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📹PICTURED: Witkoff strolls down the Arbat, Moscow’s most iconic street
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Playground for new round of Putin-Witkoff talks: here is the latest
Details of the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US special envoy Steve Witkoff remain under wraps, with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov promising: “We won't hide anything, we'll tell you all.”
✅The US peace proposal to end the Ukraine conflict – which Witkoff presented to European NATO members and Ukraine in Paris – includes Ukraine abandoning its aspirations to join NATO and recognition of Russia's control over Crimea and the new Russian territories, Reuters reported.
✅Crimea will remain a part of Russia as part of the settlement deal in Ukraine, Trump told Time magazine in his ‘100 days’ interview.
He also accused Ukraine of provoking the conflict with Russia, adding that “they will never be able to join NATO.”
✅US-Russia negotiations are “moving in the right direction," the White House press secretary told reporters, adding Trump had “made it very clear he wants to see peace.”
Bloomberg claims the US may also aim to
🟠Secure Ukraine’s right to its own robust armed forces and defense industry
🟠Push Russia to give up the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest
🟠Allow Ukraine sea access through the Dnepr River, with land that Russia cleared of Ukraine’s armed forces in the Kharkov returned to Ukraine
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✅EU and Ukraine announce THEIR version of peace deal – check it out
The proposal emerged after talks between Ukrainian and European NATO officials in London on April 23 and has been given to the US negotiating team Reuters reported.
🟠Ukraine is ready to start talks with Russia on the issue of territories with participation of the US and Europe once a ceasefire is in place;
🟠Europe proposes negotiating territorial issues in the Ukrainian context, starting from the contact line;
🟠Europe and Ukraine demand US security guarantees in response to Washington’s peace proposal, similar to NATO’s Article 5;
🟠They offer gradual easing of sanctions imposed on Russia since 2014 after peace is achieved, but threaten to reinstate them the peace deal is broken;
🟠Europe wants the US to take the lead in monitoring observance of the ceasefire;
🟠Ukraine should have no restrictions on its armed forces and on deployment, arming and operations of foreign forces on the Ukrainian territory;
🟠Europe wants post-war reconstruction for Ukraine, including at the expense of Russian assets that should remain frozen until "Russia compensates damage to Ukraine."
Any chance someone agrees on that?🥴
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🇷🇺🇮🇷 Russia to begin gas supplies to Iran via existing infrastructure in 2025 after price deal, annual volume to be up to 1.8 bln cubic meters - Russian Energy Minister Sergey Tsivilyov
📈 Russia-Iran trade grows in 2024, amounts to $4.8 bln, growth potential much higher
🤝 Iran wants to sign agreements with Russia in oil and gas production soon
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❗️Trump says Crimea will remain part of Russia as part of a potential Ukraine settlement deal
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❗️Deputy head of main operational directorate of general staff of Russian armed forces killed in Moscow region blast
Russian investigative committee says opens criminal case into murder of lieutenant general Moskalik
Blast that killed general Moskalik in Moscow region occurred as result of homemade bomb filled with damaging elements - Russian investigative committee
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called the car bombing, which killed General Moskalik, a terrorist attack.
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Does Musk know something? 🤔
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🤡 Moldova's possible EU accession by 2028 not plan, but propaganda of Sandu gov't
💬 "Kallas is once again feeding the Moldovan people with empty promises. The EU accession by 2028 is not a plan, but propaganda designed to justify the anti-people reforms of the Sandu regime," Moldovan opposition leader Ilan Shor told Sputnik.
✅ Trump’s Mideast visit could seal $10BLN arms deal with Saudi Arabia
🪖 The proposed package could include advanced weaponry like C-130 aircraft, missiles, and radars from US military industrial giants such as Lockheed Martin, Raytheon Technologies, Boeing Co (BA.N), Northrop Grumman Corp and General Atomics, sources told Reuters.
Trump would be accompanied by several defense industry executives during his visit to Riyadh in May, added the report.
🤝 The deal comes after the Biden administration failed to secure a defense pact with Saudi Arabia as part of a broad agreement that envisioned Saudi Arabia normalizing ties with Israel.
