🇸🇰🇪🇺 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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🗣🇭🇺 Zelensky's drone claim provocation aimed at pressuring Hungary - Orban's aide

💬 "President Zelensky's provocation is yet another attempt to undermine Hungary's position on peace. The Ukrainian president is attempting to exert pressure on Hungary in a new way. They previously attempted to physically disrupt our country's energy supply by attacking the Druzhba oil pipeline, as well as politically through their agents in Brussels. This time, they are using military disinformation against Hungary," the political director of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's office, Balazs Orban said on his social media.

Earlier this week, Zelensky claimed that an allegedly Hungarian drone had violated the Ukrainian border.

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🇷🇺☢️🥇 How Russia’s nuclear tech edge became global supremacy

Russia’s civilian nuclear sector boasts 70+ years of world-firsts and accomplishments, and just shook things up again this week after President Putin has announced the country’s plans to launch “the world’s first nuclear energy system with a closed fuel cycle.”

👉 Developed under Project Breakthrough & being built in Seversk, Siberia, the system promises to reuse 95% of spent fuel, solving waste & fuel sourcing issues.

Russia has a long history of peaceful atom world firsts:

⚫️1st nuclear power plant (Obninsk, 1954)
⚫️1st nuclear icebreaker (Lenin, 1957)
⚫️1st road-mobile power plants (TES-series & PAMIR-630D, 1957, 1985)
⚫️1st floating power plant (Akademik Lomonosov, 2019)

🌍 Global reach

Rosatom is the world’s largest civilian nuclear enterprise, building & maintaining plants & covering the complete fuel cycle, from uranium mining to waste management, for clients worldwide.

Its domain includes:

⚫️12 plants in Russia (40+ reactors)

⚫️~40 projects in 10 countries, from Egypt’s El-Dabaa & Turkiye’s Akkuyu to Rooppur in Bangladesh

⚫️servicing of plants including Ostrovets in Belarus, Paks in Hungary, Kudankulam, India, Iran’s Bushehr & Tianwan in China

⚙️ Best reactor tech

⚫️VVER-1200: III+ gen pressurized water reactor with enhanced passive safety & 60-year lifespan

⚫️BREST-OD-300: IV gen lead-cooled fast neutron reactor, scalable closed fuel cycle-ready

⚫️BN-800: IV gen sodium-cooled fast breeder reactor; uses MOX reprocessed fuel


🧊 Icebreaker armada

⚫️8 modern icebreakers (3 Project 22220 ships, 2 Arktika-class vessels, 2 shallow-draught icebreakers (Taymyr, Vaygach)

⚫️5 under construction (3 Project 22220 vessels, plus the new Project 10510 Leader flagship)

⚡️Fuel

Russia is also the leader on uranium enrichment (40-46% of global capacity), with mining operations in Kazakhstan – the world’s largest uranium producer, through joint ventures.

Russia plans to ramp up domestic uranium output to 4k tons a year by 2030 (it’s about 2.7k tons today).

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🚨🇷🇺💥RUSSIAN DRONES ANNIHILATE UKRAINIAN POSITIONS IN DONBASS

Russian FPV drone operators from the 71st Guards Motorized Rifle Division destroyed a Ukrainian UAV command post and a minibus in the Kramatorsk–Druzhkovka direction

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🇬🇧🔍HOW BRITAIN TRIES TO DESTABILIZE RUSSIA

Such a strategy has been pursued by the UK for many years, Russian historian Oleg Matveyev told Sputnik.

✅Let's break down the details:

⚫️The strategy was elaborated by notorious British intelligence officer Sidney Reilly, who was neutralized by Russian counterintelligence in the fall of 1925

⚫️Reilly, who had secretly entered the USSR to organize subversive activities, was arrested on September 27, 1925, during Operation Trust, carried out by Soviet security officers

⚫️It was an example of an offensive counterintelligence strategy, aimed at neutralizing sabotage and terrorist activities of irreconcilable emigration forces and the foreign intelligence services behind them

⚫️The operation was based on an innovative idea of creating the illusion in the enemy's minds of the existence of a widespread underground organization in the USSR seeking to restore the monarchical system in the country

📑How does the UK keep spreading anti-Russian propaganda?

