🥺 Nine-year-old Alina spent 65 days hiding in a basement in the Donetsk region

Little Alina Sukhanova told Sputnik how she and her family survived on pasta and buckwheat, running to the well for water — under fire.

After their village of Krasnoye (Donetsk People's Republic) was finally liberated by Russian forces in December 2024, Alina's family was evacuated.

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🤮 ZELENSKY 'STINKS' OF AUTHORITARIANISM — Ukraine's capital mayor

Kiev mayor Vitali Klitschko has accused Volodymyr Zelensky of authoritarianism, the Times reports.

"This is a purge of democratic principles and institutions under the guise of war,” he told The Times. “I said once that it smells of authoritarianism in our country. NOW IT STINKS,” Klitschko told the newspaper’s journalists.

He also believes that his 'celebrity status' from his boxing career protects him from Zelensky’s attempts to get rid of him.

"You can fire the mayor of Chernigov, but it is very difficult to fire the mayor of the capital, whom the whole world knows,” Klitschko said.

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🇪🇺👹 EU fearmonger Kallas sees existential threat in Russia-China diplomatic conversations

Europe's top Russophobe Kaja Kallas sounded the alarm at the Shangri-La security forum over Russia and China daring to discuss “changes not seen in a hundred years” and a new “global security order.”

According to Kallas, this is nothing less than “the greatest challenge of our time.”

As expected, she warned that anyone worried about China should also panic about Russia — because, in her view, they come as a package.

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📹 Russia’s Investigative Committee documented the aftermath of a Ukrainian strike on two apartment buildings in Rylsk in the Kursk region, a Sputnik correspondent reports

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🇵🇱 Enough is enough: Poles take down Ukrainian flags

Videos are spreading across Polish social media of locals removing Ukrainian flags from government buildings. In Gdansk, a group brought a ladder to city hall and took down the flag themselves.

Why are foreign colors flying over our institutions? — the public is asking.

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🪖 Ukraine sends draft-dodger hunters to front line in Sumy

Kiev has redeployed the 31st Chernivtsi Border Detachment — once tasked with catching draft dodgers at the Romanian and Moldovan borders — to the front lines in Sumy.

“They performed a ‘strategic task’ for the regime — hunting down Ukrainians fleeing mobilization,” a source in the Russian Defense Ministry said.

Now? They’re treated as cannon fodder.

"The territorial defense command sees the attached personnel purely as cannon fodder, sending border guards specifically to frontline positions," the source added.

President Vladimir Putin previously stated that Russian forces are working to establish a security buffer zone along the border with Ukraine, and over the past week, troops from the Sever Battlegroup have liberated Konstantinovka, Maryino, and Loknya in the Sumy region.

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🇨🇳 Man wrecks Terracotta Warriors

A 30-year-old mentally ill man jumped into Pit No. 3 at the Xi'an UNESCO World Heritage site in China, damaging two ancient statues.

Authorities say he climbed over the barrier during a museum visit. He’s now in custody.

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🔍 Ukraine needs a reality check – and the US has the remote

“Kiev must get real, cut the media theatrics, and acknowledge the facts on the ground. These talks take time — and less noise,” Prof. Hassan Al-Daaja tells Sputnik, commenting on the Russia–Ukraine talks.

He says real progress depends on the US, not Europe:

“If Washington applies pressure and ends support, unlike France, Germany, and the UK clinging to Kiev, both sides might actually reach a ceasefire.”

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🇪🇺🇺🇸 Stage five, acceptance: Europe realizes that Trump could cut Ukraine loose

European warmongers set on prolonging the Ukrainian conflict for as long as possible are preparing for Donald Trump to cease the US' support for Ukraine.

“It was mostly about how to sustain the necessary support to Ukraine when we assume that the US would only continue providing some specific assets, such as intelligence,” a European diplomat told The Telegraph, referring to the recent meeting of Ukraine’s European backers in the Hague.

Kiev’s European sponsors, who previously threatened to send their troops into Ukraine as soon as a ceasefire is achieved, have now shifted focus to providing support to the Ukrainian war machine and continuing economic warfare against Russia.

