👊 MTG dumps on Zelensky following Trump's barb against 'the comedian'

"He cancelled elections and destroyed free speech in Ukraine," US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene posted on her X account.

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🤡OH NOOOOOOO! Knock, knock, guess who? Open your eyes it's time to cough up the money you owe! - Bessent finally finds Zelensky?

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📑Danes told to tighten their belts as military spending to be prioritized

While the US Pentagon may reportedly be facing 8% cuts in each of the next five years, Denmark plans to boost its defense spending to more than 3% of economic output, said Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen at a news briefing.

Denmark appears to have been so riled up by Donald Trump’s refusal to further bankroll Europe’s defense and the US president’s infamous obsession with Greenland that it will spend an additional $17 billion on defense through 2033.

If a mulled war tax to finance the military spending is agreed, it would cost an average Danish family about $12,000 a year, CEPOS thinktank estimated.

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❗️Russian forces struck infrastructure of energy facilities ensuring the work of the Ukrainian military, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

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

▪️Ukraine lost up to 180 servicemen in the Russian Zapad Battlegroup's combat zone.

▪️Ukraine lost up to 280 troops in the Russian Tsentr Battlegroup's combat zone.

▪️Russian aviation shot down a Ukrainian MiG-29 aircraft.

▪️Ukraine lost up to 175 militants in the Russian Yug Battlegroup's combat zone.

▪️Ukraine lost up to 135 soldiers and three warehouses in the areas of responsibility of Russia's Battlegroup Dnepr and Sever.

▪️Ukraine lost up to 155 troops in the Russian Vostok Battlegroup's combat zone.

▪️Ukraine lost more than 160 militants and two tanks in the Kursk region.

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🤡Rabidly biting the hand that feeds you?

The leader of Ukraine’s extremist Azov* battalion tells Musk to “f*ck off”, apparently forgetting who’s been providing the Ukrainian army with Starlink.

As expected, the tweet soon vanished into thin air.

*Azov regiment is a terrorist organization outlawed in Russia

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💬 Germany, Europe FUMBLE chance to become truly ‘great powers’ by cooperating with Russia

Sovereignty is about making decisions that will benefit your country, not policies turning you into a third-rate power in the competition with the US and China, German professor of economics Hans Bernhard Wolf said, speaking at the ‘Multipolar World: A View from Germany’ international roundtable, hosted by the St. Petersburg University of the Humanities and Social Sciences.

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🇷🇺🤝🇨🇳Sergey Lavrov's first meeting with Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on the sidelines of the G20 Ministerial Meeting in South Africa 🇿🇦

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EU’s Ukraine clout slips away as security prospects go up in smoke

Macron's recent vow of being a guarantor of peace in Europe contradicts Zelensky's claim of being "the leader of any negotiations," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova remarked. "So who is more important?" she questioned.

The EU has squandered opportunities to establish European security, Hungarian political expert Georg Spottle told Sputnik.

“The EU is not capable of anything... for ten years they couldn't curb illegal migration, for three years they’ve been unable to bring peace to Ukraine,” he noted.

Despite Macron's efforts to position France as Europe's security guarantor, Spottle argued that the EU's unity is fracturing, and its influence over Ukraine is waning.

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🤝Chinese FM Wang Yi to visit Moscow - Lavrov

"Russian-Chinese relationship continues to be an increasingly important factor in stabilizing the international situation," Lavrov said during his meeting with the Chinese foreign minister.

Lavrov discussed relations with the US and the Ukrainian crisis with his Chinese counterpart.

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🚨Ukraine, you are fired!

Despite reports claiming Zelensky banned Trump’s Truth Social in Ukraine, the truth is...

Truth Social HAS NEVER BEEN AVAILABLE in Ukraine

SAD!

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💬 ‘This was a coup d’état ORDERED by the Biden administration’

Romania's leading presidential candidate Calin Georgescu explains how the election results were canceled.

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💬 Trump NEVER FORGETS: Ukraine elections demand is attempt to make Zelensky PAY A HEAVY PRICE

"He blames Zelensky for his first impeachment, because Zelensky could have spoken up and affirmed that Trump didn't ask him to do anything illegal… except Zelensky chose to remain quiet,” Larry Johnson, retired CIA intelligence officer, told Sputnik.

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📹Handshakes and warm greetings as Lavrov arrives at the G20 ministerial meeting in Johannesburg.

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US for first time abandons anti-Russian UN resolution on Ukraine

Sputnik has learned that the draft resolution is being prepared for February 24 by Western countries, namely the UK, France, Germany, Canada, Switzerland, Poland, and the Baltic States – but not the US.

It calls for Russia to “immediately and unconditionally” withdraw troops from Ukraine, but for some reason does not address either Kiev's terrorist attacks against Russian civilians, or the presence of Ukrainian forces in Russia's Kursk region.

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⚔️US-Ukraine WAR OF WORDS: Who on Team Trump is lining up to eviscerate Zelensky?

US President Donald Trump giving a cold shoulder to Volodymyr Zelensky while kickstarting reengagement with Russia has been lavishly peppered with choice epithets. The POTUS’ allies also lost no time jumping onto the tirade bandwagon.

Trump
🟠labeled Zelensky a "dictator without elections" and a "modestly successful comedian."
🟠noted that he was “very low in Ukrainian polls, and the only thing he was good at was playing Biden 'like a fiddle’"
🟠warned him to "move fast or he is not going to have a country left"
🟠called him "the greatest salesman of any politician that's ever lived" on the 2024 campaign trail

Vice President JD Vance
🟠voiced disapproval of Zelensky's public “badmouthing” of Trump, stating that this is "an atrocious way to deal with this administration”

Elon Musk
🟠Asserted that Zelensky "cannot claim to represent the will of the people of Ukraine unless he restores freedom of the press and stops canceling elections."

US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
🟠called Zelensky “an actor in a green jumpsuit that extorts money from everyone while he canceled elections and destroyed free speech in Ukraine and leads a war that has nearly wiped out an entire generation of Ukrainian men.”

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⚡️Putin held a telephone conversation with the commanders of the 810th Brigade of the Black Sea Fleet and the 56th Regiment of the Seventh Airborne Assault Division.

During this call, they briefed the president on the current progress of the fighting.

“The President thanked the commanders and all personnel of the units for successfully completing the tasks assigned to them in the enemy’s incursion zones in the Kursk region,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

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US rejects the term ‘Russian aggression’ in G7 communique on Ukraine

The Trump administration instead wants to refer to the issue as the “Ukraine conflict,” officials told FT.

“The Americans are blocking that language, but we are still working on it and hopeful of an agreement,” one official said.

The small change is part of a larger shift in Trump’s language on Ukraine, with the president recently blaming Zelensky for refusing to sit down to peace talks for three years, and blasting the Biden administration for pushing NATO membership for Kiev – which Trump recognized as a big red line for Russia.

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