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🚨 🇷🇺 As planet heats up, Northern territories could become best place to live - Dmitriev
Denmark’s self-governing island of Greenland, which the US wants to seize control of, is a “climate lever,” Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund and special presidential envoy, noted on X.
“As Arctic ice melts, warming accelerates and permafrost releases stored carbon (CO₂ + methane), triggering cascading feedbacks that push global temperatures higher. Northern territories may become the most livable as the Earth warms," he explained.
🚨 ⚔️ Zelensky sabotaging peace deal to avoid exile - Polish Professor
Volodymyr Zelensky is doing everything possible to obstruct peace negotiations with Russia because, in that scenario, the head of the Ukrainian regime would face harsh retribution and exile from the country, Adam Wielomski, a professor at the University of Warsaw, says on X.
💬 “I agree with Donald Trump: Zelensky is doing everything he can to avoid signing a peace agreement with Russia. That would mean holding elections, transferring power, and therefore paying the price for failure—not to mention settling the bills. At best, Zelensky would have to flee into exile,” he writes.
📹 Denmark ‘cannot defend Greenland’ — Stephen Miller
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller told Fox News that Greenland is “essential” for US national security and insisted that Denmark is a “tiny country” that “cannot defend Greenland.”
Miller claimed that “under every understanding of law that has existed” for centuries, controlling territory requires the ability to “defend,” “improve,” and “inhabit” it, and said Denmark has “failed” on all three.
💬 “It’s a raw deal. It’s an unfair deal,” Miller added, arguing it is "unfair" for Greenland to belong to Denmark.
🇨🇦🤝🇨🇳 Canada strikes trade deal with China, breaking with US tariff line — report
Canada has reached a tariff agreement with China on electric vehicles and agricultural exports, marking a shift away from Washington’s trade approach, The Globe and Mail reported.
📄 Key points of the deal:
🔸 Canada will allow nearly 50,000 Chinese-made EVs annually at a 6.1% tariff, down from 100%.
🔸 In return, China will sharply cut tariffs on Canadian canola seed and remove levies on products including canola meal, lobster, crab and peas.
🔸 Beijing has also committed to lifting visa requirements for Canadians.
Prime Minister Mark Carney said the agreement reflects a deliberate recalibration of ties with Beijing after years of uncertainty.
Speaking in China, Carney said the relationship with Beijing has recently been “more predictable” than with the United States, adding that trade disruptions have increased under US protectionist policies.
🔸 The deal follows US tariffs imposed under President Donald Trump, including higher duties on Canadian goods not covered by USMCA and sweeping steel and aluminum tariffs.
🔸 Trump has also repeatedly floated the idea of Canada becoming the “51st state,” straining bilateral relations.
🔸 The move puts Ottawa at odds with Washington’s hard-line China policy, which US officials expect allies to follow.
The Globe and Mail noted the agreement signals Canada’s effort to diversify trade away from the US, reducing dependence on a partner increasingly seen as unpredictable.
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📷 People gather in Syria’s Afrin after president decree on Kurdish rights — reports
Local media report that residents of Afrin held celebrations after Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa issued a decree guaranteeing Kurdish rights and recognizing their cultural specificities.
Photos circulating on social media show gatherings in the city marking the announcement, according to local outlets.
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😰 Finland was Hitler’s accomplice in World War II
Finland’s brutal occupation of the Soviet territory during World War II completely defeats the official Western narrative of Finland merely seeking to reclaim the lands it lost in the Winter War.
