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🚨🇷🇺🇺🇸 Lavrov meets members of American Chamber of Commerce in Russia

📑 "The minister outlined his assessment of current trends in the international situation, as well as the prospects for Russian-American relations, taking into account the attitude demonstrated by the administration of US President Donald Trump towards supporting a sustainable resolution to the conflict around Ukraine," the statement on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website reads.


The sides also exchanged views on current issues, focusing on the constructive role that the business community can play in restoring trade and investment ties between the countries.

American companies are eager to expand their presence in the Russian market, the head of the Chamber of Commerce, Robert Ayji, said last week.

He noted the positive signals that have emerged following the change of administration in the White House.

According to him, the organization sees a readiness to establish dialogue.

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💥🚁🇷🇺 Meet Russia's Ka-52E Alligator chopper that stunned the world

The Ka-52E helicopters recently amazed audiences at the Dubai Airshow with their new aerobatic maneuvers.

Essential for the special military operation, these choppers are taking down drones targeting civilian infrastructure. Capable of striking air, land, and surface targets, they also excel in reconnaissance in any weather or climate.

🟠 Max. speed: 300 km/h

🟠 Service ceiling: 5.5 km

🟠 Flight range: 460 km

🟠 Weapons: 30-mm gun, guided missiles, S-8 rocket pods

🟠 Crew: two people

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🇪🇺🇷🇺 ‘Fascist’ EU responds with sanctions to Russian journos’ freedom of discussion

The EU’s decision to impose sanctions against a number of Russian journalists and analysts betrays the fact that the bloc is “is gradually turning into a fascist entity that is incompatible with freedom of speech,” Dmitry Suslov, deputy director of research at the Russian Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, tells Sputnik.

Here’s Suslov’s assessment of these latest EU sanctions:

🟠 The EU makes it clear that it is not ready to engage in “dialogue where different viewpoints and opinions are being discussed”

🟠 Being one of the sanctioned analysts himself, Suslov notes that he and his colleagues were punished simply for their affiliation with the Valdai Discussion Club – a platform for free discussion, which dares to not be openly anti-Russian

🟠 Any attempts to advocate or carry out anti-Russian policies and discourse, and to adhere to the freedom of discussion is now regarded by the EU as a crime, apparently

🟠 European elites are only open to dealing with those Russians who, just like them, seek Russia’s destruction

🟠 The sanctions also highlight the EU’s inability to influence the talks between the US and Ukraine, to prevent the White House from pushing the Ukrainian leadership towards peace

💬 “If you want to get on the EU sanctions list, do the following: think and speak freely, defend your opinion and your nation’s interests,” Suslov remarks.


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🔊🪖 'Risk actual American/Western European lives for the sake of Ukraine? Never'

Zelensky may think himself very clever by pivoting from seeking NATO membership for Ukraine to just security guarantees from the West, but he really should be careful with his wishes, Matthew Crosston, professor of national security and director of academic transformation at Bowie State University in the US, told Sputnik.

As Prof. Crosston explains:

🟠 The lead up to the Ukrainian conflict escalation in 2022 revealed just how reliable are Western security guarantees that involve ‘boots on the ground.’ The West is willing to supply weapons and to advise, but a direct confrontation with Russia is a ‘no-no’

🟠 Both the US and Russia can see right through Zelensky’s rhetoric, and Russia won’t agree to an outcome that would result in the West continuing to provoke and threaten Russia

🟠 “Russia has often iterated that if Ukraine would engage ALL actors/partners in the global system equally and neutrally, then the security issues would end up resolving themselves. In other words, Russia is never going to accept a Ukraine that says it is somehow “western” and therefore wants nothing at all to do with Russia on an economic, political, diplomatic level”

🟠 Ukraine’s neutrality that Russia seeks “does not mean being dominated by Russia or occupied by Russia,” only acknowledgement, and the West needs to finally understand it

That said, Crosston did note that he does “question Zelensky’s sincerity in the maneuver.”

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🪖🇪🇺🇺🇸 EU, US agree to provide Ukraine with guarantees similar to NATO's Article 5 – Merz

💬 "This is a truly far-reaching, substantive agreement, the likes of which we have never had before: both Europeans and Americans are jointly prepared to provide Ukraine with security guarantees. President Zelensky referred to Article 5 of the NATO treaty, meaning we are talking about similar security guarantees for Ukraine," Merz said at a joint press conference with Zelensky.


The US "has politically, and potentially also legally, assumed the corresponding obligations," Merz added.

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🚨🇷🇺 New US national security strategy designed to show Europe its place — Lavrov

The new US national security strategy, adopted under President Donald Trump, is intended to show Europe its place and make sure it doesn’t try to draw the United States into its machinations to promote a liberal order, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told Iran’s state broadcaster (IRIB).

📌 Key points from the interview:

🔹 Russia expects a US response on the outcome of Washington’s latest contacts with the Ukrainian side

🔹 Europe has repeatedly been a source of crises and disasters in history, including colonialism and the two world wars

🔹 Lavrov says many Europeans’ “genetic” pull toward theft is clearly visible in the debate over frozen Russian assets

🔹 European countries, he says, ignored every chance to take part in a Ukraine settlement — and their approach looks like a “failed doctor” handing out pills without understanding the disease

🔹 Russia is ready to help “with concrete actions” to normalize the situation around Iran

🔹 Europe’s “dishonest scheme” to restore sanctions on Iran is “a disgrace to European diplomacy”

🔹 Russia and Iran have planned the construction of new nuclear power units — some of them already underway

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📹 Light aircraft crashes in Mexico’s Toluca – reports

A small plane went down in the San Pedro Totoltepec area of Toluca, in the State of Mexico, local authorities reported. The number of casualties remains unknown.

