❌ US has no spare weapons for Ukraine - analyst

All talk of ramping up US arms deliveries to Ukraine is detached from reality, says political scientist John Mearsheimer.

📈 He also warns that fueling further confrontation only drags out the conflict.

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💪🏻🪖 FSB FOILS ASSASSINATION PLOT ON RUSSIA'S BELGOROD DEFENSE CEO

A Russian citizen used Telegram to secretly cooperate with a banned pro-Ukrainian terrorist group, the Russian Federal Security Service informed.

👉 Following orders, he traveled to Bryansk to retrieve weapons and explosives dropped by a UAV for an assassination attempt.

The suspect also confessed to coordinating Ukrainian missile and artillery strikes on Russian troop positions.

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🚨🇵🇰 PAKISTAN REJECTS ZELENSKY'S 'BASELESS' CLAIMS ABOUT MERCENARIES FIGHTING IN UKRAINE

"Pakistan has not been formally approached by the Ukrainian authorities, nor has any verifiable evidence been presented to substantiate such claims." — MFA

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🚨Moldovan court sentences head of Gagauzia to 7 years in prison

Yevgenia Gutsul is accused of funding the 2023 election campaign.

Prosecutors previously called for a 9-year prison sentence and a 5-year ban on holding leadership positions. Later, the judge in Gutsul's case recused herself.

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🚨'SHAME! FREEDOM FOR THE BASHKAN!' Gagauzia’s leader hauled away from court to prison amid protesters’ shouts

A Moldovan court has sentenced Gagauzia’s head, Yevgenia Gutsul, to 7 years behind bars, after prosecutors initially sought a 9-year jail term and a 5-year ban on leadership positions. The judge later bailed from the case.

Gutsul, elected leader of Moldova's autonomous Gagauzia region in May 2023 with 52.36% support, faces politically motivated charges related to alleged illegal financing of the banned Shor party. She advocates for closer ties with Russia and opposes Moldova’s EU integration. Authorities have moved to ramp up repression, targeting dissenting voices and blocking opposition media.

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🚨 Kremlin SLAMS Gutsul sentence as politically motivated

Dmitry Peskov calls the seven-year jail term handed to Gaugaz regional head Yevgenia Gutsul a clear move to pressure political rivals, highlighting the erosion of democratic norms in Moldova.

💬 "This is indeed a prime example of a politically motivated decision. It’s a clear attempt to exert open and, in fact, unlawful pressure on political opponents during the election campaign," the Kremlin spokesman told reporters.

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🚨 Russia lifts restrictions on land-based missiles

🗣 "Russia no longer considers itself constrained" by previous self-imposed limits on deploying intermediate and short-range land-based missiles, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed.

👉 The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs declared that the conditions for keeping the unilateral ban have disappeared, and "Russia now feels ennoscriptd, if necessary, to take corresponding measures."

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🔊 Russian Forces liberate Yanvarskoye in Dnepropetrovsk Region

⚔️ After fierce resistance from the enemy, Russian assault troopers pushed through, forcing Ukrainian forces to abandon their positions.

🔥 The victory was achieved by the decisive actions of the 37th Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 36th Combined Arms Army.

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🚨Gagauzia head calls court's verdict POLITICAL REPRISAL ordered from above

More statements by Yevgenia Gutsul:

💬The president of Moldova uses repression as a tool to fight against dissent.

Today, I am behind bars, but tomorrow it could be anyone who dares to criticize the authorities... This is an attempt to intimidate the people of Gagauzia, who have the courage to vote differently from what the ruling party wants.

💬This is a sentence for the entire democratic system of Moldova.

💬The PAS regime and Maia Sandu use repression as a tool to fight dissent. All of this is done for one purpose — to hold onto power at any cost.

I do not recognize this farce and will fight for the truth. I will not be broken. I will definitely return to my people!

