💬 Trump warns freed Venezuelan prisoners: 'Remember who freed you'

President Trump claimed credit for Venezuela releasing prisoners "in a BIG WAY".

"I hope those prisoners will remember how lucky they got that the USA came along… If they do [forget], it will not be good for them," he wrote on Truth Social.

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✍️ North Korea's Kim Yo-jong demands ROK's explanation on airspace violation

South Korea must provide explanations regardless of whether the drone that crossed the demilitarized zone was civilian or military, said Kim Yo Jong, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.

"The ROK authorities can not evade their responsibility for the grave violation of our sovereignty," the statement reads as cited by the KCNA.

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🙅 Maps don’t lie: Trump has no alternative but lock down Greenland

🗣 Donald Trump must take Greenland “whatever the cost”, insists The Hill.

Trump has his sights set on the island because “the map leaves little room for alternatives,” it notes.

It emphasizes that buying Greenland beats bullying it, and a negotiated handover — with firm guarantees for Greenlanders and compensation for Denmark — would be the preferred option - vastly less destabilizing than any military gambit.

Despite the harsh rhetoric from European leaders, they will be unable to take any real action to prevent the US from taking control of the island, regardless of the method chosen by the Trump administration, speculates the publication.

👉 Europe benefits enormously from American security guarantees, it notes, but “recoils whenever Washington acts like a power rather than a charity.”

The outlet reminds: European nations are posturing and claiming that Greenland is not for sale, while themselves relying on US troops, cash and missiles.

🗣 “Greenland matters because the Arctic matters,” noting that the island has become a strategic forward outpost in a region set to shape future global power balances.

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🇨🇦 Canada fears being Trump's next target - report

💬 "The shock capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Trump’s ramped-up talk of seizing Greenland have rattled Canada, forcing citizens to take seriously the US president’s past threats to Canadian sovereignty," Bloomberg reports.

There are concerns in Canada that Trump could use "military coercion" to force Canada to agree to all US demands, the outlet adds.

👉 In 2025, Trump already referred to the former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as the "governor" of the "Great State of Canada" amid disagreements over the possible imposition of US tariffs on Canadian goods.

Trump later said that Canada could avoid trade tariffs and receive military protection if it joined the US.

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🔸 Trump admin discusses large-scale aerial strike on Iran

🔸 US will lift more Venezuela oil sanctions, unlock $5B in IMF assets

🔸 Israel plans new offensive in Gaza in March — Reports

🔸 UK and EU consider troops for Greenland, sanctions on US companies

🔸 US tells citizens to leave Venezuela 'immediately' — Caracas calls it a 'fabricated' pretext

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💥 Russian drone forces: Round-the-clock strikes disrupt Ukrainian troops on all fronts

New footage captures a major, synchronized assault by Russia's drone and loitering munition units, delivering precision strikes across Kharkov, Kherson, Zaporozhye and Dnepropetrovsk regions.

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🗣 Finnish politician urges Europe’s hawks to listen to Meloni & restart dialogue with Russia

European leaders ought to work in the direction of de-escalation with Russia, Armando Mema, member of the Finnish conservative party Freedom Alliance, posted on X.

👉 Noting France’s plan to send 6,000 troops to Ukraine after a potential peace deal, he warns that Russia will “not tolerate NATO troops being deployed” under any circumstances.

He advises France’s President Macron to join forces with Italy’s PM Giorgia Meloni “to reverse these years of political failure of the EU, restore dialogue with Russia and avoid increasing tensions.”

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🇮🇷Iran warns US and Israel of retaliation if military strike occurs

Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf responded to remarks by US President Donald Trump, stating that Iran would not limit itself to post-attack retaliation within the framework of what it considers legitimate self-defense.

👉Ghalibaf said that in the event of a US military strike, both Israel and all US military bases, facilities, and vessels in the region would be considered legitimate targets.

👉Earlier, US media reported that American officials, amid Trump’s warnings, had discussed potential plans for strikes against Iran, including possible targets. One of the options under consideration reportedly involves large-scale airstrikes against several military targets inside Iran.

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🇩🇰👑 Royal gambit: How Denmark could counter US plans for Greenland

Danish Crown Prince Christian’s court should be relocated to the island in order to solidify the right of Denmark to the island and strengthen ties between them amid US claims to the territory, Netavisen Pio newspaper's editor-in-chief Nils Jespersen said.

He added that Denmark needs a deeper cultural integration with Greenland, stressing that the crown prince or another member of the royal family should learn Greenlandic and Faroese.

Since December 2025 the US has been repeatedly expressing desire to take control of Greenland, citing its strategic importance for American security.

