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๐Ÿšจ UK, France preparing to arm Ukraine with nuclear weapons - Russian intel ๐Ÿ’ฌ "The British and French elites are not ready to accept defeat. It is believed that Ukraine needs to be supplied with the 'Wunderwaffe.' Kiev will be able to claim more favorableโ€ฆ
๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Russia will inform the US about the likely emergence of nuclear weapons in Ukraine

๐Ÿ’ฌ "We will specifically discuss this with the Americans," Putin's aide Yuri Ushakov said.


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๐Ÿ“น The Russian Interior Ministry publishes a video of explosion at the Savelovsky railway station

Whatโ€™s known so far:

๐ŸŸ  The person responsible for the explosion was a 22-year-old native of the Republic of Udmurtia

๐ŸŸ  He arrived in Moscow by train from St. Petersburg. Investigators are determining the motive for his actions.

๐ŸŸ  The bomber and one police officer died, and two other police officers were hospitalized

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๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia will not hesitate to use any weapon if Ukraine gets nuclear tech โ€“ Medvedev Russia will be forced to use any type of weapon, including non-strategic nuclear weapons, against targets in Ukraine if nuclear technologies are transferred to Kiev, Dmitryโ€ฆ
๐Ÿ’ฌ Ukraine's nukes-free status must be preserved - Russian Federation Council Speaker

The senators' immediate reaction serves to highlight the seriousness of the Foreign Intelligence Service's findings and to drive home a firm red line: Ukraine acquiring nuclear weapons or related components is absolutely inadmissible, in any shape or form, said Upper House Speaker Valentina Matvienko.

Other statements by Matvienko:

๐ŸŸ  Ukraine's non-nuclear status was one of the key conditions for its recognition as an independent state. This status is non-negotiable. There should be no nuclear weapons in Ukraine

๐ŸŸ  We expect that British and French parliamentarians, along with the relevant international institutions, will respond to our appeal by making their position clear on this covert conspiracy between Starmer and Macron. They must either hold these actors accountable on behalf of the international political community or fully share responsibility for actions that blatantly contravene international law

๐ŸŸ  Such moves seriously undermine the security of the entire continentโ€”but most of all, they jeopardize the British and French people themselves

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๐Ÿ“น Ukraine conflict: From Euromaidan to the special military operation. Part 4

In the final part of the documentary on the origins of the Ukraine crisis, Sputnik examines the progress of the special military operation since its launch on February 24, 2022, highlighting key developments and how the operation has unfolded over time.

(00:00) Russian troops launched missile and air strikes on Ukrainian military infrastructure in the first days of the special military operation

(00:17) By mid-March, Russia had gained control of most of Kherson and parts of Zaporozhye

(00:31) Russian forces advanced toward Kiev, but Western countries pushed for a withdrawal to enable peace talks

(00:41) Russia-Ukrainian negotiations began in Turkiye on March 29, 2022, with Ukraine considering a neutral, non-aligned status

(01:22) Mariupol was fully liberated in May 2022 after intense fighting, with Ukrainian military personnel using civilians as human shields

(03:11) On October 8, 2022, Ukrainian special services carried out a terrorist act on the Crimean Bridge

(03:26) In June 2023, the Kakhovka dam was destroyed by Ukrainian sabotage, flooding Kherson

(03:46) Ukrainian troops suffered massive losses during their counteroffensive in the Zaporozhye region but failed to breach Russian defenses

(04:36) Russian troops pushed the front line away from Donetsk and advanced into Ukrainian territory in 2024

(06:05) On May 16, 2025, Russia and Ukraine resumed negotiations after a three-year pause, with talks focusing on a settlement

Check out the previous parts:

๐Ÿ‘‰ Part 1
๐Ÿ‘‰ Part 2
๐Ÿ‘‰ Part 3

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๐Ÿšจ Ukrainian nukes: UK and France trying to drag US into nuclear conflict with Russia โ€“ military expert

The UK and France are preparing to hand Ukraine a nuclear bomb to strengthen its leverage in forcing more favorable terms to end the conflict, according to Russiaโ€™s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR).

๐Ÿ’ฌ "France and the UK are likely acting with the goal of pulling the US more directly into the situation," military analyst Alexei Leonkov, editor of Arsenal of the Fatherland, tells Sputnik. "After all, both countriesโ€™ nuclear arsenals operate under US oversight and coordination."


