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❗️Trump said he expects Russia's response to Ukraine ceasefire proposal as early as this week.
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❗️Putin awarded Zakharova the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" IV degree.
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❗️The ambassadors of Russia and Belarus will not be invited to the German parliament’s commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the end of the second world war.
The ceremony in the Bundestag lower house on 8 May marking the allies’ defeat of Nazi Germany will include several representatives of the diplomatic corps in Berlin but bar the envoys from Moscow and Minsk based on “the government’s assessment on the invitation of representatives”, a parliament spokesperson said.
🤬Time to send the Red Army to Berlin again?
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❗️Russia will regard any attack by Taurus missiles on any Russian facilities as Germany's participation in military operations on the side of Ukraine, Zakharova said.
Merz recently allowed the supply of these missiles to Kiev.
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❗️A court has sentenced General Vadim Shamarin, former head of the Main Communications Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces, to 7 years in a penal colony in a bribery case involving 36 million rubles
The court also confiscated Shamarin’s assets worth over 35 million rubles, stripped him of his lieutenant general rank, and banned him from holding public office.
Shamarin’s defense has stated that they will not appeal the 7-year sentence in the bribery case.
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❗️Emir of Qatar arrived in Russia.
Today he will hold talks with Vladimir Putin.
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❗️"We are Russians! God is with us!"
🙏For the first time in history, Russian Orthodox symbols appeared in space. Russian cosmonauts took a banner with the face of Jesus Christ to the International Space Station and unfurled it in space.
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❗️ABC NEWS: Russia expert Matthew Sussex from the Australian National University points out in The Conversation, Russia's long range military planes can "easily travel over 10,000 kilometres."
"From a base in Indonesia, this would give the Russian air force the ability to conduct intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions during Australian military exercises, gather data on military installations in the Northern Territory (which also host US Marines), and even conduct surveillance on US military activities in Guam," he said.
"Equally, given the closeness of ties between Beijing and Moscow, any Russian intelligence that was gathered could be shared with China," Mr Sussex said.
Some analysts argue that a permanent or rotating presence of Russian planes that could monitor (or in a worst case scenario, even strike) Australian and US military assets in this region would present Moscow with plenty of options and opportunities.
It would also present what one former senior Australian official called it a "nightmare scenario" for Australian defence planners who are already grappling with the full implications of China's unprecedented partial circumnavigation of the mainland earlier this year.
Former ASPI head and senior Defence bureaucrat Peter Jennings also sees evidence of collusion between Moscow and Beijing.
"It is very much in China's interests to see Russian strategic bombers an hour's flight from US military bases in Guam," he wrote.
Via ABC News
❗️After getting hounded by Ukrainian “activists” over a picture of Putin, a barbershop owner went from Uzbek to full-on Russian 😁
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❗️Russian military destroyed a Polish Krab
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❗️The Australian Newspaper:
"Russia has launched an incendiary broadside against Australia’s military posture in the Asia-Pacific, linking its military co-operation with Indonesia to the AUKUS defence pact."
🍿Don't you just love the mass hysteria in the Australian media right now over something Russia didn't even do.... 🤦♂
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❗️North Korea warned the U.S. not to bluff, stating it won't tolerate any threat to its sovereignty.
The DPRK Defense Ministry said it will use strong deterrence against U.S. military actions, calling the unannounced deployment of U.S. strategic assets a reckless move that could harm U.S. security.
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❗️All those who accused Russia of striking civilians in Sumy should "get on their knees before the world" after clarification from Ukraine, said the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova:
"When the militants' meeting was liquidated, everyone started blaming Russia. But when it became clear that the authorities had deliberately covered up these ghouls with children, everyone somehow went silent."
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❗️US authorities have closed the State Department's center for countering "foreign disinformation," which, among other things, accused Russia of "disinformation and propaganda."
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❗️ "Our cooperation cannot be stopped!" - Putin drops subtle hint that Russia has grandiose plans to increase it's cooperation with China and BRICS countries.
😎Reminder, Indonesia is a BRICS country.
🤣Are you listening Penny Wong?
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❗️Ukraine received information that China is supplying weapons to Russia — Zelensky
"We are talking, in particular, about gunpowder and artillery. China is engaged in the production of weapons on the territory of Russia," the head of the Kiev regime stated.
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❗️Ukrainian Ambassador to Australia Vasyl Myroshnychenko thinks he is funny.
✍"If our enemies scold us, then we are doing everything right". - Stalin
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❗️Europe is unable to agree on aid to Kiev due to disagreements , Le Monde writes. European allies have reached a dead end because they are not participating in the negotiations.
There are also questions about sending troops to Ukraine after the ceasefire, with France backing the deployment of ground troops and the UK supporting the protection of Ukraine's air and sea space, with funding contingent on a review of the US military presence in Europe.
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❗️Macron met with Witkoff and Rubio in Paris.
His aim is to persuade the Americans not to turn their backs on Zelensky and to approach him with greater leniency.
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❗️Putin began talks with Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani — Kremlin
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❗️Possible supplies of Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine by Germany are not capable of turning the tide of the conflict - head of the German defense concern Rheinmetall Papperger.
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❗️Former head of the Crimean Ministry of Emergency Situations Sadakliev has just been sentenced to 5.5 years jail for recieving a bribe — RIA Novosti, citing law enforcement agencies
⚡️PS. Keep cleaning out the corruption rats they thrive in other large ministries also. Hopefully their time will come soon...
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❗️Indonesian Foreign Ministry spokesman Rolliansyah Soemirat said in a statement Indonesia will permit foreign military aircraft or vessels on “peaceful missions” to visit the nation.
“1. Indonesia has never granted permission to any country to build or possess a military base in Indonesia,” the statement read.
“2. As a country with a longstanding tradition of a free and active foreign policy, Indonesia will receive and permit military aircraft or vessels from other nations on peaceful missions to visit Indonesia.”
Australia's opposition Leader Peter Dutton was later forced to concede he made a “mistake” after falsely claiming the Indonesian President announced plans to host a Russian air force base.
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❗️Republika Srpska President Dodik said he is not afraid of EU sanctions due to his visit to Moscow on May 9 at Putin's invitation:
"I want to be there at that time and I will go."
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❗️The British Ministry of Defence has banned Chinese electric vehicles from being parked at certain restricted areas and military bases, inews writes.
The reason is concern that sensors in cars could be used to gather intelligence.
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❗️Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says it is incredible the opposition leader has doubled down on the now-refuted reports of a Russian air force base in Indonesia.
🍿Meanwhile Russia: Do nothing and win.
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❗️Two Odessa men fled from mobilization in a boat on the Dnepr, and surrendered to the Russian soldiers
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❗️😁The White House said that the United States can control time and space.
"Our technologies allow us to manipulate space and time. They erase distances, promote growth and increase productivity," said Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
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❗️"The Russians are coming and the Albanese Government with the Australian military have their pants around their ankles." - Andrew Bolt
😂Watch to the end - try not to laugh.
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❗️Peter Dutton has finally conceded that he made a “mistake” when he falsely claimed that the Indonesian President had confirmed reports that Russia wanted to fly aircraft out of Papua, near Darwin.
⚡️In a major concession during this week’s leaders debate on the ABC, Mr Dutton conceded that he was mistaken.
😂PS. WHAT? SO PETER DUTTON ACTUALLY ADMITS TO SPREADING MISINFORMATION AND DISINFORMATION?
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