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• 05/06/2025 7:21:10 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 25 replies

  Daily Caller ^ | 5/5/2025 | Hailey Gomez

  Ben & Jerry’s Co-Founder Ben Cohen told Daily Caller News Foundation co-founder Tucker Carlson on Monday that, due to the Pentagon’s inflated budget, the department is a “huge demonic sucking tube.” -snip- Cohen went on to highlight Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ‘s 1967 speech, in which he criticized the U.S. for prioritizing the Vietnam War over dedicating “necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor.” “Martin Luther King gave this speech, and he talked about the Pentagon being this huge demonic sucking tube that sucks out the lifeblood of things like housing, schools,” Cohen added. “Everybody’s school budget...

• Russia Dismisses Trump Remarks on Oil Prices, Ukraine

  05/06/2025 7:06:35 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 10 replies

  Newsweek ^ | 5/6/2025 | Shane Croucher

  The Kremlin said oil prices do not affect its national security decisions after U.S. President Donald Trump linked lower prices to Russia wanting to settle the Ukraine war. Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, responded to Trump's remarks during a press briefing on Tuesday morning. Peskov said Russia will continue to work within the OPEC+ format on managing oil prices, the state news agency TASS reported. -snip- Trump had told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday: "I think Russia with the price of oil right now, oil has gone down, we are in a good position to...

• Chechen leader asked for his resignation

  05/06/2025 6:47:31 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 3 replies

  APA ^ | 5/6/2025 | Farid Akbarov

  Leader of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has requested to be relieved of his duties, he told Chechnya Today news agency, APA’s Russia bureau reports citing lenta.ru. Kadyrov made the remarks in response to circulating rumors about his possible resignation. “I myself am asking to be relieved of my duties. Someone else will have their own initiative, their own vision. I hope that my request will be supported,” Kadyrov said. The Chechen leader did not specify who he had specifically addressed regarding his dismissal.

• Russia's oil price in roubles at two-year low, 40% below budgeted level, data shows

  05/06/2025 4:42:03 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 28 replies

  Yahoo Finance ^ | 5/6/2025 | Reuters

  Russia's oil price in roubles has fallen to a two-year low below the 4,000 rouble per barrel mark and some 40% lower than planned in the federal budget, data showed, piling pressure on the Kremlin, already saddled with a burgeoning budget deficit. -snip- According to Reuters calculations, the average price of Russia's mix of Urals and ESPO blends dipped on May 2 to $48.92 per barrel, or 3,987 roubles, which is more than 40% below the 6,726 roubles the government had originally planned for this year. That's the lowest since May 2023, according to Reuters data. It is also still...

• Mass drone attack on Moscow: Airports shut as Russia claims to have shot down more than 100 Ukrainian drones

  05/06/2025 4:13:55 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 52 replies

  Daily Mail ^ | 5/6/2025 | JAMES REYNOLDS

  Moscow closed all four of its main airports for several hours into Tuesday after state media reported the military had shot down 105 Ukrainian drones overnight. Sergei Sobyanin, the mayor of Moscow, said that at least 19 drones were destroyed on their way to the capital as it prepares for Victory Day celebrations this week. Debris fell on a major avenue in the city's south without causing injuries, Sobyanin wrote on Telegram. Governors in other Russian cities, including Penza and Voronezh, said they had also been targeted by Ukrainian drones. It was the second night in a row that Russia...

• Ukraine claims strike in Russia's Kursk amid reports of fresh incursion

  05/05/2025 12:06:28 PM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 18 replies

  BBC News ^ | 5/5/2025 | Hafsa Khalil

  Ukraine said it hit a drone command unit in the Kursk region, amid reports of fresh attempts to cross into Russia. Sunday's attack on the unit was located near the Russian village of Tyotkino, according to the Ukrainian general staff. Multiple Russian military bloggers also reported that Ukrainian forces had attempted to cross into the village, posting images - as yet unverified by the BBC - of vehicles breaking through tank traps on the border. The reports come after Moscow claimed in April to have regained control of the entire region, nine months after a Ukrainian forces launched a surprise...

