33845
Join our channel for breaking news stories from around the globe, exclusive analysis & opinions. Website: sputnikglobe.com 💬 You can always reach us via @sputnikint_bot
🇬🇧🪖 UK military felt they ‘had the right to do whatever they want in Afghanistan’
For over a decade, Afghan civilians screamed for justice. Night raids, women and children killed in their sleep, homes destroyed without cause — the British military’s “conqueror” mentality turned Helmand into a war zone of revenge and fear.
Why has this come to light only now? Because the US-backed British military is good at hiding information about new scandals about them, Arshad Yusufzai says. The journalist from Peshawar, who’s been on the ground in Afghanistan since 2009, EXPOSES what everyone ignored:
🔸It was Afghanistan, a third-world country with no international support and no powerful independent media to cover the events. Complaints from the Taliban, the Karzai government, and locals about war crimes were simply DISMISSED by international agencies.
🔸Repentance? Those who committed these war crimes “have a conscience, and now they want justice to be done, or at least they want to take the burden off their shoulders.”
🔸No legal action ahead: Americans involved in similar crimes were spared with “only minimal punishments” in the past. And “it's going to be the same” with the UK military.
🔸Feeling of arrogance: The UK special forces believed “everything belongs to them” as they were involved in violating international humanitarian laws and peoples' lives and dignities.
🔸Hidden motives: British troops were defeated by the Afghans in the past, and they were battered time and again in Helmand, so they had “sort of a revenge on their mind.”
What about justice for the victims now — why aren’t the Taliban taking these cases to the ICC?
"They're not expecting anything from the international community because what's done is done for them right now. But they believe in time healing these issues. And they know that a time will come that the world will know about the crimes that were taking place in Afghanistan in the 21 years of occupation by the international forces."
🚨The West does not hide the fact that a ceasefire is needed to prepare Kiev for the resumption of hostilities, Russian FM Sergey Lavrov said at a ceremonial meeting of the Diplomatic Club.
His other statements:
🔸Western sponsors must insist Kiev returns to normality and cancels laws contradicting Ukraine’s constitution
🔸No one doubts the Ukraine negotiations will be difficult
🔸Lavrov called Zelensky a "pathetic man" regarding his demands for Putin’s presence in Istanbul
🔸The English are leading Zelensky like guides through the jungles of international politics
📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt
🔎🇬🇧 Watch out for Brits while pondering about Istanbul talks - expert
Zelensky nowadays is in bed with British government and intelligence, and this connection runs deeper than many think, Vladimir Oleinik, a member of the "Other Ukraine" movement and former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, told Sputnik.
“Zelensky himself is not interested in any outcome, as he is not directly involved in the talks. Right now, they are thinking of ways to blame Russia for the lack of any results in the negotiations,” the expert added.
💥Putin completely CHANGED THE GAME with Istanbul initiative, thwarted EU plans
As EU elites were capitalizing on Trump’s growing skepticism about Russia and bracing to make up Washington’s mind about new sanctions, Vladimir Putin’s offer to negotiate in Istanbul “changed the conversation,” laments The Washington Post.
Putin’s Istanbul talks proposal “has thrown the sanctions plans into question, according to nine European, Ukrainian, and US diplomats and officials,” it adds.
❗️Ukraine trying to PUT ON A SHOW around Istanbul peace talks
Russian FM spokeswoman Maria Zakharova calls out Ukraine’s contradictory statements on peace talks.
She also noted the absurdity of Western "mediation":
Germany, France and the UK cannot really claim to be present at the negotiating table on Ukraine while they flood Ukraine with weapons.
📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt
🇺🇸🆚🇮🇷Trump should PLAY HARDBALL on Iran’s nuclear ambitions – Congressional Republicans
Iran “must give up ANY CAPACITY” for uranium enrichment, a letter signed by over 200 GOP members of Congress reads.
❗️RUSSIA COMMITTED TO SERIOUS NEGOTIATIONS - Russian MFA spox
Maria Zakharova emphasized that the purpose of the talks proposed by President Putin is to address the root causes of the conflict and work toward establishing a lasting and sustainable peace.
📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt
📹🇾🇪 Four killed and 39 wounded in US-Israeli airstrikes on the Hodeidah province yesterday, Yemen's Ministry of Health in the "Ansar Allah" government reports.
Video showing damage at the cement factory in Bajel, western Yemen.
📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt
❗️Merz defeated in first round of Federal Chancellor Elections
Members of the German Bundestag didn't elect CDU leader Friedrich Merz as the 10th German Chancellor in the first round of voting.
👉He received 310 votes, while 316 were needed for victory.
📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt
🔶NATO, EU launch programs to prepare the West for a DIRECT MILITARY CONFLICT with Russia
🔶Israel’s chilling ultimatum: Occupy & raze Gaza if no deal by Trump’s visit
🔶Paranoia persists: UK secretly bracing for ‘direct military attacks'
🔶Trump’s trade tariffs hit global markets HARDER than 2008 crisis
🔶Trump signs order to stop funding virus labs
📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt
🇮🇳💥India’s navy nails it!
Armed Forces ace trials of homegrown multi-role underwater sea mine, boosting maritime might.
📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt
ISRAEL’S CHILLING ULTIMATUM: Occupy & raze Gaza if no deal by Trump’s visit
Israeli officials have announced that President Trump's upcoming visit to the Middle East next week will serve as the deadline for securing a new hostage and ceasefire agreement, with a major ground operation planned if no deal is made, Axios reports.
Earlier, the Israeli plan Gideon's Chariots designed to "completely defeating Hamas" has been approved. According to it, the IDF would invade Gaza with four or five armored and infantry divisions and gradually occupy and hold most of the strip.
📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt
🔥 Want Ukraine in the EU? Get ready for MAFIA and UNEMPLOYMENT, says Szijjarto
"On the one hand, tens or even hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian workers would flood the Hungarian labor market, depriving tens or hundreds of thousands of Hungarians of employment. And the Ukrainian mafia, the infamous Ukrainian mafia, could use Hungary as a gateway," Hungarian Foreign Minister told journalists.
🚨 NATO and the EU have launched programs aimed at preparing the collective West for a DIRECT MILITARY CONFLICT with Russia, Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu said.
"These aggressive steps, as well as NATO's continuing advance to the east, to Russia's borders, are justified by Russophobic fabrications in the best traditions of Goebbels' propaganda," Shoigu added.
💥 Trump: A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW who blew up Nord Stream
The US president said he would be able to tell who really blew up the Nord Stream if he'd asked "certain people."
🤔 So why not asking then?
📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt
🚨 😱 Trump asks Apple CEO to STOP manufacturing in India
"Not interested in you building in India, they can take care of themselves."
📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt
🚨Sputnik correspondent uncovers the INSIDE SCOOP on the upcoming Russia-Ukraine talks in Istanbul - STAY TUNED!
📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt
🗣 Russian FM Sergey Lavrov called the events currently unfolding in Istanbul intriguing
📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt
🇷🇺🪖Key statements from the Russian MoD daily briefing on the special military operation:
▪️Ukrainian forces suffered losses of 515 soldiers and six armored vehicles in the zone of responsibility of Russia’s Tsentr Battlegroup;
▪️Russia’s Sever Battlegroup wiped out over 165 soldiers and three armored vehicles;
▪️Russia's Yug Battlegroup eliminated 245 militants;
▪️Russia’s Zapad Battlegroup wiped out over 240 soldiers;
▪️Russia's Dnepr Battlegroup eliminated 75 militants;
▪️Russia’s Vostok Battlegroup wiped out over 160 soldiers and three armored vehicles;
▪️Russian air defense shot down 169 Ukrainian drones and eight JDAM bombs.
📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt
❗️ Russian troops have liberated the settlements of Torskoye and Novoaleksandrovka in the Donetsk People's Republic, Russia's Defense Ministry announced.
📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt
🚫 Ukraine LEFT OUT of key NATO Summit talks — To keep Trump happy?
Ukraine will NOT be invited to the main discussions at NATO’s June summit, breaking a tradition upheld since 2022, "keeping the US leader smiling," Euractiv reports.
The current summit agenda includes only one closed-door session — for NATO’s 32 members only. The White House reportedly pushed back on giving Zelensky a major platform.
