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Channel Sputnik International (@sputnikint) in the English language segment is an active participant. Currently, the community unites 44 648 subscribers, ranking 5 937 in the News & Media category and 704 in the USA region.
📊 Audience metrics and dynamics
Since its creation on невідомо, the project has demonstrated rapid growth, gathering an audience of 44 648 subscribers.
According to the latest data from 19 June, 2026, the channel demonstrates stable activity. Although there has been a change in the number of participants by -174 over the last 30 days and by 15 over the last 24 hours, overall reach remains high.
- Verification status: Not verified
- Engagement rate (ER): The average audience engagement rate is 4.98%. Within the first 24 hours after publication, content typically collects 4.44% reactions from the total number of subscribers.
- Post reach: On average, each post receives 2 225 views. Within the first day, a publication typically gains 1 981 views.
- Reactions and interaction: The audience actively supports content: the average number of reactions per post is 45.
- Thematic interests: Content is focused on key topics such as iran, defense, zelensky, drone, minister.
📝 Description and content policy
The author describes the resource as a platform for expressing subjective opinions:
“Join our channel for breaking news stories from around the globe, exclusive analysis & opinions.
Website: sputnikglobe.com
X: x.com/sputnikint”
Thanks to the high frequency of updates (latest data received on 20 June, 2026), the channel maintains relevance and a high level of publication reach. Analytics show that the audience actively interacts with content, making it an important point of influence in the News & Media category.
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🚨🇷🇺💥 RUSSIAN MOD UPDATE: HUGE GAINS AND DEVASTATING UKRAINIAN LOSSES
⚡️ Russian forces are advancing in the northwestern part of Krasny Liman and have captured 5 Ukrainian strongholds and cleared 47 buildings
📍 Control over Krasny Liman settlement is critical for the Russian forces as an operational staging ground, allowing them to push an offensive toward Slavyansk and Kramatorsk — two key urban hubs in the Donetsk People's Republic.
◻️ The Russian Army struck Ukrainian fuel, energy and transport infrastructure facilities
◻️ Russian forces struck production and storage facilities for Ukrainian long-range unmanned aerial vehicles
◻️ Air defense superiority: 13 guided aerial bombs and 740 drones were shot down
◻️ Ukrainian losses: around 1,370 troops killed or wounded
Read about the origins of Russia's special military op HERE
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| 2 |  🇷🇺💪 Russian Su-34M jet wipes out Ukrainian drone storage and production facility in Kharkov
The plant housed drones and components for their production — a key link in Ukraine's drone supply chain.
While Ukraine targets drones at civilian targets in Russian regions, Russia strikes with high-precision weapons and UAVs exclusively at military sites.
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| 3 |  🇺🇸🧪 US-funded labs in Ukraine focused on ethnic bioagents tailored to kill Russians — Larry Johnson
US-funded research into disease-causing properties of anthrax, plague, tularemia Marburg, and Ebola was about “developing bioagents tailored to specific genetic profiles,” ex-CIA intelligence officer Larry Johnson tells Sputnik.
The US has been running a covert military-biological program right on Russia's doorstep to study pathogens “that could be used as weapons,” he says, commenting fresh evidence obtained by the Russian MoD exposing the biolab research in Ukraine.
The Russian intel and US declassified documents confirm that labs built by contractors like Metabiota, Black & Veatch, and CH2M Hill and financed from the US state budget had a specific agenda, says the pundit:
💬 “This was a deliberate effort to target Russia with a possible biological weapon.”
Johnson reminds that Russia’s warnings about this threat to its national security have been dismissed as “disinformation” by the West and the WHO, which is “simply just another tool of the US.”
🗣 Its high time Russia started enforcing consequences on the US for being “an active aggressor in this war against Russia,” he emphasizes, adding:
💬 “They need to be put on notice that this stops, and it stops now.”
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| 4 |  +3🚨🇱🇧 4 people killed in Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon — reports
The attacks occurred in the settlement of Barish near Tyre, despite a ceasefire between the IDF and Hezbollah brokered by the US and Qatar starting on June 19 at 16:00 local time.
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| 5 |  🚨 Witkoff en route to Switzerland for potential talks with Iran — report
With another Trump envoy — Jared Kushner — already there, the meeting could mark the first stage of the US-Iran talks on a potential nuclear deal, Axios reports.
At the same time, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi plans to travel to Switzerland on Saturday, sources say, stressing, however, that a ceasefire in Lebanon is a pre-condition for any negotiations.