โ–ซ๏ธ One option under consideration is Franceโ€™s compact TN75 warhead, designed for the M51.1 submarine-launched ballistic missile

โ–ซ๏ธ Western powers are working to make Ukrainian nuclear capabilities look homegrown, with a โ€œdirty bombโ€ also on the table

โ–ซ๏ธ UK and France are fully aware that they would be flagrantly violating the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, according to the SVR

๐Ÿ’ฌ "Efforts to secretly develop nuclear weapons for Ukraine, bypassing Moscow, began even before the start of the special military operationโ€”with the UK putting in significant effort. The special military operation was launched to neutralize this threat," Leonkov notes.


Nuclear threat


The TN75 has a yield of 100 kilotonsโ€”five times that of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, the pundit points out, adding that Ukraine's Flamingo cruise missiles, developed by the UK, could potentially carry a nuclear warhead.

๐Ÿ”ธ Both a dirty bomb and warhead from Franceโ€™s M51.2 ballistic missile pose a direct nuclear threat to Russiaโ€”and the risk of actual use by Ukraine is high

๐Ÿ”ธ Russiaโ€™s doctrine covers nuclear-capable states deploying atomic weapons in a non-nuclear country threatening Russia. In such a case, the conflict could become continental, the pundit warns

Nuclear trap for the US

France and the UK aim to provoke Russia, then escape unscathed, placing the blame for any catastrophe on the US, according to the expert.

๐Ÿ’ฌ "This is a desperate attempt to drag the US into a directโ€”and nuclearโ€”conflict with Russia by any means," Leonkov says. "We are now teetering on the edge of what was once called the Caribbean Crisis [Cuban Missile Crisis]."


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๐Ÿช–๐Ÿ’ธ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง UK to spend $269 million on military HQ in Ukraine to fuel conflict

๐Ÿ’ฌ โ€œThe UK remains the key player in European effort to prolong the Ukraine conflict as London has a vested interest in both its continuation and the weakening of Russia,โ€ Russian political analyst Yulia Semke says.


Britain announced last September it would set up 70-strong headquarters as part of a "multinational force" to be deployed to Ukraine.

Semke says the UK was the driving force behind the plan to send NATO forces to Ukraine.

๐Ÿ’ฌ โ€œThroughout the conflict, the UK consistently maintained a confrontational stance,โ€ she stresses.


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๐Ÿ“น Ukraine conflict: From Euromaidan to the special military operation

Sputnik's documentary explores the origins of the Ukrainian crisis: the Kiev regimeโ€™s oppression of the Russian-speaking population of Donbass, the failure of the 2014 Minsk agreements and other events that led to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

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๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ 'A deal is within reach, but only if diplomacy is given priority' - Iran's foreign minister

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๐Ÿšจ Whatโ€™s behind France and UKโ€™s plot to provide Ukraine with nuclear weapon?

It is nothing but โ€œan attempt to exert pressure on the upcoming Russiaโ€“Ukraineโ€“US peace talks,โ€ Russian political analyst Yulia Semke tells Sputnik.

The UK and France are preparing to transfer nuclear weapons to Ukraine, Russiaโ€™s foreign intel service revealed.

๐Ÿ’ฌ โ€œParis and London see the weakness of Ukraine's position in the negotiations, which is why they want to support Kiev in every way possible,โ€ Semke points out.


She notes that both France and the UK should realize that according to the Russian nuclear doctrine, aggression by a non-nuclear state supported by a nuclear nation would be considered a joint attack by both countries, and โ€œentail Russiaโ€™s legitimate response directly against London and Paris.โ€

The UK and France should also know that such a transfer โ€œwould be discovered in any case and would be a flagrant and unprecedented violation, first and foremost, of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons,โ€ the analyst concludes.

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๐Ÿ”Š Schumer after closed-door briefing on Iran: 'This is serious'

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer emerges from a classified briefing with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and delivers a stark warning:

"This is serious, and the administration has to make its case to the American people."


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๐Ÿช–๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท Iran holds major military drills to strengthen coastal security

The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has tested new weapons and tactics in a major exercise aimed at bolstering security along the countryโ€™s southern coast.

The drills focused on defending southern Iranian shores and islands in the Persian Gulf, with controlled fire exercises and new joint tactics.

