🚨“BRICS is the embodiment of multipolarity”: Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin at Sputnik Brasil’s 10th anniversary event

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🚨PUTIN AND TRUMP HELD A NEARLY HOUR-LONG PHONE CONVERSATION

Presidential Aide Yuri Ushakov said they discussed the following:

🔶 Putin informed Trump about the progress of implementing the Istanbul agreements between Russia and Ukraine.

🔶 Putin told Trump that Russia continues to seek a negotiated solution to the Ukrainian conflict. He informed Trump that Russia will not abandon the elimination of all root causes of the current confrontation.

🔶 Trump raised the issue of an early end to hostilities in Ukraine during the conversation.

🔶 Trump informed Putin about the successful passage in the Senate of a bill on tax and immigration reform.

🔶 Putin congratulated Trump on the upcoming US Independence Day.

🔶 Putin noted in the conversation that Russia played a significant role in the formation of American statehood.

🔶 Putin and Trump had a detailed discussion on the situation around Iran and the Middle East as a whole.

🔶 Putin and Trump touched on developments in Syria; Moscow and Washington will continue dialogue on this topic.

🔶 Putin and Trump discussed several promising joint economic projects in energy and space exploration.

🔶 Putin and Trump did not discuss a possible personal meeting.

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🇷🇺 RUSSIAN FLAG RAISED IN LIBERATED KHARKOV SETTLEMENT

The Russian Ministry of Defense has released footage from Melovoye, a settlement in the Kharkov region that was recently liberated by troops of the Sever Battlegroup.

Soldiers can be seen raising the Russian flag over a local building — a clear signal of control on the front line.

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🌍🌍🌍 CURRENCY WON’T BE PAPER — IT’LL BE CODE

Economist Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr. holds up a symbolic BRICS banknote — but makes it clear:

👉If BRICS launches a reserve currency, it won’t be printed. It’ll be digital.

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🚨BRICS VS THE WEST: GREENWALD CALLS IT A NEW POWER BLOC

American journalist and Intercept co-founder Glenn Greenwald says the wars we've seen — including the recent flare-up between Israel and the US on one side and Iran on the other, and the genocide in Gaza — are the byproduct of a unipolar world.

✅For Greenwald, BRICS represents the rise of a powerful counter-alliance — one that includes China and now has the strength to impose greater global constraints than even the US, NATO, Israel, and their allies.

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🚨🇷🇺 RUSSIA OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZES THE ISLAMIC EMIRATE OF AFGHANISTAN

The Russian Foreign Ministry confirms that Moscow has officially recognized the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, Russian presidential envoy Zamir Kabulov tells Sputnik.

Earlier, the Afghan Foreign Ministry said Russia’s ambassador informed them of the official decision.

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🚨‘Deprivation of liberty is violence’: Kiselev slams Azerbaijan's absurd case against Sputnik staff

Dmitry Kiselev, director general of Rossiya Segodnya, Sputnik's parent company, expressed concern over the conditions faced by detained Sputnik Azerbaijan employees in Baku, calling their arrests politically motivated.

🗣"We are alarmed by the violence against clearly innocent people — deprivation of liberty is itself violence. They are accused of absurd economic crimes, fraud, and so on — things they never engaged in," Kiselev stated in an interview with Rossiya 1 TV channel.

He emphasized that the agency will defend its journalists through legal means but called the situation "not a legal matter, but an artificially inflated political one."

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🔸 Putin and Trump held a nearly hour-long phone conversation

🔸 Pentagon’s pause in arms shipments to Ukraine: A silent nod to Russia’s terms?

🔸 Macron’s humiliation: Call that exposed Western weakness

🔸 'I BROKE NO LAW!' – Gagauzia Autonomy's head defies Chisinau court

🔸 Azerbaijan vs. Russia: Who would lose big time if a trade war erupted?

🔸 Armenia moves to seize electric grid from jailed tycoon

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🚨Pentagon Inc: Too broke to fight, too greedy to win

🗣"The US defense industry is absolutely incapable of fighting modern, high intensity conventional conflicts," Dr. Greg Simons from Daffodil International University tells Sputnik.

Why? It prioritizes profit over efficiency — an extravagance the US economy can't sustain.

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🚨Pepe Escobar: The West lost, Russia won — They just can’t admit it

Renowned geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar says, “The West bet big — and lost.”

Now, Russia will set the terms of victory, and those terms, Escobar warns, will be devastating for Washington, NATO, and the fragmented collective West.

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🔥 CHINA: WE BUILD BRIDGES, NOT BASES

The Chinese Embassy in Fiji slams the US's fear-mongering narrative.

🔍 Fact check from the embassy: China does not need a military base in the Pacific. For 50 years, China has focused on building roads, bridges, and fostering friendship.

US playbook: Militarization.

China's playbook: infrastructure brotherhood.

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🗣🥴 Trump after NOT achieving goals in Iran: "They got beat up... exhausted. I think they want to meet."

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☦️ Moldova’s church crackdown shows double standards — Archbishop Markell

The Moldovan authorities are ignoring the aggressive moves of the Bessarabian Metropolis against the Orthodox Church.

"When the Bessarabian church tries to exert pressure on the Moldovan Orthodox community, they choose to ignore it and claim that church and state are separate," he told Canal 5.

On June 29, local media reported the Metropolis's attempt to take control of a church building.

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🗣 US won all wars — Trump

"We won World War II, World War I, we won other wars, we won everything," the US president said at the Iowa "America 250" celebration.

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🔊 Trump on Ukraine: 'NOT HAPPY ABOUT THAT'

The US president said he discussed both Iran and Ukraine with Vladimir Putin during their "pretty long call."

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