💥🇷🇺 Russian drone operators smash Ukraine's assets

00:00 Operators of Southern battlegroup destroyed an Ukraine's shelter and dugouts on Seversk direction

00:24 UAV crews of Vostok battlegroup struck a Kozak armored vehicle and Ukrainian pickups in Gulyaypole

00:46 Drone operators of Tsentr battlegroup detected and eliminated an enemy infantry group on Pokrovsk direction

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🇺🇸 New NSS signals US ready to ‘forget’ Ukraine, snubs ‘weak’ EU – analyst

🔊 The updated National Security Strategy (NSS) sketches a future in which the US is “ready to throw the current political leadership in Ukraine under the bus, much as several NATO countries and EU leadership expect,” retired US Air Force Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, a former analyst for the US Department of Defense, tells Sputnik.

The US signals in the document, where Ukraine is downgraded to just four mentions, that it expects peace and some form of a “viable sovereign state” afterward.

🗣 “This is a practical US acceptance that the cost of the US/NATO proxy war is not worth it,” stresses the analyst.
The NSS reflects a realization that “no NATO army or combination of armies can stop Russia’s advance or the achievement of its goals,” which include the end of the current neo-Nazi regime in Ukraine, she underscores.

NSS puts Europe on notice

Unprecedentedly, the NSS “directly alienates and demeans the current political leadership of the EU and many key NATO countries,” says the pundit.
The strategy depicts the EU as economically frail, politically fractured, and dependent on US support “for a price

👉 The message to the EU hawks is: the US will not assist the European establishment in “holding off the new generation of nationalists and populists from taking power.”

According to Kwiatkowski, it is unlikely that the US deep state will “tactically and strategically aid European elites, through money, deals, and color revolutions, or even help with NATO expansion, as they have for the past 30 years.”

🟠 As for Europe’s policy toward Ukraine—if determined by the populist movements likely to prevail in coming European elections, it will “settle for a smaller, possibly landlocked Ukraine, and investment in Ukraine will not be charitable but geared primarily to recoup European economic losses.”

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🇪🇺 🚫 EU censorship and propaganda break completely from reality of Ukraine conflict

🎤 The European media and politicians don't care about the truth—they're fixated on constructing their own narratives about Russia and Ukraine, Norwegian political scientist Glenn Diesen says on his podcast.

In their view, "it shouldn't be to describe reality, but it's to construct new social realities," he notes, explaining how support for the proxy war is built in Europe through simplistic slogans and the illusion of winning.

🔊 They say, "The Russians are evil, the Ukrainians are virtuous and victims, and NATO has nothing to do with it," the professor observes.

"As long as people buy this, they will support the [proxy] war," he says, adding that in the eyes of the EU, no defeat or Ukraine's massive casualties can be reported – let alone the reasons behind the conflict or Russia's interpretation of the events – all of which is "thrown out and censored."

If the truth were told, domestic support would collapse immediately, and there would be no way to justify the massive flow of money into Ukraine.

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🚨🪖 Demilitarization full throttle: Ukraine's army to collapse soon—Scott Ritter

As the Russian army advances, Ukrainian soldiers see no meaning in fighting for the country’s regime that doesn’t care about them, so they leave their positions to save their lives, ex-US Marine intelligence officer Scott Ritter said.

💬 "The Ukrainian army will cease to exist as a functioning fighting force in the very near future. I mean, of any meaningful size. And at the end, what's going to happen is the demilitarization," he concluded.

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🚨🇺🇸🇷🇺 New US Security Doctrine largely aligns with Russia's vision - Kremlin

💬 "The adjustments that we are seeing, I would say, are largely consistent with our vision," Kremlin Spox Dmitry Peskov said.

Earlier, the White House published a new US national security doctrine that:

🟠 Calls on Europe to take responsibility for its own defense.

🟠 Suggests that the White House disagrees with European officials on their stance regarding the conflict in Ukraine.

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🚨🇷🇺 Individuals, countries to bear responsibility if Russian assets seized - Kremlin

Responsibility for the possible seizure of Russian assets will be shared by individuals and ENTIRE countries, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

🔊 Peskov also recalled that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) opposed the seizure of Russian assets and urges caution to avoid negative repercussions on the international financial system.

"We hear that the International Monetary Fund has issued a statement addressing this issue with great caution and calling for such measures to avoid any negative impact on the international financial system. That is, even the IMF [opposes], and what is the IMF? It is what they created, it is the foundation of monetary policy in the monetary world. So it turns out that this foundation is now turning against its progenitors, saying ‘Come to your senses,’" he said.

