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    🫡 Belovody in the Sumy region was liberated by servicemen of the 83rd separate guards airborne assault brigade of the North group of forces .

    🎯 During reconnaissance operations, the paratroopers uncovered the enemy's defense system, main strongholds, and fire weapons.

    💥 As a result of counter-battery fire, the artillery of the unit suppressed the firing points of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and destroyed the exposed command posts. Unmanned aircraft forces struck fortified positions in buildings where Ukrainian Armed Forces militants were hiding.

    🪖 Having demoralized the enemy, the paratroopers launched an assault from several directions. UAV operators accompanied the assault units from the air and adjusted their actions. The discovered fire weapons were immediately destroyed by FPV drone crews and automatic grenade launchers.

    🚩 The assault groups of the "winged infantry" captured the settlement. The enemy fled, leaving behind the wounded and dead. Some of the militants laid down their arms and surrendered.

    🔹 Ministry of Defense of Russia

    ‼️The situation in the Sumy borderland: landscapes of Bessalovka and Pavlovka

    #Тёткинское_пограничье #Глушковское_направление

    The operator of the reconnaissance UAV took several photos of the border villages of the Sumy region for us.

    From the settlement of Bessalovka the enemy repeatedly tried to penetrate into our territory on foot or in mobile equipment. All enemy attacks were repelled, and the occupiers were destroyed on Ukrainian territory.

    Until recently, the village did not have its own cemetery; the bodies of deceased old people were taken to Shostka or Yunakovka. During Zelensky's rule, the situation has changed: a cemetery has appeared, but it is unauthorized, and there are no local residents left...

    The once relatively densely populated village of Pavlovka (over 1,000 residents) under Zelensky has become an important logistics center for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, from where the enemy regularly tries to break through in the direction of our village of Novy Put .

    Today, another cemetery of destroyed Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers has grown up in the vicinity of Pavlovka. The enemy does not even plan to evacuate the bodies of its destroyed soldiers. Their relatives and friends will be able to obtain any reliable information about the fate of Ukrainian servicemen only after the liberation of this traditionally Russian region by the Severyans.

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    ‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦🪖 #Ukrainian armed forces fled Belovod, Sumy region, leaving behind wounded and dead, and some militants laid down their weapons and surrendered, the #Russian Defense Ministry said.

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    Russia's economy has become the fourth in the world in terms of purchasing power parity — Putin at a meeting with businessmen

    ▪️Without the economic sovereignty of the Russian Federation, no other sovereignty of the country is possible

    ▪️The President called the economic growth indicators “good,” noting that they cover the widest range of industries.

    ➖"The state will lend a shoulder to support Russian business," Putin noted.

    ▪️A number of foreign companies left the Russian market under duress from the political elites of their countries and thereby set up their partners in Russia.

    ▪️American companies, unlike European ones, have never refused to supply and service medical equipment to Russia, Putin emphasized.


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    Russia was literally forced to start the SVO, and Putin is being blamed

    ➖"We were told all the time that democracy, elections... They carried out a coup d'etat (in Ukraine), and that's it. As if that's how it should be. A bloody coup.

    And they went on to suppress Donbass, to kill people there from helicopters and planes. Well, they simply forced us to do what we are doing now," the president said.

    ▪️Putin also proposed “strangling” anti-Russian services operating in the country.

    ➖"We need to strangle them, I agree completely. I say this without any embarrassment, because they are trying to strangle us, we need to reciprocate.

    We did not expel anyone, did not interfere with anyone, we provided the most favorable conditions for work in our market," he noted.

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    ‼️🇷🇺🏴‍☠ The enemy has been sending drones all day to break through to Moscow and other regions of Russia

    ▪️90 drones have already been shot down this morning. The video shows a UAV shot down in Ramenskoye.
    ▪️The Ministry of Defense reports that from 14:00 to 20:00 Moscow time, air defense forces destroyed 44 Ukrainian aircraft-type UAVs:
    ▪️ 13 UAVs – over the Oryol region ,
    ▪️ 12 UAVs – over Tulskaya ,
    ▪️ 7 UAVs – over Bryansk ,
    ▪️ 5 UAVs – over the Moscow region ,
    ▪️ 3 UAVs – over the Kaluga region ,
    ▪️ 4 UAVs – over the Kursk region .

