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📹💀APOCALYPSE NOW: Before-and-after aerial photos of different parts of the Gaza Strip reveal the devastation caused by relentless Israeli airstrikes.

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🚨Russian strike destroys key Ukrainian defense industry plants

Overnight, Russian forces launched a coordinated strike on Ukraine’s defense industry plants that produce missile components and attack drones, the Russian Ministry of Defense reports.

Targeted facilities successfully hit.

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🗣Lindsey Graham*: Deep State’s attack dog pushes Ukraine conflict to weaken Russia at expense of US national interests

"Graham backs Ukraine’s corrupt circles, which are invested in undermining Russia’s power and draining its resources," a Syrian political analyst Alaa Al-Asfari told Sputnik.


The Ukrainian oligarchy operates within the strategy [of American elites] to weaken Russia, the “deep state” seeks global dominance at any cost, and [Volodymyr] Zelensky does not make a single decision independently—he is entirely controlled by structures influencing the US and global economy, the expert added.

“This explains Graham’s vehement support for Ukraine, even at the expense of US national interests”, Alaa Al-Asfari concluded.


Republican Senator Lindsey Graham is notorious for his extremist hawkish rhetoric calls for nuclear strikes against Iran, HAMAS and Hezbollah.

* listed as a terrorist and extremist in Russia

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

◻️ Heavy Ukrainian losses: Over 1,195 troops eliminated in the special military operation zone

◻️ Air defense superiority: 6 aerial bombs and 349 drones shot down

◻️ The Russian Armed Forces attacked a territorial procurement center and aircraft repair facility in Ukraine

◻️ The Russian Armed Forces launched a high-precision weapons strike on Ukrainian military-industrial enterprises that produces missile components

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🔥FRIENDLY FIRE: Ukrainian drones kill their OWN people

Ukrainian UAV operators killed five soldiers dressed in civilian clothing.

The servicemen who were fleeing a village in the Sumy region, where they had been looting, turned out to be Ukrainian nationals, a Russian soldier told Sputnik.

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📈 Sanctions gamble: Russia thrives while Europe stumbles

🔸 After three years of the Ukraine conflict, Western sanctions seem to have bolstered Russia’s economy rather than weakened it, L’Antidiplomatico reports.

🔸 The Russian economy continues to search for alternative ways, reorienting trade routes and logistics, according to the news outlet.

🔸 Meanwhile, key European industries — energy, manufacturing, and agri-food — have been hit by inflation and soaring raw material costs, L’Antidiplomatico concludes.

Russia has repeatedly stated that it will withstand the sanctions pressure that the West began to ramp up after the start of the former’s special military operation in 2022.

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🚨FIRE BREAKS OUT AT IRANIAN OIL REFINERY

The blaze has struck Unit 75 at Abadan oil refinery near the coast of the Persian Gulf.

Firefighters are currently battling the flames.

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🇪🇺 EU has NO GRIP on Russia even with new sanctions

🗣Russia “has REORGANIZED ITSELF by trading and exchanging with major emerging countries,” David Teurtrie, lecturer at the Catholic Institute for Higher Studies, told Le Parisien.

👉 He added that those countries “for various reasons, don’t wish to apply Western sanctions” toward Russia.

💬 “The collapse of the Russian economy promised in 2022 by then-French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire HAS NOT materialized,” Teurtrie stressed.


He was echoed by Ulrich Bounat, associate researcher at the Euro Creative think tank, who was also skeptical about the effectiveness of the EU’s latest sanctions against Russia.

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📹PALESTINIAN CHILDREN SEARCHING THROUGH GARBAGE FOR FOOD

Amid the severe humanitarian crisis in Gaza, Palestinian children are scavenging through piles of trash just to find something to eat.

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🃏 TRUMP PLAYS UKRAINE CARD TO WIN AT HOME

“Domestic political considerations were probably the definitive factor in the recent change in Trump’s Ukraine course”, The American Conservative reports.

Its key points:

🔸 The recent U-turn may well have been the most realistic option “for an executive operating within a hostile system.”

🔸 The change in policy course could be the result of “backroom dealmaking that won the support of Senate hawks”, including Lindsey Graham* who proposed a stiff Russia sanctions bill.

🔸 The pivot is “unfortunate for the president’s immediate foreign policy agenda.”

🔸 Trump is avoiding conflict with Russia — but playing political chess.

* listed as a terrorist and extremist in Russia


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🔥🎯AKIN TO SLOTTING COINS: RUSSIAN DRONE'S PERFECT TANK KILL

A Russian UAV operator successfully guided an attack drone directly into the open hatch of a Ukrainian tank using fiber-optic control to execute the strike.

