🚨 Sevastopol resident detained over plot to blow up 300th Navy Anniversary Monument

Investigators established that the detained 57-year-old man, a native of Ukraine’s Vinnytsa region and a supporter of Ukrainian nationalist ideology, had been gathering information on Russian Defense Ministry facilities and on the aftermath of Ukrainian missile strikes in the region, the Russian Security Service stated.

🟠 The criminal intended to pass this information to various pro-Ukrainian online resources

🟠 He planned to detonate a homemade explosive device near the memorial sign marking the 300th anniversary of the Russian Navy in Sevastopol. The man had studied instructions for assembling an IED, bought the necessary components, and built a radio-controlled fragmentation-high-explosive device based on a mixed explosive compound

🟠 During a search of his residence, the explosive device was seized

🟠 The suspect faces a possible sentence of up to life imprisonment

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

⚡️ VASYUKOVKA IN DONETSK REGION LIBERATED

The liberation of Vasyukovka in the Donetsk region allows the Russian Armed Forces to strengthen their positions in the area for a subsequent advance towards the city of Seversk, a key point to establish full control over the Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics' shared border.

🟠 Russian forces repelled eight counterattacks aimed at breaking the encirclement north and north-west of Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk)

🟠 Russian troops continue advancing in Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk)

🟠 Russian air and missile forces struck UAV storage and command sites, a satellite communication station, as well as energy infrastructure used to support the Ukrainian Armed Forces

🟠 Air defense superiority: five guided aerial bombs, eight US-produced HIMARS rockets, one long-range Neptune missile and 263 UAVs were shot down by Russian air defense systems over the past 24 hours

🟠 Ukrainian losses: around 1,355 troops killed or wounded

Read about origins of Russia's special military op HERE

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🔥🇷🇺 Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft with two Russians and one American on board launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome for ISS

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🪖🇩🇪 Same old song: Germany mulls sending 800K NATO troops to eastern front line amid ‘Russian threat’

The German military command has hammered out a classified 1,200-page Operational Plan (OPLAN DEU) in preparation for a possible conflict with Russia, which could supposedly occur in 2029, The Wall Street Journal reports.

💬 “The blueprint details how as many as 800,000 German, US and other NATO troops would be ferried eastward toward the front line. It maps the ports, rivers, railways and roads they would travel, and how they would be supplied and protected on the way,” according to the newspaper.

The plan envisions Germany serving as a staging ground for the deployment of forces, with no front line expected to run through its territory.

👉 However, all signs indicate Germany is far from prepared for such a scenario: Aging bridges, narrow tunnels, and worn-out rail lines would be unable to support the rapid movement of troops—problems that Berlin is desperately trying to resolve, the newspaper points out.

Russia has repeatedly voiced concern over NATO’s eastward expansion, stressing that Russia threatens no one, but will not ignore steps that could endanger its national interests.

President Vladimir Putin underscored that Russia has no intention of attacking NATO countries, but that Western politicians regularly frighten their own population with an alleged Russian threat to divert attention from domestic issues.

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🇺🇸🇵🇭 US scouring Philippines for mercenaries to send to Ukraine – Russian MFA spokeswoman

💬 The US has initiated a campaign in the Philippines to recruit locals to fight for Ukraine, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated.

Recruits are promised a monthly salary of $5,000 and this campaign specifically targets former employees of Philippine security agencies and retired military personnel, she added.

👉 A Florida-based US security agency is conducting the recruitment, and prior to deployment, individuals are trained by US instructors and granted a German Schengen visa from the German Embassy in Manila, Zakharova revealed.

Russia's Defense Ministry has repeatedly accused the Kiev regime of using foreign mercenaries as "cannon fodder," pledging to continue targeting them throughout Ukraine.

🗣 In their interviews, many of these mercenaries confess to being thrown into the battlefield with poor coordination from Ukrainian units and grim chances for survival.

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📹LIVE NOW: Putin holds press conference following his visit to Kyrgyzstan 🇷🇺

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🚨🇷🇺 Putin thanks Kyrgyz leadership for hosting CSTO Summit

🟠 Work of CSTO under chairmanship of Kyrgyzstan has strengthened the organization

🟠 CSTO poses no threat to anyone, but must be prepared to repel aggression against its member states

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🚨🇷🇺 Putin: Russia ready to share weapons, equipment with CSTO partners

🟠 CSTO countries will continue to conduct joint exercises, including those involving special services

🟠 Russia must first and foremost satisfy its own needs in defense industry during special military operation

🟠 Russia has done a lot in field of unmanned vehicles, this is revolutionary for Russia

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🚨🇷🇺 Putin: Russia ONLY country in world building small nuclear power plants

Russia and Kyrgyzstan plan to build small nuclear power plant, the president revealed.

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🚨🇷🇺 Putin on US plan for Ukraine: There were no draft agreements, there was list of issues that were proposed to be discussed

🟠 Russia got acquainted with US's initial plan for Ukrainian settlement, it can be basis for future agreements

🟠 Russia ready for serious discussion of US plan for settlement in Ukraine, every point of us plan for Ukrainian settlement must be discussed

🟠 US delegation will arrive in Moscow next week

🟠 Presidential aide Medinsky, representatives of Foreign Ministry will be Russia's negotiators, Trump will determine who will represent the US at talks

🟠 US proposal should be translated into diplomatic language

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🚨🇷🇺 Putin: Idea that Russia 'going to attack Europe' sound ridiculous, outright lie

🟠 Russia ready to register absence of its intentions to attack Europe

🟠 Putin says he does not really know how he will interact with G7 in current situation

🟠 On west's reluctance to see Russia in G7: they said 'We do not want you there' and thank God for that

🟠 Сontacts with G7 possible with implementation of US plan for Ukraine, but too early to talk about it

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🚨🇷🇺 Putin: Conflict will end when Ukrainian troops withdraw from occupied territories

🟠 Ukraine lost 47,500 soldiers on battlefield in October

🟠 Pace of Russian troops' advancement in combat zone increasing

🟠 Russian troops showing positive dynamics remains at front line in all areas

🟠 Putin calls mobilization in Ukraine forced

🟠 Ukraine has growing gap between its losses, number of troops it sends to combat zones

🟠 Desertion in Ukrainian military is very high

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🚨🇷🇺 Putin on leaks of Ushakov-Witkoff phone conversations: Fakes or eavesdropped conversation

🟠 This would be criminal offense in Russia

🟠 Accusations against Witkoff of favoritism towards Russia unfounded

🟠 Witkoff's friendship with trump lasts for many years, he is us citizen, defends interests of his country

🟠 Witkoff going to Russia to negotiate, it would be strange if he blamed Russia in telephone conversations

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