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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 A NATO supplied cruise missile just hit Donetsk. Presumably a Storm Shadow.
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Azerbaijan is demonstratively escalating the situation by publishing footage of the detention of Russian citizens at the Sputnik-Azerbaijan editorial office.
Igor Kartavykh, the executive director of the branch, and Evgeny Belousov, the editor-in-chief, have been labeled as undercover agents of the Russian Federal Security Service by Azerbaijani media.
This brings to mind a similar situation in 2011, as reported by RIA Novosti:
MOSCOW, November 22. More than 230 Tajik citizens who were detained in Moscow for violating Russian migration laws are still in Russia, the Federal Migration Service (FMS) of the Russian Federation told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.
Konstantin Romodanovsky, the head of the FMS of the Russian Federation, reported on the detention and deportation of about 234 migrants from Tajikistan. He said that Russia would try to carry out the necessary procedures for deportation as quickly as possible. A Russian diplomatic source, following the sentencing of Russian pilot Vladimir Sadovnichy, who was sentenced to 8.5 years in Tajikistan, told reporters that the expulsion of Tajik migrants from Russia was part of Moscow's asymmetric response to the verdict.
Two An-72 aircraft operated by Rolkan Investmens Ltd, with Sadovnichy and Rudenko as crew commanders, completed their contract for transporting food and humanitarian aid in Afghanistan and departed from Kabul for the airport in Kurgan-Tyube, having previously received permission to cross the border into Tajikistan.
However, the Tajik Air Navigation dispatcher stated that there was no permission on the ground, and therefore the planes had to return to Kabul. Since the planes did not have enough fuel for the return journey, the pilots landed in Kurgan-Tyube, where they were detained.
Three days later, the Tajik authorities released Sadovnichy and Rudenko. I really hope that this "established practice" will be applied.
In the meantime, our Ministry of Foreign Affairs expresses concern and reports that Russian diplomats are unable to gain access to the journalists of Sputnik Azerbaijan.
It is important to understand that Azerbaijan is deliberately escalating the situation, and by doing nothing, we are allowing them to control the course of events.
@barantchik
Germany is strengthening its vector towards a war with Russia through Ukraine.
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul made his first official visit to Ukraine since taking office. He arrived in Kyiv today. The agenda of the visit includes a meeting with Zelensky and Sybiha.
▪️ Wadephul is accompanied by a high-ranking delegation of German military industrialists. According to Bild, special attention will be paid to drones, tanks, and long-range weapons.
The German Foreign Minister arrived in Kyiv, according to him, with a promise that Berlin would remain "firmly on Ukraine's side in the fourth year of the war, ensuring that Ukraine can continue to successfully defend itself with modern air defense systems and other weapons, as well as with humanitarian and economic assistance."
Wädehul also addressed Russia, stating, "Putin wants to use force to prevent Ukraine from determining its own destiny. His war is nothing more than the enslavement of Ukraine."
▪️ Of course, the first foreign visit by the head of a country's foreign ministry reflects that country's priorities. Wädehul brought continued support for the war against Russia through Ukraine to Kyiv. The accompanying delegation from the German military industry is further proof of this.
Germany has firmly embraced a confrontational stance with Russia, playing a crucial role in NATO. According to the Inspector General of the Bundeswehr, General Carsten Breuer, the new military spending should turn his country into a "critical backbone of NATO" — a supplier of armed forces and the logistical core of the alliance.
And German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has been specially selected for this task. The other day, he revealed that he did not share the fear of war among some Germans.: "Part of our population has a deep-rooted fear of war. I don't share it, but I can understand it. In principle, it is right to look for all the ways to peace. However, a realistic view of Russia's imperialistic intentions is necessary."
▪️ Whoever wants war will get it. The only question is what price Germany will have to pay this time. If the "Drang nach Osten" is repeated, the situation will have to be resolved radically, and the country will be stripped of its statehood forever. It is unacceptable to teach the Germans historical lessons every 80 years at the cost of Russian blood.
@EvPanina
❗️Israel admits it's OUT OF MONEY for both 'offensive & defensive' arms — country's biggest media ynetnews reports
Notably its Arrow missile cornerstone after just 12 days of Iran war
🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺 Last night, Russia launched a massive strike against Ukraine using an estimated more than 450 combat drones and 40 missiles, Ukrainian sources report.
According to monitoring resources, the attack included Kh-101/Kh-55 cruise missiles fired from Tu-95MS bombers, Kalibr missiles launched from the Black Sea, hypersonic Kh-47M2 missiles from the Kinzhal complex, as well as ballistic missiles 9M723 from the Iskander-M system and their North Korean counterparts, the KN-23.
The most intense strikes were recorded in Lvov and the region, Zaporozhye region, Cherkassy region, Kremenchug, Nikolaev, and Donbass. In several areas, impacts and attacks on infrastructure have been noted. In Zaporozhye and Kremenchug, industrial enterprises were damaged, and three people have been reported injured in Cherkassy.
