🪖💪🏻🇷🇺 Russian Army clears Kupyansk confidently & calmly — Zapad battlegroup commander

According to him:

🔸 Currently the western part of the town is being cleared, where 16 buildings have been liberated in the past day

🔸 Ukrainian troops are attempting to flee the town; two armored vehicles were destroyed on Friday

🔸 Drones are used actively, destroying three pickup trucks over the past day

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🚨Zelensky's "Rubezh" Brigade

Neo-Nazi symbols, Western cash, and a bloody trail of defeats—from Gostomel wipeout to Pokrovsk retreat.

Command bailed while troops died in the cauldron?

📹Expose the lies—watch now!

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🇷🇺 Pause in Russia-Ukraine talks occurred due to Kiev’s actions and European provocations - Kremlin

More statements by Dmitry Peskov:

🟠 The Kremlin urged against speculating on the timing of a potential Russia–US summit.

🟠 The issues of Lukoil asset sales and the Ukrainian settlement are unrelated — they belong to different dimensions.

🟠 On North Korea’s ballistic missile launch: Russia respects Pyongyang’s legitimate right to ensure its own security.

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🗣 Zelensky doesn’t care about Ukrainian children — Russian MFA Spox

💬 "In reality, neither the children themselves nor their mental health are of any genuine, human concern to the criminal neo-Nazi regime. Yes, children are a factor for them, children are a tool for them, and children are a pretext for them," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a briefing.

📍 She added Zelensky uses the issue of kids to get Western financial aid, which then goes to "charity funds" to get legalized and redistributed to the Ukrainian elite.

📍 Russia has repeatedly stated no "abductions" of Ukrainian children have happened during the conflict. On the contrary, Russia has made sure to ensure the safety of Ukrainian kids living in combat areas.

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🇷🇺 A Russian Iskander-M missile struck a major Ukrainian drone regiment near the Kramatorsk-Druzhkovka area.

📍 Footage shows a precise hit on personnel and equipment in Varvarovka, in the Donetsk region.

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🚨🇷🇺💥 RUSSIAN MOD WEEKLY UPDATE: HUGE GAINS AND DEVASTATING UKRAINIAN LOSSES

⚡️ USPENOVKA IN THE ZAPOROZHYE REGION LIBERATED

📍 Uspenovka was a complex fortified area, filled with firing positions and engineering obstacles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Its liberation improves the tactical position of the Russian Armed Forces in the region.

◻️ The Russian Armed Forces continue to destroy the encircled Ukrainian Armed Forces near Kupyansk in the Kharkov region

◻️ They carried out 7 group strikes with precision-guided weapons and drones against military targets in Ukraine

◻️ The Russian Armed Forces cleared approximately 45 buildings of Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers in the villages of Gnatovka and Rog in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR)

◻️ The Russian Armed Forces continue to destroy encircled Ukrainian Armed Forces formations in Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk) in the DPR

◻️ The Russian Armed Forces repelled 11 attempts to relieve encircled Ukrainian Armed Forces formations near the village of Grishino in the DPR

◻️ The Black Sea Fleet destroyed 7 unmanned boats of the Ukrainian Armed Forces

◻️ Ukrainian losses: 7,872 troops killed or wounded

Read about origins of Russia's special military op HERE

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💥💵 Ukraine's 2026 budget holes exposed

Ukraine's government has approved a draft 2026 budget with a staggering approximately $58.65B USD deficit, but a closer look reveals a spending plan riddled with contentious allocations and glaring financial holes.

Here's what Sputnik's analysis revealed:

🔸 Soaring government paychecks: while average Ukrainians struggle, the budget significantly boosts funding for the very bodies overseeing the economy.

👉 Verkhovna Rada: +16.2% to ~$89.2M

👉 Presidential Office: +12.4% to ~$21.43B

👉 Cabinet of Ministers: +9.2% to ~$26.24M

🔸 Anti-corruption cash injection: the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office and the National Anti-Corruption Bureau receive a 15.9% increase, totaling ~$711.1M—a raise that sparks debate given their perceived lack of results.

