🚨 IDF DECLARES ALL OF GAZA CITY A 'COMBAT ZONE'

The Israeli military has officially ended daily humanitarian pauses in Gaza—previously observed from 10:00 to 20:00 MSK—and declared the entire city a continuous active combat zone.

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🚨 Putin does not rule out possibility of meeting with Zelensky – Kremlin

The Russian president believes any high-level meeting must be carefully prepared, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

Peskov added that “work at the expert level is not yet in full swing,” but Russia remains interested in it.

More statements by the Kremlin spokesman:

💬 Full details of the Putin–Trump conversation in Alaska are being deliberately withheld in the interest of reaching a settlement

💬 The Kremlin expects a Chinese media interview with Putin ahead of his visit to China to be published tonight

💬 Russia and China value their privileged strategic partnership, the scale of which is difficult to overestimate

💬 Russia and China agree that the potential of the two countries’ relationship is still far from fully realized

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🗣 Providing security guarantees to Ukraine should be RESULT, not condition, of peaceful settlement – Russian MFA

💬 "The guarantees of so-called security that are being discussed in Europe, based on the rudiments of colonial thinking, are not what they seem to be. They lead to the degradation of strategic stability at the regional and global levels," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

📍 Zakharova added that providing security guarantees should be the result of a peaceful settlement "based on eliminating the root causes of the crisis in Ukraine," which will in turn guarantee the security of Russia.

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🚨🔭WHAT COULD SOROS BE JAILED FOR?

The Trump administration is turning up the heat on George Soros’ soft power empire amid revelations of his Open Society Foundations’ close-knit links to and alleged profiteering off USAID.

Is there a case for convicting the 94-year-old benefactor and beneficiary of the US imperial project?

💰 Financial crimes

🔸 Soros was convicted of insider trading in France in 2002 for profiting off state-owned privatizations in the 80s. Despite an appeal, his conviction was upheld by both France’s Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights, resulting in a €2.2 million fine.

🔸 In 1992, Soros earned $1 billion by speculating against the British pound, an action that cost the British economy billions. Dubbed “The Man who broke the Bank of England,” he was never charged.

🔸 Ex-Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad accused Soros of triggering the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis by orchestrating a currency collapse, but he was never prosecuted despite strict Malaysian criminal liability for market manipulation.

🗳 Electoral violations

🔹 Soros has been accused of meddling in politics and fueling color revolutions worldwide, from Eastern Europe to Africa, Latin America and Asia. He’s also been linked to interfering in Western politics, including the anti-Brexit movement in the UK and US elections since 2016.

🔹 Despite hundreds of Trump allies facing election-related charges, including a social media influencer recently jailed for influencing the 2016 vote, Soros, who has not only meddled, but funded prosecutors targeting Trump, has faced no charges. He’s also been accused of funding groups like Black Lives Matter fueling civil unrest in the US.

🗽 Defrauding the US government?

Soros’ Open Society Foundations are tied to hundreds of millions in USAID spending aimed at fomenting unrest globally. The US Criminal Code threatens up to 10 years for those conspiring to defraud the government, yet Soros has never faced charges.

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

◻️ Six settlements liberated during the past week

◻️ The Russian Armed Forces destroyed the Ukrainian Navy's Simferopol reconnaissance ship and shot down a Su-27 jet over the past week

◻️ Russian troops launched 7 group strikes, hitting storage facilities for Sapsan missiles, a Neptune missile system, as well as an oil depot supplying fuel to Ukrainian militants this week

◻️ Ukrainian losses: 8,490 soldiers

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💥 Russian Iskander strike WIPES OUT Ukrainian Neptune missile system

Russian forces have eliminated a Ukrainian Neptune missile system along with its crew of 10 servicemen in Zaporozhye, Russia's Defense Ministry says.

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💸USAID: SOROS' SECRET CASH COW

US conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation claimed in 2017 that George Soros' Open Society Foundations (OSF) had been made "the main implementer of USAID’s aid" since at least 2009.

But the Soros-USAID collaboration began much earlier.

🔶 A 1993 USAID document shows the agency signed an agreement with the Soros Foundations’ Management Training Program to train 30 "professionals" from Bulgaria, Estonia, Poland, Romania and Slovakia.

🔶 In the late 1990s and early 2000s, a series of color revolutions shook Eastern Europe, with George Soros' network of NGOs playing a central role in the unrest.