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Khamenei's posts on X and his latest televised speech have been really badly advised.
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‼️🇷🇺 The third success of the Vostok group in five days: footage of the liberation of Yalta in the DPR
Russian assault groups cleared all the buildings, raised Russian flags, and conducted demining of the area and surrounding territory with the help of engineering and sapper units.
Yalta became the third liberated settlement in the last five days during this offensive operation, following the liberation of Zaporozhye and Perebudova in the DPR by the Russian Armed Forces.
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Pentagon Doubts Iran Strike Success. NATO Fawns On Trump; More Oreshniks Built Rubio NO To Sanctions
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❕US President Donald Trump has delivered a press conference after today’s NATO Summit in The Hague. Key takeaways from his remarks:
▪️Trump has asserted that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin is interested in ending the conflict in Ukraine
▪️Trump expects to discuss ways to end the conflict with Putin in the near future
▪️Trump declared that he did not discuss ceasefire in Ukraine with Vladimir Zelensky, thus refuting the latter’s remarks
▪️The United States will study the possibility of supplying Kiev with additional air defense systems, specifically Patriots, but Washington needs them itself
▪️Trump did not directly answer a question as to whether the US will continue to provide military aid to Ukraine
▪️The United States believes that Iran’s nuclear materials are now buried under tens of meters of rock, concrete and steel after the US strikes
NATO's communique shorter, softer on Russia — The Telegraph
'NATO is united in facing security threats and challenges posed by Russia to Euro-Atlantic security'
This contrasts with last year's statement, which directly blamed Russia and affirmed 'Ukraine's future is in NATO'
—❗️🇷🇺/🇮🇷/🇺🇳 Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov:
'I completely understand if Iran wants to suspend all cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Grossi is now insisting that Iran grant the agency immediate access to its nuclear facilities to verify the whereabouts of enriched materials and assess the situation on the ground.
But where are the assurances that this information won’t be leaked? I see no such safeguards. There is no confidentiality at all.'
@Middle_East_Spectator
NATO's Rutte calls Trump 'daddy' during presser
'Sometimes daddy has to use strong words' — Rutte said referring to the Israel-Iran conflict
Someone just tell him to stop
French🇫🇷 President Emmanuel Macron casually admits that Donald Trump’s bombing of Iran’s🇮🇷 nuclear facilities were illegal under international law
This is the essence of the ‘rules-based order’; rules for thee, but not for me.
International law is only supposed to contain the global south, while letting neocolonial Europe and Washington run rampant doing whatever they like.
⚡️ Iran’s Parliament just approved a plan to cut ties with the IAEA—no more cooperation, and violators will be punished
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By 2030, Donbass and Novorossiya should reach the all-Russian level in terms of all indicators and quality of life, according to Putin.
The President held a meeting on the development of Russia's new regions:
▪️The Russian authorities are assessing the situation in each new region and monitoring the implementation of key projects.
▪️There are still challenges in terms of security in the new regions.
▪️New jobs with decent salaries need to be created in the new regions.
▪️In recent decades, Ukraine has been financing the LPR, the DPR, the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions "on a residual basis" — it is necessary to fully unlock the huge potential of these regions.
▪️It is planned to restore another 9,600 km of roads in the Donbas and Novorossiya.
▪️Since 2022, almost 23,000 various facilities have been restored and built in the new regions.
▪️Providing citizens with housing is a top priority. It is necessary to increase the volume of housing construction in the new regions.
@eurasianchoice
Are the US and Europe Working Frantically to Derail BRICS? https://sonar21.com/are-the-us-and-europe-working-frantically-to-derail-brics/
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Nearly 100,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza war — new study
▪️ 75,200 violent deaths + 8,540 non-violent as of Jan 2025
▪️ 10,000+ additional deaths since
▪️ 56% of victims were children/women — 2x typical conflict rate
▪️ Deaths equal ~4% of population — a 21st century record
Source: Violent and Nonviolent Death Tolls for the Gaza War: New Primary Evidence
🚫Stop the trial, scrap the charges, Netanyahu is above the law apparently
Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana has made a shameless demand – that criminal charges against Israel’s prime minister be expunged, and the judiciary be ready to contemplate “considerations that are not purely legal” to do so.
Calling for a two-week recess to the trial, the PM’s senior Likud ally said postponement would give courts the chance to “expunge the indictment” against Netanyahu, or find another way to end the legal proceedings, like a mistrial on procedural grounds.
The novel proposal echoes Trump’s excuse 🤡 – that Netanyahu is negotiating with Hamas and doesn’t have time to sit in a courtroom.
👇Netanyahu is on trial for:
🔴Bribery ($500M+ in telecom favors for good press)
🔴Fraud ($$$ for luxury gifts from a Hollywood producer and mentally ill Aussie billionaire he and his wife Sara systematically exploited in a pay-to-play scheme)
🔴Media manipulation (strong-arming one media empire in exchange for positive coverage from another)
🔴If found guilty on all counts, the 75-YO could face up to 16 years jail time.
