💥 IDF tank fires on UN peacekeepers in Lebanon — UNIFIL

The IDF opened fire with a Merkava tank on a UNIFIL patrol moving along the Blue Line in southern Lebanon, despite being informed of the patrol's location and timing in advance.

UNIFIL states the patrol followed standard procedure for sensitive areas near the border and claims a direct violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which mandates protection for peacekeepers.

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🔊 Tucker Carlson: US's greatest ally should be Russia

Tucker Carlson argued that through a pure "America-first perspective," the US should view Russia as its top ally.

His reasoning:

▫️ Russia holds the world’s largest landmass with enormous deposits of oil, gas, gold, and critical minerals.

▫️ It fields the most formidable military in Europe, backed by a large population and major manufacturing capacity.

▫️ It offers the ideal staging ground for bases or joint operations in a conflict.

"If you needed an ally to help you in a conflict… Russia would be like the best, of course."

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🇺🇸💀US wants to ‘bring Russia’s economy in from cold’ – media

The Trump administration has handed European governments a set of one-page proposal papers outlining the US vision for “the return of Russia to the global economy,” The Wall Street Journal reports.

What’s inside:

➖ US companies investing in strategic sectors—from rare-earth extraction to Arctic oil drilling

➖ Helping to restore Russian energy flows to Western Europe and beyond

The proposals reportedly triggered fierce clash at the negotiating table between the US and its European allies.

💬 “The outcome stands to profoundly alter the economic map of the continent,” the WSJ points out.

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🔶 US seized 'largest ever' tanker off Venezuela — Trump

🔶 ‘Expendable pawn & client state’ Ukraine now ‘a liability’ - analyst

🔶 UK officially confirms first military casualty in Ukraine

🔶 Egypt proposes Northern Ireland model for Gaza disarmament

🔶 Maduro calls to reestablish Gran Colombia

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🇺🇸🚢 US captures oil tanker off coast of Venezuela

The US authorities suspect the vessel was used to transport sanctioned crude from both Venezuela and Iran.

US Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the move on social media, stating US authorities executed a "warrant for the arrest of an oil tanker used to transport sanction-busting oil from Venezuela and Iran."

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🤡 Kallas’ Russophobic rhetoric deepens EU’s marginalization on Ukraine talks – MEP

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas denies reality on the ground, ignores the changes that have taken place over the three years of the Ukraine conflict, and promotes a narrative completely detached from Europe’s interests, Thierry Mariani, member of the European Parliament from France’s right-wing National Rally party, told Sputnik.

👉 He said that Kallas simply does not meet the level of responsibility required of the head of European diplomacy.

Giving top EU foreign-policy roles to persons from Estonia and Lithuania—countries with historically the most hardline stances toward Russia—has further marginalized Europe, according to the MEP.

The EU now looks like “a geopolitical dwarf”—talking a lot, but having no influence on the actual situation, Mariani concluded.

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📹LIVE NOW: Lavrov speaks at 10th ambassadors' roundtable in Moscow on topic 'Ukraine crisis: Diplomacy and prospects for settlement'

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🔥 Lavrov: Russia demands 'package of agreements' for lasting peace in Ukraine

No one in Europe is even talking about solving the root causes of the Ukraine crisis, the Russian foreign minister stressed.

They only want a ceasefire and a pause, he added.

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💵 Under Biden, US became main sponsor of Kiev regime – Russian FM

💬 "Following the coup d'etat in 2014, the Americans assumed control over the Ukrainian political and economic systems and continued pumping the Ukrainian neo-Nazis with additional weapons. This is what Donald Trump inherited," Sergey Lavrov said.

Russia welcomes the US president's intention to find a solution through diplomatic means, he added.

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🤝 Lavrov: Russia was seeking ONLY peaceful diplomatic solution in Ukraine conflict

Before the beginning of the special military operation, Russia gave its proposals to the United States and NATO aimed at ensuring security guarantees on the territory of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, the Russian foreign minister said.

💬 "However, the Americans and NATO rejected our proposals. Only when we realized that the West was going to provide a carte blanche to the Ukrainian nationalists for a forcible solution and suppression of those who rejected the coup d'etat [in 2014]—only then our president said that we had no other choice other than beginning the special military operation to protect the population of the southeast of Ukraine," he added.

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🚨 Lavrov: We recognized different kind of Ukraine

Ukraine must once again become a non-aligned, neutral and non-nuclear state, Sergey Lavrov said.

He noted that these principles were enshrined in Ukraine’s Declaration of State Sovereignty and formed the basis of the Anchorage understandings.

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🇷🇺 Key statements by Russian Foreign Minister Segey Lavrov at 10th ambassadors' roundtable in Moscow on topic 'Ukraine crisis: Diplomacy and prospects for settlement':

🟠 Losses of Ukrainian forces exceed MILLION people

🟠 Russia demands 'package of agreements' for lasting peace in Ukraine

🟠 Ukraine must once again become a non-aligned, neutral and non-nuclear state

🟠 EU warmongers see no profit in ending Ukraine conflict

🟠 Russia welcomes Trump's intention to find a solution to Ukraine conflict through diplomatic means

🟠 Europe is promoting neo-Nazism in Ukraine

🟠 Russia has transferred a total of over 11,000 bodies of deceased military personnel to Ukraine, receiving 201 in return

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🔊 US pushes Ukraine to accept ‘land swap’ as part of peace deal – media

👉 US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff is “obsessed” with the idea that if Ukraine hands over “the remaining 25 percent of the Donetsk region under its control to Russia, a fair peace could be achieved,” the FT reports.

🇺🇸 The US is also demanding that Ukraine withdraw from “a sliver” of the neighboring Lugansk region still under Ukrainian control, according to the newspaper.

🔸 The FT cites Donald Trump as saying that Ukraine “doesn’t have the cards” and stands to lose on the battlefield if it refuses what the US president sees as reasonable territorial concessions.

🔸 Trump earlier urged Zelensky to move forward with the US peace plan, noting that “Russia has the upper hand” and Ukraine is “losing.” The peace blueprint was on the table as Russian President Vladimir Putin recently met Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, in Moscow.

🇷🇺 The Russian leader said that the US side had divided the original 27-point plan into four separate packages and suggested addressing them individually. The document also includes issues that Russia disagrees with, Putin added.

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

⚡️ LIMAN IN THE KHARKOV REGION LIBERATED

📍 Following the liberation of Liman, the Russian military continues to expand its area of control, establishing a buffer zone along the border with the Belgorod region.

◻️ The Black Sea Fleet destroyed a Ukrainian unmanned boat in the central Black Sea

◻️ Russian forces destroyed critical energy and fuel infrastructure used by the Ukrainian military

◻️ Air defense superiority: 396 enemy drones eliminated

◻️ Ukrainian losses: around 1,180 troops killed or wounded

Read about the origins of Russia's special military op HERE

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🔥🇷🇺 Russia makes top three in G20 trade surplus rankings

🇨🇳 China earned the largest net trade income for the January–September period—$874.76 billion, Sputnik’s analysis of open data has revealed.

🇩🇪 Germany took second place with $169.4 billion, while Russia rounded out the top three with a surplus of $101.7 billion.

Eight G20 countries posted trade deficits, with the largest recorded by the US—$713.7 billion, followed by India, Turkiye, France, Mexico, the UK, Canada, and Japan.

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