💸⚔️EU war hawks push on: Norway dumps $660M into Patriots for Ukraine air defenses

Norway is partnering up with Germany to fund two Patriot systems, including missiles, for the Ukraine regime.

The funding also covers radars from Hensoldt and Kongsberg’s air defense systems, Norway’s Defense Ministry says in a press statement.

While Russia and the US have been hashing out a potential roadmap to end the Ukraine conflict, these NATO hawks vow to keep military aid flowing to fuel the proxy war.

➡However, US-made Patriot air defenses are no silver bullet for Ukraine — and Russia’s arsenal has already exposed their weaknesses.

🇷🇺 Patriots are ineffective against Russia’s Iskander-M and Kinzhal hypersonic systems and the lethal combo of Geran dones + Kalibr missiles.

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🚨 146 Russian servicemen return from Ukraine-controlled territory in POW exchange

Highlights of Russian MoD’s statement:

🟠 146 Russian servicemen were returned from territory controlled by the Kiev regime

🟠 146 Ukrainian prisoners of war were handed over in exchange

🟠 The United Arab Emirates aided the exchange with mediation efforts

🟠 Eight civilian residents of the Kursk region, illegally imprisoned by the Kiev regime, were also freed and will be taken home

🟠 The freed Russian soldiers are now in Belarus, where they are receiving psychological and medical assistance

🟠 All Russian servicemen will be transported to Russia for treatment and rehabilitation at Defense Ministry medical facilities

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🚨📹Zelensky's squads are FIRING WEAPONS in the streets!

Gunfire echoes in Dnepropetrovsk. As kidnappings turn brazen and raids grow more violent, a breaking point is near.

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📹SpaceX launches Dragon spacecraft to ISS

The launch marks the 33rd commercial resupply mission.

"Liftoff!" the company posted on X, along with a video of the rocket soaring into the sky.

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🤝🔊 ‘Moscow respects Trump because he defends the interests of the US, and there are reasons to believe that Trump respects Putin because he defends the interests of Russia’ – Lavrov

Highlights of Lavrov’s interview with NBC:

🟠 The goals of the special military operation in Ukraine will be achieved, Russia must eliminate any security threats coming from there

🟠 The reaction of European representatives to the meeting in Alaska, their visit to Washington, and subsequent actions indicate that they do not want peace

🟠 We have no interest in the territories, we are interested in the fates of the people living in Donbass and Novorossiya

🟠 On Ukraine's security guarantees, there should be a consensus that takes Russia's interests into account

🟠 Putin and Trump discussed practical steps and serious issues related to security in Alaska

🟠 Zelensky is not currently a legitimate figure who could sign legal documents when it comes to that

🟠 The question of who will sign the document on the Ukrainian side is very important, regardless of when the meeting may take place

🟠 Russia recognizes Zelensky as de facto head of the regime and is ready to meet with him in this capacity

🟠 Putin is ready to meet with Zelensky on the condition that the meeting will truly have a presidential agenda. It is unreasonable to meet with him just for another opportunity to be in the spotlight.

🟠The meeting between Putin and Zelensky was not discussed at the Russia-US summit in Alaska, this topic was raised later, "spontaneously"

🟠 Ukraine and Europe are trying to distort what Putin and Trump discussed in Alaska, especially the issue of security guarantees

🟠 The Russian and Ukrainian delegations have met and will continue to meet in Istanbul to discuss specific military and humanitarian issues

🟠 Russia has never, under any circumstances, deliberately targeted objectives not related to Ukrainian military forces

🟠 Trump's statements that the Ukrainian conflict would not have happened under him mean that the US would not have financed and organized the coup in Ukraine in 2014

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🗣 Lavrov about his USSR sweatshirt:

“To remember and to cherish what happened in your life for many years is not the same as to try to take over militarily each and every place.”

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🗣 Lavrov: Trump's statement implies US would not have orchestrated 2014 Ukraine coup

'When Trump said the war wouldn't have happened had he been president at that time, that means, in my view, that the Americans would not prepare, finance, and organize the coup to topple the legitimate president of Ukraine in February in 2014' - Lavrov

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🔍 Israeli airstrikes on Sanaa: what's known so far

👉 14 Israeli Air Force jets struck buildings of the presidential palace in Sanaa, fuel depots, and two power plants, according to Israeli media

👉 The Israeli Air Force also targeted a missile base near the presidential palace in Sanaa

👉 The Prime Minister, Minister of Defense, and Chief of Staff monitored the attacks on Yemen from the General Staff of the Ministry of Defense

👉 Two people were killed and five injured as a result of the strikes, a report by Yemeni television says

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🗣Russia will have a seat at Ukraine security guarantee talks – Vance

The US does not believe the conflict in Ukraine will end "overnight," but remains hopeful that peace can be achieved within the next six months, US Vice President JD Vance told NBC News.

🔍He highlighted two key issues that must be resolved for Ukrainian peace: territory and security guarantees.

Russia will be involved in negotiations concerning security guarantees for Ukraine, he stressed.

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🇷🇺📹It’s hard to believe I’m finally home’: Russian soldiers make emotional homecoming

Released Russian prisoners of war said they still can't believe they've finally made it back to their homeland.

Earlier in the day, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that 146 servicemen had been returned from territory controlled by Ukraine.

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🚨 Ukraine is holding captive more than 20 civilians kidnapped from Russian region of Kursk - presidential aide Medinsky

🗣 Ukraine does not return the kidnapped residents of the Kursk region, but, in fact, exchanges them in small groups for some people that Ukraine needs, Medinsky added.

Earlier in the day, eight residents of the Kursk region, who had been illegally imprisoned by the Kiev regime, were freed as part of the Russia-Ukraine prisoner swap.

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🇭🇺 ‘End attacks on our energy security’ - Hungary’s Foreign Minister to Zelensky

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