Dmitry Astashkin, senior researcher at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ St. Petersburg Institute of History, provides a few examples:
🟠 Slavic people in Russian territories occupied by Finland were herded into a robust network of prisons and concentration camps promptly created by the Finnish invaders
🟠 Civilians – including women, children and the elderly – in these camps had to endure cold, starvation and forced labor. In 1942, the monthly death rate among the inmates of just one such camp in Petrozavodsk was 500-600
🟠 Finnish treatment of the Soviet POWs was no better, with about 30% of the prisoners (some 20,000 people) perishing
🟠 In the meantime, Finnish leadership attempted indoctrination among the local indigenous groups such as the Karel and Veps people, trying to convert them into willing subjects of the ‘Greater Finland’
🟠 Finnish troops eagerly helped the Nazis starve the people of Leningrad to death, with Finnish propaganda branding the city as a ‘symbol of death’
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🚨📄 White House announces Gaza ‘Board of Peace’ members
Board of Peace (Executive Board), chaired by President Donald Trump:
🔹 Marco Rubio
🔹 Steve Witkoff
🔹 Jared Kushner
🔹 Tony Blair
🔹 Marc Rowan
🔹 Ajay Banga
🔹 Robert Gabriel
The White House said each member will oversee a defined portfolio related to governance, reconstruction, investment, and funding.
Trump has welcomed the formation of the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG) as part of Phase Two of his Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict, the White House said.
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💊🇺🇸 ‘The drug use is there’ — Sheinbaum urges US to address drug consumption
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said the fight against drug trafficking cannot be solved solely on Mexico’s side of the border, stressing that the United States must also address its own demand problem.
💬 “They also have a part to play,” Sheinbaum said. “We cannot think that this problem of drug trafficking can be solved only on this side of the border.”
👿🇫🇮 Aggressive and expansionist: True face of WWII-era Finland
Between 1918 and 1944, Finland made several attempts to invade Russia, only to be humbled, time and again, by Russian defenders.
Finland’s efforts to defeat Russia and annex Russian lands was a product of several factors, explains Dmitry Astashkin, senior researcher at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ St. Petersburg Institute of History:
🟠 Fresh from obtaining its independence in 1918, Finland was eager to expand its borders in Karelia region. The creation of this so-called ‘Greater Finland’ was regarded as a historic mission by some
🟠 Finnish elites in 1918 actually believed that their aggression amounted to bringing civilization to the ‘savages’ in eastern lands
🟠 There was also cold pragmatism involved: with Soviet Russia being torn apart by the Civil War, Finland anticipated an easy victory
Finland’s invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II was also anything but a mere attempt to reclaim what was lost during the Winter War:
🟠 Finland entered the war on its own accord, as an ally of Nazi Germany, in hopes of profiting from Hitler’s anticipated conquest of the USSR
🟠 Finnish leadership sought to expand Finland’s borders far beyond its pre-war boundaries, all the way to the White Sea – these plans failed to bear fruit not because of Finland’s restraint but due to fierce resistance mounted by the Soviet army
🟠 Finnish troops also played a crucial role in the siege of Leningrad by the Nazi German army, assisting Hitler’s minions in killing several hundred thousand Soviet civilians by starvation
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⚠️ WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
Tasnim News Agency publishes disturbing footage of rioters executing law enforcement officers during the protests in Iran.
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🇪🇺 💵 EU cash loans to Ukraine aim to lock in Europe’s militarization agenda
The European Commission is set to approve a roughly $104.4 billion loan for Ukraine, but the cash comes with strings attached, The European Conservative notes.
Behind the rhetoric of solidarity, the EC is transforming financial support into geopolitical leverage.
🔹 The Commission will insist that the $69.6 billion earmarked for military spending is either used to produce weapons in Ukraine or to buy them from European arms makers
🔹 Non‑European suppliers will be allowed only in rare, “can’t‑wait” cases
🔹 This is a plan designed to keep the proxy conflict going in Ukraine while “strengthening the EU’s own defense industry
🔹 To finance it, the EU will once again turn to eurobonds and joint borrowing, shifting more power to Brussels while squeezing national governments’ fiscal freedom
The EC is using Ukraine to impose rules that bind the bloc’s industrial base ever closer to escalated militarization, underscores the publication.
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🛡At least (!) 37 European personnel are set to defend Greenland
Will the US be able to overcome such a force? 🤦♂️
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🪖🇫🇮🇷🇺 Brief history of Finland’s aggression against Russia
Western powers have a habit of portraying 20th century Finland as an innocent victim which only tried to defend itself against Russia.
