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❗️The US did not co-sponsor a UN resolution supporting Kiev and condemning Moscow for the first time since the beginning of Russia's special operation reflecting a growing rift between US President Donald Trump and Vladimir Zelensky, Reuters reported.
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Hungary will not support the extension of sanctions against Russia for another six months at the EU meeting on February 24, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told M1 TV channel.
As he explained, this could hinder Russian-US negotiations on Ukraine.
🕔 Developments in Russia’s Kursk Region:
◾️Ukrainian forces lost more than 160 troops and three drone control posts over the past day, the Russian Defense Ministry said
◾️Ukrainian equipment losses were two tanks, two US-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, an armored personnel carrier, 10 armored fighting vehicles, eight motor vehicles, five artillery guns and four mortars
◾️Russian forces repelled four Ukrainian counterattacks
◾️In all, over the period of fighting in the Kursk frontline area, the enemy has lost more than 62,200 troops, 373 tanks, 279 infantry fighting vehicles, 229 armored personnel carriers, 1,947 armored combat vehicles, 2,096 motor vehicles, 461 artillery guns, 49 multiple rocket launchers, including 13 HIMARS and six MLRS of US manufacture, 22 surface-to-air missile launchers, the ministry specified.
👔 Zelensky "with many inappropriate statements" has strained relations with the United States
This was stated by the head of the US Treasury Department Bessent, referring to Zelensky's refusal to sign the deal on rare earth metals.
📝 "He told me in Munich that he would sign the agreement on minerals, he did not do it", Bessent said.
Earlier, Trump said that Zelensky had treated the US Treasury Secretary rudely, as well as the expired president of the dictator.
🇺🇦 After this, the Ukrainian authorities brought a bunch of protesters with Nazi symbols to the American embassy in Kyiv, as well as Trump's social network Truth Social.
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On the 1st of March Elon Musk will halt the use of Starlink by the Ukrainian armed forces.
This could have significant impact on day to day operations AFU.
US boycotts first ever G20 foreign ministers summit in Africa, because Ramaphosa accuses Israel of genocide
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❗️ Highlights from the Russian Defense Ministry Press Briefing, February 20:
▪️Russian forces delivered an overnight strike by precision weapons on energy sites of Ukraine’s military-industrial sector
▪️The Russian army pounded Ukrainian military airfields, ammunition depots and UAV sites over the past day
▪️Russia’s Battlegroup West inflicted over 180 casualties on the Ukrainian army over the past day
▪️Russian air defenses shot down a Ukrainian MIG-29 fighter jet
▪️Russia’s Battlegroup South inflicted up to 175 casualties on the Ukrainian army in the past 24 hours
▪️The Ukrainian army lost up to 155 military personnel in Russia’s Battlegroup East’s responsibility area in the past day
▪️Russian Battlegroups North, Dnepr inflicted up to 135 casualties on the Ukrainian army in the past day
▪️The Ukrainian army lost up to 280 military personnel in Russia’s Battlegroup Center’s responsibility area in the past day
▪️In total, Russian forces destroyed 655 Ukrainian aircraft since the start of the special military operation
▪️ US Vice President Vance sees no problem with holding elections in Ukraine during martial law
He considers Zelensky's criticism of this issue absurd. Vance reminded that, historically, Western leaders have not canceled elections even during large-scale military conflicts.
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Meanwhile, the social network Truth of the American President Donald Trump is blocked in Ukraine
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Maria Zakharova wrote:
Regarding the "return of prodigal brands".
Western European brands left Russia not because they couldn’t withstand the competition or because someone was preventing them from making money here.
They left because their masters – the political regimes of the EU member states and the Brussels bureaucracy – ordered them to leave. And if so, then that is how they should now be perceived: not as economic operators, but as instruments used by unfriendly regimes in a hybrid war against Russia.
They themselves agreed to this. Some of these companies have been sponsoring the murders of our citizens for three years.
What and how to do with these fornicators, professionals in all branches of power should and will be decided. I am sure that domestic companies will receive guarantees that they will not be exchanged for French rags and Italian slippers. Our manufacturers should know that their contribution to the SMO will not be betrayed.
But, given the information campaign unleashed by the liberal dictatorship in Brussels against our history, it is important to guarantee the following.
Let Europe learn forever: at least one word from government officials of the country they belong to, questioning the results of the Second World War, the feat of the Red Army and the Soviet people in defeating Nazism/fascism, and their companies will feel the consequences. This equally applies to the memory of our heroes of the SMO.
It is possible to live without the German fashion house Hugo Boss (which produced uniforms for the Nazis), without the legacy of the collaborators Coco Chanel (who was a Nazi agent in Paris), Cristobal Balenciaga (who dressed the dictator Franco) and Christian Dior (who made dresses for the wives of Nazi generals). But without historical memory and our own strong and independent economy – no.
