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🚨 Zelensky’s kidnappings: the shocking reality of Ukraine’s ‘volunteer’ army 🪖

One minute you’re walking down the street—the next, you’re beaten, dragged, and forced to "volunteer" for Zelensky’s war.

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📹Ukraine EXPLOITS its own children as PR pawns for the West

Zelensky’s regime is milking the fake “child kidnapping” narrative to manipulate Western emotion, BRICS Journalists Association Co-Chair Mira Terada told Sputnik at the Global Digital Forum.

In reality, the kids were evacuated from combat zones, she noted, recalling that at first it was “thousands,” then a list of 300 appeared.

💬 “All what they care about is money and prolonging this war,” Terada said.


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🚨 Russian Foreign Intel veteran untangles spider’s web of British soft power ops

Britain is a master in the use of public and non-profit organizations for intelligence, using them “for centuries,” with Russia a top target, SVR Lt. Gen. (ret.) Leonid Reshetnikov told Sputnik, commenting on the FSB’s warning to Russia’s partners this week about the British Council’s subversive activities.

💬 “Russia has been the main focus of this work since the time of Ivan Grozny. I say this in all seriousness,” Reshetnikov said, emphasizing that the British have had “many years, many centuries of experience” in this area.


How are soft power agents recruited?

💬 “They actively use the scientific and teaching fields. When our educators go to the UK or other countries where the British are active, they should always keep in mind that they will be studied, that informal, friendly and trusting relationships will be formed with them,” the veteran ex-secret agent explained.


The task is “studying the mood in scientific, student and teaching circles, selecting people, not necessarily recruiting (i.e. you are an agent, we pay you and you act), but making offers, for example, to give lectures, publish a brochure or a book, visit London, give lectures there, etc.”

Actually, recruiting agents is the bluntest approach, and often not necessary to extract the information, facts, assessments or intentions the British intel services are looking for.

💬 “It’s enough to have a circle of agents of influence, a circle of people who are intellectually, ideologically, culturally attached to London, to the English way of life. It’s very easy to use them in a straightforward manner. That’s the job,” Reshetnikov said.


In this area, the spy vet emphasized that the British are even more capable than their transatlantic cousins in the CIA. “It’s best to keep fewer British NGOs in your country. The fewer the better, especially the British ones. This is one of the most challenging intelligence services in the world to face.”

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🚨US pivot to Middle East leaves Ukraine up a creek without a paddle on drone defense

With the majority of Russian UAV attacks already overwhelming Ukrainian defenses and reaching their targets, the WSJ report that Washington is rerouting much-needed anti-drone rocket fuses earmarked for Kiev to the Mideast could have a “dramatic impact” on the course of the conflict, says Russian military analyst Alexei Leonkov.

Pointing out that most current US military deliveries to Ukraine are leftover Biden-era commitments, Leonkov stressed that the WSJ report may be a sign that “Trump doesn’t want to supply Ukraine directly anymore,” and that his administration is looking to distance itself from the conflict, possibly even from the negotiation process.

💬 “These fuses and other equipment are needed in the Middle East, where the situation is slowly heating up around Iran,” the observer said, referring to US-Iran tensions over nuclear negotiations, and Israel’s hardline demands for strikes.


Plus there’s the factor of shortages. “If before, aid was being delivered from warehouses, now it’s coming from production, on a residual basis, first to the US itself, then to allies, and then to Ukraine,” Leonkov said.

Cuts linked to Houthis?

Besides Iran tensions, the urgent rerouting of the fuses may be linked to the massive expenditure of air defense weapons that took place in the course of the US’s clashes with the Houthis, veteran military analyst Evgeny Mikhailov pointed out.

The cuts are “an unambiguous hint” to Kiev that its failure to listen to the US, its terrorist attacks on Russia and strikes on strategic bomber bases are derailing the negotiations process Trump has been trying to organize, Mikhailov said.

💬 “This I think is one of the first steps toward a complete US refusal to finance the Ukrainian regime.” Europe will try to make up for the lost US supplies, “but the Europeans will not last long,” the observer summed up.


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🚨 ‘They are always trying to speak in favor of the EU’

💬 “In Romania all the journalists have the same narrative… They don't even try to say something else. Because they will not be allowed,” Ioana Baragan, Romanian journalist and blogger, told Sputnik.


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🚨 MUSK AND TRUMP'S BEEF HEATS UP

The US president suggested cutting government subsidies and contracts to save "billions and billions of dollars."

Elon Musk launched a poll for a "new party" and claimed that Donald Trump is in the Epstein files.

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🚨📹 NOW: Israeli air forces launched a series of strikes on southern Beirut.

