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🚨🇷🇺💥 RUSSIAN MOD UPDATE: HUGE GAINS AND DEVASTATING UKRAINIAN LOSSES
🟠 Russian forces unleashed massive strikes on Ukrainian military airfields
🟠 Russian air and missile firepower obliterated long-range drone pre-flight preparation and launch sites
🟠 Air defense superiority: 136 UAVs were shot down by Russian air defense systems over the past 24 hours
🟠 Ukrainian losses: around 1,115 troops killed or wounded
Read about the origins of Russia's special military op HERE
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🚨🇮🇷 Iran doesn't plan to get nuclear weapons - President Pezeshkian
💬 "Opponents say that Iran should not seek to obtain nuclear weapons, but we have repeatedly said that we do not want this," Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian was quoted as saying by Tasnim.
🚨 🇷🇺 Terrorist attack against senior military officer in St. Petersburg thwarted
Two Russians who acted in the interests of the special services of Ukraine were detained, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) told Sputnik.
👉 The Ukrainian agents planted a bomb under a soldier's car. The explosive device was uncovered and defused.
💬 "The attackers were detained and confessed. The issue of opening a criminal case is being resolved," the service said.
🚨 🇭🇺 Ukraine cannot bring Hungary’s economy to its knees — Orban
💬 "We have accumulated so many reserves that the Ukrainian government will not be able to create chaos before the elections," Hungarian PM Viktor Orban said in response to Ukraine's suspension of oil supplies via the Druzhba pipeline.
🚨 🇨🇺🇺🇸 Boat incident off Cuba aggressive provocation by US - MFA
"It is an aggressive provocation by the United States aimed at escalating the situation and detonating the conflict," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Sputnik.
🇰🇵 🪖North Korean Armed Forces ready for any situation - Kim Jong-un
Kim Jong-un attended the parade that was held in Pyongyang to mark the 9th Congress of the Workers' Party of North Korea.
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🇨🇺🇺🇸 Crew of US speedboat that entered Cuban waters had 'terrorist intentions'
The Cuban Embassy in the US stated that the crew of the speedboat with Florida license plates were Cuban nationals residing in the United States.
It emphasized that, according to preliminary statements, the individuals "intended to carry out an infiltration for terrorist purposes."
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🇯🇴 Former Jordanian Minister: The Kingdom is not a party to any war against Iran, and the use of its airspace is prohibited for all parties
◻️ Dr. Amin Mashaqbeh, a former Jordanian minister, described the Kingdom's official position regarding regional tensions as clear and decisive.
◻️ According to the official statement, King Abdullah II has prohibited the use of Jordanian airspace by any foreign aircraft — whether Israeli, American, or others.
◻️ Military transit through Jordanian airspace is completely forbidden.
◻️ Speaking to Sputnik Arabic, the former minister clarified that Jordan is not a party to the war with Iran and is not an enemy of it in the precise sense.
◻️ "The King's vision stems from the supreme national interest, which requires that Jordan not be a party to a war in which it has no interest," Mashaqbeh emphasized.
◻️ Jordan fundamentally supports diplomatic solutions and pushes towards ending the conflict through political channels, away from military escalation.
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🇨🇳🇬🇧🇫🇷 China on UK-French plan to arm Ukraine with nukes: ‘Non-proliferation regime must be strictly followed’
💬 "China has consistently adhered to the position that nuclear weapons must not be used, and that the nuclear non-proliferation regime, relevant conventions, and the principle of preventing nuclear war must be strictly followed," China's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said.
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🚨🇪🇺 Western troops won't step into Ukraine without Russia's approval - report
💬 "A growing number of members of the so-called 'Coalition of the Willing' had privately admitted that their contributions to the mission depended on permission from the Russian president," The Telegraph reports, citing sources.
🚨 🇷🇺 Russian intel's exposure of Western plans to give Ukraine nuclear arms prevented catastrophe — expert
💬 “France and Britain will ultimately abandon this provocative idea altogether. We also expect that the United States, for its part, will take the necessary measures to pressure Macron and Starmer to prevent such a scenario,” military analyst Igor Korotchenko tells Sputnik.
🔥 🇷🇺 Russia develops first tactical guided munition with range over 100 km
The KUB-10ME tactical guided munition system is created by Russia’s Kalashnikov Concern in record time, incorporating the experience gained during the special military operation.