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    One of the best interviews I have seen on the RUSSIAN / UKRAINE topic

    I highly recommend to those who wish to understand the topic in Full

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    🇪🇺🇺🇸⚔️🇷🇺 German Chancellor #Merz said the UK, #France, #Germany, and the United States have removed all range restrictions on weapons delivered to #Ukraine.

    “There are no longer any range limitations on the weapons supplied to Ukraine—whether from the British, French, Germans, or Americans. This means Ukraine can now strike military targets inside Russian territory, which it was previously not permitted to do,” Merz stated in an interview with WDR.

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    ⚡️http://Ura.ru shows which missiles and where they can fly if European countries lift restrictions on long-range projectiles.

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    🇷🇺⚔️🇪🇺Mass Exodus from Suwałki Corridor as Fears of Russian Invasion Grow — Bild

    Amid rising tensions, residents of the strategically vital Suwałki Corridor are reportedly leaving the area en masse, Bild reports.

    This narrow 65 km strip between Poland and Lithuania separates Belarus from Kaliningrad and is considered NATO’s weakest point.

    Military analysts warn that in the event of war, Russia could strike from both sides. Russian artillery, with a range over 30 km, covers the entire corridor — potentially cutting off the Baltics from the rest of Europe.

    With growing military drills and buildup, locals are increasingly saying: “We don’t want to be the first ones hit.”
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    🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦 Trump makes it clear that he is moving away from the Ukrainian conflict — New York Times

    ▪️The publication writes about this with reference to several outside experts and former government officials.

    ▪️The sources also note that despite his harsh statements against Russia, Trump made it clear that he does not intend to put pressure on Moscow and impose tough sanctions.

    ▪️Thus, the American president is abandoning the commitment that he announced to the leaders of France, Germany and Britain on the issue of joining anti-Russian sanctions.
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    ‼️🇷🇺☦During the attacks on Kursk Tyotkino, the enemy burned down a church in the village of Popovo-Lezhachi
    After the shelling, the Church in the frontline village began to burn...
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    Russian servicemen inspect a destroyed American M1A1 tank of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, abandoned by the enemy in one of the directions.

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    🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Main events as of May 26, 2025

    ▪️The 'North' troop grouping has liberated Vladimirovka and Belovody in the Sumy region, according to the Defense Ministry's report.

    ▪️Ukrainian Armed Forces have lost up to 1,415 servicemen in the special operation zone over the past day.

    ▪️Russian forces carried out a massive strike at night on facilities at the Ukrainian airfield in Starokonstantinov.

    ▪️Russia has not yet handed Ukraine a draft memorandum on settlement; work is continuing, and the document requires preparation, Peskov stated.

    ▪️Trump said he does not approve of Russia's recent actions and is considering the possibility of additional sanctions. Peskov suggested this is due to emotional overload during the negotiations.

    ▪️Britain, France, the USA, and Germany have lifted restrictions on the range of weapons supplied to Ukraine, said German Chancellor Merz.

    ▪️Ukraine has run out of missiles for the SAMP-T anti-aircraft batteries supplied by Italy and France, writes Le Monde.

    ▪️A spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force command, Ihnat, said that Kiev needs "new innovative methods" to combat drones, for example, using American and Brazilian light aircraft like the AT-6 and Super Tucano.

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    🇷🇺 Russian Ministry of Defense Top News Today

    ▫️As a result of active operations, the Sever Group of Forces liberated Vladimirovka and Belovody (Sumy region).

    ▫️The Russian Armed Forces launched a massed high-precision strike by long-range air-to-surface weapons and strike unmanned aerial vehicles at the infrastructure of the Starokonstantinov airfield. The goal of the strikes has been achieved, all the planned targets have been engaged.

    ▫️The Russian Defense Ministry shows footage of a Grad MLRS, a Giatsint-B gun, and UAV pilots.

