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🇨🇺🇺🇸 Crew of US speedboat that entered Cuban waters had 'terrorist intentions'
The Cuban Embassy in the US stated that the crew of the speedboat with Florida license plates were Cuban nationals residing in the United States.
It emphasized that, according to preliminary statements, the individuals "intended to carry out an infiltration for terrorist purposes."
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🇯🇴 Former Jordanian Minister: The Kingdom is not a party to any war against Iran, and the use of its airspace is prohibited for all parties
◻️ Dr. Amin Mashaqbeh, a former Jordanian minister, described the Kingdom's official position regarding regional tensions as clear and decisive.
◻️ According to the official statement, King Abdullah II has prohibited the use of Jordanian airspace by any foreign aircraft — whether Israeli, American, or others.
◻️ Military transit through Jordanian airspace is completely forbidden.
◻️ Speaking to Sputnik Arabic, the former minister clarified that Jordan is not a party to the war with Iran and is not an enemy of it in the precise sense.
◻️ "The King's vision stems from the supreme national interest, which requires that Jordan not be a party to a war in which it has no interest," Mashaqbeh emphasized.
◻️ Jordan fundamentally supports diplomatic solutions and pushes towards ending the conflict through political channels, away from military escalation.
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🇨🇳🇬🇧🇫🇷 China on UK-French plan to arm Ukraine with nukes: ‘Non-proliferation regime must be strictly followed’
💬 "China has consistently adhered to the position that nuclear weapons must not be used, and that the nuclear non-proliferation regime, relevant conventions, and the principle of preventing nuclear war must be strictly followed," China's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said.
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🚨🇪🇺 Western troops won't step into Ukraine without Russia's approval - report
💬 "A growing number of members of the so-called 'Coalition of the Willing' had privately admitted that their contributions to the mission depended on permission from the Russian president," The Telegraph reports, citing sources.
🚨 🇷🇺 Russian intel's exposure of Western plans to give Ukraine nuclear arms prevented catastrophe — expert
💬 “France and Britain will ultimately abandon this provocative idea altogether. We also expect that the United States, for its part, will take the necessary measures to pressure Macron and Starmer to prevent such a scenario,” military analyst Igor Korotchenko tells Sputnik.
🔥 🇷🇺 Russia develops first tactical guided munition with range over 100 km
The KUB-10ME tactical guided munition system is created by Russia’s Kalashnikov Concern in record time, incorporating the experience gained during the special military operation.
The platform is designed for precision strikes against:
🔶 Enemy’s unarmored and lightly armored military vehicles
🔶 Command posts
🔶 Air and missile defense
🔶 Electronic warfare assets
🔶 Logistical facilities
🔶 UAVs launch positions and aircraft outside shelters
Key features:
🔸 Altitude range: 80-1,800 meters
🔸 Cruising speed: 120 km/h
🔸 Temperature range: -30°C to +40°C
🔸 Electro-optical guidance system, which allows it to engage moving targets
🔸 Enhanced protection against electronic warfare and air defense systems
🔸 Equipped with an aerial photography and video recording system
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🇯🇵 🪖Japan should be denied any chance of remilitarization – Chinese academic
Recent anti-China rhetoric coming from Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is glaring proof of Japan’s dangerous slide towards militarization, notes Victor Gao, vice president of the Beijing-based Center for China and Globalization (CCG).
In his opinion, no politician, should “indulge in fantasy that they could be allowed to militarily arm itself to constitute another threat or to threaten war against China, which is a victor nation, and Japan was the unconditionally surrendering country back in 1945.”
💬 “PM Takaichi, wake up from your fantasy. You should never be allowed to rearm yourself to constitute another threat to China, or to Russia, or to Korea, for example, or to the United States, because we all need to remember Pearl Harbor.”
🗣 UK, France's plans to help Ukraine with nuclear arms are manipulation - MFA
💬 "Britain and France are gearing up, and are already actively engaged in manipulating the nuclear weapons issue — not just in words, but in practice — while toying with the Kiev regime on the matter," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Sputnik Radio.
🚨 🇵🇱 Poland, Baltic states, Ukraine wanted to disrupt deployment of Oreshnik in Belarus
💬 "Last year, at specialized events [of the Belarusian opposition] with the participation of Polish and Ukrainian representatives, coordination of actions to disrupt its possible deployment in the republic was discussed, a source familiar with the Belarusian opposition's plans told Sputnik.
