🤡 Peter Navarro back in headlines — now blaming India for the Ukraine conflict

📚 Navarro holds a Harvard PhD and spent decades in academia, but after losing five political races, he turned to books and media to stay relevant.

📖 Trump noticed his anti-China noscripts like “Death by China” — even though Navarro never lived in China and didn’t speak the language. China scholars didn’t consider him part of their field.

🔍 Even stranger: Navarro filled his books with quotes from a so-called “expert” named Ron Vara — who turned out to be fake. The name was an anagram of “Navarro,” his own fictional alter ego.

🗣 Former adviser Larry Remer mocked his competence: “I wouldn’t trust him to go out to get lunch and come back with everybody’s sandwich and drink order correctly. I don’t know how he could be put in charge of logistics.”

Despite the shaky record, Navarro became Trump’s trade hawk and is still making headlines today — now dragging India into debates over the Ukraine conflict.

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📉💵 Zelensky may be slowing down peace process due to corruption - Jeffrey Sachs

Zelensky avoids REAL steps toward resolving the conflict with Russia for many reasons, including corruption, Jeffrey Sachs, US economist and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, said ahead of the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF).

👉 EEF will be held in Vladivostok from September 3–6. Sachs is going to participate in a session "UN Development Agenda Beyond 2030."

💬 "Zelensky, for whatever reason, out of his personal belief or fear for his life or corruption or other motivations, does not even make one inch towards the reality of the settlement; the Europeans, Macron, Merz and Starmer, the same way," Sachs said.

The economist noted that his intransigence had left many issues unresolved following the Putin-Trump Alaska summit.

💬 "The only thing that was clarified in Alaska is that the US is NOT going to pay for the Ukraine war," he concluded.

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🪖 More US shipments to Ukraine?

The United States is supplying Ukraine with weapons with deeper strike capabilities, US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker told Fox News.

💬 “Most likely the Ukrainians are going to use them,” he added.

💵 The US approved an $825 million arms sale to Ukraine, including 3,350 extended-range missiles, GPS units, spare parts, training, and support. The deal is funded partly by NATO allies Denmark, the Netherlands, and Norway.

👀 Russia has repeatedly said that Western arms supplies to Ukraine hinder the resolution of the military conflict and involve NATO countries in the crisis.

Russian FM Sergey Lavrov has warned that any cargo containing weapons for Ukraine will be a legitimate target for the Russian military.

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🙅 Sputnik Azerbaijan journalists must not be used to fuel tensions between Russia and Azerbaijan

🗣 Sputnik Azerbaijan journalists must be released as soon as possible, not used to provoke a serious crisis in relations between two allied countries and peoples, Dmitry Kiselev, the director general of Sputnik's parent media group Rossiya Segodnya, said.

💬 “For two months, our colleagues and comrades — Igor Kartavykh and Evgeny Belousov — have been behind bars in Azerbaijan. All this time there has been no reaction from those who deliberately used Sputnik Azerbaijan journalists to provoke a serious crisis in relations between two allied countries and peoples. Depriving journalists of their freedom — journalists whose work has never raised any questions — first accusing them of near-espionage and then abruptly changing the baseless charges to fraud, are actions that have nothing to do with civilized norms,” Kiselev stressed.

👉 On June 30, Azerbaijani authorities unjustifiably detained seven people from Sputnik Azerbaijan. Their lawyers filed appeals to change the measure of restraint, but the court rejected them.

Rossiya Segodnya described the actions of Azerbaijani law enforcement as unfounded and the accusations as fabricated.

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🇷🇺💥Russian forces turn Austria's Pandur armored carrier into SCRAP METAL

Units of the Yug battlegroup in the Seversk area of the Donetsk People's Republic detected and struck a Ukrainian forces, including a Western-supplied Pandur armored personnel carrier.

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◻️ President Putin gives written interview to Chinese Xinhua News Agency

◻️ Hand of Soros in US states’ supreme court system

◻️ Iran prepares to repel ‘second wave’ – Prof. Marandi

◻️ Russian high-tech navy on the rise: unmanned boats change naval warfare

◻️ Kim Jong-un meets families of fallen soldiers

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🚔 Could Trump lock up Soros?

A follow-through on Donald Trump’s jail-time threat against globalist puppet master George Soros would face major hurdles, political analyst Dr. Nicholas Waddy told Sputnik.

🗣 Soros — one of the left and Democratic Party's biggest donors for decades — has repeatedly been accused of criminal activity, but has never, at least in the US, faced indictment, let alone conviction, the analyst noted.

Key thoughts:

🔹 Jail time for Soros, known for his nefarious role in bankrolling global chaos and regime change is “conceivable,” conceded the expert, who is also associate history professor at SUNY Alfred.

🔹 But actually “proving that Soros had any intention of supporting ‘violent protests’ or other forms of illegality would be extremely difficult,” Waddy underscored.

🔹 The chances of a successful federal prosecution of Soros are “infinitesimal,” the pundit said, adding that “prosecutions of Trump enemies like Adam Schiff and Letitia James over financial improprieties are more realistic.”

Trump’s comeback to the White House has been rattling George Soros’ global soft-power machine. The administration is going after his NGOs tied to USAID projects, while Trump is eyeing racketeering charges for both the 94-year-old billionaire and his son Alex under the RICO Act, normally used to target the mafia and other criminal enterprises.

