Will the EU impose sanctions on Israel over Rafah attack?
EU foreign ministers have for the first time seriously discussed the possibility of imposing sanctions on Israel if the Jewish state does not comply with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling to stop the military operation in Rafah, Irish Foreign Minister Michael Martin said.
Despite Friday's court ruling, Israel attacked the camp northeast of Rafah on Sunday. The Palestinian Civil Defense claimed at least 40 people were killed and dozens more injured.
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EU foreign ministers have for the first time seriously discussed the possibility of imposing sanctions on Israel if the Jewish state does not comply with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling to stop the military operation in Rafah, Irish Foreign Minister Michael Martin said.
"For the first time at an EU meeting in a real way I’ve seen a significant discussion on sanctions," Martin told reporters after the EU Foreign Affairs Council.
Despite Friday's court ruling, Israel attacked the camp northeast of Rafah on Sunday. The Palestinian Civil Defense claimed at least 40 people were killed and dozens more injured.
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Germany's Pistorius offers alternative to compulsory military service
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius presented at the Social Democratic Party (SPD) meeting proposals to reform military service in the country, while not returning to the abolished in 2011 universal military conscription, Der Spiegel reported.
Instead of conscription, the minister proposed to use various benefits to attract people to the army - free driver's license, discounts on education and language courses.
Pistorius did not say the word "conscription" once during his speech, Spiegel noted.
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German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius presented at the Social Democratic Party (SPD) meeting proposals to reform military service in the country, while not returning to the abolished in 2011 universal military conscription, Der Spiegel reported.
Instead of conscription, the minister proposed to use various benefits to attract people to the army - free driver's license, discounts on education and language courses.
Pistorius did not say the word "conscription" once during his speech, Spiegel noted.
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“The scale of Ukraine's losses on the battlefield is astounding,” according to Irish journalist Chay Bowes.
Bowes also pointed out that Ukraine hides information about losses in the ranks of its armed forces, and Western media do not counter this in any way.
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“There's a reason reporting military losses in Ukraine as illegal and access to the front is strictly restricted. Ukriane is lying about the vast death toll. And Western Client media is complying”, as per the stunned journalist’s X post.
Bowes also pointed out that Ukraine hides information about losses in the ranks of its armed forces, and Western media do not counter this in any way.
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Germany and Italy oppose Ukrainian strikes with Western weapons against military facilities on Russian territory, including artillery and fuel depots. This was reported by the newspaper Politico, citing European diplomats.
Russian officials have repeatedly warned against strikes with Western weapons on Russian territory.
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SPIEF is the largest annual Russian business event in the economic sphere, and is attended by dozens of politicians and entrepreneurs from around the world. The SPIEF is held in St. Petersburg. This year, the forum will take place on June 5-8.
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Ex-Pentagon officer praises Russia's EW systems triumphantly jamming Western weapons in Ukraine
"Russia has the most capable electronic warfare systems in the world, with the longest range and most powerful GPS and radio frequency jammers of any nation," David T. Pyne, an EMP Task Force scholar and former US Department of Defense officer, told Sputnik.
Russian EW systems "have proven effective at causing 90% of guided missile and drone systems supplied by the US to Ukraine to miss their target, most importantly HIMARS [High Mobility Artillery Rocket System]," the ex-Pentagon officer said.
Additionally, Russian jamming systems “are likely proving increasingly effective against US supplied Ukrainian air defense systems including Patriot and Hawk [interceptor] missiles enabling Russia to increase its air superiority over Ukraine," Pyne stressed.
Earlier this month, the Washington Post, citing Ukrainian commanders and a Ukrainian military research project, reported that the Russian army's jamming systems have disrupted the accuracy of some of Ukraine's US-supplied precision-guided weapons, prompting Ukrainian forces to stop using them on the battlefield.
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"Russia has the most capable electronic warfare systems in the world, with the longest range and most powerful GPS and radio frequency jammers of any nation," David T. Pyne, an EMP Task Force scholar and former US Department of Defense officer, told Sputnik.
Pyne said he was impressed by "the speed at which Russian long-range jammers have been able to adapt to jamming new US and NATO weapon systems that have been introduced into the [Ukraine] conflict."
Russian EW systems "have proven effective at causing 90% of guided missile and drone systems supplied by the US to Ukraine to miss their target, most importantly HIMARS [High Mobility Artillery Rocket System]," the ex-Pentagon officer said.