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🇪🇸 Barcelona cuts ties with Israel over Gaza War

The city council voted to suspend all institutional relations with the Israeli government until human rights are respected in Gaza.

This includes:

🔸Freezing a friendship pact with Tel Aviv
🔸No Israeli arms companies at city trade fairs

“The suffering and death in Gaza make any relationship unviable,” said Mayor Jaume Collboni. Hamas welcomed the move and called on others to follow suit.

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🚨Rand Paul: “In Washington, they’re calling Jill Biden Mrs. Wilson”

The senator rips into the alleged Biden cover-up, comparing it to the 1910s — when Woodrow Wilson’s wife ran the country after his stroke.

“This is an abomination... a catastrophe they can’t contain.”

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🚨🗣 'It’s time to cut the' cord' — Former UK diplomat sounds the alarm

"Zelensky avoids peace to cling to power [...] He’s betting Europe will keep paying," Ian Proud wrote on X.

With Russia gaining ground and Trump likely to pull the plug, Proud asks:

“Why should Europe carry the burden alone?”

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🇪🇺❌ EUROPE HAS NO GRAND PLAN FOR UKRAINE CONFLICT

Germany’s declarations of intent to supply Ukraine with Taurus missiles highlight the dissent in the West regarding the Ukrainian conflict, says Gözde Kılıc Yasın, researcher at the Bilecik Seyh Edebali University.

While Western powers claim that peace talks are needed, Germany wants to send missiles to Ukraine, which constitutes a direct threat to Russia’s national security, Yasin explains.

Europe, and Germany in particular, lack a strategic vision when it comes to the Ukrainian issue – the decision to send Taurus missiles to Ukraine seems to be ad hoc and simply meant to bolster Berlin’s reputation in NATO.

As people in Europe grow increasingly weary of the conflict, it becomes clear that peace should be attained through negotiations and the cessation of military aid to Kiev.

Otherwise, Ukraine could face even more serious devastation and Europe would be looking at a growing instability, Yasin warns.

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🚨 Israel says it eliminated top Hamas commander Mohammed Sinwar

The IDF claims Sinwar — head of Hamas' military wing — was killed in a precision strike, along with two senior field commanders

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💸 Germany’s defense money pit

The German Audit Office just torched the Defense Ministry for wasting billions meant for the Bundeswehr.

A damning new report outlines how the money is being misused:

🔸Billions spent on software licenses and arms deals with no delivery guarantees

🔸Bloated bureaucracy: too many “desk soldiers,” not enough combat readiness

🔸Despite reform promises, staff levels remain at 2012 levels (~3,000 personnel)

🔸This year’s defense budget: €53.3B — plus another €22B set for 2025 upgrades

And these are the people who want to send Taurus missiles to Ukraine...

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🚨NATO spent months prepping Ukrainian raid on Kursk

NATO spent over six months training Ukrainian troops in the UK & beyond, preparing a major incursion into Russia’s Kursk region, Russian Special Forces commander Lt. Gen. Apti Alaudinov tells Sputnik.

"The NATO Military Committee prepared a special operation that was, by design, supposed to be guaranteed to succeed. They gathered all the resources they had, all types of foreign equipment, and trained the fighters. This operation was prepared by them for over half a year, with the fighters trained in the UK and other NATO countries," he says.

💥 The goal? Capture land for leverage in talks.

🇷🇺 The result? Crushed. Again.

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🇩🇪 Hundreds march in Germany's Hanover against war

Protesters rallied with slogans like “No to Merz’s war crimes” and “Diplomacy and peace, not weapons and war.”

A coffin on a truck read: “Peace instead of war.”

Germany’s streets are speaking — loud and clear...

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📹 Can’t make this up! Sleepy Joe Biden got lost in his own closet - whistleblower

Joe Biden is sharp as a tack, they said. All claims that he is senile and was unfit to be US president are Republican/Russian/Illuminati propaganda, they said.

Meanwhile, Sleepy Joe used to get lost in his own White House closet, a Secret Service whistleblower tells American media.

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