The platform is designed for precision strikes against:
🔶 Enemy’s unarmored and lightly armored military vehicles
🔶 Command posts
🔶 Air and missile defense
🔶 Electronic warfare assets
🔶 Logistical facilities
🔶 UAVs launch positions and aircraft outside shelters
Key features:
🔸 Altitude range: 80-1,800 meters
🔸 Cruising speed: 120 km/h
🔸 Temperature range: -30°C to +40°C
🔸 Electro-optical guidance system, which allows it to engage moving targets
🔸 Enhanced protection against electronic warfare and air defense systems
🔸 Equipped with an aerial photography and video recording system
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🇯🇵 🪖Japan should be denied any chance of remilitarization – Chinese academic
Recent anti-China rhetoric coming from Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is glaring proof of Japan’s dangerous slide towards militarization, notes Victor Gao, vice president of the Beijing-based Center for China and Globalization (CCG).
In his opinion, no politician, should “indulge in fantasy that they could be allowed to militarily arm itself to constitute another threat or to threaten war against China, which is a victor nation, and Japan was the unconditionally surrendering country back in 1945.”
💬 “PM Takaichi, wake up from your fantasy. You should never be allowed to rearm yourself to constitute another threat to China, or to Russia, or to Korea, for example, or to the United States, because we all need to remember Pearl Harbor.”
🗣 UK, France's plans to help Ukraine with nuclear arms are manipulation - MFA
💬 "Britain and France are gearing up, and are already actively engaged in manipulating the nuclear weapons issue — not just in words, but in practice — while toying with the Kiev regime on the matter," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Sputnik Radio.
🚨 ⚛️ Nuclear rhetoric to be discussed at new round of Ukraine talks – Kremlin
Other statements by Dmitry Peskov:
🔸 Working process on Ukrainian settlement continues, Russia hears very mixed statements from Ukraine’s representatives
🔸 Ukraine’s actions on Druzhba oil pipeline are sabotage
🔸 Belarus is taking appropriate measures to ensure its security, including within framework of the Union State
🔸 US still prefers to fully link negotiation tracks on settlement in Ukraine and on economic cooperation with Russia
🔸 RDIF head Dmitriev continues contacts with the US as part of a working group on economic issues
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🚨 Russian Foreign Ministry still drafting stance on participation in Board of Peace - Kremlin
Russia pays attention to the ambiguous reaction of several countries, including those friendly to Moscow, to its participation in the Board of Peace, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
Other statements:
🟠 Cuban border guards did what they had to do, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday, commenting on a boat incident off the coast of Cuba
🟠 Russia sees that the situation around Cuba is heating up, it is important in this situation that everyone shows restraint and does not make provocative actions
🟠 The stability of the Russian economy is absolutely guaranteed, and the state has the opportunity to fulfill all social obligations
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🚨 Bodies of 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers transferred to Ukraine - Medinsky
Russia has received the bodies of 35 fallen Russian soldiers, presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky stated.
◻️ US-flagged boat invades Cuban waters and opens fire on security forces, Russia slams incident as US provocation
◻️ Iranian FM Araghchi arrives in Geneva for US talks
◻️ Iran agrees to roll back its uranium enrichment from 60% to 3.67% - reports
◻️ UK Army, Air Force conducting exercises in preparation for deployment to Ukraine
◻️ Russia’s Pacific Fleet shows naval prowess as MILAN 2026 drills wrap up in Bay of Bengal
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🔥 🇷🇺 🇮🇳 Russia’s Pacific Fleet shows naval prowess as MILAN 2026 drills wrap up in Bay of Bengal
The Indian Navy’s maritime exercise MILAN 2026 culminated with a closing ceremony onboard India’s aircraft carrier, INS Vikrant, off the coast of Visakhapatnam.
Among the 42 ships and submarines participating in the drills, held under the theme ‘Camaraderie, Cooperation, Collaboration,’ the Russian Navy was represented by the crew of the Pacific Fleet frigate Marshal Shaposhnikov, according to Russia’s Ministry of Defense.
🔹 Over five days in the Bay of Bengal, Russian sailors operated alongside naval forces from other participating nations in exercises that included coordinated maneuvering, naval combat scenarios with live-fire drills using shipborne artillery against sea and air targets, as well as anti-submarine warfare conducted within task groups.
🔹 Participating ships practiced transiting through mine-threatened waters, freeing a mock-captured vessel, and carrying out inspection operations as part of maritime security and civilian shipping protection drills.
