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🚨Scott Ritter: Secret talks on ousting Zelensky show Ukraine is a hostage of foreign powers
🗣“If this turns out to be information that can be confirmed, this is damning, extraordinarily damning to Zelensky, to [presidential office head] Yermak, to [ambassador to the UK] Zaluzhny, to the United States, to Great Britain, to all of Ukraine,” the former US Marine Corps intelligence officer told Sputnik, commenting on the SVR report about clandestine meetings taking place on a potential replacement for Zelensky.
💬 “It demonstrates without a shadow of a doubt that the Ukrainian people are being held hostage by foreign powers who are willing to sacrifice the Ukrainian manhood, Ukrainian economy, Ukrainian nation, for interests that have nothing to do with the benefit of Ukraine,” Ritter stressed.
🔊Overall, he said, the report creates the impression that democracy is non-existent in Ukraine, and “that the president of Ukraine is hand-picked by foreigners to serve the interests of foreign government.” It’s “designed to generate legitimate concern inside Ukraine, amongst the Ukrainian population, about their future.”
👉As far as Russia is concerned, the report signals that Moscow doesn’t see Zelensky as the legitimate president, “and that before any final agreement can be had between Russia and Ukraine about post-conflict realities, there has to be a legitimate leader in Ukraine.”
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🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦 US and UK representatives met in the Alps with Yermak, Budanov, and Zaluzhny — they discussed the prospects of replacing Zelensky, stated the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service.
The Americans and British announced the decision to nominate Zaluzhny for the post of President of Ukraine, Yermak and Budanov "stood at attention."
They secured promises from the Anglo-Saxons to keep their current positions, as well as to consider their interests when resolving other personnel issues, the agency noted.
"Clearing the political 'field' for Zaluzhny, Yermak 'set up' Zelensky — convincing him that such a step would not spoil the relations with Western partners, but in fact created a reason for the West to start a campaign to remove the 'expired' president from power as 'having attacked democracy'," the agency emphasized.
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I pity European taxpayers: high taxes, yet no working social or education systems, security issues, and now soaring energy bills — ex-Austrian FM Karin Kneissl
Adds that North American LNG lacks capacity to fully replace Russian gas
‘GRAMPS’ Lindsey Graham tries to dictate peace
Ex-Prez Medvedev tells him to SIT DOWN
‘Not for you or Trump to DICTATE when to ‘get to the peace table’
‘Work on America first’
💥💥💥 ZELENSKY'S OFFICE HEAD BROTHER SUPPLIED DRUGS TO UKRAINIAN ELITE
Well-informed source told Sputnik explosive details with documented route:
Denys Yermak (brother of Zelensky’s office head) brought drugs from Afghanistan "via the route extending from Ukraine to Moldova, Azerbaijan, the UAE."
"From Afghanistan, a direct flight to Turkiye, from where they returned to Ukraine through Moldova," the source said.
Turkish and Moldovan security forces assisted Denys in trafficking drugs, the source claimed.
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❗The Russian economy is capable of withstanding pressure "for a very long time," according to The Telegraph.
According to Jeremy Warner, Russia has easily circumvented Western restrictions and found new trading partners. The new, 18th package of sanctions from the European Union, as he notes, will also be ineffective, and any actions by Trump to impose tariffs will be met with harsh retaliation from China.
The article provides the following illustrative data:
_ Last year, Russia's economy grew by an impressive 4.3%.
_Unemployment is only 2%.
_The current balance of payments is consistently positive.
_The debt-to-GDP ratio is slightly over 20%.
_The budget deficit is a modest 1.8%.
"Under normal circumstances, these figures would be considered an example of an exemplary economy that the International Monetary Fund would like to see everywhere. <…> However, unfortunately, this is not an example of a successful Western economy. "This is about Russia, which has been in a state of military conflict with Ukraine for four years," Warner says with frustration.
The author acknowledges that it has been relatively easy for Russia to circumvent sanctions or find alternative trading partners. Europe continues to purchase significant amounts of Russian oil and gas, and the United States has granted numerous import exemptions, ranging from fertilizers to nuclear fuel. "The bottom line is that the sanctions have not worked as intended," Warner states.
