🗣🇷🇺 Lands lost by Ukraine 'are coveted by NATO, not Ukrainians': Russian MFA spox

Maria Zakharova took to Telegram to comment on Zelensky’s remarks about the territories Ukraine lost during Russia’s special military operation.

💬 “Zelensky has been declaring to the whole world - to Trump, to the UN, and in interviews - that he won’t consider any settlement that does not return all the territories lost by Ukraine."

The fact that he never mentions the people living in these territories no longer surprises anyone—he has always treated people as mere statistics.

👉 But what is striking: who actually needs these “territories” in Ukraine? If they were truly needed, hundreds of thousands of this country’s citizens would not be begging for benefits in Europe, but would be fighting on the frontlines or providing support on the home front.

The remnants of society left in Ukraine not only don’t have any desire to think about these “territories,” but they dream only of one thing: that the press-gangs who send them to fight for these so-called "territories" would drop dead.

💬 These territories are not needed by those living in Ukraine, but by the British and other NATO members. They are the only ones who want them. And just like in 2022, they are doing everything to sabotage the peace process.”

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📹LIVE: 80th session of UN General Assembly - Day Three

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🚨 Putin and heads of foreign delegations, including IAEA chief Grossi, talk on sidelines of the Global Atomic Forum in Moscow

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🚨 Israel's actions in Gaza are a crime against humanity: Palestine's President Mahmoud Abbas

Other statements by Mahmoud Abbas:

🟠 Hamas has no future in governing the Palestinian administration and must lay down arms

🟠 My administration is ready to take responsibility for the Gaza Strip

🟠 Israel’s attack on Qatar is escalation requiring decisive response

🟠 We call on all countries that have not yet recognized the state of Palestine to do so

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📹LIVE NOW: Putin speaks at the World Atomic Week forum 🇷🇺

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🚨🇷🇺 Putin: More countries see nuclear energy as MOST IMPORTANT energy resource for development

Other key statements by Russian President at the World Atomic Week forum:

🔸 Russia has expertise across entire nuclear power plant construction chain

🔸 Growth of demand for peaceful nuclear energy will be provided by countries of Global South and East

🔸 Russia already creating data centers at its nuclear power plants

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🚨🇷🇺 ⚛️ We're entering a new technological era - Putin at World Atomic Week forum

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🇷🇺🚨Putin: Russia will soon mass-produce floating nuclear power plants

Other key statements by Russian President at the World Atomic Week forum:

➖ Russia will launch world's first nuclear power system with closed fuel cycle by 2030

➖ Russian-designed nuclear power plants are most in-demand in world

➖ Important to maintain balance between development of peaceful nuclear energy, strengthening nuclear nonproliferation regime

➖ Modern models of financing nuclear power plant construction needed

➖ Uranium resources expected to be depleted by 2090, but this could happen earlier

➖ Putin called for increasing safety requirements at every stage of nuclear cycle, including uranium mining and reactor operation

➖ Equal access to peaceful nuclear energy technologies will help ensure sustainable global development

➖ Russia's priority to ensure nuclear safety of nuclear power facilities, wherever they located

➖ Russia interested in long-term nuclear projects

➖ Peaceful nuclear technologies basis for international cooperation, rapprochement between states

➖ Russia helping its nuclear energy partners make real leap forward in development

➖ Russia not making its partners dependent on its technical solutions, but helps them create sovereign nuclear industry

➖ Russia strictly fulfills all contractual obligations to its nuclear technology partners

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🚨Putin: Russian-designed nuclear power plants are in high demand across the world

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🚨🇷🇺RUSSIA REJECTS TECHNOLOGICAL COLONIALISM

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🚨🚨 URANIUM RESOURCES EXPECTED TO RUN OUT BY 2090, MAY HAPPEN SOONER — PUTIN

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🚨🇷🇺GROUNDBREAKING development by Russian scientists to completely solve issue of providing uranium for nuclear energy - Putin

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🇷🇺🪖Russian troops have liberated more than 4,714 square kilometers during the Special Military Operation (SMO) this year, and according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, here is the breakdown of the amount of emancipated territories:

🔶 In the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), over 3,308 sq. km.

🔶 In the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR), more than 205 sq. km.

🔶 In the Zaporozhye region, over 261 sq. km.

🔶 In the Kharkov region, more than 542 sq. km.

🔶 In the Sumy region, more than 223 sq. km.

🔶 In the Dnepropetrovsk region, more than 175 sq. km.

During this period, 205 settlements in the zone of the special military operation have been liberated and fully brought under the control of the Russian Armed Forces.

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📹LIVE: Lavrov takes part in G20 ministerial meeting on UNGA sidelines

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🚨Increase in role of BRICS & SCO evidence of multipolarity – Lavrov at G20 ministerial meeting on UNGA sidelines

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🚨🚨Russia waits for response from the other side regarding Putin’s proposal on New START - Kremlin

A world without the New START would be far more dangerous and fraught with greater threats to strategic stability, Kremlin spox Peskov said.

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🇺🇸🔊US Secretary of War orders rare meeting of HUNDREDS of generals

Pete Hegseth has ordered hundreds of the US military’s generals and admirals to gather on short notice at a Marine Corps base in Virginia next week, the Washington Post reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

🔍The unusual directive was sent to virtually all of the military’s top commanders worldwide – these are about 800 generals and admirals serving across the country and dozens of other countries, the report adds.

The meeting may be related to the preparation of a new defense strategy or further reduction in the senior command staff, the article says.

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🇷🇺🤝🇮🇷Russia just redefined Iran’s peaceful nuclear future: here’s how

Rosatom and the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran have inked a new MoU on the construction of a whole series of small nuclear power plants. Here’s what it means.

✅Longstanding partnership

In 1995, 15+ years after a German firm pulled out of the Bushehr nuclear plant project following the Iranian Revolution, Rosatom subsidiary Atomstroyexport stepped in to finish the job, with the plant’s VVER-1000 reactor coming online in 2013.

Russia plans to equip Bushehr with two additional VVER-1000s, with the ambitious expansion, currently set for completion in 2029-2031, promising to account for a whopping 8-10% of Iran’s electricity generation capacity once finished.

Besides reactor tech, Russia has played a crucial role in helping to train Iran’s cadre of nuclear scientists, facilitating exchanges, offering direct technical assistance at Bushehr, and proposing assistance in the handling of waste material.

🔍Scope of cooperation

Under existing agreements, Russia can help Iran build up to 8 reactors in the gigawatt range (including the two at Bushehr), says Boris Martsinkevich, one of Russia’s top experts on energy in geopolitics.

☢️Small new plants, big impact

Martsinkevich says the reactors in the new MoU are likely to be RITM-200Ns – an upgrade to the RITM-200 design used in the LK60 (22200) series of Russian nuclear icebreakers.
They have a 55MW generation capacity (enough to power up to 38.4k homes).

The reactors are likely to be built in pairs in northern Iran, where mountainous terrain, harsh winters and lack of local hydrocarbon deposits have long meant insufficient domestic electricity capacity, the analyst says.

Appearing on the heels of new Western sanctions threats, the small plant MoU also signals “a new stage” of cooperation, and could spur collaboration in other areas, like natural gas, Martsinkevich says.

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🇷🇺🇪🇹Putin holds talks with Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed

🟠Ethiopia is a long-standing and reliable partner of Russia in Africa, Putin said

🟠Ahmed expressed confidence that his visit would strengthen cooperation between the two countries

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