🇺🇸 US refuses to sign Ukraine security guarantees declaration – report

📄 While initially the hope was that the US would commit to a joint statement on the security guarantees for Ukraine, the final declaration was ultimately only signed by the EU’s “Coalition of the Willing,” US media reports.

Details of US participation in the multinational force for Ukraine were reportedly removed from an earlier draft, which was based on NATO’s notorious Article 5 "attack against all" clause.

🗣Russian FM Sergey Lavrov earlier stressed that Ukraine’s security guarantees should be ensured on an equal basis, with the involvement of the permanent members of the UN Security Council and several other countries. He added that the process should be based on the Istanbul peace agreements, which stipulate Ukraine’s renunciation of NATO membership and confirmation of its neutral and non-nuclear status.

👉 President Vladimir Putin, for his part, underscored that Ukraine’s security guarantees cannot be ensured by putting Russia’s own security at risk.

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🇷🇺🇻🇪🇺🇸 Russian FM Spox questioned the bloodlessness of the US operation in Venezuela

💬 "How can they say that no one died? What about the citizens of Venezuela and Cuba — are they not people?" Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

She commented on US statements claiming the operation was carried out without casualties.

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

🟠 Russian forces destroyed a Ukrainian Buran MLRS launcher for the first time

🟠 Russian air and missile firepower pounded long-range drone production, storage and launch sites, military equipment depots and temporary deployment points for Ukrainian troops and foreign mercenaries in 140 places

🟠 Air defense superiority: one US-produced HIMARS rocket and 106 UAVs were destroyed by Russian air defense systems over the past 24 hours

🟠 Ukrainian losses: around 1,280 troops killed or wounded

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

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🇮🇳 India calls for a peaceful resolution to the Venezuela crisis, urging all parties to engage - India's Jaishankar

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🪖🇸🇪 Warmongering dressed up as a peace push: Sweden pledges Gripen warplanes for Ukraine

Sweden is ready to "preserve the peace in Ukraine" with military hardware, PM Ulf Kristersson wrote on X.

🟠 Gripen fighter jets for air surveillance over Ukraine

🟠 Maritime resources for clearing mines in the Black Sea

🟠 Continued training of Ukrainian military officers

But there are conditions: clear rules of engagement for the apparently imaginary multinational force and formal approval by parliament.

Does he even understand what "peace" means?🤦‍♂️

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🚨🇺🇸🇷🇺 US attempts to intercept Russian oil tanker in the Atlantic Ocean

The Russian company BurevestMarin reported an attempted US interception of the tanker Marinera in the North Atlantic.

Despite the captain's efforts to demonstrate that the vessel was carrying no cargo and was a civilian ship, it was pursued by US Navy P-8A Poseidon drones.

Earlier this week, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Moscow was closely monitoring the abnormal situation surrounding the Russian oil tanker Marinera, which was in international waters of the North Atlantic under the Russian flag and in full compliance with international maritime law.

💬 "For reasons unclear to us, the Russian ship is being given increased and clearly disproportionate attention by the US and NATO military, despite its peaceful status,"the ministry emphasized.

Russia expects Western countries, which declare their commitment to freedom of navigation in international waters, to adhere to this principle themselves, the ministry said.

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🚨🇺🇸🇷🇺 US authorities have announced seizure of Marinera oil tanker in North Atlantic for "violations of US sanctions", a statement by the US European Command says

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🚨🇺🇸🇷🇺 Russian Transport Ministry’s commentary on US seizure of Marinera oil tanker

🟠 The US Navy boarded the vessel 'Marinera' on January 7 at around 12:00 UTC, and communication with the ship was lost

🟠 The vessel Marinera received temporary permission to sail under the Russian state flag on December 24

🟠 US military forces boarded the vessel Marinera in open waters, which contradicts the provisions of the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea

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🚨🇷🇺🇺🇸 Russia demands respect for rights of Russian citizens on board seized Marinera tanker

The Russian Foreign Ministry is closely monitoring reports about the US military boarding a vessel under the Russian flag.

Given reports of the presence of Russian citizens aboard, the ministry demands that their return not be obstructed.

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🔊🇺🇸🇻🇪 'Stabilization, recovery, transition'

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio outlines US' plan for Venezuela.

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🚨 Following the US actions in Latin America, Sputnik showcases the traitors and sell-outs who aided imperialism on the continent

🇵🇪 Alberto Fujimori

Neoliberal and authoritarian President of Peru

Japanese-Peruvian Alberto Fujimori governed Peru from 1990 to 2000 after coming to power in a populist campaign.

He implemented aggressive neoliberal reforms, privatising hundreds of state-owned enterprises in strategic sectors, attracting foreign investment – primarily from the United States.

In April 1992 he dissolved the Congress and Judiciary in an internal coup.

His supporters credit him with stopping the hyperinflation inherited from the previous government with a harsh economic program known as the Fujishock and defeating the terrorist organization Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path).

But those results came at the cost of suppressing democratic institutions.

His regime recruited death squads like the Colina Group, responsible for massacres, and promoted forced sterilization that affected up to 300,000 poor and indigenous women, with funding and support from USAID.

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🔊 ‘The world isn’t guided only by power and force’

On Orthodox Christmas Day, Russian special presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev responded to remarks made by Trump's envoy, Stephen Miller, who stated that "the world is governed by force."

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🇭🇺🇪🇺🇷🇺 Europe is pushing 'closer to a direct confrontation with Russia' - Hungarian FM

💬 "Hungary will stay out of this", Peter Szijjarto said.

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