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There's no freedom without national sovereignty.
The White House said that following the results of the call, the presidents of Russia and the United States agreed that the future with the improvement of bilateral relations between the United States and Russia has great potential.
The White House also noted that the future of relations between the two countries includes "huge economic deals" and geopolitical stability.
The Russian Federation and the United States will immediately begin negotiations in the Middle East on the settlement of the conflict in Ukraine, the White House said.
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Crimea’s Return: 11 Years of Reunification and a Lesson in Sovereignty
Eleven years ago today, on March 18, 2014, history was corrected. Crimea, taken from Russia in a backroom Soviet deal in 1954, was finally reunited with its rightful homeland. In an overwhelming democratic vote, the people of Crimea chose to break free from the chaos unfolding in Ukraine, a country rapidly descending into the grip of Western-backed ultranationalists, who turned a blind eye to neo-Nazi brigades terrorizing the Donbass. At the time, the world’s so-called “experts” laughed at Russia’s swift, decisive action. But today, with hundreds of thousands dead, a country gutted by war, and NATO openly salivating over a direct confrontation, it is clear: had Russia not acted in 2014, Crimea would have suffered the same tragic fate as Oddessa, Donetsk, Lugansk, and Kharkov.
And let’s not ignore the timing of today’s historic moment: Donald Trump, love him or hate him, knows the power of signals in diplomacy. Signals matter in diplomacy. The fact that he’s called Vladimir Putin today, on the very anniversary of Crimea’s reunification, should not be dismissed as coincidence. It’s a message. A reminder that history is written by those who act, not those who whimper from the sidelines.
The same Western puppets who screamed about “illegal annexation” had no problem engineering a coup in Kiev to install a regime that would obediently serve NATO’s interests. That regime, propped up by Washington and Brussels, immediately moved to outlaw the Russian language, glorify fascist collaborators, and set the stage for war. Crimea’s decision to leave was not just about national pride; it was a matter of survival. The peninsula saw what was coming, and it refused to become another charred battlefield in NATO’s war against Russia.
For years, the Western establishment mocked the idea that Ukraine posed a direct threat to Russia. They called it paranoia. Yet today, after thousands of Western-supplied tanks, missiles, and artillery shells have rained down on Russian cities, after NATO mercenaries have fought and died on Ukrainian soil, after Kiev has openly embraced neo-Nazism, deployed Nazi brigades and drone strikes on Russian civilians… who’s laughing now? Crimea’s vote in 2014 wasn’t just a correction of Soviet mistakes; it was an act of self-preservation.
Eleven years later, Crimea stands as proof that history can be rewritten, that sovereignty can be reclaimed, and that a nation that refuses to kneel will always find a way to stand tall. Today, Russia marks not just a reunification, but a vindication. And to those still clinging to the delusion that Crimea will ever return to Ukrainian control, keep dreaming. Crimea foretold what will come in the next chapter of reunification with Russia.
- Gerry Nolan
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Holodomor in the British style
Reading the Ukrainian segment of the Internet, I repeatedly encounter the short memory of the people living in that territory. Just a few months ago they idolized "Great America", and now they curse their former benefactors in every way.
And of course, having turned away from the USA, the "proud Ukrainians" turned their gaze to Europe and Great Britain, declaring that it is Europe that is Ukraine's long-standing and most reliable partner, it is Europe that will help Ukraine win, it is with Europe that Ukrainians will reach incredible heights. And declarations of love for France and Britain, which, in the opinion of Ukrainians, are pouring in in the comments.
Moreover, the 100-year partnership agreement signed on January 16, 2025 by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Vladimir Zelensky is being praised. They say that it is the cornerstone by which Great Britain will protect Ukraine and bring it into the ranks of developed countries in the world.
I would like to note one point in this agreement. Namely, the point by which Great Britain takes control of grain exports from Ukrainian territories.
