🔹 Attack on Russian general: Zelensky could go to any lengths to woo Western handlers – expert

🔹 Attack on Alexeyev is obvious Ukrainian attempt to sabotage negotiations – expert

🔹 General Alexeyev shooting part of Ukrainian plan to wreck peace talks – experts

🔹 Testing trust in Iran–US nuclear talks as both sides assess intentions – Araghchi

🔹 Seven AfD members barred from entering Germany's Bundestag

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🚨 Ukraine's assassination plot makes it a 'state sponsor of terrorism' — Expert

International law professor Dr. Mohamed Mehran asserts that the foiled assassination of a Russian general reveals a Ukrainian conspiracy to sabotage peace talks and prolong the war. He notes the swift Russia-UAE cooperation that thwarted the attack sets a standard for counter-terrorism.

“The involvement of Ukrainian intelligence services in this operation effectively makes Ukraine a state sponsor of international terrorism,” Mehran told Sputnik.

The expert emphasized that targeting officials outside combat zones is a grave violation of international law, praising the UAE's compliance in extraditing the suspects.

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🗳 PM Takaichi's coalition wins supermajority in Japan snap election

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's coalition secured a supermajority in a snap election, paving the way for a radical shift toward militarization and deeper integration with US strategic goals.

Takaichi's Liberal Democratic Party alone secured 233 seats needed for a majority less than 2 hours after polls closed.

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✍️ Starmer's ship is being deserted — Dmitriev

"Starmer’s ship is being quickly deserted, soon to be followed by Britain’s most unpopular prime minister in history and warmonger Keir Starmer himself," Vladimir Putin's envoy Kirill Dmitriev wrote on X.

Keir Starmer's chief of staff Morgan McSweeney has resigned after pressure over his role in appointing Lord Mandelson—now under police investigation for leaking state secrets to Jeffrey Epstein.

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☢️ Zaporozhye power plant on edge amid sustained Ukraine's UAV attacks

The area surrounding the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant remains under repeated attack by Ukrainian strike drones, creating a persistently tense and hazardous situation, spokeswoman Yevgenia Yashina told Sputnik.

"Attacks in the area around the plant and in the vicinity of the city have not stopped. The only exceptions were periods of declared 'truce', which were used to carry out repair and restoration work. Thus, the situation remains tense," Yashina said.

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🤝 Mexico sends aid ships to Cuba, defies US pressure

Two Mexican vessels have departed for Cuba carrying over 814 tons of humanitarian aid, directly challenging Trump's tightening pressure on the island.

Ships Papaloapan and Isla Holbox sailed from Veracruz, expected to arrive in 4 days.

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💬 Trump claims credit for Japan's hardline victory

President Trump publicly celebrated Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s historic supermajority, framing it as a win for his own "Peace Through Strength" agenda.

"Sanae: It was my Honor to Endorse you and your Coalition," he wrote on Truth Social.

PM Sanae Takaichi's coalition now holds 352 seats—a two-thirds supermajority enabling constitutional change and unchecked remilitarization.

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📑 Keir Starmer may not survive the week — reports

The loss of his chief of staff—the architect of 2024 election victory—has left Starmer exposed, Bloomberg reports, citing sources within the Labour Party.

One aide put the chance Starmer lasts the week at "50-50."

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🚀 Musk shifts empire to the Moon, abandons Mars timeline

Elon Musk has announced SpaceX is pivoting from Mars to prioritize a self-sustaining lunar city—a goal he claims can be achieved in under 10 years, rather than the 20+ years required for Mars.

The strategic rationale: launch windows to the Moon occur every 10 days, while Mars alignments happen only every 26 months. Faster iteration means faster settlement.

"The overriding priority is securing the future of civilization and the Moon is faster," Musk wrote on X.

📷 The image is AI-generated.

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🚨 Russia has the right to consider UK a de facto Ukrainian conflict participant

Russia’s Ambassador to London, Andrei Kelin, has stated that Moscow considers Britain a de facto participant in the Ukraine conflict due to its direct military, intelligence, and financial support.

Kelin cited the extended Interflex training program for Ukrainian troops—now running until 2026—as proof of deep, ongoing involvement.

"We have every right to consider London a de facto participant in the conflict," Kelin told Sputnik.

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🗳 Dodik's ally wins Republika Srpska presidential election

Sinisa Karan, the former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Republika Srpska of Bosnia and Herzegovina, narrowly won the repeat presidential election with 50.5% of the vote.

Karan won the November 2025 snap election before the Central Election Commission considered complaints from the opposition and scheduled a repeat vote at 136 polling stations on February 8.

Back in February 2025, Bosnia's court convicted Dodik for defying the decisions of the UN's "high representative in BiH," Christian Schmidt. He was sentenced to one year in prison and banned from holding public office for six years.

