🚨 Witkoff praises progress made in recent weeks on Ukraine settlement

💬 "I know we have made more progress in the last six or seven weeks since Geneva than we have made in the last three or four years," US Envoy Steve Witkoff told Bloomberg.

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🚨Witkoff says Ukraine peace deal 90% done

“I think we’ve made even more significant improvement,” US special envoy Steve Witkoff told Bloomberg.

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🇫🇷 Fewer listen to France - EU lawmaker

💬 "The loss of Paris's influence on the international stage is obvious: fewer and fewer people listen to France's voice, and it is often simply ignored," European MP Thierry Mariani told Sputnik Africa.

While Macron talks about Europe's strategic sovereignty, according to Mariani, "it's more rhetoric and intentions than real actions."

💬 "Europe – and especially France – must realize that, paradoxically, their interests lie in turning toward Russia. Despite current disagreements, Russia has raw materials, shares a civilization with France and Europe, and can offer interesting partnerships for French industry and the French market," he explains.

🗣 "Looking at reality, I wonder if the sanctions we imposed haven't hurt us more than Russia," the MP concludes.

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🔥 Russian TOS-1A Solntsepyok crew wipes out Ukrainian fortified post with underground shelters & extensive system of firing positions in Zaporozhyers

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🇺🇸A bad US economy would hit the whole world, Trump tells Davos

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🚨Trump tells Davos he respects the people of Greenland and Denmark — but says only the US can protect the island

Other statements on Greenland:

🔶 Trump says does not want to use force in the context of Greenland;

🔶A lot of things will happen in Greenland in the event of a potential war, "missiles would be flying right over the center of that piece of ice"

🔶 Greenland falls within the “perimeter” of US territories because it is part of the Western hemisphere

🔶 US claims regarding Greenland are incomparably smaller than everything it has done for its NATO allies;

🔶The United States saved Greenland during WW2, but then acted foolishly by “giving” the island back to Denmark afterward

🔶Greenland is needed by the United States not because of its natural resources, but for strategic national and international security;

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🇺🇸 Trump at Davos: In a Greenland war, missiles would fly “right over the center of that piece of ice”

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🇺🇸 Trump’s statements at WEF 2026 in Davos

📍 Speaking at the World Economic Forum, US President Donald Trump delivered a wide-ranging address on the US economy, the direction of Europe, energy policy, NATO and his push to annex Greenland.

Key statements:

🟠 The US is the economic engine of the world and “when America booms, the entire world booms”

🟠 The US has almost zero inflation and high economic growth after his first year back in office

🟠 The European Union is not going in the right direction, and some parts of it are “not even recognizable”

🟠 The US will split the sale price of 50 million barrels of Venezuelan oil with the country’s government, which will make Caracas “a lot of money” in the next six months

🟠 Trump wants the EU and the UK to “do great,” but they are not using the strong energy sources they have

🟠 He respects Denmark and its territory Greenland but says only the US can defend the island

🟠 The US “should have kept” Greenland after occupying it during World War II rather than “return” the island to Denmark

🟠 Trump wants talks over US acquisition of Greenland

🟠 He says the US will not seize Greenland by force, but the US must own it to defend it

🟠 The US is cheated by NATO, giving much and getting little in return

🟠 Canada is also ungrateful and only survives thanks to the US

🟠 The US has the best arms and will produce them even faster

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📹Trump repeats claim of 'white genocide' in South Africa

👉Asked what would change his mind, US President Donald Trump said killings were "taking place," giving figures and referring to cases.

👉Human rights organizations, including the UN and Amnesty International, have rejected claims racially-driven murders of white South Africans.

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🤔🇺🇸 What's behind US ‘secret sonic weapon’?

👉 Trump recently said that the US military may have used a unique advanced “secret sonic” armament during its abduction of Nicolas Maduro.

💬 “It’s not a secret weapon at all because it has been known for a long time,” veteran Russian military analyst Viktor Litovkin revealed in an interview with Sputnik.

🟠 Weapon “belongs to the class of non-lethal armament, which don’t kill but incapacitate a person for a certain period of time and is typically used to disperse demonstrations in the US and Europe”

🟠 This “sonic or acoustic weapon is a high-frequency modulation of a sound wave that's inaudible to the human ear and can hit the eardrums, the nerves, the brain very hard, sometimes vomiting, fainting, and so on”

🟠 “All of this has been known for a long time. The US’ desire to present wishful thinking as reality is simply its style. There is nothing secret about this weapon”

📍 The analyst doesn’t rule out that during the military operation to capture Maduro, the US used this acoustic weapon in combination with electronic warfare systems and electromagnetic pulses, which “literally burn out electronics.”

🇷🇺 Russia, in turn, possesses a range of advanced hypersonic systems that have no analogues in the US, Litovkin recalls:

◻️ Hypersonic Oreshnik system (range: up to 5,500 km, equipped with at least six warheads moving at a speed of Mach 10–11each)

◻️ Kinzhal air-launched hypersonic missile with a range of up to 2,500 km. It is impossible to intercept

◻️ Avangard strategic hypersonic glide vehicle with a speed of up to Mach 27, meaning the system cannot be intercepted

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