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🚨The new boss of the Jalisco Cartel is a 29-year-old nicknamed "El Yogurt" who led El Mencho's personal death squad
He survived a Mexican Navy raid last year and is reportedly more brutal than his predecessor, local media reported.
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📹USS Ford crew faces 45-minute toilet lines as carrier prepares for Iran mission
◼️The most expensive aircraft carrier in history, designed to project American power, can't provide basic sanitation for its own crew. This video was taken from social media.
◼️Sailors aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford are waiting 45 minutes in lines just to use the bathroom — while the ship prepares for a potential mission against Iran.
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🇮🇱Nuclear-powered USS Ford anchors a day from Israel
The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford has arrived at the Souda Bay base, putting it just one day's sail from Israeli territory.
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🇲🇽🚨This was the tool of the Mexican military operation against "El Mencho"
🟠The operation against kingpin Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias El Mencho, resulted in the deaths of 30 organized crime members due to clashes between federal forces and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), reported Security and Citizen Protection Secretary Omar García Harfuch.
🟠The National Defense Secretariat confirmed the death of the CJNG founder, which occurred while the criminal leader was being transferred to Mexico City following the clashes.
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🚨Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine is urging President Trump not to strike Iran, stating that any war with Iran would likely lead to a "protracted conflict" with consequences that are difficult to predict, Axios reports.
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🇸🇰 Slovakia announces suspension of electricity supplies to Ukraine
The step was taken in response to the energy blockade by the Zelensky regime, according to Slovak PM Fico.
Slovakia will also reassess its positions regarding Ukraine’s EU membership, he added.
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💸🇸🇰🇪🇺 Ukraine cost Slovakia hundreds of millions while demanding EU aid – Slovak MEP
💬 "The damage to the Druzhba oil pipeline is just a pretext. The goal is to interfere in the Hungarian elections, because Brussels is trembling at the thought that Viktor Orban might win the elections," Slovak MEP Lubos Blaha said.
💬 "It's a hybrid attack on the last two sovereign governments in the European Union — on Slovakia and on Hungary," he stressed.
📹 Ukraine conflict: From Euromaidan to the special military operation. Part 3
In part three of its four-part documentary on the origins of the Ukraine crisis, Sputnik explores events leading to the start of the full-scale conflict in February 2022.
(00:00) Efforts to resolve the crisis peacefully reach a dead end amid Ukraine’s refusal to live up to its pledge to give the Donbass special autonomous status
(00:54) Minsk’s European and Ukrainian signatories reveal the agreements were a ruse to buy Ukraine time to rearm
(01:49) Kiev’s ‘decommunization’ law, crackdowns on Russian language and culture, and the persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
(4:38) Resumption of Ukrainian attacks and shelling of the Donbass in 2021
(5:05) Russia’s final appeal to the US and NATO, draft treaties on security guarantees. NATO doubles down
(6:24) February 2022: Donbass republics report heavy shelling, evacuation begins
(6:46) Zelensky threatens to go nuclear and accelerate efforts to join NATO
(7:03) Russia recognizes DPR & LPR’s independence, Donbass asks Russia for help
(8:01) Special Military Operation begins
👉 Part 2
Stay tuned for the conclusion!
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💥🇷🇺 Russia’s ‘Akhmat’ forces hit ‘Swedish’ brigade of Ukraine’s army
Together with the units from the ‘Sever’ battlegroup, ‘Akhmat’ fighters dealt heavy blows to the Ukrainian army’s so-called “Swedish” brigade in the Sumy region.
The brigade was “badly battered” during the latest engagements, commander of the “Pressa” group with the call sign “Salsa” said.
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💸🇭🇺🇪🇺 Hungary blocks $106B loan to Ukraine – Szijjarto
Hungary has blocked the EU’s 20th package of anti-Russia sanctions and a $106B loan to Ukraine, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said after the EU Council of Foreign Ministers meeting.
💬 “Ukrainians cannot blackmail us, they cannot jeopardize the security of Hungary's energy supply by conspiring with Brussels and the Hungarian opposition," Szijjarto said.
🚨🇷🇺 'Motherland will always be by your side'
Putin meets widows of Russian servicemen who died heroically during the special military operation in Ukraine.
