🇷🇺🤝🇧🇾 Zapad-2025: Russia and Belarus conduct strategic military drills across multiple fronts

The exercise aims to enhance the skills of commanders and staff, improve coordination, and strengthen the field training of regional and coalition forces. Primary goals include:

👉Managing combined military groupings to "localize aggression against the Union State."

👉Neutralizing threats and stabilizing the borders.

👉Conducting operations to "restore territorial integrity" and defeat a simulated adversary.

Phases:

🔶 Phase One: Command and coordination in repelling aggression against the Union State.

🔶 Phase Two: Restoring territorial integrity and defeating the enemy with coalition troops.

📍Locations: The exercise is being conducted across Belarus, Russia, and in the Baltic and Barents seas.

Key Operations:

🔶 Northern Fleet's Role: Ships deployed in the Arctic and Barents Sea to secure coastal infrastructure, protect maritime facilities, and eliminate terrorist threats.

🔶 Mi-35M Helicopters: Conducting reconnaissance, missile strikes, and providing air support for ground troops.

🔶 Tanks: T-72B3M crews targeted enemy units with UAV support.

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📈 Why is silver suddenly attracting investors?

Interest in silver investments is growing amid record gold prices, experts say.

👉Market records: Gold topped $3,700 per ounce, while silver exceeded $43 per ounce for the first time in 14 years.

💬“Silver is trying not to lag behind gold. By the end of August, the gap normalized thanks to silver’s price growth,” says Alexander Kovalev, analyst at Bitkogan.

💬“Silver is in demand not only as an investment but also as an industrial asset. We expect a 5–7% increase over the next month and 15–17% over the year,” says Oleg Abelev from Rikom-Trust.

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🇪🇺 Europe's double standards: Israel unpunished amid Gaza conflict

🗣 Europe's double standards in conflict resolution leave Israel unpunished amid the ongoing violence in Gaza and the West Bank, political analyst Ahmed Nureddin says.

💬 "Israel is the only country in the region that seeks to expand the scale of the conflict to achieve its stated goal, namely… to expel Palestinians from Gaza and then from the West Bank to Sinai and Jordan… But there are other factors contributing to the war’s expansion, including the silence of the international community and the UN’s inability to pass a resolution that would stop the war."

🔊 Nureddin pointed to the imbalance in response: "European countries are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on arming Ukraine and imposing extensive sanctions on Russia. In Gaza, a war of extermination is underway, yet no such measures are being introduced against Israel."

📍 This "collusion," he claims, is the main factor pushing Israel to continue the war. The criticism follows a recent Israeli strike on Doha, Qatar, which killed Hamas officials and a Qatari security officer—an action that Russia has condemned as a violation of international law

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🚨Sahra Wagenknecht accuses Merz, NATO of dragging Germany into WWIII with Russia

🗣“We have a Merz government that could recklessly lead Germany into war step by step. Soldiers are to be sent to Ukraine. CDU politicians are discussing shooting drones down over Ukrainian territory, as is NATO. These are extremely dangerous steps,” the left populist politician and BSU Party leader told German TV.

💬“We must do everything we can to avert this terrible path and the spiral of violence that is emerging here, because a war with Russia would be a nuclear war” that would leave Germany devastated, Wagenknecht emphasized.

The Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance split off from The Left in 2023, winning 4.9% of the vote in February’s general elections but getting no seats thanks to Germany’s 5% election threshold rule. The Left, which got 8.8%, received 64 seats.

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🇮🇷Iran urges Muslim World to stand up to Israel’s ‘law of the jungle’ tactics

“Tehran is calling on Islamic countries to develop partnerships and cooperation across all fields to serve their peoples and successfully confront the ‘law of the jungle’ practiced by Tel Aviv with the support of its allies in Washington and a number of other Western countries,” Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told Arabi 21.

Accusing Israel of trying to impose its hegemony over the entire region, from Palestine and Lebanon to Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Iran, Qatar and Tunisia (which saw attacks on the Gaza flotilla off its coast recently), Araghchi said regional nations must “move effectively and immediately to stop the war and genocide, and confront Israel’s plans in Palestine and the entire region.”