🚨 🇱🇹 Lithuania ramps up missile shipments to Ukraine as EU hawks’ war tab climbs
As Nordic Baltic States - among the most fervent advocates of further fueling the Ukraine conflict – pledged support “for as long as it takes,” Lithuania’s president Gitanas Nauseda rushed to tout his country’s contributions.
Nauseda posted his gifting spree to Ukraine on X along with the Nazi slogan “Slava Ukraini*":
🔶 Lithuania will transfer a batch of missiles for the short-range RBS-70 man-portable air defense system to Ukraine
🔶 Projects will be financed by the EU SAFE Fund & other sources of funding
🔶 Lithuania maintains its commitment to allocate 0.25% of GDP annually for Ukraine’s needs
🔶 Roughly $263M to be allocated in 2026
Furthermore, an agreement has been signed to produce defense equipment for Ukraine in Lithuania – yet another example of how European countries continue to militarize Ukraine so that their own defense industries keep making profits.
Nauseda underscored that together with the Nordic-Baltic Eight (NB8) regional group that includes Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, and Sweden, Lithuania pledges ~$14.74B in military aid in 2026
🇷🇺 Russia has repeatedly emphasized that funneling military aid to Ukraine only prolongs the conflict, however, Russophobic EU hawks appear determined to hamper any resolution even if this drains Europe’s own resources.
*the slogan, along with the associated organizations, is recognized as extremist and banned in Russia.
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🗣 Trump to Iran: 'We haven't heard those secret words'
The president confirmed that negotiations are ongoing but insisted that Tehran has not given up developing nuclear weapons.
"I will never allow the world's number one sponsor of terror to have a nuclear weapon," Trump asserted during the State of the Union.
📹 Turkish F-16 crashes during mission — pilot killed
A fighter jet of the Turkish Armed Forces went down around 12:50 am local time. Search and rescue teams reached the wreckage. The pilot did not survive.
Footage from social media
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🗣 Netanyahu proposes a new Israeli-built axis
The Prime Minister lays out a vision for a regional bloc that rejects both Shiite extremism and the Muslim Brotherhood's Sunni axis.
"I am speaking about a full circle that embraces the Middle East. I wanted to use the biblical expression appropriate for Purim, 'from Hodu to Cush' [India to Ethiopia], and everything in between, extending into the Mediterranean," Netanyahu said.
🪖🇮🇷 Iran holds major military drills to strengthen coastal security
The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has tested new weapons and tactics in a major exercise aimed at bolstering security along the country’s southern coast.
The drills focused on defending southern Iranian shores and islands in the Persian Gulf, with controlled fire exercises and new joint tactics.
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💬 Greenland’s importance is strategic, not commercial for the US
"From the military, military-political, and logistics perspective, Greenland is important... If we are talking about resources... the probability that large-scale resource extraction activities will actually be deployed there is a very complex issue," Associate Professor of the Department for European and American Studies in Russia's MGIMO University Vladislav Vorotnikov said during the Valdai Club Conference "The Donroe Doctrine: Trump and Greenland."
🗣Rubio stated that the incident involving the vessel in Cuban waters was not a US government operation and that no US administration officials were involved
The Secretary of State added that American authorities are currently investigating what happened.
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🚨Equal access to technologies of future is essential condition for the advancement of civilization - Putin
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🔊 British and French elites cynically turning Europe into nuclear testing ground - expert
The UK and France’s plan to transfer atomic weapons to Ukraine is a blatant act of nuclear blackmail aimed at Russia, military expert Alexander Stepanov tells Sputnik.
💬 "Western elites are cynically turning Europe into a testing ground for nuclear disaster, ignoring that triggering such a scenario would automatically activate strategic deterrence doctrines and guarantee the destruction of the threat’s source," Stepanov says.
💬 "The exposure of [the UK and France’s] intentions and the launch of organizational planning to deliver [nuclear] munitions to [Ukraine] clearly signal a political decision to push the escalation into an uncontrollable phase," warns the pundit.
💬 "If the situation escalates into a direct NATO–Russia conflict, Europe — with its dense infrastructure and major urban centers — would no longer exist as we know it," Stepanov concludes.