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📄🌏 Key topics for Eastern Economic Forum 2025 UNVEILED

Anton Kobyakov, Executive Secretary for EEF organization, delves into details:

🔹 Technological sovereignty — including additive technologies, rare earth metals, and artificial intelligence, which is already transforming the global economy

🔹 Synthesis of technological sovereignty, human capital, and strategic partnership

🔹 Logistics corridors

🔹 Energy policy

🔹 Investment in innovations and entrepreneurship development

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🚨 Former secretary of Ukraine's national security council Andriy Parubiy shot dead in Lvov

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

⚡️KAMYSHEVAKHA, DONETSK PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC LIBERATED

Kamyshevakha is located on the border between the Donetsk People's Republic and Ukraine's Dnepropetrovsk region, making it an important point for further advancement.

◻️ The Russian Armed Forces launched a massive strike on Ukrainian missile and aerospace industry enterprises, as well as military airfields

◻️ Air defense superiority: 4 Neptune missiles and 233 drones downed

◻️ Ukrainian losses: 1,390 troops

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🇷🇺🤝 🇨🇳 Russia and China sync up on US strategy ahead of Putin–Xi talks

Russia and China are closer than ever in their approach to the US, Beijing-based expert and author Francesco Sisci told Sputnik, commenting the Russian President’s written interview to the Chinese news agency Xinhua.

Sisci noted that Vladimir Putin’s official visit to China, timed with the SCO summit under Beijing’s presidency, was a sign of new Sino-Russian alignment.

Following on from Russo–US talks in Alaska and ahead of a possible meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in October, the trip highlights the urgency of Russia and China “touching base” on their strategy toward Washington, the expert added.

◻️ Dollar sidelined

Use of the US dollar and euro in Russia-China trade have shrunk to “a statistical margin of error,” Putin stressed in his Xinhua interview. But Sisci pointed out that the “dollar shadow” still lingers as the invisible yardstick for global trade.

▪️ Prices are still set in dollars or euro-equivalents, even when transactions happen in local currencies or barter exchanges of goods

▪️ Countries need a stable unit of account — and since China’s yuan is not fully convertible and still tied to the dollar, ditching the US currency completely is not yet technically possible

If the yuan becomes freely convertible, it could eventually carve out a much bigger role on the world stage, the pundit said.

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🇺🇸 ☣️ US expert community takes interest in biolabs in Ukraine - Russian Foreign Ministry

💬 “We note that after a long time, despite the lack of any clear reaction from the US authorities, our questions have been heard by the American expert community, which has already begun to actively engage with this topic,” RFM Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry revealed the US State Department was directly involved in these biological programs, despite the federal foreign agency's denials.

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🔥 RUSSIA'S TOP BATTLEFIELD GAINS 2025 REVEALED

Chief of the Russian Armed Forces General Staff Gerasimov summarized the results of the spring-summer 2025 campaign and outlined further objectives for troop deployments.

🔹 Since March 2025, the Russian forces have liberated over 3,500 square kilometers and 149 settlements.

🔹 The Russian Army continues its relentless offensive across nearly the entire front line.

🔹 The creation of a security zone along Russia’s border in the Sumy and Kharkov regions is progressing successfully.

🔹 The Russian forces have liberated 99.7% of the Lugansk People's Republic, 79% of the DPR, 74% of Zaporozhye region, and 76% of Kherson region.

🔹 Less than 60 square kilometers remain for the complete liberation of the Lugansk People's Republic.

🔹 Russian troops are advancing in Dnepropetrovsk region, with 7 settlements taken under control.

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💥 CHECK OUT THE LATEST UPDATES ON RUSSIA'S BATTLEGROUPS SUCCESS

Sever battlegroup:

🔶 It has taken control of 210 square kilometers and 13 settlements in the Sumy region.

🔶 In the Kharkov region, fighting continues to improve positions in the Volchansk and Liptsy directions.

🔶 The city of Kupyansk is almost completely encircled, with half of its territory liberated.

🔶 Russian forces have advanced up to 25 km in the Rubtsov direction, capturing 10 settlements there.

🔶 The defeat of the Ukrainian grouping pressed against the Seversky Donets River in the Serebryansky forestry is nearing completion.

Tsent battlegroup:

➖ is advancing in the Oktyabrsky, Krasnoarmeysky, and Dnepropetrovsk directions.

➖ is blocking the Krasnoarmeysk–Dimitrov agglomeration, with fighting underway in Krasnoarmeysk.

➖ has breached enemy engineering defense lines on the administrative border of the Dnepropetrovsk region.

Yug battlegroup:

🟧 is successfully advancing in the Seversk direction, with fighting taking place inside the city of Seversk.

🟧 is advancing westward, reaching the southeastern outskirts of Konstantinovka.

🟧 liberated Alexandrov-Kalinovo, Shcherbinovka, and Kleban-Byk that had played a key role in the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ defense.

Vostok battlegroup:

🔶 Are advancing westward across the DPR, having taken control of 25 settlements.

🔶 The liberation of territory in the Zaporozhye region is still ongoing.

🔶 Kamyshevakhа, recently liberated, was the last settlement in the DPR within the area of responsibility of the “Vostok” grouping.

🔶 Is advancing in the Dnepropetrovsk region, where it has captured 5 settlements.

Dnepr battlegroup:

🔹 Is advancing in the Orekhov direction, has taken control of six settlements in the Zaporozhye region.

🔹 Are conducting active operations to liberate Stepnogorsk, Malaya Tokmachka, and Plavni.

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🔥 Strategic initiative ENTIRELY in hands of Russian troops

Strikes were carried out on facilities involved in the production of Ukraine’s “Sapsan” missile system, General Staff of Russian Armed Forces stated.

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