❗️“Russia will definitely restore the rights of Russians in Ukraine,” — Lavrov
The only right Russia has actually secured for Russians in Ukraine so far is the right to return home in a black body bag.
😳 Lukashenko goes against Putin! “The time will come when I tell you how it all started”
Speaking in Grodno, the Belarusian dictator unexpectedly explained why he does not want Belarusians sent to fight in Ukraine.
“Why should we go fight in Ukraine for someone else's will? Do we want to become minced meat there? No, we don't want that.”
Just a few minutes later, however, Lukashenko reminded everyone that Belarus remains Russia’s ally.
His message to neighboring countries sounded even more intriguing.
“I want Poles, Lithuanians and Ukrainians to hear me. We do not want to fight them. But we are always ready to protect you.”
Who exactly he plans to protect and from whom remains unclear — perhaps the neighbors from Russia, or Belarus from its neighbors.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun to CNN: Hezbollah's Naim Qassem "doesn't represent the Lebanese people." Aoun said Lebanese across sects are "fed up" after Qassem rejected a ceasefire with Israel as a "surrender," telling him directly: "The Lebanese people are not your people."
Kuwait’s Civil Aviation Authority has published security camera footage showing Wednesday morning’s strike by an Iranian one-way attack drone on Kuwait International Airport, which resulted in one death and dozens of injuries along with significant damage to Terminal One.
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The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum has become a showcase of Russia’s irrelevance.
Even pro-war Russian bloggers are unimpressed with the foreign guests invited to SPIEF. They complain that state propagandists are bending over backwards for them and displaying outright servility toward foreigners from Western countries.
The caliber of the forum’s guests has been declining year after year, but never before has there been such a gathering of cranks, weirdos, and dubious personalities. They all flocked in like flies to shit.
In 2018, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attended SPIEF. In 2024, the main guests were the presidents of Zimbabwe and Bolivia. In 2025, it was Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto and the Taliban.
And in 2026, among the most prominent guests were conspiracy blogger Candace Owens and Errol Musk, a man despised by virtually everyone except Russians.
For the Kremlin, SPIEF is primarily about prestige and projecting influence. Billions of rubles are spent on organizing it to showcase Russia’s strength and attractiveness to foreign visitors.
But this year, the picture turned out very differently.
The economic forum opened to the sound of drones. This is a disgrace for Putin.
Following today’s strike, the St. Petersburg Oil Terminal — one of Russia’s largest petroleum transshipment facilities in the Baltic region — caught fire.
Instead of a display of strength, the world saw Russia’s vulnerability: a country unable to protect even its own cities and top-level events.
Russian state propaganda calculated that Ukraine spent about $3.5 billion on drones over three years
That was enough to paralyze parts of the front, hit almost all oil refineries in the European part of Russia, and inflict incalculable losses on Russia.
For comparison, a single large-scale Russian missile strike can cost around $1 billion. There have been many such attacks in recent years, but their effectiveness is extremely low.
These strikes are mainly used to terrorize Ukrainian civilians, as the primary targets are civilian infrastructure.
Britain has had enough of the endless mass migration and institutional bias, we are a very tolerant people but that has been exploited and taken advantage of for too long.
The Russian airforce is trying to hide these flights at great lengths, but clearly they are transferring North Korean troops to the Kursk region of Russia and possibly Belarus.