💬 Nukes for Ukraine plot fueled by failed France-UK efforts to ‘crush Russia’ – ex-CIA analyst
Asked by retired US Lt. Col. Daniel Davis whether he thinks that France and the UK would really do something like hand over nuclear materials for a dirty bomb to Ukraine, former CIA analyst Larry Johnson replies with the affirmative: “Yes, I do.”
“This is expanding. And [considering] the desperation of Macron and Starmer, I could see them easily doing this,” he speculates.
“They are not looking for an off-ramp. They're looking to crush and destroy Russia,” he says.
🚨🇷🇺💥 RUSSIAN MOD UPDATE: HUGE GAINS AND DEVASTATING UKRAINIAN LOSSES
⚡️ GRAFSKOYE IN THE KHARKOV REGION FREED
The liberation of the settlement of Grafskoye in the Kharkov region has enabled Russian forces to extend their control zone south of Volchansk. This advance directly threatens the Ukrainian battlegroup stationed in the vicinity.
🟠 Russian air and missile firepower obliterated energy infrastructure supporting the Kiev regime’s forces and long-range drone storage sites
🟠 Air defense superiority: 115 UAVs were shot down by Russian air defense systems over the past 24 hours
🟠 Ukrainian losses: around 1,345 troops killed or wounded
Read about the origins of Russia's special military op HERE
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🇫🇷 🇬🇧 France & UK nuclear gambit for Ukraine fast track to World War III
🔊 By revealing the France-UK plot to provide Ukraine with a nuclear device, Russia’s foreign intel service exposes that a Ukraine “governed by any part of the existing Ukrainian political elite - the post-Maidan elite - is such a danger to Russia that it cannot be tolerated,” says UK analyst Alexander Mercouris.
💬 “The political structures that have existed in Ukraine since the Maidan 2014 seizure of power are inherently dangerous, and would constantly be thinking about acquiring nuclear weapons, and there would be a risk that some of the NATO states - in this case Britain and France - might actually facilitate that,” he notes.
🔥🇷🇺 Russian Geran UAV smashes Ukrainian drone depot in area of Pravdino settlement, Kherson region
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🔸 What’s behind France and UK’s plot to provide Ukraine with nuclear weapon?
🔸 Trump says Iran hasn’t given up developing nuclear weapons
🔸 Iran holds major military drills to strengthen coastal security
🔸 US builds up at Saudi base for potential Iran strike — report
🔸 Netanyahu proposes a new Israeli-built axis
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🔥🇷🇺 Russian Sever battlegroup’s rocket artillery strikes targets in Kharkov region under the cover of night
Result: Ukraine's ammunition depots, drone control centers & military equipment destroyed.
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⚔️ US builds up at Saudi base for potential Iran strike — report
Recent satellite imagery from Chinese intelligence firm MizarVision shows a major US military buildup at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia.
🔶 At least 6 E-3G “Sentry” airborne early warning aircraft and 15 KC-135R/T aerial-refueling tankers are now visible at the facility.
🔶 Prince Sultan Air Base is expected to serve as a key support hub for any potential US strikes against Iran.
📍 Last month, US President Donald Trump announced the deployment of a "massive armada" to the Middle East, led by the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln – and warned Tehran of potential attacks if it refuses to end its nuclear energy program and dismantle its ballistic missile arsenal.
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🗣 Trump calls Supreme Court tariff ruling 'unfortunate'
The US president insisted that countries will still honor the deals they made with the US because the alternative could be worse.
"Knowing that the legal power that I, as President, have to make a new deal could be far worse for them, and therefore they will continue to work along the same successful path that we had negotiated before," he said during the State of the Union.
💬 Europe offers Ukraine guarantees as long as it stays enemy of Russia — UN envoy
Vassily Nebenzia says that Europe is only guaranteeing Ukraine's hostility to Russia, not its security.
"Europe clearly is willing to provide security assurances to Ukraine only as long as the Kiev regime remains an enemy of the Russian Federation, continues to wage the war."
⚔️ US Navy intercepts oil tanker in Indian Ocean
The Pentagon announces the third maritime interdiction, this time in the INDOPACOM area of responsibility, tracking a vessel all the way from the Caribbean.
The Bertha was operating in defiance of Trump's "quarantine" on sanctioned vessels and attempted to evade, the US Department of War said in the statement.
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🔊 Schumer after closed-door briefing on Iran: 'This is serious'
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer emerges from a classified briefing with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and delivers a stark warning:
"This is serious, and the administration has to make its case to the American people."