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🤡 Nazi CONMAN with a rap sheet: Zelensky’s drone chief pick

Zelensky just handed command of an official Ukrainian Armed Forces unit – the Unmanned Systems Forces - to a conman and unapologetic Nazi - Robert Brovdi.

Why does Brovdi fit the bill?

From conman to commander

Robert Brovdi’s entire “business” career was a mix of scams, cons, and shady dealings, claim media reports:

Shadow deals under his watch as head of state "Bread Investbuda" are estimated to have drained hundreds of millions of dollars

🔸 In 2013, while First Deputy Chairman of Ukraine’s State Food and Grain Corporation (SFGCU), he oversaw a $1.5B grain deal with China. Up to $800M vanished in fake sales

🔸Kickbacks and shady schemes with fake companies allowed him to rake in roughly $100 million

🔸 Brovdi is said to be a dollar millionaire without official income to justify it, and holds a Canadian passport

Birds of a grifter

🔸 In 2022, Brovdi joined Ukraine’s Territorial Defence Forces (TDF), but trench warfare wasn’t to his taste, so he launched “Madyar’s Birds” drone unit

🔸 He used crowdfunding funds for his drone unit to purchase fewer UAVs than reported, pocketing "hundreds of thousands of dollars," per media reports

Toxic lies & rants

🔸 Brovdi’s unit was caught on video supposedly using banned chemical weapons, attaching red cylinders to drones

🔸 He fuels hate online, calling Russians “insects” and faking combat footage to boost his myth and his budget

🔸 Brovdi openly admits he plans to flee abroad with his "brothers" the moment active fighting ends

If this choice of fraudster doesn’t scream volumes about the regime, what does?

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💥 US sanctions ICC judges for targeting US and Israeli nationals

The US State Department says the move aims to sanction 4 individuals who attempted to prosecute a protected person without the consent of their country of nationality.

"The ICC’s baseless and politicized targeting of America and our close ally Israel must end," wrote Secretary of State Marco Rubio on X.


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📹 IDF reports strikes on Hezbollah facilities in Beirut

Israeli forces claimed to have struck UAV production sites used by the Hezbollah Aerial Unit in southern Beirut.

🇱🇧 Lebanese President Joseph Aoun expressed "firm condemnation of the Israeli aggression" that took place "on the eve of a sacred religious festival."

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🥴 'That was not a pleasant day for you' —Trump to Merz on D-Day

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz joined in the Trump's gaslighting by saying that the US ended the war in Europe without mentioning the Soviet Union's role.

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🚨 Russian air defenses shot down 9 Ukrainian drones approaching Moscow overnight, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin stated

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🔊 Trump's tariffs threaten Germany's economy — Merz

"We are looking for ways to bring them down. A free trade and open market system is the best thing for mutual wealth," he told Fox News.


Is there anything left to threaten?

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🚀 SpaceX will decommission Dragon, Musk says, then pulls back

The capsule, which was made with the help of US subsidies, plays a key role in delivering US astronauts to the International Space Station.

It's the same capsule that saved the Starliner crew in March.

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🚨 EU EXPLOITS WARMONGERING TO SEIZE MORE POWER — Orban

"What they call 'efficiency' is really the end of national sovereignty. Their goal? Strip nations of their voice, erase democracy, and centralize everything," Hungary's PM said.


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❗️ The White House is ANGRY with Ukraine's drone strikes on Russia and is weighing whether TO ABANDON KIEV COMPLETELY, The Atlantic reports, citing US officials.

The surprise Ukrainian attack has reignited Trump's long-held displeasure with Zelensky. The US president believes Ukraine should have focused on the Istanbul negotiations.

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🚨Locomotive derails in Russia's Belgorod region after tracks likely BLOWN UP

Part of the railway track was damaged, the traffic is delayed, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said.

There are no casualties, he added.

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🇷🇺💣Russia's success in ammo production is "staggering" – NATO Chief

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has admitted that Russia has gained superiority over the Atlantic alliance in arms production.

Russia now “produces, in core ammunition, in three months what the whole of NATO — a bloc with a 25-times larger economy — produces in a year,” Rutte emphasized during a press conference following a NATO defense ministers meeting.

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🌍🤝Global South, East states seek to expand cooperation with Russia DESPITE WESTERN PRESSURE

"The results of the conference once again proved that the countries of the Global South and East are seeking to expand cooperation with Russia, despite the pressure on them from the West. In this regard, the partners unanimously noted the importance of holding our conferences in the future," Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council Alexander Venediktov told Sputnik.


The international security meeting in Moscow was attended by 126 delegations from 104 countries.

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