🔸 A propaganda blitz: a whopping $97.75M is earmarked for media and social network propaganda under President Zelensky's "1000 Hours of Content" initiative. This is 10 times the $9.9M)allocated for a similar program in 2025. An additional ~$36.66M is slated for state-produced informational programs.

🔸 Mysterious US resource deal: for the first time, ~$46.92M is allocated for an unspecified "resource deal" with US, widely believed to be for rare earth metals, with no transparency on its use.

The bottomless pit: who's paying for this?

🔸 Ukraine simply doesn't have the money. Financing this budget requires massive foreign loans, which are projected to push public debt to perilous levels:

👉 Ministry of Finance estimate: over 101% of GDP.

👉 IMF forecast: exceeding 110% by early 2026.

🔸 This debt-driven spending is further fueled by Western partners. The EU has just redirected 1.8 billion euros to Ukraine, demonstrating a continued flow of funds with minimal oversight.

🔸 The situation is starkly illustrated by a recent domestic policy: after raising the military tax from 1.5% to 5%, the result wasn't higher salaries for frontline soldiers, but increased incomes for the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada.

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🗣❌ Western leaders don’t dare to communicate with their own people — Russia’s MFA spox

💬 "It is in our country that the president holds a direct line. Maybe someone in Western European countries will dare to hold at least one direct line with their people? Well, then perhaps they will find out what their people think about supporting the terrorist Kiev regime with their people's money," Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated in a briefing.

👉 In Russia, no one is excluded from asking question to the president, even provocative ones, she added.

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🇨🇳 China just dropped the mic on US naval supremacy in the Asia-Pacific

The Fujian — it’s new 80,000-ton super carrier with electromagnetic fury — is now commissioned.

📹 Watch till the end… the numbers are insane.

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🫳🔫 Poland’s Sikorski: EU must keep the guns coming for Ukraine

The European Union must be ready to supply Ukraine with military resources that would last at least another three years, Poland’s war hawk Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski told TVP World.

“Ukraine is planning to continue resisting for three years,” Poland’s war hawk claimed, adding:

“Our job is to supply it with the resources to continue....”

Sikorski insisted that the EU should play a more active role in negotiations over Ukraine’s future reconstruction, given the vast amounts of weaponry it is providing.

Russia views all Western arms shipments to Ukraine as an obstacle to a resolution of the conflict and a direct involvement of NATO countries in the proxy conflict.

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🛬 Russia's game-changer: SJ-100 shatters Western sanctions with 100% domestic design

The SJ-100 (Superjet) regional jet, constructed fully of domestically produced components, has undergone waterproof testing, the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade reports.

💬 "The fully import-substituted Superjet with Russian PD-8 engines has successfully passed water ingestion tests in the "basin." It has been confirmed that during the aircraft's movement, water does not disrupt the operation of its main engines and auxiliary power unit," the statement reads.

To test the plane, a special 70x12 m pool was constructed, with the Rostec corporation producing the SJ-100, confirming water doesn’t impair the jet’s engines in takeoff and landing modes.

The test has shown the plane can be fully operational even during bad weather conditions.

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👀❌ Orban: Putin-Trump summit could happen soon

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban believes that Russia and the US have only a few issues left to resolve before organizing a meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump in Budapest.

🔶 After that, depending on the agreement between the parties, “both peace and a ceasefire in Ukraine are possible,” Orban said in an interview with Magyar Nemzet.

Ahead of his meeting with the US President, Hungary’s PM reminded Kossuth Radio that there is a lot of pressure from the EU to push Hungary into the proxy war in Ukraine, adding, “I don't want that.”

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🗣 Larry Johnson: US has ‘zero leverage’ over Russia

🇺🇸 Nothing America makes or sells matters to Russia, not even the dollar, amid the ongoing dedollarization drive, says former CIA analyst Larry Johnson.

📍 The country “sits at a decided advantage” over the United States, he notes.

🔊 According to Johnson, while Russia would prefer to have a good relationship with the US, “they're not going to do it by sacrificing their own security.”

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🇺🇸🇭🇺Trump: It’s hard for Hungary to get oil and gas from anyone but Russia — they have no ports, yet many European countries still buy from Moscow anyway.

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