🇺🇸🇮🇳🇨🇳🇧🇷🇷🇺🇹🇷 Trump's secondary sanctions on Russia essentially threaten China, India, Brazil and Turkey.
China, Brazil Turkey, and India purchase more than 80% of all Russian energy-raw materials.
🇮🇳 India:
According to Indian diplomats, India cannot shut down its economy at someone else's (Trump’s) whim. Said India’s ambassador to the UK, Vikram Doraiswami, as a response to Trump's statement.
India's dependence on imported fuel is over 80%, and about a third of that comes from Russia, so it is simply impossible to stop purchasing Russian raw materials, which are sold to the Indian at a discount.
So, overall, India's position is clear.
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🇺🇸🇨🇳 China's position has long been clear and understandable. China plans to impose counter-sanctions on all American sanctions.
Also China understands that if they abandon Russia in this way, they will be next on the list for destruction. They have no choice, as to fight.
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Brazil exports only $40 billion worth of goods to the US, while their GDP is over $2 trillion.
That’s a blow they can absorb, plus they’re in BRICS and can readjust.
The assumption is, as BRICS member, Brazil would also fight the US secondary sanctions.
🇺🇦🇷🇺‼️🚨 BREAKING: Russian units broke into Pokrovsk, the Ukranian collapse has begun.
Pokrovsk will likely be the most strategically important achievement for the Russia in 2025.
Ukraine loses the biggest logistics hub in Donbass and the last big fortification before the Dnepr
There is a complete lack of communication between the Ukrainian Armed Forces units operating in Pokrovsk due to the actions of Russian sabotage and reconnaissance groups in the city.
Ukrainian sources describe the situation as total chaos.
Russian troops have entered Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk), fighting is already underway in the urban area
🇺🇦🇷🇺 Russia and Ukraine did not agree on anything of substance, except to continue the process!
“The positions of Ukraine and Russia are quite far apart, but we agreed to continue contacts”
— Medinsky
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The entire list of 339 surnames of (the kidnapped) Ukrainian children has been fully processed by Russia: some of them have already returned to Ukraine. Work is ongoing on the rest — Medinsky
If their parents, relatives, or representatives are found, they will return home.
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Not all residents of the Kursk region, "evacuated" by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to the territory of Ukraine, have been returned home, there are about 30 people — Medinsky
The reason why peaceful residents of the Kursk region are being held in Ukraine is unclear, he noted.
🔞🇺🇸🇸🇾 Horrific massacre of Hussam Saraya and Karim Saraya, two American citizens, who were executed along with their father, Ghassan, and their uncles.
Shit by the members of the Syrian General Security Service and Ministry of Defense during the attack on Sweida.
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The massacre occurred as part of a planned operation by regime forces, which included looting, arson, brutal attacks on civilians, and summary executions inside the city and its countryside.
-> Civilians were rounded up to the execution spot. You can see other shot civilians in cars.
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Then they all were shot cold blooded.
All dead, Hussam Saraya and Karim Saraya, two American citizens, who were executed along with their father, Ghassan, and their uncles.
🇺🇦🇷🇺 A mass drone and missile attack on Ukraine happened during the night.
Kiev and Kharkov received the biggest strikes.
- Russia struck the Darnitsky Carriage Repair Plant. This enterprise is one of the largest in Ukraine. According to some reports, it was used to repair armored vehicles and produce UAVs. A secondary detonation on the territory of the plant led to the emergence of several fires.
- Missile and drone attacks were reported on the Artem plant.
- Attacks were also recorded on facilities at the Zhulyany airport, where, according to some reports, a batch of weapons and ammunition delivered from Europe was unloaded several hours earlier. A secondary detonation was observed.
- Hypersonic Kinzhal missiles were used against industrial enterprises from the military-industrial complex in Ivano-Frankivsk and the region. Targets in Kharkiv, Chernivtsi and Chortkiv in the Ternopil region were also attacked.
- Ivano-Frankivsk Mayor Ruslan Martsinkiv said that the city's facilities were subjected to a combined attack - using both UAVs and missiles of various types. Moreover, according to him, this was the most massive attack since February 2022. One of the targets of the night strikes in Ivano-Frankivsk was a locomotive repair plant, which was used by the enemy to repair armored vehicles.
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Ukrainian channels reported a strike with "Kinzhal" missiles in the Irpin area.