If Ukraine refuses to cede territory now, Russia will take it by force later — on worse terms for Kiev, says Moscow’s envoy to the OSCE, Dmitry Polyanskiy.

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Unlike Western hegemonists, Russia proposes a world order based on the principles of sovereignty and indivisible security for all, says Putin’s spy chief Sergey Naryshkin.

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Spymaster Naryshkin: Russia’s army is advancing, the economy remains resilient, and society stands united behind Putin and the troops.

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Medvedev: Trump’s “Golden Dome” missile-defense project is highly provocative and violates the principle of inseparability between offensive and defensive strategic arms enshrined in the New START Treaty.

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Kremlin: Venezuela’s leadership has indicated it does not plan to cut joint projects or ties with Russia.

Context: This is important because, as Reuters reports: “U.S. officials have said publicly they want the interim president to sever relations with close international allies like Iran, China and Russia, including expelling their diplomats and advisers from Venezuela.”

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“I’m opposed to negotiations.”
Chechen leader Kadyrov says Russia must finish the job in Ukraine.

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Putin’s top aide Ushakov disputes Rubio and Witkoff’s claims that Ukraine peace talks are down to just one unresolved issue of territory.

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Levada Center poll: 76% of Russians back military actions in Ukraine; 59% believe Russia should intensify strikes, including the use of new weapons systems.

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Amid U.S. preparations for possible new strikes on Iran, President Putin met with Tehran’s top security chief, Ali Larijani, at the Kremlin.

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Lavrov: Russia will complete the liberation of Donbas and Novorossiya, ensure the restoration of linguistic, cultural, and religious rights for Russians in the rest of Ukraine, and eliminate Kiev’s ability to pose a military threat to Moscow.

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BRICS will continue building alternatives to every tool the U.S. uses for economic coercion, says Russian Deputy FM Sergey Ryabkov.

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Russia is ready to discuss placing Ukraine under temporary UN control to oversee elections and bring to power a legitimate government with which a comprehensive peace treaty could be signed, says Deputy FM Mikhail Galuzin.

President Putin first publicly floated this idea in March 2025.

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Rubio in Munich: Russia cannot achieve its original war aims in Ukraine and has been forced to narrow them down to just one objective — taking the rest of the Donetsk region.

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Dugin: Russia was closer to achieving its war aims in the opening weeks of the SMO than it is today, but stopping now and declaring a false victory would be both impossible and criminal.

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There was no trace of the “spirit of Anchorage” in Munich. The West is not interested in a peace agreement that takes Russia’s interests into account, the war will therefore have to be settled on the battlefield, concludes senior lawmaker and Fair Russia party leader Sergey Mironov.

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The Munich Security Conference did nothing to advance peace in Ukraine. On the contrary, Euro-globalists effectively laid out a “road map” for the militarization of Europe and the continued support of the terrorist regime in Kiev, writes Leonid Slutsky, head of Russia’s Liberal Democratic Party.

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Solovyev: Europe, which gave the world the most horrific forms of racial segregation, Nazism, slavery, and mass extermination, is now building another Reich in preparation for a new war.

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Patrushev: If Russia fails to deliver a firm response to the seizure of its tankers, it risks facing a complete sea blockade, at the very least in the Atlantic basin.

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Russia demands a reversal of past NATO decisions, including those of the 2008 Bucharest summit, and a formal commitment to no further eastward expansion, say Russian diplomats in Belgium.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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