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🇷🇺 President Vladimir Putin said early Sunday that Russia has successfully carried out a test of its nuclear-powered intercontinental cruise missile Burevestnik.

Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov told Putin the test took place on Tuesday, with the missile flying 14,000 kilometers (8,700 miles) over the course of about 15 hours.

“The technical characteristics of the Burevestnik allow it to be used with guaranteed precision against highly protected sites located at any distance,” he said.

“It is truly a unique weapon, one that no other country in the world possesses,” Putin said during a visit to one of the command centers of the Russian joint group of forces.

He ordered the preparation of “infrastructure to put this weapon into service in the Russian armed forces.”

Confirmation of the Burevestnik tests follows satellite imagery and navigation warnings in recent months indicating an impending launch.

Putin had said that the invincible Burevestnik has an almost unlimited range and can evade American missile defenses when he unveiled it in 2018.

The Burevestnik, part of Russia's advanced weapons program which NATO designates as SSC-X-9 Skyfall, made headlines in 2019 after a test led to a deadly recovery mission in the Arctic.

The announcement of a successful final test comes as Russian forces slowly but steadily gain ground in Ukraine, grinding through Kyiv's defenses in costly battles.

Peace talks between Moscow and Kyiv have stalled, despite mediation efforts from U.S, President Donald Trump, who had promised to quickly end the war upon his return to the White House in January.

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If this news was from Russia, you will hear "They can't even keep their aircraft's in the air" or "Corruption has eaten so deep in their military that pilots don't have enough training or fuel in their aircraft's"

A 🇺🇸 U.S jet fighter and a helicopter have crashed into the South China Sea within 30 minutes of each other, the US Navy said.

Three crew members of the MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter were rescued after they went down with the aircraft.

Two aviators in the F/A-18F Super Hornet jet fighter ejected and were recovered safely after the plane "went down" while "conducting routine operations".

The navy said the crashes happened about 2:45pm on Sunday, local time.

All five navy personnel "are safe and in stable condition," the navy said in a statement.

The causes of the two crashes were under investigation, the statement said.

The two aircraft are based off the carrier USS Nimitz, which has been deployed in the Middle East and is returning home to Washington.

The carrier is on its final deployment before decommissioning after being a part of the US response to attacks by Yemen's Houthi rebels on commercial shipping.

Another aircraft carrier, the USS Harry S Truman, suffered a series of mishaps in recent months while deployed to the Middle East.

In December, the guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg mistakenly shot down an F/A-18 jet from the Truman.

Then, in April, another F/A-18 jet fighte from the Truman's hangar deck crashed into the Red Sea.

And in May, an F/A-18 jet fighter landing on the carrier in the Red Sea went overboard after apparently failing to catch the steel cables used to stop landing planes and forcing its two pilots to eject.

🇻🇪 Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro has accused the US of "fabricating a new war", after it ordered the world's largest warship to be sent to the Caribbean.

The USS Gerald R Ford carrier can carry up to 90 aircraft and its deployment marks a massive increase in American fire power in the region.

The US has conducted 10 illegal air strikes on boats in the area as part of what it says is a war on drug traffickers.

US President Donald Trump has falsely accused Maduro of being the leader of a drug-trafficking organisation, which he denies, and there are fears in Venezuela that the US military build-up is aimed at removing the long-time opponent of Trump from power.

The US does not recognise Maduro as the president of Venezuela, after the last election in 2024 was widely dismissed internationally, and by the opposition in Venezuela, as neither free nor fair.

Venezuela plays a relatively minor role in the region's drug trade.

In its announcement on Friday, the Pentagon said the USS Gerald R Ford carrier would deploy to the US Southern Command area of responsibility, which includes Central America and South America as well as the Caribbean.

The additional forces "will enhance and augment existing capabilities to disrupt narcotics trafficking and degrade and dismantle transnational criminal organisations", spokesman Sean Parnell said.

In his address, Maduro accused the Americans of seeking "a new eternal war".

"They promised they would never again get involved in a war, and they are fabricating a war," he told state media.

The carrier's deployment would provide the resources to start conducting strikes against targets on the ground.

Trump has repeatedly raised the possibility of what he called "land action" in Venezuela.

"We are certainly looking at land now, because we've got the sea very well under control," he said earlier this week.

AP News || Al Jazeera

🇺🇸 U.S War Secretary, Pete Hegseth showed up to the White House meeting today with President Zelensky wearing a Russian tricolor flag tie.

These people love Putin and Russia 🇷🇺