• Trump says he had ‘productive’ call with Turkey’s Erdogan about Russia-Ukraine war, Gaza

  05/05/2025 11:36:28 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 5 replies

  Fox News ^ | 5/5/2025 | Stephen Sorace

  President Donald Trump on Monday said he held a "productive" call with Turkish President Recep Erdogan on a range of topics, including the war between Russia and Ukraine. Trump shared details of the call in a post on his TRUTH Social platform. "I just had a very good and productive telephone conversation with the President of Turkey, Recep Erdoğan, concerning many subjects, including the War with Russia/Ukraine, all things Syria, Gaza, and more," Trump wrote. The president added that he is looking forward to working with Erdogan to end the "ridiculous, but deadly" Russia-Ukraine war.

• Russia reports Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow ahead of May 9 events

  05/05/2025 4:06:06 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 10 replies

  Al Jazeera ^ | 5/5/2025 | Staff

  Russia has reported that it repelled a drone attack on Moscow as the capital city prepares to host a major military parade with foreign leaders in attendance. Russia’s air defence systems intercepted “four drones flying towards Moscow”, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Monday. The attack appears intended to unsettle Moscow’s preparations for events marking the end of the Great Patriotic War, commonly known as World War II elsewhere, on May 9. -snip- The Kremlin has branded Putin’s declaration of a three-day unilateral ceasefire a humanitarian gesture. Military operations will be paused during the truce, according to Russian authorities, as world...

• Victory Day parade in Sevastopol canceled over security concerns

  05/05/2025 3:28:18 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 16 replies

  APA ^ | 5/5/2025 | Farid Akbarov

  "The Victory Day parade will not be held in Sevastopol," said Governor of the city of federal importance Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhayev, APA’s Russia bureau reports. According to him, the decision was made due to security concerns.

• Putin shows off home chapel and favourite drink in bizarre Kremlin tour… and admits he ‘fights urge to punch people’

  05/04/2025 1:45:08 PM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 29 replies

  Sun UK ^ | 5/4/2025 | Will Stewart Lydia Doye

  DICTATOR Vladimir Putin has showed off his private chapel and his favourite drink in a bizarre tour of his Kremlin apartment. The Russian tyrant gave the public a glimpse into his home in an interview marking the 25th anniversary of his first inauguration as president. The bizarre footage shows Putin giving his favourite interviewer, Pavel Zarubin, a tour of the apartment while answering his questions. When asked about his grandchildren from daughters Maria, 39, and Katerina, 37, Putin says they occasionally visit him unexpectedly in his austere apartment. He said: “They can, they can. “But still everyone understands that I...

• Putin Allies in Europe Abruptly Fall Ill Ahead of Moscow Victory Day Visit

  05/04/2025 7:30:43 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 24 replies

  Newsweek ^ | 5/4/2025 | Sophie Clark

  Two European allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin have fallen ill, according to reports, days before they were set to attend a Victory Day parade in Moscow. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico have had their trips to Russia questioned amid reported health scares.

• Russia says China’s Xi to arrive in Moscow on May 7 ahead of Victory Day events

  05/04/2025 6:41:10 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 26 replies

  Anadolu ^ | 5/4/2025 | Burc Eruygur

  Russia said on Sunday that Chinese President Xi Jinping will arrive in the country’s capital Moscow on an official visit, as it is set to host ceremonial events marking the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory in World War II next week. A statement by the Kremlin said that Xi will pay an official visit to Moscow between May 7-10, at the invitation of his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, where he will take part in Victory Day events in the country’s capital.

• Putin says he hopes there will be no need to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine

  05/04/2025 5:49:37 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 56 replies

  Jerusalem Post ^ | 5/4/2025 | Reuters

  Russian President Vladimir Putin said in comments broadcast on Sunday said that the need to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine had not arisen, and that he hoped it would not arise. In a fragment of an upcoming interview with Russian state television published on Telegram, Putin said that Russia has the strength and the means to bring the conflict in Ukraine to a "logical conclusion."

• Kremlin calls Ukrainian response to Putin's ceasefire offer ambiguous, calls for clarity

  05/03/2025 8:29:07 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 8 replies

  Reuters ^ | 5/3/2025 | Dmitry Antonov in Moscow

  The Kremlin said on Saturday it wanted a definitive response from Ukraine to Russian President Vladimir Putin's offer of a three-day ceasefire next week, criticising the reaction so far as ambiguous and historically wrong. Putin on Monday declared a three-day ceasefire to mark the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet Union and its allies over Nazi Germany in World War Two. The Kremlin said the 72-hour ceasefire would run on May 8, May 9 - when Putin will host international leaders on Moscow's Red Square, including Chinese President Xi Jinping - and May 10. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy...

