The video shows uniformed special forces soldiers picking up clothes and other apparel to stuff into their backpacks as they are acclimatising in Russia.
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The US State Department has offered reward money from its 'Rewards for Justice' program for information about persons connected to Rybar LLC - an explosively popular Russian military blog platform accused of election-related "disinformation" operations in the US. Sputnik asked Rybar founder...
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Russian forces advanced in Antonivka;Russian forces expanded their zone of control north of Vodyanoe; Russian forces advanced in Katerynivka; Up to 110 servicemen, three motor vehicles, a Caesar artillery system were destroyed in the area.
US billionaire Bill Gates has quietly donated $50 million to a nonprofit supporting Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential run, The New York Times reported, citing three sources.
Ukrainian prisoner of war Volodymyr Grachev told Sputnik that fellow Ukrainian soldiers left him wounded in a dugout for two months, while he received first aid only from Russian military personnel.
Ukraine has lost more than 280 soldiers and 13 units of military hardware, including three tanks, in combat in and around Russia's Kursk Region over the past day, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.
Russian strikes were reported in Odessa region; Russian strikes destroyed targets in Sumy region; Russian strikes were reported in Ivano-Frankivsk region; Russian strikes destroyed targets in Kharkiv region;
MOSCOW, October 23 (Sputnik) - The Russian Foreign Ministry's online services came under an unprecedented distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Wednesday that lasted for several hours, Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has revealed.
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Britain's Armed Forces are 'not ready to fight' says Defence Secretary John Healey as he suggests military has 'far deeper problems than we thought' after years of cuts
John Healey said that the problems facing the Army, Navy and Air Force were 'far worse with far deeper problems than we thought' before Labour took power in the summer.
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How Ukrainian hackers duped Russian soldiers' wives to pose for 'calendar'... exposing the commander and regiment behind Mariupol theatre bombing atrocity
Hacktivist group Inform Napalm was formed in 2014 after annexation of Crimea
It is notorious for enacting a unique brand of vigilante justice on Russian troops
A group of Ukrainian hackers is developing quite the reputation for enacting a unique brand of vigilante justice on Russian military men involved in Vladimir Putin's war on Ukraine
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Putin has 'regrets' since invading Ukraine, Belarus dictator reveals as he admits North Korean troops are a dangerous escalation and US warns they will be legitimate targets... which could lead to WW3
Alexander Lukashenko said Putin 'has regrets' over the human toll of Ukraine war
Comes as Ukraine, South Korea and US claim North Korean troops are in Russia
North Korean troops will be 'legitimate targets' if they fight in Ukraine, US said
Lukashenko - arguably the world leader who shares the closest relationship with Putin - sought to explain the Kremlin chief's view on the conflict which has left hundreds of thousands dead
Russian forces repelled Ukrainian counterattacks in Leonidovo; Clashes continued near Nizhny Klin; Clashes continue near Malaya Loknya; Clashes continue in Plekhovo;
The editorial board of US newspaper New York Post has officially endorsed the candidacy of former US President Donald Trump in the upcoming presidential election.
Russia's Yug (South) group of forces has eliminated more than 5,410 Ukrainian servicepeople over the past week, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday.
A total of 1,000 such notes – with a nominal value of 100 BRICS – were printed in the town of Kirzhach in Russia’s Vladimir Region. The bill was made in the run-up to the 2023 BRICS Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Ukraine 's intelligence services released audio of what they claim to be Russian troops moaning about the arrival of North Korean fighters and squabbling about how they will be equipped
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For years, he was the tubby dictator mocked as 'The Little Rocket Man' due to his obsession with nuclear missiles: But now Kim Jong Un has moved us closer than ever to WW3 by sending soldiers to Ukraine
Kim's determined pursuit of a devastating nuclear arsenal and closer ties with Russia and China now seems to be paying off - and the West has been forced to take notice
During training in Ukraine, mobilized soldiers were shown how to use the American SMAW rocket launcher, but were not allowed to fire it, Ukrainian prisoner of war Volodymyr Grachev told Sputnik.
