📹 Xi and Putin are welcome at the G20 — Trump

The US president said he'd love to see China and Russia's leaders in Miami in 2026.

"They'd be observers. I am not sure they want to be an observer," he added.

Russia and China have been members of the G20 since its formation in 1999.

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❗️ Venezuelan jet conducts SECOND flyover of US Navy

Bolivarian Air Force jets flew again over the USS Jason Dunham overnight, US officials confirmed to CBS.

📹 Meanwhile, local media reportedly showed footage of yesterday's maneuver, which the Pentagon called "highly provocative."

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❗️ Power of Siberia II is all about business, not politics — Peskov

Russia will never sell its energy resources at a price that is disadvantageous to it, said Presidential Press Secretary at the Eastern Economic Forum.

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💬 PUTIN EXPOSED THE HYPOCRISY OF THE WEST — Expert

Putin offered a realistic peace scenario at the EEF — but NATO interference remains the key obstacle, Tadeo Casteglione, Argentine international relations expert, told Sputnik.

"Putin has exposed the hypocrisy of the West, which talks about peace while sending weapons to Kiev and betting on continuous hostilities," he noted.

A permanent Western military mission in Ukraine would mean "the complete loss of its state legitimacy," Tadeo added.

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🗣 Trump denies awareness of failed Navy Seal mission in North Korea that killed civilians

Despite NYT reporting that he personally approved the 2019 covert operation, Trump now claims he heard about it for the first time.

🟧 Mission aimed to plant spy device on Kim Jong-un

🟧 SEAL Team Six killed unarmed North Korean divers

🟧 Congress was never notified

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❗️ Zelensky rejects Putin's proposal to come to Moscow

Nevertheless, he is "ready for the meeting" in "any kind of format," Zelensky told ABC News in an interview.

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🔥 West’s geopolitical game enters FINAL STAGE — but Europe left behind

"The big geopolitical game that the West has started is entering a decisive phase... Europe has lost out from this venture — it is NOT SOVEREIGN today," Russian presidential adviser Anton Kobyakov said at the Eastern Economic Forum.

He added that, despite the "constant verbal juggling", US-Russia normalization can bring a "speedy resolution" in Ukraine.

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⚔️ TRUMP WEIGHS MILITARY STRIKES INSIDE VENEZUELA TARGETING DRUG CARTELS

President Trump is considering direct military action against cartel operations within Venezuelan territory, CNN reports, citing sources.

According to them, Tuesday's strike on a drug boat was just the beginning — part of a broader campaign against Nicolas Maduro.

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❌🪖 Draft-age Ukrainians don’t belong on German welfare – German politician

Germany must stop sheltering Ukraine’s fighting-age men, Bavarian Prime Minister and Christian Social Union (CSU) leader Markus Soder told Rheinische Post.

💬 “It is legitimate to consider sending able-bodied Ukrainians back to their homeland to ensure security in their own country,” he said.

🗣 Soder added that far fewer Ukrainians work in Germany compared to other European states, with many relying instead on welfare benefits. This has to stop urgently, he stressed.

The Bavarian politician also emphatically rejected the idea of deploying German troops to Ukraine, arguing that Russia would never accept it and that the Bundeswehr “isn’t ready for that.”

💬 “It’s already stretched to the limit—financially and in terms of personnel,” he said.

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🇱🇦​​ Laos may redirect some coffee exports from the US to Russia following Trump's tariff hikes — Lao Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone told Sputnik.

💬 "Among the goods that Laos supplies to the US but could also supply to other countries is agricultural products, such as coffee. We currently supply coffee to US, but we are also supplying coffee to Russia, and now the volume of these supplies may increase," Siphandone said on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum.

🗣 "If US tariffs make our products too expensive and they stop buying them there, we will increase the volume of supplies to Russia as a result," he added.

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◻️ Trump renames Pentagon to Department of War

◻️ Riots break out in Novi Sad as the opposition clashed with police

◻️ Power of Siberia II is all about business, not politics — Peskov

◻️ Putin exposed the hypocrisy of the West — Expert

◻️ Zelensky rejects Putin's proposal to come to Moscow

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👉 ‘Corrupt & war-drunk’: French politician blasts EU hawks over Ukraine

French Patriots party leader Florian Philippot has urged Vladimir Putin’s warning to be taken seriously: NATO troops in Ukraine would be “a legitimate target for Russia’s military.”