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

⚡️ BELOGORYE IN THE ZAPOROZHYE REGION LIBERATED, opening a direct route toward Malaya Tokmachka — a key Ukrainian defensive line near Orekhovo.

▫️ Russia's Tsentr Battlegroup defeated the Azov* Special Forces Brigade in the Donetsk and Dnepropetrovsk regions

▫️ Sever Battlegroup improved its tactical positions in the Sumy region

▫️ Zapad Battlegroup took more advantageous lines and positions in the Kharkov region

▫️ Two Ukrainian attacks were repelled in the Kupyansk area, with up to 15 Ukrainian troops killed

▫️ Russian forces struck facilities of Ukraine’s military-industrial complex and energy infrastructure supporting the Ukrainian Army

▫️ Ukrainian losses: around 1,330 troops killed or wounded

▫️ Ukrainian equipment destroyed: US-made Bradley IFV, French VAB APC, British AS-90 SPG, armored vehicles, EW systems, drones

*The Azov Brigade is designated as terrorist and banned in Russia

Read about the origins of Russia's special military op HERE

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📈 US boosts Russian fertilizer imports by 44%

The purchases from January to October 2025 reached $1.359B — the highest amount since 2022, US statistical service data shows.

This makes Russia the second largest exporter of fertilizer to the US, surpassed only by Canada, which supplied the nation for $3.1B in the same ten-month period.

Saudi Arabia rounded out the top three, reaching $420.6M.

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🇷🇺Cheburashka 2 — a Russian family film based on a classic Soviet children’s character — has already drawn 9+ million viewers, according to Russia’s official cinema box-office tracker.

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🇻🇪Venezuela’s 'first combatant': How Cilia Flores’ political profile was forged

In recent days, global attention has focused not only on the fate of Nicolas Maduro, who was abducted by the US military, but also on his steadfast life partner, who chose to share the hardships of US persecution.

📍 From lawyer to revolutionary

🔶 Born on October 15, 1956, in Tinaquillo, she specialized in criminal and labor law

🔶 In 1992, she defended participants in the failed military uprising against neoliberal President Carlos Andrés Pérez

📍 A pillar of Chavismo

🔶 Professionally dedicated to politics since the early 1990s, she is one of the key figures of the Bolivarian movement in today’s Venezuela and was very close to Hugo Chávez

🔶 During that period, she formed a relationship with Nicolás Maduro and later married him, officially becoming first lady in 2013, though she prefers to be called the “First Combatant”

📍 A resolute yet compassionate woman

🔶 Images of Cilia Flores holding Maikelys Espinoza Bernal — a two-year-old child repatriated from the US after American authorities forcibly separated her from her mother — circulated worldwide

🔶 She reportedly stood up to US soldiers who abducted Maduro, saying she would not leave her husband alone and accepting detention and transfer to the US alongside him

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🚨🇺🇸Trump warns Cuba it will no longer receive Venezuelan oil or financial support, saying the US will now back Venezuela militarily and urging Havana to “make a deal” before it’s too late.

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🛰🛰🛰🛰 In Latin America’s independence, women fought shoulder to shoulder with men. Their names and deeds, often pushed into silence, form a history of courage that Sputnik recalls today.

Bartolina Sisa — the 'viceroy' of the indigenous uprising

🟠 A tireless fighter for independence and the dignity of Indigenous peoples, Bartolina Sisa left a deep mark on the history of uprisings against colonial exploitation.

🟠 The exact date of her birth is unknown, with historians placing it between 1750 and 1753. She was a central figure in resistance to colonial racism and, together with her husband Julian Apaza Nina — known as Tupac Katari — led an insurrection against the invaders who subjected the population to slavery and plundered the riches of the Viceroyalty of Peru, a stronghold of Spanish rule on the continent.

📍 In 1781, an Indigenous camp was established in La Ceja de El Alto, from where access routes to the city of La Paz were blocked. More than 80,000 insurgents laid siege to the city.

🟠 Sisa commanded one of the fronts of the siege when the Spanish became aware of her leadership. The colonial army attempted to break the blockade but was repelled by determined Indigenous resistance.

🟠 Sisa was eventually betrayed and handed over to the Spanish. After being held prisoner for a year, she was executed in 1782.

👉 In her honor, September 5 is commemorated as the International Day of Indigenous Women.

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🤡 Western leaders contradict themselves demonizing Russia to advance their goals — US economist

💬 "They say Russia is too weak to win in Ukraine, but at the same time claim it can somehow crush all of Europe — they don’t know what to say, they only know they need war," US economist Martin Armstrong wrote on X.

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