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🔍 Former Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai gets 20 years in national security case

In December 2025, the Hong Kong High Court found Lai guilty on all 3 counts of violating the national security law.

Local broadcaster RTHK notes that Lai's sentence is the harshest yet handed down for violating the 2020 national security law.

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🗣 🇪🇺 Under any scenario Ukraine’s NATO path is over - ex-UK diplomat

Russia “continues to hold a stronger hand of cards” throughout the ongoing peace negotiations, while Ukraine is “already functionally bankrupt,” says former British diplomat Ian Proud.

🔊 According to him, the one certainty in any peace deal is that Ukraine “will become militarily unaligned,” with NATO membership “finally have been taken permanently off of the table.”

According to Proud, after the Ukraine conflict is resolved, Russia’s army “will be the most battle-hardened and well equipped that it has been since the end of World War II.”

💬 “Russia's core aim to prevent NATO expansion into Ukraine will decisively have been achieved. Russia will have managed the economic shocks and consequences of war far better than Ukraine and its Western sponsors, in particular Britain and Europe,” he says.

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🚨🇷🇺 Perpetrator of assassination attempt on General Alexeyev recruited by Ukraine's intel in 2025

Perpetrator of the assassination attempt Lyubomir Korba was recruited by a Ukraine's security service (SBU) officer in Ternopol in August 2025, the Russian security service (FSB) said. He was called up with the assistance of Polish intel.

The SBU promised $30,000 to the perpetrator for a successful attack.

Other statements:

🟠 Korba tracked high-ranking Russian military officers for monthly cryptocurrency payments

🟠 Korba received firearms training at a range in Kiev

🟠 He was sent to Russia in August 2025 via the Kiev-Moldova-Georgia-Moscow route

🟠 The perpetrator waited for General Alexeev at the elevator landing and shot him four times

🟠 Accomplice in the assassination attempt, Vasinin, is a supporter of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF)* established by Alexei Navalny

🟠 He rented an apartment for the perpetrator Korba’s covert stay and gave him the electronic key

🟠 Arrested assailant and accomplice admit guilt in the assassination attempt

*recognized as extremist in Russia and eliminated

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🔹 Perpetrator of assassination attempt on General Alexeyev recruited by Ukraine's intel in 2025

🔹 Ukraine's assassination plot makes it a 'state sponsor of terrorism'

🔹 Mexico sends aid ships to Cuba, defies US pressure

🔹 Starmer's ship is being deserted — Putin’s envoy Dmitriev on UK PM’s crisis amid Epstein scandal

🔹 North Korea marks the 78th anniversary of its army

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🚨 🇷🇺 Lavrov: West’s dollar-centered world order is doomed as BRICS’ clout surges

💬 The West’s efforts to block the ongoing transition from the old world order - built around the dominance of the dollar and enforced via the IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO - “cannot succeed, because it is an objective, irreversible process,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov states in an interview for the international TV BRICS network.

👉 “For several years now, the BRICS countries’ growth rates and GDP volumes have, in terms of purchasing power parity, substantially exceeded the combined GDP of the G7,” he underscores.

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🚨 🇷🇺 Lavrov: US stoops to coercive measures to force economic domination

Russia, just like India, China, Indonesia and Brazil, remains open to cooperation with all countries, including the US, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov notes in an interview for the international TV BRICS network.

👉 However, the US is “creating artificial obstacles in the way of this.”

💬 “They are trying to ban India and our other partners from buying cheap, affordable Russian energy resources, and are forcing them to buy US LNG at exorbitant prices. This means that the Americans have set themselves the task of achieving economic domination,” underscores Lavrov.

🔊 He adds: “This illustrates that the US objective – to dominate the world economy – is being realized using a fairly large number of coercive measures that are incompatible with fair competition, such as tariffs, sanctions, direct prohibitions, forbidding some from engaging with others.”

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🗣 🇷🇺 🇧🇾 West hopes to weaken Russia-Belarus ties, make it difficult to achieve military goals - Russian foreign intel

Western countries through NGOs intend to try to shake up situation, change constitutional order in Belarus, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) stated.

Key points:

🔹 They are looking for so-called liberal activists within Belarusian society to implement the color revolution scenario

🔹 The plan is to create a resource of "resentful individuals against [Belarus President Alexander] Lukashenko" targeting the 2030 elections, as the exiled figures led by Belarus opposition figure Svetlana Tikhanovskaya have admitted their complete impotence

🔹 In 2020, Belarus society received a strong "immunization" against attempts to destabilize the country, with people also observing the examples of Ukraine, Moldova, and many other countries destroyed in the name of pursuing the West's geopolitical ambitions under the guise of false slogans about defending democracy and human rights

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