🇷🇺 FM Lavrov: The US is signaling a need for new talks on strategic stability, but no direct expert-level contacts are taking place

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🇷🇺 Lavrov on Trump’s invitation to the Gaza 'Peace Council': Russia is interested in any opportunity to resolve the Palestinian issue

Without the creation of a Palestinian state, the Middle East cannot achieve stability, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says.

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🇷🇺 Lavrov: Russia ready to assist on non-aggression talks

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said contacts on non-aggression guarantees took place at the initiative of both Iran and Israel, stressing that Russia does not impose its mediation but responds when asked to help.

He also noted that Israeli leadership shows little willingness to withdraw its forces from both Lebanese territory and the Gaza Strip.

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🇷🇺 Lavrov: Europe and Zelensky are avoiding any final settlement to keep military pressure on Russia

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🇷🇺 FM Lavrov: Europe has sought Russia’s strategic defeat since the 19th century

He adds that Europe is the source of many of today’s problems.

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🇷🇺 Lavrov sums up Russian diplomacy in 2025

At a press conference reviewing Russian diplomacy over the past year, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov outlined Moscow’s views on key global and regional developments:

🔸 If the West wants to talk to itself "by its own rules," that is its choice, but Russia will act on the basis of equality and principles

🔸 The goal of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia is still on European leaders’ minds

🔸 The West seeks regime change in Iran

🔸 The US perpetrated a 'blatant armed invasion' of Venezuela and now threatens Cuba and other Latin American countries

🔸 Global rules have been swept aside and replaced with "might makes right" approach

🔸 Russia does not claim others' lawful rights and will not allow its own rights to be trampled

🔸 European leaders are seriously preparing for war with Russia

🔸 The need for a Palestinian state remains relevant, including in the context of US President Donald Trump's 'Peace Council' initiative

🔸 Russia has received concrete proposals on the 'Peace Council,' reflecting US recognition of the need for international cooperation

🔸 The EU again seeks to build a security framework against Russia, now involving Ukraine

🔸 Reaching agreement with current European leaders may be impossible

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🚨🇮🇳🇷🇺 Russia’s 100% import-free SJ-100 to fly to India soon: Industry and Trade Ministry

The international civil aviation exhibition Wings India 2026 will take place at Begumpet Airport in India from 28 to 31 January.

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

⚡️ In response to attacks on civilian targets in Russia, the Russian Armed Forces launched a massive overnight strike using long-range precision weapons and attack drones

The targets included:

🟠 Ukrainian military industrial facilities

🟠 Energy facilities, and transport infrastructure used by the Ukrainian forces

🟠 Ammunition depots, and long-range unmanned aerial vehicle production centers

▫️ Russian forces hammered 158 Ukrainian command posts used by Kiev's military units and foreign mercenaries

▫️ Air defense superiority: 5 HIMARS projectiles and 254 drones shot down

▫️ Ukrainian losses: around 1,240 troops killed or wounded

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

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🇺🇸🇪🇺 Rift with US on Ukraine exposes Europe’s ‘strategically incoherent’ foreign policy - expert

👉 Foreign Minister Lavrov’s assessment that the US “is now the ‘only Western power willing to tackle the root causes’ of the Ukraine conflict is a calculated acknowledgement of a seismic change,” says geopolitical analyst Marco Marsili, recalling that for Russia, these ‘root causes’ are about NATO expansion.

🔶 For Ukraine, “this shift is an existential diplomatic earthquake,” as the Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon researcher puts it, signaling intense pressure from the US, Kiev’s primary patron, cutting down its maximalist goals of total victory, and forcing it to admit that “concessions are inevitable.”

🔶 For Europe, the shift “exposes a profound failure of strategy,” with the Europeans’ slavish “strategic dependency” backfiring, and creating a “potentially paralyzing” strategic bind, with Europe refusing to make peace with Russia, but simultaneously lacking “the unified command, logistical spine, and nuclear deterrent to seriously fill the vacuum left by a distancing United States.”

