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Feb 18 2025 
Press release on Russia-US consultations
https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1998279/
⚡️ In accordance with the agreement between President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump to step up contacts to discuss international issues and bilateral agenda, on February 18, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov held talks in Riyadh with a US delegation represented by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Adviser… Continue reading
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Feb 17 2025 
Negotiations on Ukraine: Different Objectives
All roads lead to Riyadh for different purposes.
The US MSM is feverishly reporting on who goes where. Witkoff and Waltz flew out from the US last evening, and Marco Rubio is already there. In a quick presser before leaving, Witkoff said that “the beginning is trust building.” He also said that everybody would be included—Zelensky,… Continue reading
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Feb 16 2025 
Dmitry Peskov’s Key Statements: Let’s decode
Key statements by Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov to television host Pavel Zarubin, February 16:
Let’s decode. Yesterday Peskov said that Russia will not make mistakes with this negotiation. Pfew! .. we don’t want to see this:
◾️The recent phone talks between the Russian and US presidents, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, sent a powerful message that… Continue reading
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Dec 11 2024 
Ukraine strikes Russia with US-made ATACMS missiles
MOSCOW, December 11. /TASS/. Russia will retaliate to Ukraine’s ATACMS missile attack on the Taganrog military airfield, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.
The Kiev regime delivered a strike by six US-made ATACMS long-range ballistic missiles at the military airfield in Taganrog in southern Russia on the morning of December 11. Two of the missiles… Continue reading
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Nov 18 2024 
Moscow issues long-range missiles warning to West
From RT
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has reacted to a potential change in the “essence of the conflict”
Moscow has issued a stark warning to the United States and its allies, stating that any use of long-range missiles by Kiev to strike deep inside Russian territory would signify the “direct participation” of the Western powers in… Continue reading
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Nov 09 2024 
A Ukraine peace trial balloon
This may be the WSJ putting facts together as they would like, but there is enough commenting from the Trump team to consider this as the floating of a trial Ukraine peace balloon from the new forming US administration. As such, it belongs to my series on the Peace Train much earlier this year.
Despite… Continue reading
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Oct 29 2024 
The advance of the Russian army cannot be stopped!
By Marat Khairullin on his Substack with illustrations by Mikhail Popov
Brief report from the front
In the Kupyansk direction, the Russian Armed Forces advanced in the forest area west of Sin’kovka, taking it almost completely under control. The enemy is holding on to its westernmost edge in the area of the Oskol River. From the forest… Continue reading
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Oct 14 2024 
Marat Khairullin: Not-So-Brief report from the front, October 14, 2024
Marat Khairullin Substack
The Russian Armed Forces continue the operational encirclement of the Ukrainian Armed Forces garrisons! illustrations by Mikhail Popov
In the Chasov Yar area, the Russian Armed Forces expanded the control zone in the forest area between the city and Kalinovka. South of Chasov Yar, our soldiers crossed the Seversky Donetsk-Donbass canal in the area… Continue reading -
Oct 03 2024 
You can’t give it away and you can’t take it away: Ukraine
Russia’s Ukrainian Dilemma, by Marat Khairullin from his Substack
Today, against the backdrop of the successes of the Russian army, it would not be superfluous to talk once again about the fate of Ukraine. In the Russian public discourse, two points of view are discussed. The first is to go all the way and take this… Continue reading
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Aug 30 2024 
Maria Zakharova: the United States is a party to the Ukraine conflict
Russia’s Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s answer (https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1967117/) to a media question about the provocative remarks by Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh and White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby
❓ Question: What is your response to Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh’s statement confirming that the United States has allowed the Kiev regime… Continue reading
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Aug 18 2024 
404, the slow nosedive: Looking forward and looking back
There are a few notable data points on the Ukraine. They are now being left by their ‘allies’, to live or die by their own reconnaissance. Zelensky is being thrown under the bus, exquisitely slowly.
The war frontline, even during the attacks on Russian border areas, is dissolving in bits and drabs. Forced conscription in the… Continue reading
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Aug 18 2024 
Maria Zakharova on negotiations
The response of the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry M.V. Zakharova to a question from the media in connection with the publication of The Washington Post
❓ Question: The Washington Post reported that the attack of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the Kursk region of the Russian Federation disrupted indirect negotiations between Kyiv and… Continue reading
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Aug 16 2024 
US has Ukraine’s back in Kursk incursion
From M. K. Bhadrakumar
War-displaced people receive humanitarian aid at a Russian Red Cross distribution point in Kursk, August 15, 2024
As the Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk Region rolls on, war conditions have appeared in Russia for the first time since the Second World War. It is a stunning experience that an estimated 180,000 people have… Continue reading -
Aug 16 2024 
A dirty bomb
Russian Media is full of this story.
The Russian Department of Internal Affairs of the Kharkov Regional Administration has stated that Ukraine is planning to strike the Kursk and Zaporozhye nuclear power plants in Kurchatov and Energodar.
According to the interrogation of prisoners of war from the 82nd Air Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the… Continue reading
