🚨😨 Harris says it was she who ‘convinced’ Zelensky of inevitable war with Russia

Former US VP Kamala Harris said she was tasked to convince Zelensky of the imminent outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, something he didn't want to admit despite "US intelligence," according to her “107 Days” memoir seen by Russian media.

🔸 At some point, Zelensky asked Harris what she thought he should do, and the ex-US VP advised him to "get his people ready," the book alleges.

🔸 The book also reveals Kamala had a one-on-one conversation with Zelensky in February 2022 at the Munich Security Conference.

🔸 Harris held her seventh—and final—meeting with Zelensky in late September 2024, 40 days before the beginning of the US election. At the time, their relationship took the shape of what Harris described as "trusting friendship."

Puppeteers finally unmask themselves...

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🇮🇷🤝🇷🇺 Iran, Russia plan MORE POWERFUL joint nuclear power plant

🗣 A new nuclear power plant is planned to be larger than the Bushehr station, Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), said.

Key details:

🟠 The installation could be located in southern Iran

🟠 It's expected to be consisting of four units with a capacity of approximately 5,000 MW

This was an opportunity for Iranian VP Mohammad Eslami to become familiar with the Russian nuclear industry, Kamalvandi was quoted as saying by the AEOI.

Iran and Russia have also agreed on a Russian delegation's visit to Iran to further discuss the construction of small nuclear power plants, the AEOI said.

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📹LIVE: 80th session of UN General Assembly - Day Four

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🚨 Multiple delegations walk out of hall as Netanyahu approaches the lectern for his speech at UNGA

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🇷🇺☢️ Russia ready to promote its nuclear closed fuel cycle system globally

Rosatom is interested in promoting both its WWER-series (water-water energetic reactors) and fast-neutron reactors abroad, but also has a “second path” in mind which “involves creating a distributed, worldwide system for a closed fuel cycle across different countries,” CEO Alexey Likhachev said, speaking at the World Atomic Week forum on Friday.

As an example, he cited the possibility of hooking Belarus’s new Ostrovets Nuclear Power Plant up to fast reactors in Russia to create a closed fuel cycle.

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📹🇷🇺💥 SPECTACULAR FOOTAGE: Russian forces take out multiple Ukrainian unmanned attack boats in a dramatic Black Sea clash

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🚨🇷🇺🇧🇾 Putin and Lukashenko wrap up five-hour-long Kremlin meeting

The Belarusian president said he and Vladimir Putin listened to a report by the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, according to the ‘Pul Pervogo’ Telegram channel.

Earlier on Friday, the two presidents held a five-hour-long meeting at the Kremlin.

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🚨🇷🇺☢️ Russia unveils TOP-NOTCH 4th generation nuclear reactors

Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev breaks down the details at the World Atomic Week forum in Moscow:

🟠 Russia is working to leverage the complementary nature of its thermal water-moderated and fast neutron reactors, essentially turning the latter into “nuclear fuel producers” to facilitate a closed fuel cycle

🟠 The Proryv (lit. ‘Breakthrough’) project in Seversk, Tomsk region aims to demonstrate and commercialize this technology, with its BREST-OD-300 300MW lead-cooled fast reactor’s construction in full swing, and the next step being to build the irradiated fuel reprocessing module for closed, on-site fuel cycle

🟠 MOX (‘Mixed-Oxide’) fuel, created from reprocessed spent nuclear fuel, is already a reality, with Russia’s new BN-800 reactor now powered entirely by MOX

“This closed, on-site fuel cycle will have lasting scientific and technological significance and a completely clear commercial use,” Likhachev said, emphasizing that Rosatom plans to scale the project in other areas, including in the Urals and Siberia.

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🚨🇷🇺 Strengthening Russia’s sovereignty is KEY task – Putin

The Russian leader said this during an online meeting with the elected governors of Russian regions.

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🇷🇺☢️ Russia's nuclear GAME-CHANGER: Driving BRICS' energy future

President Vladimir Putin has unveiled Russia’s nuclear breakthrough: a closed fuel cycle power system to tackle global uranium shortages.