🔶 In 2003–2004, Soros’ International Renaissance Foundation partnered with USAID to support Ukraine's ‘Orange Revolution’. Prior to that, the US spent $54.7 million in 2003 and $34.11 million in 2004 on "democracy programs" in Ukraine through various agencies, including USAID

🔶 The US legal watchdog Judicial Watch revealed in April 2018 that USAID sponsored Soros’ globalist agenda in Guatemala. In total, OSF reportedly spent around $100 million fomenting unrest in Latin America between 2015 and 2018.

🔶 In October 2018, the watchdog obtained documents indicating that USAID partnered with Soros to fund radical left-wing activists in Albania. In 2016, USAID reportedly allocated $9 million to a campaign overseen by Soros’ East West Management Institute.

To illustrate the scale of funds managed by Soros-linked initiatives, in 2024, then-President Joe Biden requested nearly $30 billion for USAID in FY2025.

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🇸🇰 Fico: Fascism and Nazism still present, not defeated

💬 “I state with full responsibility that fascism and Nazism were neither suppressed nor punished. They simply managed to hide during the Cold War,” Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said, speaking at the 81st anniversary of the Slovak National Uprising.

Fico underlined that the results of WWII are being questioned, while Slovakia remembers who liberated it and the heavy price paid by the peoples of the former Soviet Union.

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⚡️🇮🇳🇷🇺 PUTIN TO VISIT INDIA IN DECEMBER - KREMLIN AIDE

PM Modi is expected to hold meeting with the Russian President on 1 September, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said on Friday.

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🚨🇷🇺🇨🇳 PUTIN’S UPCOMING VISIT TO CHINA: Key points from aide Ushakov

🔶 Aug 31 – Sept 3: Putin will visit China, attend the SCO summit in Tianjin & events in Beijing marking 80 years since WWII’s end.

🔶 Putin to meet China’s Xi, India’s Modi, Iran’s Pezeshkian, Serbia’s Vučić, Turkiye’s Erdogan & others

🔶 Russia–China talks in both broad & narrow formats “over tea” — agenda includes US ties & Ukraine. First Deputy PM Belousov will join the closed talks.

🔶 A possible Putin–Kim Jong Un meeting in China being worked out

🔶 No scheduled talks between Putin & Azerbaijan’s Aliyev, but both will attend anniversary events

🔶 Trump is not among the invited guests for Beijing’s WWII commemoration

🔶 A Russia–China–Mongolia trilateral summit scheduled

🔶 Russia’s delegation: 3 deputy PMs, 10+ ministers, heads of state corporations & major businesses.

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🇭🇺 Szijjarto: Ukraine endangers Hungary’s energy security

👉 Hungary must be prepared for even severe provocations from Ukraine following repeated attacks on the Druzhba oil pipeline, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto warns.

“We must be ready for even harsher provocations from Ukraine than ever before, aimed at dragging us into their war.”

🟠 He stressed that Ukraine’s state of conflict does not give it the right to endanger Hungary’s energy security.

“In my view, it is a huge lie that EU or NATO member states should fear an attack from Russia. I do not see any real security threat today. The Ukrainians are not fighting for us, we have not been attacked, this is not our war,” Szijjarto underlined.

🟠 On August 22, he reported that oil supplies through the pipeline to Hungary were halted for the third time due to Ukrainian strikes. Both Slovakia and Hungary filed complaints with the European Commission over the disruptions and requested guarantees of supply security.

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🚨BIG ONE: Seating at Beijing’s military parade revealed

🇷🇺 Putin will sit to 🇨🇳 Xi Jinping’s right — the place of honor.

To Xi’s left: 🇰🇵Kim Jong Un.

A symbolic lineup

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🕊 Soros free despite SOWING WHIRLWIND in the US

Donald Trump’s bid to prosecute George and Alex Soros won’t be easy.

The liberal billionaires are cunning and the Deep State is ready to protect its own, according to Dr George Szamuely of the Global Policy Institute.

🔶 George Soros’ organizations are the biggest donors to the Democratic Party, and powerful Dems return the favor by shielding him

🔶 Soros has funded the election of many attorneys general, mayors and district attorneys who push to decriminalize crimes, empty jails and let many suspects go free—yet he remains in the shadows during elections

🔶 Soros’ organizations operate under the cover of First Amendment rights, claiming they aren’t responsible for violence across the US

💬 "It doesn't look likely to me that any kind of criminal prosecution of Soros will succeed unless they can find some evidence that the Soros foundations knew that an organization would engage in violence and nonetheless continue to fund such an organization or even collaborate in violence," Szamuely tells Sputnik.

