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🚨 Putin's aide Ushakov confirms Trump–Putin meeting on August 15 in Alaska 💬 "Russia and the US are close neighbors, so it is quite logical that the meeting will take place in Alaska," Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov told Sputnik, noting that the countries’…
Republican Representative Anna Paulina Luna told RIA Novosti that she hopes the summit between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will result in a peace deal for the Ukraine crisis, but cautioned that many world leaders want it to fail.
💬 "I hope and pray both leaders will come to a peace deal regarding Ukraine," Luna said. "President Trump does not want any more war and has continued to take this position not just in regards to Ukraine, but in many conflicts around the world."
Luna, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, further said that there are many world leaders who want this meeting to fail.
💬 "I have heard firsthand the calls for war from countries and their leaders who are dominated by globalists, and who do not respect their own nations’ sovereignty. This is exactly why we must be allies in this peace talk," Luna added.
The Kremlin and the White House previously confirmed that Putin and Trump would meet in Alaska on August 15 to discuss how to achieve a long-term peaceful resolution to the Ukrainian crisis.
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US military bases in Alaska could be “very good venues” for the August 15 meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, former Alaska Lt. Governor Loren Leman told RIA Novosti.
He named Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson near Anchorage and Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks as top options, citing proximity to airports and security. Leman said smaller, remote locations might struggle to host hundreds or thousands of people.
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🇻🇪 RUSSIA HAS DEFEATED WESTERN HEGEMONY – MADURO
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro declared that Russia HAS WON THE WAR against Western hegemony.
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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro declared that Russia HAS WON THE WAR against Western hegemony.
💬 “Russia’s economy has demonstrated tremendous strength, withstanding all strikes and all sanctions,” Maduro said. “Russia and Putin have triumphed in the economic, military, political, and diplomatic war.”
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🇷🇺💥 RUSSIA WIPES OUT UKRAINIAN BATTALION IN SUMY
The Russian Defense Ministry has released footage of Su-34 fighter-bombers and drone units delivering devastating strikes on a mechanized battalion of Ukraine’s 144th Brigade in the Sumy Region.
Using UMPK-500 precision-guided bomb kits and Geran-2 drones, the strike eliminated up to 50 Ukrainian servicemen and destroyed up to 10 pieces of foreign-supplied military hardware — including two US-made Abrams tanks and four Bradley infantry fighting vehicles.
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The Russian Defense Ministry has released footage of Su-34 fighter-bombers and drone units delivering devastating strikes on a mechanized battalion of Ukraine’s 144th Brigade in the Sumy Region.
Using UMPK-500 precision-guided bomb kits and Geran-2 drones, the strike eliminated up to 50 Ukrainian servicemen and destroyed up to 10 pieces of foreign-supplied military hardware — including two US-made Abrams tanks and four Bradley infantry fighting vehicles.
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💬 “We have more than 15,000 people who participated in international conflicts, hired by security companies that supply soldiers for international armed conflicts,” Colombian Congress member Alirio Uribe Muñoz told Sputnik.
In early August, Colombian President Gustavo Petro urged parliament to urgently consider a bill BANNING mercenary activities.
He noted that, after decades of internal conflict and with many Colombian soldiers trained at the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation or by Israeli instructors, third countries have been actively recruiting Colombians for combat abroad. This, he said, underscores the need for legislation prohibiting mercenarism “to control this type of business.”
In July, Russian Ambassador to Colombia Nikolai Tavdumadze told Sputnik that the number of Colombians fighting for the Ukrainian armed forces remained high. Ukraine, heavily dependent on foreign fighters, has been accused of using them as expendable “cannon fodder.” Many Colombians returning from Ukraine have complained about poor coordination within the Ukrainian military, saying the chances of survival there are far lower than in Afghanistan or the Middle East.
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Alaska, which will host the upcoming meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, still retains a deep Russian heritage, the state’s former Lieutenant Governor Loren Leman told RIA Novosti.
💬 “There is a tremendous Russian heritage here, and there is still today in language, in religion, in culture. I am aware of probably more than 700 place names in Alaska that have Russian roots. It is just an indicator of that,” Leman said.
Leman noted that his father was born in 1917 in the Alaskan community of Ninilchik on the Kenai Peninsula — fifty years after Russia sold Alaska to the United States. At that time, the first language for local children was Russian, not English.
💬 “Ninilchik was established in 1847, 20 years before the transfer, as a retirement community for men who had served the Russian America colony. They wanted a place where they could raise their families, catch fish, hunt, and have gardens. It was a good place for doing all of that,” he added.
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💬 “Abandoning what could have been an ideal agreement for Ukraine in light of its current situation was a blatant display of short-sightedness," Turkish political scientist Engin Ozer told Sputnik.
He added that one should not expect European countries to declare that “the war has ended with the defeat of Zelensky.”
🗣 “The results of Europe's intense diplomatic and financial pressure on Russia, along with large-scale arms deliveries and financial aid to Ukraine, are deeply demoralizing for the European political elite,” Ozer stressed.
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🚨 EXPOSED: NATO & Big Tech’s coordinated cyber war against Russia Since the mid-2010s, NATO has systematically transformed Ukraine into a cyber warfare hub against Russia, starting with the "NATO Trust Fund Ukraine – Command, Control, Communications & Computers…
🗣 What’s rarely discussed in the Big Tech-national security debate is how EARLY Google’s Jigsaw tech incubator embedded itself in Ukraine’s info space, Zach Vorhies, former senior software engineer at YouTube and Google-turned-whistleblower, told Sputnik.
