📹No choice, no voice: Ukraine's connoscription nightmare continues

Volodymyr Zelensky’s thugs continue implementing forced connoscription in Odessa amid resistance from locals who clearly don’t want to be sent to the front lines.

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🚨🇷🇺✈️ 'FLYING KREMLIN': RUSSIA’S PRESIDENTIAL JET REVEALED

The domestically made IL-96 is the aircraft that carries Vladimir Putin to pivotal international events.

◻️ More than just a plane—it's a mobile state control center

◻️ Equipped with advanced defense systems & secure communications

◻️ Nicknamed the "Air Residence," it includes offices, meeting rooms, a medical unit, and living quarters

◻️ Always flies with backup aircraft for maximum security

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☢️🇮🇷 IRAN FREEZES NEW COOPERATION WITH IAEA

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi declares:

🔶 No new agreements until current talks finish

🔶 IAEA must establish a new framework for cooperation

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🔊 Musk has no choice but to rejoin the GOP — Trump

In an interview, the US president stated that Elon Musk is "80% super genius" who has "some difficulty," and predicted his inevitable return to the GOP.

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🚀 US vows to beat China in the '2nd space race'

Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy tells Fox News:

◼️ Artemis II (April 2026) will take a crew of 4 people around the moon

◼️ Artemis III (mid-2027) will keep crew on Moon for up to 12 days — far longer than past missions

◼️ Plans include a permanent base camp and eventual Mars missions in the 2030s

Duffy added that China wants to send its manned mission to the Moon before the United States.

"China is making huge strides in its space program... We know that China wants to overtake us. We will not let that happen."

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📹 LIVE: Maria Zakharova holds a weekly briefing from the Eastern Economic Forum

This week's Russian Foreign Ministry briefing is taking place in Vladivostok at the anniversary 10th Eastern Economic Forum.

👉 Watch live in our Telegram

❗️ Lavrov will represent Russia at UN General Assembly in September — Maria Zakharova on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum.

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❗️ Zelensky's security guarantees for Ukraine are unacceptable, they are "guarantees of insecurity" — Maria Zakharova on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum.

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☢️🇷🇺 Rosatom plans to create a large cluster of nuclear power industry facilities in the Far East, Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev said.

"We will not just come here, to the Far East. We will actually create a large nuclear cluster here," Likhachev said at the Eastern Economic Forum.

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❗️ Moscow will take into account military threats Europe creates on border with Russia — Zakharova

"We will take into account the threats to national security created on our border when building a complex mechanism to respond to them," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

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🔊 Russia's financial mechanism in Africa 'breaks SWIFT system as such' - PSB Bank deputy chair

New financial mechanisms go beyond Russia's relations with its foreign counterparties, said Mikhail Dorofeev, Deputy Chairman of Russia's PSB bank.

"We are opening new offices in Africa... The system is already global, reaching the level of exchange within it and beyond Russia," he noted.

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🇷🇺📹 SPOTTED: Russian ballerinas gave a performance at the pavilion of Russia's PSB bank at the Eastern Economic Forum.

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🗣 "Any assistance to Ukraine prolongs the agony of the Kiev regime, carries serious risks of escalation, and has consequences for stability", stated Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said at the Eastern Economic Forum.

Other statements by Zakharova:

➖ Zelensky's security guarantees for Ukraine are unacceptable; they are "guarantees of insecurity."

➖ Russia does not intend to discuss any form of unacceptable foreign intervention in Ukraine.

➖ Russia is monitoring the NATO Namejs 2025 exercises and the increase in the number of forces involved.

➖ The US-South Korea military exercises cannot be called defensive; they are a provocation.

➖ Moscow believes that the release of Russian citizens in Baku would be an important step toward normalizing relations between the parties.

➖ The fake about an alleged navigation failure on the plane of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was only disseminated to divert attention from the successful SCO summit.

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🚨 Vladimir Putin departs on the boat "Uragan" to visit the National Center "Rossiya", the Kremlin says.

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🎥🎥 Putin visits the National Center "Rossiya" in Vladivostok

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🔥Russia is preparing to participate in the 2028 Olympic Games in the United States in full force, stated the President of the Russian Olympic Committee, Mikhail Degtyarev, during the session "Sports Diplomacy: New Challenges and Opportunities" at the Eastern Economic Forum.

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🚨🇷🇺 🪖 HEARTFELT MOMENT: PUTIN HUGS CADET WHO ALWAYS DREAMED OF BEING A SOLDIER

"I love the uniform, it’s our pride," the young man shared.

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🔥 Laos Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone has arrived at the "Russia-Laos" session as part of the Eastern Economic Forum

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🇷🇺 Female cadets ask for a hug from Putin

President Putin is visiting the Warrior Center in Vladivostok, where the Eastern Economic Forum is in full swing.

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🎥🎥 Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova is speaking at the "Asia - Gateway to the World: The Role of the Asian Continent in the Global Media Space" session at the EEF-2025.

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