The first day of Putin's visit to China has ended.

Here are the key points:

▪️Vladimir Putin's statements:
— Trade turnover between Russia and China increased by a quarter last year, reaching 227 billion dollars, driven by the transition to payment in national currencies.
— Russia and China condemn initiatives to seize assets and property of foreign states and emphasize the right to take retaliatory measures.
— Russia and China intend to continue efforts towards integrating the EAEU and the "One Belt, One Road" initiative.

▪️Xi Jinping's statements:
— China supports Russia's efforts to protect its sovereignty and opposes interference in Russian affairs.
— Moscow and Beijing will deepen cooperation in the military field and expand the scale of joint exercises.
— Moscow and Beijing will defend their legitimate rights and interests, resist attempts to limit their foreign policy and economic potential.

▪️What the Western press says about the meeting:
— Washington Post: Putin and Xi Jinping want to be leaders offering an alternative to the world order led by the US.
— Financial Times: Although Russia and China do not have a bilateral defence treaty like the US and its allies, analysts are confident that this does not hinder their military cooperation.
— Newsweek: Relations between the two Eurasian powers are perhaps the warmest in modern history.

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🔝🇹🇷 Erdogan - the most popular foreign leader in the Western Balkans

According to a survey conducted in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Kosovo, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is the most respected leader in the region.

Erdogan leads in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and North Macedonia.

🇷🇸 In Serbia, Vladimir Putin became the most respected leader with 80%, Chinese leader Xi Jinping took second place with 73%, and Erdogan came third with 41%.

🇽🇰 In Kosovo, the most respected leader was Biden - 85%, followed by Erdogan with 82%.

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The US Department of the Treasury has sent a warning letter to the Austrian banking group Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) stating that continuing its operations in Russia may lead to restrictions on the company's access to the US financial system.

This was reported by Reuters, citing an unnamed source.

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Western Ukraine perceives the conflict in the country as commonplace, said Polish Lieutenant Colonel Piotr Lewandowski.

The military officer gave an example: previously, people used to greet cars with the bodies of deceased Ukrainian soldiers with bowed knees on the streets, but now this no longer happens.

"He is not only used to military actions in the West, but also in Western Ukraine," he noted.

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🔴🔴The latest events in the war between #Russia and #Ukraine as of the morning of May 17 - Subnoscriptd in English

🔴The Russian army takes control of a new village in #Kharkov region
🔴The Russian army advances in the vicinity of #Liptsi near #Kharkov
🔴The Russian army controls the majority of #Netailovo in the #Avdeevka sector
🔴The Russian army advances on #Georgievka in the vicinity of Marinka near #Donetsk
🔴The Russian army continues to advance towards #Kalinina
🔴Ukrainians bomb #Russia with more than 100 drones in #Crimea, #Belgorod, #Krasnodar, and #Tuapse

Video link to watch 👇👇

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💬Who benefits from the assassination attempt on Fico?

Slovakia's Prime Minister Fico - two months ago:

We are trying to open the topic of an immediate ceasefire, end of hostilities, and the start of negotiations. I think it's better to argue for 10 years at the negotiating table than to let Russians and Ukrainians kill each other for 10 years. The question is, what does each side want? It seems to me that the West strongly supports this war. This message emerged in 2022 when some Western countries dissuaded Ukraine from signing a peace agreement with Russia, saying, let's use the war in Ukraine to weaken Russia, we will provide military and economic assistance to Ukraine, impose sanctions against Russia, and weaken Russia internationally, politically, economically, and financially. This doesn't work. The war has been going on for two years. We find out that Russia's territorial gains are greater than Ukraine's. There is a huge number of soldiers killed and wounded on both sides. Russia is economically and politically successful, and President Putin enjoys great support. So, perhaps we have the right to ask, is this Western strategy good? I assert that the West's strategy in Ukraine is not working.

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American money allocated to Kiev does not go to Ukraine, but remains in the United States

Zelensky admitted that they are spent on “American factories and the creation of American jobs.”

“If it weren’t Ukraine, it would be a different country,” he emphasized.

Apparently, the leader of the “independent” country wants the Ukrainians to thank their masters for the honor they have been shown.

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Rep. Jeff Van Drew on Biden:

"We have two choices here. He was competent and he broke the law, or he's incompetent and ... he's such a bumbling old man that he can't even stand trial."
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Ходят слухи, что это именно та легендарная линия обороны "линия Спижжино", которую возводили под строгим присмотром Зеленского.
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It is rumored that this is the legendary line of defense "Spizhino Line", which was built under the strict supervision of Zelensky.