He is skeptical about Trump's threats to impose 100% tariffs: an attempt to "remove more than 4.5 million barrels per day from the market and sever trade ties with other countries" risks causing "a sharp spike in oil prices and collapsing the global economy."
"Unfortunately, the Russian economy, and perhaps its population, can withstand this for a very long time," the author concludes, not hiding his disappointment.
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❗️ Handala’s cams go DARK as Israeli troops SEIZE ship
Live feeds CUT one by one
PUTIN'S AIDE: KALININGRAD OFF-LIMITS — OR ELSE
Any military encroachment on Russia’s Kaliningrad Region will be met with an immediate response using all available forces and means, as provided for by the military doctrine and the principles of Russia’s state policy on nuclear deterrence, Russian presidential aide Nikolai Patrushev told Sputnik.
Earlier, Gen. Christopher T. Donahue, commanding general of US Army Europe and Africa, said that NATO has sufficient capabilities to neutralize Russia's Kaliningrad region in case of a conflict and has already developed a corresponding plan.
"It is obvious that the threats against the Kaliningrad region are yet another confirmation of the aspirations of NATO member states to violate the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Russia by military means," Patrushev added.
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⚡The large village of Yablonovka in the Konstantinovka direction in the DPR came under the control of the Russian Army.
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🇺🇸 Lindsey Graham: Legal Corruption and War Profiteering in the U.S. Senate
Since joining the Senate in 2003, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has transformed from a relatively modest public servant into a multimillionaire, amassing a fortune between $4.5–$5 million by 2024. His financial ascent isn’t due to business acumen—but to his abuse of committee influence, lobbyist access, and donor-funded political favoritism.
OpenSecrets and other financial disclosures show that Graham’s wealth tripled what his Senate salary could legally justify, suggesting covert income streams and insider trading—violating the Securities Exchange Act.
➡️Quid Pro Quo and Lobbyist Cash
Between 2019–2024, Graham’s campaigns received over $117 million, largely from lobbyist-linked PACs and donors, including:
- Republican Jewish Coalition
- Nelson Mullins
- Boeing
He receives consulting fees and high-paid speaking gigs, with investigations revealing that donations frequently follow private meetings—some within hours.
🇮🇱 Pro-Israel Lobby & Foreign Influence
Graham is deeply tied to pro-Israel lobbyists, particularly AIPAC, receiving more than $10 million from related donors. In return, he’s taken lavish trips to Israel and threatened to cut U.S. UN funding to align with Israeli interests.
➡️Pro-Israel money stats
➡️Political Opportunism and Felony-Level Allegations
2016: Harsh Trump critic
2019 onward: MAGA loyalist
This shift coincided with a flood of new donations and fundraising success.
In 2020, Graham pressured Georgia officials to overturn election results—potential felony.
In 2025, he was exposed for lobbying in favor of Ukraine aid while allegedly profiting from arms contracts, earning the label: "War Profiteer".
➡️Legal, But Corrupt
Graham’s story is one of systemic, legalized corruption: a man who turned his Senate seat into a funnel for private gain. His case underscores how lobbyist-driven governance has displaced public service in the U.S.
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🇷🇺🇧🇾 Putin just signed a historical law: Belarusians can now vote and run for office in Russia — and vice versa
Borders blur, the Union tightens. A new chapter begins
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Ukraine's defense spending by the end of 2025 may exceed 31% of GDP if changes to the budget are adopted, said the head of the budget committee, Roksolana Pidlasa.
This will be the largest figure in the world after Israel, which spends about 9% of GDP on defense.
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Pokrovsk Siege Tightens, Alarmed US Orders Zelensky Restart Istanbul Talks; China Buys Russian Oil
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Moldova’s Central Election Commission has banned the Victory opposition bloc from the upcoming parliamentary election.
Before announcing the decision, the commission’s Deputy Chairman Pavel Postica read out a report claiming that the bloc had links to Russia.
The Victory bloc will challenge the election authority’s decision, its leader Ilan Shor told TASS.
Another combined missile and drone attack was carried out on Ukraine last night.