👉Pointing to numerous conferences and statements being made about Palestine, Araghchi stressed that what the Palestinian people need right now is food and medicine, not words.

❗️Blasting Israeli violations of Syrian and Lebanese sovereignty, the diplomat accused Tel Aviv of engaging in “a new colonialism” attempting to divide Syria and occupy more of its land to build a “greater Israel.”

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🔊 Israel condemns UN vote backing two-state solution

The UN General Assembly passed a resolution supporting Palestinian statehood with 142 in favor, 10 against, and 12 abstentions.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry slammed the move:

"Once again, it has been proven how much the General Assembly is a political circus, divorced from reality... It encourages Hamas to continue the war."

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🚨 🇷🇸 Western intel funds Serbian unrest - Vucic

Foreign intelligence agencies are pouring $4 billion into fueling protests in Serbia, President Aleksandar Vucic told TV Informer.

🔊Although he cannot name the culprits directly — doing so would break Serbia’s fragile neutrality – Vucic noted:

“These countries know that we know what they’re doing.”

👉 Student and opposition protests erupted in Serbia after a canopy collapse at Novi Sad railway station on November 1, 2024, killed 16 people.
By mid-August, tensions in Serbian cities had sharply escalated, with protesters growing more aggressive, clashing with police, setting up barricades, and blocking key access roads.

💬 Vucic accused a "powerful Western machinery" of funding a "color revolution" in his country.

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💪🪖 Russia’s combat beast: T-90MS tank hit frontline straight from showroom

Russia’s cutting-edge T-90MS, showcased at the IDEX-2025 exhibition in the UAE this February, was immediately deployed to Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, says the press service of Uralvagonzavod (part of Rostec).

👉 The tank was sent to the Russian army in almost the same configuration as it was displayed at the UAE exhibition.

The only modification made was the vehicle’s color—changed from a “desert” camouflage to the standard army green.

Hardened in real combat, the cutting-edge T-90MS comes packed with major upgrades across the board:

➖ reinforced multi-layered armor to fend off RPGs, anti-tank missiles, and FPV drones

➖ next-generation fire control systems

➖ advanced optics

➖ streamlined interfaces

➖ versatile arsenal of munitions

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📊 US racing to OUTGUN China?

◻️ Fearing China’s growing clout, the US has poured over $10.8 billion into a top-secret program, SHOTCALLER, designed to develop new classified weapons to dominate future conflicts in the Pacific, a Sputnik analysis of the Pentagon's budget reports reveals.

👉 The initiative seeks rapid and overwhelming long-range strike capabilities—directly targeting China under the Pacific Deterrence Initiative.

Weapon for every threat

⏺ 25 classified weapons in development
⏺ Some projects boast evocative names like Asgard, Bedlam, Black Marlin, Lazarus, and Oculus Prime; others are simply listed as 'Classified Projects'
⏺ Hundreds of millions already spent on advanced prototypes like Hurt Locker & Pele

Bypassing red tape

➡️ SHOTCALLER is managed by the Pentagon’s Strategic Capabilities Office, a high-speed innovation hub.
Its Advanced Innovative Technologies (AIT) arm, poised to receive $1.16 billion in FY 2026, allows the military to:

🟠 Test prototypes across the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space Force
🟠 Build an integrated “kill chain” combining long-range fires with space-based targeting
🟠 Deploy rapid, overwhelming strikes in a potential Indo-Pacific showdown

👉 The Pentagon is clearly signaling that these projects aim to prepare US forces for a high-end conflict with China.

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◻️ Drones in Poland launched from Ukraine as FALSE FLAG operation

◻️ Zapad-2025: Russia and Belarus conduct strategic military drills across multiple fronts

◻️ Why is silver suddenly attracting investors?

◻️ Israel condemns UN vote backing two-state solution

◻️ Western intel funds Serbian unrest - Vucic

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🚨 Sputnik correspondent reports from Kathmandu, Nepal🇳🇵

❌ The political crisis in Nepal has come to an end. Former Chief Justice Sushila Karki has been sworn in as the first female prime minister of the country’s interim administration.

