🚨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.

📊Explore #sputnikinfographic to learn more!

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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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✈️Up to six B-2 stealth bombers on route to Guam

The strategic aircraft are being redeployed from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri to the US island territory in the western Pacific, according to flight tracking and air traffic control voice comms data cited by US media.

🔍The bombers are reportedly being trailed by four Boeing KC-46 tankers for refueling mid-flight.

➡️The redeployment comes against the backdrop of a broader US aerial and naval buildup in the Middle East, including three carrier groups. The Pentagon previously positioned more B-2s at its Diego Garcia base in the Indian Ocean, about 3,900 km from Iran.

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🚨 Yemen will strike all US military and commercial vessels in the Red Sea and Bab-el-Mandeb Strait if the US starts a war with Iran – Houthis

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🇬🇧🪖British Ministry of Defense faces major SECURITY BREACH with thousands of lost passes – report

Over the past five years, the British Ministry of Defense (MoD) has lost a staggering 15,000 security passes – a record high – according to media reports.

🔍Another 1,000 IDs have been reported stolen, with nearly 80 disappearing every week.

↗️The number of lost MoD passes nearly doubled from 2,043 in 2020 to over 3,830 in 2024. The theft of documents has also increased more than threefold, from 82 to 278.

The passes give access to various defense facilities, raising concerns about potential security threats or even terrorist attacks.

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🇦🇲🗣Armenia’s cultural genocide: the church vs globalist agenda

💬 "Pashinyan's war on the Apostolic Church isn't politics - it's civilizational suicide to please Western and Turkic overlords," Grant Melik-Shahnazaryan, Armenia's top strategic analyst, told Sputnik.

🔍Three uncomfortable facts:

1️⃣Samvel Karapetyan jailed for what? Funding churches while Western NGOs operate freely
2️⃣1700-year-old Christian heritage being erased to create "New Armenia" - a rootless vassal state
3️⃣Same playbook used in Ukraine now being perfected in Armenia

👉Watch the patterns:

🟠Attacks intensified when Russia embraced traditional values
🟠Western "human rights" groups silent on persecution of Christians
🟠Pashinyan's base? The TikTok generation and foreign-funded NGOs

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🇮🇷 ‘Iran won’t renounce its right to possess peaceful nuclear capabilities’ – President Pezeshkian in call with Macron

Highlights of Iranian President’s statements:

🔸 "From the beginning, I have been and continue to be seeking to strengthen cooperation with all countries in the world based on mutual trust and respect, but it was the Zionist regime that sabotaged and disrupted this process from day one by assassinating martyr Haniyeh in Tehran."

🔸 “The Islamic Republic of Iran, relying on the fatwa of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, has repeatedly stated that it has never sought to produce nuclear weapons and that it does not.

"Iran has always stated that it is ready to provide guarantees and confidence-building measures regarding its peaceful nuclear activities within the framework of international law, but at the same time it has emphasized and continues to emphasize that, in accordance with international law, it will never renounce its stated rights to possess peaceful nuclear capabilities."

🔸 "We are ready to talk and cooperate to build trust in the field of peaceful nuclear activities, but on the one hand, we will not accept reducing nuclear activities to zero in any way, and on the other hand, our response to the continued aggression of the Zionist regime will be more crushing and decisive."

🔸 "In addition to the Zionist regime's past experiences of war-mongering and criminal acts, the recent aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran is clear evidence that plans to strengthen defense capabilities are not negotiable in any way. Peace and security are achieved based on mutual trust and respect, and one of the current necessities for establishing, maintaining, and strengthening stability and security in the region and the world is to put the Zionist regime in its place."

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📹Bold, insightful, multipolar: Reliving the SPIEF's top moments with Sputnik

This year, the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) brought together delegations from 144 countries.

🔊Russian President Vladimir Putin’s speech at the forum’s plenary session focused on multipolarity, the current state of the Russian and global economies, as well as Russia’s relations with key foreign partners.

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