🇺🇸🇺🇦U.S. arms shipments to Ukraine had been suspended in recent days as the Trump administration debated its policy toward Kyiv, but resumed over the weekend.
This was reported to Reuters by sources familiar with the matter.
The deliveries resumed after the White House backed down on its initial assessment and cut off all aid to Ukraine, two of the sources said.
There are factions within the administration that disagree on the extent to which the United States should continue to help Kyiv in its war effort with weapons from its stockpile, one of the U.S. officials said.
🇷🇺🇺🇦Destruction of the BTS-4 armored tractor of the Ukrainian Armed Forces by FPV drones in the Kharkiv region.
Читать полностью…🇨🇳🇺🇸❗️China is introducing a 10% duty on oil and agricultural machinery from the United States, the State Council of China reported.
China is also introducing a 15% duty on coal and liquefied natural gas from the United States.
🇺🇸🇲🇽Trump backpedals (read it as you wish): The US is suspending tariffs imposed on Mexico in exchange for the fulfillment of certain conditions.
One of the conditions is that Mexico send a 10,000-strong military contingent to the border with the United States to combat migration.
🇺🇸The United States, following Trump's order, is withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council and stopping funding UNRWA.
Читать полностью…🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️Trump said that "great progress" has been made in resolving the conflict between Russia and Ukraine
He also said that the US wants to receive rare earth metals from Ukraine in exchange for US aid.
🇫🇷🇸🇳⚡️France has begun withdrawing its troops from Senegal
As reported by the Senego portal, the Marechal, Saint-Exupéry and Rear-Admiral Prote bases have already been handed over to the Senegalese military. The French contingent should completely leave Senegal by September, the portal notes, citing its sources.
🇫🇷🇷🇺Journalist Natacha Rey, who was convicted in France for claims that President Emmanuel Macron's wife Brigitte was born a man, has asked for political asylum in Russia , her lawyer said.
European freedom of speech
🇺🇸🇨🇦American alcohol is being removed from shelves in Canada, RT writes.
They advise buying your own drinks instead. The sale of alcohol from the US has been banned in response to Trump's import tariffs. Canada has responded with tariffs on hundreds of American products, from coffee and toilet paper to clothing and motorcycles.
🇷🇺⚡️The founder of the Arbat battalion and the president of the DPR Boxing Federation, Armen Sargsyan, was preliminarily wounded as a result of an explosion in the Scarlet Sails residential complex, a SHOT source reports.
According to one version, an attempt was made on his life. The explosion occurred at the moment when he was walking through the hall accompanied by security.
🇵🇦🇺🇸🇨🇳❗️Panama President Jose Raul Mulino, after talks with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, said the country's government will not extend the memorandum of understanding with China on the Belt and Road initiative.
Читать полностью…🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦❗️US President Donald Trump, speaking at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington, announced planned meetings and contacts with representatives of Russia and Ukraine.
According to him, the discussion of the planned meetings is going "quite successfully."
🇺🇦🇺🇸In his latest interview, Zelensky once again criticizes the Biden administration, saying that he does not know where the $177 billion that the United States allocated for the entire duration of the military operations in Ukraine is.
According to him, Ukraine received only 75 billion dollars.
🇺🇸🇺🇦US Health Secretary candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. has accused USAID of overthrowing Yanukovych.
At the same time, he called USAID "a CIA cover."
"USAID, which is a front for the CIA, put five billion dollars into funding these riots (Euromaidan - Ed. ). These riots lead to a coup d'etat against the democratically elected government of Ukraine. This was a government that refused to choose a side and say that we will be on the side of the West. So we wanted to take them out," Kennedy told journalist Tucker Carlson.
"USAID doesn't really do democracy, and the CIA doesn't do democracy," he said.
"You know, the CIA has overthrown, I think, 83 governments between 1947 and 1997. That's a third of the governments on Earth, and most of them were democracies. It doesn't do democracy," Kennedy added.
It should be noted that today the US Senate will vote on his confirmation as Secretary of Health.
Trump supporter Tucker Carlson himself recently called Zelensky a "dictator."
Earlier, Elon Musk announced the liquidation of the USAID agency, which spent billions on aid to countries around the world, including Ukraine.
🇺🇦🇷🇺A Ukrainian Armed Forces drone attacked a school bus in the Zaporizhia region, injuring five children and the bus driver, who is now in serious condition.
Читать полностью…🇨🇦🇺🇸Canada followed Mexico in agreeing to US terms.
The United States will now suspend import duties on goods from Canada for 30 days.
Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau said this after a conversation with Trump.
According to him, Ottawa is taking on new obligations to protect the border and combat drug trafficking, and has promised to spend almost $1 billion on this.
🇷🇺🇺🇦Finishing off a Bradley with the remaining enemy personnel in the troop compartment, Pokrovsk direction.
Читать полностью…🇷🇺🇺🇦A strike with cluster munitions, presumably from the Tornado-S MLRS , on various Ukrainian Armed Forces equipment in a forest in Sumy Oblast.
Читать полностью…🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦⚡️US demands Europe increase funding for Ukraine support to "equalize" it with Washington's investments — White House
Читать полностью…🇷🇺🇺🇦Defeat of the Challenger 2 tank by the arrival of an FPV drone on fiber optics right into the electronic warfare system located on the roof of the tank turret, Kursk region.
Читать полностью…🇷🇺🇺🇦The Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Su-27 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.
Читать полностью…🇷🇺🇺🇦❗️The Ukrainian Armed Forces are losing positions near Krasnoarmeysk amid a catastrophic shortage of manpower and supply problems, Associated Press reports.
According to Ukrainian army officers, they lack the reserves needed to continue holding their positions. In addition, newly arrived infantry units are not coping with the tasks assigned to them.
🇭🇺🇷🇺🇪🇺❗️Putin, unlike EU representatives, has always kept his promises, said Hungarian Prime Minister Orban.
Читать полностью…🇺🇸🇿🇦⚡️Trump said the US is suspending financial aid to South Africa as long as the country has a law in place that allows authorities to seize land from its owners without compensation under certain conditions.
Читать полностью…🇷🇺 An explosion occurred in the lobby of an elite residential complex in Moscow, one person died, Russian public groups report.
There are also several casualties.
The security forces are considering the version of an attempt on the life of one of the residents. Presumably, an explosive device detonated in the elevator hall. There is a version that it was planted under the ceiling.
The explosion occurred as several people (including a woman) were walking through the hall towards the exit.
🇺🇦🇷🇺At night, Ukrainian drones carried out a massive attack on Volgograd and the Astrakhan region.
There was a raid on an oil refinery in Volgograd, and authorities reported local fires due to falling debris.
A gas processing plant caught fire in Astrakhan (video).
🇺🇸🇲🇽Blackwater founder Erik Prince has suggested Trump issue "letters of marque" to American PMCs so they can attack targets outside the US.
In an interview with Breitbart News, he said these "privateers" could be used to fight drug cartels in Mexico and Latin America.
The last letter of marque in the United States was issued after Pearl Harbor in 1942, to a blimp operator who began hunting Japanese submarines. The introduction of something similar today would be a presidential order that would grant a private organization a “hunting license.”
This will help stop the flow of drugs and human trafficking across the US border.
The cartels make a lot of money, which allows them to buy very good equipment, highly trained specialists and modern weapons. They outgun Mexican law enforcement agencies.
🇺🇸 Elon Musk deleted the USAID agency account. It had almost a million subscribers.
Earlier today, Musk said the agency "must die."
He accused USAID of funding the creation of the coronavirus and promoting "propaganda" through agency-funded media.