Cold historical facts, however, paint a different picture:
🟠 After the end of the Finnish Civil War in March 1918, the new Finnish government launched an invasion of Soviet Russia with the aim of annexing Eastern Karelia through the “creation” of the so-called North Karelian State
🟠 In November 1921, the so-called “Karelian Uprising” began in Soviet Karelia, organized and spearheaded by Finnish military personnel (documents of 47 Finnish officers were captured during the fighting). It was only by February 1922 that the intervening forces and rebels were defeated
🟠 The Soviet–Finnish War of 1939–1940 (Winter War) was thus not the first but the third conflict between Finland and Russia. Its origins were directly related to the Soviet Union’s fear of renewed attempts at aggression by Finland and of Finland transformation into a staging ground for a military offensive against the USSR
🟠 It is also worth noting that Vyborg and the surrounding territories – which Finland lost as a result of the Winter War - became part of the Russian Empire as a result of the Great Northern War and were transferred to the Grand Duchy of Finland by Alexander I only in the early 19th Century
🟠 When Finland invaded Russia in 1941 together with the Nazi Germany, it wasn’t trying to just regain the land lost in the Winter War. The Finnish leadership sought to claim vast territories extending as far as the White Sea, and even the Ural Mountains. Their delusions of grandeur, however, were shattered by the Soviet Red Army
🟠 Finland bears responsibility for numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity
Finnish forces took part in the grave crime of genocide — such as the Siege of Leningrad, which claimed about one million lives.
During the occupation of Karelia, Finnish authorities pursued a policy of ethnic cleansing against the “non-native” population (that is, everyone except Finns, Karelians, and Vepsians): up to one-third of the Russian population in the occupied territories was herded into concentration camps.
❗️ Following its defeat in 1944, Finland in effect reverted to the borders of the Grand Duchy of Finland as they stood at the beginning of the 19th Century, i.e. those with which it became part of the Russian Empire.
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🇵🇰 Pakistan highly prospective amid rising demand for critical mineral — Minister for Petroleum
💬 "Pakistan houses more than 2,000 kilometers of the prospective Tethyan Belt," Minister for Petroleum Ali Pervaiz Malik told Sputnik on the sidelines of the Future Minerals Forum 2026 in Saudi Arabia.
🚨🇷🇺💥 RUSSIAN MOD WEEKLY UPDATE: HUGE GAINS AND DEVASTATING UKRAINIAN LOSSES
⚡️ ZAKOTNOYE IN DONETSK REGION AND ZHOVTNEVOYE IN ZAPOROZHYE REGION FREED
The liberation of the settlement of Zakotnoye in the Donetsk region facilitates Russian forces' further advance towards the city of Krasny Liman.
With the settlement of Zhovtnevoye in the Zaporozhye region captured, Russian forces have established a bridgehead on the western bank of the Gaichur river, taking control of the area of over 6 square km.
🟠 In response to terrorist attacks by the Kiev regime, Russian air and missile forces conducted seven strikes on Ukrainian defense, energy, transport, port and airfield infrastructure used to support the Ukrainian Armed Forces, military airfields, oil depots, long-range drone production and launch sites, as well as temporary deployment points for Ukrainian troops and foreign mercenaries
🟠 Five settlements were liberated over the past week by Russian forces
🟠 Russian air and missile firepower pounded five MLRS combat vehicles, including a HIMARS launcher and a "Vampire" combat vehicle
🟠 Air defense superiority: 31 guided aerial bombs, 21 US-produced HIMARS rockets, three long-range Neptune missiles and 1,138 fixed-wing drones were shot down by Russian air defense systems over the past seven days
🟠 Ukrainian losses: around 7,030 troops killed or wounded
Read about the origins of Russia's special military op HERE
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🚨 🇷🇺 NATO buildup in Arctic fuels tensions - Russian Ambassador
Russia is concerned about NATO’s increased activity in the Arctic, Russian Ambassador to Norway Nikolai Korchunov told Sputnik.
