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Sydney media personality Simeon Boikov takes to the air offering his perspective on local and international affairs. Support the Aussie Cossack's fight- PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/AussieCossackAU https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Aussiecossack
❗️Russia and Ukraine have carried out another exchange of fallen soldiers.
Moscow received the remains of 41 personnel, while 1,000 bodies were transferred to Ukraine.
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❗️Tucker Carlson to Trump:
If you have the strongest army in the world, why can't you make Iran open the Strait of Hormuz?
We are actually not as powerful as we said.
How did this "primitive country" just humiliate us?
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❗️Saudi Arabia and Iran foreign ministers hold first call since start of war: Saudi ministry
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❗️Footballer penalised with "Blue Card" for Speaking Russian in Ukrainian League Match
A controversial incident occurred in a Ukraine Media League match between teams Ultimate and Armat, when Ultimate midfielder Serhiy Donets was shown a blue card for communicating in Russian.
Sergey Donets, born in Nikopol in 1995 made his senior debut for Nikopol and is 30 years old.
The blue card rule means the player must leave the pitch for five minutes, and his team cannot substitute another player during that time.
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❗️Trump has urged NATO allies to quickly "present concrete plans to ensure navigation and help secure the Strait of Hormuz,"
According to Bloomberg, Trump requested the plans during conversations with NATO's Secretary General Mark Rutte yesterday. The US wants the allies plans within days.
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❗️Trump ordered all U.S. military assets in the Middle East to remain in place until a final aggreement with Iran is done.
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❗️According to the Wall Street Journal, the White House is exploring options to respond to NATO allies that President Trump feels did not fully support the United States and Israel during the Iran conflict.
Officials are discussing the possibility of relocating U.S. troops from countries such as Spain, Germany, Italy, and France, and redeploying them to nations especially in Eastern Europe considered more aligned with Washington’s position.
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❗️I served with Bishop Nikita from Chernovtsi in 2008 when he was still a Hierodeacon. He was present at the service when Metropolitan Onufrey tonsured me a reader so imagine my shock reading this story of how Bishop Nikita escaped from Zelensky's recruiters!
Bishop Nikita of Ivano-Frankivsk looked like a high-stakes sting operation: his car was intercepted outside the city, followed by claims he was "wanted," and a forced escort by two police cruisers. However, the Bishop managed a tactical maneuver that likely saved him from a TCC (military enlistment office) cell.
As the convoy passed the Holy Spirit Cathedral, his car suddenly swerved onto church grounds, and the gates were slammed shut behind him.
The situation reached a peak of absurdity when the recruitment officers began shouting that the Church had "kidnapped" their colleague (who was inside the car with the Bishop).
The provocation failed; the officer eventually left the cathedral quietly, unable to find a legal pretext to continue the confrontation.
⛓️ A Growing List of Detentions
Bishop Nikita was fortunate, but the nationwide statistics are chilling. The list of UOC (Ukrainian Orthodox Church) clergy falling victim to arbitrary detention is growing weekly:
Archpriest Alexander Chernyadyev (Kryvyi Rih Diocese);
Maxim Moskalchuk (Khmelnytskyi Diocese);
Archpriest Alexander Itsenko (Kyiv, St. Cyril’s Monastery);
Konstantin Volovoy (Cherkasy Diocese) — a father of five children;
Archbishop Andrei of Petropavlovsk (Dnipropetrovsk Diocese);
Archpriest Vasily Dragun (Zakarpattia).
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❗️Netanyahu:
The temporary ceasefire with Iran does not include Lebanon.
Today, we have given Hezbollah the strongest blow they have suffered since the pagers.
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❗️"This is not the end of our campaign. We are ready to return to fighting; our finger is on the trigger." - Netanyahu.
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❗️US airstrikes currently taking place against Tehran, the capital of Iran - Mehr News
The 2 week ceasefire lasted 12 hours.
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❗️A White House official says that the 10-point peace plan that Iran publicly released on Wednesday differs from the plan that Trump said was a "workable basis on which to negotiate."
