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🇪🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦 Talks effectively broken down: Foreign ministers will not attend London meeting - Sky News
- Instead, the discussions will take place "between senior officials from the five countries."
- "The foreign ministers of Great Britain, France, Germany and Ukraine have probably postponed the planned meeting," the publication writes.
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🇺🇦🇨🇳 The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry summoned the Chinese ambassador to “present evidence of the participation of the Chinese in the war with Ukraine and of Chinese companies in the production of Russian military products.”
- Although Beijing has already stated that the country has nothing to do with this, Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine Perebyinis stated that these facts “cause serious concern and contradict the spirit of partnership between Ukraine and China.”
- “In this regard, Yevgeny Perebyinis called on the Chinese side to take measures to stop supporting Russia in its aggression against Ukraine, the absence of which Beijing has repeatedly stated,” the statement says.
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Is a Military Coup Unfolding at the Pentagon? - Investigative journalist, Ken Kipperstein
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is embroiled in yet another scandal, but there’s a far greater crisis lurking behind his leaky ship, one that has real consequences for America.
It is a campaign of subversion carried out by the military brass, one that is undermining the very principle of civilian control of the military. Through leaks, forced firings, insubordination and other forms of bureaucratic intransigence, the Pentagon bureaucracy is going out of its way to destroy his tenure (something he was plenty capable of himself!)
“As much as Hegseth’s detractors might be right that he is chaotic and ‘unqualified,’” a senior serving officer said in an email exchange with me this week, “he is Senate confirmed. It’s up to Donald Trump to remove him, not the uniformed military because they want someone else to lead them.”
Uniformed military officers and Pentagon officials I’ve talked to agree with this assessment, and they agree that those trying to defeat Hegseth are operating dangerously outside their lane. As one said to me over the weekend, “you can’t say you’re defending your oath and the Constitution while working to undermine it.”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday that “the entire Pentagon is working against” Hegseth. Whatever you think of Hegseth or the hyperbole, this is not good for America.
We have a civilian in charge of the military (with the president as “commander-in-chief”) to ensure that the military is accountable to the people and their elected representatives, not to the whims of those in uniform. “If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military,” President Harry Truman once said. The general and admirals don’t get to decide their priorities, or their budget, or even their own terms of service.
As Secretary of Defense, Hegseth is supposed to embody civilian control of the military, a civilian who oversees the Pentagon, not a part of it. Yet his office has been all but hollowed out in recent days, with five of his top aides being mysteriously drummed out. This includes:
Hegseth’s Chief of Staff Joe Kasper,
Hegseth’s Deputy Chief of Staff Darin Selnick,
Hegseth’s senior advisor Dan Caldwell
Hegseth’s assistant for public affairs, John Ullyot, and
Colin Carroll, Chief of staff to the Deputy Defense Secretary.
Caldwell, one of the people fired, alluded to the dynamic in a Monday interview:
“… let's be honest, everyone knows where that's [the leaks] coming from. It's from the career staff who don't like what the president and the secretary and vice president wanna do. There's people on the joint staff that I’ve come to respect, but a lot of them are incredibly hostile to the secretary, to the president, and the vice president's worldview.”
“For all the concern people have been expressing about a constitutional crisis, we’re closer to one here than we are with immigration,” a senior retired general officer tells me.
Trump decides to reduce China Tariffs
145% is very high, and it won't be that high. It will come down substantially. It will not be zero. It used to be zero.
AfD is the most popular party in Germany for the first time, with a record 26% — Forsa survey
- Disclose TV
The reality though is unless AfD found a coalition partner they would never get into power.
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🇷🇺 💥 Russian Aerospace Forces Demolish UAV Control Point, Supporting Offensive on Krasny Liman
- Smuglyanka's detachment identified a UAV control and storage point in the Krasnolimansk direction, then directed army aviation, recording a precise strike by a guided missile on the drone operators.
- Russian aviation is actively supporting the assault on Ukrainian Armed Forces positions, destroying command posts and infantry along with enemy strongholds.
