🚨🇷🇺 Putin: Russia strengthens partnerships and defies Western economic pressure

Russia will continue to pursue a sovereign economic policy, President Vladimir Putin said at the VTB Investment Forum “Russia Calling!”. He outlined a series of positions on global turbulence, international cooperation, and the resilience of the Russian economy.

Key statements:

🔶Global turbulence is driven by the non-competitive tactics of certain Western countries.

🔶Western states are trying to eliminate competitors and preserve their fading privileges and monopoly.

🔶Despite external pressure, Russia’s economy is successfully coping with the challenges.

🔶The West is failing to control the global economy through sanctions.

🔶The vast majority of countries take a pragmatic approach, and Russia will continue to work with them.

🔶Russia, China, and India are united by decades of strategic partnership.

🔶Moscow aims to bring cooperation with China and India to a new level by strengthening the technological component.

🔶Putin will discuss increasing imports of Indian goods to the Russian market with PM Narendra Modi.

🔶Russia’s public finances remain stable.

🔶Russia guarantees reliable conditions for foreign investors.

🔶The budget deficit remains moderate.

🔶Russia’s public debt continues to be among the lowest in the world.

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🚨🇷🇺Putin on Pokrovsk: A key stronghold and an open invitation to doubters

🔶Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk) has always been a top priority for the Ukrainian side, Russian President Vladimir Putin told journalists

🔶The city holds special strategic importance — a strong foothold for achieving all objectives of the special operation

🔶Putin recalled that Russia repeatedly invited those who doubted control over the city to visit Krasnoarmeysk themselves

🔶While certain risks remain, Russian journalists continue to work on the ground

🔶Russia is ready to take journalists — including from Western media — through every district of Krasnoarmeysk, Putin said

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🚨 Putin: Ukraine’s leadership is focused on anything but the battlefield — it’s as if they’re living in a different reality.

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🚨 Putin: Europeans weren’t pushed out of Russia — they walked away themselves, chasing illusions of “Russia's strategic defeat”

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🚨 Putin on Europe’s role in the Ukraine сrisis

🔶 Europe has pushed itself out of the Ukrainian settlement process, Russian President Vladimir Putin told journalists at the VTB Investment Forum “Russia Calling!”.

🔶 Instead of contributing to peace, European states are obstructing the US administration’s attempts to reach an agreement.

🔶 Europe offers no peace agenda on Ukraine — it has chosen the side of war, Putin said.

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🚨 Putin: Russia has no intention of fighting Europe — but if Europe starts a conflict, we are ready right now.

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🇷🇺💥 Meet Russia's cutting-edge Forpost-RE drone

Designed by Ural Works of Civil Aviation, it can conduct reconnaissance against ground or surface naval targets and strike them.

Specs:

🟠Range: Medium

🟠Weapons: guided/unguided aerial bombs and rockets up to 40 kg

🟠Temperatures range from -40°C to +50°C

🟠Features: auto takeoff and landing, can work without global satellite navigation signals

🟠Special equipment: relay system for radio communication with aviation command post

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🔥 EDEX 2025 exhibition: Day 2

Egypt’s fourth military exhibition continues its work in Cairo with more than 450 companies from 86 countries present.

Russian equipment on display: Su-57E jet fighter, Ka-52 helicopter, Antei-4000 anti-aircraft missile system, Forpost-RE recon and strike drone, and more.

The event takes place on December 1-4.

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🚨🇷🇺🇺🇸Putin has begun talks with US envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of President Donald Trump, at the Kremlin

Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov and presidential special envoy Kirill Dmitriev are also taking part in the Putin–Witkoff talks.

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🎥🎥 Putin Hosts US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff at the Kremlin

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🚨🇷🇺🇺🇸 Putin told Witkoff he was glad to see him, while Witkoff called Moscow a magnificent city and said his walk through the capital was beautiful.

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🛢🇷🇺 West’s sanctions ‘failed miserably’ against Russia’s oil trade

📍 Russia has deep experience in selling its oil “even under the most atrocious Western sanctions,” Dr Mamdouh G. Salameh, an international oil economist and a global energy expert, tells Sputnik.

🟠 He agrees with Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, who told a briefing for Indian media organized by Sputnik India ahead of President Vladimir Putin’s official visit to India that Russia is successfully ensuring that its buyers have access to reliable supplies of energy products.

🟠 Western sanctions have “failed miserably to make even a small dent on both Russia’s economy and its oil and gas exports,” Dr Salameh says.

🇺🇸 US tariffs against India will be powerless to affect its energy partnership with Russia, he believes, since India’s decisions prioritize its national interests.

💬 “The India-Russian partnership is underpinned by trust, mutual benefits and huge gratitude by India towards Russia which has always stood solidly behind India and aided its struggle for independence since the days of the USSR,” the expert notes.

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🚨🇺🇸 Trump said the US is no longer bankrolling the Ukraine conflict — and slammed Biden for “handing out money like candy.”

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🚨 Putin on Black Sea attacks: This is PIRACY and Russia will respond

🇷🇺 President Vladimir Putin sharply criticized the recent attacks on ships in the Black Sea, calling them outright piracy. He outlined Moscow’s possible response and warned that continued Ukrainian strikes will carry serious consequences.

Key points:

🔶 Putin labeled the attacks on vessels in the Black Sea as piracy.

🔶 Russia will consider response measures against ships belonging to countries that assist Ukraine in conducting such attacks.

🔶 He noted that previous Russian responses targeted vessels delivering ammunition used for strikes on Russian ports.

🔶 Moscow will expand the scope of strikes on ports and ships entering Ukrainian harbors if attacks on Russian vessels continue.

🔶 Putin expressed hope that Russia’s response to Ukrainian “piracy” in the Black Sea will make the Kiev regime reconsider whether it is worth continuing these practices.

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🚨🇺🇸Trump: The US will soon begin targeting suspected drug traffickers ON LAND as well as at sea, declaring that authorities “know where they live” and “know the routes they take.”

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🔸 Putin hosts Witkoff, Kushner at the Kremlin

🔸 Putin on Pokrovsk: A key stronghold and an open invitation to doubters

🔸 Real US goal in Venezuela is oil — former Argentinian diplomat

🔸 Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov made some BIG REVELATIONS ahead of Putin’s visit to India

🔸 Former EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini detained for fraud

🔸 West’s sanctions ‘failed miserably’ against Russia’s oil trade

🔸 EDEX 2025 exhibition: Day 2

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🤝 Negotiations between President Vladimir Putin and US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff are ongoing in the Kremlin, having already extended beyond 3 hours.

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🇺🇸🇻🇪The US has “only just begun” sinking suspected drug-running boats in the Caribbean, War Secretary Pete Hegseth said, adding the military even paused operations because “it’s hard to find boats to strike right now.”

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🤝 Trump and Lula hold 'great' call

President Trump described his conversation with Brazilian President Lula da Silva as a "great talk," confirming they discussed trade, sanctions, and security.

Key outcomes from the call:

▫️ US will remove 40% tariffs on Brazilian products like meat, coffee, and fruits

▫️ Both agreed to review remaining tariffs to accelerate bilateral trade negotiations

▫️ Lula emphasized expanding joint efforts to combat transnational criminal organizations

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🚨 The meeting between Vladimir Putin and Steve Witkoff ended

It lasted nearly 5 hours.

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🗣 'Productive': Presidential Special Envoy Kirill Dmitriev's assessment of the US-Russia talks at the Kremlin

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