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❗️Trump wants to charge a fee for ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz in a joint venture with Iran- ABC News
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❗️Trump:
Because of Hezbollah. Lebanon was not included in the deal. That'll get taken care of too. It's alright - PBS News
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❗️Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov noted the stature of Vladimir Zhirinovsky, emphasizing that many of his political predictions are "studied by the entire country."
Politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky died on April 6, 2022. Since his death, his numerous statements and predictions about the development of the situation in the world as a whole, as well as in Ukraine, the Middle East, and the United States, have been remembered.
"Many of his statements are currently being studied by the entire country. Many of them are proving prophetic, one might say, including his analysis of the situation in the Middle East," Peskov said in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda radio station.
Peskov also emphasized that Zhirinovsky was known "as a man who had an impeccable and meticulous understanding of all the intricacies of international politics."
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❗️Iran says it will send a delegation to peace talks in Islamabad, but will only take part if Israel halts its attacks on Lebanon.
Tehran stressed that any regional peace deal must include Lebanon, adding that the coming hours will be crucial. It also revealed it held back a planned response last night to allow room for diplomacy.
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❗️Ukraine, with the assistance of the Norwegian Navy, is preparing terrorist attacks against Russian ships in the Barents and Norwegian Seas - TASS
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❗️A meeting with Putin may take place in the USA or in the Middle East - Zelensky
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❗️Iranian Deputy FM Khatibzadeh tells BBC that "The United States must choose between a ceasefire or allowing Israel to strike Lebanon, they can't have cake and eat it."
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❗️Iranian delegation will arrive in Islamabad tonight for serious talks based on 10 points proposed by Iran - Iranian Ambassador to Pakistan
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❗️The Telegraph: Russian frigate escorts two tankers through the English Channel
The Russian frigate "Admiral Grigorovich" escorted two oil tankers through the English Channel. This happened a month after Kir Starmer threatened to seize Russian ships.
The British Prime Minister was publicly humiliated: no attempts were made to stop the convoy.
"The Russian frigate escorted two 'shadow fleet' tankers, while a British military ship followed them at a distance," reports The Telegraph.
Starmer stated in March that he would order special forces to seize Russian tankers. However, since then, Britain has not confiscated a single vessel.
This time, the Royal Navy simply watched as the Russian military ship sailed along the southern coast of England.
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❗️Trump confirms the end of NATO and hints that he will attack Greenland next.
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❗️Karoline Leavitt:
"Iran has agreed to open the Strait of Hormuz."
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❗️Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi:
The Iran–U.S. Ceasefire terms are clear and explicit: the U.S. must choose—ceasefire or continued war via Israel. It cannot have both.
The world sees the massacres in Lebanon. The ball is in the U.S. court, and the world is watching whether it will act on its commitments.
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❗️We still have some goals to accomplish, and we will achieve them either through agreement or through renewal of the war; we are ready to do so whenever necessary - Netanyahu
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❗️Trump says that unauthorized people are spreading false claims about U.S.–Iran negotiations.
He insists only official points matter, discussions are happening privately, and misleading sources (like certain media reports) lack real authority.
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❗️BREAKING:
Iran told mediators it will only join planned talks with the U.S. in Islamabad if a cease-fire is reached in Lebanon - WSJ
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❗️President Trump told NYP that in-person peace talks with Iran could happen “very soon,” likely in Pakistan.
Trump said that JD Vance may not attend due to “a question of safety, security,” saying the delegation could include “Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, JD — maybe JD, I don’t know.”
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❗️Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif:
"Violations of ceasefire have been reported at few places across the conflict zone which undermine the spirit of peace process. I earnestly and sincerely urge all parties to exercise restraint and respect the ceasefire for two weeks, as agreed upon, so that diplomacy can take a lead role towards peaceful settlement of the conflict."
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❗️Former Deputy Head of the Kursk Region Alexey Dedov was sentenced to 17 years in a maximum-security penal colony and a fine of 450 million rubles in a bribery case, according to TASS.
He accepted money for business patronage, along with former Governor Smirnov.
⏳Keep going... don't stop. Arrest all the corrupt officials who embezzled Russian government money during the SMO! Some of these corrupt bureaucrats are reading our channel. WE HOPE YOU ARE NEXT I.N.A.
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