🇷🇺🪖 RUSSIAN DEFENSE BRIEFING: CRUCIAL STRIKES & ENEMY LOSSES

⚡️ZAPOROZHYE (DPR) LIBERATED

🔊The Ukrainian Marine Corps suffered significant losses and was forced to abandon the settlement of Zaporozhye in the DPR, which was liberated by the Russia's Battlegroup Vostok.

🔊The liberation of the settlement of Zaporozhye is an important step on the way to the complete liberation of the DPR’s territory.

▫️ Russian forces conducted precision strikes on Ukrainian military airfield, drone production and storage facilities.

▫️ Heavy Ukrainian losses: Over 1,350 troops eliminated in the special military operation zone in the past 24 hours.

▫️ Air defense superiority: 4 JDAM bombs and 97 enemy drones shot down.

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🚨IRGC Quds Force commander KILLED - IDF

🇮🇱🪖The Israeli Defense Forces announce the assassination of Behnam Shahriari, commander of the Combat Vehicle Transport Unit (Unit 190) of Iran’s Quds Force, as a result of yesterday's Israeli Air Force raid on western Iran.

🔊The IDF claim that Shahriari was responsible for sending weapons, missiles, and drones from Iran to Tehran's allies in the Middle East.

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🚨☦️ WEST WAGING WAR ON ORTHODOXY: MILORAD DODIK TO SPUTNIK AT SPIEF

Milorad Dodik, President of Republika Srpska, slammed the arrest of Armenian philanthropist Samvel Karapetyan, calling it part of a broader Western effort to crush the Orthodox world.

💬 “It is obvious that this is an attempt to surround Russiaor the Russian Orthodox Church,to reduce its influencein the countries of the region.”

A major mistake was made earlier and unfavourable steps were taken against the ROC in Ukraine, and this is merely proof that they have no intention of backing down, he told Sputnik.

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🇷🇺🪖Russian assault troops raise Russian flags after completing clearing op and demining the area in Zaporozhye settlement

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🔥Soros in the HOT SEAT? Subpoena prepped for GLOBALIST PUPPET MASTER

🔊Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) says House Oversight Chair James Comer is gearing up to subpoena George Soros.

The committee will finally dig into Soros’ “interference in our election process,” she said on Newsmax, adding that it’s “long overdue.”

➡️Earlier this week on The Benny Show, she said that Congress has been too scared to touch Soros — until now.

🔍Pointing out that “$270 M went from USAID funding into various Soros-controlled NGOs,” she accused the billionaire of bankrolling protests, flooding Europe with migrants, pushing globalist policies, crashing currencies for profit, and masterminding global chaos.

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🚨Ukraine’s latest Goebbels-style FAKE: Battlefield body used as PR tool – Medinsky

The body of a soldier, used by Ukraine to push false claims about “disguised Russians” among the returned dead, may have just been collected from the battlefield, Russian Presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky said.

Ukrainian propagandists then dusted off their old playbook and even “found” a so-called document to back it up, he noted.

🔊Medinsky cited Joseph Goebbels’ infamous line: “The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it.” He emphasized that Moscow is implementing in full the agreement with Ukraine to hand over the bodies of deceased soldiers.

➡️Earlier, Ukraine presented the body of a soldier with a miraculously preserved Soviet-era military ID – a document that’s almost nonexistent today.

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🚨Iranian air defenses are intercepting Israel’s targets in southern Tehran and Ahvaz province, Iran's media reports.

➕Prior to that, Israel announced it was striking military infrastructure in southwestern Iran.

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🎯World’s biggest gas field in crosshairs: Qatar Sounds Alarm amid Israel’s Iran strikes

🇶🇦Qatar held urgent talks with major energy firms following Israeli strikes on Iran’s portion of a massive shared gas field in the Persian Gulf, according to Reuters.

🔊Saad Al Kaabi, Qatar’s energy minister and CEO of state-owned QatarEnergy, reportedly urged representatives of ExxonMobil and other giants to press Western governments – particularly the US, UK, and EU – about the rising threat to gas exports from Qatar.

The gas field, known as South Pars in Iran and North Dome in Qatar, straddles the two nations’ maritime border. Qatar began developing its side in the 1990s and has since emerged as a global LNG powerhouse.

❓Why it matters:

🟠World’s largest gas field: Estimated 1,800 trillion cubic feet of gas (about 8% of global reserves)
🟠Economic lifeline: Underpins Qatar’s economy and global LNG dominance
🟠Massive LNG exports: Qatar supplies about 20% of the world’s LNG (any disruption would be a major shock to energy markets)
🟠Multinational stakes: Ongoing expansion includes heavy investment from Western energy giants.

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🚨🇺🇸 US MILITARY PRESENCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST

⚔️Iran-Israel row keeps boiling, while the US plays innocent on the sidelines. Spoiler: no one's buying it!

🪖Meanwhile, around 50,000 US troops are currently stationed in the MidEast, making up nearly a third of ALL US forces deployed outside the country.

👉The majority are based in Kuwait, Qatar, and Bahrain.

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⚛️🇮🇷 Strike hits centrifuge production facility in Isfahan – IAEA Chief Grossi

A workshop producing centrifuges in Isfahan was targeted in a strike, marking the third attack on an Iranian nuclear facility, according to IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi

Key details:

🔸 No radiological risk – the site contained no nuclear material

🔸 Isfahan houses critical nuclear infrastructure, including enrichment plants

🔸 Previous attacks (Natanz, Karaj) also targeted uranium enrichment capabilities

The strike comes amid heightened tensions over Iran's nuclear program and stalled JCPOA negotiations.

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