🚨Putin responds to criticism of Steve Witkoff

He notes that from his experience, Witkoff has accurately conveyed Russia’s position to Trump.

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🚨 HIGHLIGHTS FROM PUTIN ON UKRAINE NEGOTIATIONS:

🟠Russia ready to ELEVATE negotiation levels with Ukraine

🟠Putin praises Medinsky’s work in Ukraine talks for restraint & professionalism

🟠Putin says can't assess Steve Witkoff’s role as US special envoy — but talks with Trump in Alaska showed he accurately conveys Russia-US positions

🟠Witkoff faces criticism from those who oppose Trump’s Ukraine stance

🟠The "war party" attacking the "peace party" wants to fight to the last Ukrainian

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🚨Trump’s Ukraine diplomatic efforts welcomed by everyone at the SCO summit — Putin

All expressed hope that these efforts would lead to peace.

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

🟠 The Russian Army struck Ukrainian military-industrial sites, as well as fuel and transport infrastructure used to support the Ukrainian Armed Forces

🟠 Air defense superiority: five aerial bombs, two HIMARS rockets, and 170 fixed-wing drones were shot down by Russian air defense systems over the past 24 hours

🟠 Ukrainian losses: 1,300 troops killed or wounded

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🇷🇺📹 Russian forces raise flag in Kupyansk, Kharkov region

Russian forces control nearly half of Kupyansk city in the Kharkov region, footage released by the Russian Defense Ministry confirms.

The video shows Russian soldiers near the city administration building, Spartak Stadium, the city electrical substation, and the TV tower.

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🚨🇮🇳🇷🇺 India's imports of Russian oil up 6% in August, while 🇺🇸US crude shipments to India plummet 37% month-on-month

India imported 1.7M bpd from Russia, Kpler data shows.

📉 Meanwhile, US crude shipments to India dropped 38% year-on-year to just 230,000 bpd.

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🚨🇷🇺🇨🇳 Putin leaves Beijing, heads to Vladivostok to take part in the Eastern Economic Forum

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🗣Ukraine’s military exhausted while NATO weapons won’t turn the tide – retired colonel

The Ukrainian army is in a critical condition and can no longer conduct large-scale operations, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated at a Beijing press conference.

🔍 What are the signs?

Across all fronts, the Russian military is making advances, while Ukrainian forces show signs of exhaustion, military expert and retired colonel Anatoliy Matviychuk tells Sputnik.

🟠 "Near Kupyansk, the enemy deployed the 1st Presidential Brigade — the so-called 'ceremonial brigade.' Deploying units that are usually reserved for ceremonial duties indicates the depletion of the enemy’s reserves."

🟠 Ukrainian POWs say that companies are staffed at 40–45%, and battalions even less.

🟠 On the Pokrovsk front, Ukraine is redeploying units — including the 95th Brigade — from Sumy, pulling already battle-worn troops to plug emerging gaps.

🟠 "On the Kharkov and Kupyansk fronts, units of Latin American mercenaries have appeared. Typically, mercenaries are reserved for special tasks. Their deployment as regular line units indicates a lack of reserves and resources."

👉 No wonder-weapon can change the situation

"A 'wonder-weapon' always implies a shift from quantity to quality," explains Matviychuk. "The enemy has no quantity. Even the missiles they try to present as new — like the Italian-made 'Flamingo' — are being supplied in tiny numbers."

The US ATACMS missiles also arrive in small batches — 10, 20, at most 30 rockets.

Those missiles are largely used for propaganda of Ukrainian ‘success,’ but they won’t change the course of the fighting on the battlefield, the military expert concludes.

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🗣🤖 ChatGPT shares Russian language queries with FBI, while Russians 'train their enemies'

💬 "OpenAI, which owns ChatGPT, proactively shares all Russian language query data with the FBI. Automatically. This year, directors of companies developing AI platforms were awarded noscripts at the Pentagon. This is the main trend — a new front," Alexander Asafov, First Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Public Chamber’s Commission on Civil Society Development, said.

Asafov takes part in the EEF session on "Measuring the Social Impact of AI: Progress, Risks, and Development Paths."

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🌏🇷🇺 Businesses of APEC countries are interested in working with Russia – expert

💬 “Today, businesses are interested in transferring their technologies to the Russian market and the possibility of adopting some Russian technologies. This is the extended hand that we see today from APEC countries,” Elina Sidorenko, CEO of the "Platform for Working with Entrepreneurial Inquiries" and member of the Human Rights Council (HRC), said at the session “SME Cooperation with APEC Countries” at the Eastern Economic Forum-2025.

Russia’s experience is of interest to APEC countries in the fields of digital design, computer games, creative industries, and agricultural technologies, she noted.

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🔍📹How USSR helped defeat Japan: Soviet blitz that ended WWII

Even after the US dropped atomic bombs on Japan, the country still hoped its million-strong army in Manchuria could prolong the war. But on August 9, 1945, the Soviet Union launched a devastating three-front offensive.

⚔️What began was what military historians would later call a textbook encirclement operation. Tanks scaled "impassable" mountains, paratroopers seized airfields, and mechanized columns advanced 100 km per day, slicing through Japanese defenses.

In just 10 days, the Red Army crushed Japan's empire, liberated millions of Chinese and Koreans, and reclaimed ancestral Russian lands of Southern Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands.

✔️On September 2, 1945, Japan surrendered.

It was a masterful victory that put the final period to World War II. A period delivered by the Red Army.

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🏭⚡️Power of Siberia 2: Fueling China’s rise, sealing Europe’s decline

Russia, China, and Mongolia have agreed to build a new pipeline that will divert gas once destined for Europe.

The pipeline could give China a new competitive edge, while Europe's economy slides downhill, experts say.

"By rejecting Russian gas and cutting supplies from Russia, Europeans essentially created and worsened a shortage in their own market," Igor Yushkov, an expert from Russia's National Energy Security Fund, tells Sputnik.

Self-made economic disaster

👉 The EU failed to invest in new fields and infrastructure. At some point, supply could no longer keep up with demand. Cutting Russian deliveries only deepened the problem

👉 High gas prices drive up electricity costs, making European goods pricier than Chinese ones and less competitive on global markets

China: From strength to strength

👉 Additional gas deliveries from Russia along multiple routes, including Power of Siberia 2 - a pipeline with a capacity of 50 billion cubic meters - secures enough gas for decades to come, ensuring China can maintain low production costs

👉 Unlike Europe, China isn’t limiting its supplier base, and Russia is a reliable partner

"Russia has provided China, in fact Asia, with all the trump cards to win any competition. Europe can only look on and keep asking themselves why shooting themselves in both feet was ever considered a positive condition to self-impose," Paul Goncharoff, veteran financial analyst and general director of consulting firm Goncharoff LCC, emphasizes.

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🇨🇳😎 China’s Victory Day Parade was so BASED, Americans genuinely thought it was AI-generated

Maybe because their own parades are just so lame?

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