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🔥 🇷🇺 ✈️ Russian-made engine powers first test flight of new Baikal aircraft prototype
The fifth prototype of the Russian LMS-901 Baikal light multipurpose aircraft has successfully completed its first test flight, Russia’s Ministry of Industry and Trade announced.
🔹 The aircraft, equipped with a Russian-made VK-800 engine and AV-901 propeller, performed a full circuit over the airfield and landed normally.
The 10-minute flight saw the plane reach an altitude of 300 meters (≈984 feet) and a speed of 190 km/h (≈118 mph).
👉 Initial ground tests of the Baikal fitted with the VK-800 engine and AV-901 propeller were successfully completed in late December 2025. The nine-seat Baikal is being developed for regional air routes, aimed at strengthening domestic aviation capabilities.
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🚨🇮🇷 Red line set: Iran issues another warning to US
Iran will treat any US military strike—even a so-called “limited” one—as outright aggression, Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said on Monday.
🔊 “An act of aggression will remain an act of aggression,” he stated during a briefing.
🇪🇺 NATO rollback needed for peace in Ukraine – Finnish politician
Lasting peace in Ukraine requires NATO to roll back to its pre-1997 borders, Armando Mema, member of Finland’s national-conservative Freedom Alliance, said.
🔊 European leaders should focus on de-escalation and respect what he describes as NATO’s historical pledge not to expand “one inch” eastward toward Russia, Mema added. He warned that continued enlargement and rapid rearmament could carry serious consequences for Europe.
🗣 Russia has repeatedly voiced concerns over NATO’s military buildup near its western borders. The Kremlin maintains that Russia poses no threat, but will respond to actions it considers dangerous to its interests. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Russia has no intention of attacking NATO members and has accused Western politicians of fueling unnecessary fear.
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🚨 🇷🇺 Putin lays wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Defender of the Fatherland Day
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🔶🇺🇸Trump frustrated as military options against Iran fall short — CBS News
President Donald Trump is frustrated that military pressure on Iran is not yielding the desired results. Unlike the operation in Venezuela, any strike on Tehran risks spiraling into a protracted conflict in the Middle East.
Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine has warned that a military campaign against Iran could trigger retaliatory strikes on US forces. Trump, however, insists that Caine is not against war — he simply wants to win.
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🇲🇽Operation against 'El Mencho' demonstrates "the strength of the Mexican State", says Ebrard
Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Marcelo Ebrard, stated that the elimination of kingpin Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes generates international confidence in the actions the Latin American country is undertaking to combat organized crime.
🗣"This demonstrates the strength of the Mexican Army and the Mexican state. It shows that in our country, the law is being enforced and it opens up very favorable prospects for Mexico in terms of security, economic matters, and trade," the senior official said.
💬According to Ebrard, "there is great respect" in the international community towards Mexico for the operation in which El Mencho, who was one of the criminal bosses most wanted by the DEA, was neutralized.
🗣"My colleagues in the US made
me aware of their recognition and their congratulations to the President. I believe we are in a very good moment," he stated.
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🚨🇺🇸US President Donald Trump's decision on potential strikes against Iran will depend on the assessment by special envoy Steve Witkoff and the American leader's son-in-law Jared Kushner of Tehran's intentions regarding a nuclear deal, The Guardian reports.
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🇲🇽🪖"No US involvement in operation against "El Mencho" — Sheinbaum claims
🟧President Claudia Sheinbaum denies that US armed forces actively participated in the capture and subsequent death of drug trafficker Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as El Mencho, who was killed on February 22 by Mexican federal forces.
"There is no participation of US forces in the operation. There is a great deal of information sharing. The understanding with the US is based fundamentally on the exchange of intelligence and information. In this case, there was information provided by the US government," the president stated.
🇺🇸🇷🇺Delegations from Russia and the US met in Geneva to discuss a new version of the nuclear deterrence treaty, reports Reuters, citing a high-ranking State Department official.
