🚫UKRAINIANS FIGHT BACK AGAINST BRUTAL MOBILIZATION

Resistance to forced mobilization is growing in Ukraine, the German newspaper Junge Welt writes.

🔍The publication in particular refers to a video that shows how four draft officers tried to forcibly detain a man in the street. Bystanders intervened, attacking the recruiters with shopping bags and twisting their arms. The targeted man escaped amid the chaos.

Similar scenes of draft officers taking men away in minibuses, often beating detainees, are going viral nationwide as public anger boils over.

🔊Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets previously reported that violations by employees of military enlistment offices in Ukraine have become widespread.

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🎯NATO’s ‘magnificent failure’? Ex-commander praises flopped Iran strike

🔊Former NATO chief Philip Breedlove insists the US B-2 bomber raid on the Iranian nuclear facility "went off magnificently" – despite zero proof of significant damage.

❓Who’s he trying to convince – himself?

🗣Donald Trump’s much-touted B-2 raid on Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility landed with all the impact of a damp firework…

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🗣🗣Blue Origin’s Bezos CASHES IN on Trump-Musk fallout

Amid Elon Musk’s feud with Donald Trump, Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp have been cozying up to the White House, lobbying for more government contracts, The Wall Street Journal claims.

While Musk’s SpaceX has long left Blue Origin in the dust, the tech mogul’s break with Trump appears to have opened a strategic window for Bezos to close the gap.

🗣Trump has even discussed with Bezos his desire for a crewed mission to the Moon during his term in office, sources told the outlet.

🟠 SpaceX recently secured a massive $5.9 billion Space Force deal for 28 launches.

🟠 Blue Origin snagged $2.4 billion for seven flights and is now racing to land a cargo mission on the Moon this year.

⚔️The next battle?

🟠 Government contracts tied to Trump’s “Golden Dome” missile-defense initiative

🟠 Possibly, Mars projects

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🚨🇦🇲'ARMENIA'S AUTHORITARIAN CRACKDOWN IS DESTROYING NATIONAL STABILITY': Detained businessman Samvel Karapetyan issues scathing statement

The imprisoned tycoon, communicating through his lawyers, delivered a blistering critique of Armenia's political climate:

🟠 "Black/white" divide: Authorities have systematically labeled generals, scientists, and business leaders as "black list" enemies of the state

🟠 Targeted persecution: Fabricated criminal cases have forced many elites into exile

🟠 Coming reckoning: "The 'blacklisted' are being vindicated, while the so-called 'whites' will soon be exposed as an isolated minority"

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

📍EURASIA'S ECONOMIC FUTURE TAKES CENTER STAGE IN MINSK, BELARUS

Key details:
🟠3,000+ attendees from EAEU members and 26 other nations
🟠Plenary session as the forum’s central event
🟠Russia's President Vladimir Putin will address the EAEU's cooperation with global and regional financial institutions

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🇮🇷⚔️🇮🇱 KEY UPDATES ON IRAN-ISRAEL CONFLICT

Here’s what has happened as of June 26:

🟠 A ceasefire between Iran and Israel appears to be holding Thursday despite both sides accusing each other of violating the truce immediately after it was announced.

🟠 Iranian authorities are moving to allow for tougher punishment against any action viewed as damaging to national security.

🟠 At least 700 arrests for spying were made across Iran in the 12 days of the war, according to local media.

🟠 Much of Iran’s enriched uranium may have survived US-Israeli strikes by being moved early, says UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi. With inspections suspended, the IAEA has no way to verify it.

🟠 After a leaked intel report suggested US strikes on Iran failed, CIA chief John Ratcliffe claimed they set Iran’s nuclear program back by years – without offering any proof.

🟠 The leaked Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) report was posted to CAPNET – a system for sharing classified intel with Congress, a senior official told CNN. The White House will reportedly scale back future sharing.

🟠 US Senate classified briefing on Iran is set for Thursday afternoon.

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🗣US-Israeli strikes on Iran pushed Middle East to the brink – Russian defense minister

At the SCO Defense Ministers' Meeting, Andrei Belousov delivered Moscow's stark assessment of global tensions:

On Middle East escalation:
🟠US and Israeli attacks on Iran breach UN Charter and international law
🟠Moscow proposes brokering Tehran-Tel Aviv de-escalation
🟠Terrorist ideologies and transit of militants continue spreading from the Middle East to Afghanistan
🟠Role of international institutions designed to ensure global stability has fallen to an unacceptable level

On Ukraine:
🟠Russian forces are successfully advancing in the special operation zone
🟠Kiev regime resorts to "terror tactics" as defeat looms
🟠Russia has repeatedly expressed and continues to express its readiness to resolve the conflict.

