🇷🇺🪖 RUSSIAN DEFENSE BRIEFING: MASSIVE STRIKES & ENEMY COLLAPSE

🔸7 strategic strikes this week on Ukraine’s military-industrial sites & infrastructure in response to Ukrainian terror attacks.

🔸7 settlements liberated as Russian forces advance.

🔸Enemy losses: 10,045+ Ukrainian troops eliminated in 7 days.

🔸Air defense triumphs:

▪️3 Neptune missiles
▪️2 Storm Shadow missiles
▪️3 Vampire MLRS rockets
▪️18 JDAM bombs
▪️1,390 drones destroyed (509 outside special military operation zone)

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🚨🇺🇸 The Trump-Musk debate is an internal US matter, and the Kremlin does not intend to comment on it — Peskov

Regarding the potential impact of these developments on the US president's involvement in Ukrainian settlement efforts, Peskov noted that "heads of state constantly handle numerous tasks—they have enough time for all of them."

Other statements by Kremlin spox:

▪️ The US continues to make mediation efforts for a Ukrainian settlement, and Russia is grateful for this

▪️ For Russia, it is important that contacts with Washington continue

▪️ Russia launched its special military operation after all possibilities for resolving the issue through political and diplomatic means had been exhausted

▪️ All daily actions of the Russian army as part of the special military op are a response to the actions of the Kiev regime

▪️ The reaction of the Latvian Seim to an MP’s speech in Russian was predictable

▪️ The Kremlin views negatively the remarks of Merz, who spoke about the US role in fighting Nazism but failed to mention the USSR’s role

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📹 WATCH footage of the assault on liberated Fedorovka in Donetsk People’s Republic

Assault units liberated this settlement in four days, a scout from the "Vostok" battle group with the call sign "Husky" told Sputnik.

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📹 Kuwait eyes AI collaboration with Russia

“I found out that the AI technology is really high and we can collaborate in the future. I think we're going to have a big deal of collaboration between the two countries,” Jenan Al Shehab, Technical Director, ELECTRODIS Tech, Kuwait, told Sputnik at the Global Digital Forum.

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👉 The West controls the IAEA governing board, which explains the agency's silence toward Ukraine – Rosatom CEO

Other statements by Rosatom Chief Alexey Likhachev:

▪️Sometimes we see double standards in the IAEA's actions

▪️IAEA experts have the opportunity to see the aftermath of Ukrainian army attacks on Energodar

▪️Amid negotiations with Ukraine, the wave of provocations against Energodar and Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant will likely increase

▪️Rosenergoatom is doing everything to quickly restore power supply in Energodar

▪️For the last four nights, the Ukrainian army has been destroying Energodar's power grid in daily attacks

▪️Military threats to the Zaporozhye NPP are escalating

▪️Russia is ready to work with US fuel at Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant. Russia is ready to cooperate with the US on this matter through IAEA mediation.

▪️Rosatom is ready to assist in resolving any issues related to Iran's nuclear program

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📹 ‘Russia has great experience in developing and deploying the new technologies’ – Afghan official

“So we are seeking to get their [Russians] help for building some different digital infrastructures, such as building the National Data Center and building the new digital identity system,” Seyed Mansour Rahimi, the head of IT Infrastructure under Afghan Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, told Sputnik at the Global Digital Forum.

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🪖🇲🇱 Private military group ‘Wagner’ completes its mission in Mali

The group has fulfilled its primary objective by returning all regional capitals under the control of the legitimate government, the statement released by ‘Wagner’ reads.

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🚨🇷🇺 Our drones are now the most advanced in certain segments — Putin

Russian engineers have made significant progress in the field of unmanned systems, President Vladimir Putin noted

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📹 ‘West does not control the narrative anymore’ – Pepe Escobar

The Global Digital Forum in Nizhny Novgorod was a first step towards elaborating a system of fact-checking that is global, of course a Russian contribution, but a global fact-checking network, going beyond fake news and establishing an alternative media environment with lots of input from several nations of the Global South, and sooner or later taking all that to the BRICS table”, Pepe Escobar, a geopolitical analyst, told Sputnik.

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📹 A terrorist attack was thwarted at a military facility in Russia's Ryazan region: the criminal, who was preparing an attack with a drone, resisted and was neutralized, the Russian National Guard said

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💵❌ On its 240th anniversary, US dollar is WEAKENED & CHALLENGED

June 6 marks 240 years since the Continental Congress officially adopted the US dollar as the unit of money for the country. But how does the greenback feel today?