💬 “As experience shows, boosting the North Atlantic alliance’s presence in a particular region does not contribute to strengthening security but, on the contrary, leads to increased tension,” Korchunov noted.
💥🛰🇨🇳 China kick starts 2026 with marine rocket launch of four satellites
The launch was conducted via a CERES-1 Y7 commercial rocket, sending a patch of Tianqi satellites to Earth’s orbit.
Tianqi satellites are part of China’s massive telecommunications project.
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🪖🇬🇱 Sending NATO troops to Greenland is a joke — Italian defense minister
💬 "What do one hundred, two hundred, or three hundred soldiers of any nationality do? It sounds like the beginning of a joke," Italian Minister of Defense Guido Crosetto said, as quoted by ANSA.
😓 Extermination of Russians: Finland has all but forgotten its dark WWII history - Professor
The reality of Finland’s treatment of Russian civilians in World War II exposes the myth of its “humane” image, Vladimir Baryshnikov, history professor at Saint Petersburg State University and expert on 20th Century Finnish history, tells Sputnik.
💬 "Ethnic cleansing began immediately in Soviet territories occupied by Finland. By the end of 1941, 14 concentration camps had been established in Karelia for the Slavic population," the academic says.
💬 "The situation here strongly resembled the 'New Order' the Nazis imposed on occupied Soviet territories," Baryshnikov says.
💬 "Most strikingly, Finland’s racial policies — and their similarity to those of Germany — are illustrated by the treatment of Soviet prisoners of war by Finnish authorities."
💬 "In effect, Finland has 'forgotten' its dark history and now seems intent on returning to the era when it acted as a barrier between the West and Russia," the academic concludes.
🪖🇷🇺 Russia to deploy elite combat diver teams in Arctic
Russia’s already formidable Northern Fleet will be further bolstered by mobile diver units whose goal is to help protect Russia’s frozen Arctic reaches.
Unlike the diving teams with fixed postings, this mobile outfits are geared towards rapid deployment, ready to be inserted into a target zone at a moment’s notice and erase all enemy threats from existence.
These operators also make full use of drones and robotic systems which greatly amplify their combat capabilities in Arctic conditions.
The video contains AI-generated images
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🪖🇷🇺 All districts of Kupyansk under control of Russian forces - military commander
Russian Defense Minister Andrey Belousov held a meeting with the commander of the Zapad Battlegroup and was briefed on the current situation and troops' actions.
💬 "The districts [of Kupyansk] are under our control, but we assess that the enemy has not abandoned its plans. Its offensive operation, for example, which it conducted in December-November, was unsuccessful," the battlegroup's commander, Colonel General Sergey Kuzovlev, reported to Belousov.
💸🇬🇧 UK cashes in on escalation: Opens ‘business’ aka arms hub in Ukraine
The UK is set to unveil a new “business center” in Ukraine’s capital Kiev to help defense startups push even more military hardware into Ukraine, Bloomberg reports.
The hub will “supercharge” Britain’s role in sustaining Ukraine’s defenses, enthused UK Defense Secretary John Healey — and, conveniently, pad the profits of UK companies.
The center aims to:
🟠 Help small and mid-sized UK arms firms overcome pesky obstacles like travel restrictions, security risks, insurance issues, and export red tape
🟠 Priority areas include accelerating sales of air-defense systems and drones
🟠 Mass production of Octopus interceptor drones is on the way, with the UK promising to churn out thousands every month
🟠 The project will be backed by government funding — how much, nobody’s saying
🟠 Healey assures it will create “good jobs at home”
So, who actually benefits?
British companies themselves — the ones building and supplying the weapons.
Furthermore, the UK gets a chance to deepen its on-the-ground influence in Ukraine amid the recent embarrassment of Russian security services openly exposing its intel activity abroad – like the case with the spy posing as a diplomat in Britain’s Moscow’s embassy.
