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US imports of consumer goods have dropped -43.9% over the last 3 months, the largest drop on record.
As a result, consumer goods imports have fallen to $58 billion, the lowest in 5 years.
This comes after the largest 3-month increase in history, at +43.0%, to a record $103 billion.
In other words, companies were front-loading inventory ahead of expected tariffs in Q1 2025, and inventory levels are now normalizing.
Overall, US imports of goods declined -4.2% in June to $264 billion, the lowest since March 2020.
At the same time, the US goods trade balance narrowed 10.8% MoM, to -$86 billion, the second-largest since September 2023.
Tariffs are redefining global trade.
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Operators of the ICPBT "Rubicon" have destroyed over 700 units of multicopter-type UAVs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
This type of UAV is one of the most important elements of the enemy's resilience in defense, performing a wide range of tasks - from supplying frontline positions and bombing missions to being used as aerial relays.
Thus, the enemy's multicopters are one of the priority targets for the air aces of the ICPBT "Rubicon".
That is a single drone team
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As a result of a UAV attack, the building of one of the educational institutions in the Solomianskyi district of Kiev was damaged
▪️Recently, the enemy has been placing workshops and assembly shops for drones for the Armed Forces of Ukraine in educational institutions.
▪️Earlier, we wrote that last night, according to available data, the Igor Sikorsky Kiev Polytechnic Institute was attacked.
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Shmyhal scares, but even a cartoon doesn't show.
‘The President of Ukraine has already stated that Ukraine will have its own ballistic missiles. We are very close to this. That's, in principle, all I can publicly say about this.’
Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich threatens Putin with the death of a huge number of Russians if the US 'starts to act seriously.'
'At some point, he will have to face the truth and realize that he will not win. And the question is how big a defeat he is willing to accept. Will he agree sooner? Or will he allow the Ukrainians to regain the advantage and allow Russian society to gradually begin to collapse simply because of the huge number of losses they will suffer if we start to act seriously?'
In the near future’ - Polish Prime Minister Tusk speculates on a ceasefire in the SMO zone.
‘There is a high probability, there are many signs indicating that the Russian-Ukrainian war may at least be paused in the near future. But this in no way changes our situation. Poland must be ready to defend itself regardless of developments on the Russian-Ukrainian front. And we have no right to lose a single hour, a single day in this race for a modern army.’
Kamikaze drones "Geran-2" do a sightseeing tour in Kiev
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Drone footage of Ukrainian reinforcements being sent to Pokvorsk.
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‘Trump's deadline won't help protect Pokrovsk, people are needed’ – Ukrainian Armed Forces officer Tkachuk.
How do you see the prospect of stopping the enemy in this direction [Pokrovsk]? Should it be our military decision or a military-political one, if we talk about Trump's deadline?
— We cannot do without mobilization resources. We are losing badly. Russia has more soldiers. They have gained time and opportunities for recovery. We need new forces, we need to change people, rotation is necessary. We need personnel.
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🇺🇦Underdeveloped bastard! — Ukrainians curse the Minister of Defense for claiming that 90% mobilization is a conscious decision by Ukrainians
- Forced mobilization occurs in 5-10% of cases, while in the rest people receive a summons and voluntarily go to the Territorial Recruitment Centers, claims Defense Minister Shmyhal.
- Ukrainians in comments on leading channels bombarded him with tons of insults and curses, calling him a liar, an underdeveloped bastard, and hundreds of obscene epithets.
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This Week in Stupid:
According to the Italian muppet-puppet-president (the President of Italy is elected by the parliament, not by the populace) Mattarella, what's going on in Gaza is, naturally, Russia's fault 🤡
What else to expect from the same stolid dotard who compared Russia's attack on Ukraine to the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, perhaps forgetting that his country too played a part in Operation Barbarossa?
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Battle for Pokrovsk: Situation Update
Several Ukrainian sources have been reporting, for the last two days, that drone operators and the Russian Air Force are actively forming ‘bite marks’ in the north-east of the future pocket near Pokrovsk, cutting off the reserves of the AFU in the Dobropillia and Sviatohorivka area, preventing them from gathering and advancing towards Vodyanske, and then attempting a counteroffensive in the Rodynske area.
Other AFU groups (including units of the 38th Marine Infantry Brigade) have been pushed by the strikes towards the mines between Novoekymivka and Myrnograd, losing their ability to manoeuvre.
The fire pocket formed by Russian troops near Pokrovsk can't be moved or weakened by the Ukrainian army: neither local counteroffensives nor the transfer of reserves have been successful.
Russian artillery and attack drones are methodically crushing all points of resistance, keeping key supply routes under constant fire control, thus accelerating the destruction of the entire defensive configuration of the VSU in this direction.
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How the US will supply new weapons to Ukraine and how many there will be
🔺Roger Wicker and Jim Risch — senators heading the Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees — have developed a bill providing for the creation of a fund in the US Treasury to receive money from allies. That is, from Europe, which will be purchasing this weaponry.
The mechanism proposed by the Republicans in the US likely relies on two parallel channels of arms supplies to Ukraine.
The first channel is the transfer of already existing weapons. This includes both US Army stockpiles and allies’ warehouses, primarily those of the UK and Germany. European countries pay for these supplies, and the US either replenishes its arsenals using funds from the new fund or compensates the expenses. Essentially, this is an accelerated version of the "lend-lease" mechanism, but with European money and without directly reducing the combat readiness of the American army.