• Russia reeling as £38m fighter jet shot down by Ukrainian sea drone in world first

  05/03/2025 6:53:40 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 87 replies

  Express UK ^ | 5/3/2025 | John Varga

  An unmanned Ukrainian sea drone shot down a Russian SU-30 fighter jet near the port of Novorossiysk - home to the Kremlin's Black Sea Fleet. The downing of the £38 million jet was carried out by Group 13 on May 2, a special unit within Ukraine's military intelligence. The sea drone was reported to be equipped with a R-73 air-to-air missile, which struck the jet in midair. The SU-30 crashed into the sea. Reports suggest that the crew were able to eject from the stricken jet and were later picked up by a civilian cargo ship. In a statement confirming...

• Russia's Medvedev says nobody can guarantee Kyiv's safety if Ukraine attacks Moscow on May 9

  05/03/2025 5:18:50 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 82 replies

  Reuters ^ | 5/3/2025 | Reuters

  Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, said on Saturday that nobody could guarantee that the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv would survive to see May 10 if Ukraine attacked Moscow during World War Two victory celebrations on May 9.

• Russian combat jet downed by Ukrainian drone boat

  05/03/2025 3:58:01 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 7 replies

  Defence Blog ^ | 5/3/2025 | Dylan Malyasov

  Russian military-affiliated sources have acknowledged the loss of a combat jet following a Ukrainian sea drone attack near the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk. The pro-Russian Telegram channel Rybar reported the incident late Friday, writing, “Unfortunately, the enemy attack did not go unanswered. Yesterday evening, a Su-30 naval aviation fighter was hit 50 kilometers west of Novorossiysk by a drone boat carrying an R-73 surface-to-air missile.” While official channels in Moscow have not released a formal statement, additional details were provided by Russian propagandist Ilya Tumanov, who runs the well-known Fighterbomber aviation blog. According to Tumanov, the aircraft crew ejected...

• Russia's Medvedev says Trump's statement about US World War Two role was 'pretentious nonsense'

  05/03/2025 3:45:58 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 91 replies

  Reuters ^ | 5/3/2025 | Reuters

  Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, said on Saturday that President Donald Trump's assertion that the U.S. had done more than any other country to win World War Two was "pretentious nonsense". Trump posted on social network Truth Social late on Thursday that "nobody was close to us in terms of strength, bravery, or military brilliance" in both world wars, and that "we did more than any other country, by far, in producing a victorious result in World War II." -snip- "Trump recently announced that the U.S. made the biggest contribution to victory in World War Two and...

• Trump 'blundered' on China tariffs - Medvedev

  05/02/2025 11:01:18 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 16 replies

  Russia Today BNN News ^ | 5/2/2025 | RT.com

  US President Donald Trump's misplaced tariff policies are hurting America's allies but will fail to tank the Chinese economy, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday. -snip- In a tongue-in-cheek post on Telegram on Labor Day, Medvedev, who serves as deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, argued that Trump deserved an "exemplary labor" award for "starting the tariff battle." The US's neighbors, as well as its allies in Europe, were "suffering" and "crying" from the duties imposed by Washington, he wrote. "They are all in a really bad position, facing the need to bow down in a ritual known...

• Ukraine's parliament will vote on ratifying U.S. minerals deal on May 8, lawmaker says

  05/02/2025 9:27:18 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 9 replies

  Reuters ^ | 5/2/2025 | Anastasiia Malenko

  Ukraine's parliament will hold a vote on May 8 to ratify a minerals deal signed with the United States earlier this week, a lawmaker said on Friday, while the prime minister suggested the agreement will help Kyiv with supplies of air defence systems. Ukraine and the U.S. signed a deal on Wednesday that will give the United States preferential access to new investments in extraction of Ukraine's natural resources, and fund investment in Ukraine's reconstruction. According to the deal, new military aid, if provided by Washington to Kyiv, could be scored as the U.S. contribution to the joint fund being...

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