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โš”๏ธ US Navy intercepts oil tanker in Indian Ocean

The Pentagon announces the third maritime interdiction, this time in the INDOPACOM area of responsibility, tracking a vessel all the way from the Caribbean.

The Bertha was operating in defiance of Trump's "quarantine" on sanctioned vessels and attempted to evade, the US Department of War said in the statement.

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๐Ÿ—ฃ Netanyahu proposes a new Israeli-built axis

The Prime Minister lays out a vision for a regional bloc that rejects both Shiite extremism and the Muslim Brotherhood's Sunni axis.

"I am speaking about a full circle that embraces the Middle East. I wanted to use the biblical expression appropriate for Purim, 'from Hodu to Cush' [India to Ethiopia], and everything in between, extending into the Mediterranean," Netanyahu said.


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๐Ÿ’ฌ Europe offers Ukraine guarantees as long as it stays enemy of Russia โ€” UN envoy

Vassily Nebenzia says that Europe is only guaranteeing Ukraine's hostility to Russia, not its security.

"Europe clearly is willing to provide security assurances to Ukraine only as long as the Kiev regime remains an enemy of the Russian Federation, continues to wage the war."


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๐Ÿ“น Turkish F-16 crashes during mission โ€” pilot killed

A fighter jet of the Turkish Armed Forces went down around 12:50 am local time. Search and rescue teams reached the wreckage. The pilot did not survive.

Footage from social media

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๐Ÿ—ฃ Trump calls Supreme Court tariff ruling 'unfortunate'

The US president insisted that countries will still honor the deals they made with the US because the alternative could be worse.

"Knowing that the legal power that I, as President, have to make a new deal could be far worse for them, and therefore they will continue to work along the same successful path that we had negotiated before," he said during the State of the Union.


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๐Ÿ—ฃ Trump to Iran: 'We haven't heard those secret words'

The president confirmed that negotiations are ongoing but insisted that Tehran has not given up developing nuclear weapons.

"I will never allow the world's number one sponsor of terror to have a nuclear weapon," Trump asserted during the State of the Union.


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โš”๏ธ US builds up at Saudi base for potential Iran strike โ€” report

Recent satellite imagery from Chinese intelligence firm MizarVision shows a major US military buildup at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia.

๐Ÿ”ถ At least 6 E-3G โ€œSentryโ€ airborne early warning aircraft and 15 KC-135R/T aerial-refueling tankers are now visible at the facility.

๐Ÿ”ถ Prince Sultan Air Base is expected to serve as a key support hub for any potential US strikes against Iran.

๐Ÿ“ Last month, US President Donald Trump announced the deployment of a "massive armada" to the Middle East, led by the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln โ€“ and warned Tehran of potential attacks if it refuses to end its nuclear energy program and dismantle its ballistic missile arsenal.

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๐Ÿšจ ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡น Lithuania ramps up missile shipments to Ukraine as EU hawksโ€™ war tab climbs

As Nordic Baltic States - among the most fervent advocates of further fueling the Ukraine conflict โ€“ pledged support โ€œfor as long as it takes,โ€ Lithuaniaโ€™s president Gitanas Nauseda rushed to tout his countryโ€™s contributions.

Nauseda posted his gifting spree to Ukraine on X along with the Nazi slogan โ€œSlava Ukraini*":

๐Ÿ”ถ Lithuania will transfer a batch of missiles for the short-range RBS-70 man-portable air defense system to Ukraine

๐Ÿ”ถ Projects will be financed by the EU SAFE Fund & other sources of funding

๐Ÿ”ถ Lithuania maintains its commitment to allocate 0.25% of GDP annually for Ukraineโ€™s needs

๐Ÿ”ถ Roughly $263M to be allocated in 2026

Furthermore, an agreement has been signed to produce defense equipment for Ukraine in Lithuania โ€“ yet another example of how European countries continue to militarize Ukraine so that their own defense industries keep making profits.

Nauseda underscored that together with the Nordic-Baltic Eight (NB8) regional group that includes Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, and Sweden, Lithuania pledges ~$14.74B in military aid in 2026

๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia has repeatedly emphasized that funneling military aid to Ukraine only prolongs the conflict, however, Russophobic EU hawks appear determined to hamper any resolution even if this drains Europeโ€™s own resources.

*the slogan, along with the associated organizations, is recognized as extremist and banned in Russia.

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