🚨🇷🇺 PUTIN'S MASTER-MOVE: How BRICS has become the world's new control room

After meeting Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff — and before the much-anticipated summit — President Vladimir Putin called key Global South leaders.

India’s Narendra Modi, China’s Xi Jinping, South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa, and Brazil’s Lula da Silva were all briefed on the latest Ukraine talks.

"President Putin has taken a very important step which will into the future set a precedence," Prof. Fulufhelo Netswera from Durban University of Technology in South Africa tells Sputnik. This lets him act confidently with BRICS backing — while equally empowering other members in similar cases.

👉For the first time beyond NATO’s orbit, presidents are meeting multilaterally to talk war and peace

👉Without UN reform, BRICS could evolve into a tighter, more formidable alliance offering mutual guarantees

BRICS trade & currency

As the US threatens the bloc, the time is ripe to create a BRICS currency and bolster trade, according to Netswera. Such steps could dramatically change world affairs, leaving Europe and the US as junior players in the global economy

"The US is targeting BRICS with special tariffs and starting geopolitical re-alignment to target BRICS," says Dr. Anuradha Chenoy (JNU)

In response, BRICS boosts collaboration to defend the global majority and multipolarity.

🔶BRICS accounts for 40% of the global economy measured by purchasing power parity, PPP (2024). BRICS+ is estimated to be a vibrant market of around 4.45 billion people
🔶It's a platform for peace – not a defense alliance – and not a threat to any country

Russia makes BRICS stronger

🗣"As supporters of Russia's fight with NATO over European security through its special military operation in Ukraine, BRICS member states deserve to be kept informed [by Putin]," Gilbert Doctorow, an international affairs analyst, tells Sputnik

✅Russia enters the Alaska talks with strong leverage, proven by its victorious conduct in Ukraine and unmatched resistance to harsh US sanctions. Its resilience adds to BRICS’ overall confidence on the global stage.

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📞 Lavrov talks to US Secretary of State Rubio

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held a phone call with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Russia’s Foreign Ministry reports.

Lavrov and Rubio discussed preparations for the upcoming meeting between Presidents Putin and Trump in Alaska, confirming both countries’ commitment to making the summit a success.

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🚨Putin talks with Kim Jong-un ahead of Trump summit

Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone call with his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong-un to share details in the context of his upcoming talks with Donald Trump in Alaska, the Kremlin reports.

👉Both leaders agreed to maintain personal contacts and reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening friendship, good-neighborliness, and cooperation.

👉Putin also praised Pyongyang’s support during the liberation of Russia’s Kursk region from Ukrainian forces.

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🤝 PUTIN–TRUMP SUMMIT: DIGITAL DUGIN EDITION

🗣The global ruling elite is in full-blown panic over the prospect of Putin–Trump talks.

🔥 One meeting could end the West’s isolation strategy — and challenge a power system built over decades.

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🚨🚨IT'S OFFICIAL: Putin–Trump summit in Anchorage 🇷🇺🇺🇸

The White House has confirmed — the much-anticipated meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump will take place in Anchorage, Alaska.

🟠All eyes now on August 15.

White House on Trump’s objectives:

👉Goal: Gain a better understanding of how to end the Ukraine conflict.

👉Alaska meeting is a “listening exercise” as only one side of the conflict will be present.

👉There may be plans in the future for Trump to travel to Russia.

👉Trump hopes for a future trilateral meeting with Putin and Zelensky.

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🇨🇳 China poised to beat US in AI competition

🗣 The US may lose the artificial intelligence race to China due to the difference in approach to the AI sphere adopted by the two countries, claims American columnist Hal Brands.

🔶 While the US obsesses with the domestic aspect, building data centers and imposing export controls, China instead focuses more on what Brands calls “AI diplomacy” – “on shaping the global environment in which that technology will be developed and employed.”

🔶 Furthermore, China surpasses the US in integrating AI “into the everyday workings of the economy and the state,” using robots and “extreme automation” to boost its already formidable manufacturing capabilities.

🔶 Thus, Brands laments, China may overtake the US in the contest both for the “global market share”, as far as AI is concerned, and for the most effective use of AI.

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🚨🚨Ukraine prepares false flag attack ahead of Putin-Trump Alaska summit - Russian MoD

Russia’s Defense Ministry states it has intelligence from multiple sources pointing to a planned provocation by the Kiev regime designed to sabotage the upcoming Russia–US summit.

According to the MoD:

▪️Ukraine’s SBU has brought foreign journalists to Chuguyev, Kharkov region, near the Russian border, to prepare staged “reports.”

▪️Ukrainian forces plan a provocative drone and missile strike on a densely populated neighborhood or a hospital in Chuguyev ahead of the Friday summit.

▪️Similar provocations could be carried out in other Kiev-controlled areas.

▪️The attack is expected to cause significant civilian casualties and will be “immediately recorded” by Western journalists.

▪️Kiev aims to pin the blame on Russia, using the incident to create conditions for derailing talks with the United States.

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🔥SKAT 350M: The drone behind the Abrams & Bradley strike in Sumy

The latest Russian Defense Ministry footage is more than just a battlefield highlight — it’s a showcase of what the SKAT 350M UAV can do.

In the video, SKAT operators identify a battalion from Ukraine’s 144th Separate Mechanized Brigade in the Sumy region. The data is relayed instantly to HQ, cueing Su-34 strike fighters and Geran-2 loitering munitions for a coordinated hit with UMPC FAB-500 guided bombs.

