⚡️Another group of Russian servicemen has been returned from the territory controlled by the Kiev regime, in exchange for a group of Ukrainian POWs, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

The servicemen are now in Belarus and are receiving assistance.

All the returned Russian servicemen will be transported to Russia for treatment and rehabilitation in medical facilities.

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🇺🇸🕵🏻NATO’s high-tech excuse to step up spying on Russia

NATO is teaming up with US surveillance firm Planet Labs to supercharge its satellite spying capabilities under a new initiative called SINBAD — Smart Indication And Warning Broad Area Detection. This was announced by NATO commander Pierre Vandier, Bloomberg reported.

The real target? Russia.

👉What SINBAD does:
▪️ Constantly scans vast areas, including Ukraine and Russia’s western borders
▪️ Uses AI to flag movements and issue warnings
▪️ Monitors battlefields, maneuvers — even the Arctic

The justification? Vandier claims “Russia will not stop at Ukraine.”

Same tired narrative. Same fear-driven excuse. Moscow has repeatedly dismissed NATO’s alarmism as provocation and propaganda.

Meanwhile, NATO’s militarization of space surveillance looks less like defense — and more like digital imperialism.

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🇮🇷🆚🇮🇱 Iran–Israel Conflict: what’s known so far

Tensions continue to escalate after Israel launched Operation Rising Lion, prompting Tehran’s response under Operation True Promise III.

Casualties

🔸78 Iranians killed, 320 wounded — mostly civilians — in Israeli strikes, according to Iran’s UN envoy.

🔸At least 3 dead and 91 injured in Israel, per media reports.

Nuclear Sites & Scientists

🔸IDF claims it killed nine key Iranian nuclear scientists, including Ali Bakhouei Karimi, Mansour Asgari, and Saeed Barji.

🔸Israel’s strikes caused limited damage to Fordow and Isfahan nuclear sites. IAEA confirmed no radiation leaks.

Iran’s Retaliation

🔸Iran launched at least four waves and 200+ missiles.

🔸Tel Aviv suffered serious damage, IDF's HQ hit.

🔸Iran struck Nevatim and Ovda airbases, key to Israel’s C2 and EW systems, per Tasnim.

🔸Israeli defenses failed to intercept ~25% of Iranian missiles, per Times of Israel.

Ongoing Israeli Strikes

🔸Explosions hit Tabriz; oil refinery was targeted, according to Press TV.

🔸Ballistic launch sites in Asadabad hit; blasts in Khorramabad and Kermanshah.

🔸Four Israeli drones downed near Khorramabad (IRIB).

🔸Three IRGC soldiers killed in Zanjan, Tasnim reports.

🔸Machinery plant hit in western Iran, per Nour News.

🔸Iran extends airspace closure until June 15.

Statements & Threats

🔸Iran’s UN envoy: Israeli strikes are “state terrorism” and a declaration of war.

🔸Tehran warns US, France, UK: their facilities in the Middle East will be targeted if they help Israel, per Mehr.

🔸Israel vows to expand operations, Israel Foreign Minister Gideon Saar says strikes could last “days or weeks”.

🔸Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz threatens to “burn Tehran” if Iran keeps retaliating.

🔸Iran’s Foreign Ministry said US actions had rendered nuclear talks with Tehran meaningless.

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🚨🇮🇷✈️Iran may have SHOT DOWN another F-35 Israeli fighter jet

The jet was shot down in the western part of the country, Press TV reports.

The pilot ejected, and his fate is currently unknown.

According to Nour News, Iranian forces have captured the pilot.

The IDF, however, has denied claims of its fighter jet having been shot down in Iran.

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🇮🇷 Iran sees NO POINT in continuing dialogue with US while Israel continues its attacks — Iranian Foreign Ministry spox

"Undoubtedly, in the current conditions, until the Zionist regime's aggression against the Iranian nation has not stopped, the participation in the dialogue with the party which is a key sponsor and partner of the aggressor is pointless," Esmaeil Baqaei said.

At the moment, Iran is focused on countering Israel's actions, the spokesman added.

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🇮🇷🇮🇱 Israel kills Iran’s nine top nuclear scientists and experts

All of the scientists had served as "significant knowledge centers" in the Iranian nuclear project, the IDF says.

The list of the murdered scientists published by the IDF reads as follows:

🔸Fereydoun Abbasi - expert in nuclear engineering

🔸Mohammad Mahdi Tehranshi - physics expert

🔸Akbar Motalebi Zadeh - expert in chemical engineering

🔸Saeed Barji - materials engineering expert

🔸Amir Hassan Fakhahi - physics expert

🔸Abd al-Hamid Minoushehr - expert in reactor physics

🔸Mansour Asgari - physics expert

🔸Ahmad Reza Zolfaghari Daryani - expert in nuclear engineering

🔸Ali Bakhouei Katirimi - expert in mechanics

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📹 Trump greenlit Israel to start war against Iran, but is he ready for escalation?

The attack on Iran is a joint American-Israeli plan, Elijah J. Magnier, a veteran war correspondent and political analyst, tells Sputnik.

"Donald Trump... thought that this is the best opportunity to strike a deal with Iran under a threat," Magnier says. "He allowed Israel to start a war."

What consequences could the US face?