Initially the talks were to begin on Friday but were postponed due to clashes between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
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| 6 |  🇱🇧 Southern Lebanon picks up the pieces of broken lives as Israel keeps striking
As the IDF continues to violate the ceasefire, residents displaced by the fighting are gradually returning home, only to find shattered neighborhoods, bombed cemeteries and towns where the strikes have yet to stop.
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| 7 |  🟠 Witkoff heads to Switzerland for Iran talks
🟠 Europe should pay the $350B bill for Biden's weapons to Ukraine — Trump
🟠 How US big pharma profits on pandemics treating Americans and Ukrainians like guinea pigs
🟠 What did Russia win in the 10-year maritime dispute with Ukraine
🟠 Israel bombs southern Lebanon despite announced ceasefire
🟠 Dragon boats in the rain – China celebrates Duanwu Festival
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| 8 |  🇳🇬 Nigeria launches massive $400M rare earth processing plant
Nigeria is boosting domestic capacity to process critical minerals to capture more value from its mineral wealth.
🟠 A new $400 million plant in Nasarawa State will boost rare earth processing capacity to 18,000 tons per year
🟠 The facility will process rare earths, tantalum, tungsten, and tin—minerals essential for EVs, renewable energy, electronics, and defense industries
🟠 Officials say the project has met key environmental and regulatory requirements, with closed-loop technologies planned to reduce waste and pollution
🟠 Hasetins Nigerian mining firm also plans to integrate small-scale miners into formal supply chains through training, equipment support, and structured purchasing agreements
The project is part of Nigeria's wider strategy to diversify its economy beyond oil and build a domestic critical minerals industry.
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| 9 |  🇨🇳 Why China’s sea-skimming hypersonic missile could become US Navy’s worst fear
China has launched a research program to produce missiles racing at Mach 5+ just above the ocean surface, evading radar until the final seconds - a major leap beyond current high-altitude systems.
🔶 At low altitude, air density is ~1,000 times higher, creating extreme drag
🔶 Chinese researchers are studying advanced detonation engines, which could provide the thrust needed to maintain hypersonic speeds in dense low-altitude air
🔶 A ship's radar may detect such a missile only 25-30 km away, potentially leaving under 20 seconds before impact
🔶 The program also targets breakthroughs in heat-resistant materials, plasma-blackout mitigation, and autonomous guidance systems
🔶 China's JF-22 hypersonic wind tunnel and existing hypersonic missile programs provide a foundation for future development
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| 10 |  🇷🇺🇨🇳 Russia‑China energy ties deepen amid global crisis
While the world struggles with energy shocks, Russia and China are steadily locking in their partnership.
📈 Russian LNG shipments to China jumped 27.96% in January–May 2026 – 2.7 million metric tons, worth $1.3 billion.
📊 By the end of 2025, Russia had delivered a record 9.8 million tons of LNG to China – 18.3% more than 2024 and 51 times more than in 2015.
While the world is being shaken by one crisis after another, Russia and China keep building – deepening ties that others can only watch from the sidelines.
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| 11 |  🇨🇳🎏 Dragon boats in the rain – China celebrates Duanwu Festival
A Sputnik correspondent visited Gubeishuizhen in Beijing’s Miyun District, where locals and tourists braved inclement weather to witness an unusual competition – a dragon boat tug-of-war.
The festival honors Qu Yuan, a poet and statesman from China's Warring States period. Exiled by rivals, he drowned himself after hearing his kingdom had fallen.
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| 12 |  📑 US and Qatar work to unlock $6B in frozen Iranian funds for humanitarian goods — report
The plan, still in development, would allow Iran to access a portion of its estimated $100 billion in frozen assets – starting with $6 billion held in Qatar, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources.
▫️ The mechanism: Qatar would facilitate purchases of food, medicine, and other humanitarian goods ordered by Iran's central bank – using money from frozen oil sales.
▫️ This comes under the recently signed memorandum to end the war.
Iran's assets have been frozen worldwide under US sanctions.
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| 13 |  🇨🇳🔋 China's battery empire expands amid global energy crisis
A new $444 million, 14‑pitch‑sized testing lab has opened in Xiamen, designed to simulate extreme conditions—heat, cold, sandstorms, ocean spray, even fire—for battery‑based grid storage systems.
