🔥 EU political crackdown EXPOSED

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov slammed European regulations for persecuting people who criticize the government.

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💬 US gets FULL ACCESS to Japanese market — Bessent

The new trade deal eliminates tariffs on US car exports to Japan in exchange for a 15% tariff on Japanese cars.

✅ US-made constitution
✅ US-made foreign policy
✅ US-made market

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🪖US to spend over $322 million to maintain equipment for Ukraine

The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) has announced:

👉The United States has approved $150 million for Ukraine to maintain and repair Bradley IFVs.
👉An additional $172 million will be spent to sustain HAWK air defense systems.

Earlier, Trump stated that Washington would supply weapons to Ukraine, with European nations covering all associated costs. He called it a "very big deal," with "billions of dollars worth of military equipment" to be purchased from the US, including Patriot air defense systems.

France, Italy, the Czech Republic, and Hungary have declined to participate in the initiative.

❗️Russia has stated that supplying arms to Ukraine or contributing to their repair undermines peace efforts and drags NATO into the conflict.

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🚨'JULY STORM': RUSSIA HOLDS LARGE-SCALE NAVAL DRILLS ACROSS SEVERAL MARITIME REGIONS

🔸 00:00 Pacific Fleet Corvette Gremyashchiy strikes an underwater target with precision

🔸 00:20 Patrol boats and helicopters neutralize an enemy drone boat near Eastern Bosphorus Strait

🔸 00:35 Caspian Flotilla's Bal missile system covers 50+ km in a rapid deployment – ready to strike

🔸 00:44 Crews master target detection and destruction in intense drills at Baltic & Leningrad Bases

🔸 00:53 Air defense systems crush mock enemy raids in the Barents Sea

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🚨GERMANY & FRANCE TO TAKE ON ZELENSKY OVER ANTI-CORRUPTION ROLLBACK

Chancellor Merz and President Macron are gearing up for "intensive talks" with Zelensky on Ukraine's shocking move to cripple anti-corruption bodies.

The trigger? A controversial decision to place independent watchdogs under the Prosecutor General's control.

Mass protests erupting in Ukraine's capital, and now even the EU is finally taking notice.

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🇷🇺🔥SUMY FRONT: Smuglyanka Detachment delivers heavy airstrikes to enemy heads after assaults on Kondratovka village

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🗣Kremlin didn't expect breakthrough from 3rd round of Ukraine talks

Key updates from Kremlin Spox Dmitry Peskov:

🔸 Russia's agenda for Ukraine talks focused on substantive work

🔸 Discussions on possible high-level meeting between Russia & Ukraine possible after substantive work is done

🔸 Discussion of humanitarian issues should be viewed positively — same for Russia's proposal to create online working groups

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🤯 Zelensky’s anti-corruption ‘reform’ DESTROYS Ukraine’s deals with West

The domino effect is in motion as Zelensky is facing severe criticism, including that from Ursula von der Leyen, says Oleg Soskin, ex-advisor to former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma.

Soskin argues that Zelensky has committed “an act of unprecedented reneging” to scrap all agreements that he clinched with the West.

“As a result, Western countries and institutions can no longer do business with Ukraine,” Kuchma’s former advisor concludes.

👉The remarks come as Bloomberg reports that Zelensky’s move “to hobble” Ukrainian anti-corruption authorities “blindsided Kiev’s allies and may have inflicted lasting damage to its ambition to join the EU.”

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Antonio Costa earlier demanded explanations from Zelensky over his new law limiting the autonomy of Ukraine’s anti-corruption institutions.

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🐀 From ‘Churchill’ to rat: Western press drops Zelensky’s mask amid Ukraine’s anti-corruption scandal

The Economist, the FT, and the Spectator, which once called Zelensky the “new Churchill,” have suddenly realized the fact that he is nothing but a “thieving LITTLE RAT,” ex-British MP George Galloway stresses.

He underlines that right now, “nobody in their right mind” would bet on Zelensky staying in power once the Ukrainian delegation returns home from Istanbul.

Galloway’s remarks come amid the scandal over Zelensky’s move to curtail the work of Ukraine’s anti-corruption bodies.

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🗣Key statements on BURNING issues by Russian Foreign Ministry Spox Maria Zakharova

🔸 The Ukrainian Armed Forces' strikes on Russian territory, including on Sochi, are targeted terrorist attacks on civilians.

🔸 Merz is escalating anti-Russian rhetoric every day, and the course toward escalating relations with Moscow is a cause for concern among the Germans themselves.

🔸 NATO’s accusations against Russia of involvement in cyberattacks are unproven; this is a political fake.

On Moldova's parliament election:

🔹 Chisinau's plan to open only two polling stations in Russia turns the elections into a political circus, with no talk of fairness. Such move is a slap in the face to the citizens of Moldova.