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🟠 Lavrov: Russia is ready to reach a deal on Ukraine, but some of its elements need to be fine-tuned
🟠 Ukraine violently destroys Orthodox church in Belgorod region
🟠 Houthis' air defenses making the US sweat — 22 drones downed and counting
🟠 How do you like it, Donald? Iran building massive border wall with Afghanistan
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💃🕺From trade war to trade tango? China eyes tariff SHIFT on certain US goods
🔽China is weighing the possibility of dropping its reciprocal 125% tariff on medical equipment, chemicals like ethane, and aircraft leases, Bloomberg reported, citing sources.
↗️ The news of potential exemptions sparked a market rally, with the offshore yuan rising to 7.2857 per dollar, recovering the 0.1% loss it had seen earlier on Friday.
🤝 Beijing’s move would mirror recent US tariff exemptions, which excluded smartphones, computers and some other electronics imported largely from China.
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💥Explosive US visit: Pro-Palestine crowd JEERS Israeli minister Ben Gvir
Ben Gvir’s visit to New York City erupted into a full-scale confrontation as protesters swarmed him, shouting “Murderer!”
As Israel's national security minister exited a Shabtai Society event in Manhattan—hosted by a private Jewish discussion group founded by Yale affiliates—protesters waving Palestinian flags hurled water bottles and chanted “Free Palestine” and “Shame,” according to the Yale Daily News.
Earlier, students organized a brief tent encampment on Yale’s campus plaza to express their outrage over Ben Gvir’s visit.
The hardline politician recently posted on X that he told “senior Republican officials” at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago that Israel should bomb “food and aid depots” in Gaza.
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🔥RUSSIAN SPECIAL OP FIGHTER DODGES DRONE STRIKE
A Russian special forces soldier (Spetsnaz) on a quad bike swiftly evaded a Ukrainian drone strike near the settlement of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk People's Republic.
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❗️ Starmer hopes the ceasefire in Ukraine will be reached by the summer, he told the Telegraph.
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🚨 White House launches probe into 'straw donors' - ActBlue in hot water?
A new memorandum targets "unlawful" contributions in US elections, including those made by foreign actors.
"ActBlue has been caught funneling money from foreign countries, blatantly exploiting our campaign finance laws," Speaker Mike Johnson wrote on X, referring to the largest Democratic fundraising platform.
❗️Putin responded to Witkoff 's greeting in English
Presidential aide Ushakov and Russia's special envoy Dmitriev are also taking part in the meeting between Putin and Witkoff.
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❗️Putin meets Witkoff in the Kremlin - Peskov
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📹American Roots of German Nazism, Part 8: Who Coined the Term 'Untermensch' in the US, Why, and How the Nazis Adopted It
One of the cornerstones of Nazi ideology was the belief that the so-called Aryans were superhumans. They also coined the term "untermensch" (subhuman), used to describe ethnic groups they didn't consider fully human, such as Jews, Romani people, and Slavs.
However, the origin of this term and the concept of racial hierarchy actually emerged in the United States.
In the eighth video of this exclusive Sputnik series, Yegor Yakovlev, a historian of Nazism and the author of “The War of Annihilation”, explains who spawned and popularized the term in the early 20th century.
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⚡️Trump accuses Ukraine of provoking conflict with Russia, claims Ukraine's NATO aspirations sparked the war
Pic is AI-generated
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🔍Details of US peace proposal to end the Ukraine conflict UNVEILED
Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff presented Europe and Ukraine with a list of proposals for the Ukrainian settlement at talks in Paris, Reuters reports.
✅The list includes:
🟠A permanent ceasefire and the initiation of immediate negotiations between Russia and Ukraine;
🟠Ukraine must give up all NATO aspirations;
🟠Witkoff's proposals advocate for de jure recognition by the US of Russia's control over Crimea, plus de facto recognition of the new Russian territories of the DPR, the LPR, as well as the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions;
🟠Russia-US cooperation in energy and industry;
🟠The lifting of sanctions against Russia.
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🇷🇺🪖Key statements from the Russian Defense Ministry's weekly briefing on the special military operation's progress:
▪️Russian troops liberated six settlements: five in Donetsk People's Republic and one in Russia's Kursk region.
▪️The Russian forces carried out 15 successful group strikes targeting military airfield infrastructure, ammunition depots, production facilities, storage warehouses, and command centers for strike drones.