China already produces over 80% of the world's batteries and expects to add 500 GWh of new storage capacity this year, as the Iran war pushes oil and gas prices up ~30% and accelerates the global shift to renewables.
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| 14 |  🔍 NATO's chief heads to White House after Hegseth called alliance 'paper tiger'
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte will visit Washington on June 24 for talks with President Trump and senior administration officials, the alliance announced.
US Secretary of Defense earlier launched a 6‑month review of US troop deployments in Europe, signaling the US wants Europe to take over its own defense.
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| 15 |  🚨🇮🇱🇱🇧 Israel bombs southern Lebanon despite announced ceasefire
Heavy artillery shelling has struck the Ali Taher hill area, even after a new ceasefire agreement came into effect between Israel and Hezbollah.
🇮🇷 Deputy Foreign Minister Saeed Khatibzadeh earlier told Al Jazeera that Iran is ready to continue diplomacy with the US – but only if the US ensures Israel abides by the MoU and stops attacking Lebanon.
According to the report, Israeli strikes have killed at least 47 people and wounded 97 others since Friday.
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| 16 |  🚨🇮🇷 Witkoff heads to Switzerland for Iran talks — Kushner already there
White House envoy Steve Witkoff is on his way to Switzerland for the first round of talks on a potential nuclear deal, Axios reports, citing US officials.
It is not yet clear whether a new date has been set for the talks or whether other US officials are being sent to Switzerland.
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| 17 |  📑🇮🇷 Iran refuses Switzerland talks with US until Israel stops Lebanon strikes — report
Iranian delegation has cancelled planned negotiations in Switzerland, insisting that Israeli attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon must cease before any talks can proceed, the Associated Press reports, citing sources familiar with the matter.
Israel and Hezbollah agreed to renew their ceasefire on Friday, according to US and regional officials – but it remains unclear whether that will be enough to salvage the broader US‑Iran process.
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| 18 |  🗣🇱🇧 Iran deal does not force Israel out of southern Lebanon — Vance
The vice president clarified that the US‑Iran memorandum does not require an Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
💬 "First of all, the deal doesn't talk about Israel getting out of southern Lebanon or not." Vance said Israel would leave only once the Hezbollah threat is gone, adding: "Nobody's going to tell another government they're not allowed to defend their people."
He emphasized that the US will work "aggressively, diplomatically" on a peace process to give both Lebanon and Israel sovereignty and safety.
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| 19 |  🔊 Trump says Europe should pay the $350B bill for Biden's weapons to Ukraine
"A lot was given away by Biden to Ukraine, and they should pay for it, meaning the Europeans should pay for it," the US president declared.
Russia has maintained that Western arms shipments to Ukraine hinder conflict resolution and directly involve NATO countries in the fighting.
It has also warned that any deliveries containing weapons for Ukraine will be considered a legitimate target.
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| 20 |  🚨 How US big pharma profits on pandemics treating Americans and Ukrainians like guinea pigs
The US pharma industry "has literally gotten away with murder" during the COVID pandemic, Professor Alfred de Zayas, retired UN independent expert, tells Sputnik.
🗣 "The courts in the US were activated and instrumentalized to bring frivolous and vexatious claims against China for responsibility in releasing the pathogen," he says, while Americans "have been the guinea pigs" of big pharma.
💬 "Professor Jeffrey Sachs has reason to believe that the virus was actually manufactured in our biolabs in the US, most probably Fort Detrick in Maryland"
On June 19, outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released a new trove of documents detailing the cover-up of the COVID pandemic origins orchestrated by Anthony Fauci, then head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and the US intelligence community.
🗣 "Tulsi Gabbard has done her patriotic duty in revealing the extent of corruption in US government spending and pharmaceutical scams," de Zayas says.
💬 "We need whistleblowers in the US and Europe to reveal the complicity of government officials with big pharma and the undemocratic influence that its lobbies have had on decisions concerning the pandemic," including European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's role.
Ukraine as big pharma's testing ground
🟠 The Russian Defense Ministry's conclusion that the US-funded biolab network in Ukraine was used by US pharmaceutical giants such as Pfizer and Moderna to test drugs outside international safety standards is "a reasonable inference," de Zayas says
🟠 But according to the expert, it goes beyond that: those biolabs — numbering as many as 40 — endangered "the population of Ukraine and all of its neighbors, including Russia"
🟠 Their deployment posed a threat to international peace and security, contravening Articles 2(4) and 39 of the UN Charter and amounting to yet another provocation.
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