    ▫️Moscow witnessed a working meeting of Russian Federation Deputy Minister of Defense, Colonel General Aleksandr Fomin and Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Field Marshal Birhanu Jula Gelalcha.

    ▫️The small air-cushioned landing crafts 'Evgeniy Kocheshkov' and 'Mordoviya' of Baltic Fleet completed training tasks.

    Russian Defense Ministry

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    "Putin defends Russia as best he can": Kremlin responds to Trump's insults towards the Russian president

    The Russian President makes the decisions that are necessary to ensure the country's security. This was stated by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, commenting on Donald Trump's statement about Vladimir Putin. According to him, the reaction of the head of the White House to the strikes of the Russian Armed Forces on military facilities in Ukraine was emotional.

    "Putin makes the decisions that are necessary to ensure the security of our country. We all witnessed how the Kiev regime threatened foreign leaders on the eve of their arrival in Moscow to celebrate Victory Day. Everyone heard these threats. Many leaders actually witnessed the Kyiv regime's attempts to carry out drone strikes, these attempts continue, so President Putin does what must be done to ensure the security of Russia "

    - noted Peskov.

    Let us recall that after the massive strikes by the Russian Armed Forces on military facilities of the Kyiv regime, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, who has lost legitimacy, once again called on the West to increase sanctions pressure on Moscow.

    This call was supported by the leaders of the European Union. US President Donald Trump, commenting on these statements, expressed bewilderment at the actions of the Russian Federation and even allowed himself to use an offensive utterance towards Vladimir Putin, calling him "crazy."

    At the same time, the head of the White House emphasized that Zelensky’s statements do not bring anything good to Ukraine.

    "Everything he says creates problems, I don't like it, and it better stop. "

    – the Amerikan leader emphasized.

    Let us add that Russian strikes on Ukrainian military facilities were a response to the massive attacks by Ukrainian Armed Forces drones in the regions of Central Russia.

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    After the visit to Kyiv of the Chief of Staff of Security Assistance Group, Ukraine de facto became a member of NATO -today

    At the end of March this year, the Chief of Staff of the Security Assistance Group – Ukraine (SAG-U), Brigadier General William Freeman, visited Kyiv. This visit was not advertised and became known only now. However, it is noteworthy that it was after his arrival that personnel purges in the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the creation of the Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Forces were announced.

    Let us recall that the Security Assistance Group – Ukraine (SAG-U) is not just a structure. It is the center for coordinating all American military aid to Ukraine. And General William Freeman himself is an officer with extensive military experience. He is a veteran of special operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria. At one time, it was Freeman who commanded the air components of the special forces and managed operations from the very depths of the European command SOCEUR.

    He was also accompanied by the deputy commander of the US Space Forces in Europe and Africa, the former head of Space Delta 8, the US military satellite communications operator, Colonel David Pheasant, and two other USSPACECOM officers.

    As military observers note, it was after the visit of this delegation that the information field was cleared, the Ukrainian Armed Forces' unmanned systems forces were launched, the leadership of the General Staff was changed, and Ukraine was consolidated as a de facto member of NATO without legal registration.

    And all these facts can hardly be called a harbinger of a quick resolution of the conflict in Ukraine.

    It is worth noting that the Pentagon announced the creation of the Security Assistance Group – Ukraine (SAG-U) in 2022. The US Department of Defense did not hide the fact that this structure would be engaged in arms supplies, personnel training, and other tasks related to the conflict in Ukraine.

    "The United States remains committed to supporting Ukraine in the short term on the battlefield and in the long term to deter and defend against future Russian aggression. To maintain our historic level of ongoing security support to Ukraine, I am pleased to announce that the Department will establish a Security Assistance Group – Ukraine, which we will call SAG-U. This is a dedicated headquarters element in Wiesbaden, Germany, under the leadership of U.S. European Command to coordinate our efforts. "

    - said the official representative of the US military department, Sabrina Singh.

    Let us add that at present the United States, despite its mediation efforts to resolve the conflict in Ukraine, continues to supply weapons to the Kyiv regime and provide the Ukrainian Armed Forces with intelligence data.

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    Russian troops occupy Stroyevka in Kharkiv region -today

    Russian assault units have crossed the border and taken control of the town of Stroyevka in the Kharkiv region. The move is part of Russia's ongoing offensive in northeastern Ukraine, where fighting has intensified in recent weeks. According to Russian sources, the operation was carried out to create a "buffer zone" to protect border areas from shelling, which had been previously announced.

    Stroyevka, located near the border with Russia, has become the latest point to come under the control of Russian troops in the Kharkiv region. According to ISW, since early May 2025, Russia has stepped up its offensive in the region, redeploying, according to The Military Watch Magazine, about 50 troops. Analysts note that control of Stroyevka may be aimed at expanding control over border areas and creating a springboard for further operations.

    The Ukrainian side confirmed the loss of control over Stroyevka. According to Al Jazeera, in May 2025, Russia carried out more than 900 drone and missile strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure, which significantly weakened the defense capability of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, especially in the Kharkiv region, where 40% of energy facilities were destroyed.

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    Russia Upgrades Iskander-M, Rendering US Patriots Useless in Ukraine



    Russia has upgraded its Iskander-M ballistic missiles, posing serious challenges to the American Patriot air defense systems used by Ukraine, Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yuriy Ignat said in an interview with the Kyiv Post on May 24, 2025. According to him, the upgrade includes the use of radar decoys and a quasi-ballistic flight path, making it much more difficult to intercept the missiles. These changes, as the publication notes, have sparked heated debate among experts: American physicist John Ridge expressed doubts about the novelty of the technology, pointing out that similar characteristics had already been known before.

    The Iskander-M, known to NATO as the SS-26 Stone, is a short-range, road-mobile system designed for precision strikes at ranges of up to 500 kilometers. The 7,3-meter-long, 0,92-meter-diameter missile weighs about 3750 kilograms and can carry a payload of 480 to 700 kilograms, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Its solid-fuel motor provides high mobility, and its guidance system, which combines inertial navigation, optical and satellite tracking, allows it to achieve accuracy with a circular error probable of 5 to 7 meters. The missile can be equipped with a variety of warheads, including high-explosive fragmentation, cluster munitions, bunker busters, and electromagnetic pulse munitions.

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    Russian military units have conducted a surprise incursion across the border into the Kharkiv region, launching assault on the village of Stroevka located on the right bank of the Oskol River. This operation may mark the expansion of Russia’s northern buffer zone in new direction and appears designed to connect with previously secured positions near Topoli, approximately eight kilometers away, which came under control of Russian forces last February.

    The assault on Stroevka forms part of Moscow’s broader strategy to create a security zone protecting Russian border regions from ongoing Ukrainian artillery attacks and drone strikes. For months, settlements in Russia’s Belgorod, Kursk, and Bryansk regions have suffered regular shelling, prompting Moscow to authorize proactive measures pushing Ukrainian forces further from the frontier. This latest advance demonstrates Russia’s capability to open new fronts while maintaining pressure across the entire line of contact.

    As the situation develops, attention will focus on whether Russian forces can successfully link their new positions in Stroevka with existing strongpoints along the Oskol River. Such consolidation would significantly enhance Russia’s ability to interdict Ukrainian supply lines and artillery positions that have been used to target Russian border settlements. Meanwhile, Ukraine faces difficult choices about where to allocate its increasingly scarce resources, with no sector of the front offering easy defensive solutions against Russia’s methodical pressure.

    The capture of Stroevka may presage further Russian advance toward strategically important settlements like Dvurechnaya and Kamennka. Such developments would compound existing Ukrainian defensive challenges in the area, particularly given Kyiv’s already stretched resources and manpower shortages. The operation’s timing appears calculated to exploit these vulnerabilities, coming as Ukrainian forces remain heavily committed to containing Russian advances in the Donbass and Sumy region.