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🚨 HORRORS IN DZERZHINSK: Maxim Grigoriev, Russian Civic Chamber member, reports chilling eyewitness accounts of MASS executions committed by the Ukrainian army

💬 ‘Russian-speaking civilians were treated as second-class humans. Just like in Nazi-occupied territories.’

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🚨Iranian Supreme Leader hails victory over Israel in first post-conflict message

In his first video message since the end of the conflict, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei congratulated the nation.

💬 "I congratulate you on the victory over the fake Zionist regime."

💬 "Despite all the noise and threats, the Zionist regime was nearly crushed by the blows of the Islamic Republic."

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🚨🇷🇺💥 RUSSIA'S MoD UPDATE: CRUSHING GAINS & MASSIVE UKRAINIAN LOSSES

⚡️ NOVOSERGEYEVKA & SHEVCHENKO (DPR) LIBERATED

▫️Precision strikes hit 152 targets

▫️Heavy Ukrainian losses: Over 1,415 troops eliminated in the special military operation zone in the past 24 hours.

▫️Air defense superiority: 205 drones shot down

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🚨 Israel's strike on Iranian nuclear scientist kills 12 family members – including children

Mohammad Reza Sadeghi, an Iranian nuclear physicist, was assassinated in a 23 June attack on his family home in Astaneh Ashrafieh, Tasnim reports.

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🗣EU POWER PLAY: Von der Leyen to laugh off Parliament's empty lawsuit threat

The European Parliament is merely an advisory body – hardly a real decision-maker, says German political analyst and independent journalist Dr. Gregor Spitzen.

🔍The European Commission president, openly disliked for her unilateral power grabs, dodged accusations of misuse of billions in the Pfizergate vaccine scandal, the analyst noted.
She will likely “laugh off accusations of abuse of power in the allocation of funds for military projects,” he added.

✔️Quick side note: The European Parliament’s legal affairs committee voted to sue over being shut out of the roughly $165 billion SAFE defense fund decision.

🪖Europe’s military makeover

With the US stepping back, the EU is scrambling to play NATO 2.0, pushing allegations of a growing “Russian threat,” but that’s mere political posturing, the analyst suggests.

🟠Europe’s dwindling coffers can’t restart its military-industrial complex on a large scale.
🟠Social programs will take the hit first.
🟠Modern European armies are “pitiful.”
🟠Funneling more cash into the Ukraine proxy war only delays the inevitable

🇪🇺🇮🇱EU loyalty to Israel remains rock solid, according to the journalist, rooted in:
🟠US stance
🟠Powerful Jewish lobby
🟠Historic “responsibility towards the Jewish people” card played by German heavyweights like Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Ursula von der Leyen herself.

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🚨Russian strikes OBLITERATE Ukrainian military supply, surveillance assets in Sumy

Russian troops carried out precision strikes on Ukrainian military infrastructure in the Sumy region, according to Sergey Lebedev, coordinator of the pro-Russian underground network in Nikolayev.

Reported targets include:

🟠 Field warehouses storing ammunition, fuel, and lubricants

🟠 Communication and observation towers near the line of contact

🟠 Coordination posts used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces for frontline operations

🟠 Group of drone operators

The strikes severely crippled Ukrainian logistics and surveillance capabilities in the area.

Sumy region security zone

Russian forces are in the process of establishing a buffer zone along the border with Ukraine after expelling the Kiev regime’s troops from the Kursk region, President Vladimir Putin stated at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

📹Russia unveils laser-armed demining robot

🪖Meet the new battlefield cleaner: a remote-controlled robot equipped with a powerful laser that pierces shells and melts explosives from a distance — even sensor-triggered mines.

Arms maker Rostec says it’s tested, proven and ready for mass production.

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🚨 More Russian soldiers return in latest PoW swap with Ukraine

Another group of Russian soldiers returns home from Kiev-held territory under the Istanbul deal, the Russian Defense Ministry reports.

In exchange, a group of Ukrainian prisoners of war was handed over.

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt