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🇩🇪🇷🇸🇷🇺 German outlet Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung says it "regrets" the scandal caused by its journalist Michael Martens, who asked Zelensky what "we Europeans can specifically do to help you kill more Russians — more Russian soldiers."
FAZ's press office told German agencies dpa and epd that the question was "phrased ambiguously, which we regret," claiming Martens was actually referring to expert debates on how to create personnel difficulties for the Russian army in order to force Russia into peace talks.
FAZ insists its editorial position is not that as many Russian soldiers as possible should be killed, but that it "supports Ukraine's right to self-defense guaranteed under international law and the swiftest possible end to Russia's war of aggression."
"Freedom of speech includes the right to ask questions, especially at a press conference," FAZ concluded.
The outlet noted Martens has received threats since the scandal broke, and said it would pursue legal action in response.
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🇨🇳 China has launched its first regular container route through the Arctic — the "Ice Silk Road" — connecting ports in China with the UK via Russia's Northern Sea Route, the Financial Times reports.
Chinese shipping company Sea Legend's new service links Ningbo to Felixstowe, cutting the usual 40-day voyage roughly in half — down to about 20 days — while bypassing chokepoints like the Red Sea, where security risks remain elevated.
Melting Arctic ice is making the route increasingly viable, though strict Russian regulation, harsh conditions, and limited rescue infrastructure remain challenges, per FT.
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🇫🇮❌🇺🇦 Finland does not intend to provide Ukraine with Patriot missiles, stated the country's Minister of Defense Antti Häkkänen in an interview with the Finnish newspaper Ilta-Sanomat.
According to him, this would jeopardize the combat readiness of Finland's air defense system.
"We have already done everything possible to help Ukraine, and even more than we initially planned, but we, as a country bordering Russia, cannot put our future combat readiness in the field of air defense at risk," Häkkänen said.
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🇺🇦 Democratic mobilization in Ukraine - Zelensky's thugs grabbed the man, and prevented the women from helping him
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🇬🇧🇺🇦😁 Well, she's right - Ukraine-level of corruption is a completely different level
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📆 On this day, exactly 12 years ago, on August 7, 2014, one of the fiercest battles in the fight against Ukrainian aggression began - the Battle for the city of Ilovaisk.
📍 Ukrainian militants expected to quickly take control of the city and encircle Donetsk, but they encountered fierce resistance from the DPR militia, got surrounded, and were forced to leave the city with heavy losses.
🇷🇺 Today, militia fighters continue to defend the Donetsk People's Republic from the aggression of the Kiev regime as part of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
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🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦 Trump on Russia-Ukraine...
Basically the same talking points we've been hearing for a year now.
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🇺🇸🇺🇦 "Well, we want missiles too." - The Cheeto-in-Chief when asked if he will send Zelensky some interceptors for Patriots.
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🇪🇺🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺 EU countries refuse to hand over Patriot interceptors to Ukraine, fearing depletion of their own stockpiles — Washington Post citing sources.
"European governments, Ukraine's main military sponsors, are reluctant to transfer additional Patriot systems, fearing it could weaken their own defense. Earlier this year the Trump administration pushed several European countries to send Kiev Patriot missiles, but some refused over the same concerns," the article states.
A former senior Ukrainian official said "the situation is genuinely bad," predicting a "worst-case scenario" this winter.
"There are no interceptors right now, and in the coming months I don't believe we'll find them in significant quantities. This matters, and even if we get some quantities, it won't be enough, because Russia has far more ballistic missiles," he said.
Recall — during yesterday's attack on Kiev and the region, not a single missile was intercepted.
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🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️Sen. John Fetterman:
Our nation has a very special responsibility to protect and support Israel.
We are the Democrats. We have progressive values. Israel is the nation that has similar values in that entire region.
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🇨🇳China unveils footage of a simulated nuclear strike from the air for the first time
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🇪🇸🇲🇦 At least 72,000 migrants have entered Ceuta since late July. Around 70,000 of them have already left the city and headed toward Morocco — Spanish Interior Minister Grande-Marlaska says.
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🇺🇦 Zaluzhny says Ukraine will never join NATO
Former AFU commander-in-chief and current ambassador to the UK Valery Zaluzhny told an ambassadors' meeting in Kiev that Ukraine will never become a NATO member — despite over a decade of promises.
"I know NATO very well. For about 12 years I personally worked on getting us to adopt NATO standards, and every year I heard fairy tales that we're about to join NATO any day now. Unfortunately, we will never join it," Zaluzhny said.
He also gave a scathing assessment of NATO's actual military capability — despite the alliance including the UK, US and other major powers — suggesting the bloc will likely stay exactly as it is while Ukraine spends another 12 years chasing standards just to reach half the level of the Russian Federation.
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🇺🇦💥 The transportation infrastructure in the Odessa region has been attacked: a fire broke out, and six people were injured, according to the regional administration.
Earlier, it was reported that there was an attack on Chornomorsk.
