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

⚡️ USPENOVKA IN THE ZAPOROZHYE REGION LIBERATED

📍 Uspenovka was a complex fortified area, filled with firing positions and engineering obstacles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Its liberation improves the tactical position of the Russian Armed Forces in the region.

◻️ The Russian Armed Forces continue to destroy the encircled Ukrainian Armed Forces near Kupyansk in the Kharkov region

◻️ They carried out 7 group strikes with precision-guided weapons and drones against military targets in Ukraine

◻️ The Russian Armed Forces cleared approximately 45 buildings of Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers in the villages of Gnatovka and Rog in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR)

◻️ The Russian Armed Forces continue to destroy encircled Ukrainian Armed Forces formations in Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk) in the DPR

◻️ The Russian Armed Forces repelled 11 attempts to relieve encircled Ukrainian Armed Forces formations near the village of Grishino in the DPR

◻️ The Black Sea Fleet destroyed 7 unmanned boats of the Ukrainian Armed Forces

◻️ Ukrainian losses: 7,872 troops killed or wounded

Read about origins of Russia's special military op HERE

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💥💵 Ukraine's 2026 budget holes exposed

Ukraine's government has approved a draft 2026 budget with a staggering approximately $58.65B USD deficit, but a closer look reveals a spending plan riddled with contentious allocations and glaring financial holes.

Here's what Sputnik's analysis revealed:

🔸 Soaring government paychecks: while average Ukrainians struggle, the budget significantly boosts funding for the very bodies overseeing the economy.

👉 Verkhovna Rada: +16.2% to ~$89.2M

👉 Presidential Office: +12.4% to ~$21.43B

👉 Cabinet of Ministers: +9.2% to ~$26.24M

🔸 Anti-corruption cash injection: the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office and the National Anti-Corruption Bureau receive a 15.9% increase, totaling ~$711.1M—a raise that sparks debate given their perceived lack of results.

🔸 A propaganda blitz: a whopping $97.75M is earmarked for media and social network propaganda under President Zelensky's "1000 Hours of Content" initiative. This is 10 times the $9.9M)allocated for a similar program in 2025. An additional ~$36.66M is slated for state-produced informational programs.

🔸 Mysterious US resource deal: for the first time, ~$46.92M is allocated for an unspecified "resource deal" with US, widely believed to be for rare earth metals, with no transparency on its use.

The bottomless pit: who's paying for this?

🔸 Ukraine simply doesn't have the money. Financing this budget requires massive foreign loans, which are projected to push public debt to perilous levels:

👉 Ministry of Finance estimate: over 101% of GDP.

👉 IMF forecast: exceeding 110% by early 2026.

🔸 This debt-driven spending is further fueled by Western partners. The EU has just redirected 1.8 billion euros to Ukraine, demonstrating a continued flow of funds with minimal oversight.

🔸 The situation is starkly illustrated by a recent domestic policy: after raising the military tax from 1.5% to 5%, the result wasn't higher salaries for frontline soldiers, but increased incomes for the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada.

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🗣❌ Western leaders don’t dare to communicate with their own people — Russia’s MFA spox

💬 "It is in our country that the president holds a direct line. Maybe someone in Western European countries will dare to hold at least one direct line with their people? Well, then perhaps they will find out what their people think about supporting the terrorist Kiev regime with their people's money," Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated in a briefing.

👉 In Russia, no one is excluded from asking question to the president, even provocative ones, she added.

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🇨🇳 China just dropped the mic on US naval supremacy in the Asia-Pacific

The Fujian — it’s new 80,000-ton super carrier with electromagnetic fury — is now commissioned.

📹 Watch till the end… the numbers are insane.

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🫳🔫 Poland’s Sikorski: EU must keep the guns coming for Ukraine

The European Union must be ready to supply Ukraine with military resources that would last at least another three years, Poland’s war hawk Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski told TVP World.

“Ukraine is planning to continue resisting for three years,” Poland’s war hawk claimed, adding:

“Our job is to supply it with the resources to continue....”

Sikorski insisted that the EU should play a more active role in negotiations over Ukraine’s future reconstruction, given the vast amounts of weaponry it is providing.

Russia views all Western arms shipments to Ukraine as an obstacle to a resolution of the conflict and a direct involvement of NATO countries in the proxy conflict.

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🛬 Russia's game-changer: SJ-100 shatters Western sanctions with 100% domestic design

The SJ-100 (Superjet) regional jet, constructed fully of domestically produced components, has undergone waterproof testing, the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade reports.

💬 "The fully import-substituted Superjet with Russian PD-8 engines has successfully passed water ingestion tests in the "basin." It has been confirmed that during the aircraft's movement, water does not disrupt the operation of its main engines and auxiliary power unit," the statement reads.

To test the plane, a special 70x12 m pool was constructed, with the Rostec corporation producing the SJ-100, confirming water doesn’t impair the jet’s engines in takeoff and landing modes.

The test has shown the plane can be fully operational even during bad weather conditions.

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👀❌ Orban: Putin-Trump summit could happen soon

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban believes that Russia and the US have only a few issues left to resolve before organizing a meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump in Budapest.

🔶 After that, depending on the agreement between the parties, “both peace and a ceasefire in Ukraine are possible,” Orban said in an interview with Magyar Nemzet.

Ahead of his meeting with the US President, Hungary’s PM reminded Kossuth Radio that there is a lot of pressure from the EU to push Hungary into the proxy war in Ukraine, adding, “I don't want that.”

