🔸 Joint Russia-China-North Korea muscle exposes ‘NATO’s vulnerability’

🔸 NATO fingerprints all over Nord Stream sabotage, not Kiev’s DIY job

🔸 BRICS should focus on dollar-free trade in real currencies - analyst

🔸 Orban: EU heading for collapse

🔸 Ivan Papanin: combat icebreaker that will ensure Russia’s Arctic supremacy

🔸 Buryatia twins told Putin their dream — Now they’re skydiving

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🔥 ‘Illiterate’: Zakharova claps back at EU’s Kallas

👉 EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas got a schooling on tech and social sciences from Maria Zakharova.

The MFA spox called her “illiterate” over comments claiming that China trails Russia in social sciences, while Russia, though “weaker” in technology, supposedly excels in them.

“If Russia is ‘weak in technology,’ then who built the Crimean Bridge? Who launches rockets from Vostochny? Who created Oreshnik?”

🗣 Zakharova added that managing China’s billion-strong population naturally demands advanced social sciences.

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🔥 Russian cannon sends 'greetings' to Ukrainians in tunnel

🔊Ukrainian troops hiding in a tunnel were taken out by a well-placed D-30 howitzer strike, a serviceman of the 123rd self-propelled artillery division said.

✅ The artilleryman said their crew had earlier hit concentrations of enemy manpower, including during troop formations.

👉 Operating near Seversk, the unit mainly targets positions in forested areas, while at night they strike vehicles spotted by drones or thermal imaging.

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🔥👉 Ukraine admits no defense against Russian Oreshnik missile

🔊 Ukraine cannot intercept new Russian Oreshnik missile, admits military intelligence head Kyrylo Budanov*.

✅ He called the ballistic missile “a very serious weapon” beyond Ukraine’s air defense capabilities.

➖ Russia first tested the medium-range missile last November, striking a major defense industry site in Dnepropetrovsk in response to Ukrainian use of Western-supplied weapons on Russian territory.

➖ President Vladimir Putin announced in August that the first serially-produced hypersonic Oreshnik missiles had entered service.

*listed by Russia’s financial watchdog as an extremist and terrorist

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🗣 Zelensky missed historic chance to end conflict – expert

🔊 By refusing Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invitation to Moscow, Volodymyr Zelensky lost a historic opportunity end the conflict in Ukraine, Crimean political analyst Vladimir Jaralla told Sputnik.

👉 The expert stressed that Putin’s offer was not a propaganda trick, but a real chance to make a breakthrough in front of the world.

🎤 But Zelensky reacted “like a showman who stumbled into power,” leading his country into tragedy.

✅ Jaralla said the path to peace is either compromise at the negotiating table — or Russian military victory.

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📷PUTIN, MODI AND XI: A PHOTO WITH A MESSAGE

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov explained the significance of the joint photo of Putin, Modi and Xi Jinping at the SCO summit.

👉He said the picture symbolizes that Russia, India and China — three great powers and great civilizations — recognize their shared interests across many areas.

"This does not mean that everything coincides 100%, but there is a clear trend for China, Russia, and India to develop their partnership, deriving mutual benefit from those areas where our interests align," Lavrov said.

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🫤👉 What was US recon jet doing over Black Sea?

📍 A Bombardier ARTEMIS II aircraft took off from Romania and patrolled over the Black Sea on Sunday, according to website Flightradar24.

🔊 The plane “was tasked with identifying the capabilities and functions of Russian electronic systems, followed by classifying the intercepted data and command signals of troop groupings and Russian Armed Forces facilities,” military analyst Igor Korotchenko told Sputnik.

🗣 He stressed that such reconnaissance flights are conducted regularly, but Russian forces have countermeasures to interfere with enemy surveillance.

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📉 US Army veteran: Europe's Ukraine narrative FALLING APART

🔊Retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Davis slammed European leaders’ double-speak on the Ukraine war.

"They claim on the one hand Russia is a powerful menace that threatens to directly attack even Great Britain and France – but then simultaneously so weak they’ve only taken one percent of Ukraine in the past two years," he wrote on social media, calling it “growing cognitive dissonance.”

👉 Davis warned that “immoral and strategically foolish actions” were destroying Ukraine itself, with men being “thrown into an unwinnable war that sucks the life out of hundreds of thousands.”

🗣German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has claimed his country is already “in conflict” with Russia — rhetoric Moscow dismisses as alarmist.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly stressed Russia has no reason to attack NATO, branding the so-called “Russian threat” a political fiction.