The second option is direct purchases from the US defense industry.
European funds transferred to the fund being created at the US Treasury are used to pay contracts with American defense companies. The US Department of Defense signs these contracts, which allows bypassing Congressional budget procedures and forming a flow of weapons for Ukraine through production capacities without touching the current Pentagon reserves.
In other words, this is a rethinking of the Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA) packages for supplying weapons from army stockpiles and USAI, which is intended for future contracts. Previously, both were financed at the American expense; now exclusively at Europe's expense.
Battle for Pokrovsk: Frontline Update
Yuriy Kotenok reports that, according to the enemy, the situation in Pokrovsk is increasingly reminiscent of last year's situation in Selidovo. Russian assault groups, in small units of 2-3 people, infiltrate the city through isolated positions, avoiding frontal attacks and bypassing defences.
The line of contact consists of separate defensive nodes of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, through which the Russian Armed Forces are gradually penetrating the city and advancing.
At the moment, the enemy is maintaining a compact defence in two main hotspots: in the centre of Pokrovskoe and in the mining district.
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Security camera footage shows 13 consecutive Iskander-K cruise missile impacts in Kiev.
Ukraine’s AD couldn’t catch a 300kg man with asthma.
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Ivan Franko Square in Kiev – right now.
Ukrainians and the police are awaiting the continuation of the 'Cardboard Revolution.'
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HIT after HIT from Russian FPV drones
Ukrainian tanks, 4x4s, cars, comms equipment and deployment points DESTROYED in rapid succession
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‘It is necessary to act. I believe in America. I believe in President Trump’
Trump's threats to impose secondary tariffs on buyers of Russian oil are unlikely to stop the war, experts note
Trump himself said the day before that this threat might prove to be ineffective
"I don't know if it will affect Russia, because he obviously probably wants to continue the war. But we will impose tariffs and everything related to that. It may have an effect, or it may not. But it might"
Experts note Trump's ultimatum is unlikely to change Putin's position, since he "has started a mission he considers historic” and is confident in his superiority on the battlefield, and the Russian economy is able to withstand Western sanctions
Secondary tariffs will affect China, India, and Turkey and could lead to a escalation of Trump's global trade war. This may cause a sharp spike in world oil prices, which the West has tried to contain with a "price cap," although this strategy has already failed. Trump stated that he does not care about the impact of sanctions on the oil market.
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Tablet Mertz explains to the Germans that he is not responsible for education in the country, but only for the Bundeswehr's spending on preparing for war with Russia.
‘Why so much money on the army and not on education? — asks a user. Well, it's simple: I always say this phrase — we want to be able to defend ourselves so that we don't have to defend ourselves.
And at the same time, we really try to spend a lot of money on education as well. The federal government, in fact, is not really responsible for this or not primarily responsible. But nevertheless, it does a lot together with the regions. We are making efforts.’
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Stefanchuk stated that France is ready to allow Ukraine to steal Russian assets
'The French today became the first, partly thanks to our constant communication, to say: "We are ready to draft a law that will give you the right to use the sovereign assets of the Russian Federation." Step by step, we must do everything so that it is precisely Putin and Russia who pay for this terrible war.'
Luxury real estate agents throughout Europe celebrate the move. Rolex notes Ukrainian corruption is now 30% of their business.
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Reuters reveals Merz's plans to create the strongest army in Europe
‘The Bundeswehr is preparing a wave of multi-billion orders. They include 20 Eurofighters, 3000 Boxer armored vehicles, 3500 Patria infantry fighting vehicles. Plans are also being developed to purchase more IRIS-T air defense systems and several hundred SkyRanger drone platforms.’
Poland and France, are also preparing a response by buying massive numbers of white flags.
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The Russian Army is inching toward the centre of Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk).
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Walkout at UN Conference in Geneva
Arab, Iranian, and European delegations walked out of the UN parliamentary summit in Geneva after Israeli Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana told delegates:
“The Palestinian state can be established in London or Paris.”
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🇺🇦🤡The training process at training grounds and training centers needs to be moved underground, — Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Syrsky
Well, what do you think Russia is doing?! 😄
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Zaluzhny is working with western PR firms to raise his profile in attempt to gain western and Ukrainian support for a leadership bid.
His dreams of being a Cosmo girl were fulfilled, when he and Latvia’s leader graced the cover.
Then he worked with Vogue in a more artful piece, where they reimagined Zaluzhny in a warm embrace with his Nazi hero Stefan Bandera.
Work it girl!
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On this day in 1944, two German gas chamber workers pose with Zyklon B canisters at Majdanek, Poland after liberation by Soviet troops.
Both were hanged in Lublin later that year by court order
Source: Brian McDonald on X
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‼️🇺🇦🚽Zelensky was pooping on a golden toilet in the shadow Presidential Office, discussing bribes, business takeovers, and arms sales, while was being wiretapped by NABU 👂
▪️The golden toilet is located in one of the bathrooms of the apartment of Zelensky's business partner Timur Mindich, where NABU, according to Kiev media, wiretapped the president himself for 3 months.
▪️The apartment of a businessman close to Zelensky in the building at 9a Hrushevsky Street is "like a shadow Presidential Office, where contracts for arms sales, bribes in the energy sector, business takeovers, and which major businessmen should be sanctioned were discussed," said MP Goncharenko.
▪️The photo of the golden toilet was shown by MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak, next to it is a golden bidet.
t.me/RVvoenkor
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