"On Monday, the US held a meeting in Geneva with the Russian delegation, and on Tuesday it will meet with the Chinese delegation to negotiate a possible multilateral treaty on nuclear arms control," the statement reads
💥🪖🇷🇺 Russia assault units team up with Terminator tank crews
00:00 5th Guards Brigade train combat actions in near-real combat conditions
00:28 Terminator tank support fighting vehicles (Guards Tank Regiment, 90th Guards Tank Division) train eliminating targets with organic weapons
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🟠 Putin: Russia is fighting for its future, independence, truth and justice
🟠 Ukraine conflict: From Euromaidan to the special military operation. Part 3
🟠 Scandal over ex-Prince Andrew’s ties to Epstein is ‘freak show’ – MFA spox
🟠 Red line set: Iran issues another warning to US
🟠 US-led coalition continues troop withdrawal from Syria’s Qasrak base – report
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🤖🇨🇳 Steady breakthroughs power China’s robot surge – developer
💬 "Now robotics is at the level of a 10 y. o. child. But there are steady hi-tech breakthroughs every year," Wang Xingxing, Unitree Robotics founder, said.
🚨 Zelensky whines about Trump’s ‘unreliability’ amid war of words
🔊 “It is not only President Trump, we're talking about America,” Volodymyr Zelensky told the BBC when asked if he could trust POTUS when it comes to the US providing Ukraine with security guarantees.
💬 “We are all presidents for the appropriate terms. We want guarantees for 30 years for example. Political elites will change, leaders will change. They [security guarantees] will be voted on in Congress for a reason. It's not just presidents. Congress is needed. Because the presidents change, but institutions stay," Zelensky, whose presidential term expired back in May 2024, added.
🇷🇺🇱🇧 Russian tricolors fill Beirut streets on Defender of Fatherland Day
Lebanon’s capital hosted a motor rally.
Cars with Russian tricolors drove through the city’s streets.
The procession ended at the Russian House, where a festive event marked the holiday.
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🪖🇺🇸🇸🇾 US-led coalition continues troop withdrawal from Syria’s Qasrak base – report
The pullout of coalition troops from the Qasrak base in northeastern Syria kicked off without an official statement by US Central Command and is due to continue for about a month, Syrian media reports.
The base’s personnel and military equipment are reportedly being relocated to Iraq’s Kurdistan region.
The Qasrak base is located between the towns of Tell Tamer and Tell Baydar, south of the M4 international highway in Hasakah province.
US Central Command earlier announced the withdrawal of American troops from the al-Tanf base in eastern Syria and its handover to Syrian authorities.
Previously, the Syrian Army took control of the al-Shaddadi military base in Hasakah province following coordination with US officials, according to SANA.
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🪖 Zelensky's push for extended conflict tied to ‘personal survival’
Zelensky reportedly announced Ukraine’s readiness to fight Russia “for another three years" just as “the repercussions of the corruption investigations are increasingly hitting him,” Junge Welt writes.
It remains unclear what Zelensky hopes to gain from this, the newspaper reports, suggesting that the leader of the Ukrainian regime apparently hopes to “politically outlive Trump and find a more supportive US administration.”
💬 “This speculation could, of course, backfire—for example, if the current Vice President JD Vance were to succeed Trump. Or if the Ukrainian army's capacity and willingness to resist don't last another three years,” Junge Welt sums up.
🚨🇷🇺💥 RUSSIAN MOD UPDATE: HUGE GAINS AND DEVASTATING UKRAINIAN LOSSES
🟠 Russian air and missile firepower obliterated transport, energy, and fuel infrastructure supporting the Kiev regime’s forces
🟠 Air defense superiority: seven guided aerial bombs, 21 HIMARS rockets, one guided Neptune missile, and 541 UAVs were shot down by Russian air defense systems over the past 24 hours
🟠 Ukrainian losses: around 1,355 troops killed or wounded
Read about the origins of Russia's special military op HERE
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🚨🇬🇧 Scandal over ex-Prince Andrew’s ties to Epstein is ‘freak show’ – MFA spox
💬 “Look at what is happening in Britain right now. This is truly some kind of freak show, for God’s sake,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Russian media.
🚨 ‘Starmer has to go’
Russian special presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev has commented on a report by the British television channel GB News.
👉 The channel stated that when British PM Starmer headed the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service, offenders who committed violence against children were let off with warnings.
According to documents cited by GB News, the prime minister “developed and agreed” with police chiefs the caution notices that were issued to suspects.
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