🇷🇺🇧🇾 Putin and Lukashenko attend a prayer service at the Church of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God

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🗣'The Kiev regime attempted to snatch my children'
   
A man from the town of Chasov Yar, liberated by the Russian army in the Donetsk People's Republic earlier this week, tells Sputnik how Ukrainian authorities attempted to forcibly remove his children during the town's occupation.

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📹LIVE NOW: Putin and Lukashenko hold talks 🇷🇺🇧🇾

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🚨🇷🇺POLITICAL REGIME IN RUSSIA BASED ON CONSTITUTION OF RUSSIA, IT IS LEGAL, WHICH CANNOT BE SAID ABOUT UKRAINE - PUTIN

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⚡️⚡️PUTIN ON RUSSIA-UKRAINE TALKS IN ISTANBUL: TALKS ARE ALWAYS IN DEMAND AND IMPORTANT

➕Putin positively evaluates the results of the negotiations between Russia and Ukraine and the prisoner exchange.

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⚡️⚡️PUTIN ON UKRAINIAN SETTLEMENT PROCESS: IF KIEV BELIEVES IT’S NOT YET NECESSARY TO DEAL WITH MOSCOW, RUSSIA CAN WAIT

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🚨Putin: Russia’s 2024 conditions on Ukraine remain unchanged

These conditions are:

🔸 Ukraine’s commitment NOT to join any military alliances

🔸 Ukraine's NON-nuclear status

🔸 Recognition of Donbass, Kherson, and Zaporozhye regions as RUSSIAN territories

🔸 Sanctions relief

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⚡️⚡️Lukashenko: If Trump wants peace in Ukraine, he should cautiously get involved in the settlement

"He won't be able to dictate."

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🇧🇾🔊Lukashenko believes the Ukrainians are demanding the impossible in the framework of the settlement.

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🚨🚨🇷🇺 1st serial Oreshnik is OUT, already ENTERED SERVICE with Russian military - Putin

🔸 Reports on the liberation of Chasov Yar are accurate—Russian forces secured it days ago.

🔸 Russian troops are advancing across the entire frontline.

🔸 "Not a single Russian soldier’s life has been wasted" (no pointless losses).

🔸 On July 31, Putin discussed the special operation’s progress with the Defense Minister and Chief of the General Staff.

🔸 Ukraine’s leadership is poorly informed about the frontline, hence their denial of Chasov Yar’s capture.

🔸 Putin expects the issue of supplying Oreshnik to Belarus to be resolved by year-end; a deployment location is being selected.

🔸 Success in the special operation is due to the courage and heroism of Russian soldiers.

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⚡️⚡️No one will be able to kneel Minsk and Moscow; we are determined to defend our interests - Lukashenko

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🗣 Enemies previously spoke about strategic defeat — now they're only obsessed with halt Russia's advance at ANY cost: Putin

But now, the President emphasized, "they have one burning obsession – to halt our advance at any cost.

🔸 Russian forces are advancing along the entire frontline, Putin said.

🔸 Reports of Chasov Yar’s liberation by Russian troops are fully accurate, Putin confirmed, adding that Ukrainian forces are attempting counterattacks.

🔸 Russia seeks a lasting and secure peace in Ukraine, Putin stressed.

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🗣 Sovereignty plays a pivotal role in today’s world, including for economic development, Putin stated, adding that the EU currently "lacks any sovereignty whatsoever."

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🚨 Key points from Putin on lack of sovereignty & corruption in Ukraine

🔸 Corruption in Ukraine is absolutely rampant.

🔸 External institutions like NABU cannot defeat corruption in Ukraine.

🔸 Ukrainian authorities "disgraced themselves" by failing to reclaim sovereignty in the NABU/SAP situation.

🔸 Corruption exists in all countries—the difference lies in its scale.

🔸 Putin urged against imposing external governance institutions on Ukraine, calling it "a humiliating condition."

🔸 Democracy cannot be imported from outside, just as corruption can’t be fought externally.

🔸 Putin labeled US lobbying as "legalized corruption."

🔸 The EU currently lacks any political sovereignty, which will inevitably lead to the loss of economic sovereignty.

