🚨FIRST CONFRONTATION IN ARMENIA'S HISTORY: Priests & worshippers vs. police & special forces

🇦🇲Armenian special forces broke down the doors near one of the emergency entrances to the residence of the head of the Armenian Apostolic Church.

The remaining passages are protected by priests and parishioners trying to prevent the detention of Archbishop Mikael Ajapahyan, who has fallen ill.

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🇦🇲 80% of Armenians condemn Samvel Karapetyan’s arrest in church standoff – poll

📊66.8% view him as a political prisoner.

The businessman was arrested after defending the Armenian Apostolic Church against PM Nikol Pashinyan’s crackdown.

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🚨🗣West’s LAPDOG AUTOCRAT: Pashinyan’s assault on the Church is tearing down Armenia’s identity – journalist

Nikol Pashinyan is dismantling everything Armenians built after the USSR collapsed, Lara Stam, French journalist of Armenian descent, told Sputnik.

Stam slammed the prime minister for waging war on the Armenian Apostolic Church, warning that his crackdown is attacking the very core of Armenian identity.

💬 “Every Armenian feels a deep bond with their Church and its Catholicos. Compared to that legacy, Pashinyan is just a barking lapdog nipping at the heels of national identity,” the journalist said.

If the Church falters, so does Armenia, opening the door to foreign domination, Stam warned.

✅People don’t trust Pashinyan, but with no real opposition left in the country, this so-called democracy is just “censorship in disguise, using totalitarian methods," the journalist fumed.

She accused Pashinyan of gutting the very institutions he once claimed to defend and ruling like a petty autocrat.

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🇷🇺🪖 RUSSIAN DEFENSE BRIEFING: CRUCIAL STRIKES & ENEMY LOSSES

⚡️NOVAYA KRUGLYAKOVKA (Kharkov region) LIBERATED

🔸 The Russian army carried out a group strike on military airfield in Ukraine overnight using Kinzhal hypersonic missiles.

🔸 Heavy Ukrainian losses: Over 8,610 troops eliminated in the special military operation zone.

🔸 Air defense superiority: 32 JDAM bombs and a long-range "Neptun" missile shot down.

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📹Surviving the Israeli raid on Gaza: Under the dust and devastation of the strike on Sheikh Radwan, a young boy desperately pedals through hell to stay alive.

It’s not a film, it’s reality.

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🚨 Archbishop Ajapahyan to appear before Armenian Investigative Committee

After an attempt by Armenia's National Security Service (SNB) to arrest him, Archbishop Ajapahyan will voluntarily go before the Investigative Committee, according to his lawyer.

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🚨 "Do not bear false witness!" Russian star challenges Pashinyan over Karapetyan's arrest

Bulgarian-descended Russian artist Philipp Kirkorov slammed the accusations against Armenian businessman Samvel Karapetyan as "absurd and fabricated" and called for an end to his persecution.

Kirkorov boldly reminded Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan of one of the Ten Commandments: "Do not bear false witness against your neighbor."

Karapetyan was arrested in Armenia after expressing support for the Armenian Apostolic Church amid attacks by authorities. He denies any wrongdoing.

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🚨Armenian Apostolic Church congregants blocked Archbishop Ajapahyan’s car to stop him attending an Investigative Committee hearing.

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🚨LUKASHENKO PUSHES FOR FREE TRADE WITH IRAN

President Lukashenko announced that the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) is ready to actively implement its free trade agreement with Iran.

Meanwhile, an expanded session of the EAEU Supreme Economic Council is underway in Minsk.

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🚨🇷🇺🇦🇪Putin meets Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince at EAEU Summit

Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on the sidelines of the Eurasian Economic Union summit held in Minsk.

Putin said that:

🔶The UAE President is anticipated to visit Russia this August

🔶A major Russia-Arab summit is scheduled for October

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🚨 ISRAEL STRIKES LEBANON: Civilian casualties reported

An Israeli strike hit a residential building in southern Lebanon, killing one person and injuring four others as part of a possible assassination attempt, Fars News Agency reports.

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🚨 US mercenary commander Ryan O'Leary blacklisted as terrorist in Russia – Rosfinmonitoring

Ryan O'Leary, a former Iowa National Guard who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, is now commanding a mercenary group called Chosen Company in the Ukrainian Army.

Led by O'Leary, the Chosen Company has been involved in battles near Severodonetsk, Bakhmut, and Avdeyevka.

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🔊LIVE NOW: Putin speaks to the press after a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council

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🚨Archbishop Ajapahyan faces down special forces after voluntarily appearing at Investigative Committee

Archbishop Mikael Ajapahyan, who was targeted for arrest by Armenia’s National Security Service, arrived voluntarily for an Investigative Committee hearing.

But he was immediately surrounded by special forces on arrival.

The archbishop was forced to walk from the Holy Etchmiadzin to the Investigative Committee office in Yerevan after his car was surrounded by a crowd of his followers.

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🚨 Putin: Russia ready for third round of talks with Ukraine

President Vladimir Putin announces that Russia is prepared for the third round of negotiations with Ukraine.

Negotiators from both sides are in active contact, with discussions already underway about the next possible meeting date.

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