He suggested that Russian GPS jammers "will likely prove increasingly effective against the recently supplied extended range US ATACMS [Army Tactical Missile System] missiles as well."
Additionally, Russian jamming systems “are likely proving increasingly effective against US supplied Ukrainian air defense systems including Patriot and Hawk [interceptor] missiles enabling Russia to increase its air superiority over Ukraine," Pyne stressed.
Earlier this month, the Washington Post, citing Ukrainian commanders and a Ukrainian military research project, reported that the Russian army's jamming systems have disrupted the accuracy of some of Ukraine's US-supplied precision-guided weapons, prompting Ukrainian forces to stop using them on the battlefield.
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Russia has seized the initiative across the entire theater of operations, the head of the Institute for the Study of War, George Barros, acknowledged
“The Ukrainians are on the back foot and are forced to react,” he added.
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“Right now, the Russians are dictating the place, the time, the intensity and the tempo of military operations,” he said.
“The Ukrainians are on the back foot and are forced to react,” he added.
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🇷🇺 Russian Ka-52M helicopter attacked Ukrainian forces near Donetsk
The strike was carried out with unguided air missiles against camouflaged enemy equipment and personnel.
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The strike was carried out with unguided air missiles against camouflaged enemy equipment and personnel.
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📹 Aleksey Likhachev, head of the Russian state corporation Rosatom, met with IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi in Russia's Kaliningrad region.
They will discuss the situation around the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.
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They will discuss the situation around the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.
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YouTube deletes Iranian Foreign Ministry's account for video defending Palestine
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“Once again demonstrating the contradiction between the truth about Western freedom of speech and what is said about it, our country’s Foreign Ministry account was removed from YouTube some time after the publication of a video in English entitled 'Resistance is the only choice for Palestine' under the pretext of violations of YouTube rules," Iran's ISNA news agency said in a statement.
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❗️Ukrainian losses amounted to 405 soldiers, two infantry fighting vehicles, including an American Bradley, in the area of responsibility of the Tsentr Battlegroup.
🇷🇺🪖 More statements from the daily briefing of the Russian Defense Ministry on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:
▪️Russian air defenses shot down a MiG-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force and 39 Ukrainian drones in one day;
▪️Units of Russia’s Zapad Battlegroup occupied more advantageous positions and repelled three attacks by Ukrainian troops;
▪️Ukrainian forces lost more than 700 soldiers in one day in the area of responsibility of Russia’s Yug Battlegroup;
▪️Units of the Yug Battlegroup of the Russian Armed Forces improved their situation along the front line, and defeated the troops and equipment of two Ukrainian brigades;
▪️The Sever Battlegroup repelled five attacks in one day, defeated four enemy brigades, and the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces amounted to 285 military personnel.
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🇷🇺🪖 More statements from the daily briefing of the Russian Defense Ministry on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:
▪️Russian air defenses shot down a MiG-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force and 39 Ukrainian drones in one day;
▪️Units of Russia’s Zapad Battlegroup occupied more advantageous positions and repelled three attacks by Ukrainian troops;
▪️Ukrainian forces lost more than 700 soldiers in one day in the area of responsibility of Russia’s Yug Battlegroup;
▪️Units of the Yug Battlegroup of the Russian Armed Forces improved their situation along the front line, and defeated the troops and equipment of two Ukrainian brigades;
▪️The Sever Battlegroup repelled five attacks in one day, defeated four enemy brigades, and the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces amounted to 285 military personnel.
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Scotland's First Minister John Swinney called on the British government to recognize Palestine and threatened to initiate a binding vote in parliament if it refused.
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"Recognising Palestine as a state in its own right is the only way to move towards a just and durable long-term peace, in the interests of both Palestinians and Israelis. <...> I urge you both [major party leaders Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer] to belatedly do the right thing and pledge to immediately recognise Palestine as a state in its own right," he wrote in a letter.
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Russia’s growing media influence in the world sparks alarm in the West
Russian broadcasters such as Sputnik may be outperforming their Western counterparts in terms of media coverage abroad, UK-based non-profit Association for International Broadcasting (AIB) claims.
In its written evidence submission to the UK Parliament's International Development Committee’s Inquiry into Future funding of the BBC World Service, AIB stated that “the global distribution of Russia’s international [media] operations is possibly greater than that of Western broadcasters.”