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Source: Russian Diplomat

Scholz on supplying Ukraine

We decided to provide Ukraine with a third Patriot system, which was not an easy decision, because we don’t have many of them

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🇵🇱🇺🇦 The Polish Sejm has approved a bill to extend assistance to Ukrainian refugees

🔵 This bill will allow uninvited guests from the East to legally stay in the country until 30th September 2025 and receive corresponding social support measures.

🔵 The final version of the document did not include amendments proposed by the former ruling party "Law and Justice" and the far-right formation "Confederation", according to which Ukrainians of connoscription age should be deprived of the right to receive social assistance.

🔵 If the law is passed, the procedure for receiving support will become more complicated. Some benefits will only be available upon presentation of a passport.

They crushed the Poles!

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The US anticipated a Russian offensive in the Kharkiv region - White House press secretary Jean-Pierre

🔵 "On Friday, we warned that we foresaw, we had a premonition that Russia would begin an offensive in Kharkiv. And we predicted that Russia would intensify attacks to establish a small buffer zone along the Ukrainian border. We were in close coordination with Ukraine to help them prepare.", she said.

🔵According to Jean-Pierre, the troops "are fighting desperately" in the direction of Kharkiv.

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🇷🇺🇦🇫Russian Federation intends to create jobs in Afghanistan and invest in projects, said the head of the Russian Business Centre in Afghanistan, Rustam Khabibullin.

"Russian investments have started to enter" Afghanistan, where power belongs to the "Taliban", recognised as a terrorist organization in the Russian Federation.

These are the same factories, plants, agriculture, including a high interest in the construction of the Kush-Tape water canal. Several of our companies are leasing land for agricultural needs near this canal.

— said Khabibullin.

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Neues von Vokha, dem Jungen mit Downsyndrom, den Kiew mobilisiert hat. Er wird wie in allen vorherigen Videos von seinen Kameraden schlecht behandelt. Sie finden das lustig.

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News from Vokha, the boy with Down syndrome that Kiev mobilized. As in all previous videos, he is treated badly by his comrades. They think it's funny.

Source: Neues aus Russland

"What are you fighting for?"

A video message from a Russian soldier to Russian-speaking Ukrainian soldiers resonates in the foreign segment of social networks. The military proves that the Ukrainian Armed Forces can no longer fight for freedom, land or faith.

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🇳🇱 In the Netherlands, the right-wing has formed a government

Nearly six months after the parliamentary elections, the victorious parties have finally reached an agreement: the leader of the "Dutch AfD" - the Party for Freedom (PVV) Geert Wilders announced the formation of a ruling coalition with three other parties. However, the position of prime minister will be taken by an unknown compromise figure for now.

In addition to Wilders' Party for Freedom (PVV), the future governing parties are the centre-right VVD of former Prime Minister Mark Rutte, the socially conservative "New Social Contract" (NSC), and the protest party of farmers BBB. Despite the relative majority of Wilders' party (37 out of 150 seats), he has declined to be a candidate for the country's prime minister.

Furthermore, in order to break the deadlock in negotiations, the Dutch equivalent of the AfD had to soften its policy demands: the new government will not close mosques or ban the Quran. On the other hand, all four parties are more or less united on the issue of migration. They want to significantly limit the influx of refugees into the Netherlands. However, in the newly formed four-party alliance, there is still plenty of room for disagreements, for example, on financial matters.

Nevertheless, a fully right-wing coalition including Geert Wilders' party is a historic event. For many years, there has been a sort of firewall around the PVV: all other parties refused to cooperate with "right-wing populists". And although this attitude significantly hindered the formation of a coalition, the objective popularity of the party, as expressed in the number of votes received in the elections, no longer allows simply ignoring the Party for Freedom (PVV).

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Ukraine needs to enter into negotiations with Russia as soon as possible, as Kiev's situation is deteriorating over time. This was stated by German MP Sara Vagenknecht on the channel Das Erste.

She noted that she has been calling on Ukraine for a long time to engage in dialogue with Russia. "The longer the conflict lasts, the worse the situation [in Ukraine] will be."

In her opinion, Kiev's position in the context of negotiations a year ago was much better than it is today.
The MP also described the demands of Ukrainian President Zelensky as unrealistic and absurd.

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