The Indian military's Operation Sindoor has tested New Delhi's ties with other members of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QUAD, comprising India, Australia, the US and Japan), which have not expressed support, India Today reports.

Source: TASS
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EU may impose sanctions on individual banks and restrict uranium supplies from Russia — Bild

EU ambassadors agree on 17th package of sanctions against Russia - AFP citing diplomats

Source: СМОТРИ
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I suggest they better agree on plastic film and wrap themselves in it in full. World will be grateful.

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The EU Court of Justice has found von der Leyen responsible for concealing information about contracts for the purchase of COVID-19 vaccines in 2021-2023.

Source: TASS
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Russia sees that its geopolitical opponents are hatching dreams and plans to change the government in the country. This was reported by the director of the SVR, Sergei Naryshkin.

According to him, politicians who left Russia dream of “dismembering” the country with financial support from the West.

Source: Russian media
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Hungary and Slovakia did not block the 17th package of EU sanctions against Russia "due to its relative weakness", European diplomats told Euroactiv.

The new package approved by the ambassadors included a ban on the export of chemicals used to make weapons, visa bans and asset freezes for senior Russian officials, trade restrictions on dozens of companies involved in sanctions evasion and nearly 200 "shadow fleet" oil tankers.
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Zin Note: I haven't posted it yet, but the latest Bloomberg report on Russian oil exports are at an annual high point, and that's with dozens of tankers sanctioned. Every package is more ineffective than the last.

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The Investigative Committee has established 24 facts of murder of civilians from the village of Russkoye Porechnoye in the Kursk region. This was reported to TASS by the official representative of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Svetlana Petrenko.

Video: Investigative Committee of Russia/TASS
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Transcript:

Inas Davy and the New York Times Company versus European Commission, the General Court hereby first annuls decision C 2022, 8371, final of the European Commission of 15th November 2022, adopted pursuant to Article 4 of the Implementing Rules to Regulation number 1049/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30th of May 2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents.

Second orders the Commission to pay the costs.

The sitting will be adjourned for the next judgments.

The sitting is adjourned.
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The 105th regiment of the NM DPR reports:

Dnepropetrovsk direction

In Udachnoe, our guys are restoring lost positions and attacking north in the direction of the mine;

To the south, units of the Russian Army are advancing in the area of ​​Tsarskoye Headquarters and in Novosergeevka.

Further south, our forces took control of the entire area from Nadezhdinka (Nadeevka) to Novonikolaevka and Muravka between the Solnaya River and Shiroka Gully, knocking out, among other groups, the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the commanding heights;

The khokhol was forced to blow up the farms between Novonikolaevka and Muravka so that our stormtroopers could not gain a foothold in them - we dig the ground;

Fierce counter-battles are taking place northwest of Kotlyarovka. The advance of our units here threatens to isolate Muravka and Novonikolaevka from the AFU logistics route from Novopavlovka (East of the map) and provides for the entrance of our troops into Nikolaevka itself;

Novopavlovka, in essence, was the "cornerstone" of the defense and logistics system in the area between the Solnaya and Volchya rivers;

The enemy counterattacks in the area between Serebryanka Gully, Shtankova Gully, and Petrovskoye (Ukrainian: Orekhovo, South of Kotlyarovka), where our assault forces have taken control of most of the residences;

Fighting is taking place in the landings between Petrovskoye (Orekhovo) and Alekseevka.

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The Russian army has liberated Mikhailovka in the DPR, the Ministry of Defense reported.

Other main points from the new briefing of the Russian Ministry of Defense:

▪ Over the course of a day, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost about 1,390 soldiers, 2 tanks, and 11 field artillery pieces in the SМO zone;

▪ In one day, the Russian Armed Forces struck military airfields and storage sites for unmanned boats of the Ukrainian Armed Forces;

▪ Fighters of the "Zapad" group defeated formations of six brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, as well as the "Stugna" special forces unit;

▪ Over the past 24 hours, Russian air defense systems have shot down 5 guided aerial bombs and 162 Ukrainian Armed Forces aircraft-type drones.

Source: Zvezda/TASS
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The main points from Dmitry Peskov’s statements:

❗️The Kremlin has not yet announced the composition of the Russian delegation in Istanbul, but it will certainly be waiting for the Ukrainian side on Thursday

🔜 The dates of Putin's visit to Iran have not yet been agreed upon;

❗️The entire system of strategic stability and security in the world is in a deplorable state;

❗️ The proliferation of nuclear weapons in the EU will not add security and stability to the European continent [Commenting on Macron's statements regarding nuclear weapons];

❗️ The Russian Federation, the United States and European countries that possess nuclear weapons will have to make significant efforts to form strategic security;

🟢 Putin has several telephone conversations scheduled for the evening.

Source: Russian media
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Two Ukrainian citizens have been detained in Germany and another in Switzerland on suspicion of preparing acts of sabotage in the interests of Russian special services.

The German authorities believe that the Ukrainians were supposed to send parcels containing explosives through the territory of Germany.

Source: Военный обозреватель
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Yes, sure. "in the interests of Russian special services". Citizens of Ukraine. One must be really retarded to expect that this looks credible. But, of course, it is not allowed to acknowledge the truth, that they have just allowed people, who pose security risks into their countries themselves. So, blame Russia again. I wonder if time comes when they are going to say the Zelensky was Russian agent hired to destroy Europe.

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New sanctions against Russia are an attempt to "grab Russia by the throat," the head of the French Foreign Ministry said.

Jean-Noël Barrot (pictured) admitted on BFMTV that they were developed by US Senator Lindsey Graham. The restrictions will apply to imports of Russian oil.

Washington and Paris must be prepared to introduce “devastating sanctions” against Russia, the minister concluded.

Source: Russian media
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Well, he looks like he grabbed something, but, obviously it was not Russia's throat.

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At a meeting with the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Putin invited King Ibrahim to visit the Russian Federation.

Video: TASS/Ruptly
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Zelensky bracing himself before Istanbul. Video from May 13th, 2025. Two parts.

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Via Оборонка

An episode of the drone war in Donbass: the destruction of a ground drone of the Kyiv regime forces by an FPV drone of the Russian Armed Forces. It was stated that the Ukrainian Armed Forces product was a disposable explosive carrier that did not fulfill its task.

Ground-based unmanned platforms are actively used as kamikaze UAVs, deliverers of ammunition, medicines and food.

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Pavel Zarubin asked Putin's aide Ushakov everything that could be asked just 11 hours before the most important day

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Peskov's commentary to Pavel Zarubin regarding the time and date of possible negotiations.

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