🔸the Iranians can hit the US bases in the Middle East

🔸they can close the Strait of Hormuz where 20 percent of the world's energy transportation passes

🔸they can significantly disrupt traffic with Asia 

🔸a major blow to the world economy

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📹 ISRAEL’S DREAMS SMASHED TO PIECES: Iran hit back fast despite losses in top command

Within hours, Iran fought back, taking control of the situation, Elijah J. Magnier, a veteran war correspondent and political analyst, tells Sputnik.

"We see the command and control of Iran is back in place, and we see people on top—commanders regaining the control are engaged in planning and executing the war."

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📹 Israel will CRUMBLE without US backing

"If the Iranians continue bombing Israel every single day... then either [Israel] will ask the Americans to help them immediately, or they will ask the Americans to go to the UN and ask for a ceasefire," Elijah J. Magnier, a veteran war correspondent and political analyst, tells Sputnik.

For the first time since 1973, Israel is fighting against a state actor, the pundit emphasizes.

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🇷🇺🇮🇷 Lavrov holds phone call with Iranian FM

Key statements:

🔸Moscow condemns Israel’s use of force against Tehran, Lavrov emphasized

🔸Moscow remains ready to continue supporting efforts to resolve issues around Iran’s nuclear program

🔸Lavrov expressed condolences over the casualties resulting from Israel's strikes on Iran

🔸Lavrov and Araghchi agreed to continue contacts regarding the situation in the Middle East

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👉🇺🇸 Trump, listen up: Your own team and peers say 'no war with Iran'

US political observers, pundits, and lawmakers from both parties are warning Trump: don’t drag America deeper into the Iran-Israel conflict, Responsible Statecraft writes. Supporting Israel's war against Iran would be a “middle finger” to MAGA voters.

🗣Steve Bannon, former Trump adviser: "Hey, you’re putting your defense first, and that’s fine. But we gotta put our defense first. And what cannot happen is be drawn into another war."

🗣Tucker Carlson: "Who are the warmongers? They would include anyone who’s calling Donald Trump today to demand air strikes and other direct US military involvement in a war with Iran."

🗣Sen. Rand Paul (R): "I urge President Trump to stay the course, keep putting America first, and to not join in any war between other countries."
"No war with Iran."

🗣Rep. Thomas Massie (R): "Israel doesn’t need US taxpayers’ money for defense if it already has enough to start offensive wars."

The message is loud: war with Iran isn’t “America First” — it’s a political landmine.

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🇮🇱🇮🇷 Netanyahu THREATENS Iran in a televised address

“In the very near future, you will see Israeli Air Force jets in the skies over Tehran. We will strike every site and every target of the Ayatollahs' regime,” Israeli Prime Minister said.

Iran’s President Pezeshkian, for his part, said that Tehran will deliver a STRONGER response if Israel attempts to repeat its aggression against Iran.

Israel’s strikes during the Iran-US dialogue show that Washington CANNOT be trusted, the Iranian president also said.

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📹 This Ukrainian man thought he could just pedal away from service…

But there's no escaping Zelensky’s recruiting gang — even on two wheels!

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⚡️ Putin holds phone call with Trump

Statements from Putin’s aide Yuri Ushakov:

🔸The call lasted 50 minutes

🔸The conversation was useful, with the two leaders discussing the escalating situation in the Middle East.

🔸Putin informed Trump about his recent phone contacts with the president of Iran and the prime minister of Israel.

🔸Putin reminded Trump of Russia’s proposal to seek mutually acceptable agreements on the Iranian nuclear issue.

🔸Trump assessed the situation in the Middle East as highly alarming.

🔸The presidents did not rule out a return to the negotiating track on the Iranian nuclear program.

🔸Putin also informed Trump about the implementation of the Istanbul agreements reached in Turkiye on June 2.

🔸Russia is ready to continue negotiations with the Ukrainian side, Putin said.

🔸Putin congratulated Trump on his birthday and Flag Day.

🔸During the conversation, the leaders noted the wartime brotherhood of the two countries during World War II and expressed satisfaction with their current relationship, which allows for addressing pressing issues.

🔸Russia is ready to resume negotiations with Ukraine, as agreed, after June 22, Putin said.

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🇺🇸🇮🇱 US always planned to use Israel as PROXY to attack Iran

Donald Trump did everything he could to make sure that the war between Israel and Iran began, military and political observer Evgeny Mikhailov tells Sputnik.

The White House was well aware that Tehran would never accept the “humiliating” terms for the nuclear deal, and thus from the get-go planned to use Israel against Iran.

The fact that Trump essentially adopted a “my way or the highway” approach to the nuclear talks with Iran did not help matters either.

With Iran’s attacks on US military bases in the Middle East on the table, if Tehran decides that a large-scale war is unavoidable, the ensuing escalation may deal a serious blow to Trump’s image in the United States.

There is a high probability of the ongoing crisis leading to further evolution of the Iranian military technologies, assuming that Iran manages to withstand the Israeli aggression and deliver a fitting retaliation, Mikhailov predicts.

“I believe that Iranian leadership and Iranian people will be able to adapt even in these harsh conditions and to deliver a fitting reprisal to Israel and the US.”

Without US support, Israel would not last long against Iran, considering the vastness of the Iranian missile stockpiles and the fact that Israel expended much of its military potential on the Gaza war and attacks against Lebanon.

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