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  • Governments line up to join BRICS as US faces public debt problems

    Foreign ministers of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) held a meeting on June 1-2 in Cape Town to set the agenda for the August summit. They were joined by colleagues from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Egypt, Kazakhstan, Iran, Cuba, Argentina. This is no coincidence as the bloc discusses an expansion to 19 countries and the potential creation of a joint trading currency, with an eye to making it a reserve currency. Economic turmoil in the US —...

  • The life of the mobilised in the special operation zone: Soup and pasta for lunch

    Pravda.Ru correspondent Daria Aslamova visited the positions of the Russian Armed Forces near the settlement of Avdiivka in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and talked to the mobilised. The military showed the correspondent their off-duty life. Traditionally, this is a room where one can take a rest and have a nap, but this particular unit has something special — a DIY bathhouse. "Not everyone has one in their dacha. We are Siberians, we need to have a bathhouse in the first place,” the men...

  • Czech volunteer in Donbass: NATO has been in Ukraine for long

    Pravda.Ru correspondent in Donbass Daria Aslamova visited the contact line and met with a volunteer from the Czech Republic who, along with his wife, is fighting on the side of Russia. The man tried to explain why he has been defending Donbass for eight years, how Ukrainian propaganda outstripped that of Russia and when the NATO army appeared in Ukraine. "Why did you come to Donbass from the Czech Republic?" "I am a child of the Soviet Union. I was born in Czechoslovakia, in Prague....

  • Chechnya's Akhmat special forces fighters continue offensive

    Divisions of Akhmat special purpose unit continue offensive operations in the Maryinsk tactical direction of hostilities, an official representative for the Russian Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov said. Members of the Akhmat special forces unit are participating in battles in the Donetsk direction together with the Yuzhny (Southern) group of Russian troops in the zone of the special military operation, the department said. Over the past 24 hours, up to 50 soldiers of...

  • Russia's new heavy combat drone Sirius undergoing flight tests

    Videos of Russia's new combat drone Sirius suggest that specialists proceeded to the flight test stage of the trials, Denis Fedutinov, a leading expert in the field of unmanned aircraft told RIA Novosti. Videos of the flight of the twin-engine drone appeared on the Internet. According to the expert, the Sirius drone is a new medium-altitude long-range drone developed by Russian company Kronstadt. "The drone was developed within a relatively short period of time. Obviously, Kronstadt specialists...

  • Mundo: Ukraine's attacks on Russia to become the new normal

    Attacks on the Russian territory "will become the new normal," Advisor to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Viktor Nazarov said in an interview with Spanish newspaper El Mundo. According to Nazarov, “all military positions in Russia are legitimate targets for the Ukrainian troops.” After the conversation with Nazarov, the publication assumed that Ukraine could develop an “unexpected military plan”, in which media attention would be focused on the offensive of the...

  • Massive air strike on Kyiv: Cruise missiles and combat drones used

    A massive air strike with the use of cruise missiles and combat drones was launched on Kyiv on Friday, June 2 at night. According to Military Correspondents of the Russian Spring Telegram channel, the strikes were conducted with the use of Kh-101/555 cruise missiles and Geran-2 drones. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko confirmed explosions in the Ukrainian capital. Air defence systems were operating in the city. An air raid warning was announced throughout Ukraine as well.

  • Ukraine shells Russian border areas, UAV explodes over Belgorod

    An explosion took place in the city of Belgorod on June 1 in the afternoon. Two people were hurt and windows were shattered in nearby buildings. "An unmanned aerial vehicle crashed on the roadway. Two people were hurt. One man with a suspected concussion is being rushed to City Hospital No. 2. A man suffered minor bruises and refused hospitalisation,” the head of the region wrote on Telegram. A car was damaged as a result of the explosion as well, the governor added.

  • Military men in special operation zone: 'They sit there in cafes because we sit here in trenches'

    Pravda.Ru special correspondent Daria Aslamova visited the front lines of the Russian army near the town of Avdiivka. The journalist spoke with fighters from the Donetsk People's Republic — "Miron" from Ilovaisk, "Miner" from Yenakiyevo, and "Peter" from Amvrosievka. In their civil lives, the men worked as a driver, a miner and a railway worker. The military men from the DPR are upset that not everyone is aware of the situation in the special operation zone and in "big" Russia. In their opinion,...

  • Chechen Parliament speaker challenges PMC Wagner founder to man to a man talk

    The head of the Chechen Parliament, Magomed Daudov, addressed the founder of private military company Wagner Yevgeny Prigozhin with a warning. Daudov believes that Prigozhin sows panic among Russian citizens with his statements. In an appeal posted on his Telegram channel, Daudov suggested meeting Prigozhin and talk "like man to man." "Our fighters also had problems, but this does not mean that a warrior needs to scream and shout about it. In your statements you suggest that someone should be...

  • Daria Aslamova reporting from Bakhmut: Special military operation to last for five years

    Pravda.Ru correspondent Daria Aslamova visited the city of Bakhmut (Artyomovsk) after the Russian forces took full control of the city. In the city, the journalist spoke to PMC Wagner fighters. One of the fighters told the journalist that he had limited access to information. PMC Wagner fighters have no idea that they have become stars, the military man said. The man said that he spent the last six months of his life serving in the zone of the special military operation and had no time left for...

  • NATO prepares secret plan for war with Russia

    NATO has prepared a secret action plan in case of a military confrontation with Russia, Responsible Statecraft columnist Ian Davis wrote. Thousands of pages of secret military plans are to be offered for approval at the upcoming NATO summit in Vilnius, Davis said. The documents were developed behind closed doors by permanent military representatives at NATO headquarters in Brussels. No preliminary coordination works were conducted.