🗣 ‘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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🇷🇺The world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, was lit up in the Russian tricolor to celebrate Russia Day.

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🚨 Israeli PM Netanyahu convening security cabinet meet amid reports of strikes on Iran (Times of Israel citing military source)

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⚡️Iranian state TV, amid reports of Israeli airstrikes, reported an explosion in a residential building in Tehran & aired footage of the structure engulfed in flames.

Tasnim reports flight restrictions at the capital’s airport.

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🛩 Crashed Air India Boeing was the same model whistleblowers were warning about

The 787 Dreamliner has faced years of scrutiny from Boeing engineers, lawmakers and the Federal Aviation Administration amid allegations of serious safety lapses in the aircraft’s production.

The concerns were so serious that the FAA temporarily halted production in 2021, before allowing it to resume a year later.

🔸In 2024, veteran Boeing engineer Sam Salehpour testified to Congress that the 787’s skin was not being fastened properly during manufacturing, leaving “thousands of gaps” and potentially threatening catastrophic breakup midflight.

🔸John Barnett, another Boeing whistleblower, who died from a ‘self-inflicted gunshot wound’ in 2024 after raising similar safety concerns, alleged before his death that Boeing’s Dreamliner factory was using substandard parts and falsifying paperwork to keep production going.

🔸Richard Cuevas, a veteran mechanic for one of Boeing’s subcontractors, reported on workers’ practice of improper drilling of holes in 787s’ forward pressure bulkheads, and alleged “substandard manufacturing and maintenance processes.” After filing a complaint in 2023, he was fired.

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🚨🇮🇷🇮🇱 ISRAEL CLAIMS CONDUCTED STRIKES AGAINST IRANIAN NUCLEAR & MILITARY OFFICIALS

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⚡️🇮🇱 Israeli army declares 1st phase of operation against Iran’s nuclear program complete.

🇮🇷Meanwhile, Press TV reports first casualties from strikes on Tehran.

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📹🇮🇷 Iranian media share footage reportedly from near Natanz following Israeli attacks

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🚨 BREAKING: 2 KILLED AS RESULT OF ISRAELI STRIKES - IRANIAN TV

3 buildings destroyed in a residential complex where top Iranian military officials lived (NYT)

Jamaran news agency shows aftermath of one of the strike sites in the capital

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⚡️BREAKING: Multiple Iranian outlets — including IRIB and IRNA — report possible deaths of IRGC chief Gen. Hossein Salami, Gen. Gholam Ali Rashid, Dr. Tehranchi, and Dr. Fereydoon Abbasi.

‼️Official confirmation still awaited.

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📹 Battlefield clean-up: Russian troops annihilate Western armor 💥

While clearing a buffer zone near the village of Basovka in Ukraine’s Sumy region, Russian forces destroyed a large number of Ukrainian armored vehicles — including some produced by the US and other NATO states.

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