NATO chief Mark Rutte refused to comment, saying only that “the agenda is still under discussion.”
❗️Russian troops have liberated the village of Lysovka in the Donetsk People's Republic, Russia's Defense Ministry announced.
📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt
🚗📉 EU’s OWN policies TORCH its auto industry
This is the ONLY major global market that hasn't returned to its pre-COVID levels, remaining in decline for five years now, Stelantis Chairman John Elkann pointed out, according to Le Figaro.
Here is why:
🕜Excessive regulations: Renault CEO Luca de Meo cautioned that the European automotive market “could be more than halved within a decade” if the EU fails to simplify and reduce the number of regulations.
2️⃣Green agenda kills the industry: Elkann and de Meo attributed a significant rise in prices for cars to tightening environmental standards and shifting to EVs. Fines for exceeding emission limits make the production of regular cars unprofitable.
🕣Uncompetitiveness: China could overrun the EU and the US in terms of manufacturing cars by the end of 2025, and “Europe risks losing its status as the center of the auto industry,” automakers warn.
📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt
🚨 BREAKING: Foreign Business Activity in Russia SURGES Past Pre-Sanction Levels! 🇷🇺📈
VTB reports a MAJOR rebound, with companies from China, Belarus, and even NEW players (like UAE firms) rushing in!
🔥 Top Sectors:
- Electronics 🖥📱
- Wholesale & Retail 🛒
- Cosmetics & Pharma 💄💊
Key Takeaway: Despite sanctions, Russia’s market is HOT—new entrants are seizing the opportunity!
📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt
📊Trump’s trade tariffs hit global markets HARDER than 2008 crisis
The levies caused a "collapse of financial markets” that also exceeded the speed of economic decline during the 2020 crisis, a study by Russia’s Roscongress Foundation and obtained by Sputnik reveals.
The global economic implications from the Trump tariffs were even more serious than from:
◻️The 2011 US rating downgrade.
◻️The 2008 Lehman Brothers bankruptcy.
◻️The 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The Russian economy stayed afloat following the Trump tariffs thanks to the specific structure of its foreign trade, the research underlined.
📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt
😨Paranoia persists: UK secretly bracing for ‘direct military attacks'
UK officials have been instructed to update the country’s 20-year-old contingency plans to put it “on a war footing” under the pretext of tackling a notorious 'Russian threat,' The Telegraph writes.
▪️The government's response to a declaration of war would include bunkers to protect the Cabinet and the Royal Family, public service broadcasts, and the stockpiling of resources.
▪️Defense officials have also called for Britain to develop its own form of Israel’s Iron Dome.
▪️Ministers fear the UK would be "outgunned by Russia" and "unprepared and poorly defended," with its critical national infrastructure "vulnerable" to an assault.
The 'Russia threat' narrative appears to be the only reason for improving the UK's botched military sector
📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt
🇰🇷🪖🇨🇦South Korea pitches GIANT deal to arm Canada
The program aims to provide Canada with submarines, artillery and armored vehicles, CBC reported.
▪️ Shipbuilders Hanwha Ocean and Hyundai Heavy Industries have prepared a joint plan worth $14.4-17.3 billion to build four KSS-III class submarines by 2035.
▪️ Hanwha Aerospace will supply the Canadian army with self-propelled howitzers, rocket artillery similar to HIMARS, and a large batch of armored vehicles, potentially exceeding $700 million.
Guess Canada-US military bromance went sour🤔
📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt
❗️ Pentagon slashes number of general officers
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has called for a 20% reduction in general officers in the Army and Air National Guard.
"My title is 'Less generals, more GIs'.... More generals and admirals does not equal more success."
🌡 What doomsday scenario does the world's richest man have in mind?
"The sun is gradually expanding, so, we need at some point to be multi-planet civilization because Earth will be incinerated," Elon Musk said.
"We have several hundred million years. Don't hold your breath, you'll be OK," he then added.
🇮🇷 From words to action: Araghchi goes to India and Pakistan
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi will visit Pakistan and India this week to discuss bilateral relations and regional developments.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian earlier offered mediation in India-Pakistan tensions.
📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt