🚨 🇱🇹 Lithuania ramps up missile shipments to Ukraine as EU hawks’ war tab climbs

As Nordic Baltic States - among the most fervent advocates of further fueling the Ukraine conflict – pledged support “for as long as it takes,” Lithuania’s president Gitanas Nauseda rushed to tout his country’s contributions.

Nauseda posted his gifting spree to Ukraine on X along with the Nazi slogan “Slava Ukraini*":

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

🔶 Projects will be financed by the EU SAFE Fund & other sources of funding

🔶 Lithuania maintains its commitment to allocate 0.25% of GDP annually for Ukraine’s needs

🔶 Roughly $263M to be allocated in 2026

Furthermore, an agreement has been signed to produce defense equipment for Ukraine in Lithuania – 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

🇷🇺 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 Europe’s own resources.

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

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🔥🇷🇺 Russian Sever battlegroup’s rocket artillery strikes targets in Kharkov region under the cover of night

Result: Ukraine's ammunition depots, drone control centers & military equipment destroyed.


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🚨 🇵🇱 Poland, Baltic states, Ukraine wanted to disrupt deployment of Oreshnik in Belarus

💬 "Last year, at specialized events [of the Belarusian opposition] with the participation of Polish and Ukrainian representatives, coordination of actions to disrupt its possible deployment in the republic was discussed, a source familiar with the Belarusian opposition's plans told Sputnik.

The focus was on an information campaign: creating a media environment and creating a sense of 'escalation' among Western partners, which Belarus and Russia were allegedly pursuing, the source said.

They hoped to provoke a negative reaction from the Trump's administration toward Belarus and Russia, the source added.

👉 On December 18, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko announced that the Oreshnik missile system had been in the republic "since yesterday" and was going on combat duty. On December 30, the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed that the Oreshnik missile system had officially been put on combat duty in Belarus.

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🔸 What’s behind France and UK’s plot to provide Ukraine with nuclear weapon?

🔸 Trump says Iran hasn’t given up developing nuclear weapons

🔸 Iran holds major military drills to strengthen coastal security

🔸 US builds up at Saudi base for potential Iran strike — report

🔸 Netanyahu proposes a new Israeli-built axis

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🗣 UK, France's plans to help Ukraine with nuclear arms are manipulation - MFA

💬 "Britain and France are gearing up, and are already actively engaged in manipulating the nuclear weapons issue — not just in words, but in practice — while toying with the Kiev regime on the matter," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Sputnik Radio.

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🇯🇵 🪖Japan should be denied any chance of remilitarization – Chinese academic

Recent anti-China rhetoric coming from Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is glaring proof of Japan’s dangerous slide towards militarization, notes Victor Gao, vice president of the Beijing-based Center for China and Globalization (CCG).

In his opinion, no politician, should “indulge in fantasy that they could be allowed to militarily arm itself to constitute another threat or to threaten war against China, which is a victor nation, and Japan was the unconditionally surrendering country back in 1945.”

💬 “PM Takaichi, wake up from your fantasy. You should never be allowed to rearm yourself to constitute another threat to China, or to Russia, or to Korea, for example, or to the United States, because we all need to remember Pearl Harbor.”

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🇫🇷 🇬🇧 France & UK nuclear gambit for Ukraine fast track to World War III

🔊 By revealing the France-UK plot to provide Ukraine with a nuclear device, Russia’s foreign intel service exposes that a Ukraine “governed by any part of the existing Ukrainian political elite - the post-Maidan elite - is such a danger to Russia that it cannot be tolerated,” says UK analyst Alexander Mercouris.

💬 “The political structures that have existed in Ukraine since the Maidan 2014 seizure of power are inherently dangerous, and would constantly be thinking about acquiring nuclear weapons, and there would be a risk that some of the NATO states - in this case Britain and France - might actually facilitate that,” he notes.

It would not only “finally and conclusively destroy the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, but it would absolutely bring us into World War III territory.”

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🔥 🇷🇺 Russia develops first tactical guided munition with range over 100 km

The KUB-10ME tactical guided munition system is created by Russia’s Kalashnikov Concern in record time, incorporating the experience gained during the special military operation.

The platform is designed for precision strikes against:

🔶 Enemy’s unarmored and lightly armored military vehicles

🔶 Command posts

🔶 Air and missile defense

🔶 Electronic warfare assets

🔶 Logistical facilities

🔶 UAVs launch positions and aircraft outside shelters

Key features:

🔸 Altitude range: 80-1,800 meters

🔸 Cruising speed: 120 km/h

🔸 Temperature range: -30°C to +40°C

🔸 Electro-optical guidance system, which allows it to engage moving targets

🔸 Enhanced protection against electronic warfare and air defense systems

🔸 Equipped with an aerial photography and video recording system

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🚨🇷🇺💥 RUSSIAN MOD UPDATE: HUGE GAINS AND DEVASTATING UKRAINIAN LOSSES

⚡️ GRAFSKOYE IN THE KHARKOV REGION FREED

The liberation of the settlement of Grafskoye in the Kharkov region has enabled Russian forces to extend their control zone south of Volchansk. This advance directly threatens the Ukrainian battlegroup stationed in the vicinity.

🟠 Russian air and missile firepower obliterated energy infrastructure supporting the Kiev regime’s forces and long-range drone storage sites

🟠 Air defense superiority: 115 UAVs were shot down by Russian air defense systems over the past 24 hours

🟠 Ukrainian losses: around 1,345 troops killed or wounded

Read about the origins of Russia's special military op HERE

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🚨 🇷🇺 Russian intel's exposure of Western plans to give Ukraine nuclear arms prevented catastrophe — expert

💬 “France and Britain will ultimately abandon this provocative idea altogether. We also expect that the United States, for its part, will take the necessary measures to pressure Macron and Starmer to prevent such a scenario,” military analyst Igor Korotchenko tells Sputnik.