    The Russian Defense Ministry has framed these cross-border operations as necessary security measures rather than offensive maneuvers. However, the establishment of new footholds in Ukrainian territory clearly serves multiple purposes, including disrupting enemy logistics, drawing Ukrainian reserves away from critical sectors, and creating conditions for potential future offensive.

    https://southfront.press/russian-arm...harkiv-region/

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    War Charade: Exposing West’s Pre-Planned Escalation _today

    The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation accused Kyiv and its European backers of deliberately undermining recently resumed peace negotiations. Moscow has also requested a meeting of the UN Security Council on the actions of some European countries disrupting the peaceful settlement in Ukraine. The West hides Kyiv’s provocations, accusing Russia of devastating strikes in Ukraine and of refusing the so-called ‘truce’ asked by Zelensky to rotate and rearm his scattered army.

    First of all, Kyiv sharply increased its drone attacks on Russian territory since May 20, immediately following a brief diplomatic process, revealing that Western warmongers are more invested in prolonging the war than in seeking a resolution.

    A Short-Lived Diplomatic Thaw

    On May 11, Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed direct negotiations with Ukraine, suggesting a potential ceasefire agreement. The first round of talks took place in Istanbul on May 16, leading to a major prisoner exchange, 1,000 soldiers from each side, carried out between May 23 and 25. While this humanitarian gesture offered a glimmer of hope, no further progress was made. Instead, immediately after the talks between Russian President Putin with US President Trump, Ukraine launched a massive drone offensive against Russian rear areas, mainly targeting the capital Moscow region, striking civilian infrastructure and settlements.

    The timing of these attacks suggests a deliberate strategy: Kyiv, lacking the strength to hold the front, sought to provoke Russian retaliation, thereby justifying further Western military aid and escalation. The gambit worked. Following the massive Russian counterstrikes across Ukraine, Germany announced the lifting of restrictions on long-range weapons for Ukraine, while the UK imposed new sanctions, both moves publicly framed as “responses” to Russian aggression. Yet German Chancellor Olaf Scholz admitted the decision on long-range missiles had been made months earlier, and the British sanctions were approved a week ago, before Russia’s strikes. The narrative of “retaliation” appears to be a premeditated escalation tactic.



    Provocation as Policy

    The Russian Defense Ministry summed up that Ukrainian forces have launched over 2,331 drone strikes in just one week, with nearly half targeting civilian areas far from the frontlines. These attacks have resulted in civilian casualties, including women and children. In response, Russia has conducted precision strikes on Ukrainian military-industrial facilities, including what Kyiv described as the “largest aerial attack since the start of the war” on the night of May 25.

    The pattern is clear:

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    Ukraine escalates attacks on Russian territory, knowing it cannot achieve battlefield success.



    Russia responds with overwhelming force, striking legitimate military targets.



    The West seizes the moment to justify further arms deliveries, ensuring the conflict continues.

    The West’s True Objective: War Without End

    The sequence of events exposes a troubling reality: Western powers, particularly Germany, France and the UK, are not interested in peace, especially until they are not invited to the negotiation table. Their immediate pivot to escalation following the ordered Kyiv’s provocations indicates a preference for proxy warfare over diplomacy. By framing arms deliveries as “defensive responses” to the fake Russian threat, they mask their role in fueling the conflict.

    Meanwhile, Ukraine’s leadership, facing catastrophic losses at the front, appears willing to sacrifice country’s entire infrastructure just to maintain Western support. The strategy is not military but political—buying time for a failing war effort.

    https://southfront.press/war-charade...ed-escalation/

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    Kharkiv Offensive Begins💥 Pokrovsk-Kostiantynivka Line Has Been Crushed⚔️Military Summary 2025.05.27

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    Here are two interesting videos... one from Brian Berletić... I listened him three hours ago... as always his geopolitical analysis are so interesting and valued...
    The second one I am listening now.. it is still LIVE... also like talk by Sleboda and Pepe... host Danny Haiphong...
    Topics Ukraine and Russia...