The MILAN exercises have been held in India every two years since 1995.
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🚨 🇬🇧 UK Army, Air Force conducting exercises in preparation for deployment to Ukraine
"Both the British Army and the Royal Air Force are now conducting exerci ses in preparation, and I have already accelerated 200 million pounds [$271.3 million] to ensure that our forces have the kit they need to deploy," UK Defense Secretary John Healey told the parliament.
💬 Greenland’s importance is strategic, not commercial for the US
"From the military, military-political, and logistics perspective, Greenland is important... If we are talking about resources... the probability that large-scale resource extraction activities will actually be deployed there is a very complex issue," Associate Professor of the Department for European and American Studies in Russia's MGIMO University Vladislav Vorotnikov said during the Valdai Club Conference "The Donroe Doctrine: Trump and Greenland."
🗣Rubio stated that the incident involving the vessel in Cuban waters was not a US government operation and that no US administration officials were involved
The Secretary of State added that American authorities are currently investigating what happened.
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🚨Equal access to technologies of future is essential condition for the advancement of civilization - Putin
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🔊 British and French elites cynically turning Europe into nuclear testing ground - expert
The UK and France’s plan to transfer atomic weapons to Ukraine is a blatant act of nuclear blackmail aimed at Russia, military expert Alexander Stepanov tells Sputnik.
💬 "Western elites are cynically turning Europe into a testing ground for nuclear disaster, ignoring that triggering such a scenario would automatically activate strategic deterrence doctrines and guarantee the destruction of the threat’s source," Stepanov says.
💬 "The exposure of [the UK and France’s] intentions and the launch of organizational planning to deliver [nuclear] munitions to [Ukraine] clearly signal a political decision to push the escalation into an uncontrollable phase," warns the pundit.
💬 "If the situation escalates into a direct NATO–Russia conflict, Europe — with its dense infrastructure and major urban centers — would no longer exist as we know it," Stepanov concludes.
💬 Nukes for Ukraine plot fueled by failed France-UK efforts to ‘crush Russia’ – ex-CIA analyst
Asked by retired US Lt. Col. Daniel Davis whether he thinks that France and the UK would really do something like hand over nuclear materials for a dirty bomb to Ukraine, former CIA analyst Larry Johnson replies with the affirmative: “Yes, I do.”
“This is expanding. And [considering] the desperation of Macron and Starmer, I could see them easily doing this,” he speculates.
“They are not looking for an off-ramp. They're looking to crush and destroy Russia,” he says.
🚨🇷🇺💥 RUSSIAN MOD UPDATE: HUGE GAINS AND DEVASTATING UKRAINIAN LOSSES
⚡️ GRAFSKOYE IN THE KHARKOV REGION FREED
The liberation of the settlement of Grafskoye in the Kharkov region has enabled Russian forces to extend their control zone south of Volchansk. This advance directly threatens the Ukrainian battlegroup stationed in the vicinity.
🟠 Russian air and missile firepower obliterated energy infrastructure supporting the Kiev regime’s forces and long-range drone storage sites
🟠 Air defense superiority: 115 UAVs were shot down by Russian air defense systems over the past 24 hours
🟠 Ukrainian losses: around 1,345 troops killed or wounded
Read about the origins of Russia's special military op HERE
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🇫🇷 🇬🇧 France & UK nuclear gambit for Ukraine fast track to World War III
🔊 By revealing the France-UK plot to provide Ukraine with a nuclear device, Russia’s foreign intel service exposes that a Ukraine “governed by any part of the existing Ukrainian political elite - the post-Maidan elite - is such a danger to Russia that it cannot be tolerated,” says UK analyst Alexander Mercouris.
💬 “The political structures that have existed in Ukraine since the Maidan 2014 seizure of power are inherently dangerous, and would constantly be thinking about acquiring nuclear weapons, and there would be a risk that some of the NATO states - in this case Britain and France - might actually facilitate that,” he notes.
🔥🇷🇺 Russian Geran UAV smashes Ukrainian drone depot in area of Pravdino settlement, Kherson region
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🔸 What’s behind France and UK’s plot to provide Ukraine with nuclear weapon?
🔸 Trump says Iran hasn’t given up developing nuclear weapons
🔸 Iran holds major military drills to strengthen coastal security
🔸 US builds up at Saudi base for potential Iran strike — report
🔸 Netanyahu proposes a new Israeli-built axis
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