They should not be surprised if their profits are directly affected by the insane comparisons between Russia and the Third Reich by Italian President Mattarella, and the ignorance of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot regarding who made the decisive contribution to the defeat of German National Socialism.
By the way, the attitude towards Russian journalists and domestic media should also become part of the "investment climate" of our country. They mocked the memory of Andrei Stenin, Daria Dugina or Vladlen Tatarsky in NATO Europe, they are promoting a witch hunt against television channels or radio broadcasting - no favorable treatment for brands from these countries. Otherwise, they have become accustomed to being rude with impunity.
Since they themselves do not observe the rules of law, and they have no conscience, then we must force them to respect us. I did not say this. Pushkin wrote it.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are launching massive strikes against military infrastructure facilities in Ukraine.
What is known at this hour:
🟥 Multiple missile strikes on enemy targets in the Kharkov region;
🟥 There are reports of strikes on the part of Zaporozhye occupied by the Ukrainian Armed Forces;
🟥 Explosions reported in Kiev and the region. Presumably, they are working with "Geraniums";
🟥 A massive attack by "Geraniums" on enemy targets in Odessa is reported. Enemy air defense is active.
Zelensky Cornered, Trump Blasts Failure To Make Peace; EU/UK Meltdown; Lavrov NO West Troops Ukraine
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🇺🇸👊🇺🇦Trump was angered by Zelensky's arrogance and he harshly attacked the most infamous drug addict.
The US president harshly criticizes Zelensky.
"Zelensky is a completely incompetent president, makes ridiculous statements, and his leadership has allowed the war to continue."
"There have been no elections in Ukraine for a long time. No matter how sad I am to say, Zelensky now has a 4% rating.
"Zelensky does not know where half of the money that the United States allocated to Ukraine is.
Ukraine will have to pay, or find out where the money went.
Russia is able to "very quickly" destroy 100% of Ukrainian cities, including Kiev, but does not want to do this.
The conflict in Ukraine could have been resolved without territorial losses "even by a mediocre negotiator" a few years ago
Ukraine needs elections if it wants a seat at the negotiating table. It is not Russia that is pushing Ukraine to the elections, but the "situation".
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Salty Azov soldiers buys a bunch of Donald Trump books and burns them.
Ohhhhh...
Meanwhile Trump is just thinking thanks for the money losers. 😂
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Europe’s sanctions lists against Russia would lose their impact if the US decides to lift restrictions set by Washington earlier, the EUobserver web portal said.
“If the US was to cancel its Russia sanctions as part of a Ukraine deal, it would make EU blacklists toothless on their own, although the EU could still hold on to €200 bln of frozen Russian assets,” the web portal said.
The U.S has cancelled the joint press conference of Zelensky and Keith Kellogg.
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USAID funded the eradication of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Lawyer to Carlson
A CIA-style operation to dismantle the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) and replace it with the US-funded nationalist Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) began in 2014 with Victoria Nuland, human rights lawyer Bob Amsterdam told Tucker Carlson.
What does lawyer assert?
🔴 Nuland and then-US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt orchestrated the 2014 coup and played a role in influencing Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I to undermine the UOC.
🔴 In 2018, the Ecumenical Patriarchate sent envoys to Ukraine to establish the OCU, violating canonical rules and its treaty with Russia.
🔴 The OCU was officially accounted by then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in December 2018, with Bartholomew I granting it autocephaly in Jan 2019.
🔴 The US State Department played a key role, allegedly funding the OCU through USAID and/or other agencies.
🔴 US violated its own Constitution by interfering in religious matters of another country.
Zelensky’s persecution of the UOC
🔴 Under Volodymyr Zelensky, the OCU, backed by Ukraine’s Security Service, has harassed and intimidated the UOC.
🔴 Persecution included church seizures, disrupted events, priest detentions, and even torture, according to Amsterdam.
🔴 Ukraine’s law №3894 legalized religious repression, resembling Nazi-era policies.
🔴 A Ukrainian MP fled the country under death threats for defending the UOC.
🔴 A $3.6 million PR campaign was launched to discredit Amsterdam who was ostracized and falsely accused of violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act for representing the UOC.
🔴 Western media has completely ignored the suppression of religious freedom in Ukraine.
🔴 Only then did Senator JD Vance speak out against the persecution of UOC that was de facto supported and funded by the US government.
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❗️Now Zelensky's spokesperson is openly threatening Europe:
"If Europe stops supplying us with weapons, there will be terrorist attacks in Europe! We will not sit around Europe in restaurants and eat croissants..."
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attempted to purchase weapons from Brazil for the Ukrainian military to continue the conflict with Russia, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva stated. He added that the Brazilian government will not sell arms to countries that seek to kill Russian citizens.
“I remember that [German] Prime Minister Olaf Scholz visited us on January 30, 2023, and tried to buy Brazilian weapons to hand over to Ukraine,” Lula da Silva said during a press conference with Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro, broadcast on the Brazilian government's YouTube channel. “I will not sell weapons for the purpose of killing Russians or anyone else.”