Sputnik and RT TV and radio services are being broadcast in many of the Global South countries – “including, but not limited to Venezuela, Syria, Mexico, Guatemala, India, Pakistan and South Africa” – and these media operations help Russia spread its influence around the world, AIB laments.
All this praise, however, should perhaps be taken with a grain of salt, seeing how the main purpose of the AIB’s document appears to be securing more British government funding for the BBC.
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Russian broadcasters such as Sputnik may be outperforming their Western counterparts in terms of media coverage abroad, UK-based non-profit Association for International Broadcasting (AIB) claims.
In its written evidence submission to the UK Parliament's International Development Committee’s Inquiry into Future funding of the BBC World Service, AIB stated that “the global distribution of Russia’s international [media] operations is possibly greater than that of Western broadcasters.”
Sputnik and RT TV and radio services are being broadcast in many of the Global South countries – “including, but not limited to Venezuela, Syria, Mexico, Guatemala, India, Pakistan and South Africa” – and these media operations help Russia spread its influence around the world, AIB laments.
All this praise, however, should perhaps be taken with a grain of salt, seeing how the main purpose of the AIB’s document appears to be securing more British government funding for the BBC.
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📹 Aleksey Likhachev, head of the Russian state corporation Rosatom, met with IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi in Russia's Kaliningrad region. They will discuss the situation around the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. 📌 Subscribe to @SputnikInt
The current technical condition of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant is absolutely safe, said the head of Rosatom Aleksey Likhachev after a meeting with the director general of the IAEA.
Everything necessary for the safety of the station is being carried out, including the fight against drones, according to Likhachev.
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Everything necessary for the safety of the station is being carried out, including the fight against drones, according to Likhachev.
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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg advocates for Ukraine's right to use Western weapons to strike Russia.
Sputnik has spoken to experts to answer the burning question: Is NATO bracing for a full-scale war with Russia?
💬 Scott Ritter, former US Marine Corps intelligence officer: It's important to draw a distinction between official NATO policies and what have increasingly become the independent statements of a NATO secretary general who is divorced from reality.
💬 Michael Maloof, former Pentagon senior security policy analyst : So who's calling the shots? It's not coming from the US. Is there some other element that is pushing this agenda to go after Russia? Well, yeah. It's those entities and those ideologies, such as the World Economic Forum that see Russia against its globalist tendencies and globalist goals. And this is probably where it's all heading. These are the people with the money, with the influence, with the control over mass media. These are the folks that are guiding countries such as even the United States and certainly Great Britain.
💬 Larry Johnson, retired CIA intelligence officer and State Department official: Russia will take appropriate steps to counter. And as Russia takes those steps, that will end up further reinforcing the West's mind that Russia is intent on expanding the war when, in fact, all that Russia is doing is reacting to Western provocations.
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Sputnik has spoken to experts to answer the burning question: Is NATO bracing for a full-scale war with Russia?
💬 Scott Ritter, former US Marine Corps intelligence officer: It's important to draw a distinction between official NATO policies and what have increasingly become the independent statements of a NATO secretary general who is divorced from reality.
💬 Michael Maloof, former Pentagon senior security policy analyst : So who's calling the shots? It's not coming from the US. Is there some other element that is pushing this agenda to go after Russia? Well, yeah. It's those entities and those ideologies, such as the World Economic Forum that see Russia against its globalist tendencies and globalist goals. And this is probably where it's all heading. These are the people with the money, with the influence, with the control over mass media. These are the folks that are guiding countries such as even the United States and certainly Great Britain.
💬 Larry Johnson, retired CIA intelligence officer and State Department official: Russia will take appropriate steps to counter. And as Russia takes those steps, that will end up further reinforcing the West's mind that Russia is intent on expanding the war when, in fact, all that Russia is doing is reacting to Western provocations.
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❗️ Recent statements by Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov on the memory of the USSR's victory over fascism:
◾️ In addition to historical illiteracy in the West, there are attempts to distort the knowledge of history, to erase everything that concerns the USSR in the fight against fascism.
◾️ Western leaders are playing with fire, ignorance of history leads to a lack of understanding of the dangers that threaten them, and this applies to the revival of fascism.
◾️ The young generation in European countries simply does not know who fought with whom in the Second World War, they have not been taught about it.
◾️ Russia must tell about the role of the Soviet people in the struggle against fascism.
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Which countries recognize Palestine? On Wednesday, Norway and Spain said they would formally recognize Palestine as a state on May 28. Later in the day, Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris announced his country's recognition of Palestine. To date, the…
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