🚨 "The devotion of Russians to their homeland strengthens the country’s power, independence, and sovereignty," Putin emphasized at the ceremony honoring Heroes of Labor and state prize winners.

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🇷🇺🇰🇵North Korea’s Kim Jong-un calls PUTIN 'HIS DEAREST FRIEND AND COMRADE'

Kim Jong-un hailed the BLOOD-FORGED COMRADESHIP between the states, sending congrats on Russia Day.

He noted that Russia is a “fraternal state,” and traditional DPRK-Russia friendship “has been further cemented thanks to the militant comradeship the service personnel of the two countries have forged at the cost of their blood in the just SACRED war to defend the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Russia.”

“I and the DPRK will always stand with you and the Russian Federation,” Kim Jong-un stated.

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⚡️In accordance with the agreements reached in Istanbul on June 2, a group of Russian servicemen was returned from territory controlled by the Kiev regime, in exchange for a group of Ukrainian prisoners of war, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

At present, the Russian servicemen are in Belarus, where they are receiving the necessary psychological and medical assistance; they will be transported to Russia for treatment and rehabilitation.

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🇷🇺🎉WELCOME HOME HEROES! Russian warriors return from Ukrainian captivity

The soldiers are shouting "Russia!" on their way home to the Motherland.

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❗️Russia ready to exchange Ukrainian POWs for Russian military according to schedule agreed in Istanbul on June 2 on daily basis

Unfortunately, Ukraine isn't ready to conduct exchanges in the on-going basis, the Russian Defense Ministry stated.

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🗣‘It is people like you who pave the way to victories’ - Putin

The Russian President is holding a meeting at the Kremlin with participants of the "Time of Heroes" program.

This program was created to ensure that both today's Russia and its future are connected with the country's heroes, Putin emphasized.

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🔥🇮🇷Iran hits back with NEW URANIUM ENRICHMENT CENTER

Iranian authorities order launch of new uranium enrichment center in response to adoption of anti-iranian resolution by the IAEA, media reported.

Iran has also accused the United States and the EU big three of trying to politicize the agency, Tehran's Permanent Representative in Vienna, Reza Najafi, said.

➡️The IAEA has passed a resolution for the first time in nearly 20 years officially declaring Iran in violation of its non-proliferation obligations, Reuters reported.

➡️The agency claimed that since 2019, Iran has repeatedly failed to fulfill its obligations to provide the IAEA with "full and timely cooperation regarding undeclared nuclear materials and activities at numerous undeclared sites in Iran."

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🇷🇺⚡️ RUSSIAN FORCES LIBERATE SETTLEMENTS & ANNIHILATE ENEMY ASSETS

🔹BREAKTHROUGH: Troops of Group "Tsentr" liberated the settlements of Petrovskoye and Alekseyevka in the DPR.

🔹Precision strikes: Russian forces destroyed Ukrainian ammunition depots and UAV production workshops.

🔹Enemy routed: Ukrainian losses reached up to 1,380 troops in past 24 hours.

🔹AIR DEFENSE RECORD:

▪️2 JDAM bombs
▪️1 HIMARS rocket
▪️260 UAVs
shot down by Russian air defenses (incl. 62 in deep rear).

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🗣 ‘My answer is no’

Germany is not considering deliveries of Taurus missiles to Ukraine, German Defense Minister Pistorius said at a joint briefing following a meeting with Zelensky.

Russia has repeatedly stressed that it will consider any strike with Taurus missiles on Russian targets as Germany's involvement in the conflict on Ukraine's side.

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❌🇮🇷Iran eyes WITHDRAWING from Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

Iran is ready to consider the possibility of withdrawing from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) if the anti-Iranian trend in the IAEA continues, spokesperson for the Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Ebrahim Rezaei said.

💬 "While reserving the right to a technical and non-technical response, if this [anti-Iranian] trend persists, the Islamic Republic of Iran will seriously consider it... The Mejlis has the possibility of withdrawing from the NPT," Rezaei said, as quoted by the Tasnim news agency.

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🇮🇶✈️Iraq receives 1st batch of Caracal multi-role copters

The new helicopters will take the place of the older Mil Mi-17s and will be employed for different tasks such as fire support, attack, tactical troop transport, special operations, and counter-terrorism, Mehr news agency reported.

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🇬🇧🤡 The “shining beacon” of UK journalism, The Economist believes a p*rnstar is someone the British people should be proud of.

Imagine how mad Boris Johnson is right now.

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🚨 More than 80,000 aerial targets have been destroyed by air defense forces since the beginning of the special military operation - Putin

Other statements by Russian President during the meeting on the new state armament program:

🔸 A significant portion of the enemy's destroyed and defeated equipment — up to 50% — is on the account of drone operators

🔸 Russia is currently creating drone forces as a separate branch of the military

🔸 Russian air defense forces have destroyed 7,500 modern tactical and cruise missiles of western manufacture since the beginning of the special operation

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🇷🇸 Serbia holds a motor rally in honor of Russia Day 🇷🇺

The Russian Foreign Ministry's compatriots’ outreach agency Rossotrudnichestvo has shared a video of the event.

