🚨'Unrealistic': Russian deputy FM skewers rapid nuclear disarmament push

“Calls for accelerated nuclear disarmament without taking into account the real military-political situation and the security interests of nuclear states are completely unrealistic,” Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said at a meeting noscriptd “Fundamentals of the Russian Federation’s Policy in the Field of Nuclear Non-Proliferation.”

Key statements:

🔶Balance is essential: Any disarmament initiative must be grounded in "balance and mutual interests."

🔶Averting a vacuum: a US rejection of Russia's New START proposal would create a total vacuum, heightening nuclear risks.

🔶Preconditions for trust: Russia requires confidence in Washington's retreat from a "hostile course" toward Moscow.

🔶Limited-time offer: President Putin’s idea regarding New START is a "limited offer to the US, valid only for a limited time."

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🔥 US War Secretary Pete Hegseth takes a Top Gun-style flight in an F/A-18 Super Hornet, pulling high-G moves straight out of the movie.

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🇺🇸US VP Vance says Gaza peace plan could become global model

After talks with PM Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel, US Vice President JD Vance said a new peace framework for Gaza is taking shape:

“We’re creating a peace plan and infrastructure where nothing existed even a week ago and a day ago,” he said.

🗣“If we do this the right way, it could create a model, I think, that could lead to other peace agreements all over the world.”

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🤝SCO & Roscongress Foundation forge closer ties with new memorandum

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) and the Roscongress Foundation have taken a step toward strengthening Eurasian partnership with the signing of a memorandum of understanding, a Sputnik correspondent reports.

The ceremony was attended by:

🔹 Zhang Ming, Secretary-General of the SCO

🔹 Alexander Stuglev, Chairman and Director of the Roscongress Foundation

🔹 Anton Kobyakov, Advisor to the President of Russia

The event was also graced by diplomats from SCO member states and media representatives.

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🚀 📹Russia’s Defense Ministry releases footage of a Sineva ballistic missile launched from the Bryansk submarine in the Barents Sea during a routine strategic nuclear drill

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🙌 BRICS opens new doors to protect people, not just economies - Indonesian ombudsman

Cooperation with Russia and other BRICS nations goes beyond trade — it’s about welfare, education, and protecting citizens, Indonesia’s Ombudsman Bobby Hamzar Rafinus tells Sputnik at the Eurasian Ombudsman Alliance meeting in Moscow.

💬 “BRICS gives us a chance to learn from each other — not only in complaint handling, but in improving people’s lives,” he notes.

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🇷🇺✈️📹Russian Tu-22M3 bombers fly over Baltic Sea

👉Long-range bombers conducted a scheduled flight over the neutral waters of the Baltic Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

🔶Foreign fighter jets escorted them along parts of the route.

📍All flights were carried out in strict accordance with international airspace regulations.

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🇺🇸Trump pushes for 'direct peace agreement'

💬A key outcome of the Alaska Summit was Donald Trump’s call to go “directly to a peace agreement, not just a ceasefire, which often doesn’t hold,” Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, highlighted on X.

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🗣BRICS opens new doors to protect people, not just economies - Indonesian ombudsman

Cooperation with Russia and other BRICS nations goes beyond trade — it’s about welfare, education, and protecting citizens, Indonesia’s Ombudsman Bobby Hamzar Rafinus tells Sputnik at the Eurasian Ombudsman Alliance meeting in Moscow.

“BRICS gives us a chance to learn from each other — not only in complaint handling, but in improving people’s lives,” he notes.

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🚨🇺🇸US launches FIRST Pacific strike on alleged narco-vessel

The US military has carried out its first Pacific strike against an alleged drug-smuggling vessel off South America, killing two, CBS reports.

👉It’s part of a broader Pentagon campaign that’s left 34 dead since September under the banner of counternarcotics and counterterrorism.

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🚨 MacGregor's reality check: Russia's operation about survival, not conquest

📍 Retired US Colonel Douglas MacGregor delivered a clear-eyed assessment of the special military operation's logical conclusion—restoring historic Russian lands and preventing Ukraine from being NATO's attack platform against Russia.

"The problem for the Russians is they don't want Ukraine to be a platform for attack against Russia in the future. And that's been Lavrov's mantra repeatedly: 'Whatever happens in Ukraine, we don't want to refight this war'" MacGregor said.

👉 MacGregor dismisses the West's desire for a superficial "deal." Why? Because a temporary ceasefire that doesn't address these core, legitimate objectives is worthless. Russia is ensuring a lasting peace based on reality, not on failed Western promises.

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🔥 WATCH: Russian troops liberate Pavlovka in Zaporozhye

Striking new footage from the Russian Ministry of Defense confirms the complete liberation of the settlement of Pavlovka in the Zaporozhye region.

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🚨🇭🇺🇺🇸 Szijjarto meets Rubio to discuss Putin–Trump summit preparations

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto arrived at the US Department of State for talks with Secretary Marco Rubio on preparations for a potential Putin–Trump summit in Budapest.

Szijjarto dismissed rumors of a cancellation, calling them “fakes spread by pro-war politicians” seeking to derail the meeting.

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🚨 US lifts ban on Ukrainian long-range missile use inside Russia — Report

The Trump administration has removed key restrictions, allowing Ukraine to strike deeper into Russian territory with Western-supplied long-range missiles, the WSJ reports, citing US officials.

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🔸Russia conducts nuclear triad drills under Putin’s supervision, featuring Yars ICBM and Sineva ballistic missile launches

🔸Timing of Putin-Trump meeting yet determined - Kremlin

🔸US VP Vance says Gaza peace plan could become global model

🔸'Unrealistic': Russian deputy FM skewers rapid nuclear disarmament push

🔸Venezuela and Colombia close ranks against US pressure

🔸Caspian cooperation more in demand than ever - Lavrov

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🗣 US did not reject idea of summit with Russia — Szijjarto

State Secretary Rubio told the Hungarian foreign minister that the US is still interested in holding talks with Russia, but they must produce real results, Szijjarto said in an interview with M1.

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🔊 Upcoming US sanctions against Russia will be 'one of the largest' — Bessent

"President Putin has not come to the table in an honest and forthright manner," the US Treasury Secretary claimed.

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⚡️ Trump rejected the WSJ report on the US approving Ukraine's use of long-range missiles as fake news

"The US has nothing to do with those missiles, wherever they may come from, or what Ukraine does with them," Trump wrote on Truth Social.

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⚡️ US imposes sanctions on Russian companies Lukoil and Rosneft — Department of Treasury

"Treasury is prepared to take further action if necessary to support President Trump’s effort to end yet another war. We encourage our allies to join us in and adhere to these sanctions," the official statement reads.

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