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RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: 🔴 Putin's Kremlin is intensifying its crackdown on opposition ahead of Russia's parliamentary elections. • Dozens of candidates have been barred from running. • The anti-war Yabloko party may face a ban. • This move comes amid rising public discontent and economic issues. 🔍 used AI to catch this: it watches any website or X account and notifies you exactly how you want.
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RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: Judging by tho se sour faces, Putin’s Security Council looks less like a meeting and more like a funeral reception. When everyone appears to know the election outcome before the election, you can tell the regime isn t governing anymore it’s just waiting for the inevitable.”
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RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: 🇺🇦Russia has continued an heavy long-range drones, missiles and aerial warfare on Ukrainian Military, Government and NATO-Ukraine based infrastruture. - Ukraine failed to intercept Russian Drones and Missiles strikes from 48 hours due to low Interceptors supply.
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RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: Volodymyr Zelensky announced that establishing domestic production of Patriot air defense systems in Ukraine will take 12 months to several years due to bureaucratic procedures.
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RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: Exclusive: The Pentagon is asking the U.S. defense industry to rapidly escalate the production and delivery of weapons, including munitions that are in extreme shortage due to the war with Iran, according to a Defense Department memo obtained by The Post.
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RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: A defiant 🇮🇷 doesn’t seem intent to open the Strait of Hormuz until 🇺🇸 meets further conditions. At the same time there is increasing doubts also in Trump circles that a further military escalating would help. It’s a profound mess.
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RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: 🚨 BREAKING : 🇷🇺 Putin: "We are giving Elon Musk 48 hours to explain why Starlink is interfering with our strategic operations. Do not test our patience." 🚀 Elon Musk: "Bro, I can literally disable your country's entire GPS system from my phone while sitting on the toilet." Absolute cold-blooded reply.
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RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: 🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran will build its first 60 ICBM missiles with 10,000km range in a surprise package despite US and Israeli pressure on iranian regime to increase its Missiles ranges by 2035. - Iran is rapidly increased its missiles and drones capablities in a few years and advacing with Long-range ICBM.
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RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: 🇺🇸🇮🇷 US-Iran War Update: Iran has reportedly laid out nine conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, demanding major concessions from Washington. The demands include $300B in compensation, lifting sanctions, U.S. force withdrawal and restrictions on U.S. and Israeli vessels. 1. End U.S. threats 2. End wars against Iran 3. Lift blockade, withdraw U.S. forces 4. $300B compensation 5. Lift all sanctions 6. Unfreeze Iranian assets 7. Up to 7% transit fee 8. Ban U.S. and Israeli vessels 9. 20% violation penalty
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RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: I’ve been informed that, with Trump’s full blessing, Netanyahu has ordered assassination strikes on senior regime/IRGC officials. Expect the bloodthirsty butchers who slaughtered 52,000 innocent Iranians to meet their maker very, very soon. Stand by. Israel will free Iran!
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RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: Let’s hope Vladimir Putin can’t soon forget the name Lindsey Graham.
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RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: Turkey, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia defence pact technically same as NATO's Article 5, Turkish minister says
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RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: Israel is preparing to strike Iran on its own if the US pulls back from further military action. Israeli army is keeping plans ready to strike Iran without US support as Washington increasingly looks for a diplomatic way out of the war.
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RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: Budanov 🇺🇦: “I urge everyone not to direct hate at anyone the enemy closely watches every one of our internal disputes and waits for us to start fighting each other I want to say this directly to our enemies: you will not get your wish lets focus on our common victory the work is underway there will be results” just wow lets go for victory
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RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: ❗️After the end of the war, Ukraine will have strong security guarantees from the US in the event of renewed Russian aggression, but at present a ceasefire is objectively necessary for both sides, – Zelenskyy. He added that despite all the enemy’s attempts to break our country, Ukraine is in fairly good shape, while Russia’s economy is already beginning to crack noticeably.
