🇷🇺💬🇩🇪 Maria Zakharova:

German Vice Chancellor Klingbeil denied German Chancellor Merz's statements about lifting restrictions on the range of weapons supplied to Ukraine.

Take away their "sugar spoon" and "napkin" already! I hope at least these two didn't fight like the Macrons.

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🇾🇪🇮🇱 Missiles have reportedly just been launched from Yemen within the past several minutes, targeting Israel.

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🇺🇸 Trump says he is happy his second term is now

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🇺🇸☦️ BBC is panicking because more and more young Americans are converting to Orthodoxy and don't want to hate Putin.

"Negative American views on Russia are what worry me," one of them says. He tells the BBC the mainstream, "legacy" media presents a distorted picture of the invasion of Ukraine.

"I think there's a holdover from the boomer generation here in America that lived through the Cold War, and I don't quite grasp why - but they say Russia's bad."

The head of the Russian Church in Moscow, Patriarch Kirill, has doggedly backed the invasion of Ukraine, calling it a Holy War, and expressing little compassion for its victims. When I ask Archpriest Father John Whiteford about Russia's top cleric, who many see as a warmonger, he assures me the Patriarch's words have been distorted.

"Footage and photographs of Putin quoting Bible verses, holding candles during services in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour and stripping down to his swim trunks to plunge into icy water at Epiphany, seem to have struck a chord. Some - in America and other countries - see Russia as the last bastion of true Christianity."

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🇷🇺💬🇺🇦The memorandum that the Russian Federation is preparing on Ukraine will contain principles, timeframes for conflict resolution and conditions for a ceasefire — Maria Zakharova

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🇮🇱💥🇵🇸 At least 81 people were killed over the past 24 hours as Israeli strikes hit multiple areas across Gaza.

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🇩🇪🇺🇦 Germany’s Merz Walks Back Statement on Long-Range Weapons for Ukraine

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz clarified that the decision to lift restrictions on the use of Western-supplied long-range weapons by Ukraine had been made “several months ago,” despite announcing it publicly just yesterday.

"Yesterday in Berlin, I simply described something that had already happened months earlier," Merz said during a joint press conference with Finland’s Prime Minister.

He was likely referring to U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision in November 2024 to authorize the delivery of long-range ATACMS missiles to Ukraine — including permission to strike Russian territory.

Notably, Merz also stated that Germany had lifted its own restrictions — despite never previously announcing such a move and having never supplied long-range missiles to Ukraine.

At the same time, social media reports circulated about Berlin potentially approving a shipment of up to 150 Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine. However, Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil publicly denied any change in Germany’s official stance on long-range arms.

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