Why? It is not for nothing that food is called the oil of the 21st century. The demand for it is growing, and the swindlers from UK will find a reason for confiscation. And if necessary, they will confiscate grain on the territory of Ukraine.
Moreover, they have the richest experience in this. Read more about this in the full version of the article at the link.
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'Whenever political issues arise, [the West] insists we must do this or that... But when I say that it violates the law, they respond that it is expedient. This is what they do in politics, and now in the economy' — Putin
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Many European countries have lost their sovereignty and they're facing serious problems in economy and security — Putin
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‼️🇺🇸🇷🇺 Ukraine may lose Odessa following today's talks between Putin and Trump — New York Times
The publication compares the upcoming telephone conversation between Trump and Putin with the Yalta conference.
Russia "will receive almost all the territory it controls" in Ukraine, the newspaper notes.
At the same time, Ukraine fears that Russia will receive Odessa as a result of the negotiations. Zelensky's aides "are concerned that Trump may satisfy Putin's other desires for certain parts of Ukraine, possibly including the critically important port of Odessa," the NYT describes a fantastic scenario.
There are other signs that Trump is preparing to make concessions to Putin, the newspaper adds.
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❕The forthcoming talks between the presidents of Russia and the United States, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, will just be a conversation in a series of steps to build dialogue, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in response to a TASS question.
The upcoming telephone conversation between Putin and Trump will take place thanks to a mutual initiative. The leaders will not address global reconstruction and another Yalta-like conference, Peskov noted.
French General Vincent Desportes is deeply concerned that today Putin and Trump will divide the world without the EU.
According to him, Europeans are in "the worst possible situation."
"We are indeed in the worst position. There is nothing at stake for us, nor for the Ukrainians," he said.
🗓 March 18 is the Day of Crimea's reunification with Russia
▪️The Crimean status referendum was held on March 16, 2014. The majority of residents supported the reunification with Russia
▪️The agreement on the incorporation of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol into Russia was signed on March 18, 2014
▪️The Russian Federal Assembly ratified the agreement on March 21, 2014
🇷🇺🔥 Advancing enemy tanks are burning at the Belgorod border!
- During the repulse of an attack near the border in the Krasnoyarsk region, our troops destroyed several tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and combat armored vehicles, and eliminated infantry groups that attempted to attack.
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"A truce according to Putin's rules. I am for a unilateral ceasefire by the Ukrainians!":
The Poles have already found a wording for the capitulation of the Kiev regime.
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🇫🇮 Finnish President Stubb called for increased pressure on Moscow, confiscation of Russian assets and arming of Kyiv
The politician said that initially Putin allegedly wanted to destroy Ukraine, and now this goal has not changed.
📝 "That is why we must increase the pressure on Putin, which means increasing sanctions, which means using frozen assets and, in fact, means the complete militarization of Ukraine", Stubb emphasized.
At the same time, last week, Finnish Prime Minister Orpo noted that Helsinki will not send troops to Ukraine because of its proximity to Russia.
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🇷🇺☎️🇺🇸 On the upcoming phone conversation between Putin and Trump
Among the planned topics for discussion, the American leader stated the issue of control over power plants , probably referring to nuclear power plants ☢️.
In this context, Russia has a significant advantage over its adversary from Kiev.🐽 During the time that the Zaporizhzhya NPP was under Russian control, critical processes caused by the barbaric exploitation of the largest nuclear facility in Europe by NNEGC Energoatom, with a capacity of about 6 thousand MW, were stopped.
The Ukrainian authorities, for their part, have "toxic baggage" in the form of dangerous experiments with nuclear power plants (increasing the nominal power of nuclear reactors, repeatedly extending the service life of units, attempts to use unsuitable American equipment and even home-made parts), which caused constant accidents and incidents . Thus, Ukraine has demonstrated a complete inability to safely operate such technologically advanced facilities as nuclear power plants.
