🇩🇪🇺🇦 Germany has no plans to send troops to Ukraine to enforce a possible long-term ceasefire, says Friedrich Merz.

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🇰🇵👻🇰🇷 North Korea has launched an unidentified ballistic missile toward the East Sea (Sea of Japan), according to South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency.

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🇺🇸🇷🇺Silicon Valley billionaire Scott Bessent, who was appointed US Treasury Secretary, called the Russian President a "war criminal", adding that Washington is still negotiating, just like the Americans negotiated with post-war Japan.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️🇺🇦 A powerful video from our friends at the Maksim Krivonos Battalion.

For those unfamiliar, these are former AFU soldiers who chose to take up arms against the NATO-backed Zelensky regime in Kiev, fighting alongside Russia.

Give them a follow @freeukrainianrepublic

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🇺🇦Zelensky's grandfather fought in the Ukraine to recapture the richest manganese reserves from Hitler. Now his grandson is giving them to the United States - RIA Novosti, after studying award documents.

ℹ️Semyon Ivanovich Zelensky volunteered for the Red Army in the summer of 1941, when he was 17 years old. In 1942, after graduating from military school, Junior Lieutenant Zelensky became the commander of a 120-mm mortar battery of the 174th Guards Regiment of the 57th Guards Rifle Division.

➡️In early 1944, this division operated in the Nikopol-Krivoy Rog offensive in the area of the city of Nikopol, not far from Krivoy Rog - Semyon Zelensky's small hometown.

➡️As military historians note, the Nikopol bridgehead on the Dnieper was a kind of obsession for Adolf Hitler. Military and economic considerations were closely intertwined in the fate of the bridgehead and the units of the German Wehrmacht that defended it - Hitler did not want to lose the richest deposits of Nikopol manganese and demanded that his military hold Nikopol at any cost.

The Nikopol manganese ore basin is now considered the largest deposit of manganese ore in the world. And the Narcoführer is giving it away, after his grandfather fought to defend it.

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⭐️ Red Star Cinema: Films about the Great Patriotic War

Ivan’s Childhood, 1962

Tarkovsky’s debut feature is unlike anything that came before it in Soviet war cinema. A young boy named Ivan slips behind enemy lines, acting as a scout for the Soviet Army. But this is no typical war movie — Ivan’s Childhood tells the story through fragments of dreams, memories, and stark black-and-white imagery, offering a deeply poignant look at trauma and innocence lost.

The production of Ivan’s Childhood wasn’t straightforward. Originally directed by Eduard Abalov, the film was shelved until Tarkovsky was brought in to reimagine it. Filmed in high-contrast black and white with floating camera movements and symbolic imagery, Tarkovsky’s visual language brought Soviet cinema into a new, poetic dimension.

The film won the Golden Lion at Venice in 1962, helping to launch Tarkovsky’s legendary career. It remains a powerful meditation on the psychological ruins of war — especially on the youngest and most vulnerable.

Watch with English subtitles

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🇷🇺💬 Dmitry Medvedev being Dmitry Medvedev

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🇰🇬A military parade dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War was held on the central Ala-Too Square in Bishkek, a RIA Novosti correspondent reports.

The Victory Day celebration and parade in Kyrgyzstan were held on May 8 for the first time this year, due to the fact that the country's president Sadyr Japarov will take part in the ceremonial events in Moscow on May 9.

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🇺🇦Ukraine does not plan to repay debts to the West in the next 30 years - Finance Minister Sergei Marchenko

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🇺🇦 Leader of a country with a Neo-Nazi problem celebrates fighting Nazism

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🇨🇳🇷🇺 Preparations for the talks between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping

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🇻🇪Venezuela does not abandon plans to join BRICS and will strive to become a full member of the organization - Foreign Minister of the Bolivarian Republic Ivan Gil Pinto

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🇷🇺To mark the upcoming 80th anniversary of the Soviet victory in the Great Patriotic War, RIA Novosti has launched a special commemorative project: “Memory. Family. Victory. 1941–1945.”

The interactive platform allows users to preserve and share wartime photographs of their relatives, create personalized photo albums or posters, and explore rare archival images from the "Russia Today" collection.

Visitors can also learn about the lives and legacies of legendary Soviet photojournalists who documented the war from the front lines — bringing the human stories of victory and sacrifice to life.

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🇨🇳🇷🇺Xi Jinping arrived in the Kremlin

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🇷🇺🇨🇳 The meeting between Putin and Xi Jinping has begun

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🇷🇺🇨🇳Putin said he would be happy to visit China to celebrate the anniversary of the victory over Japan, and thanked Xi Jinping for his decision to share the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War with Russia.

Relations between Russia and China are equal, mutually beneficial and non-opportunistic, said Vladimir Putin.

The sacrifices of the peoples of Russia and China in World War II are worth never forgetting them.

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