🇭🇺 Hungary aims for seamless energy ties with Russia - Szijjarto

Hungary and Russia need to work together to resist the “external pressures” that they face, Hungarian FM Peter Szijjarto told reporters in Moscow.

Other statements:

👉 Headquarters of Turkish Stream moves to Hungary

👉 Progress at Paks-2 is even better than expected, reinforced concrete installation, originally scheduled for January, will now begin next week

👉 Hungary’s PM Viktor Orban is determined to ensure unhindered energy relations between Hungary and Russia

👉 Hungary has paid a high price for the Ukraine conflict and is keen on restoring peace

👉 Hungary and Russia must protect oil and gas supplies amid Ukraine's attacks

Szijjarto arrived as part of a high-level delegation of Hungarian business leaders, including representatives of OTP Bank and energy company MOL, for the Russian-Hungarian Intergovernmental Commission (IGC).

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💰 Japan rebuffs EU scheme on frozen Russian assets

Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama ruled out using the roughly $30 billion worth of Russian assets due to legal concerns, two EU diplomats told media.

Several officials claim, however, that Japan’s stance aligns with the objections of its ally, the US, to the move.

👉 At the G7 meeting, the US indicated it will end support for Ukraine after completing the final installments of a 2024 G7-wide loan negotiated by the Biden administration, according to one EU diplomat.

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

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🗣 Ukraine crisis 'most concentrated expression' of European security demise — Valdai Club program chief

The flaws of the European security system formed in the late 1980s were never fixed, later "metastasizing" and leading to its crisis and demise, Valdai Club Program Director Ivan Timofeev has said at the Valdai Discussion Club conference "Security in Eurasia: From Concept to Practice."

💬 "The Ukrainian conflict that we are witnessing is the very nerve of this crisis—its essence, so to speak, its most concentrated expression," he explained.

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🇨🇳🇺🇸 China's 'near-peer' status in US strategy hides looming hot war threat - analyst

📍 The 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) may look softer on paper, recasting China from a “threat” into a “near-peer competitor” with seeming potential to “reshape” US-China relations, Dr. John Gong, economics professor at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, tells Sputnik.

But that is just a thin veneer of peaceful “palliatives,” according to China expert Jeff J. Brown.

👉 In reality, US allies “Japan, Taiwan, Philippines and Australia, are being armed for confrontation, and a hot war is still likely in the next 2-3 years,” says Brown, who is also founder of Seek Truth From Facts Foundation.

The US “still flogs the Asian Quad – “obviously structured to counter China militarily,” he notes, adding that the NSS:

🟠 insists on “arming Taiwan to the hilt, to counter China with ‘military overmatch“

🟠 pushes to “maintain military foothold in the South China Sea under flimsy pretext against China”

🟠 Australia, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea urged to “spend more on arms to ‘deter adversaries’ “which are obviously China, DPRK and Russia”

📍 US tariffs also remain in force.

‘Behind-the-scene rogue actors’

🔶 The CIA, US Departments of War and State, US Legislature, and Israel’s Mossad don’t want to relinquish the profits generated by forever wars, noted the expert.

💬 “These Western deep state actors learned a long time ago to ignore or sabotage any directives that threaten their filthy lucre,” he says.

No shift in West’s power pyramid

🟧 The US plans to keep its allies buying its weapons to “contain China,” believes Brown.

🟧 US “fealty” to the West’s war machine has been bought by billionaire donors who “don’t get richer with peace.”

🟧 Since 1963 and the presidency of John F. Kennedy, “no US president has been free to be ‘presidential’ in their governance, like Putin and Xi are.”

🟧 As far as China is concerned, it will likely “play to Trump’s megalomania,” while quietly prepping for a potential hot war.”

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🚨 Back to MAGA in US foreign policy: Digital Dugin Edition

America might ditch the world-police role, leaving Europe’s globalists in the dust.

AI Dugin unpacks the new National Security Strategy ☝️

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🇷🇺 Meet Russia’s cutting-edge Supercam S350 drone

A flagship of unmanned aerial systems, this recon drone is capable of obtaining and transmitting information from high altitude for several hours.

▫️ Flight speed: up to 120 km/h

▫️ Range: >240 km

▫️ Flight altitude: 150-5,000 m

▫️ Operating temperature: from -40°C to +45°C

Features:

▫️ Rapid assembly

▫️ Modular composition elements

▫️ Wing console jettison system for landing

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🇷🇺🇨🇳 Russia and China conduct joint air patrol over Pacific

▫️ Russia's Air and Space Forces, together with China's People's Liberation Army Air Force, have completed a joint air patrol over the Asia-Pacific region. The patrol, featuring Russian Tu-95MS strategic bombers and Chinese H-6K bombers, lasted about 8 hours, covering the Sea of Japan, East China Sea, and parts of the Pacific.