💬 “The bind is thus twofold: they cannot effectively confront Russia without America, nor can they easily accept America’s new terms for peace, which may legitimize spheres of influence they have spent decades rejecting. The result is strategic incoherence,” Marsili summed up.

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🇺🇸 Trump’s Gaza peace council: another sign of emerging world order?

📍 The US president’s proposals for a Gaza ‘Peace Council’ with Russian involvement “is a hallmark of the emerging Trumpian era: pragmatic, ad-hoc, and deliberately outside established multilateral channels,” Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon researcher Marco Marsili told Sputnik.

💬 “It represents a move away from consensus-based, inclusive institutions burdened by bureaucracy and ideological divides (like the OSCE or the UN) towards flexible, result-oriented frameworks controlled by a handful of powerful actors. Its success or failure will be judged solely on outcomes in Gaza, not on process.”

🔊 EU countries’ refusal to join the proposed peace council “cuts to the heart of the emerging world order,” Marsili says.

Dissenters “risk marginalization not from the ‘international community’ as an abstract concept, but from the key corridors where power and deals are now concentrated. The new order is not built on universal membership but on networks of influence and transactional agreements. Non-participation means ceding agenda-setting power to others.”

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🇫🇷 Macron to Trump in Davos: “This new colonial approach makes no sense”

🔹 Speaking at Davos Forum in Switzerland on Tuesday, Emmanuel Macron said France and Europe must choose sovereignty over the “law of the strongest” as Washington eyes Greenland.

🔹 Ironically, Macron echoed his earlier statement made in 2018 after tense talks with Trump. Back then, Trump lambasted Macron's suggestion to build a European army.

💬 "The United States is our historic ally and will continue to be. It's the ally with which we take all the risks, with which we carry out the most complicated operations. But being an ally doesn't mean being a vassal state," Macron said.

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🗣 OSCE’s decline into irrelevance is ‘a clinical diagnosis’ - expert

📍 Foreign Minister Lavrov’s characterization of the Organization for Security & Cooperation in Europe as a body that has hit “rock bottom” is, “unfortunately, a clinical diagnosis rather than mere polemic,” veteran geopolitical researcher Marco Marsili says.

🔊 “The single most important reason for its collapse is the total erosion of the foundational principle of ‘indivisible security’,” the academic said, pointing out that after the start of the Ukraine crisis in 2014, the principle of ‘interconnected’ security for all states from Vancouver to Vladivostok was lost.

The OSCE was turned into a platform for mutual recrimination, with its principle of consensus, “once a strength,” turned into “a tool for paralyzing the organization entirely.”

💬 “The OSCE is not beyond saving in theory, but it is in current practice. It can only be revived if its major members—principally Russia and the NATO states—recommit to a dialogue of equals on European security, which is presently unthinkable. For now, it serves as a museum piece of a bygone era of optimism, its mechanisms frozen in the ice of a new Cold War.”

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🇷🇺💪🏻Advanced Russian drones hit global stage at Abu Dhabi's UMEX 2026

For the first time ever, Russia’s Rosoboronexport arms exporter unveils its battle-proven, world-beating UAV lineup at UMEX 2026 exhibition, Director General Alexander Mikheev underscored.

Rosoboronexport is presenting drones and loitering munitions that are in highest demand on the global market, opening the door to export deliveries and technology cooperation:

🔶 The upgraded Lancet-E reconnaissance/strike UAV system, which includes the Z-16E reconnaissance UAV and Item 51E / Item 52E loitering munitions developed by ZALA Aero

🔶 The Kub-2-2E loitering munition, which is developed and manufactured by Kalashnikov Group and features an automatic guidance system refined through actual battlefield experience.

🔶 The Skat-350M & SuperCam S350: cutting-edge reconnaissance UAVs delivering crystal-clear intel and rapid deployment.

🔶 Lightweight reconnaissance beasts Karakurt and Goliath from Kalashnikov – perfect for soldier/squad/platoon level operations.

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🇷🇺As Crimea marks Republic Day on January 20, watch Sputnik’s video to see how the peninsula is developing today – from infrastructure and industry to social projects shaping everyday life.

Take a look at the region’s growth, modernization and the path it is charting for its future.

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