🚨🇷🇺 RUSSIA OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZES THE ISLAMIC EMIRATE OF AFGHANISTAN

The Russian Foreign Ministry confirms that Moscow has officially recognized the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, Russian presidential envoy Zamir Kabulov tells Sputnik.

Earlier, the Afghan Foreign Ministry said Russia’s ambassador informed them of the official decision.

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🚨‘Deprivation of liberty is violence’: Kiselev slams Azerbaijan's absurd case against Sputnik staff

Dmitry Kiselev, director general of Rossiya Segodnya, Sputnik's parent company, expressed concern over the conditions faced by detained Sputnik Azerbaijan employees in Baku, calling their arrests politically motivated.

🗣"We are alarmed by the violence against clearly innocent people — deprivation of liberty is itself violence. They are accused of absurd economic crimes, fraud, and so on — things they never engaged in," Kiselev stated in an interview with Rossiya 1 TV channel.

He emphasized that the agency will defend its journalists through legal means but called the situation "not a legal matter, but an artificially inflated political one."

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🔸 Putin and Trump held a nearly hour-long phone conversation

🔸 Pentagon’s pause in arms shipments to Ukraine: A silent nod to Russia’s terms?

🔸 Macron’s humiliation: Call that exposed Western weakness

🔸 'I BROKE NO LAW!' – Gagauzia Autonomy's head defies Chisinau court

🔸 Azerbaijan vs. Russia: Who would lose big time if a trade war erupted?

🔸 Armenia moves to seize electric grid from jailed tycoon

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🚨Pentagon Inc: Too broke to fight, too greedy to win

🗣"The US defense industry is absolutely incapable of fighting modern, high intensity conventional conflicts," Dr. Greg Simons from Daffodil International University tells Sputnik.

Why? It prioritizes profit over efficiency — an extravagance the US economy can't sustain.

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🚨Pepe Escobar: The West lost, Russia won — They just can’t admit it

Renowned geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar says, “The West bet big — and lost.”

Now, Russia will set the terms of victory, and those terms, Escobar warns, will be devastating for Washington, NATO, and the fragmented collective West.

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🔥 CHINA: WE BUILD BRIDGES, NOT BASES

The Chinese Embassy in Fiji slams the US's fear-mongering narrative.

🔍 Fact check from the embassy: China does not need a military base in the Pacific. For 50 years, China has focused on building roads, bridges, and fostering friendship.

US playbook: Militarization.

China's playbook: infrastructure brotherhood.

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🗣🥴 Trump after NOT achieving goals in Iran: "They got beat up... exhausted. I think they want to meet."

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☦️ Moldova’s church crackdown shows double standards — Archbishop Markell

The Moldovan authorities are ignoring the aggressive moves of the Bessarabian Metropolis against the Orthodox Church.

"When the Bessarabian church tries to exert pressure on the Moldovan Orthodox community, they choose to ignore it and claim that church and state are separate," he told Canal 5.

On June 29, local media reported the Metropolis's attempt to take control of a church building.

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🗣 US won all wars — Trump

"We won World War II, World War I, we won other wars, we won everything," the US president said at the Iowa "America 250" celebration.

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🔊 Trump on Ukraine: 'NOT HAPPY ABOUT THAT'

The US president said he discussed both Iran and Ukraine with Vladimir Putin during their "pretty long call."

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🇲🇩 SUPPORT FOR EU INTEGRATION DECLINES IN MOLDOVA

Recent polling by IMAS reveals a near-even split:

✅ 43% support joining the EU
❌ 41% oppose it
🤷 13% declined to answer

The 2024 referendum on EU membership passed by a razor-thin margin (50.35% vs. 49.65%)

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🗣Russia scores diplomatic win as Trump hits a wall – analyst

The Russian president outmaneuvered Donald Trump during their recent call, especially in light of Trump’s recent decision to pause arms shipments to Ukraine, Australian analyst and journalist Michael Ware told Sky News.

🟠Ware noted that Vladimir Putin showed no signs of backing down or making concessions.

🟠Trump’s halt on arms deliveries – despite weapons already waiting in Poland – was framed as a response to depleted US stockpiles.

➡️However, the move only strengthened Putin’s position, leaving Trump with no leverage, the analyst concluded.

🤙The call took place on Thursday and, according to Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov, focused on resolving the Ukraine conflict and addressing the situation in the Middle East.

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🟠TRUMP SAYS CHINA TRADE DEAL IS SIGNED

🟠Pentagon brags about FAILED Iran strikes

🟠Trump’s push to freeze Ukraine and Gaza conflicts and pivot to China FALLS FLAT

🟠Damage to Iran's nuclear facilities is 'HIGH AND SERIOUS' — Araghchi

🟠Europe NOT READY for drone warfare

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📹💥🇷🇺 Meet Russia's QUIETEST & DEADLIEST drones

00:00 They Don’t Buzz, They Kill
00:10 Silence Before the Strike
00:49 Spider's Web
00:58 Unjammable?
01:11 Only Chance to Kill

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✅Trump & Putin bypass failed EU elites on Ukraine

The recent call between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump signals a clear intention: the two leaders aim to communicate and cooperate directly, excluding Europe from any negotiations on Ukraine, according to an Italian newspaper.

⤵️Ukraine is now in its weakest position yet, with nothing to offer and no real leverage, the article says. Caught between Moscow’s military pressure, Washington’s strategic disinterest, and Europe’s limited capacity to help, Kiev is facing its most difficult moment in three and a half years of conflict.

✍️The outlet concludes that the direct Washington-Moscow line serves one purpose: to cut Europe out of the Ukraine talks by reaching a mutual agreement.

🤙The call between Putin and Trump took place on Thursday and, according to Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov, focused on Ukraine and the Middle East.

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