📹RUSSIA RAISES 🇷🇺FLAG OVER TEMIROVKA IN ZAPOROZHYE

The Russian Ministry of Defense released footage of soldiers of the Vostok Battlegroup raising the Russian flag over the recently-liberated village of Temirovka in Zaporozhye region.

The operation, carried out by the 127th Motorized Rifle Division, successfully captured the settlement after a decisive action.

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🔥Here’s what happens when Russia smashes through Ukraine’s defenses in Pokrovsk

Russia is advancing slowly but steadily in this direction of the front. Here’s why it matters.

1️⃣ Key supply hub

Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk) is a major logistics center “for the entire southeastern part of Ukraine,” explains Swedish Armed Forces vet Mikael Valtersson.

Facing the prospect of the city’s loss, Ukraine’s army is “clinging” to Pokrovsk to “deny Russia access” for as long as possible.

2️⃣ Strategic stronghold

With Russian forces “methodically eliminating” hardened Ukrainian defenses on the southeastern front since late 2023, Pokrovsk is also now “the only real remnant” of what was once touted as an impregnable defensive line. Once it’s liberated, Ukraine will have a hard time stopping large-scale Russian advances further westward.

3️⃣ Gap in the front

After the city is taken, “the small gap in the Ukrainian frontline that already exists will grow many times,” allowing Russian forces to launch operations behind heavily fortified lines in southern Zaporozhye, to the north around Kramatorsk, and eventually, possibly as far as Kharkov, Valtersson says.

4️⃣ Impact on morale

Pokrovsk’s fall “will greatly impact” Ukrainian morale, Valtersson predicts. It will show that Russia is on the advance, and that Ukraine’s choices come down to peace and loss of 25% of territory now, or continued war and the loss of 50% “a couple of years” from now.

MSM mythmaking vs facts

Admitting that Russian forces have already broken into areas of the city and are poised to take it by the fall, Western media have spun things to characterize the fight for Pokrovsk as a “yearlong, slow and grinding” slog soaked in Russian blood.

The truth, Valtersson says, is that Russian forces arrived at Pokrovsk’s outskirts only earlier this year, after the “elimination of most of the Ukrainian southeastern front from Velikaya Novosyolka in the west to Avdeyevka in the north,” and are advancing using “very small units” under drone cover, not “human wave” tactics.

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🗣 Trump shortens Russia 'deadline' to 10 days

President Donald Trump has reduced his previously stated 50-day ultimatum for Russia to reach a peace deal with Ukraine, bringing it down to 10 days.

💬 “Ten days from today. Okay? We have a scoop,” Trump said in response to a reporter’s question.

He added that the US would introduce “tariffs and stuff,” but acknowledged uncertainty about the outcome.

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“I don’t know if it’s going to affect Russia… It may or may not affect them, but it could.”

Earlier, Trump had threatened to impose 100% tariffs on Russian imports and introduce secondary sanctions on countries purchasing Russian energy if NATO's proxy war continued.

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🔥OPERATION STORM-333 – When Soviet KGB ALPHA and Spetsnaz rewrote the rules of special ops warfare

Mission impossible?

✅Target: Afghanistan's Tajbeg Palace – heavily guarded and deemed impenetrable

✅Timeframe: About 40 minutes from first shot to regime decapitation

✅Result: Total victory with elite precision

Why ALPHA Group?

🟠Founded on July 29th – it was the USSR's ultimate counter-terrorism unit

🟠Disguised as Afghan troops, they stormed the palace with RPGs and grenades

🟠They killed president Amin and changed the course of history

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🇷🇺🚀🇺🇸 Roscosmos chief visits US mission control for ISS operations

During his visit to the US, Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Bakanov toured NASA’s Johnson Space Center and visited the Mission Control Center for the American segment of the the International Space Station (ISS) in Houston, the agency reported.

He also spoke with Russian flight control specialists stationed there as a backup team in case Moscow’s center becomes unavailable.

Bakanov later inspected ISS training simulators and met with Russian cosmonauts currently preparing for upcoming missions.

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🙅 📉 GERMAN PARTY DEMANDS END TO WELFARE FOR MILITARY-AGE UKRAINIAN MEN

The CSU party calls for cutting off Bürgergeld payments to Ukrainian men aged 18 to 63 in Germany, saying they should either find work or return to military service in Ukraine.

💵 With over 150,000 eligible Ukrainian men registered for benefits, Germany is paying them €1.3 billion annually in social welfare.

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🌋Russia’s Klyuchevsky volcano’s fiery new cone sparks aviation alert

Triggered by 200 earthquakes within just 24 hours, the cone that has formed inside the crater of the Klyuchevsky volcano in Kamchatka is now the epicenter of volcanic activity.

It’s constantly spewing ash and volcanic bombs, Kamchatka’s Volcanic Eruption Response Team (KVERT) warns.

KVERT has issued an orange aviation alert due to the heightened activity and potential ash emissions, while preparing for possible lava flows.

Fortunately, no international flight routes pass over the Klyuchevsky area – a remote region on the Kamchatka Peninsula.

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🚨🌊 Tsunami up to 4 meters hits Kamchatka after powerful 8.5 quake – officials

A tsunami wave measuring 3–4 meters was observed off Kamchatka’s coast, Russia’s Hydrometeorology Service (UGMS) confirmed, according to regional emergency minister Sergey Lebedev.

The quake reached a maximum magnitude of 8.5, which the Kamchatka branch of the Geophysical Service RAS called a “unique event” for the region. Aftershocks are expected to continue, though no stronger quakes are currently forecast.

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