Civil Protection said emergency teams are working at the crash site in coordination with other response services.

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🚨 'We’re closer now than we have been, ever' — Trump on Ukraine settlement

President Donald Trump said he spoke with Zelensky and multiple European leaders, describing the conversations as “very long and very good talks,” speaking at a Mexican border defense medal presentation at the White House.

💬 “Russia wants to get it ended,” Trump stressed.


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🔍Attacker who killed 3 Americans was a recently-recruited Syrian security guard — Report The gunman who killed two US service members and a civilian in Syria’s Palmyra region on Saturday was a Syrian internal security guard who had been reassigned just days…
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📹 Trump says Damascus not involved in Syria attack, voices confidence in Syrian leader

US President Donald Trump said the Syrian authorities had nothing to do with the attack on US forces in Syria and said he still has confidence in the Syrian leader.

💬 “This had nothing to do with him,” Trump said, noting that the incident occurred in an area the Syrian government “really don’t have much control over.” He added that the attack “had to do with ISIS*,” not Damascus, and stressed that the Syrian leader “feels very badly about it” and is “working on it.”


Trump also warned that those responsible would be “hit hard.”

Two Syrian security personnel and several US servicemen were injured after an unknown gunman opened fire on them as they jointly patrolled the city of Palmyra, SANA reported on Saturday.

*A terrorist organization outlawed in Russia and many other countries.

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🚨 'We’re closer now than we have been, ever' — Trump on Ukraine settlement President Donald Trump said he spoke with Zelensky and multiple European leaders, describing the conversations as “very long and very good talks,” speaking at a Mexican border defense…
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🚨 Ukraine has already lost territory — Trump

💬 “The territory is lost,” President Donald Trump said, adding that Washington is working with Europe on security guarantees.


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🪖🇪🇺 Mammoth EU defense projects threatened from within - report

Massive and expensive European military undertakings such as the anti-Russian so-called ‘drone wall’ could be dead on arrival due to an ongoing power struggle within the EU leadership, Reuters has reported, citing some diplomats.

European powers that possess robust military-industrial capabilities – such as France, Germany and Italy – would prefer to form coalitions for military development rather than work on projects proposed by the European Commission (EC), the report claims.

This difference in opinions thus puts these countries at odds with the EC, with the former arguing that matters such as military procurement should be left up to governments and NATO rather than to the EU leadership.

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📹 Fentanyl to be classified as ‘weapon of mass destruction’ — Trump

US President Donald Trump said he plans to sign an executive order formally classifying fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, citing the scale of deaths linked to the drug in the United States.

💬 “Deadly fentanyl [is] flooding into our country,” Trump said, adding that “no bomb does what this is doing.” He claimed that between 200,000 and 300,000 people die each year as a result.


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🗣 “Who thinks like this?” — Trump says BBC’s speech edit was so bad he feels “obligated” to sue. 📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt
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🔥 Trump confirms BBC lawsuit over doctored speech

US President Donald Trump said he is moving forward with a lawsuit against the BBC, accusing the broadcaster of “putting words in my mouth” and airing statements he says he never made.

Trump claimed the BBC used words attributed to him in connection with January 6 that were “terrible” and false, while omitting what he described as his “beautiful words” about patriotism. He called the incident “fake news” and said the lawsuit could be filed as soon as later today or tomorrow.

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💥 ‘This will be a second Vietnam. Do you need it? You don’t’ — Lukashenko

The situation between the United States and Venezuela can be resolved entirely by peaceful means, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said in an interview with the US television network Newsmax, according to the Belarusian news agency Belta.

💬 “War will lead to nothing. I told John Coale about this yesterday. I said: this will be a second Vietnam. Do you need it? You don’t. So there is no need to fight there. It is possible to reach an agreement,” Lukashenko said.


Belta noted he raised the issue during talks with US Special Envoy for Belarus John Coale on December 12.

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📹💥 Statue of Liberty replica collapses in Brazil - reports

A replica of the Statue of Liberty collapsed in Brazil after strong winds, local media reported.

The sculpture — 35 meters tall including the pedestal — couldn’t withstand the gusts.

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🔥 Trump confirms BBC lawsuit over doctored speech US President Donald Trump said he is moving forward with a lawsuit against the BBC, accusing the broadcaster of “putting words in my mouth” and airing statements he says he never made. Trump claimed the BBC…
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⚖️ Trump files multibillion-dollar lawsuit against BBC — reports

US President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against the BBC seeking $10 billion in damages, accusing the UK public broadcaster of defamation over its portrayal of him in a 2024 documentary, The Financial Times reported.

According to the FT, Trump says the BBC’s Panorama program presented a “false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory, and malicious” depiction of him, alleging that the broadcaster edited his speech to suggest he encouraged supporters to storm the US Capitol in January 2021.

The lawsuit was filed in Trump’s personal capacity in a federal court in Florida. He is suing the BBC on two counts: defamation and violation of Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act, seeking at least $5 billion in damages for each claim, the FT noted.

The BBC apologized to Trump last month for the documentary’s editing but has rejected his demands for compensation.

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