❗️Russian forces struck Ukrainian military airfield infrastructure and fuel storage facilities, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense.

🇷🇺🪖More statements from the Russian MoD daily briefing on the special military operation's progress:    

▪️Ukraine lost up to 295 servicemen in the Russian Zapad Battlegroup's combat zone.

▪️Russian air defence systems shot down a HIMARS missile and 44 Ukrainian drones.

▪️Ukraine lost up to 515 troops in the Russian Tsentr Battlegroup's combat zone.

▪️Ukraine lost up to 200 servicemen and four warehouses in the Russia's Battlegroup Yug area of responsibility.

▪️Ukraine lost up to 80 soldiers in the areas of responsibility of Russia's Battlegroup Dnepr and Sever.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed bewilderment at the invitation to Ukrainian Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera's followers to the 80th anniversary commemoration of the liberation of the Auschwitz-death camp in Poland.

He stressed that "today's Ukrainian leadership has elevated Bandera to the status of a national hero," and that Volodymyr Zelensky personally applauded former SS soldiers. "These are the realities of Europe today," Putin added.

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📹 Putin: Trump will bring European elites to heel

The European elites preferred the previous US president, Joe Biden, while the new American leader, Donald Trump, has different views on what is right and wrong, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with journalist Pavel Zarubin.

"Trump has different views on what is good and what is bad, including in gender policy and some other issues. They don’t seem to like that."

However, Putin is confident that US President Donald Trump will quickly bring the European elites to heel.

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⚔️China’s warning shot: Trump’s trade war could backfire on the US

China’s response to US President Donald Trump’s new tariffs will impact US consumers, manufacturers and importers warned Wang Yiwei, director of the Institute of International Relations at the People's University of China.

"Trump's strategy and style involve using blackmail to pressure his trade partners into making concessions, which is why he initially threatened 60% tariffs,” Wang told Sputnik.

But “the US economy would not be able to withstand such a blow, as 90% of the tariff costs would fall on American consumers. He still needs to take care of the country's economy."

Wang noted that the 10% tariffs are tied to campaign promises rather than just trade issues. Initially meant to balance the deficit, they are now aimed at disrupting China's role as the "world’s factory."

China, Wang added, will stick to World Trade Organization principles but also take countermeasures to protect its interests, making US industries pay the price.

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🔥Migrants protest deportations, burning an American flag and waving foreign flags in Oxnard, California.

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🆘Any attempt to bail out the dollar with crypto is DOOMED – British economist

🔊“The USA is acutely aware of a possible collapse in the value of the American dollar. Moreover, it knows that the rise of BRICS will accentuate the collapse,” Rodney Shakespeare, a visiting professor at Trisakti University and co-founder of the Global Justice Movement, told Sputnik.

🔊“The USA is therefore going to do anything which it hopes will maintain the value and international position of the dollar,” he noted.
However, at best, the creation of a cryptocurrency stockpile “could provide a minimal backing for the dollar,” the renowned British economist speculated.

🔊“Unfortunately, the chance of such backing disrupts cool thinking and results in a failure to address the true sources of future dollar weakness, which include colossal levels of personal, corporate and governmental debt,” he said.

Should a crypto bubble emerge following Donald Trump's statements, it would “first lead to a lessening of overall demand and, on bursting, contribute to a huge loss of confidence possibly precipitating some sort of financial collapse,” the pundit concluded.

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