🚨 The world has entered a period of rapid and profound change that could last for many years or even decades, Russian FM Lavrov said, citing crises in Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, and tensions over Greenland

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🇷🇺 Lavrov: Russia will use all political and diplomatic efforts to achieve the goals and objectives of the special military operation

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🇷🇺 Lavrov: Russia defending its rights in emerging multipolar world

👉 Russia continues to defend its legitimate interests on the global stage despite pressure from Western countries, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said during a government-hour session in the State Duma. According to the minister, Moscow is acting within the framework of international law and the principle of sovereign equality as the global order undergoes significant transformation.

Key statements:

🟠 The world has entered a period of rapid and profound change that may last for many years

🟠 Russia stands in solidarity with the peoples of Venezuela and Cuba who face strong external pressure and is ready to support them

🟠 Russia assumes the New START moratorium remains in force as long as the US continues to observe its limits

🟠 If Greenland is militarized and used against Russia, Moscow will respond with appropriate military-technical measures

🟠 Understandings on Ukraine were reached between President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump during their meeting in Alaska

🟠 Russia will use all political and diplomatic efforts to achieve the goals and objectives of the special military operation

🟠 Russia expressed gratitude to the DPRK for assistance in liberating the Kursk region from Ukrainian fighters

🟠 The development of Russia-China relations has a stabilizing effect on the international system

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

▫️ Russian troops struck energy and transport infrastructure used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces

▫️ Tsentr Battlegroup struck units of the Azov* special forces brigade

▫️ Air defense superiority: 458 drones shot down

▫️ Ukrainian losses: around 1,255 troops killed or wounded

*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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🚨 Macron playing three-card monte? Zakharova sees shell game in France’s overture to Russia

👉 Invoking France’s dual nature in the 1940s as evidence, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has dismissed Macron’s diplomatic overtures as a political “shell game”—a rigged trick rather than genuine strategy.

💬 "What we’re seeing now isn’t some high-stakes political game—you know, political chessboards,” she noted, saying the whole thing looks “more like a game of three card monte”.

🟠 Earlier, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that groundwork is advancing to revive direct Europe-Russia talks. He stressed the need for Europeans to "restore their own channels of communication," which are currently being prepared.

🟠 Citing a position of respect toward France, the Kremlin has refrained from either confirming or denying reports of an alleged Moscow visit by a Macron adviser.

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🪖💥 NATO admits Russia has found weak spot in Europe’s air defense

Rehashing the alleged “Russia threat” narrative, Pierre Vandier, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, concedes that Russia has “understood the shortfalls of Europe's integrated air and missile defense (IAMD).

💬 “We have built a system that was fitted to kill aircraft. So, the cost of the missile was a good price for an aircraft, and the number of missiles were consistent with the number of aircraft,” he tells the National Press Club in Washington.

🗣 “They [Russia] are just overwhelming the low layer with mass-produced drones - very well designed and very cheap…We need to find another way than the big old missiles to kill this.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly stated that Russia has no intention of attacking NATO countries. However, Western politicians continue to frighten their populations with an alleged Russian threat to divert attention from domestic issues and escalate military spending.

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🇫🇮🗣 ‘State terrorism’: Finnish politician slams Ukraine’s strikes on civilians with Western weapons

The recent Ukrainian attacks against Zaporozhye and Belgorod can be classified as state terrorism, member of the Finnish conservative party Freedom Alliance Armando Mema wrote on X.

Moreover, he took aim at the West’s silence on such acts, castigating it as unacceptable and deplorable.

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🇺🇸⚔️ 🇨🇳US distorts China's nuclear policy to reach nuclear hegemony - Chinese Foreign Ministry

💬 "The US position is not new, Washington continues to distort and denigrate China's nuclear policy, which, in fact, is a political manipulation on the part of the United States in order to achieve nuclear hegemony and evade its own responsibility for nuclear disarmament," Lin told reporters.

