🗣Lavrov: What we do is completely different from attempts to use sports, art, to use any kind of human activities to attain political games

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

🟠 The Russian army struck a fuel storage base, long-range UAV launch and storage sites, as well as Ukrainian army deployment points in 153 areas

🟠 Air defense superiority: 357 fixed-wing drones were shot down by Russian air defence systems over the past 24 hours

🟠 Ukrainian losses: 1,435 troops killed or wounded

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🇪🇺 EU to adopt package of measures against Israel

The European Commissioners will adopt a package of measures against Israel on September 17, including a suspension of "certain trade provisions of the Euro-Mediterranean agreement between the EU and Israel", European Commission Chief Spokesperson Paula Pinho said.

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🇬🇧🇵🇱 UK’s RAF jets to Poland: NATO escalation amid anti-Russia hysteria

Britain is sending RAF Typhoons to Poland under NATO’s Operation Eastern Sentry.

🟠 The jets will operate out of RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire

🟠 They will be supported by Voyager tankers

🟠 Missions will be alongside Danish F-16s, French Rafales, and German Eurofighters

The NATO operation is billed as a response to a drone incident in Poland.

No convincing evidence was presented to Russia that the UAVs that violated Poland’s airspace earlier in the month were Russian.

💬 Still, Britain’s war hawk Defense Secretary John Healey insists, “When we are threatened, we respond together.”

For Russia, this is déjà vu: two decades of warnings about NATO’s steady march eastward and military buildup, now met with yet another deployment that risks ratcheting up tensions even further.

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🇷🇺 Russian Baltic Fleet HITS HARD at Zapad-2025 drills

The Baltic Fleet carried out a coordinated cruise missile strike against mock enemy warships

The UNBREAKABLE mission involved:

🟠 Stoiky corvette

🟠 Bal coastal missile system

🟠 Su-30SM fighter jets

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🚨🇾🇪🔊 "Our air defense systems caused a great confusion for the enemy aircraft and forced some of their combat formations to leave our airspace before carrying out their operations, the aggression deep into the country was stopped, thanks God," spokesman for Yemen's armed forces, Yahua Saree, said.

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🇩🇪🔊EU's hidden goal was always supranational control - German MEP

The EU started out as a sort of harmless trade union with the goal of liberalizing trade among the members, says German MEP Christine Anderson.

🔍But behind the scenes it was always the idea to upgrade it into “a supranational government.”

Sovereign rights were relinquished, step by step, to the point where today the “people of Europe are no longer sovereign, no longer deciding their own political fate.”

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📄 ‘We have a deal on TikTok’ – Trump

The US President also said he plans to talk to Chinese President Xi on Friday to confirm the deal.

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🇫🇷🔊French politician blasts EU’s ‘Orwellian’ media scheme

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s new media literacy program is a chilling step toward state-controlled propaganda, warns Florian Philippot, firebrand leader of France’s The Patriots party, on X.

✍️In a fiery X post, he slammed the initiative—unveiled during von der Leyen’s State of the Union address to the European Parliament—as an “absolute scandal.”

He accused the EU of funneling taxpayer money into a sinister plot designed to tighten its grip on public narratives.

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🚨 Putin visits the 'Mulino' training ground in the Nizhny Novgorod region as part of the Zapad-2025 exercises

Highlights of Putin's speech:

🟠 The goal of the "Zapad-2025" exercises is to practice the defense of the Union State of Russia and Belarus against any aggression
During the Zapad-2025 drills, over 247 ships were used, including surface, submarine, and support vessels

🟠 The exercises are taking place at 41 training grounds, with 100,000 servicemen participating, and around 10,000 weapon systems and units are involved

🟠 Moreover, all of this is modern equipment used in practical combat operations, and the plans for the exercises are based on the experience gained during the special military operation

🟠 There are 10,000 pieces of various equipment, including 333 aircraft: tactical aviation, strategic aviation, and military transport aviation. More than 247 ships are also being used: surface ships, submarines, and support vessels

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📹 Putin tries on new thermal ballistic goggles

They were developed at the request of the assault units of the Russian Armed Forces and help in detecting mines.

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📄🔍 Pentagon winds up probe into Hegseth’s use of Signal

The Pentagon’s inspector-general has finished a detailed review of US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of the Signal messenger app to discuss military operations in Yemen, CNN reported, quoting un-named ‘people familiar with the matter’.

While the reviews results remain unknown, Hegseth has the right of reply the findings before the final draft is published.

📢 The final report "will likely be made public," the news channel added.

👉 Although Hegseth denied the accusations, he shared details on the US operation against Yemen — including timing and the forces used — in two Signal group chats with individuals without security clearance, including his wife, brother, personal lawyer and Atlantic website editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg — who broke the story.

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🤬 Ukraine's forces aim to WIPE settlements OFF THE FACE OF EARTH

Ukrainian soldiers, during their retreat from the village of Novopetrovsk in the Dnepropetrovsk region, committed crimes against civilians, including rape and murder, Vitos, commander of the Russian Vostok battlegroup's assault company, revealed.

💬 "We led one man out with a small child, and according to his story, as they set out to leave, Ukrainian soldiers actually raped his wife and killed her in the basement."

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