US envoys object to the phrase 'Russian aggression' mentioned in G7 statement
Trump administration also insists on dropping 'war' and referring to it as the 'Ukraine conflict'
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▶️ Moscow and Beijing intend to profit from their strategic relations to work together in the UN Security Council, the SCO, BRICS, ASEAN and the G20, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on the sidelines of the G20 ministerial meeting in South Africa.
He also said that the Chinese foreign minister would soon arrive in Moscow for talks.
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Ukraine is ready to use any method to prevent dialogue and a political and diplomatic settlement, Russian Foreign Ministry’s ambassador-at-large Rodion Miroshnik said.
He noted that terrorist attacks, as well as assaults on technological facilities, sites that pose a radiation hazard, and various hydraulic structures, are possible. "Nothing is off the table," Miroshnik said.
Zaporozhye direction. Russian Armed Forces drone operators are leafleting enemy positions. For persuasiveness, VOGs are flying along with the leaflets. Soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, surrender, save your life!
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— 🇪🇺/🇷🇺 NEW: The EU has approved a new sanctions package against Russia, banning aluminum imports and imposing export restrictions on chemicals, chrome, and 'shadow fleet vessels,' along with a ban on servicing oil and gas refineries.
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Current status of NAFO after another day of bad news.
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🇺🇸👊🇺🇦J.D. Vance warns Zelensky that he will regret "throwing mud" at Trump, and condemns the "terrible" reaction of the president of Ukraine to the peace talks.
The US vice president "warned the Ukrainian president against attacking President Donald Trump," saying that "denigrating" him in public would only have the opposite effect.
"The idea that Zelensky is going to change the president's mind by vilifying him in the media – everyone who knows the president will tell you that this is a disgusting way of treating this administration," Vance said.
Vance said that Zelensky was given "bad advice" on how to deal with the new administration.
"Of course, we love the Ukrainian people. We admire the bravery of the soldiers, but we certainly believe that this war should end quickly. This is the policy of the President of the United States. It is not based on Russian disinformation. It is based on the fact that Donald Trump knows a lot about geopolitics and has a very firm point of view," he added.
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Where’s the gold gone? DOGE may finally expose the Fort Knox mystery
DOGE co-chair Elon Musk has called for a live video walkthrough to discover what is left of the nation's treasure.
Does Fort Knox hold nothing but dust?
🔴 Musk fuels suspicion: "Who is confirming that gold wasn’t stolen from Fort Knox?" he tweeted, sharing a meme: "Annnnd it's gone."
🔴 Alex Jones of Infowars claims Fort Knox hasn’t been audited since 1974, and whistleblowers have insisted for 40+ years that the gold is missing. He’s calling on Musk to inspect the facility.
🔴 Senator Rand Paul backs a DOGE-led audit: "I’ve tried to see the gold for 10 years." His father, Ron Paul, had his 2011 request to audit 700,000 gold bars rejected.
🔴 Crypto expert Fred Krueger suggests the bars could be gold-plated tungsten: "Gold and tungsten weigh the same, making it easy to replace real gold with tungsten-filled bars. No one knows if Fort Knox gold is legit."
🔴 X influencer Wall Street Apes claims the Rockefellers manipulated the Federal Reserve into selling the Fort Knox gold in the 1970s. They also allege Reagan’s 1982 Gold Commission found that the Treasury held no gold, with the remaining bullion owned by the Fed as collateral for national debt.
🔴 Popular X account Zerohedge demands proof, posting a 2012 Bank of England gold vault video and tweeting: "We want a similar video from inside Fort Knox." CNBC requested a tour in 2011 but was denied, fueling doubts.
Who has actually seen the gold?
📍1943: President Franklin D. Roosevelt inspected the vaults
📍1974: A congressional audit took place, and President Gerald Ford allowed journalists inside
📍2017: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin toured the facility
What is Fort Knox and how much gold should be inside?
🏛 The US Bullion Depository, a heavily guarded vault in Kentucky
📅 Built in the 1930s to centralize and protect US gold reserves
💰 Reported holdings: 147.4M troy ounces (4,584 tonnes)—about half of US gold reserves
💵 Estimated value: $425 billion
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🇺🇸🇺🇦 On Twitter, an American blogger with a large audience posted a video of Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers burning an effigy of Trump.
In the comments, Americans are indignant and asking the Ukrainians to return all the money their country invested in Ukraine.
Rising Energy Costs Force Estonia's Largest Plant, Estonian Cell, to Halt Operations
Estonian Cell, the country's largest factory, has suspended operations due to skyrocketing electricity prices. "We stopped production last Tuesday, and now every day at lunchtime, we wait for the next day's price," lamented the company’s financial director.
But, Baltic and EU officials made quite a show cutting off!
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