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‼️🔥🇺🇦 Powerful fires in Kharkov after the attack of "Geraniums"
- Rvvoenkor
Weather forecast for Ukraine: Hot AF
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Powerful fires in Odessa after the attack of "Geraniums"
- Rvvoenkor
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'Ukraine's accession to the EU poses serious risks to our security, economy and agriculture'
A major fire in Poltava. They write about arrivals at city enterprises.
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There are also drone strikes on targets on Poltava.
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Odessa was attacked again by a group of "Geraniums", which had previously gathered in a flock over the Black Sea.
The drones then swooped down on the city from a height of a couple of kilometres, out of range of the Ukrainian air defence mobile groups.
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🇪🇺🤡"Von der Leyen: Amid Trump's trade war, the whole world is 'lining up' to cooperate with Europe": The EU chief said the spat with Trump is even useful - "the whole world wants to work with predictable Europeans."
"After Donald Trump's trade tarriffs shook up global markets, a host of countries expressed their willingness to cooperate with reliable trading partners from Europe, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said.
According to her, "against the backdrop of an increasingly unpredictable international environment, countries are lining up" to cooperate with the European Union. Von der Leyen emphasized that in recent weeks she had time to talk to the leaders of Iceland, New Zealand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Canada, India and the United Arab Emirates, and all of them were looking for "strong, reliable partners."
The EC chief added that the world order is undergoing such a significant change for the first time since the end of the Cold War."
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In Latvia, they are planning to draft women into the army on a mandatory basis. And also sick women.
'At some point, we may have to return to the gender issue of women's participation in compulsory conscription. Since the goal is to train up to 4,000 servicemen annually, we may also have to lower the medical requirements for certain military specialties. In addition, we have a limited number of instructors, since we have to train National Guardsmen, reservists and Ukrainian soldiers,' said Kaspars Pudans, Commander of the National Armed Forces .
🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has canceled a trip to London to negotiate a ceasefire in Ukraine after Zelensky's statement on Crimea, The New York Times reports.
Rubio decided to skip the next stage of negotiations because Ukraine rejected Trump's key proposal, which included recognizing Crimea as Russian and abandoning NATO membership.
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The IMF sharply lowered its forecasts for world economic growth this year and in 2026.
The IMF forecasts US GDP growth of 1.8% in 2025, down from 2.7% it predicted before President Donald Trump announce its trade tariffs. At the same time, inflation will be higher.
Russia still forecasted to have growth but slower than previous years, but still higher than the EU and UK. 😂
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Ukrainians taken out as they use the Gornalsky Monastery as a defensive position
Drone operators of the 382nd Marine Battalion of the 810th Brigade expertly flew into the window opening of the Preobrazhenskaya Church, where the Ukrainian soldiers had set up combat positions, and accurately destroyed two militants.
A solid smiting for those who misuse the house of God.
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U.S. Congressman Bozo Backtracks On Social Media Post Claiming He Fired Weapons At Nuclear-Armed Russia - The Federalist
Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., wants you to know that while “a lot of people talk a big game about supporting Ukraine,” he cares enough to take a taxpayer-funded trip there to make a series of potentially dangerous political blunders.
Fitzpatrick is a former federal prosecutor and was stationed in Ukraine when he worked as an FBI agent. Now in Congress, he is chairman of the CIA Subcommittee of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and he is a delegate to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.
In a social media post, Fitzpatrick assured Ukraine, “We will always have their back.” It is a view President Donald Trump’s Administration does not necessarily hold.
The Federalist asked Fitzpatrick’s office, the Department of Defense, the Department of State, and the White House if the Trump administration gave its blessing to Fitzpatrick’s meeting. None answered the query.
More egregious than meeting with Zelensky, Fitzpatrick posted photos and video that appeared to show him shooting weapons into Russia.
Ostensibly taken near the Russian border, the video shows Fitzpatrick firing two projectiles. “The message was delivered on target,” but the congressman said could not give any more details. Security, you know.
