Putin: Russia supports China’s initiative for a new system of global governance.

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Putin: The Ukraine crisis began with the 2014 Western-backed coup in Kiev, not with Russia’s special military operation.

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Mystery map from Gerasimov briefing shows planned “security zone,” says Duma defense committee member Viktor Sobolev.

Sobolev stated that Russia’s immediate priority is to secure the four regions it has already annexed — Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, and Zaporozhye — while establishing a “security zone” that would extend through the Sumy, Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, Nikolaev, and Odessa regions.

This buffer, he explained, is intended to protect the Russian Black Sea Fleet and ensure that Russian territories, including the newly incorporated regions, are never subjected to shelling again.

Sobolev does not rule out that the territories within the security zone could also be brought into Russia, though he emphasizes that such a decision would ultimately be up to the people living in those regions.

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Putin says Trump’s tone toward India and China is unacceptable in today’s world.

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Putin to Trump: Events in China focused on cooperation and development, not rivalry with the U.S. or anyone else.

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Putin: Zelensky can come to Moscow if he’s ready to meet.

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No one has either the desire or the time to hatch conspiracies against the U.S., said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov in response to Trump’s post on Truth Social.

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Lavrov: We appreciate that India resisted U.S. tariff pressure and, unlike the Americans, continues to uphold free trade principles.

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Putin: If common sense fails in Ukraine negotiations, Russia will achieve its objectives by military means.

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Putin: Ukrainian reserves are dwindling, their combat units are less than half-staffed and have reached a critical threshold.

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Peskov: Putin invited Zelensky to Moscow for dialogue, not capitulation.

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Peskov: In the coming days, Putin will take part in an emergency virtual BRICS summit convened at Brazil’s behest.

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According to Bloomberg sources, Trump’s trade war will top the meeting’s agenda.

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Lavrov: Israel’s policies of starving and cleansing Palestinians are cause for outrage.

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Medvedev: Nothing will come of the “bullshit” security guarantees for Ukraine from the Coalition of the Willing.

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Nebenzya: Territorial integrity cannot be invoked by a state that fails to represent a significant portion of its population.

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Europe has already lost its sovereignty and, within five years, will lose what remains of its economic relevance, says Putin’s advisor Anton Kobyakov.

The West’s great geopolitical gamble is entering its decisive phase. Yet part of the West, namely Europe, can already be said to have lost.

Europe today has effectively been stripped of independence in finance, energy, technology, and political choice; in effect, of sovereignty itself.

Asia has taken over all of the West’s functions.

The Middle East has become a new financial hub, drawing wealthy Brits away from their island.

Manufacturing has shifted to China and Vietnam, and is moving further into India and other countries.

Today’s largest trading hubs are Shenzhen, Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai, and Mumbai.

Technological leadership has gone to the Chinese and the Koreans.

Within this framework, in about five years, Western Europe will be of no use whatsoever, not even as a consumer market.

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Putin: One country’s security cannot come at the expense of another’s.

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Putin: In Ukraine, Russia is fighting for human rights and democracy, not territory.

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Putin: The unipolar world order is obsolete and must end, including for the West’s own sake.

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Trump’s commerce secretary is convinced that within a month or two, U.S. pressure will force India to abandon Russian oil, ditch BRICS, and come begging for forgiveness.

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Kadyrov: Stopping the fighting now is not in our interest. Peace will only be possible when Ukraine becomes part of Russia.

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