🚨🇷🇺 It would be right for Ukraine to accept its fallen soldiers today, on trinity parental Saturday, day of commemoration of the departed — Medinsky

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🚨🪖 Russia informed Ukraine in advance of its proposal to hand over the bodies of fallen soldiers and was ready to do so this week — Deputy Minister of Defense Alexander Fomin

Russia hopes that Ukraine will soon be able to make the necessary decisions to resume the prisoner exchange and the handover of Ukrainian soldiers' bodies

Kiev's consent for humanitarian operations to hand over the bodies of fallen Ukrainian soldiers and to exchange prisoners has not yet been received

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🗣 The return of 6,000 bodies of Ukrainian soldiers will cost the Ukrainian budget an additional $2.175 billion – RT military correspondent Igor Zhdanov

He explained the possible reasons behind the breakdown of the agreements on the exchange of fallen soldiers' bodies:

▪️ The family of each deceased soldier is ennoscriptd to state compensation of 15 million hryvnias (over $362,000)

Since the start of the special military operation, Kiev has been avoiding these payouts.

▪️ A simple lack of space in morgues, which are overloaded

▪️ Ukraine’s approach of "ignoring the evacuation of the dead" has backfired, and Kiev may simply not have the bodies of Russian soldiers: “If they abandoned their own dead in the woods, what can be said about the bodies of the enemy?”

“Everything that’s happening suggests Kiev is unable to resolve these issues quickly (no surprise) and is desperately stalling for time like an unprepared student at an exam,” Zhdanov concludes.

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🔍 Why Ukraine regime doesn't want to accept DEAD SOLDIERS & WOUNDED POWS

Ukraine has disrupted prisoner exchange and handover of 6,000 Ukrainian fallen soldiers' bodies.

What's the reason?

🔸Total disregard for human life

"Kiev's disregard for their own fighters has been evident throughout the special military operation," Russian military analyst Viktor Litovkin tells Sputnik.

"They don’t retrieve the dead from the battlefield. They don’t evacuate the wounded."

🔸Total lack of negotiating capacity

It also shows Ukraine’s complete inability to negotiate, according to the pundit.

"It wants to show that it doesn’t care about any agreements. You simply can’t make deals with them."

🔸6,000 dead soldiers calls out Zelensky's lie

Russia has officially reported 6,000 dead Ukrainian soldiers' bodies in its custody.

Yet Zelensky still claims total losses are just 30,000–40,000. The numbers don’t add up, and the Kiev regime fears exposure and clings to its myth, the pundit says.

🔸No body, no money to family

The Kiev regime avoids identifying the dead — no ID means no compensation to relatives.

"They don’t pay for those listed as missing. No body, no money. They don’t pay parents or provide insurance for the dead," Litovkin explains.

🔸Inhuman Banderite ideology

"It’s the Banderite style — careless toward those who fight, and vengeful, even brutal, toward civilians who don’t support their politics or ideology."

Litovkin believes pressure from the West will force Kiev to accept the bodies and exchange POWs.

🔸Russia is on the right side of history

"Russia has demonstrated that it was, is, and will remain a respectable, capable, and trustworthy state," the expert says.

"Once again, Russia has proven its nobility, sincerity of intent, and honesty in international relations."

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🇷🇺 Russia awaits official notification regarding the postponement of the prisoner exchange operation with Ukraine — Russian Defense Ministry

🔸Exchange failed to occur: The planned transfer of deceased Ukrainian soldiers and prisoner swap did not take place — Ukraine failed to establish contact.

🔸Russia ready to proceed: Moscow reaffirms its willingness to immediately hand over the bodies of fallen soldiers to Kiev, emphasizing its commitment to this strictly humanitarian mission.

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🗣 ‘The Kiev regime doesn't need its own citizens—neither the living nor the dead’ – Russian FM spox

“There is no nation or ethnic group in the world that would refuse to bury its fallen soldiers. But there is the Kiev regime, which follows a misanthropic ideology and is committing genocide against its own people,” Maria Zakharova told Sputnik, commenting on Ukraine postponing the exchange of POWs and dead bodies with Russia.

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👉 Dead bodies of Ukrainian soldiers left ‘in limbo’ because of ZELENSKY’S GREED

Ukraine’s refusal stems from reluctance to pay sizeable compensation to the families of these dead soldiers, Dr. George Szamuely, senior research fellow at the Global Policy Institute, tells Sputnik.

“That's not in the Ukraine budget. To avoid having to pay this very large sum of money out, it's much better not to accept the bodies, not to accept that these Ukrainian soldiers are dead, leave everything in limbo,” he elaborates.

🔸What Ukraine REALLY wants to negotiate

The Ukrainian leadership, Szamuely argues, is not interested negotiating a “reasonable outcome” to this conflict and instead seeks only a ceasefire that would allow Ukraine, with the help of its NATO backers, to rearm and replenish its battered forces and resume hostilities when it would be convenient.