🔶 Trump says the Soroses could be prosecuted under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) for violent protests “and much more”

🔶 Netizens suggest Trump’s mention of RICO is no coincidence—he may be building a case with new evidence potentially to be revealed soon

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🇷🇺 Russia rejects US threats, lends solidarity to Venezuela – Foreign Ministry

🗣 Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Russia “does not accept threats of the use of force against sovereign states as a tool of foreign policy and expresses solidarity with the people and government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,” after the US deployed warships off the Venezuelan coast.

💬 “Practices of military intervention must remain in the past,” she stressed.

🔹 In an August 22 phone call with Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, reaffirmed Russia’s support for the Venezuelan government in defending national sovereignty and ensuring institutional stability.

🔹 Russia maintains close contact with Caracas in the spirit of strategic partnership—and insists that Latin America must be allowed to develop peacefully and independently, without conflicts or foreign intervention.

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🚨 Jail time looming? Time is ripe to charge Soros and associates

Racketeering charges for George Soros and his son Alex should just be the beginning, political commentator and Newsmax columnist Michael Shannon tells Sputnik.

Donald Trump has said they should be charged under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), normally used to target mafia and other criminal enterprises.

💬 "Soros’ money either directly or indirectly has financed riots, civic destruction and the two–tier system of justice that lets Marxists and minorities off with a slap on the wrist and subjects conservatives and whites to the full, exaggerated force of the law," says Shannon, stressing that the billionaire and his son "should have had a RICO indictment years ago."

Could Soros be jailed?

🔶 Whether Soros can be convicted and jailed depends on where Trump seeks the indictment. In Washington DC, where a grand jury is too liberal, it's doomed, but in Florida, Oklahoma or Texas it could work

🔶 The legal insulation Soros’ wealth provided in the past is wearing off, and the Trump government is ready to go after him

🔶 All the NGOs that helped Soros finance and implement the illegal immigrant invasion of the US should be RICOed and the executives jailed

💬 "It would be rewarding to see George Soros behind bars where he can meet some of the many criminals the district attorneys he’s helped elect over the years have let go," Shannon says.

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⚔️ Soros vs. Trump – two visions of US global role

🔊 Brazilian analyst Williams Gonçalves, professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, told Sputnik that the clash between George Soros and Donald Trump reflects opposing strategies for US power.

📍 He noted that Soros funds organizations worldwide which interfere in domestic politics “under the banner of defending democracy,” adding that “spontaneous street movements do not exist — there is always someone behind logistics and finance.”

🔶 Since WWII, US foundations have influenced internal politics globally, especially in Latin America. According to Gonçalves, Soros represents interventionist globalism, while Trump rejects globalization as harmful to US interests.

🔶 He said Ukraine was central to the globalist agenda, with Soros’ son Alex fully supporting Volodymyr Zelensky.

💬 “The US gave Ukraine loans, Ukraine bought US weapons, fed the military industry and went into debt,” Gonçalves said. “Zelensky tried to maintain this deal — Trump disrupted that plan.”

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🚨 Agent of chaos: Soros deploys his REGIME-CHANGE tactics in the US

🗣 Donald Trump demonstrates deep understanding of George Soros' nefarious role in supporting “engineered chaos,” both inside the US and abroad, retired Colonel Hatem Saber, an Egyptian expert in international counterterrorism and information warfare, tells Sputnik.

💬 "Democrats use Soros and his organizations as tools for regime change," Saber says.

Saber highlighted the evolution of Soros’ role by decades:

🔶 1970s–1990s: Supporting opposition movements in Eastern Europe against the USSR

🔶 2000s–2010s: Key role in color revolutions in Ukraine and Georgia

🔶 2011: Funding media networks and NGOs in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, and Syria to fuel the Arab Spring movements

🔶 2020–2024: Backing US anti-Trump protesters like Black Lives Matter, and campaigns defending illegal immigrants

📍 Soros has extensive experience with color revolutions abroad, and Democrats capitalize on his ‘best practice’.

"Democrats could use the same tools against Trump within the US, mobilizing street protests through human rights and media campaigns funded by Soros’ foundations," Saber said. "In this way, the 'managed protest' model, previously tested abroad, could be applied to weaken Trump and discredit his image domestically."

