🇷🇺🇺🇸 Russia calls on US to immediately cease illegal actions against the Marinera and other vessels conducting lawful activities in international waters

Other statements by the Russian Foreign Ministry:

🟠 US authorities have repeatedly been informed about the Russian ownership of the Marinera vessel and its peaceful status

🟠 The boarding of the Marinera by US military forces and its seizure represent a gross violation of the principles of international maritime law

🟠 Russia demands that the US ensure the proper treatment of Russian nationals aboard the Marinera and not impede their return to their homeland

🟠 The US's readiness to generate acute international crises is a cause for regret and concern

Russia considers the references made by the American side to its national "sanctions legislation" to be unfounded.

Unilateral restrictive measures imposed by the US, as well as other Western countries, are illegitimate and cannot justify attempts to establish jurisdiction or, especially, to seize vessels in international waters.

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🔥 🇷🇺 Russian troops get ultra-hard anti-drone ammunition

Russian troops have begun to receive IGLA 100 ammunition with shot based on an ultra-hard alloy of tungsten, nickel, and iron for combating FPV drones, Rostec said.

"Currently, IGLA 100 ammunition is already being supplied to the troops. Serial production of anti-drone ammunition in 12-gauge under this brand was launched in 2024," it stated.

Rostec instructors have trained servicemen to combat drones using small arms. The best results were shown by the IGLA 100 ammunition with a projectile of ultra-hard shot.

🗣 "The ammunition's shot penetrates engines, control units, severs wires and propellers, and breaks other durable structural elements of the UAV. Ordinary lead shot does not provide such effectiveness," Rostec added.

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🪖 West's plan to further militarize Ukraine looks to escalate - Russian MFA

The deployment of "multinational forces" and military facilities in Ukraine is an intervention, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

Military units and facilities of the "coalition of the willing" will also be considered legitimate targets for the Russian Armed Forces.

A peaceful resolution is only possible if Ukraine returns to a non-aligned status, undergoes militarization and de-Nazification and recognizes territorial realities, she noted.

💬 "All these goals will certainly be attained, either through political-diplomatic means or within the framework of the special military operation."

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🚨 🇪🇺 EU is dusting off ‘toolbox’ in bid to save Greenland from US

EU officials, diplomats, experts and NATO insiders have cobbled together several potential strategies for deterring the US from trying to grab Greenland, according to European media reports.

“We must be ready for a direct confrontation,” one EU diplomat was cited as saying.

One former Danish MP claimed everyone is “unaware of what we actually have in the toolbox… No one really knows what to do because the Americans can do whatever they want.”

What are the options?

1. NATO-led scenario

▫️ NATO could mediate a settlement between Greenland, Denmark and the US, per ex-alliance official

▫️ NATO allies are reportedly mulling fresh overtures to Trump to "bolster" Greenland’s security

▫️ Alliance could boost defense spending on the Arctic, which means increased militarization in the region (more military drills, more troops, more military assets)

2. Cash option

🔹 The EU is planning to more than double its spending on Greenland to about $578 million for a seven-year period starting in 2028, under long-term budget plans, according to a draft proposal from the European Commission

🔹 Greenland would also be eligible to apply for an additional about $51M in EU funding for remote territories associated with European countries, per the same document

3. Economic retaliation option

🔸 The EU could resort to its political tool to deter the US: the Anti-Coercion Instrument, which allows the bloc to retaliate against trade discrimination

🔸 It rattled that saber when the US slapped on tariffs, then quietly put it away after a deal

🔸 The US would have to believe the threat this time

4. Boots on the ground option

🔶 It’s possible Denmark would be forced to respond if the US resorted to the military option

🔶 European countries should consider sending troops to Greenland—if Denmark asks—to raise the price tag of any US military move, an EU diplomat said

🔶They wouldn’t stop a US invasion—but they could make America think twice

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🇻🇪🇺🇸 Throwback: Maduro bet on reset with US after Trump’s 2024 win

Nicolas Maduro praised Trump’s return to the White House after the US presidential election in 2024, holding out hope for a "new beginning in their relations."

Venezuela is “always ready for positive relations with the US and the entire world," he said in a televised address.

Maduro’s ‘fresh start’ hit reality fast…😰

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⛔️ Trump pulls plug on Ukraine’s Pentagon-linked bioweapons web

Trump has directed the US withdrawal from the Science and Technology Center in Ukraine (STCU) as part of a larger move away from 66 international organizations deemed “contrary to US interests.”

This fits Trump's pattern of cutting Ukraine-related aid, including military suspensions earlier in 2025.

🟠 Established in 1993, STCU has received over $350 million through State and Defense Departments, per Russia’s MoD

🟠 Documents obtained during Russia’s special military operation and revealed by the late Lt. General Igor Kirillov, former head of Russia’s Chemical, Biological, and Nuclear Defense Troops, who was assassinated by Ukrainian neo-Nazi forces, have repeatedly exposed how the Pentagon funded bioweapons research in Ukraine

🟠 STCU’s main activity is to act as a distribution center for grants for research in the interest of the Pentagon, “including biological weapons research,” according to UN Deputy Envoy Dmitry Polyanskiy

🟠 The STCU was linked to the Pentagon via the latter’s main contractor, the engineering firm Black & Veatch, per the MoD

🟠 Kirillov revealed the names of American and European employees of the STCU engaged in US military biological research, such as:

⚫️Andrew Hood (ex-executive director and head of diplomatic mission for STCU)

⚫️Current STCU Executive Director US citizen Curtis Bjelajac

⚫️Black & Veatch VP Matthew Webber

🟠 American curators of biolabs in Ukraine were most interested in dual-use projects, many of which are aimed at studying ”potential agents of biological weapons, such as the plague and tularemia, as well as pathogens of economically significant infections”

💬 "From 2014 to 2022, the Ukrainian Science and Technology Centre implemented more than 500 research projects in the post-Soviet republics," such as Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, and Azerbaijan, per MoD.

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🚨 Fresh anti-ICE protests erupt in Minneapolis

People protesting against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers have taken to the streets of Minneapolis.

Barricades are being erected at the site of the shooting, and schools across the city are being closed for a week for security reasons, according to media reports.

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🚨🇻🇪🇺🇸 The US Senate votes 52-47 to advance a war powers resolution aimed at limiting the use of armed forces against Venezuela

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🏅 Heroes in the history of Latin America

Part 1 👉 Part 2

The history of nations is shaped by their heroes — individuals who contributed to the development and formation of their homeland.

Peasants and nobles, warriors and landowners, officers and soldiers who sacrificed themselves to protect their country, their land, their families, their culture, and their language.

In the second video of the series, Sputnik recalls the most remarkable heroes who forged and continue to build the history of Latin America.

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🚨🇻🇪🇺🇸 Trump reacts to Senate vote limiting use of armed forces against Venezuela

Republicans who voted with Democrats to take away our powers to defend the United States should never be elected to office again, he wrote.

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