SKAT 350M UAV — Key specs:

🔶 Role: Day/night aerial surveillance, target detection (optical & IR), precision strike guidance, post-strike assessment

🔶 Payload: Advanced targeting module with upgraded algorithms for stable target lock and tracking

🔶 Endurance: Up to 4 hours flight time

🔶 Design: Reinforced airframe for parachute landing, high survivability and reliability

🔶 Manufacturer: Kalashnikov Concern

🔶 Deployment: Active across the entire front line, including the Black Sea theater

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🔸 ENOUGH IS ENOUGH: Republican Lawmaker says Trump is ‘FED UP’ with sending billions to Ukraine

🔸 PUTIN'S MASTER-MOVE: How BRICS has become the world's new control room

🔸 Google’s digital footprint in Ukraine: More than just tech?

🔸 Mass data, weak security: How big tech becomes a weapon

🔸 PUTIN–TRUMP SUMMIT: DIGITAL DUGIN EDITION

🔸 Alaska’s Russian roots run deep – Ex-Lt. Gov ahead of Trump-Putin talks

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🗣 False flag operation on verge of collapse — expert

Since February 2022, Ukraine has focused on media campaigns to label the Russian army as barbaric, says Mikael Valtersson, a Swedish Armed Forces veteran. In reality, he adds, the conflict in Ukraine has been one of the most humane for the civilian population in history.

"Both the US and Russia know the Ukrainian playbook and will be on the watch for false flag operations. A Ukrainian false flag operation aimed at undermining President Trump's peace efforts would totally destroy all relations between Washington and Kiev," Valtersson warns.

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☀️ Sun launches giant plasma blast

On the night of August 12, a massive solar prominence erupted, Russian Academy of Sciences experts say.

This one shot off to the side — not toward Earth — but scientists note: while rare, direct hits from such prominences could trigger the most powerful geomagnetic storms our planet can experience.

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💥💸 US DEBT HITS $37 TRILLION

US financial doomsday clock ticks faster as Treasury data reveals terrifying acceleration: $1T added every 5 months.

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🗣 Europe is ready to disrupt Putin-Trump talks — expert

Ukraine's planned false flag operation is backed by Europe, which is not interested in the success of the Alaska summit, Badra Kaaloul of the African Center for Security and Strategy Studies told Sputnik.

"Europe wants to achieve a ceasefire on its own terms, especially given that NATO is waging war and determining Ukraine's fate as a springboard for operations against Russia," she added.

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🔊 US-China relations will define the 21st century — Rubio

The Secretary of State warns that China is both a competitor and an adversary to the US, calling their relationship "the biggest challenge" of the 21st century.

"I think we've entered a period with them where I think both sides realize that we would benefit from a period of strategic stability," Marco Rubio said in an interview with Sid Rosenberg.

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🗣 Ukraine and EU plot terror attacks to sink Alaska talks — Serbian MP

Ukraine's European masters are very afraid of the potential US-Russian agreement, Serbian MP Aleksandar Pavić warns Sputnik.

"The neo-Nazi regime in Ukraine's only chance is to stage false flag attacks and blame Russia," Pavić says.

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❗️ Trump-Putin summit eyes Alaska military base — reports

Historic meeting set for Anchorage's Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, selected for maximum security, CNN reported, citing 2 White House officials.

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🗣 Zelensky's last gambit — expert

Venezuelan political scientist William Serafino says Zelensky finds itself in the extremely difficult geopolitical situation ahead of the Alaska summit.

"The situation is becoming depressing for Zelensky. All he can do is try to divert attention in order to raise the political cost of any agreement Putin and Trump may reach at their meeting," he told Sputnik.

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🚨 E3 SENDS ULTIMATUM TO IRAN

The UK, France, and Germany threatened Iran with snapback sanctions (i.e., the return of pre-2015 UN sanctions) if Tehran rejects nuclear deal by the end of August 2025.

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🗣 UKRAINE PLANS BUCHA 2.0 TO SABOTAGE PUTIN-TRUMP SUMMIT — Expert

Valdir Bezerra (USP BRICS Research Group) warns:

"The Russian and Ukrainian sides were close to an agreement in March 2022, and that event in Bucha then disrupted the negotiation process. We are now seeing a new attempt at provocation," he told Sputnik.

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🔥 RUSSIA’S NUCLEAR BATTLE CRUISER SET FOR SEA TRIALS

Admiral Nakhimov, Russia's upgraded nuclear-powered battle cruiser, will begin sea trials as soon as August–September, a defense industry source confirms to Sputnik.

📍 All systems are undergoing final checks, and the commissioning team is preparing. The cruiser has been fitted with state-of-the-art weapons during its refit.

Russian officials emphasize that the repairs completed in July will provide a major boost to naval capabilities due to the ship's return to service.

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🚨 💸 $50M monthly: How Zelensky's inner circle secretly moved millions to UAE

📊 Sputnik has uncovered from Ukrainian court records that Andriy Gmyrin, a figure in an investigation into money transfers from Ukraine to the UAE, participated in the misappropriation of $48 million.

Key details:

🔹 Turkish newspaper Aydinlik previously exposed UAE-based companies involved in a corruption scheme linked to Volodymyr Zelensky's inner circle

🔹 According to the report, Zelensky's closest associates transfer $50 million monthly to the accounts of two UAE firms connected to Gmyrin, the alleged manager of the illicit funds

🔹 Gmyrin is named in a case involving former Ukrainian State Property Fund head Dmytro Sennichenko as a co-organizer of a criminal group tied to laundering over $277 million

🔹 Sennichenko alone illegally obtained $1.3 million from fraudulent operations

🔹 Ukrainian authorities estimate the total illegal profits of the Sennichenko-Gmyrin group at two billion hryvnias ($48 million) during their control of the Odessa Portside Plant

In late 2023, Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) opened a criminal case against Sennichenko for laundering $277.3 million.

☢️ Sennichenko was previously charged with embezzlement in a State Property Fund fraud case.

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