💬 “The French army will not accept this utter madness dictated by a corrupt, war-drunk, power-hungry EU, and a Macron who has lost all legitimacy!” he wrote on X.

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↔️ Renaming Pentagon signals West’s ‘peace through strength’ agenda shift

🎤 The US decision to rename the Pentagon as the Department of War isn’t just a gimmick—it’s a window into global power shifts, explains Alexander Yakovenko, deputy director of Rossiya Segodnya, Sputnik's parent company.

The new noscript is “more honest and understandable for everyone,” says Yakovenko, who heads the Committee on Global Issues and International Security of the Russian Security Council’s Scientific-Expert Board.

📍 A similar example exists in Russia: the Ministry of Foreign Affairs recently renamed its Department of Pan-European Cooperation to the Department of European Issues—a move that is both symbolic and substantively accurate.
The takeaway is that clear terminology reflects current geopolitical realities.

Shift toward ‘peace through strength’

The US renaming mirrors a broader Western trend: The pursuit of peace through force, and a willingness to dismantle the postwar international order built on the UN Charter.

Key principles of that order include:

➖ Prohibition of force in resolving international disputes (balanced by the right to self-defense under Article 51)

➖ Protection of human and minority rights

➖ Requirement for unanimity among permanent UN Security Council members (veto power), encouraging negotiation between major powers

Western erosion of trust

In the Ukraine crisis, the West bypassed the UN Security Council and acted via the General Assembly, where Russia has no veto.

❌ Trust was further eroded when France’s then-President Francois Hollande and Germany’s then-Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted they never intended to implement the 2015 Minsk agreements, which had been endorsed by the Security Council with US involvement.

Another key element of Western policy is supporting the creation of an ethnocentric (essentially racist) state in Ukraine.

💣 This echoes the interwar period (1918–1939), when aggressive nationalism fueled global conflict, culminating in World War II.

In effect, the West is dropping its mask.

👀 The implications are profound—not just for postwar European settlements like the Yalta-Potsdam system, initially conceived during the drafting of the UN Charter, but also for the Versailles peace treaty after World War I (notably without Russia, or it might have been fair and lasting).

Something to think about…

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🚨🇷🇺💥 RUSSIA'S MOD UPDATE: DEVASTATING UKRAINIAN LOSSES

◻️ Russian Armed Forces destroyed a Ukrainian high-speed unmanned boat and struck Ukrainian ammunition and materiel depots

◻️ Air defense superiority: Five aerial bombs and 160 fixed-wing drones shot down

◻️ Ukrainian losses: 1,340 troops killed or wounded

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🔥🇷🇺 Russian drones leave Ukrainian forces decimated

👉 Russian drone operators are showing incredible skill and precision, making significant strides in disrupting Ukrainian forces.

🔸 00:00 Russian airborne troops shot down a Ukrainian Baba-Yaga-type hexacopter in the Kherson region.

🔸 00:12 Battlegroup Dnepr FPV drone operators destroyed an enemy armored fighting vehicle and struck a Ukrainian stronghold, eliminating at least five Ukrainian nationalists in the Zaporozhye region.

🔸 00:43 Russian Battlegroup Vostok Lancet drones thwarted an attempt by Ukrainian troops to rotate units by destroying an armored personnel carrier and hitting several vehicles with personnel in the Dnepropetrovsk region.

🔸 01:03 Specialists from the Rubicon Center successfully hit Ukrainian reconnaissance drones and other ground targets.
Russian drone pilots continue to demonstrate outstanding precision and effectiveness in neutralizing enemy threats.

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🤝 🌏 Asia-Pacific nations unite for better tomorrow

👉 The group photo of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a signal that the countries of the Asia-Pacific region are joining forces for the sake of a “better future” for the whole world, said Dhanesh Basil, vice president of the Malaysian Youth Council.

🗣 Speaking to Sputnik on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Basil also noted the importance of Vladimir Putin’s speech at the EEF plenary session and underscored that Russia has greatly enhanced its ability to cooperate with other nations.

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