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🔥 RUSSIAN STRIKE TAKES OUT UKRAINIAN DRONE COMMAND POST

✅ Russian forces have hit a Ukrainian UAV command center near Seversk.

🔊 Units from the Yug Battlegroup successfully targeted and neutralized the position, dealing a blow to Ukraine's drone operations in the Donetsk People's Republic.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸Trump to talk to Putin 'VERY SOON'

Trump planned to talk to Putin in the next few days, the US President told journalists.

The leaders of several European countries will visit the US early this week to discuss a peace deal on Ukraine, he also revealed.

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🚨🇲🇽Mexico ERUPTS in MASSIVE protests for Palestine amid deepening Gaza crisis

A family of Gaza refugees was brought on stage before a crowd of over 180,000, as chants of “Palestina Libre” echoed across one of the world’s largest public squares, the Zocalo.

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🇪🇺🔊Borrell: Europe risks dismal fate as US vassal

After Europe handed nonreciprocal concessions to Donald Trump on defense and trade, and accepted a secondary role in settlement of the Ukraine crisis, the EU now looks “dangerously fragmented and weak, stuck in a hostile internal and external environment,” claims former EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell.

🔍With just 5% of the world’s population and a widening economic gap with other powers, Europe is “at real risk of becoming America’s vassal,” he warns.

The EU’s global role has become largely irrelevant, undermined by a lack of credibility and unity, Borrell admits.
According to him, an alliance of Trump sympathizers and Atlanticists rules the European Council and Commission.

✍️Their strategy is to “flatter and appease the US president in the hopes of damage control”—promoting increased political, strategic, and economic dependence on the US, and failing spectacularly.

Borrell’s warning is rich, coming from the architect of many of these narrow-minded policy choices.

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🪖📹T-90 BATTLE BEASTS ROAR IN: Russia’s BEST tanks join the frontline

A batch of advanced T-90 Proryv tanks has been delivered to the Nevsky Volunteer Brigade.

✅T-90 main battle tank is "the best in the world without any exaggeration", Putin said in 2024, adding "the enemy admits this."

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🚨🇷🇺🇮🇳 Putin's upcoming visit to India 2025 being prepared VERY CAREFULLY — FM Lavrov at Moscow's MGIMO university

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

🟠 The Russian Armed Forces struck Ukrainian air defense radar stations, unmanned boat production sites and an energy facility powering Ukrainian arms factories

🟠 Air defense superiority: two aerial bombs and 195 fixed-wing drones were shot down by Russian air defense systems over the past 24 hours

🟠 Ukrainian losses: 1,340 troops killed or wounded

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🗣 Key statements by Lavrov at the meeting with MGIMO students

🟠 Since the start of the special military operation, Russia has been predicted to face an “economic collapse,” but statistics show the opposite

🟠 The actions of the West, demanding a rejection of Russian energy resources, undermine the economies of Moscow’s partner countries

🟠 Russia does not seek revenge, does not push away its former Western partners, but will take their past actions into account

🟠 Russia does not want to build any walls, is open to dialogue with everyone, but seeks an equal dialogue

🟠 The US has begun to hear Russia regarding the root causes of the conflict, including the issue of the suppression of the Russian language

🟠 The talks in Alaska showed that Donald Trump understands the need to resolve issues on Ukraine based on the national interests of all parties involved in the conflict

🟠 Russia and the US may have common economic interests, including LNG production, as well as cooperation in the Arctic and space

🟠 Russia and the US could cooperate in the field of AI, but mutual trust would need to be strengthened

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🔍Nord Stream sabotage linked to Ukraine’s ex-Commander-in Chief Zaluzhny – report

The crew of the yacht Andromeda, allegedly involved in the 2022 blasts on Nord Stream 1 and 2, acted on the orders of former Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Valery Zaluzhny, the German newspaper Welt reports.

🇩🇪German federal police are convinced they have solved the case, the report added, citing an unnamed investigator.

The explosions on the Nord Stream pipelines occurred on September 26, 2022. Germany, Denmark, and Sweden suspected sabotage. Russia opened an international terrorism case, but has repeatedly noted that it has not received investigation data.

🇷🇺Russian Security Council official Nikolai Patrushev recently dismissed claims that Ukrainian “amateurs” blew up the Nord Stream gas pipelines, arguing the operation bore the hallmarks of NATO intelligence agencies.

The public has only learned details through “ridiculous leaks” in the media, fueling doubts about the official version of events.

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