@Zelenskyy BREAKING
"Donald Trump has no power to remove me from office. I believe many people in the United States still stand with Ukraine, and I will fight until the end, until the Ukrainian people, whom I love so deeply, finally see victory."
NEW: Iran and Russia are cooperating to counter US efforts to stop weapons shipments to Iran via the Caspian Sea and land routes. Iran has used its Caspian Sea trade routes with Russia to import Russian arms before and during the 2026 US-Israel-Iran War, which prompted Ukraine to strike a shipment in July 2026. (1/2)
NEW: Iran and Russia are cooperating to counter US efforts to stop weapons shipments to Iran via the Caspian Sea and land routes. Iran has used its Caspian Sea trade routes with Russia to import Russian arms before and during the 2026 US-Israel-Iran War, which prompted Ukraine to strike a shipment in July 2026. (1/2)
Mzisa Gabeshia, the elderly woman who protested alone in the town of Martvili every single day, has passed away โค๏ธโ๐ฉน
She is a hero. Glory to the heroes!
โฆ And one more soul who didn't get to see Georgia free...
JUST IN: ๐ท๐บ๐ช๐บ The Russian leader of the Russian negotiating team Medinsky expelled the Europeans from the meeting:
โWe have no idea what europeans are doing here, this is a trialateral meating, they can hang out in the lobby if they wantโ
๐ต๐ฑ 108 years ago today, Poles reclaimed their country.
For 123 years, they didn't have one. It was partitioned and picked apart by Prussia, Russia, Germany, and Austria throughout much of its recent history.
But in the 13th of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points, drawn up at the end of WWI, Poland's independence was written in as a requirement.
Under communist rule, Independence Day was banned, returning only in 1989 as the USSR's influence waned.
Today, Poles celebrate a holiday they used to not be allowed to celebrate in a country that was lost to them for more than a century.
And this year, after all that's happened in Poland just in the past few weeks, with a constitutional crisis and a horrific tragedy in Krakรณw, it means all the more.
Happy Independence Day, Poland. You earned it. ๐ต๐ฑโค๏ธ
Writer: Michael
BREAKING: Trump and Netanyahu held an unusually heated phone call focused on Iran, that was "a shouting match from hell," Israeli officials tell Ynet.
During the call Netanyahu eagerly pushed Trump to resume major combat operations against Iran, while figures inside and outside the White House try to block it, Israeli officials say.
"Iran is working to renew the nuclear threat. The only way to permanently remove this existential threat is by toppling the ayatollah regime," Netanyahu also claimed during the call.
He warned Israel would soon face "international pressure to accept a nuclear Iran and the survival of the regime."
- Alexander Stubb:
" I think we need to make clear to the Russians and everyone else that there are a few things that are completely off the table in these negotiations.
One is EU membership. It is not Russia who decides on EU membership. It is the European Union who does that.
Two is NATO. It is not Russia that decides on NATO membership. It is the Alliance itself.
Three is Ukrainian defence. It is not Russia that decides on what Ukraine has by its border, when, where, and how.
And four: European security arrangements ... or order. Itโs not Russia that decides on that. We already have a European security order and should stick to it."
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It should be clear enough! ๐คทโโ๏ธ
He is one of the strong leaders.๐
Europe needs more such firm opinions.๐
Iran shipped about 1.5 million barrels of oil a day toward China through a route designed to be invisible.
Tankers load at Kharg Island, switch off their transponders in the Strait of Hormuz, swap cargo at sea off Malaysia, and reach Shandong with papers calling the oil Malaysian. Independent Chinese refiners buy it. The war has hit the first two links, and by August Iran was loading a sixth of that.
The disguise works at sea. It canโt hide the loading dock.
Iran shipped about 1.5 million barrels of oil a day toward China through a route designed to be invisible.
Tankers load at Kharg Island, switch off their transponders in the Strait of Hormuz, swap cargo at sea off Malaysia, and reach Shandong with papers calling the oil Malaysian. Independent Chinese refiners buy it. The war has hit the first two links, and by August Iran was loading a sixth of that.
The disguise works at sea. It canโt hide the loading dock.
The drone interceptors defending Sloviansk are doing vital work, but the city remains under relentless attack. Russian aerial bombs recently destroyed five buildings and damaged dozens of homes there. This is what defending the fortress belt looks like beyond the front-line maps. https://t.co/lTc605TCWG
BBC journalists traveled to Sloviansk with the "Peaky Blinders." It is a specialized unit that intercepts Russian drones there.
Slovyansk is one of four cities that make up Ukraine's "fortress belt" - a system of heavily reinforced defence lines in the parts of eastern region of Donetsk, controlled by Ukraine. Russia constantly launches brutal attacks on Sloviansk.
This is a rare opportunity to see inside Sloviansk.
Source: BBC
๐งตAn oil superpower just capped gas at 8 gallons per car. At 4 AM, Ukrainian drones flew 500 miles through air defenses, torched the refinery feeding Putin's hometown, and triggered a total logistics breakdown. 1/๐งต
The Kirishi plant near St. Petersburg supplies half the fuel for Putin's birthplace. Local officials panicked in real time: the governor claimed 113 drones were shot down right before conceding "confirmed hits" in the industrial zone. 2/
Gas pumps in Karelia capped fuel at 30 liters per car and banned canisters outright. By afternoon, officials beyond Lake Baikal admitted Rosneft was limiting gas nationwide. An oil superpower rationing gasoline is like Iowa rationing corn. 3/
Pro-war blogger Rybar called the raid "one of the most massive ever" under the title "The eighth refinery under attack." Then he wrote the line Moscow refused to publish: "Defeating them is another matter." 4/
Behind the front lines, supply lines collapsed into dark comedy. Russia's Defense Ministry announced that materiel in the 30km kill zone moves only by drone. War reporter Kots added: "The infantryman today walks 20 to 40 kilometers on foot. The sleeping bag flies." 5/
Russian state TV celebrated this collapse as progress. Channel Star praised a hexacopter named Mangas that spent three months delivering food to an encircled company. In normal militaries, that is a catastrophe; on Russian TV, it is a feature story. 6/
Recruitment tells the same story. Ukraine's SOF ran a want ad titled "Top 5 reasons to choose Deep Strike," promising top pay, refinery strikes, and zero front-line combat. It got 643,000 views because the product works. 7/