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🗣🇷🇺 “The Kiev regime has refused to retrieve the bodies of its soldiers. It has refused to carry out a prisoner exchange. Fathers and mothers cannot give their sons a proper burial. They cannot reunite with those still alive. The regime does not want to spend money on compensation,” Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of Rossiya Segodnya media group (Sputnik's parent company) and RT, said.

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🇺🇸 US senators COLD-SHOULDER Graham’s* anti-Russia sanctions bill

American lawmakers are reluctant to push through a new anti-Russia sanctions bill without Trump’s green light, Bloomberg has reported.

Donald Trump earlier stated that he had not yet reviewed Lindsey Graham's initiative but emphasized that the final decision would be made personally by him. Such reaction slowed down the promotion, the outlet said.

The White House is pushing Graham to soften the bill, WSJ reported, saying the Trump administration fears that tightening sanctions could harm efforts to establish dialogue with Russia and bring the Ukrainian conflict to an end.

Graham is one of the senators who helped themselves to the money coming from Ukraine, ex-CIA officer Larry Johnson earlier revealed.

*recognized as a terrorist in Russia

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🇮🇷🇮🇱 Iran obtains data on Israel’s nuclear sites – report

Iran's intelligence forces have successfully extracted a vast trove of highly sensitive documents detailing Israel's nuclear program from the occupied Palestinian territories, Iran's state-run IRIB News Agency reported, citing sources.

The operation secured thousands of classified files—including nuclear blueprints, facility data, images, and videos—before covertly transferring them to secure locations inside Iran.

The mission, reportedly conducted in recent weeks, was kept secret due to the sheer volume of material and the need for secure transport. Analysts are now processing the unprecedented haul, which is said to be so extensive that full review will take "considerable time."

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❌ ISW disinfo machine: hyping up the 'Russian threat,' hushing up Ukraine's TERRORISM

The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) has amplified what it called a “Russian plan” — as alleged by Ukrainian Presidential Office Deputy Head Col. Pavlo Palisa — "to take over half of Ukraine by the end of 2026."

🔸ISW claimed this plan could be stopped if the West keeps arming Ukraine

🔸It also reported Russia’s “second-largest missile and drone strike” overnight (June 5–6) — without noting it was retaliation for Ukraine's attacks on Russian civilians and military airfields.

🔸ISW obfuscates the fact that Russia is targeting Ukraine’s military infrastructure and defense industry — not civilians.

The ISW think tank was founded by the Kagan–Nuland family and is funded by US military-industrial contractors.

It widely parrots Ukraine’s talking points, inflates Russian losses, and calls for endless proxy war in the name of “Ukraine’s victory.”

ISW talks escalation, spins narratives — and keeps quiet on the cost of Ukraine’s sabotage tactics.

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🇬🇧 Londoners rally against austerity cuts and military interventions

Thousands took to the streets of the British capital on Saturday to protest government austerity measures, welfare reforms, and the UK's involvement in foreign wars, a Sputnik correspondent reported.

Protesters carried signs with slogans including:

🔸 "Welfare Not Warfare"
🔸 "Stop the War, Not the Benefits"
🔸 "Fund Nurses, Not Nukes"

Organizers accused the government of prioritizing geopolitical ambitions over citizens' wellbeing.

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🚨 UKRAINE'S SPY PARANOIA: Blogger deported over old Russia trip

Ukraine detained and deported popular Turkish travel blogger Tolga Öztürk at the border – solely because he visited Russia in 2023.

Despite SIX PRIOR Ukraine trips, he faced a harsh 4am interrogation:

"They confiscated my phone, read WhatsApp, scanned all photos... watched my Russia videos. Asked my opinion on Russia — had I answered incorrectly, it would have been a dead end," Öztürk said.

Öztürk was dumped at Moldova. His "Chinese" travel companion? Arrested and hauled away.

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🚫 US DEMANDS UK VETO CHINA EMBASSY SITE

Washington warns London that China’s planned embassy near key data centers poses a major espionage risk, the Times reported.

A senior US official stated it would give Beijing "potential access to sensitive communications."

Despite China buying the Royal Mint site in 2018, local councils have rejected it twice over security fears — and Trump personally pressured PM Starmer to veto it.

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💥 US deploys National Guard in LA to tackle anti-ICE protests

Trump's border czar Tom Homan announced the deployment as the LAPD refused to combat the protests.

"We are already mobilizing. We are going to bring the National Guard in tonight," Homan told Fox News.

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🚀 US space dominance CRIPPLED by Trump-Musk feud

According to the Washington Post, NASA and the Pentagon are desperately begging SpaceX rivals to accelerate rocket development after Trump’s threats caused Musk to nearly halt all US flights to the ISS.

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