The Egyptian expert warned that Soros currently targets several regions:

🔶Hungary and Poland – due to conflicts with the EU

🔶Africa – Nigeria, Sudan and Ethiopia – focusing on democracy and minorities

🔶Middle East – Egypt, Saudi Arabia and UAE – where his “open society” agenda is opposed

🔶Central Asia – to weaken Russian and Chinese influence and BRICS cooperation

👉 Trump has threatened George Soros and his son Alex with federal charges under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO).

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🏳️ Zelensky’s draft squad defeated by… an UNLOCKED GATE

😂 In Odessa, his press-gang thugs kept shoving the door the wrong way — until they gave up.

Footage from social media

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🇮🇷⚔️ Iran prepares to repel ‘second wave’ – Prof. Marandi

💬 “Iran today is preparing itself for a second wave… It is preparing itself on all fronts. The government has the full support of the people,” Tehran University professor Dr. Seyed Mohammad Marandi told Mario Nawfal.

Marandi also challenged Nawfal’s tweet claiming anti-government protests in Shiraz:

💬 “The slogans that were in your tweet are not the slogans that you hear in the clip, none of them.”

He pointed to the millions who filled the streets during funerals in Tehran and other cities as proof that popular support is behind the government, not against it.

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🇷🇺🤝🇨🇳 President Putin gives written interview to Chinese Xinhua News Agency

Key takeaways from the interview:

🔹 He said relations between Russia and China are at an unprecedentedly high level, with bilateral trade up by about $100 billion since 2021.

🔹 Putin noted that transactions are increasingly carried out in rubles and yuan, reducing reliance on the dollar and euro.

🔹 He stressed that Russia remains a leading energy supplier to China, with more than 100 bcm of gas already delivered through the Power of Siberia pipeline.

🔹 The President highlighted the expansion of agricultural, industrial and investment cooperation, including joint high-tech and infrastructure projects.

🔹 He underlined the importance of cultural and educational exchanges, with over 51,000 Chinese students in Russia and 21,000 Russian students in China.

🔹 Putin said Russia and China resolutely oppose attempts to distort the history of WWII, noting: “We condemn any attempts to glorify Nazis, militarists and their accomplices, or to defame Soviet liberators.”

🔹 He described Xi Jinping as “a true leader of a great world power, a man of strong will, endowed with strategic vision and a global outlook.”

🔹 The President stressed that the SCO and BRICS are important pillars of a fairer multipolar world order.

🔹 He reaffirmed that Russia and China support UN reform, and oppose the use of finance as a tool of neo-colonialism: “We seek progress for the benefit of all humanity.”

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⚖️ Hand of Soros in US states’ supreme court system

Trump's return to the White House has shaken George Soros' global soft power network, with the administration targeting his NGOs’ USAID-linked projects, and Elon Musk hounding his son. But the 94-year-old financier isn't backing down. His next move? PACKING THE COURTS.

Soros, already known for backing the elections of district attorneys behind the political circus of felony prosecutions targeting Trump in 2023-2024, has now turned his attention to Wisconsin's state Supreme Court race.

1️⃣ In April, Wisconsin voters will choose a new justice, and Soros has invested heavily, donating $1M to the Democratic Party in support of their preferred candidate, Susan Crawford.

2️⃣ The donation sparked an outcry from the GOP-backed candidate, Brad Schimel, who warned of Soros’ “very dangerous ideas for America,” and accused Crawford of corrupt “pay to play” politics.

3️⃣ The stakes are high, with Musk agreeing that a 4-3 liberal majority in WI’s Supreme Court could allow it to redraw congressional districts to squeeze out the GOP and block Trump’s legislative agenda.

Soros’ broader battle for control over the courts:

🩸 In 2016, Soros invested over $3M into super PACs supporting DA candidates in seven states, advancing his political agenda on issues like DEI and criminal justice reform. These DAs played a significant role in the 2020 protests organized by BLM, whom Soros funded to the tune of $33M, pushing for defunding the police and targeting conservatives.

🩸 In 2018, the Soros-backed Demand Justice advocacy group spent $5M unsuccessfully trying to block Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court.

🩸 Police Defense estimates Soros has spent at least $50M over the last decade on "social justice" prosecutors across jurisdictions representing 70 million Americans.

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