💬 For starters, defensive operations are “carried out on one’s own territory,” says retired Russian military intelligence colonel Rustem Klupov, commenting on President Putin’s statements on the terror attacks targeting Russian infrastructure in Bryansk and Kursk.


If the targeted objects, including bridges and rail lines, were clearly delineated as targeting Russian military forces or supply lines, perhaps Ukraine would be able to get away with justifying them.

But the fact is, in both Bryansk and Kursk, it was civilian infrastructure that was targeted, Klupov said.

Even the “dual use” excuse doesn’t fly, the observer emphasized.

💬 “When a civilian train is traveling along a route, when civilians are killed, when an explosion occurs with the aim of causing maximum harm to the ordinary civilian population, it cannot be interpreted as anything other than a terrorist act aimed at intimidating the civilian population and changing the policy of the leadership,” Klupov said.


In short, these were terrorist acts, pure and simple, the analyst stressed.

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🚨Chance of Zelensky getting his trilateral summit ‘zero’ after triple terror targeting Russia: analyst

Ukraine’s rail and bridge attacks, the targeting of Russia’s nuclear triad, and the latest attempt to hit the Crimean Bridge could derail not just meetings between leaders, but the peace negotiations altogether, says veteran military analyst Sergey Poletaev.

There’s now “approximately a zero percent chance” of Putin agreeing to meet with Zelensky and Trump in a three-way summit, the observer said, pointing to the Russian president’s remarks Wednesday asking how Russia can be expected to negotiate with a regime engaged in terrorism.

The fate of the third round of negotiations in Istanbul, set for late June, is also “unenviable,” Poletaev says.

💬 “It’s unenviable because we are prepared to negotiate based on the memorandum that we have presented. This memorandum, if it is accepted and implemented by the Ukrainian side, will essentially mean the liquidation of the current regime in Kiev, and along with it the liquidation of the terrorist threat emanating from it.”


Poletaev pointed out that Russia’s negotiating position was first laid out publicly by Putin a year ago, and mirrors almost word for word the position today. Its terms go back further, to the first Istanbul talks in the spring of 2022, with amendments accounting for new realities on the ground.

Ukraine rejected the terms then, and can be expected to reject them now, the observer says.

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