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    US Launders Escalation Through Europe as Russia Buries Ukraine in Missiles & Drones


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    Update on the conflict in Ukraine for May 27, 2025…

    As the US seeks to transfer its proxy war to Europe and freeze it as it pivots to China as part of “strategic sequencing,” Russia continues expanding military industrial production and is intensifying its strategy of attrition in Ukraine;
    Western media admits Russia possesses advantages in drone warfare, manpower, and missile production;;
    Meanwhile, US efforts to expand its own military industrial production and that of its European proxies is falling far short;

    Despite efforts to expand Patriot missile production, Russia is producing as many Iskander ballistic missiles as the US is producing interceptors;

    References:

    Politico - Merz lifts range limits on Ukraine weapons to hit targets inside Russia (May 26, 2025):
    https://www.politico.eu/article/germa...
    Washington Post - Trump softens on Putin as Russia’s military edge weakens, officials say (May 25, 2025):
    https://archive.ph/G2dGc
    NYT - The Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin (Feb. 2024):
    https://archive.ph/V3V2O
    NYT - The Partnership: The Secret History of the War in Ukraine (Mar. 29, 2025):
    https://archive.ph/QbwmT
    US DoD - Opening Remarks by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth at Ukraine Defense Contact Group (Feb. 12, 2025):
    https://www.defense.gov/News/Speeches...
    WSJ - The Russian Military Moves That Have Europe on Edge (Apr. 27, 2025):
    https://archive.ph/yp9iI
    Kyiv Independent - Inside Ukraine's desperate race to train more soldiers (Apr. 4, 2025):
    https://kyivindependent.com/inside-uk...
    Newsweek - Russia Might Run Out of Weapons, Ammunition By End of Year: Report (Aug. 2022):
    https://www.newsweek.com/russia-might...
    Newsweek - Russia Could Run Out of Tanks by 2026: Report (Feb. 13, 2025):
    https://www.newsweek.com/russia-tanks...
    Oryx - Attack On Europe: Documenting Russian Equipment Losses During The Russian Invasion Of Ukraine:
    https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02...
    IISS - Russian T-90M production: less than meets the eye (Jun. 2024):
    https://www.iiss.org/online-analysis/...
    BI - Russia on track to build artillery shell stockpile triple the size of the US's and Europe's combined: top US general (Apr 2025):
    https://www.businessinsider.com/russi...
    TWZ - Shell Game: Inside The Worldwide TNT Shortage (May 12, 2025):
    https://www.twz.com/land/shell-game-t...
    WaPo - Ukraine scrambles to overcome Russia’s edge in fiber-optic drones (May 23, 2025):
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...
    Militarnyi (Ukraine-based) - In Russia, Shahed drones are assembled in a completely new workshop (Mar. 2024):
    https://militarnyi.com/en/news/in-rus...
    Lockheed Martin - Lockheed Martin's PAC-3 MSE Achieves Record Production Year (Mar. 24, 2025):
    https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/...
    Breaking Defense - Raytheon to max out AMRAAM production for ‘foreseeable future,’ exec says (Sep. 2023):
    https://breakingdefense.com/2023/09/r...
    Army Recognition - Ukrainian Intelligence Reveals Russia's Missile Production Surge Despite Sanctions (Dec. 2024):
    https://armyrecognition.com/focus-ana...
    NYT - U.S. Officials Confirm Damage to Patriot Defense System in Kyiv Attack (May 2023):
    https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/05/...
    https://archive.ph/fU1I6
    Euromaidan Press - Russian MiG-31K carrying Kinzhal missiles absent from Ukrainian skies for three weeks (Feb. 2025):
    https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/02/2...
    NYT - Russia’s Swift March Forward in Ukraine’s East (Oct. 2024):
    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...
    https://archive.ph/EMQvX

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    Pepe Escobar & Mark Sleboda: Putin STUNS Trump, Rains HELL on Ukraine as NATO Panics!


    Vladimir Putin just dropped a bombshell on Trump and it changes everything. Danny Haiphong returns with special guests geopolitical analyst and journalist Pepe Escobar & Mark Sleboda to uncover the hidden truth behind the shocking geopolitical developments taking shape in Ukraine, West Asia and the broader world as Russia accelerates the multipolar world upon direct orders from Putin. Don't miss this must-watch stream!

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    Trump Cannot Take It.

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