❌ Putin doubts Germany can mediate Ukraine settlement

At SPIEF 2025, Putin dismissed Berlin’s credibility as a neutral party, stressing that a true mediator must be neutral.

💬 “European leaders themselves stopped contacts with Russia when they aimed to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia,” he emphasized.

Putin also pointed to Berlin’s reported considerations of supplying Taurus missiles to Ukraine, saying such moves “raise serious questions” about Germany’s intentions.

However, the Russian president added, “If Merz wants to call, we won’t refuse any contacts.”

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🚨 Air raid sirens sound in Tel Aviv – reports

Iran’s SNN news agency reports a new wave of strikes on the city.

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🚨 Iranian missiles strike Tel Aviv – reports

Six explosions heard in Tel Aviv, SNN reported.

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📹 For EIGHT years, Russia tried to resolve the Ukraine crisis through talks – Putin

Speaking at SPIEF, President Vladimir Putin said Moscow “patiently tolerated the situation around Donbass for 8 years and tried to negotiate.”

He added that Ukraine’s current authorities “derive their legitimacy from a coup d’état,” and noted that persecution of the Russian Orthodox Church “still continues on Ukrainian territory.”

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⚡️ 'I am ready to meet with everyone, including Zelensky, but the question is: WHO WILL SIGN THE DOCUMENTS' — Putin

President Putin said Russia doesn’t care who negotiates on behalf of Ukraine — but emphasized that “if the head of state is illegitimate, then the entire system of government becomes illegitimate.”

💬 “At the final stage, the documents must be signed by legitimate authorities,” he stressed.

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⚔️ Putin confirms Russia is ready to hand over another 3,000 bodies of Ukrainian soldiers to Kiev

He noted that Russia has already transferred 6,000 bodies of Ukrainian soldiers to Ukraine — and received 57 bodies of Russian soldiers in return.

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❌ Iran is not asking Russia for military assistance – Putin

The Russian president revealed that Moscow had previously offered Tehran cooperation in the field of air defense systems, but at the time, the Iranian side showed little interest.

Putin clarified that the strategic partnership agreement between Russia and Iran contains no articles related to the defense field.

Military-technical cooperation between the two countries has always remained within the bounds of international law, the Russian leader emphasized.

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🇮🇷 Iran warns US against joining Israel’s war: 'A recipe for all-out war' – FM spokesman

In an interview with Al Jazeera, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei called Israel “a genocidal occupying regime” and warned that “any American intervention would be a recipe for an all-out war in the region.”

💬 “This is a war on the whole region. Israel has been trying all along to drag other countries, including the United States, into its filthy war against the countries in the region,” Baqaei emphasized.

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🚨 Taurus missile use means Germany joining war, won’t stop Russian advance – Putin

At SPIEF 2025, President Vladimir Putin warned that Ukrainian troops cannot operate German-made Taurus missiles without the involvement of German officers.

💬 “The use of Taurus missiles in Ukraine would mean Germany’s direct entry into an armed conflict with Russia — it cannot be called anything else,” he said, adding that such a move would severely damage Russia-Germany relations, though it “will not affect the course of the military operation.”

🪖 Putin emphasized that Russian forces are advancing along the entire front line and that further progress is INEVITABLE — even if German missiles are introduced.

📉 He also noted that Ukraine’s battlefield losses now EXCEED its mobilization capacity, and desertion rates are “rising sharply.”

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💬 Claims that Russia will attack Europe are a 'BLATANT LIE' and 'COMPLETE NONSENSE' – Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed allegations that Russia is planning to attack Europe or NATO as a “blatant lie” and “complete nonsense,” saying they are meant to mislead Western public opinion.

💬 “This myth that Russia will attack Europe or NATO countries is a blatant lie being pushed to convince people in the West. But we fully understand it’s just nonsense,” Putin said during a meeting with international news agency heads on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

🔸 He added that European politicians are deceiving their citizens with the so-called “Russian threat” to deflect from their own domestic failures.

💬 “Everyone understands this so-called threat is nonsense. They are misleading their people to squeeze more money from the budget… and to cover up their failures in the economic and social spheres,” he said.

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🇷🇺 Putin's main statements at a meeting with the heads of global news agencies:

🔸 The Russian president is ready to meet with Zelensky at the final stage of the settlement, but there is a question of who will sign the documents on behalf of Kiev, given the illegitimacy of the regime.

🔸 The Russian and Ukrainian negotiating teams are in contact. Medinsky spoke with his counterpart from Kiev today, and the next round of talks is being discussed for after June 22.

🔸 Trump is right when he says that under his leadership, the conflict in Ukraine might not have happened.

🔸 Trump is a businessman, and this is a big plus: he “calculates everything,” and this also applies to steps regarding Russia.

🔸 On the possibility of Germany mediating in the Ukrainian settlement: the mediator must be neutral.

🔸 The Russian military has a strategic advantage in all directions in the special military operation.

🔸 Russia wants to end the conflict in Ukraine as quickly as possible, preferably peacefully.

🔸 A solution that will serve the interests of both Iran and Israel can be found.

🔸 Moscow sees that Iran is consolidating around the country's political leadership.

🔸 Iran's underground factories remain intact;

🔸 Russia is self-sufficient in terms of ensuring its security; NATO's rearmament is not a threat.

🔸 Statements about Russia's plans to attack NATO are lies and nonsense.

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🚨 Israeli Air Force is conducting a series of strikes in Tehran and other areas across Iran – IDF

Explosions have been heard in Karaj, west of Tehran, a Sputnik correspondent reported.

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