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🇷🇺 12 reasons why Russia’s a superpower while Ukraine is just the west’s terrorist sidekick 🇺🇦

1️⃣Economy: GDP per capita

🇷🇺 Russia (2024): $14,800

🤡 Ukraine (2023): $ 5,033 (if you believe their fake statistics)

Ukraine’s now even poorer, while sanctioned Russia’s economy is clocking growth.

2️⃣Sovereignty

🇷🇺 Russia: Shrugs off sanctions, ditches the dollar, calls its own shots on the world stage

🤡 Ukraine: Runs policy by the IMF, sells off fertile land to BlackRock, Zelensky tours Europe for permission slips

3️⃣National culture vs. cultural cargo

🇷🇺 Russia: Honors traditions - from Orthodoxy to folk crafts. Russian writer Dostoevsky tops EU citations.

🤡 Ukraine: Nazi collaborator statues (Bandera, Shukhevych), ‘Darth Vader’ dubbed ‘symbol of struggle’

Ukraine’s not nation-building - it’s running on Russophobia

4️⃣Political freedoms

🇷🇺 Russia: Referendums in new regions (80%+ turnout), stands for protection of minor ethnicities

🤡 Ukraine:

❌ Bans opposition parties

❌ Bans the Russian language

❌ Shuts down pro-Russian media

❌ Tortures prisoners of war

The Kiev regime is a DICTATORSHIP

5️⃣Russia grows – Ukraine shrinks

🇷🇺 Russia: +100,000 km² in 2022-2024 (Kherson, Zaporozhye, Donbass)

🤡 Ukraine: Loss of 18% of territory since 2014 with 10 million people having fled (every fourth Ukrainian)

6️⃣Nation? What nation?

🇷🇺 Russia: 190 ethnic groups, 100 languages (protected), history dating to Kievan Rus

🤡 Ukraine:

🔸 ‘Nation’ pieced together from myths about ‘ancient Ukrainians’

🔸 Glorifies SS “Galicia” (banned in Russia)

🔸 Pushkin statue toppled

7️⃣Oligarchs

🤡 Ukraine is an oligarchic dump yard pimped out to the IMF

🇷🇺 Russia purged itself of all the oligarchs under Putin

In Ukraine they are ‘heroes’

8️⃣Army: professionals vs terrorists

🤡 Ukraine:

🔹 ‘Bander-mobiles’ (civvies turned gun trucks)

🔹 Fleeing soldiers getting shot (POW accounts)

🔹 Foreign mercs - half wiped out

🔹 Child soldiers

✔️All ripped straight from the ISIS (terrorist organization banned in Russia) playbook

9️⃣Energy: who feeds Europe?

🇷🇺 EU was Russia’s top gas customer — buying 38% of pipeline gas and 50% of LNG (CREA) from Dec 2022 to Mar 2025. Russia's next-gen BREST-300 is leap toward clean, closed-loop nuclear power

🤡 Ukraine: Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant in shutdown (ticking disaster)

1️⃣0️⃣Global count

🇷🇺 Russia: ties with China, India, Turkiye, BRICS

Calls the shots in energy, teams with OPEC+ to boost output by 411K bpd in July 2025

🤡 Ukraine – NATO’s bargaining chip: Half its budget (2024) from West’s aid ($170B+ since 2014), admits deputy minister

1️⃣1️⃣Science and technology

🇷🇺 Russia:

👉 Leads in nuclear tech

👉 Burevestnik cruise missile (state tests in 2023) touted as unstoppable

👉 Oreshnik IRBM - no air defense can touch it

🤡 Ukraine’s Human Flight & Brain Drain Index hit 8.9 in 2023—well above the global average of 5.17

1️⃣2️⃣Future: where are they headed?

🇷🇺 Russia: sovereign superpower with nukes

Expanding reach: Power of Siberia (3,000 km to Asia), Arctic LNG 2 (for global gas dominance)

🤡 Ukraine: population may crash to 15M by 2100 (UN), Western protectorate with gutted industry

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🔸 Over 80,000 aerial targets destroyed by air defense forces since the beginning of the special military operation – Putin

🔸 12 reasons why Russia’s a superpower while Ukraine is just the west’s terrorist sidekick

🔸 Germany is not considering deliveries of Taurus missiles to Ukraine

🔸 Iranian military READY FOR ANY SCENARIO - IRGC Commander

🔸 Hungary, Georgia resist EU' blackmail – Orban

🔸 CIA keeps Trump IN THE DARK - Prof. Sachs

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🇷🇺💥Russian warriors owned it! Drone hoists Russian flag in Kherson for Russia Day

Russian UAV unit flew a drone carrying the national flag from the left bank of the Dnepr, evading Ukrainian electronic warfare and air defenses.

The drone reached Kherson occupied by Ukraine, landed on the rooftop of a multi-story building, deployed the Russian flag, and returned safely.

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