▫️ The mission, conducted in accordance with international law, involved fighter cover by Russian Su-30SM and Su-35S jets, alongside Chinese J-16s. The patrol was part of the 2025 military cooperation plan and posed no threat to third countries.

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🤑Silver price surpasses $60 per ounce for the first time in history

👉Futures for silver surged 3.02% on Tuesday, hitting a historic high of $60.17 per troy ounce.

❗️A landmark moment for the precious metal!

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🔸 Russia holds stronger negotiating position than Ukraine - Trump

🔸 Russian General Staff Chief: Taking control of Pokrovsk marks DECISIVE step in Donbass liberation

🔸 China's 'near-peer' status in US strategy hides looming hot war threat - analyst

🔸 Lavrov: Russia-Hungary trade growing despite EU actions

🔸 Ukraine crisis 'most concentrated expression' of European security demise — Valdai Club program chief

🔸 Back to MAGA in US foreign policy: Digital Dugin Edition

🔸 Russia and China conduct joint air patrol over Pacific

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🚨 Putin vows to achieve special military operation goals

💬 "We will certainly bring this matter to its logical conclusion, achieving the goals of the special military operation," Vladimir Putin said at a meeting of the Council for Civil Society and Human Rights.

He also promised to fully rebuild the settlements liberated during the operation, ensuring that "everything will be restored" for those affected.

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🇺🇸 US's shift to multipolar world could be blocked by deep state - historian

🗣 The US no longer desires to bear the burden of solving the world’s problems, like Atlas, Serbian historian Srdja Trifkovic tells Sputnik.

Even though the country’s updated national security strategy can be seen as a positive development for those advocating for a multipolar world and opposing Brussels’ bureaucracy, Trifkovic warns that the implementation of these plans could be obstructed by the “deep state.”

Trifkovic notes:

🔶 The basis of the new document was already laid out in JD Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Forum in February

🔶 Specifically, one of the core threats mentioned is Europe losing its identity due to the civilizational-demographic collapse

🔶 The strategy is still focused on Europe, but a Europe freed from the Brussels-Davos oligarchy for a return to its original form—a community of nations with no sovereignty violations or ideological dictate.

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💰 Bitcoin’s 2025 ‘make or break’ moment hinges on Fed’s 'cut or hold' move — analyst

Bitcoin has entered a renewed phase of volatility with the Federal Reserve at the cusp of an interest rate decision that would likely decide if the "crypto king" gets to finish the year in the black or the red, veteran markets analyst Adam Sarhan told Sputnik.

💬 "It’s make or break for bitcoin at this point, with just about three weeks left to the year. A Fed cut would undoubtedly bring calm across markets but a Fed hold could likely hammer bitcoin more than the average asset," he maintained.

Bitcoin has recently been battling to hold ground in the $90,000s. Year-to-date, it is down 3.5% after finishing 2024 up 120%

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🇺🇸🇪🇺 US shifts toward peace, but Europe clings to aggression—expert

🗣 The current US administration's vision seems to be shifting towards peace and de-escalation, with a focus on resolving conflicts in global hotspots, Egyptian international relations expert Muhammad Seyed Ahmad told Sputnik. Historically, Russia has built relationships with other countries based on cooperation, not colonialism.

💬 "In particular, this is reflected in Trump’s pursuit of peace in the Middle East, and one cannot overlook Washington’s mediation efforts to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza," he said.

🔶 Another example is the US plan to settle the conflict in Ukraine, which aligns with Russia’s position on the issue, he added.

🔶 Europe, however, still thinks in the hegemony and aggression paradigm, supporting the Ukrainian regime, so it doesn’t accept the idea of ending the conflict, the expert concluded.

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🚨🇷🇺 Russia’s VITYAZ beasts stole the show at Arctic2025

💬 “We don’t build transport. We build Arctic-dominating multi-role platforms,” Uralvagonzavod says via press release.

It's uniqueness is here:

▫️ 30-ton payload

▫️ -50°C? No problem

▫️ 700 km on one tank

▫️ Swims 6 km/h, climbs 1.5 m walls, floats over swamps like they’re highways

▫️ Ground pressure only 0.3 kg/cm² → doesn’t even bruise the tundra

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