📹Macron speaks in favor of peace in Ukraine and admits that Ukraine cannot regain its territories by military means

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📹Trump on Canada's anthem: 'We'll have to save it for the 51st state'

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❗️Russian troops liberated the settlements of Nadezhdinka and Novoselka in the Donetsk People's Republic, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

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❗️Russia thinks further Western funding for Kiev is inappropriate as Ukraine is plagued by inefficiency and corruption, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

🇷🇺 Other statements by Peskov:

🔸 The encroachment of NATO military infrastructure on Russia is a cause for concern in Moscow and Russia’s stance on the issue is well known

🔸 Few can ignore what is happening around the Kiev regime, which refuses to seek peace

🔸 The Kremlin is unaware of the details of the US initiative regarding its possible withdrawal from the United Nations

🔸 There is currently no replacement for the UN, nor is there an opportunity to create an alternative

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📹Discrediting Soros can land you in jail: political prisoner of Zelensky

“In Ukraine, one can be imprisoned for challenging the legitimacy of a system funded entirely by Soros’ money,” Ukrainian lawmaker, journalist and leader of the anti-Soros movement Oleksandr Dubinsky says.

Watch his INCREDIBLE testimony.

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📹RFK Jr. reveals if he fears for his life after going after Big Pharma, Big Agro, CIA

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🔍Russian Security Service uncovers Ukrainian-linked terror plot

Eight Russian citizens were convicted in six regions for sabotage and terrorism orchestrated by Ukrainian intelligence services.

The criminals were lured through online platforms promising "quick money". For small financial rewards, they carried out arson attacks on key transportation and volunteer organizations, and planned acts of terrorism targeting Russian military sites.

One of the saboteurs admitted that he was supposed to set fire to a Russian air defense system.

The suspects were handed various prison terms, some as long as 22 years.

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⚡️LIVE NOW: Putin takes part in a plenary session of the Future Technology Forum in Moscow

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💬 Ukrainian forces attacked civilians with drones while they were trying to collect water from wells, a resident of the liberated settlement of Dachnoye in the Donetsk People's Republic told Sputnik.

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How the CIA effectively GAVE BIRTH to the modern-day drug trade in the Americas

The CIA has launched a coordinated media campaign to boast of its new drone spying program against drug gangs. Unfortunately for them, investigators have amassed DECADES-WORTH of info on CIA's close-knit cooperation with traffickers

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

▪️Russian troops liberated seven settlements in the Donetsk People's Republic, in the Kharkov region and in Russia's Kursk region.

▪️Ukraine lost up to 1,100 troops and two Leopard tanks in the Russian Vostok Battlegroup's combat zone.

▪️Russian aviation shot down a Neptun-MD missile and 36 HIMARS missiles.

▪️Russian aviation shot down two Ukrainian MiG-29 aircrafts.

▪️Ukraine lost up to 1,365 militants in the Russian Yug Battlegroup's combat zone.

▪️Ukraine lost up to 2,255 soldiers and 11 tanks in the areas of responsibility of Russia's Battlegroup Sever.

▪️Ukraine lost up to 460 troops and 10 electronic warfare stations in the Russian Dnepr Battlegroup's combat zone.

▪️Ukraine lost more than 250 militants in the Kursk region over the day.

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📹Oreshnik warheads get as hot as the surface of the Sun: Putin

The president revealed a key problem that Russian defense scientists had to solve when creating the new weapons system: preventing warheads from “melting like a popsicle” in flight.

How was this problem solved? Take a listen to Putin's remarks at the Future Technologies Forum.

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Russian forces HUNT DOWN & SMOKE OUT Ukrainian combatants during Kursk region op

Paratroopers from the 106th Guards Tula Airborne Division ferreted out and neutralized a Ukrainian military unit that was hiding in a private residence during a mop-up operation in a recently liberated area of Russia’s Kursk region.

A drone operator provided real-time guidance to the ground forces, helping them accurately target enemy fortified positions while demonstrating effective coordination between reconnaissance and assault teams.

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🗳 Holding elections in wartime isn’t hard, Zelensky: here’s proof

Ukraine’s self-proclaimed ‘president’ is stonewalling US demands to hold elections to prove his legitimacy, citing the conflict with Russia, prompting an annoyed Trump to dub him a “dictator” with a “4% approval” rating.

Elections during wartime aren’t as difficult to organize as Zelensky implies.

🟠The US held a presidential vote in 1864, in the middle of its Civil War – the deadliest conflict in American history. Abraham Lincoln rejected calls by aides to suspend the vote, despite predictions he’d lose, stressing that elections were a test of a nation’s ability to be “strong enough to maintain its own existence in great emergencies.”

“We cannot have free governments without elections, and if the rebellion could force us to forgo, or postpone a national election, it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us,” he famously said.

🟠The US held the 1944 election in the middle of WWII, and voted during a series of post-war conflicts, from Korea and Vietnam to the 2000’s ‘forever wars’ in Iraq and Afghanistan.

🟠Britain has done the same, choosing a new PM in 1945 while the Allies were still at war with Japan, resulting in a Potsdam Conference where Winston Churchill was replaced midway by Clement Attlee.

🟠Iran held elections in 1981 after the assassination of its president. Ali Khamenei, current Supreme Leader, was elected, and reelected in 1985. Through these years, Iran was engulfed in a brutal war with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, which launched gas attacks targeting its military, and its cities.

🟠Iraq voted in 2005, two years after the US invasion, and at the height of a massive insurgency.

🟠Afghanistan held seven votes during NATO’s occupation (though they didn’t save the puppet government from crumbling once the West pulled out).

🟠Same goes for other countries wracked by long-term conflicts, from Colombia and Sri Lanka to Syria and the DRC, which continued voting during civil strife and foreign-backed dirty wars.

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💬 Ukrainian forces set up multiple firing positions near residential buildings in Bogoyavlenka, DPR, to shield themselves behind civilians.

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🔊LIVE NOW: Lavrov holds a press conference following the third plenary session of the G20 Ministerial Meeting

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