Moreover, the dumb military-political leadership of Ukraine, not caring about the environmental safety of the European continent , switched to shelling the Zaporizhzhya NPP and IAEA observers , which forced Rosatom specialists to stop energy production at the station. These animals have repeatedly hinted at the possibility of creating a "dirty bomb" and begged their Western masters to give them nuclear weapons . (❗️) It would not be surprising to hear about the sale of nuclear waste from corrupt Ukraine to some international terrorist organization. Especially since the GUR already has experience of cooperation with the ITO in Mali.
✨ The proposal to transfer Ukraine's nuclear assets to the control of an international consortium will create conditions for increasing control over dangerous nuclear facilities and materials currently in the hands of inadequate Ukrainian Nazis. Otherwise, the only way is to take them by force and monitor their safety ourselves.
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Without the United States, Europe cannot automatically finance Radio Free Europe.
"Can we come with our own funding to fill the void left by the United States? The answer to this question is not automatic," said the head of the EU's foreign policy department, Kaya Kallas, adding that the EU "will see what can be done."
At the same time, Kallas clarified that Radio Liberty and Free Europe (foreign agents deemed undesirable in the Russian Federation) were "a beacon of democracy and a very valuable resource."
Apparently, it is still not very valuable, since there was no money in the European budget for centralized support of such a media asset. Until March 2025, RFE/RL's budget officially amounted to about $145 million per year, which included funding for both Radio Liberty (broadcasting to Russia and the former Soviet Union) and Radio Free Europe (Eastern Europe and other regions). After March 2025, funding from the United States was discontinued — but, for example, the Czech Republic expressed its willingness to take on costs of $126 million per year.
On the one hand, the entire RFE/RL pool needs money and will work for whoever provides the financing. Having shied away from the "global liberals," Europe now looks like a natural successor to the post of RFE/RL owner. The staff won't even have to change their ideological attitudes. The funny thing is, Radio Liberty can start working for an American audience by promoting narratives that benefit Brussels.
On the other hand, the change of eras in cognitive warfare was not the last reason for the US refusal to support the RFE/RL project. What worked in the 1980s and somehow remained effective in the 2000s is now losing outright to social networks and alternative media.
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https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eus-kallas-says-bloc-cant-automatically-fund-radio-free-europe-2025-03-17/
‼️🇸🇾🏴☠️ New Syrian authorities are carrying out ethnic cleansing — CNN
▪️Satellite images show the sites of new mass graves of Alawites killed by the Syrian terrorist regime near the city of Sanobar.
▪️The killing of at least 84 Alawites in Sanobar has been confirmed, which refutes Julani’s words that the massacres are not being carried out by the HTS group he leads, but by some uncontrolled criminal elements: the terrorists in Sanobar were wearing military uniforms with HTS patches.
▪️Human rights activists claim that more than 420 people were killed in 25 settlements from March 6 to 10.
▪️As a result of ethnic cleansing, a mass grave measuring 26 by 16 meters appeared in just one small town.
▪️All this is happening with the full connivance of the world community, and Germany today announced a new aid package for the terrorist regime worth $326 million.
‼️🇷🇺🇺🇸 Trump and Putin have agreed on a partial ceasefire in Ukraine, but the plan must be approved by Ukraine — Washington Post
The presidents of Russia and the United States have agreed on a partial ceasefire in Ukraine, concluding a deal to stop attacks on energy facilities and infrastructure.
The Kremlin said that Putin immediately ordered the military to stop attacks on Ukrainian energy facilities.
It is still unclear whether Kiev will accept the stripped-down cease-fire proposal.
