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Trump’s envoy Witkoff to visit Russia this week
APA ^ | 4/22/2025 | Staff

Posted on 04/22/2025 7:32:55 AM PDT by marcusmaximus

U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, is scheduled to visit Russia this week, Yuri Ushakov, aide to the Russian President confirmed this news, APA reports.

Ushakov stated that Witkoff plans to visit Moscow in the coming days.

(Excerpt) Read more at en.apa.az ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: putin; russia

1 posted on 04/22/2025 7:32:55 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

Big Ukraine strike today

Video
The Russian 51st GRAU ammunition depot near Kirzhach, Vladimir region, in Russia experienced a massive explosion
https://rumble.com/v6sf7md-massive-explosion-in-vladimir-region-near-moscow.html

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Russia’s 51st GRAU arsenal suffered a violent series of secondary explosions this afternoon as a mix of stored munitions cooked off
https://rumble.com/v6sf9hj-russias-51st-grau-arsenal-suffered-a-violent-series-of-secondary-explosion.html


2 posted on 04/22/2025 7:41:04 AM PDT by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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To: marcusmaximus

Witkoff is in way over his head. He is a real estate investor from Manhattan. That’s it.


3 posted on 04/22/2025 8:03:37 AM PDT by montag813
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Right....just like President Trump....Fire them both!!


4 posted on 04/22/2025 8:39:58 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: marcusmaximus

I suspect that Witkoof “negotiates” nothing, that he repeats what foreign negotiators say to him, over the phone to Trump, and Trump gets back to him to tell him what to say next.


5 posted on 04/22/2025 9:56:26 AM PDT by Wuli (.)
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To: Wuli

My Dad always said the U.S. will win the war and U.S politicians negotiations will lose the peace.


6 posted on 04/22/2025 1:16:05 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Please pray for God 's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇸)
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“Witkoff is in way over his head. He is a real estate investor from Manhattan. That’s it.”

Where is JD?


7 posted on 04/22/2025 1:19:15 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Please pray for God 's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇸)
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>>>>Where is JD?<<<<

At his boss's side, helping him defend AMERICANS against grifters like your favorite dictator, Zelensky.

vancetrumpzelenskythankingpresident

8 posted on 04/22/2025 2:02:58 PM PDT by bimboeruption ((“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023) )
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To: Wuli

ARTICLE

How Ukraine’s 2.5-bn-year-old rock deposit became central to helping stop Russia: The minerals have become central to global politics. Munira Raji reports
Monday 21 April 2025 11:50 BST
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-minerals-deal-b2736681.html

“Ukraine’s minerals have become central to global geopolitics, with the US president, Donald Trump, seeking a deal with Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky to access them.

On 17 April, the Ukrainian officials announced they had signed an outline of a minerals deal with the US and said a final accord could be reached by the end of next week.

Ukrainian economy minister, Yulia Svyrydenko, took to X and shared photos of her and US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, signing the outline of the preliminary minerals deal separately.

WHAT ARE THESE MINERALS EXACTLY AND WHY ARE THEY SO SOUGHT AFTER?

Ukraine is often recognised for its vast agricultural lands and industrial heritage, but beneath its surface lies one of the world’s most remarkable geological formations, the “Ukrainian Shield”.

This massive, exposed crystalline rock formed over 2.5 billion years ago, stretches across much of Ukraine. It represents one of Earth’s oldest and most stable continental blocks.

The formation has undergone multiple episodes of mountain building, the formation and movement of magma and other change throughout time.”


9 posted on 04/22/2025 6:29:12 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Please pray for God 's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇸)
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To: bimboeruption
Another amusing thread bubbles along. "Scary" JD Vance is now wanted to play a bigger role, according to some?

The whole "Biden's war" -- recalling that Biden declared Putin had lost in 2023 -- is not Trump's to win or lose, though much of the media is avid that President Trump win it for Zelensky.

But a European leader has spoken clearly, and it is worth recalling:

“500 million Europeans are asking 300 million Americans to defend them against 140 million Russians. [...] Europe today lacks the belief that we are truly a global force.”

Polish PM Donald Tusk, speaking before his flight to London for the European Ukraine summit:

The Polish Prime Minister has let the proverbial cat our of the bag. And Tusk is an important European, when one recalls he also served as the President of the European Council and the leader of the European People's Party. He also stated for Poland as for Europe as a whole:

Ask not of America what it can do for our security. Ask yourselves what we can do for our own security,” Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, whose country holds the EU presidency, said, paraphrasing a quote from U.S. President John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address in 1961.

EU needs to end its military dependency on the US and arm itself ‘to survive,’ says Tusk AP, 22 January 2025

Yup.
10 posted on 04/23/2025 5:30:11 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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Another amusing thread bubbles along. "Scary" JD Vance is now wanted to play a bigger role, according to some?

Yes, zeepers hate J.D. Vance because he delivered the long overdue ass-kicking to their hero, that little grifter Zidget when nobody else had had the cojones to do so.

They hate Trump too, but they keep that under wraps for the most part because they know it could bring on the zotning. ⚡️

11 posted on 04/23/2025 8:40:53 AM PDT by Allegra (Strategic initiatives )
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