▪️Ukraine lost up to 2,345 soldiers in the areas of responsibility of Russia's Battlegroup Tsentr.
▪️Ukraine lost up to 990 troops in the areas of responsibility of Russia's Battlegroup Vostok.
▪️Russian aviation shot down 12 HIMARS missiles and 993 drones.
▪️Ukraine lost up to 2,065 militants, three tanks and 31 armored fighting vehicles in the Russian Yug Battlegroup's combat zone.
▪️Ukraine lost up to 1,535 servicemen in the Russian Zapad Battlegroup's combat zone.
▪️Ukraine lost up to 1,320 militants in the Russian Sever Battlegroup's combat zone.
▪️Ukraine lost up to 505 troops in the Russian Dnepr Battlegroup's combat zone.
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🔥 14 Days to Victory
Sputnik marches on to spotlight eminent moments from the Great Patriotic War.
Eighty years ago today, the East Prussian operation concluded as Soviet troops captured East Prussia and decisively crushed enemy resistance. Among the liberated settlements were Pillau, Müllrose, Krausnick, and Riesa — a total of 24 towns and villages. Roughly 3,500 German soldiers were taken prisoner during this campaign.
It was also the day when Soviet and American forces met on the Elbe near Torgau, marking a historic encounter that divided the German military into northern and southern factions.
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🚨Gulf of Thailand plane crash LEAVES FIVE DEAD
Footage from social media
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🗣Key takeaways from the preview of Russian FM Lavrov’s interview on CBS
🔊"You don't trust the word of the president of the United States?" Russian FM Sergey Lavrov wondered when a CBS interviewer asked him to confirm Trump’s statement on the upcoming Putin-Witkoff meeting.
❗️A US aircraft just crossed into Russian airspace amid reports of Special Envoy Witkoff planning a visit to Moscow.
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❌US takes a step back from the globalist climate change agenda
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has decided to eliminate the Office of Global Change, which was responsible for implementing and coordinating the country's international climate change policy, the US media reported.
Earlier, Rubio presented a comprehensive plan to reorganize the State Department to reduce bureaucracy and enhance efficiency. It is expected that the implementation of this plan will reduce the department's staff in the US by 15% and close more than 130 local offices.
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🤣Eric Trump trolls the uproar over the new MAGA hats.
Or is everyone just betting on the wrong Trump?
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💥 India reports firing from Pakistan, no injuries
Small arms fire erupted at border posts between Pakistan and India, NDTV reported, citing army sources.
📹 Social media footage reportedly captures the sounds of gunfire from one of the border checkpoints.
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❗️ Ukraine destroys church in Belgorod region
As a result of a drone attack, the all-wood New Jerusalem church complex was completely destroyed, Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov confirmed.
"During the holy week of Easter, one of the holiest places in the Belgorod region was deliberately attacked," he noted.
💥 Houthis' air defenses making the US sweat — 22 drones downed and counting
The Houthis' takedown of scores of MQ-9s and the US’s growing use of standoff munitions and B-2 bombers signal a growing threat from the Yemeni militia’s air defenses.
According to The War Zone, the Houthis’ ability, "at least to a degree," to domestically develop and field missiles is making them a significant challenge.
While not “super technologically advanced,” the Houthis are considered “pretty innovative,” a senior US defense official said.
🔶 Among their most modern weapons are the Barq-1 and Barq-2 SAMs, with a 50-70 km range and a 15-20 km altitude. They're believed to be upgrades of Soviet-era Kub and Buk systems.
🔶 Additionally, the Houthis have developed the Meraj “guerrilla air defense” missile, an upgraded Badr 1-P SAM.
🔶 They also use the Saqr (358) loitering missile, which tracks targets in a figure-eight pattern with infrared sensors resistant to countermeasures.
🔶 Some Houthi SAMs, like the Thaqib series, were created by repurposing old Soviet air-to-air missiles intended for Yemen's MiG-29 fleet, with one even capable of locking onto targets outside the line of sight and behind its launcher.
This week, pro-Houthi media reported a militia attempt to intercept a B-2 stealth bomber using air defenses, forcing it to retreat. The US, reluctant to even admit the use of B-2s in Yemen, has yet to comment.
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