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RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: 🚨 Breaking: Reports suggest that Iran is importing intercontinental ballistic missiles from China during the ceasefire. ​America must exercise caution and rethink if it wants to start a war! 🇮🇷🚀🇨🇳🇺🇸🔥
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RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: 🇺🇦🇮🇱 Zelensky basically said out loud what everyone already knows: Ukraine wants Israeli air defense badly enough to pay for it, and Israel keeps saying "we're talking" which is diplomatically saying no. Israel has been walking a tightrope with Russia since day one. Selling Iron Dome to Ukraine blows that up instantly. No amount of Ukrainian money changes that math for Tel Aviv right now. Writer: Oliver
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RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Kyiv secured agreements for monthly US deliveries of Patriot missiles, though 2026 supply volumes remain insufficient. He urged European partners – particularly Germany and Poland – to supply additional interceptors.
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RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: 🇪🇬🇹🇷 Egypt is set to join the Middle East's emerging NATO-style military alliance alongside Türkiye, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan. The Mecca Joint Defense Agreement treats an attack on one member as a potential trigger for military, intelligence, or logistical assistance from the others, with joint exercises and deeper defence-industry cooperation also planned. The news comes shortly after Pakistan's defence minister called for the pact to grow into a broader alliance of Muslim nations, in part as a means of pressuring Israel in support of Palestine. You can think of the pact as the Middle East building its own security architecture after the way America emb
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RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: 🚨🇺🇦🇺🇸🇹🇷🚀 Ukraine has purchased 70 M39 ATACMS ballistic missiles, 12 M270 multiple-launch rocket systems, and tens of thousands of cluster munitions from Türkiye, according to Ukrainian defense outlet Militarnyi. The transfer is detailed in U.S. State Department reports published in the official records of the U.S. Congress on August 6, 2026. The M270 is capable of launching both GMLRS guided rockets and ATACMS tactical ballistic missiles, significantly expanding Ukraine's long-range precision-strike capabilities. Because the weapons are of U.S. origin, their transfer from Türkiye to Ukraine requires Washington's approval for third-country re-export. Th
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RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: 🇺🇦🇮🇷 The bill for the Iran war just came due, and Ukraine is the one paying it. On August 5, Russia fired 24 ballistic missiles and four Zircon cruise missiles at Kyiv. Ukraine intercepted zero. Mark Cancian, senior adviser at CSIS, on why: "We're down to about 800 or 900 Patriot interceptors. The war planners don't want to go below that, so it would be very difficult to provide any of those... to Ukraine." The numbers: U.S. Patriot PAC-3 MSE stocks have fallen from over 2,300 before the Iran conflict to roughly 800. THAAD inventories are nearly halved. Washington's target of 2,000 interceptors a year won't be hit until 2030 at the earliest, and Ukraine wi
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RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: The new 🇹🇷 🇸🇦 🇵🇰 defence treaty could bring a new dimension to an emerging new order in the Middle East. But there are many questions over what it actually means.
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RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: The Pentagon is now giving defense contractors 21 days to come up with ways to dramatically accelerate weapons production as the Iran war continues to eat through U.S. stockpiles. Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg directed industry to propose faster delivery schedules, increased production and investments in new manufacturing capacity. The scale of the depletion is significant. The Pentagon says the U.S. has expended more than 850 Tomahawks, 1,000 Patriot/THAAD interceptors and 1,300 tactical ballistic missiles in the early stages of the war. A CSIS estimate cited by the Washington Post puts global Patriot inventories at under 827, down from roughly 2,20
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RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: In a surprise move, Turkey will sell Ukraine a massive package of surplus rocket artillery, including: - 70x ATACMS missiles - 2,500x M26 DPICM (cluster) rockets - 12x M270 MLRS launchers - 47,000x 203mm DPICM artillery shells
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GLOBAL #SECURITY AND #INTELLIGENCE #NEWS REVIEW My Opinion on the Mecca Agreement: Is it the "Muslim NATO" - and will it work? It looks more like the Declarative Diplomatic Umbrella than a Military Alliance. Mecca Agreement: Diplomatic Umbrella, Not NATO AI Mode: The newly signed Mecca Joint Defense Agreement faces deep institutional, economic, and geopolitical hurdles that make it unlikely to function as a truly integrated, effective "Muslim NATO". While it introduces a historic NATO Article 5-style collective defense clause between Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan, it operates primarily as a diplomatic deterrent born out of shared frustration over
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