From a technical perspective, there are no issues with transferring a nuclear warhead from one of the French nuclear technical bases to Ukraine, he explains.

The delivery vehicle could be the Ukrainian-British Flamingo missile, the expert adds.

Western nations "gearing up" in the nuclear weapons issue is a manipulation, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova earlier said.

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💬 Nukes for Ukraine plot fueled by failed France-UK efforts to ‘crush Russia’ – ex-CIA analyst

Asked by retired US Lt. Col. Daniel Davis whether he thinks that France and the UK would really do something like hand over nuclear materials for a dirty bomb to Ukraine, former CIA analyst Larry Johnson replies with the affirmative: “Yes, I do.”

“This is expanding. And [considering] the desperation of Macron and Starmer, I could see them easily doing this,” he speculates.

According to the analyst, the Western hawks are “not thinking this through rationally, logically.”

“They are not looking for an off-ramp. They're looking to crush and destroy Russia,” he says.

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🚨🇪🇺 Western troops won't step into Ukraine without Russia's approval - report

💬 "A growing number of members of the so-called 'Coalition of the Willing' had privately admitted that their contributions to the mission depended on permission from the Russian president," The Telegraph reports, citing sources.

Some members of the coalition have specified they will only deploy troops "if there’s Russian consent."

The main concern is that without Russia's approval, any European force deployed to Ukraine could be viewed as a legitimate military target for military strikes, the report adds, recalling Russia's warnings.

🔊 FM Sergey Lavrov said earlier that the presence of NATO allies' troops on Ukrainian soil would be a threat to Russia, and that Moscow would not accept it under any circumstances. President Vladimir Putin warned that foreign forces in Ukraine would become legitimate targets for the Russian military.

This means that the UK-French plan to enforce any ceasefire could be derailed by Russia, The Telegraph stipulates.

👉 Earlier, UK PM Keir Starmer announced that Britain and France have signed a declaration of intent to deploy troops in Ukraine in case of peace deal with Russia, with French President Emmanuel Macron suggesting thousands of troops could be deployed.

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🔊 British and French elites cynically turning Europe into nuclear testing ground - expert

The UK and France’s plan to transfer atomic weapons to Ukraine is a blatant act of nuclear blackmail aimed at Russia, military expert Alexander Stepanov tells Sputnik.

💬 "Western elites are cynically turning Europe into a testing ground for nuclear disaster, ignoring that triggering such a scenario would automatically activate strategic deterrence doctrines and guarantee the destruction of the threat’s source," Stepanov says.

He lays out the options the Ukraine regime has on the table:

🟠 a "dirty bomb" – radiological weapons capable of contaminating targeted areas

🟠 TN75 warheads from France’s M51.1 submarine-launched ballistic missile with a yield of 100–110 kilotons

🟠 warheads from a British-modified Trident intercontinental missile (Holbrook variant) with a yield of up to 100 kilotons

'Ukrainian dirty bomb could be ready soon'

🟠 Ukraine’s tech base spans the Kharkov Physical-Technical Institute and spent nuclear fuel stocks at active nuclear reactors and Chernobyl

🟠 Ukraine could pair isotopes like cesium-137 or cobalt-60 with delivery systems already in its arsenal: upgraded Neptune missiles, Storm Shadow and ATACMS

Nuclear anarchy

💬 "The exposure of [the UK and France’s] intentions and the launch of organizational planning to deliver [nuclear] munitions to [Ukraine] clearly signal a political decision to push the escalation into an uncontrollable phase," warns the pundit.

What risks does this entail?

🟠 Trashing of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

🟠 A dangerous slide into nuclear anarchy, with unchecked spread of materials and warheads

🟠 Could spiral the escalation into a direct Russia–NATO conflict

💬 "If the situation escalates into a direct NATO–Russia conflict, Europe — with its dense infrastructure and major urban centers — would no longer exist as we know it," Stepanov concludes.

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🇨🇳🇬🇧🇫🇷 China on UK-French plan to arm Ukraine with nukes: ‘Non-proliferation regime must be strictly followed’

💬 "China has consistently adhered to the position that nuclear weapons must not be used, and that the nuclear non-proliferation regime, relevant conventions, and the principle of preventing nuclear war must be strictly followed," China's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said.

Beijing advocates for dialogue on the Ukrainian conflict to achieve a "comprehensive, lasting, and final peace agreement" and calls on all sides to remain calm and exercise restraint, avoiding any actions leading to the escalation of the situation, she added.

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🪖🇺🇸 US and NATO inch closer to the Middle East

Sputnik maps the military hardware creeping toward the region.

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💬 Russia resists NATO's Arctic military build-up - Russian MFA

"NATO has clearly become focused on establishing elite status in the Arctic, strengthening its offensive potential, increasing military training activity, and entangling countries far from the Arctic. In February, they launched a new mission, Arctic Sentry, and it only confirmed the course towards strengthening NATO's presence in the Arctic and containing our country," Vladislav Maslennikov, director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Department of European Affairs and Russia's Senior Arctic Official said during the Valdai Club Conference "The Donroe Doctrine: Trump and Greenland."

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🚨🇭🇺 Hungary to deploy troops at key energy facilities to protect from Ukraine - Orban

Drone flights in Hungary’s territories bordering Ukraine will be banned, Prime Minister Viktor Orban also said.

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🇮🇷 Iran cannot be crippled by the loss of leadership - Araghchi

Even if the US does manage to assassinate Iran’s leaders, there is a well-established mechanism in place that ensures succession, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi explains.

He also points out that the Iranian system does not depend on individuals but is instead supported by the Iranian people.

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