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A spade is a spade, is a spade, is a spade ......*
* Call a spade a spade" is an idiom that means to speak directly and truthfully about something, even if it's unpleasant or embarrassing.
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Psychopathic tactic of repeating a lie until it is believed to be true !
Putin was brought crashing back to reality after his three-day summit by the BBC's Steve Rosenberg, who was granted the opportunity to ask the last question of the final media session
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THE TRUTH
Did NATO Promise Not to Enlarge?
Gorbachev Says “No”
who was the Soviet negotiating president ? Gorbachev or Putin ?
Former Soviet President Gorbachev’s View
We now have a very authoritative voice from Moscow confirming this understanding. Russia behind the Headlines has published an interview with Gorbachev, who was Soviet president during the discussions and treaty negotiations concerning German reunification. The interviewer asked why Gorbachev did not “insist that the promises made to you [Gorbachev]—particularly U.S. Secretary of State James Baker’s promise that NATO would not expand into the East—be legally encoded?” Gorbachev replied: “The topic of ‘NATO expansion’ was not discussed at all, and it wasn’t brought up in those years. … Another issue we brought up was discussed: making sure that NATO’s military structures would not advance and that additional armed forces would not be deployed on the territory of the then-GDR after German reunification. Baker’s statement was made in that context… Everything that could have been and needed to be done to solidify that political obligation was done. And fulfilled.”
Gorbachev continued that “The agreement on a final settlement with Germany said that no new military structures would be created in the eastern part of the country; no additional troops would be deployed; no weapons of mass destruction would be placed there. It has been obeyed all these years.” To be sure, the former Soviet president criticized NATO enlargement and called it a violation of the spirit of the assurances given Moscow in 1990, but he made clear there was no promise regarding broader enlargement.
Several years after German reunification, in 1997, NATO said that in the “current and foreseeable security environment” there would be no permanent stationing of substantial combat forces on the territory of new NATO members. Up until the Russian military occupation of Crimea in March, there was virtually no stationing of any NATO combat forces on the territory of new members. Since March, NATO has increased the presence of its military forces in the Baltic region and Central Europe.
Putin is not stupid, and his aides surely have access to the former Soviet records from the time and understand the history of the commitments made by Western leaders and NATO. But the West’s alleged promise not to enlarge the Alliance will undoubtedly remain a standard element of his anti-NATO spin. That is because it fits so well with the picture that the Russian leader seeks to paint of an aggrieved Russia, taken advantage of by others and increasingly isolated—not due to its own actions, but because of the machinations of a deceitful West.
THE HYPOCRISY At the time of Ukraine’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine held the third largest nuclear arsenal in the world, including an estimated 1,900 strategic warheads, 176 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), and 44 strategic bombers. By 1996, Ukraine had returned all of its nuclear warheads to Russia in exchange for economic aid and security assurances, and in December 1994, Ukraine became a non-nuclear weapon state-party to the 1968 nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT)
FACT
Russia controlled the nuclear warheads and weapons system in Ukraine during the Soviet Union era, even though the weapons were located on Ukrainian territory. Ukraine never had independent control of the weapons.
Nations Undergo Rigorous Process to Join NATO
New members must uphold democracy, which includes tolerating diversity.
New members must be in the midst of making progress toward a market economy.
The nations' military forces must be under firm, civilian control.
The nations must be good neighbors and respect sovereignty outside their borders.
The nations must be working toward compatibility with NATO forces.
A key determining factor for potential NATO members is whether their admission will strengthen the alliance and further increase security and stability across Europe.
The appearance of “representatives from half the population of the world” at the BRICS Summit in Kazan this week highlighted the fact that “Russia is not isolated,” Michael Maloof, former DoD senior security policy, told Sputnik on the sidelines of the summit.
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