📹 'We're helping Ukraine like nobody's ever helped Ukraine before' - Trump said during meeting with Macron

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🗣 Highlights of Trump’s speech during a joint press briefing with French President Macron

▪️Ensuring Ukraine's security after the settlement of the conflict will be the responsibility of European countries.

▪️The US does not object to the deployment of European countries' troops in Ukraine as peacekeeping forces.

▪️The agreement between the US and Ukraine on rare earth metals is approaching the final stage.

▪️“At some point, I will be meeting with President Putin”

▪️The conflict in Ukraine may be resolved within the next few weeks.

▪️Joint economic projects between the US and Russia serve the interests of long-term peace.

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Netizens FUMING over judge blocking DOGE’s work

Liberal judge Deborah Boardman has blocked the Education Dept. & the Office of Personnel Management from sharing data with DOGE, citing “privacy violations”.

💬 “Privacy violations? Give me a break. This is about hiding waste, not protecting data.”

💬 “Another judge that we did not elect or vote for, as the Dems like to say.”

💬 “Impeach and remove Judge Deborah Boardman. She’s clearly an activist.”

The White House's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, created by President Donald Trump and led by Elon Musk has already saved tens of billions of dollars by canceling diversity, equity and inclusion contracts, as well as by placing numerous programs which have been implemented by USAID all over the globe under scrutiny.

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🔨 Two birds with one stone: Why Patel's Ukraine probe could bust the deep state

"A real investigation into Ukraine wouldn’t just expose corruption there — it would strike at the heart of the Washington, DC, establishment," Hans Mahncke, a US investigative journalist and lawyer, tells Sputnik, commenting on new FBI Director Kash Patel's bid to scrutinize the Kiev regime.

Mahncke explains that Ukraine has long been a hub for money laundering, foreign influence, and off-the-books deals.

While many potential crimes linked to Ukraine may now fall outside the statute of limitations, fraudulent USAID payments and bribery schemes remain well within the window for prosecution, according to the lawyer.

"USAID funds, NGO cash flows, and military aid kickbacks have enriched the same elites who pushed the Maidan coup and later worked to destroy Trump. If Patel follows the money, it will lead straight back to Washington," the journalist underscores.

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🔎 What's behind Trump's dizzying speed in exposing deep state fraud?

"The deep state will strike back — no question. Right now, it seems to be in disarray, but there will be some kind of lashing out; we just don’t know what yet. What’s certain is that it’s coming. That’s why Trump must move fast — and he knows it," Hans Mahncke, a US investigative journalist and lawyer, tells Sputnik.

Team Trump's remarkable speed in exposing the USAID scandal and other instances of internal fraud "comes from knowing exactly what they’re up against" and "where the bodies are buried" after years of deep state attacks against him, the journalist points out.

"A key ally in this fight is Elon Musk — a no-nonsense, brilliant businessman who cuts to the chase. From the Twitter Files to fighting censorship, he’s made it harder for the deep state to control the narrative," Mahncke underscores.

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🥴🤝 Trump and Macron exchange weird handshake... AGAIN

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⚡️ Zelensky's rating is twice lower than Valery Zaluzhny's — Vladimir Putin

The president added that Zelensky had driven himself into a dead end by forbidding himself to negotiate with Russia and was becoming a toxic figure for the Ukrainian military and for society as a whole.

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🔍Why USAID’s $14 mln project to fund Ukrainian NGOs flopped

The goal was “to secure a pro-Western alignment that could serve as a strategic counterbalance to Russian influence,” Marco Marsili of the Research Center of the Institute of Political Studies at the Portuguese Catholic University tells Sputnik.

At the end of the day, the project was evaluated as unsuccessful because its core objectives regarding the Maidan protests were not met, the researcher says. “Although the protests catalyzed political change, the expected long-term transformation of Ukraine’s governance structures was never fully realized,” he concludes.

A Sputnik analysis of publicly available USAID program reports shows that the agency pumped over $14.3 million in supporting pro-reform non-governmental organizations in Ukraine over five years leading up to the Euromaidan protests in 2013.

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🚨 Putin offers US partnership on rare earth metals

🔻 Russia is open to working with US on rare earth production

🔻 Russia holds FAR MORE rare earth reserves than Ukraine

🔻 Foreign partners welcome — including in Russia's Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaporozhye, Kherson, and Crimea.

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⚡️ Putin: it's a good idea for both the US and Russia to cut defense spending by 50%

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⚡️ Russia is ready to supply 2 million tons of aluminum to US market, it would stabilize prices — Putin

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❗️ There is a good reason to resume talks with Putin - Macron

The US president, in turn, noted that his team is in constant contact "with Putin and his people," which was not the case under Biden.

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🪃 EU sanctions on Russia actually have BOOMERANG effect

▪️Europe’s self-imposed ban on purchasing affordable Russian natural gas caused EU gas prices to skyrocket. Over the past month, European natural gas prices surged by 30%, topping $620 per 1,000 cubic meters.

▪️Rising energy prices inevitably led to an increase in wider production costs in Europe, with EU economic powerhouses like Germany thus losing their competitive edge on global markets.

▪️All this led to a recession in Germany and fueled the cost-of-living crises in countries such as Britain.

▪️While some EU members hailed what they described as independence from Russian pipeline natural gas, they apparently failed to notice that it led to a dependence on LNG shipments from countries such as the US.

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❗️ The UN Security Council approved the US-proposed resolution on Ukraine.

The US-proposed resolution, approved by 10 votes in favor and five abstentions, calls for a lasting peace between Russia and Ukraine and for a rapid end to the conflict.

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⚡️ Suspect in Russian Consulate General attack is detained in Marseille

Two people, 48 and 59 years old, were detained after a pro-Ukrainian rally, local media reports. One of them is suspected of involvement in the attack on the Russian Consulate General.

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💬 We appreciate Trump's understanding of the 'root causes' of the Ukrainian conflict - Russia's UN envoy

Vassily Nebenzia also urged not to let the "overdue ruler in Kiev and his puppeteers" derail the efforts of Russia and the US to resolve the conflict in Ukraine.

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Pete Hegseth will visit Guantanamo on Tuesday — DoD

Guantanamo Bay currently holds illegal immigrants awaiting deportation to their countries of origin.

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🤦‍♀️🚨 TikToker threatens Elon Musk — gets instant regret

A woman's online call for Musk's assassination caught the attention of the head of DOGE and the US attorney.

"We're going to put you in the system," Ed Martin confirmed the investigation.

Bonus: she admitted to 8 years of unpaid taxes.

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🇷🇸 'Shameful mistake': Serbia apologizes to citizens for voting for anti-Russian UN resolution

"I think Serbia made a mistake, I apologize to the citizens of Serbia, and I think I made a mistake too," said Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.

Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vulin said Serbia's representatives at the UN had disgraced the country.

"I don't believe in a mistake, because every Serb will think twice before voting against Russia," he said in a media release.

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❗️ Russia and the US can reach a ceasefire in Ukraine in the coming weeks, Macron said in an interview with Fox News.

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