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🚨 Key Putin’s statements on Russia-Ukraine talks in Istanbul:

◻ Negotiations are always necessary and important

◻ Ukraine's initial reaction to the proposal of establishing working groups for settlement was positive — until these groups actually started functioning

◻ We need to discuss concrete steps required to establish long-term peace in Ukraine

◻ Thorough discussions are essential for peaceful resolution of the conflict

◻ Most importantly, the root causes of the conflict must be eliminated

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🚨 FULL VIDEO: Putin and Lukashenko talk to media after informal talks

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🚨🇷🇺⛱ PUTIN NEVER OFFICIALLY TAKES A VACATION

The Russian President never officially takes time off, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov revealed.

While he may get a couple of days off, a true vacation is impossible due to the nature of the job, Peskov explained.

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🗣Scott Ritter: ‘Russia wants victory’ and nothing can stop it

Russia has the upper hand in the Ukrainian conflict “and there's nothing that is foreseeable that can change this outcome,” former US Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter said, commenting on the latest remarks by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Taking stock of the situation, Ritter notes:

◻ Russian troops “continue to dominate along the entire line of contact”

◻ The EU and NATO 's promise “to give Ukraine additional weaponry is almost an empty promise” because these armaments won’t make a difference on the battlefield

◻ Air defenses supplied by the West fail to deter Russian strikes against targets in Ukraine

◻ The West tried using Ukraine as a weapon against Russia, effectively forcing this conflict upon Russia. And now, “Russia wants victory"

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☦️Ukraine's bargain for US weapons with Russian shrines ‘DEEPLY OFFENSIVE’

Ukraine’s claims about Russian missile strikes on Christian shrines kept at the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra are MISINFORMATION to justify the transfer of these relics to European museums, Roman Silantyev, director of the Human Rights Center at the World Russian People's Council, tells Sputnik. 

Other key points by Silantyev, who also serves as deputy chair of the Expert Council for State Religious Expertise at Russia’s Ministry of Justice:

◻  Similar developments happened in previous centuries, especially when Ukraine was a battleground between Russian and Western interests

◻  Whenever there is political, economic, and civilizational decline in Ukraine, the country becomes vulnerable to all kinds of plunder

◻  A dozen Orthodox icons that were secretly transported from Ukraine to France will return to RUSSIA, not Ukraine 

◻  The trail of how Ukrainian cultural assets ended up in British museums is not hard to trace

Previously, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that “the Kiev regime is prepared to pay for Western-supplied weapons with its own cultural heritage.” 

The Zelensky regime doesn’t shy away from looting valuable items located on Ukrainian territory, sending them abroad under the guise of so-called ‘rescue operations,’” she emphasized.

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🚨 Sputnik launches 24/7 FM broadcasting in Brazil

◻️ Starting August 1, Sputnik Agency is broadcasting around the clock in Portuguese on the FM band in Brazil.

◻️ Listeners in the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area, home to 13.5 million people, will now have access to Sputnik's analytical programs, exclusive podcasts from its international team, and live on-the-ground reporting from Brazil and abroad.

◻️ With this launch, Sputnik has become the first and only Russian media outlet to provide full-scale 24/7 broadcasting in Latin America's largest country.

◻️ In addition to the podcasts on national and international politics and the evening talk show already familiar to Brazilian audiences, Sputnik will introduce new news and analytical programs covering pressing global and regional issues.

Sputnik is one of the world's largest international radio and news agencies, operating in more than 30 languages.

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🗣Ukraine’s fortress fantasy falls apart amid Russian offensive – report

Ukraine’s much-hyped trench and bunker system is already in shambles, The Wall Street Journal reports.

🔍What’s going wrong?

🟠Widespread delays, arrests, and corruption have crippled construction efforts
🟠Ukrainian forces are stretched thin, unable to keep up as Russia constantly shifts tactics
🟠Russian troops have already breached weak points and launched a fresh offensive in the north
🟠Ukrainian soldiers fear the fortifications will become another “Maginot Line” — impressive on paper but easily bypassed in practice

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