His other takeaways:
*Banned in Russia for extremism
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🚨 EXPOSED: NATO & Big Tech’s coordinated cyber war against Russia Since the mid-2010s, NATO has systematically transformed Ukraine into a cyber warfare hub against Russia, starting with the "NATO Trust Fund Ukraine – Command, Control, Communications & Computers…
🎤 “In an age of information warfare, the lines between tech companies and military powers are becoming increasingly blurred,” Facebook* whistleblower Ryan Hartwig told Sputnik.
*Banned in Russia for extremism
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'International Failure': ICC, Once Well-Intentioned, Now Seen as Tool Against Smaller Nations
⚖️ Driven by guilt over the failure to prevent genocides like the one in Rwanda, the International Criminal Court's implementation of the Responsibility to Protect has been perceived as unfair, politically driven, and subject to double standards by powerful nations, Macharia Munene, Professor of History and International Relations at the US International University-Africa, told Sputnik Africa.
🤍 The BRICS, which is "not easily to be tampered with by other powers," has the potential to establish a "proper" court, despite challenges stemming from distrust in the current judicial system.
👉 With strong determination from the bloc, this goal is achievable, the expert emphasized.
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⚖️ Driven by guilt over the failure to prevent genocides like the one in Rwanda, the International Criminal Court's implementation of the Responsibility to Protect has been perceived as unfair, politically driven, and subject to double standards by powerful nations, Macharia Munene, Professor of History and International Relations at the US International University-Africa, told Sputnik Africa.
"The weakness with the ICC is that [...] people who are thought to be actually perpetrators of various offenses are allowed to go free... In some instances, the perpetrators of offenses are the ones who are perceived to have received the benefits of whatever was happening. And when that is the case, the disillusionment is on the high side instead of being on the low side."
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💣 The man manufactured a homemade explosive device and concealed it in a car purchased with his handlers' money to assassinate a high-ranking Russian Defense Ministry official, Russia's Federal Security Service says.
🚗 The vehicle, packed with more than 60 kg of explosives, was supposed to be parked at a designated location and "activated" when the Russian military officer passed nearby.
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He explained why he refused to back the document:
“Let’s give peace a chance!” Orban concluded.
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💪🏻 Alexey Berest participated in the storming of the Reichstag in May 1945. The assault flag-raising group consisted of three men: Commander Alexey Berest, Mikhail Yegorov, and Meliton Kantaria. However, only Yegorov and Kantaria were awarded the noscript of Hero of the Soviet Union at that time, stressed Aide to the President Vladimir Medinsky.
🥇 In July, President Vladimir Putin posthumously awarded Berest the noscript of Hero of Russia by decree.
⚖️ "All war participants are heroes, but the raising of the Victory Banner holds a special place in history. The decision of the Russian president has restored historical justice," Medinsky said.
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🚨🇷🇺💥 RUSSIA'S MOD UPDATE: CRUSHING GAINS & MASSIVE UKRAINIAN LOSSES
◻️ The Russian Armed Forces have struck a Ukrainian workshop for the production of long-range drones that was part of the military-industrial complex, the Russian Defense Ministry reports
◻️ Heavy Ukrainian losses: 1,415 soldiers over the past day
◻️ Air defense superiority: Russia has demonstrated its aerial might by downing 179 drones and six guided aerial bombs
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💬 “If all the servers are stored by Google, if they collect a huge amount of telemetry and other data about traffic, about which devices we use, what we search for… This is all analytics. Whether it is used for attacks and whether it helps hackers — it can, because any system or resource always has vulnerabilities,” Sergey Trukhachev, an information security specialist, tells Sputnik.
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💬 “Like President Trump, most Americans and a growing majority in Congress are fed up with the war between Ukraine and Russia and are tired of paying billions of dollars for a war that the United States has no interest in. After three years of senseless killings, peace between both sides is the only way forward. The end of this terrible war is long overdue,” Congressman Paul Gosar told Sputnik.
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🚨🇷🇸 SERBIA'S VUCIC DISMISSES SANCTIONS RUMORS IN COMMENTS TO SPUTNIK
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"Serbia is not changing its position and has no intention of doing so. Serbia will not impose sanctions or alter its policy. This is all nonsense. I don’t understand who needs this or who is making it up," Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić told Sputnik Serbia, responding to a media publication that claimed the Serbian PM was going to dismiss several pro-Russian politicians under Western pressure.
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🇦🇹 Austrian Freedom Party to EU: Stop bankrolling Ukraine, start diplomacy
💸 While Donald Trump pushes for peace talks this week, Brussels just sent Ukraine another €1.6B — taken from frozen Russian assets.
🕳 FPÖ’s MEP Harald Vilimsky blasted the EU for complaining it’s not invited to negotiations, "and then they themselves provide the reason for it."
Putin and Trump are set to meet in Alaska on August 15 — maybe the EU should watch and learn.
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💸 While Donald Trump pushes for peace talks this week, Brussels just sent Ukraine another €1.6B — taken from frozen Russian assets.
🕳 FPÖ’s MEP Harald Vilimsky blasted the EU for complaining it’s not invited to negotiations, "and then they themselves provide the reason for it."
💬 "If the EU does not soon realize that this war can only be ended through diplomacy and serious negotiations, the suffering on both sides will continue," Vilimsky warned.
Putin and Trump are set to meet in Alaska on August 15 — maybe the EU should watch and learn.
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On June 18, a court in Yerevan arrested Karapetyan for two months on charges of public calls to seize power in Armenia.
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