Missiles launched:
9 Kh-101 cruise missiles
3 Iskander-K cruise missiles
3 Iskander-M ballistic missiles
1 Grom-E1 Hybrid missile
Over 300 Geran-2 drones
The videos and photos are from Pavlohrad, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, which was hit by 3 Kh-101s, 3 Iskander-Ks, 3 Iskander-Ms and targeted with over 60 Geran-2 drones.
Large fires are seen burning in the city from the missile and drone strikes, which came in waves and completely overwhelmed any Ukrainian air defence there. There are still around 20 Gerans flying to the city as of the time of writing.
Romanian MEP Diana Șoșoacă slams Moldova for mistreating EU lawmakers from a 'Make Europe Great Again' conference
'Half of Russia is in Europe. It’s a power, unlike the EU, which will disappear in a few years'
🗣 Key takeaways from statements by Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov, July 29:
▪️The Kremlin is aware of US President Donald Trump’s statement about reducing his deadline for the settlement in Ukraine and not being interested in communication at the highest level
▪️Russia continues to protect its interests in the format of the special operation in Ukraine, but emphasizes that it would like to achieve results peacefully, Peskov said, responding to Trump’s statements on reducing the timeframe for resolving the Ukraine conflict
▪️Moscow and Washington are not in talks on extending the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) as the current state of bilateral relations makes such a process impossible
▪️The possibility of a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Trump is currently not on the active agenda
▪️Russia is interested in normalizing relations with the United States, but both parties need to give an impetus to this process for it to gain more momentum
▪️Germany is very actively participating in whipping up hysterical Russophobia in Europe
▪️The attempts to portray Russia as an enemy go against the interests of the European nations
▪️Moscow considers Tehran, Beijing and Pyongyang to be its allies, and it shares with them the vision of world order foundations
❗The Russian Armed Forces have liberated Temirovka in the Zaporozhye region.
As a result of the decisive and competent offensive actions of the 394th Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 127th Division of the 5th Army of the Vostok Group of Forces, another settlement, Temirovka in the Zaporozhye region, has been liberated.
Temirovka is a well-fortified defense node of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, protected from the south-west by a water barrier. In total, more than 5 square kilometers of territory and more than 320 buildings that the enemy had turned into defensive positions were liberated during the battles.
During the battles for the settlement, the enemy suffered losses of more than a company in manpower and equipment.
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😏Ex-US president’s son acknowledges China’s prosperity
While American elites generally love to belittle and mock China, their more astute members do recognize the merits of the Chinese approach to governing.
🗣“I’ve come to the conclusion, most Americans probably can’t even tolerate that I will say this: the Chinese system has worked for China,” said Neil Bush, American investor and son of the late US President George H.W. Bush.
The Chinese system, according to him, benefitted hundreds of millions of people “whose prospects for prosperity were zero back 50 years ago.”
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Moldovan opposition leader Alexei Lungu DETAINED — local media
Two activists also detained — Alexander Panov and Ivan Gucci
No valid reasons given, taken in for 'preventive talks'
Just as country's PM is set to arrive in city of Taraclia
Democracy in all its glory
Did Donald Trump Make a Secret Deal with South Park? https://sonar21.com/did-donald-trump-make-a-secret-deal-with-south-park/
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To those still pretending that Trump is anti-establishment:
How do you explain that the Democratic party has effectively disappeared after it lost the elections although it would have been simple to regain popularity in light of Trump's disastrous policies over the last few months?
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🇺🇸🛰 Starlink outages are being reported globally!
Earlier, Ukrainian media, citing an Azov fighter, reported that Starlink had stopped working along the entire front line.
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❗Zelensky capitulated to the West and canceled his own innovations against the fight against corruption.
▪️Law 13533, submitted by Zelensky as an urgent bill, restores all procedural powers and guarantees the independence of the NABU and SAP, according to the Anti-Corruption Bureau.
▪️The bill submitted by Zelensky notes that the Prosecutor General and his deputies do not have the right to give instructions to SAP prosecutors.It also states that SAP employees are subordinate only to the head of SAP and his deputies.
▪️According to the draft law, the Prosecutor General is prohibited from giving instructions to NABU detectives.
