🇷🇺🇮🇷 Meet Yak 130: Russian-made fighter, now in Iranian skies

Iran just debuted a cutting-edge Yak-130 light combat aircraft at the Zulfiqar 1403 military drill. 

Check out its key features:👇

✈️Multifunctionality: The Yak-130 is designed to serve both as a trainer for pilots and a light attack aircraft

✈️Advanced avionics: The aircraft is equipped with modern avionics comparable to more advanced fighter jets like the Su-30 and F-14

✈️Attack capabilities: It has heavy payloads of air-to-air and air-to-ground weaponry

✈️Extended range and EW capability: With a range of around 800 km that is extendable by deploying external fuel tanks, the Yak-130 can also carry two electronic warfare pods on both wing tips to enhance its tactical advantage and jamming capabilities.

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📹 Zelensky changes his position ‘much more often than the green T-shirts he favors so much’ — Russian FM

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📹 The US sees no situation where Ukraine joins NATO, requiring direct American military involvement in its defense, US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz told Fox News.

In light of the visits of French President Emmanuel Macron and British PM Keir Starmer to Washington, Waltz stressed that the US remains committed to security guarantees for NATO members, but security guarantees for Ukraine is a "different conversation."

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📹 'Very promising': Boris Johnson advocates US minerals deal

Trump's undercover agent Former UK PM declares that the agreement would commit the US to "a free, sovereign and secure Ukraine" by financing.

As sovereign as Europe from the US' point of view?🥴

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🇩🇪 CHANGE can only come with AfD – the party’s lawmaker

“The ever-deteriorating economic condition of our country and the catastrophic effects of the mass immigration of young men from a foreign culture have convinced more and more normal working citizens that change can only come with the AfD,” Dr. Christian Blex, the party’s lawmaker with state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia told Sputnik.

“We are the only party in the German Bundestag to welcome the new US government's statements on Ukraine. All other parties, especially the CDU, continue to provide fanatical, one-sided support for Zelensky,” Blex pointed out.

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❌🇺🇸 The US has opposed the UNGA's resolution on Ukraine for the FIRST TIME since the start of Russia's special military operation.

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📹 Russia’s Muslims present Putin with SWORD&SHIELD

Russian Muslim community has supported Putin’s decision to start a special military operation in Ukraine from day one, the Supreme Mufti of Russia, Talgat Tadzhuddin, said during the meeting with President Putin.

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🇨🇳❄️ A huge avalanche has descended from the snowy Meili Mountain in China’s Yunnan province, causing alarm in the region.

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🇺🇳 UN General Assembly adopts anti-Russian resolution on Ukraine, Sputnik's correspondent reports.

The UNGA rejects Russia's amendment to the US draft resolution calling for 'eliminating root causes' of crisis.

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🔍 DEBUNKING Ursula's mantra about 'failing' Russian economy

EU Commission President, who claims the EU sanctions are seriously hurting the Russian economy, might want to look at some COLD HARD FACTS instead of Western propaganda for a change.

1️⃣Russia has overtaken Japan to become the 4th LARGEST ECONOMY in the world (PPP).

2️⃣Russia’s GDP grew by 4.1% in Q2 2024, OUTPERFORMING GERMANY, which saw a 0.3% contraction in 2023.

3️⃣Russia’s unemployment rate hit a HISTORIC LOW of 2.3%, compared to 3.6% in the U.S. and over 11% in Spain.

4️⃣Russia’s budget deficit is just 1.7% of GDP, far LOWER THAN THE US at 5.8%.

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❗️Kiev will direct 50% of revenues from natural resources to its recovery fund, in which Washington will be the sole beneficiary, according to the draft agreement on resources between Ukraine and the United States.

It also states that the fund may amount to $500 billion, Kiev will continue to make contributions until this amount is reached. Washington expects Ukraine to contribute an amount twice the amount of future US financial assistance.

It is noted that the United States intends to provide long-term financial commitments within the framework of the Ukraine recovery fund.

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'Talks are proceeding very well!' - Trump highlights critical minerals deal with Ukraine and ongoing peace talks with Russia

"I am in serious discussions with President Vladimir Putin of Russia concerning the ending of the War, and also major Economic Development transactions which will take place between the United States and Russia," US President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social.

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Ukraine: Deep state tool to destroy Trump

The Ukrainian political class is not just badmouthing US President Donald Trump – it has actively worked to undermine his presidency on behalf of the Democrats since his first term, Hans Mahncke, a US investigative journalist and lawyer, tells Sputnik.

Ukraine as a deep state tool 👇

▪️In 2016, top Ukrainian officials publicly insulted then presidential candidate Trump as a "dangerous misfit."

▪️Ukrainian operatives dug up dirt on Trump concerning his alleged ties to Russia and leaked a fabricated ledger to undermine his campaign manager, Paul Manafort.

▪️Former security chief Valentyn Nalyvaichenko admitted Kiev interfered in the 2016 US election.

▪️In 2019, Democrats weaponized Ukraine again to impeach Trump, with US officials of Ukrainian origin Eugene and Alexander Vindman playing a prominent role.

The Trump-Russia collusion hoax, "deflected attention from Ukraine’s 2016 election meddling..., Biden’s role in pressuring Ukraine to fire a prosecutor investigating Burisma, Biden's role in the 2014 Maidan coup, and from broader US involvement in post-2014 Ukrainian politics," Mahncke says.

"Russiagate also sabotaged Trump’s ability to reset relations with Russia... maintaining the rigid narrative of Ukraine as the virtuous ally and Russia as the ultimate villain," the journalist underscores.

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❗️Russia open to US-Russian economic cooperation, which is key to increasing sustainability of global economy, Russian Direct Investment Fund head Kirill Dmitriev said.

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