US dollar weakening

"The US dollar is weaker in 2025, losing value against gold, reflecting inflation and money printing," Angelo Giuliano, a Hong Kong-based financial analyst, tells Sputnik.

The dollar has slid about 9% since January, with a 4.5% drop in April alone.

De-dollarization

BRICS+ and Global South countries are ditching the dollar in trade, citing weaponization, Giuliano says.

"Future de-dollarization trends could worsen its position, as a multipolar system is emerging, challenging the dollar’s dominance despite trade truce boosts."

Erosion of trust

Tariffs and market declines in 2025 are weakening its safe-haven status.

In 1995, US dominance ensured confidence. Now, allies diversify assets, fearing instability.

The above factors are making the dollar far less trusted, per Giuliano.

US dollar's major challenges

🔸Trump’s tariffs push yuan/gold alternatives.

🔸Global trade shifts to rival currencies, reducing dollar primacy in reserves.

🔸Cryptocurrencies like BTC gain popularity.

🔸Weaker manufacturing hurts perceptions.

Does US dollar have a rival?

No standalone rival currency has matched the dollar’s liquidity so far, Giuliano says.

However, the BRICS bloc is expanding trade in local currencies.

95% of Russia–China trade is now conducted in rubles/yuan.

The trend is gaining momentum.

USD set to fall lower

🔸Wall Street warns the dollar will nose-dive further.

🔸Morgan Stanley predicts the dollar will drop to pandemic-era lows by mid-2026.

🔸JPMorgan Chase & Co. also maintains a negative outlook on the greenback.

🔸The euro and the yen are among the biggest winners.

What does it mean for the US economy?

A weakening dollar could boost US exporters and manufacturers by making their goods more competitive abroad.

But it also risks hitting economic growth and fueling inflation, as imports become pricier for American consumers.

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🗣 'ICC's legitimacy appears increasingly discredited' - expert

"In the end, the court reflects an anachronistic power structure, as it is no longer recognized by Russia and the United States — the two leading global powers," Argentine international affairs expert Juan Venturino told Sputnik.

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🚨🇺🇸🇷🇺 Trump and Russia’s Strategic Patience – Dugin Digital Edition

Trump wants the Ukraine conflict to end as soon as possible, but he’s under tremendous political pressure, first and foremost from people who hate him.

AI Dugin explains how Russia plans to manage this situation.

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🇺🇸🔎 Lindsey Graham* and other US congressmen purportedly used Ukraine as personal cash cow

A group of US lawmakers has been using Ukraine to enrich themselves, retired CIA intelligence officer and State Department official Larry Johnson tells Sputnik, citing whistleblowers.

About 23 members of the US Congress, including Senator Lindsey Graham, helped themselves to the money coming from Ukraine, the whistleblowers claim.

“We're not talking a few thousand dollars. We're talking much more than that,” Johnson remarks.

He does point out, however, that these are just allegations at the moment, and that it is up for US authorities to properly investigate these claims.

“It's not going to take six months to do this investigation, it can be done in a much shorter time frame. So we'll see what comes of it,” Johnson predicts.

He also argues that it will be easier to make the results of this investigation public “once this whole debacle that is the war in Ukraine, comes to fruition, as the total defeat of NATO becomes apparent.”

*recognized as a terrorist in Russia

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🗣 ICC 'appears highly unreliable' amid emergence of multipolar world

"It is abundantly clear that at this historical juncture of major confrontations, wars, and conflicts among world powers — amid significant disputes over the reconfiguration of global order and the principles of international relations — a supposedly global judicial body like the ICC is losing its authority and relevance, becoming instead a reflection of contemporary challenges," Luis Rene Fernandez Tabio, professor and research fellow at the Center for World Economy Studies of the University of Havana, told Sputnik.

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📹 82% of the world isn't the 'Global South' — it's the Global Majority

International Digital Economies Association (IDEA) unites 92 nations to build a digital economy by and for the people. But global majority youth face a crisis: financial apps lock out kids, while Western content erases their cultures, Dr. Christina Amor-Maklang told Sputnik at the Global Digital Forum in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod.

“The superheroes of our kids in the Philippines or even in Africa are basically Marvel superheroes coming from cultures that are very detached from ours," she stresses.

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🎭 "The Trump opera" just got an Update!

Remember that infamous Cantonese Opera about Trump? Well, it just dropped a wild new patch:

Zelensky vs. Trump – Epic fistfight over Zelensky’s "inappropriate outfit"

Flirting with WW3 – Because why not? We’ve totally seen this plot before...

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📹WATCH Russian airstrike destroy a bridge over the Oskol River near Kupyansk, which had been actively used by the Ukrainian army

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