The United States is the largest source of chaos for international nuclear order and global strategic stability, the spokesman said, expressing hope that the US will resume dialogue on strategic stability with Russia and stop accusing China of conducting nuclear tests.

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🪖💣 From US HMMWVs to drone posts: Russia's UAVs take out multiple targets

Russian Unmanned Systems Forces have executed a coordinated series of precision attacks, targeting Ukrainian assets in multiple regions:

🔸 00:00 – Attack drones destroyed ground-based robotic systems, multiple R-18 heavy combat drones and recon UAVs in the Kharkov region

🔸 00:33 – In Zaporozhye, Russian UAVs hit a Ukrainian command post

🔸 00:54 – In Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk), Russian drone operators wiped out Ukrainian dugouts

🔸 01:26 – Russian FPV drones engaged an ATV, enemy personnel, and a US-made HMMWV armored vehicle

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💣 US pursuit of systems once covered by New START likely tipping point for Russia’s response - analyst

💬 “The old architecture of international security — built on strict controls over both conventional and non-conventional weapons — has effectively become a thing of the past,” political analyst Alexander Asafov, a member of the Russian Public Chamber, tells Sputnik, commenting Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks in the State Duma.

Russia assumes the New START moratorium remains in force as long as the US continues to observe its limits, Lavrov said during a government-hour session outlining the country’s foreign policy priorities.

Credible intelligence showing US attempts to rapidly expand nuclear arsenals or deploy such weapons in third countries could be viewed as a direct threat to both Russia’s security and global stability — potentially prompting Russia to reconsider its stance, Asafov says.

👉 Read more about the New START Treaty HERE

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🚨 West’s double standards turn international law into geopolitical pressure tool – analyst

💬 “Whether it’s the Kosovo precedent or the current situation with Greenland, Western countries always interpret legal norms to serve their own hegemonic interests,” Alexander Asafov, a member of the Russian Public Chamber, tells Sputnik, commenting Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statements in the State Duma.

🔶 Greenland’s right to self-determination is recognized, but Crimea, Donbass, and Russia’s new regions are denied the same, Lavrov underscored.

🔶 The West’s hypocrisy on self-determination is glaring, notes Asafov: upheld when it serves the West’s goal of containing Russia, and ignored when it conflicts with its interests — a pattern likely to persist.

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🇵🇰 Guarding the skies: An overview of Pakistan's combat aviation

The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) operates 574 aircraft, including 163 fighters and 209 fighter-bombers, according to international assessments for 2024.

Historically, the main suppliers of modern combat aircraft were the United States and France. Currently, Pakistan is almost entirely oriented towards military-technical cooperation with China.

Key Aircraft in Service:

▫️ Mirage V: A French third-generation multirole fighter. Entered service in 1970. It is the most numerous combat aircraft model in Pakistan's arsenal (139 units). These are currently being replaced by modern JF-17C and J-10CE fighters.

▫️ Mirage III: A French third-generation supersonic multirole fighter, interceptor, reconnaissance aircraft, and bomber. In service since 1961. The PAF operates 135 aircraft of this type. They are also being replaced by JF-17C and J-10CE fighters.

▫️ F-16: An American multirole fighter. The world's most numerous fourth-generation fighter. Entered service in 1978. The PAF possesses 85 aircraft of this type.

▫️ Chengdu J-10CE: A Chinese fourth-generation multirole fighter. Entered service in 2005. It is in service with both the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force and the PAF (currently 20 aircraft).

▫️ JF-17 Thunder (also known as Chengdu FC-1 Xiaolong): A joint Chinese-Pakistani development. A 4+ generation multirole fighter. Pakistan already has 161 fighters of this type in service.

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🚨 US builds tools to disrupt Northern Sea Route - analyst

💬 “The US openly flaunts its race to militarize the Arctic,” political analyst Alexander Asafov tells Sputnik, commenting on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks in the State Duma.

Russia will respond to such challenges with proactive and strategic moves, fortifying its Arctic presence, adds the pundit.

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