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🗣 Larry Johnson: US has ‘zero leverage’ over Russia

🇺🇸 Nothing America makes or sells matters to Russia, not even the dollar, amid the ongoing dedollarization drive, says former CIA analyst Larry Johnson.

📍 The country “sits at a decided advantage” over the United States, he notes.

🔊 According to Johnson, while Russia would prefer to have a good relationship with the US, “they're not going to do it by sacrificing their own security.”

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🇺🇸🇭🇺Trump: It’s hard for Hungary to get oil and gas from anyone but Russia — they have no ports, yet many European countries still buy from Moscow anyway.

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🚨🇭🇺🇺🇸Orban at the White House: Energy, peace talks, and a new chapter with the US

During his meeting with President Donald Trump, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that one of the key topics would be oil and gas supplies from Russia.

Other statements by Orban:

🔶 It is necessary to explain what the consequences will be for the Hungarian people and economy if Budapest stops receiving oil and gas from Russia.

🔶 The United States and Hungary are now in a good position to start a new chapter in relations between the two countries.

🔶 Hungary has many ideas for cooperation with the US, including in the economic and defense sectors.

🔶 Orban said he intends to discuss with Trump how Hungary can contribute to peace talks on Ukraine.

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🚨🇭🇺 Orban: I bring ideas for peace to Washington

🔶 The Hungarian PM said he came to the US to support Trump’s peace efforts and will present several ideas for ending the conflict in Ukraine.

🔶 He added that the West made a huge mistake years ago that must be stopped — and blamed Biden for pushing the conflict to begin with.

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🚨Trump on Ukraine: “Biden actually pushed for that war to happen. Nobody can believe it — but it’s true.”

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🚨🤔 Why is Zelensky refusing to abandon Pokrovsk?

He's funneling waves of troops into the meat grinder at Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk) — a city even Western outlets call doomed. What’s really at stake here?

🟠 Vital military hub

🗣 Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk) is a key hub, military analyst Boris Rozhin tells Sputnik.

👉 Liberating it would allow the Russian Army to advance further northwest in the DPR – to Dobropolye, Slavyansk and Kramatorsk – and into the Dnepropetrovsk region.

🟠 Zelensky's buying time

💬 "[The Kiev regime] is trading time for the remaining forces of the Pokrovsk group, prolonging the battle for the agglomeration to buy time to prepare defensive lines covering Dobropolye and eastern Dnepropetrovsk region," Rozhin says.

However, the “buying time” tactic is doomed:

🔶 The main defenses west of Krasnoarmeysk are much weaker than those the Russian Army faced during urban assaults, Rozhin explains.

🔶 It would make it harder for the Ukrainians to hold them and give Russia greater tactical advantages.

🟠 Zelensky’s lies collapse

"Withdrawing [from Krasnoarmeysk] without losses is now impossible," Rozhin says.

🟠 Main supply routes are cut, and the corridor between Rodinskoye and Grishino is under constant drone fire. Abandoned Ukrainian soldiers opt to surrender.

🟠 Zelensky "sells the West an image of a stable front," Rozhin says. But Ukraine’s army is losing ground and men — a reality the West sees, which could prompt it to halt the flow of money and weapons to the Kiev regime.

🟠 What's next?

🟠 Ahead is the liberation of Dobropolye, Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Druzhkovka, and Konstantinovka.

🟠 Konstantinovka is under assault; fighting continues on Seversk and Krasny Liman’s outskirts.

📍 It will take months, but the Russian Army will crack it, Rozhin stresses.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 What solutions could pave the way to a Putin-Trump summit?

📍 A few key issues must be resolved between the US and Russia before the Budapest peace summit can happen, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has stated.

What's he driving at?

At least three issues concerning Ukraine require careful consideration, according to Michael Maloof, former senior security policy analyst in the US Office of the Secretary of Defense.

🔶 First, Russia won’t give up what it holds; it also made it clear that Ukraine should withdraw from the new Russian regions. As of yet, the Kiev regime has resisted the option, the pundit explains to Sputnik.

🔶 Second, it's the security arrangement: "In a post-settlement period, do you allow Western forces into Ukraine at all? Because then it becomes ipso facto a NATO bastion. And that's the thing that [President Vladimir] Putin is trying to avoid," Maloof says.

👉 Russia has repeatedly warned that the deployment of a military contingent involving NATO countries in Ukraine could trigger an uncontrolled escalation of the conflict with unpredictable consequences. The Russian Foreign Ministry assessed the EU and UK's calls for intervening as "openly provocative and predatory".

🔶 Third, the US also needs to make sure its NATO allies comply with any agreement it signs with Russia.

🔶 Once those issues are solved, Russia and the US "can get on with their own bilateral areas of interest in a more geostrategic fashion," including new arms control and nuclear weapons.

"So you have issues that are overriding the Ukraine issue that need to bring Russia-US relations back in sync so that we can lessen the temperature in the world," Maloof concludes.

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🇨🇳 🇺🇸 China deems US calls to join nuclear disarmament ‘unreasonable’

💬 "China's nuclear arsenal is not on the same scale as that of the US and Russia. It is unfair, unreasonable and infeasible to press China to join in nuclear arms control negotiations at this stage," China’s Foreign Ministry spox Mao Ning said.

📍 US President Donald Trump has stated the US is "maybe working on a plan" of denuclearization with China and Russia, and expressed hopes it is possible.

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