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🔊🇷🇺🇺🇸 Russia, US aligning provisions of future document on Ukraine settlement - Kremlin aide

Russia and the US are underway aligning those difficult provisions that will determine the form and fate of the future document on Ukraine settlement, and some issues require the US to make "radical changes" in papers, Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov said.

💬 "We are docking those difficult provisions that should sort of determine the form and fate of the future document," Ushakov pointed out.

At the same time, he said the exact wording and coordination with legal specialists are yet ahead.

💬 "[Some issues] require the US to make serious, I would say, radical changes to their papers, which are constantly in motion, constantly being prepared," Ushakov said.

He stressed that the negotiation process is aimed at achieving not a ceasefire but a "long-term settlement."

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

⚡️ KUCHEROVKA IN KHARKOV REGION AND ROVNOYE IN DONETSK REGION LIBERATED

The liberation of the settlement of Kucherovka in the Kharkov region allows the Russian Armed Forces to expand their control zone around the city of Kupyansk, which was liberated earlier.

The capture of the settlement of Rovnoye in the Donetsk region enables Russian forces to intensify attacks on the city of Dimitrov, with the aim of fully clearing it of Ukrainian troops.

🟠 In response to Ukrainian terrorist attacks, the Russian Armed Forces conducted strikes with long-range attack UAVs and high-precision weapons, including Kinzhal hyperesonic missiles, targeting energy and transport infrastructure used to support the Ukrainian Armed Forces

🟠 Russian forces continue clearing the settlements of Dimitrov and Grishino located north-east and north-west to Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk) from remaining Ukrainian militants

🟠 Russian air and missile forces struck a Ukrainian military airfield, fuel depots and temporary deployment points of Ukrainian troops and mercenaries in 140 areas

🟠 Air defense superiority: two guided aerial bombs, four long-range Neptune missiles and 172 UAVs were shot down by Russian air defense systems over the past 24 hours

🟠 Ukrainian losses: around 1,350 troops killed or wounded

Read about origins of Russia's special military op HERE

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🚨 Panicky EU stifling free speech on X?

EU bureaucrats suddenly got as much support in the poll he launched on X as Elon Musk, says Russia’s special presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev.

👉 Initially, the voting was “96% for Elon and 4% for Brussels,” he writes on the social media platform.
However, “off the charts bot presence” is distorting the results.

“They interfere in polls just as they interfere in the elections.”

The free speech poll followed a move by the European Commission to fine X roughly $139.7 million for ostensibly breaching transparency obligations.

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📊🇩🇪 German Merz hits record disapproval rating amid country's militarization push

Around 2/3 of Germans disapprove of Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s work, Bild reports, citing INSA research institute data.

About 70% of German citizens are dissatisfied with the government’s work, the outlet adds.

💬 "These are the worst values ever recorded for the chancellor and his government," INSA head Hermann Binkert said, as quoted by Bild.

Merz's ratings are in free fall as Germany pushes for military and financial aid to Ukraine amid an economic crisis, harsh connoscription law and attempts to militarize itself to become the "strongest army in Europe," per its chancellor.

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💸 Trump Jr.: Corrupt Ukraine regime lacks ‘incentive for peace’

In Monaco, “50% of the supercars… have Ukrainian plates,” says Donald Trump Jr. at the Doha Forum 2025.

💬 “Do we think that was actually earned in Ukraine?” he queries.

Weighing into the massive unfolding Ukraine corruption scandal, he adds:

💬 “They let what they believed to be the peasant class fight these wars. And there was no incentive to stop because as long as the money train was coming and they were stealing it and no one was auditing anything, the leaders, the decision makers, there was no reason for them to ever come to peace.”

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🇫🇷🇨🇳 Macron threatens China with EU tariffs — without realizing who’d really suffer (spoiler: the EU itself)

The EU may slap tariffs on Chinese goods, following the US model, if Beijing doesn’t address its trade deficit with Europe, Macron told Les Echos.

He said France has already discussed next steps with EC chief Ursula von der Leyen and claimed he still believes a peaceful resolution to the trade spat is possible.

The chest-thumping comes just days after Macron met Xi Jinping in China.

The EU is drowning in corruption scandals and losing US backing — and now picking a fight with China is supposed to be a good idea?

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🗣🇺🇸 Kellogg: US won’t put ‘boots on the ground’ in Ukraine

Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, ruled out the possibility of sending American troops to Ukraine during a discussion panel at the Ronald Reagan National Defense Forum.

🔊 Kellogg also suggested that there remain the “last 10 meters” of trying to end this conflict, and it was “really down to a couple of issues” central to a peace deal: the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic and the status of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant.

Russia has repeatedly emphasized that foreign troops in Ukraine would be legitimate targets.

👉 There’s no excuse for NATO troops in Ukraine even under a peace deal, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin underscored.

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