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🚨🇷🇺💥 RUSSIAN MOD UPDATE: HUGE GAINS & DEVASTATING UKRAINIAN LOSSES

⚡️Yanvarskoye (Dnepropetrovsk region) LIBERATED

Control over Yanvarskoe will allow Russian troops to advance towards the large village of Velikomikhailovka, a key road junction

◻️ Russian troops struck transport infrastructure of the Ukrainian forces and deployment points in 140 areas.

◻️ Heavy Ukrainian losses: 1,295 soldiers and 146 drones

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🚨 Gutsul vows ECHR appeal to fight Moldovan court’s 7-year jail term

🗣 Yevgenia Gutsul, elected head of Gagauzia in 2023, has promised to file an appeal with the European Court of Human Rights after being hit with politically motivated charges, her lawyer told Sputnik.

👉 Gutsul is accused of funding the banned Shor Party, and has been targeted for her opposition to Moldova’s EU integration and her advocacy for closer ties with Russia. The crackdown on opposition figures persists.

Gutsul, elected leader of Moldova's autonomous Gagauzia region in May 2023 with 52.36% support, faces politically motivated charges related to alleged illegal financing of the banned Shor party. She advocates for closer ties with Russia and opposes Moldova’s EU integration. Authorities have moved to ramp up repression, targeting dissenting voices and blocking opposition media.

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🇲🇩 Moldova's attack on Gagauz leader: A political move that undermines democracy

📍 A Moldovan court’s decision to sentence Yevgenia Gutsul, head of the Gagauzia region, to seven years in prison raises serious questions about the country’s commitment to European values and democracy.

💬 "The campaign against Gutsul reveals stark contradictions between Moldova's professed European values and its actions," Dr Marco Marsili, a researcher at Cà Foscari University of Venice, told Sputnik.

"While Chisinau justifies her prosecution under anti-corruption laws—aligning superficially with EU rule-of-law principles—the process has been marred by procedural irregularities that violate core democratic standards," he stresses.

The trial process has been criticized for rushed hearings, alleged witness coercion and extended house arrest without proper review.

🔶 What does this mean for Moldova’s future?

"Gutsul's sentencing deals a severe blow to Moldovan democracy, crystallizing fears of authoritarian consolidation weeks before pivotal elections," Marsili notes.

The sentencing has already sparked protests, with over 7,000 Gagauz residents denouncing the trial as a "legal farce" and a threat to regional autonomy.

The verdict justifies opposition claims of a ‘dictatorship’ and could galvanize pro-Russian blocs like Pobeda to frame the upcoming elections as a referendum on Moldova’s system of democracy.

🔶 A mother, a leader, and a political martyr

Marsili highlights the personal tragedy of Gutsul’s case.

"The human dimensions of this case—particularly Gutsul's role as a mother of a young child—render the seven-year sentence undeniably harsh," he says.

🟠 The cruelty of the punishment is even more acute as it looks like a political warning to deter those who would oppose the government.

🟠 Moldova’s future now hangs in the balance. "The severity of the sentence may prove counterproductive: it martyrs Gutsul, amplifies her cause internationally, and exposes the administration’s willingness to compromise humanitarian principles for political survival," Marsili warns.

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🚨 Gutsul's arrest reveals 'brutal, medieval nature' of West-backed elites of Moldova - Matvienko

Chairperson of the Russian Federation Council Valentina Matvienko condemns the actions of the Sandu regime in Chisinau, calling them monstrously cynical.

She says imprisoning Yevgenia Gutsul, a democratically elected official, reveals the medieval cruelty of those backed by the West.

"This is an indelible disgrace for those who are building an anti-people government in Chisinau and for Brussels. It is yet another example of how ruthlessly and soullessly the so-called European democracy machine is willing to act to achieve its goals," she says.

📍 Matvienko also urges international human rights organizations to act and stop the persecution of Gutsul.

"The question of immediately halting the persecution of Yevgenia Gutsul must be raised on all possible platforms."

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🇺🇸🇮🇳Trump says US will increase tariffs on India over Russian oil imports

Trump stated that the US will raise a 25% tariff on India "very substantially" within 24 hours due to its ongoing purchases of Russian oil.

