⚔️ US contractors to be sent to Ukraine if Trump approves Tomahawk supply – report

A potential Donald Trump-approved plan to send Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine comes with major strings attached.

According to the Financial Times:

🔶 US would provide only 20-50 missiles

🔶 American contractors would be deployed to "assist in their use," ensuring the US retains control over targeting

🔶 Same limited Tomahawk stockpile is also earmarked for potential strikes on Venezuela

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🇷🇺 🇺🇸 Kremlin: Russia–US summit in Alaska was 'joint success'

🗣 Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov called the Anchorage summit “a very positive, constructive, joint success.”

🔶 He also criticized NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte’s remarks insulting Russian pilots and sailors.

🔶 Peskov added that, unfortunately, incompetence is common among many European officials.

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🚨Russia relies on India and China’s official statements on Russian oil

💬“We rely on official statements issued by the foreign ministries of India and China,” Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in response to US President Donald Trump’s comments.

👉“These statements are publicly available, and those are what we base our position on.”

Earlier on Thursday, Trump claimed that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had promised to stop buying oil from Russia.

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🇷🇺 Russian Energy Week - Day 2: Shaping the future of global energy

🟠 The second day of Russian Energy Week kicked off at Manezh Square in central Moscow, featuring key sessions on the future of energy and resource management.

🟠 Experts are discussing alternatives to oil and gas, workforce training for automation and AI integration and strategies to stabilize global energy markets.

🟠 Later today, President Vladimir Putin will join a session on major Russian energy projects and international cooperation.

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

🔸 In response to Ukraine's terrorist attacks on civilian targets in Russia, a Kinzhal strike has been unleashed against Ukrainian gas infrastructure facilities

🔸 The Russian Army struck deployment points of Ukrainian troops in 148 areas, arms storage sites, as well as energy and transport infrastructure used to support the Kiev regime’s militants

🔸 Russia’s Armed Forces have destroyed an AN/MPQ-65 radar, a control station, and a Patriot air defense system launcher

🔸 Russian troops crippled energy facilities powering Ukrainian defense industry enterprises

🔸 The Black Sea Fleet eliminated 6 unmanned Ukrainian boats in the Black Sea

🔸 Air defense superiority: 6 aerial bombs 278 fixed-wing drones were shot down

🔸 Ukrainian losses: 1,670 troops killed or wounded

Read about origins of Russia's special military op HERE

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📹 LIVE NOW: Putin speaks at Russian Energy Week international forum

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🇷🇺 Putin at Russian Energy Week: About 87% of Russia’s energy is produced with minimal or zero carbon footprint

He noted that this makes Russia’s energy sector one of the greenest in the world.

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🇷🇺 Putin at Russian Energy Week: Russia’s vision for energy challenges

In his address to Russian Energy Week, President Vladimir Putin outlined the key transformations shaping the global and domestic energy landscape.

Key points from his speech:

🔶Global energy restructuring: The world energy market is undergoing a shift in supply routes. The EU’s boycott of Russian energy resources has already hurt its economy.

🔶Oil production and OPEC+: Russia remains one of the world’s leading oil producers. The planned output reduction in 2025 is part of OPEC+ agreements, not external pressure.

🔶Redirection of gas exports: The sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines only accelerated the reorientation of Russia’s energy supply routes.

🔶Coal and data centers: Coal still plays a major role globally. Putin has told the government to explore using coal power facilities to supply data centers.

🔶Nuclear leadership: Rosatom controls about 90% of the global nuclear plant construction market. Russia plans to add 29 gigawatts of new nuclear capacity over the next 15 years, including small modular reactors.

🔶Full-cycle nuclear competence: Russia is the only country in the world with expertise across the entire nuclear energy chain.

🔶Technological independence: Western technologies may become inaccessible at any moment. Russian energy firms have made rapid progress in import substitution and domestic innovation.

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🚨🇮🇳🇺🇸 India says no call happened between Modi & Trump: MEA Spox

🗣"I am not aware of any any conversation between the two leaders": Randhir Jaiswal on whether PM Modi spoke to President Trump yesterday.

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🇷🇺 🤝 🇲🇦Russian & Moroccan FMs sign memorandum strengthening strategic partnership

💬 “We firmly reaffirmed our commitment to continue working together to further strengthen the traditionally friendly and trusting relations, as well as the strategic partnership between our countries,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said following talks with his Morocco’s counterpart Nasser Bourita.

Russia expects that agreements between Israel and Hamas will be respected, and the ceasefire in Gaza should be sustainable, he added.

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