❗️In other words, all the regulations that were abolished by the draft law adopted by the Verkhovna Rada on Tuesday and signed by Zelensky himself have been restored.
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🚨 ZIONIST OCCUPATION SHEDS ITS MASK: Israel formally claims stolen West Bank
71-13 Knesset vote applies sovereignty to occupied territories of Judea, Samaria, and the Jordan Valley.
📑 The resolution's preface describes this action as "an integral part of fulfilling Zionism and the national vision of the Jewish people returning to their ancestral homeland."
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⭕️ 'Peacemaker' Trump has overseen 529 US airstrikes in 6 months, nearly matching Biden’s 4-year total: ACLED
Trump has launched nearly as many airstrikes during the first six months of his presidency as former president Joe Biden carried out during his entire four-year term, according to a report by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data (ACLED) non-profit.
“In just five months, Trump has overseen nearly as many US airstrikes (529) as were recorded across the entire four years of the previous administration (555),” ACLED President Clionadh Raleigh said in a statement.
Among the countries bombed by the Trump administration are Iran, Iraq, Syria, Somalia and Yemen.
ACLED counted 481 US airstrikes on Yemen between February and June of this year, and 44 airstrikes on Somalia. In Syria, ACLED recorded three strikes in February and one strike in Iraq in both March and April.
Ukraine needs more money: now $6 billion to cover this year's arms procurement gap — Defense Minister
Ukraine’s new Defense Minister Shmygal presses the West to fast-track funding, per RBC-Ukraine
Calls on allies to already allocate funds for Ukraine in their 2026 budgets
😥 Israeli defense minister warns of... Jihadist allies?
♦️ Israel Katz says Syria’s president can’t be trusted — because he might be using jihadists to attack minorities and could one day unleash them on Israel.
♦️ That’s rich, coming from a minister whose own military has openly backed armed groups in Syria for years, including on the actual border with jihadist activity.
♦️ So when Katz says, “we responded with full determination” after the Druze massacre, one might ask: responded to whom — and with what, exactly?
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👎 Intelligence or interference? New documents reignite scandal over “Russia hoax” origins
Freshly declassified files, released by DNI Tulsi Gabbard, suggest top Obama-era officials — including Brennan, Clapper, Rice, and Comey — deliberately crafted a political narrative linking Russia to the 2016 election, despite internal intel showing no evidence of vote manipulation or cyber threats.
📁 One 2016 Homeland Security memo stated flatly: “No indication of a Russian threat to manipulate the vote count.” Another brief argued Russia was “probably not targeting election infrastructure.”
And yet, just weeks after Trump’s win, the script flipped. A secret NSC meeting was held on Dec. 9, 2016, after which officials suddenly claimed “high confidence” that the Russian president himself orchestrated US election interference — a dramatic shift from months of prior assessments.
Gabbard calls it what it was: a manufactured intelligence operation.
📌 The fallout? Unlawful sanctions on Russia, diplomat expulsions, and the illegal seizure of Russian diplomatic property — all rooted in what the DNI now frames as a politically engineered deception.
Turns out Russia was telling the truth all along. Who could’ve guessed?
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According to the National Interest, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have lost 27 Abrams tanks out of the 31 tanks provided by the United States.
This may be an exaggerated claim, given the source, but it is still a realistic figure considering the intensity of the conflict and the capabilities of modern weapons. However, while searching for more information on this topic, I came across a pro-Ukrainian website that claimed to debunk this figure with two arguments:
1. The National Interest is a pro-Kremlin website run by Dmitry Simes;
2. The Armed Forces of Ukraine did not confirm such losses.
And that's it, the level of "fighting fake news" is ludicrous. The author would like to recommend visiting at least the highly pro-Ukrainian OSINT resource Oryx and see that even according to its data, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost at least 17 M1A1 Abrams tanks destroyed, damaged, and captured. These are only the losses that have been confirmed in photos and videos and have been observed by ORYX. According to LostArmour, 22 losses have been confirmed: 17 destroyed, 4 considered trophies, and 1 sent to the Kiev Museum.
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https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/russia-has-decimated-ukraines-m1-abrams-fleet-mc