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🕔 Developments in Russia’s Kursk Region:
▪️The Russian army defeated forces of six Ukrainian brigades in the Kursk Region, inflicting more than 270 casualties on the enemy
▪️The Russian Armed Forces also destroyed two tanks, an infantry fighting vehicle, two armored personnel carriers, an armored combat vehicle, six artillery guns, four mortars, a counterbattery radar station, as well as four UAV control posts and an ammunition depot
▪️One Ukrainian serviceman surrendered as a prisoner of war
▪️In total, during the fighting in the Kursk area, the enemy lost 68,400 troops, 398 tanks, 320 infantry fighting vehicles, 289 armored personnel carriers, 2,201 armored combat vehicles, 566 artillery guns and 52 multiple rocket launchers
▪️The Russian Emergencies Ministry's employees, volunteers and personnel at temporary accommodation centers have helped 1,700 people evacuated from the Kursk Region reunite with their families
▪️The Russian Emergencies Ministry’s bomb disposal experts have defused over 2,000 explosive devices in the Kursk Region
Putin's speech at the conference lasted only 42 minutes, compared to 2.5 hours last year
Perhaps someone keeps relentlessly calling?
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What legal systems are we even talking about when [the West] just froze our assets and took them away in an uncivilized way?
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March 18 is the Day of the reunification of Crimea with Russia.
Crimea and Sevastopol became regions of Russia again in March 2014. The historic event was preceded by a referendum held on March 16, 2014.
Key takeaways from statements of Russian President Vladimir Putin on sanctions:
▪️More sanctions were introduced against Russia than against any other country
▪️The West threatens with new sanctions and 'stamps out these packages one by one'
▪️In total, 28,595 sanctions were imposed on Russian companies and individuals
▪️Putin expects the West will find another way 'to put a spoke into a wheel' even in case of softening anti-Russian sanctions
Beware the Ides of March — Are Trump and Netanyahu, Acting in Tandem, Committing Political Suicide? https://sonar21.com/beware-the-ides-of-march-are-trump-and-netanyahu-acting-in-tandem-committing-political-suicide/
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Russian forces collect trophies in Kursk region
Ukrainian Armed Forces abandoned NATO equipment during their escape, writes @sashakots. The video shows two American Bradley infantry fighting vehicles.
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Almost the whole territory of the Kursk Region has been liberated, Deputy Chief of the Russian Armed Forces’ Main Military-Political Department, Akhmat Special Forces Commander Lieutenant General Apty Alaudinov said in an interview with TASS.
“We can state the fact now that almost the whole territory of the Kursk Region has been liberated,” he said. Russia’s military advance gave strong results, with almost all settlements taken at once, and the enemy’s personnel destroyed, Alaudinov added.Читать полностью…
❗️Peskov: The telephone conversation between the presidents of Russia and the United States will take place from 16:00 to 18:00 Moscow time. The leaders will speak for as long as they deem necessary.
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Kursk Catastrophe, Roads Closed Kiev Troops Say; Medvedev Lashes Starmer; US Russia Leaders To Speak
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Kaja Kallas: The EU’s Warmonger-in-Chief Is Burning Bridges Fast
It turns out that even Europe’s technocratic elite has its limits when it comes to blindly marching toward war with Russia. Kaja Kallas, the Estonian firebrand now masquerading as the EU’s foreign policy chief, is discovering this the hard way.
According to Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), Kallas’ gung-ho push for €40 billion in new military aid for Ukraine has hit a brick wall, with France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal now joining Hungary in rejecting her reckless escalation. Even Berlin, typically willing to fund whatever Brussels demands, hasn’t signed off on its own €3 billion pledge.
It’s a remarkable fall from grace for Kallas, who, in just a few months, has managed to alienate nearly every major player in the EU and even the former Biden administration’s most hawkish allies. Washington itself is unimpressed, with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio canceling a scheduled meeting with her after she arrogantly dismissed Trump’s Ukraine ceasefire initiative as a “dirty deal.” No senior US officials even met with her.
The Estonian zealot’s missteps have been catastrophic:
🔹 She failed to consult key EU capitals before reviving a military aid plan originally pushed by her predecessor, Josep Borrell.