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— 🇮🇷/🇸🇦/🇹🇷/🇵🇰 Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman:
‘There is no reason for us to be concerned that this pact between the two neighboring countries of Turkey and Pakistan, as well as Saudi Arabia, three countries with which we share deep religious, historical, and civilizational bonds, is against Iran.
The history of our friendship with the nations of Turkey and Pakistan, as two neighboring Muslim countries, is long-standing and known to everyone.
This development is an important sign of a shift in regional priorities and we have always supported alliances between Muslims.’
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🇮🇹 New rival on the right is forcing Meloni to face her own base — over Ukraine
Italy's PM is hardening her rhetoric on migration and security ahead of elections that could come as early as next spring. Her bigger headache: retired general Roberto Vannacci, who broke from the League to found his own hard-right party, "National Future" — arguing Ukraine should accept a peace deal with Russia and opposing further military aid to Kiev.
Vannacci had served as Italy's military attaché in Moscow until the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, and his new party has already pulled seven members away from Meloni's coalition.
Meloni still styles herself as an unwavering Ukraine ally, but that position is growing harder to hold inside her own camp — League and Vannacci both slam continued support for Kiev and rising defense spending. Telling: over four years Italy has committed roughly €3 billion to Ukraine but has stayed out of NATO's PURL arms-purchase scheme.
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🇺🇦 People in Chernigov are also starting to complain about empty shelves. Zelensky's plan to force Russia to accept peace was a success!
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🇺🇦 Zelensky claims Russia plans to deploy up to 50,000 North Korean troops on its territory — a sharp jump from earlier figures that started in the hundreds, then rose to thousands.
According to Zelensky, Moscow has now decided on a North Korean troop presence of 30,000 to 50,000.
This is the latest in a string of escalating estimates from Kiev — Zelensky previously cited 10,000, then 30,000 North Korean personnel, with each new figure unaccompanied by supporting evidence.
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🇦🇲💬 Armenia understands that simultaneous membership in the EAEU and the EU is impossible, stated Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan at an expanded meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council in Kyrgyzstan.
"Armenia has taken note of the statement by the leaders of the four EAEU states on May 29, 2026, which expressed support for holding a referendum in Armenia on the issue of the country's accession to the EAEU. As you know, in 2025, Armenia adopted a law on the commencement of the republic's accession to the EU. We understand that simultaneous membership in the EAEU and the EU is impossible. But the very fact of the adoption of this law does not mean that Armenia today has the opportunity to become a member of the EU," he said.
🇷🇺 Wildberries Press Service:
Firefighting crews are currently working at the company's logistics facility in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk region, following an attack that caused a fire.
A precautionary evacuation was carried out at the facility. The acceptance of current deliveries has been temporarily suspended, and they are being redirected to other facilities.
🇺🇸🇮🇷 The Cheeto-in-Chief says the Strait of Hormuz is "sort of open." 🤷♂️
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🇷🇺☦️ On August 6, 2024, Ukrainian forces crossed into Russia's Kursk Oblast. At Gornal Monastery - located less than a kilometer from the Ukrainian border - Father Igor Vasyukov and Hieromonk Milety Pestunov were serving the Divine Liturgy when a tank shell hit directly under the balcony.
Chris sat down with both priests to hear what happened in full.
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🇷🇺🔴 Russia liberated Zarnitsa in the Zaporozhye region
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🇺🇸⚡️🇮🇷CNN reported that the U.S. military has used nearly 80% of its THAAD interceptor missiles and around 50% of its Patriot interceptor missiles.
Persian Gulf countries have expressed concern about shortages in air‑defense systems, a problem that affects their ability to respond to potential Iranian retaliation.
🇮🇶🇮🇷 We are HERE, in Karbala, the Holy Shrine of Imam Hussain.
As promised and predicted in many Hadiths: You can't make people forget Ashura.
Ukraine has indeed turned the tide of war:
- it's gotten itself landlocked
- it lost 13 settlements in the span of the month of July
- it lost over 700 sq. km. of land in the same timeframe, the highest since 2025
- it's rationing diesel fuel in the middle of harvest season
- it's gotten 400 gas stations destroyed, not a single one remains between Poltava, Kharkov and Dnepropetrovsk
- it's gotten over 200 locomotives destroyed just this year, which is 15% of its total railroad fleet
- it's gotten 8 Nova Poshta (400 total destroyed), 2 Epicenter (13 total destroyed), and 2 Rozetka market place dual use terminals destroyed or damaged in July
- Zelensky was told to sod off and forget about Patriots or the license to produce them
- Musk refused to meet with him
- Netanyahu refused to hand Ukraine the Iron Dome
- the EU is falling short to deliver the promised $45 bil from $90 bil loan
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Prof. Marandi joins from Tehran to discuss the blistering developments which led to Trump pulling back from the brink of catastrophic war. What about Iran's response had Washington and Gulf countries scrambling? Was Israel's lack of protection a big role in the TACO? We talk all this and more in this must-watch show!
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