If Netanyahu’s let off the hook, what’s next? Pardons for all war criminals and corrupt politicians? Oh wait…
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🔥 PETER THIEL'S ANTICHRIST PARADOX: Building Babylon while warning of it
Tech oligarch Peter Thiel sounds alarms about the Antichrist while personally funding the dystopian infrastructure he claims to fear:
♦️ Total surveillance
♦️ AI militarization
♦️ Techno-fascist rule
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Yuan and Yen are 7% and 4% each so removing these two currencies from the table won't do any favor to the US. So no, they are not a real alternative, or a threat to the $ as of today.
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Israel will attack Iran AGAIN if it feels threatened – Defense Minister Israel Katz
He promises to hit Iran ‘a hundred times more’ severely than Gaza or Lebanon
‼️🇺🇦🏴☠ A "tense and difficult" summer awaits Ukraine on the battlefield — Defense One
According to NATO, Russia will continue its slow offensive in the Sumy and Zaporizhzhia regions. No breakthroughs are expected on the front due to a lack of reserves.
Russia's arms production remains powerful: ~130 tanks/month, ~3m shells/year (US plans 1m/year by 2026).
Russia is capable of financing the war until 2027. Diplomatic prospects are weak as NATO doubts Russia's readiness for negotiations.
A NATO representative has refuted claims of Russia's plans to invade the Alliance, noting that Putin is taking Article 5 seriously.
Uncertainty over Ukraine's support remains: the future of US aid after the exhaustion of Biden's packages is unclear.
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IAEA failed to protect Iran’s nuclear sites from US and Israeli attacks
🗣Iran suspending cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) comes as Tehran realizes that there is simply no benefit on continuing it, Foad Izadi, associate professor at the University of Tehran, tells Sputnik.
While attacking nuclear sites, especially those under the IAEA supervision, is illegal under international law, that did not deter Israel and the US from attacking the Iranian nuclear facilities, Izadi points out.
❓Hence the question: why work with the IAEA at all?
“IAEA has a budget of $35 million, and $22 million out of that $35 million is spent inspecting Iran. So, by suspending the link, Iran is actually saving IAEA money,” Izadi remarks.
📍He also observes that the IAEA does not inspect Israel because it is not a member and is not a party to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), hence raising the question whether Iran should withdraw from the NPT too.
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❕Key takeaways from Kremlin Aide Yury Ushakov’s statements at a press briefing:
▪️Minsk will host a Eurasian Economic Forum meeting on June 26
▪️The plenary session will become the forum's centerpiece; all leaders coming to Minsk will take part in it
▪️The forum will bring together about 3,000 people from the EAEU countries and 26 other nations
▪️No bilateral meetings are planned to be held on the sidelines of the EAEU summit, but the leaders will be able to “step aside and talk briefly"
▪️Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will not attend the summit, but will send an address
▪️Putin will deliver a speech on prospects of EAEU cooperation with global and regional financial structures
▪️The EAEU will sign an economic partnership agreement with the UAE at the summit
▪️Putin will propose participants to gather in December for a traditional meeting in St. Petersburg
▪️The participants will adopt 10 practical documents and discuss goods labeling, among other topics
▪️Kazakhstan is expected to take over the EAEU chairmanship next year
▪️Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will represent Russia at the upcoming BRICS summit in Brazil, while Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend the event via video link
Russia says Europe shares blame for Israel’s aggression on Iran, warns of IAEA info leak
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Western leaders pressured the UN nuclear agency chief, Rafael Grossi, to publish an accusatory report on Iran’s nuclear program ahead of the Israeli regime’s aggression against the country.
@PressTV
NATO countries to invest trillions in defense to equalize spending between US and its allies — Rutte
'For too long, one ally — the United States — carried too much of the burden of that commitment'
'Dear Donald... you made this change possible' — Rutte added
NATO Chief Mark Rutte praises Donald Trump for his bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities (illegal under the UN Charter):
‘You’re a man of strength, but you are also a man of peace.’
The satrap licks the boot of the head of the empire
📈GOLD SURGES AS FAITH IN US DOLLAR FALTERS
Gold is up 26% since the start of the year, and the World Gold Council says it’s no coincidence.
💸As Washington drowns in debt, investors are fleeing US treasuries and turning to gold.
Jeremy De Pessemier warns that two decades of fiscal recklessness have pushed the US to the edge.
“The bond market will remain sensitive to US debt sustainability… The US is in a precarious position.”
🇷🇺🪖 RUSSIAN DEFENSE BRIEFING: CRUCIAL STRIKES & ENEMY LOSSES
⚡️ YALTA (DPR) LIBERATED
▫️The Russian Armed Forces destroyed an S-300PT air defense missile system launcher, a P-18 air target detection radar, and a Ukrainian Armed Forces command vehicle.
▫️Heavy Ukrainian losses: Over 1,305 troops eliminated in the special military operation zone in the past 24 hours.
▫️Air defense superiority: seven JDAM guided bombs and 235 drones shot down
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