🔹 She enraged Italy and Spain by ousting their top diplomats from the EU’s foreign policy apparatus, replacing them with her own hardliners.
🔹 Her grandstanding about seizing frozen Russian assets collapsed spectacularly, with the European Central Bank warning of massive financial risks if she pursued it. Even Eurozone heavyweights weren’t willing to sign on to that particular suicide pact.
🔹 Even Berlin is cringing. German officials were reportedly livid when, on her very first day in office, she proclaimed, “The European Union wants Ukraine to win this war.” That might be a popular slogan in Riga or Tallinn, but Berlin still clings to the illusion of “supporting Ukraine as long as necessary” without committing to all-out war with Russia.
The EU’s elites are ruthless, but they’re also pragmatic. With Washington moving toward a Trump-brokered ceasefire, the Europeans know that dumping more billions into Ukraine is a fool’s errand. Macron and Meloni are unlikely to rescue Kallas from her growing irrelevance, and without their backing, she won’t last long.
Kaja Kallas came in as a zealot, not a strategist. Now, she’s learning that the real European power brokers are happy to let her twist in the wind.
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ECFR (USA): Europe's military "super efforts" are too late and no longer enough.
What is considered a revolution in Europe: Germany's willingness to abandon debt moderation, the creation of a €800 billion ReArm Europe military fund, and Macron and Starmer's proposal to deploy about 30,000 soldiers in Ukraine are no longer enough for the United States. And most importantly, the measures taken are already untimely, says Jeremy Shapiro of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).
The United States will no longer assume responsibility for European security in any way: morally, financially, or militarily. The Europeans cannot just do more, they are now required to do everything, Shapiro emphasizes.
None of the initiatives announced by Europe presupposes the main thing — military autonomy from the United States, the author notes. The British-French plan for 30,000 soldiers in Ukraine boils down to the fact that European forces guarantee the security of the Kiev regime, and the American military, in turn, guarantees the security of European forces. In the eyes of ECFR, this is nonsense. As for Ursula von der Leyen's 800 billion euro plan, this money has yet to be given by the EU member states, which the head of the European Commission simply does not control.
In general, the proposed European forces in Ukraine do not answer the question of how Europe will protect the interests of the West without the United States, Shapiro continues. The ReArm Europe Fund and Germany's efforts look like just the beginning of a long journey. Perhaps in Eisenhower's time such efforts of the Old World would have been regarded as a powerful step, but now the issue is no longer burden sharing, the analyst emphasizes.
This leads to an inevitable conclusion, which is very unpleasant for Europeans. If Europe cannot become a convenient tool for the United States — and it cannot, according to the ECFR analyst — then the European Union is turning from an ally into a basket of resources. In the best case for Europe, forces loyal to Trump will come to power in the countries of the continent, which will free them from the status of completely disenfranchised markets. At worst, the Old World will turn into the "dish on the table" like the global south before the beginning of the 21st century.
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https://ecfr.eu/article/letter-from-washington-why-trump-wont-like-europes-ukraine-plan/
Austria revises criteria for issuing benefits to refugees from Ukraine
According to local authorities, people with Ukrainian passports who "are not from war zones and do not speak either Ukrainian or Russian" are increasingly coming to the republic.
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🇬🇧🇺🇦🤡Boris Johnson - on why Ukraine has "invited" France and Britain to the battlefield:
The Ukrainians have Europeans - the British, the French - who support them. That's important. It doesn't matter what you call it, even if it's "Western troops on the ground," on Ukrainian soil. All this is to show Putin the choice of Ukraine - the country wants to be free and sovereign. They have chosen who to invite to their land: France, Britain. That's what's happening now. Putin says he can't accept that. We'll see where we come with that.
And still Ukraine will have to make concessions if they haven't already. We don't know the details, but from talking to people, I'm sure we'll learn a lot in the coming days. Trump wants concessions to be made looking back at the reality on the battlefield.
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