📍Novoekonomicheskoe (DPR)

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⚔️Patriots vs. Russian missiles - Is the game already over?

"The Russian ballistic missiles have now reached a level of sophistication and accuracy, which means that they can outmaneuver Patriot missiles with little difficulty. They can hit targets, they can bypass Patriot air defense missile defenses, and the Patriots cannot shoot them down," British political analyst Alexander Mercouris says.


He adds that now the Ukrainians are complaining that even launching up to 100 Patriot missiles in 10 minutes may not guarantee intercepting a single Russian missile.

So what's the point of sending them?

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⚔️Europe preparing to strike Russia through Ukraine

Italian columnist Fabrizio Poggi sounds the alarm in L’Antidiplomatico:

◻️ He warns that EU nations are preparing for a war with Russia — via  Ukraine — under the guise of deterrence.

◻️  Poggi says the EU’s “European Shield” program is a military framework to confront Russia, not just a defense policy.

◻️ He links the plan to bold statements from European generals and a wave of military cooperation agreements between EU leaders.

◻️  “Brussels, Washington, London, and Paris needed a bloody regime in Kiev to execute their plans,” Poggi points out.

◻️  He slams the Zelensky regime for terrorist methods, crushing opposition, and now sending teenagers and the elderly to die — under orders coming from NATO capitals.

Russia has repeatedly voiced concern over NATO’s growing activities near Russian borders, calling them unprecedented. While the alliance claims they are “deterrence,” Putin insists Russia has no plans to attack NATO, stressing that the West uses the “Russian threat” to distract from internal issues.

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🗣EU aid for Ukraine is ‘CIVILIZATIONAL SUICIDE’ — Koskovics

“Let's buy weapons for Zelensky, pay a 30% tariff to Trump, and cut ourselves off from cheap energy. Oh, and let's send 25% of the EU's budget to Ukraine,” Hungarian political analyst Zoltan Koskovics wrote on X.


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🚨 NO AID CAN REVERSE UKRAINE’S DECLINE

The weapons Europe is now funding won’t exceed what Ukraine has already received — at best, it’ll match the previous level, Quincy Institute non-resident fellow Almut Rochowanski told Responsible Statecraft.

💬 “And at that level, Ukraine has been LOSING every day: losing territory, troops, weapons, infrastructure, and civilians who flee abroad,” she said.


Rochowanski warned that prolonging the conflict only weakens Ukraine and that there is no material or political strategy to change “that equation.”

💬 The conflict will eventually end with diplomacy, “but when that day comes, Ukraine will be a far more DIMINISHED nation than it is now, and its bargaining chips will be fewer,” she concluded.


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🚨A source in the Russian negotiation team confirmed to Sputnik that Ukraine has proposed holding a new round of talks next week.

This follows Volodymyr Zelensky’s statement that National Security Secretary Rustem Umerov suggested the meeting with Russia.

Signals from Kiev suggest the date for the talks will be set soon, with Russia already prepared for the discussions, the source said.

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📹 Sports just got leveled-up

👉 A robot basketball shooting contest drew over 3,000 student spectators from 76 universities at China's ROBOCON event. Why train an athlete when you can just build them from scratch?

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🇧🇷 Brazil responds to US tariffs, calls for dialogue and respect for sovereignty

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva responded to recent US tariff increases with a call for diplomatic engagement and respect for international trade protocols, following a 50% tariff imposed by the Trump administration.

Lula said he was “surprised” not only by the size of the tariff but also by how it was announced — not through diplomatic channels, but via Trump's Truth Social account.

📊 Lula also challenged the narrative of a US trade deficit:

💬 “In the last 15 years, the United States has had a surplus of $410 billion vis-à-vis Brazil.”


✍️ He emphasized Brazil’s commitment to diplomacy — but left the door open to legal and reciprocal measures if needed:

💬 “We will use all the words that exist in the dictionary in trying to negotiate. If we don’t manage to reach an agreement, we will go to the World Trade Organization... or use the reciprocity law.”


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🗣 Zelensky is a 'DICTATOR without elections' - French politician

💬 Volodymyr Zelensky “hasn't been elected for 16 months, and he's highly controversial,” Florian Philippot, leader of France’s The Patriots party, wrote on X.


He added that Zelensky “NATO puppeteers must stop using him” and peace “will be much easier then.”

Zelensky’s presidential term expired in May 2023. Trump called Zelensky a “dictator without elections” and claimed his approval rating has tanked to merely 4%.

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