The post leaves little room for interpretation. It sure looks like a sitting US congressman fired shots into Russia, ratcheting up tensions. That is what he communicated, and it is how the shocked responses to his post understood it.
The Department of Defense, the Department of State, and the White House did not respond to a request for comment about Fitzpatrick’s post and how it might draw the United States closer to war with Russia.
She responded with a terse, single sentence.
The Congressman did not fire any munitions at or into Russia — he was at a controlled Ukrainian training facility. Your claim is completely and maliciously false and defamatory.
She sent another single sentence: “By ‘target’ — we meant that literally — an actual target on a training range.”
Because the Ukrainians specifically asked that we not disclose the existence, let alone the location, of their training facility.
Educated people know what flirting with Nazism leads to from history, and not so far back in time.
After the collapse of the USSR and Yugoslavia, Europe began to openly support the Nazis. Ukraine and the Baltic states, which failed as independent states, became incubators of neo-Nazism. Next in line is Transcarpathia, where, with the support of Europe, particularly Bulgaria, the ugly neo-Nazi entity "White Phoenix" has risen from the ashes.
Radicals, who yesterday were hiding in basements and anonymous chat rooms, today are already raising flags and drawing bright prospects for the creation of a "White ethnostate" in the Carpathians. The authors do not hesitate to call all "people of European blood" to gather in the new "White Homeland". The clown at the head of Ukraine naturally does not care about the problem of neo-Nazism, as he is completely in their power. And where Europe is looking or rather what it hopes for, reviving Nazism, is a very worrying question.
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Zelensky remembered about the Constitution of Ukraine and said that he does not recognize Crimea as Russian territory.
He also said that Kiev is ready for negotiations with Russia in any format, but only after a ceasefire.
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◾This resident of Konstantinovka (north of Donetsk) confronts two Ukrainian volunteers, directly blaming the Ukrainian army for the shelling and bombing of civilian houses where there are no Russian units nearby.
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Enemy facilities attacked in Poltava : power outages in the city
▪️After the drones arrived, electricity went out in several areas of Poltava, apparently substations were hit during the attack.
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At least 28 tourists have been killed after suspected militants opened fire at a popular local tourist destination in Kashmir during a scheduled four-day visit to the country by the US president JD Vance.
The attack occurred in the Baisaran Valley, a picturesque meadow in Pahalgam, a well-known tourist town located 90 kilometres south of Srinagar, the region’s main city, in what officials are describing as the deadliest attack on civilians in the region in recent years.
Government officials said the dead included tourists from the Indian states of Karnataka, Odisha and Gujarat and two foreign nationals. At least six others were wounded.
India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, decried the “heinous act” cut short a visit to Saudi Arabia.
“Those behind this heinous act will be brought to justice ... they will not be spared. Their evil agenda will never succeed. Our resolve to fight terrorism is unshakable and will only grow stronger,” said Modi, who met with Vance the day before.
Donald Trump expressed his “full support” to India in a call with Modi late on Tuesday, Delhi’s foreign ministry said.
The scene of the attack was cordoned off as police launched an operation to track down the attackers.
Sorry Indian brothers for your loss.
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'The US has the tools to really put pressure on Russia. Why don't they use all the tools to really end this war?'
Zelensky's transformation from European hero to panhandler
What can Zelensky do for Ukraine to advance the negotiations?
Zelensky has little control over his own affairs. We have seen this in recent weeks. He has to constantly ensure that the Americans continue to support Ukraine, and therefore he is forced to meet American demands. If Kellogg or Rubio clearly formulate that the Americans are ready to offer something to the Russians, then Zelensky will have no influence on this decision. And we see this in the rhetoric of the White House: ultimately, it is Zelensky, and therefore President Biden, who is credited with the main responsibility for this war. Ukraine is now in a weaker position.
'The Russians are historical enemies with the Americans first and foremost. So it's a dangerous moment [if the US withdraws from the talks]. We very much hope that President Trump will support Ukraine and will put pressure on Russia. We very much believe in that.'