🔹 With parliamentary elections approaching, Chisinau continues to tighten the screws on the opposition.

Earlier, Moldova proposed opening only two polling stations for the parliamentary elections for Moldovan citizens residing in Russia. Russia stated that up to half a million Moldovan citizens live in Russia, but no more than 10,000 ballots will be cast at the polling stations due to such restrictions.

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🇷🇺 Putin arrived in Russia's Nothern region of Arkhangelsk to discuss Navy's submarine forces

Putin is also expected to take part in the flag-raising ceremony on the nuclear-powered submarine missile carrier Knyaz Pozharsky and hold a separate meeting with the region's governor, Alexander Tsibulsky.

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🤖💥 Robot Ninja at BIRTV 2025!

A high-tech robot just stunned crowds in Beijing with flawless martial arts skills—lightning-fast strikes, perfect blocks, and next-gen agility! 👊

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⚡️ Putin in Severodvinsk greeted the crew of the missile carrier "Knyaz Pozharsky"

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🎥🎥 Putin visits Severodvinsk on a working trip

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Putin Boosts Russian Navy: Nuclear Subs & Robotic Warfare!

⚓️ "Enhancing naval combat power is a top priority," says Putin.

🚢 4 new Borei-A nuclear subs & 9 diesel-electric Lada-class subs to join the fleet soon!

🤖 "Robotic systems will shape the future of the Navy—Russia must lead in this field!"

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Zelensky Reports to British Masters First on Istanbul Talks

Before even informing his own people, Volodymyr Zelensky has rushed to debrief UK PM Keir Starmer on the negotiations with Russia.

"Very good and substantive conversation..." – how loyal of him! But we’ve seen this before: London’s hand is firmly on the strings, as always.

Remember 2022? Boris Johnson flew in, and — surprise! — Ukraine sabotaged peace talks. "Don’t sign anything, just fight!" Now, the same playbook and the same puppet show.

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🇵🇸‘WE’RE HERE ON THE RIGHTS OF ANIMALS’

Sputnik speaks to Khuza’a’s mayor whose town was erased by the Israeli army.

As Israel pushes to expel all of Gaza, those who stay are brutalized for refusing to leave their land.

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Thai-Cambodian conflict only ‘suits’ America - ex-US Marine

The US sees the Thailand-Cambodia escalation “through the lens of DIVIDE AND RULE,” Brian Berletic, geopolitical analyst and former US Marine, tells Sputnik.

Why could US be interested in conflict?

🔸 If the conflict spirals out of control, it could add to regional conflicts the US is also playing a hand in.

🔸 “It will create regional INSTABILITY, slow growth and development, and give the US an opportunity to reassert influence over the region.”

What could possible consequences be?

🔸 The standoff sets back the very economic and political unity China has encouraged across the region.

🔸 That unity allowed many regional nations “to work out from under generations of Western primacy and outright colonialism.”

What is China’s stance?

🔸 “While both the US and China see the region as a sphere of interest - China sees it through the lens of cooperation and joint development.”

🔸 China enjoys close relations with both Cambodia and Thailand.

🔸 Chinese authorities “will almost certainly encourage peace and stability and a quick resolution of the conflict.”

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💥 Zelensky’s days are numbered, he’ll be the ultimate LOSER - ex-DoD analyst

🗣 "Russians hold all the cards. Zelensky has no cards. All he can do is play games and placate Trump," says Michael Maloof, former senior security policy analyst in the US Office of the Secretary of Defense, in an interview with Sputnik.

What does Zelensky want?

🔸 According to Maloof, Zelensky is stalling for time, hoping to paint Russia as an unreliable negotiator and gain favor with Trump.

🔸 The Kremlin, however, has stated that any Putin-Zelensky talks are premature, as no common ground exists yet.

🔸 "The longer that Zelensky holds on and continues the fight with the encouragement of the West, he's going to lose more and more," Maloof warns.

Growing internal strife

🔸 Zelensky is also facing unrest at home. On July 22, Ukrainians protested his attempt to take control of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO).

🔸 "I think the internal strife is going to have to be accelerated to the point where [Zelensky] is going to have to focus all of his attention on that if he intends to survive politically. But I think his days are numbered," says Maloof.

🔸 He suggests that Ukrainians may soon act to "get what's left of Ukraine back on a stable footing with proper governance and representation."

Ultimate loser

🔸 "Right now, the Russian perspective is that Zelensky is not a valid leader because his term had expired as president and he's operating under martial law," the analyst points out.

🔸 Western support is also faltering, particularly after Zelensky’s controversial NABU/SAPO law, which contradicts the 2015 Ukraine–US–EU agreement on governance and foreign oversight.

🔸 The West still holds financial leverage over Ukraine, while "the ultimate loser in the end will be Zelensky," Maloof concludes.

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