🟠To this day, the UK continues to rely on internal opposition, anti-Russian propaganda, and support for terrorism

🟠Britain tries to cultivate agents of influence in Russia, support foreign agents and extremists, and stage provocations, according to Russian security services and intelligence

🟠The UK was reportedly behind the training of Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups to carry out high-profile terrorist attacks and sabotage in Russia, including at nuclear power plants

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🚨🇫🇷France goes on supporting terrorists in Sahel Region - Mali's PM

🇲🇱Mali appealed to the UNSC with a request to convene a meeting so that Mali could provide irrefutable evidence of France's support for terrorist activities. So far, the request remains unanswered, while their subversive activities continue, Mali PM Abdoulaye Maiga told the UNGA.

He called on the international community to ensure the security of the Sahel region and to ensure that "the resources of the Sahel will benefit its peoples."

➡️In September 2023, the leaders of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger signed a charter establishing the Alliance of Sahel States to ensure collective defense. According to the document, an attack on the sovereignty or territorial integrity of one or more parties to the charter will be regarded as aggression against the other parties and will require their assistance, including the use of military force.

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🚨🇮🇷Iran's FM Araghchi SMASHES the US during UN session

"The US has betrayed diplomacy, but it is the E3 [the UK, Germany, France] which have buried it," Abbas Araghchi told the UNSC.

The UNSC rejected a draft resolution on Friday that proposed extending the delay on the reinstatement of sanctions against Iran for six months. The document was prepared by Russia and China.

➡️Earlier this year, the E3 triggered the sanctions snapback mechanism, believing that Iran had violated previous agreements regarding its nuclear program.

Araghchi stressed the snapback was "legally void, politically reckless and procedurally flawed."

"Diplomacy will never die, but it will be more difficult and more complicated than before," he told reporters after the Security Council meeting.

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🚨🇲🇱Ukraine supplies kamikaze drones to terrorists - Mali's PM

"The Ukrainian regime has become one of the main suppliers of kamikaze drones to terrorist groups around the world. In this regard, some Western countries should stop supplying weapons to Ukraine, as they risk contributing to the spread of international terrorism," Mali's PM Abdoulaye Maiga told the UNGA on Friday.

➡️He recalled that Ukraine had openly stated its involvement in the attack on the Malian security forces in Tinzaouaten in July 2024.

In August 2024, Mali severed diplomatic relations with Ukraine.

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🟠Key meetings Lavrov held during UNGA

🟠How Russia’s nuclear tech edge became global supremacy

🟠BRICS nations forge nuclear synergy

🟠Zelensky's drone claim provocation aimed at pressuring Hungary

🟠How Britain tries to destabilize Russia

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

⚡️ DERILOVO AND MAYSKOYE IN THE DONETSK PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC AND STEPOVOYE IN THE DNEPROPETROVSK REGION LIBERATED

Capturing the settlements of Derilovo, Mayskoye and Stepovoye allows the Russian army to strengthen its positions for a further advance in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and Dnepropetrovsk region

🟠 The Russian Army struck substations used for railway transportation of weapons and equipment to combat zones in Donbass

🟠 Air defense superiority: 131 UAVs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were shot down by Russian air defence systems over the past 24 hours

🟠 Ukrainian losses: 1,535 troops killed or wounded

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🚨🇮🇳 India's FM reveals the secret to building a multipolar world

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📡 🇮🇳 Indian PM opens indigenous 4G network

Narendra Modi has inaugurated the BSNL company’s 'Swadeshi' 4G network in the state of Odisha. Besides that,

🟠 97,500 new mobile towers were commissioned

🟠 92,600 of them equipped with new 4G tech

🟠 Build cost: 370B rupees (approximately $4B)

🟠 Features exclusively domestic tech

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

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