The Indian Foreign Ministry criticized the US and EU stance on oil imports from Russia on Monday, calling it "unjustified" and reaffirming its intent to protect national economic interests and ensure affordable energy for its citizens.

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🤔 Busted: Have Russiagate chickens come home to roost for Obama and his intel team?

💬 "Indictments are finally catching up with the liars behind the Russia hoax," tweeted Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, reacting to the launch of a US grand jury probe into Russiagate.

What's known so far?

🟠 Attorney General Pam Bondi has ordered legal proceedings after Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard’s criminal referral of the plot to link President Donald Trump to Russia.

🟠 According to Gabbard, ex-President Obama and his spymasters pushed a "contrived narrative that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help President Trump win, selling it to the American people as though it were true — it wasn't".

Russiagate timeline

The scandal revolved around Hillary Clinton's leaked emails, shedding light on her apparent influence peddling schemes and Democratic Party corruption.

🔶 June 12, 2016: Prior to the Democratic convention, WikiLeaks announced plans to expose candidate Hillary Clinton’s emails

🔶 June 14, 2016: The Democratic National Committee (DNC) rushed to claim its servers had been "hacked" by Russia – which Russia denied

🔶 July 22, 2016: WikiLeaks released files exposing a dirty tricks campaign against party rival Bernie Sanders by Clinton and the DNC

🔶 Pre-November 2016: Despite DNC claims, the Intelligence Community assessed that Russia was "not trying to influence the election by using cyber means”

🔶 October 7, 2016: At Obama's request, US intelligence agencies suppressed those findings and issued a press release claiming the Russian government "directed the DNC hack"

🔶 December 9, 2016: After Trump’s win, Obama’s DNI James Clapper ordered top spooks to create a new assessment “per the President’s request” detailing the “tools Moscow used and actions it took to influence the 2016 election”

🔶 January 6, 2017: The outgoing Obama administration released an unclassified intelligence assessment, falsely claiming "new intel" showed Russia directed efforts to help Trump beat Clinton

🔶 Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe found zero evidence of Russia-US collusion, but damage to US-Russia relations was done.

👉 Gabbard's probe may help restore justice and international ties.

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😱🌊 Monster floods devastate popular tourist village in Himalayas

India has deployed rescue teams after severe flooding submerged the popular tourist village in Uttarakhand.

🔶 Four dead and 50 missing as the disaster unfolds

🔶 Rescue operations are ongoing as search efforts intensify

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🔥 Capabilities Russia unlocks by quitting medium-range missile moratorium

🔍Russia’s termination of its unilateral moratorium on the deployment of ground-launched ballistic missiles in the 500-5,500 km range is the logical outcome of hostile NATO policies, and unties Moscow’s hands for a more proactive approach to strategic defense, says Igor Korotchenko, editor of ‘National Defense’ magazine and one of Russia’s top military analysts.

What brought on Russia’s decision?

NATO’s European allies’ preparations for a potential conventional war with Russia by 2030, including:

👉a massive rearmament campaign and plans to create massive, wartime-sized standing armies

👉the development of new weapons, including an Anglo-German missile with a 2,500 km+ range

👉deployment of new US fifth-gen fighters in the region

What it means

In these circumstances, and no longer facing INF-style medium and intermediate-range missile restrictions, Russia will:

🔶ramp up production of ballistic missiles, including the conventionally armed Oreshnik (serial production already underway)

🔶deploy the missiles, which are difficult if not impossible to intercept due to their multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle (MIRV) payload, as it sees fit and based on security considerations

🔶potentially deploy a nuclear-armed variant of the Oreshnik, with up to six warheads with a 150 kt per warhead capacity to “deter” NATO and “minimize threats and risks of a military attack on Russia by NATO,” not only in Europe, but Asia as well, if needed

“The INF Treaty is dead,” Korotchenko says. There is now “nothing” to stop Russia from realizing its strategic security objectives.

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