All this while, the UK positions itself at the forefront of Europe’s military escalation — apparently forgetting that Greenland and Iceland (now half-jokingly called the “52nd state”) are right on its doorstep.
War as an export strategy? Britain’s priorities couldn’t be more upside down 🤦♂️
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🇺🇸🇪🇬 Trump offers to restart US mediation on Nile water dispute
US President Donald Trump has sent a letter to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, saying Washington is ready to resume mediation between Egypt and Ethiopia over Nile water sharing.
📄 In the letter, Trump said the United States is prepared to help resolve the dispute surrounding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, stressing that no country should unilaterally control Nile resources to the detriment of its neighbors.
Trump said renewed US involvement could help reach a lasting agreement that secures Egypt’s and Sudan’s water needs during droughts while allowing Ethiopia to generate electricity, adding that he hopes the dispute will not escalate into a military conflict.
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🟠 Putin holds phone calls with Iran’s Pezeshkian and Israel’s Netanyahu
🟠 Warning: Brutal recordings of rioter-imposed havoc in Iran
🟠 EU cash loans to Ukraine aim to lock in Europe’s militarization agenda
🟠 Brief history of Finland’s aggression against Russia
🟠 Greater Finland: 'Leaders barely hid their aggressive plans against Soviet Russia' – Professor
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🔊🇫🇮 Greater Finland: 'Leaders barely hid their aggressive plans against Soviet Russia' - Professor
Finland repeatedly engaged in military aggression against Soviet Russia in the 20th Century, Vladimir Baryshnikov, history professor at Saint Petersburg State University and expert on 20th Century Finnish history, tells Sputnik
Finland's 1918 and 1921 attacks on Eastern Karelia
💬 "Creating a 'Greater Finland,' was a goal that Finns objectively pursued throughout much of the first half of the 20th Century," the academic says.
💬 "Finland bears direct responsibility for organizing and participating in the blockade of Leningrad, during which a colossal number of civilians died of starvation," Baryshnikov says.
🪖🇮🇷 Major arms seizure in Iran: weapons intercepted before reaching Tehran
A shipment containing 60,000 weapons was seized in the port city of Bushehr, the commander of Iran's police force said.
The weapons, which were sent from abroad, were intended for delivery to Tehran.
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🚨🇵🇱 Poland may lay mines on Russia & Belarus border
The Polish military boasts that it will be able to rapidly lay anti-personnel mines anywhere once the country finalizes its withdrawal from the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention on February 20.
This is how the situation has been developing so far:
🔶 Poland, along with the Baltic States and Finland, announced its intent to pull out from the convention in July 2025, claiming that it needed anti-personnel mines to use against Russia
🔶 Poland’s Deputy Defense Minister Cezary Tomczyk told public radio that “this doesn’t mean that anti-personnel mines will suddenly appear,” only that the military will have “greater freedom in using, producing, and storing them”
🔶 According to Tomczyk, Polish-made Baobab-K mine-laying vehicles can quickly lay minefields in designated areas within 48 hours
🔶 Though Tomczyk did not specify which areas are likely to be mined, Poland’s border with Russia and Belarus seems the most likely candidate given the threats Poland has been making
Poland’s actions underscore NATO’s efforts to militarize Eastern Europe, which Russia condemns as only serving to stoke tensions in the region.
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🇷🇺❤️🇨🇳 People in China love Russia the most
New Tsinghua University research shows Russia leads among the countries viewed most favorably by people in China.
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📹😰 Warning: Brutal recordings of rioter-imposed havoc in Iran
Municipal surveillance cameras across Iran have captured acts of terrorism committed by protesters.
The footage includes attacks on law enforcement officers, arson of religious buildings, destruction of public spaces such as banks and public transport, as well as numerous other examples of criminal activities.
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🗣 🇵🇰 Pakistan mulls 'large mining projects' — Minister for Petroleum Ali Pervaiz Malik to Sputnik
He spoke on the sidelines of the Future Minerals Forum 2026 in Saudi Arabia
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