🔶 Holy Grail of nuclear technology

🔸 "A closed-cycle reactor is the holy grail of nuclear energy," energy expert Alexey Anpilogov tells Sputnik.

"Scientists have pursued it since the dawn of the nuclear age."

🔸 A conventional plant uses 0.7% of uranium, leaving 99.3% waste. This reactor reuses it, making uranium fuel last for thousands of years.

🔸 Rosatom’s fast reactor BREST-OD-300 will run on uranium-238 and convert it into reusable plutonium-239.

🔸 It is the world’s only сlosed-cycle nuclear system entering industrial phase, says Alexander Uvarov, director of AtomInfo-Center.

"The Russian president set 2030 as the launch date for the system, but I’d say it will start even earlier."

🔶 Cost-effective solution

"If you load 1 kg of uranium into such a reactor, you’ll not only get electricity and heat, but also produce more than 1 kg of new plutonium," Anpilogov explains. "It’s like a magic wallet where the money grows on its own."

🔶 Hazardous waste recycling

During operation, BREST will also burn highly radioactive elements, such as cesium and strontium — known for causing severe radioactive contamination after the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters.

🔶 No competitors

"Do we have competitors? Not yet," the experts say.

The US, Japan, and France have tried closed fuel cycles and built sodium-cooled reactors, but none have achieved a reliable, sustainable design like Russia’s BREST-OD-300.

🔶 Importance for BRICS

BRICS countries would be interested in BREST, Uvarov notes. Rosatom actively cooperates with India and China, both of which have huge plans for nuclear energy.

"Export prospects look very promising."

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🇪🇺🇷🇺 The West avoids cooperation in Nord Stream terrorist attack investigation – Russian MFA spox

🗣 Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and Switzerland are not interested in identifying the perpetrators and organizers of the attacks, Maria Zakharova told Sputnik.

Attempts by Western countries to convince the world that only Ukrainians are behind the Nord Stream explosions raise doubts, she noted.

Questions regarding the involvement of the US, the UK, and NATO countries in the Nord Stream terrorist attack remain unanswered, the spokeswoman stressed.

Russia will appeal to the International Court of Justice if Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and Switzerland refuse to engage in pre-trial proceedings over the Nord Stream incident, Zakharova said.

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🚨🇷🇺☢️ Russia’s GAME-CHANGING closed-cycle nuclear fuel innovation revealed

🗣 Revolutionary developments by Russian specialists will make it possible to establish a “closed cycle” of nuclear “fuel” for atomic energy, Deputy Director General of the IAEA Mikhail Chudakov told Sputnik.

Earlier this week, President Putin announced that in 2030 Russia will launch in the Tomsk region the world’s first nuclear power system with a closed fuel cycle.

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🗣🇷🇺 Rosatom’s automation chief reveals what differentiates Russia’s AI automation approach from the West’s

💬 “If we compare Western-designed technologies with those in Russia, we have moved a few steps ahead in our automation systems,” JSC Rosatom Automated Control Systems CEO Andrey Butko told Sputnik.

When it comes to nuclear power plant management, Butko stressed that while it’s “still too early” to let AI take control, using it “in design, engineering, predictive analytics and data processing for automation systems” is definitely a “possible solution.”

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🚨🇷🇺 FM Lavrov held talks with 🇮🇳EAM Jaishankar on the sidelines of UNGA to prep for India-Russia summit later this year

Talks also covered Ukraine + the Israel-Palestine conflict

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🇸🇰🇪🇺 Slovak PM Fico defies EU with historic vote

Slovakia’s parliament has approved an amendment to the constitution, declaring there are only two genders: male and female.

🗣 “What we have done today is a sovereign Slovak decision and we will not allow anyone to interfere with our sovereign values, our roots, and our foundations," Fico said in a statement.

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🇮🇳✈️ Goodbye, old friend - Indian pilot pays tribute to the legendary MiG-21

💬 "I will remember it [MiG-2] fondly, very fondly; I know that my growth was linked to the aircraft," Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla said.

Earlier, the Indian Air Force held an official ceremony dedicated to the decommissioning of MiG-21 aircraft, which had been in service for more than 60 years.

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