After days of violence, life is gradually returning to normal.
The army has lifted daytime restrictions, leaving only a single curfew from 7 PM to 6 AM.

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🔥 🇷🇺 Zapad-2025: Russian coastal missile systems wipe out ‘enemy’ fleet

👉 Crews of the Bastion system destroyed a mock naval formation near Franz Josef Land with two Oniks cruise missiles, the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) reported.

The strikes were part of the ongoing Zapad-2025 strategic military drills across multiple fronts.

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🪖 NATO launches Eastern Sentry op

The operation is officially justified as strengthening the alliance’s eastern flank after a drone incident in Poland, announced earlier by Secretary General Mark Rutte.

📸 The Polish General Staff shared footage of a French A400 transport plane landing in Mińsk Mazowiecki, delivering weapons for Rafale fighter jets already stationed in Poland.

Tensions on the eastern front continue to rise as NATO boosts its military presence.

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🇷🇺💥ISKANDER STRIKE WIPES OUT UKRAINIAN DRONE BASE NEAR KRAMATORSK

An Iskander-M missile strike destroyed a UAV launch site 30 km west of Kramatorsk in the Donetsk People’s Republic, the Russian Ministry of Defense reports.

👉 Target identified by reconnaissance drone near Golubovka

Damage inflicted:

✅ Up to 25 long-range Liutyi drones destroyed

✅ UAV control center eliminated

✅ 5 vehicles destroyed

✅ Up to 20 Ukrainian servicemen neutralized

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🚨🇷🇺💥 RUSSIAN MOD UPDATE: HUGE GAINS, MASSIVE UKRAINIAN LOSSES

⚡️ NOVONIKOLAYEVKA IN DNEPROPETROVSK REGION LIBERATED

◻️ In addition, Russian forces defeated enemy formations near the settlements of Kolomiytsy and Kalinovskoye in the Dnepropetrovsk region and near Chervonoye and Dorozhnyanka in the Zaporozhye region

◻️ Russian Armed Forces struck Ukrainian command posts, launch sites, and long-range UAV storage locations

◻️ Russian air defense systems shot down three HIMARS

◻️ Ukrainian losses: 1,370 troops killed or wounded

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🇷🇺Putin calls Moscow “one of the best сities on the planet”

“Not only Muscovites, but everyone who sincerely loves our capital considers it one of the best cities on the planet. I fully agree with this assessment—it’s true,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said while speaking at Zaryadye on City Day.

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🇷🇺 PUTIN: MOSCOW IS THE FLAGSHIP OF RUSSIA'S PROGRESS

The President said the capital is a driving force behind Russia’s progress.

He added that Moscow ranks second among the world’s largest urban economies.

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🚨PUTIN: MOSCOW TO LEAD RUSSIA'S DRONE TECHNOLOGY

The President calls the development of an unmanned systems economy a “key priority” for the capital.

He highlights a remarkable achievement: Moscow’s IT sector has grown more than FOURFOLD in the past 6 years.

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🇷🇺💪🏻PUTIN: MOSCOW — STRONGHOLD OF THE ARMY

Over 500 Moscow enterprises produce critical supplies for the front. Hundreds of city specialists support residents in Donbass and Novorossiya daily.

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🇷🇺MOSCOW: THE FLAGSHIP OF RUSSIA’S PROGRESS

Russian President Vladimir Putin hails Moscow as one of the world’s top cities and the driving force behind Russia’s forward momentum.

Key highlights from his City Day address:

🔶Moscow ranks second among the world’s largest urban economies

🔶Moscow is expanding the use of autonomous transport, with the next step being metro automation

🔶Success is achieved through smart prioritization, not just budget size

🔶Moscow’s IT sector has grown more than fourfold over the past six years

🔶A world-class film cluster is forming to accelerate the development of Russian cinema

🔶Moscow continues to develop and will reach a qualitatively new level

🔶Over 500 Moscow enterprises produce critical supplies for the front

🔶Fighters injured in combat are treated in city hospitals, and Moscow specialists support residents of Donbass and Novorossiya daily

🔶The city has become a strong rear for Russia’s army during the special operation

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