21 incremental packages instead of a few steps. Close the skies over Ukraine; seize all Russian assets abroad and use them for Ukrainian aid, weapons, & defense; shut down the Russian shadow fleet, sanction into oblivion those who do business with Russia, first or secondhand.
The Élysée Palace has announced that Ukraine and nine other European countries have formed an Anti-Ballistic Missile Coalition to jointly develop ballistic missile defence systems. The participants will pool their defence, scientific and industrial capabilities and have highlighted Ukraine’s unique experience in countering Russian aggression.
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⚡️Ukraine and nine allied countries have established the Anti-Ballistic Coalition, — the Élysée Palace announced.
The coalition includes Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
“By combining our defense industrial base, our research, and our operational experience, we aim to build a shared missile defense capability for Europe,” — the statement said.
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Wagner’s Remnants Are Running an Opioid Empire in the Center of Africa
Russia absorbed much of the mercenary group, but several hundred members are using a painkiller to build a new haven in the Central African Republic
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BROWDER: I know Putin very well. I've been in a man-to-man fight with him for over 17 years. He doesn't negotiate.
Any discussion of negotiations is purely tactical. Anything that he agrees to can't be relied on.
Putin knows that if he says 'We've made agreement with Ukraine,' he will be perceived in Russia as being weak.
If he's perceived as being weak, then he potentially will be overthrown, then best case is jail, worst case is death.
And so, he's not going to negotiate. I don't believe that for a minute.
The European Union on Monday blacklisted members of a Russian intelligence group it said were responsible for spying on and hacking targets across the EU and Ukraine from as early as 2010.
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Wagner Group mercs left behind in the Central African Republic have built a drug empire on tramadol, an opioid painkiller known as the poor man’s cocaine, WSJ reports. Miners take it to work longer. Fighters take it to blunt fear. https://t.co/MPKH9PiAqg
"Today’s action targets 24 individuals and entities behind the destructive cyber and hybrid operations ... linked to the Russian Intelligence Services".
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A lot of people wonder how the pro-Palestine/Anti-Israel protests started within hours of the Hamas terror attack and often included preprinted posters and ready made "genocide" chants. How was it so organized and "spontaneous"?
I, and other journalists, are chasing the 'follow the money' story behind the movement that appeared "out of nowhere" on October 8.
This past week, an @NGOmonitor report provided the data inside the UK experience. It maps 40 major post-October 7 protest and mobilization campaigns in the UK — and it undercuts the "spontaneous grassroots reaction" narrative that took hold right after Hamas's October 7 massacre.
The findings: At least 11 of the 40 organizations mapped have links to extremist actors — the Iranian regime and IRGC, Hamas, Hezbollah, the PFLP, or the Muslim Brotherhood — either directly or through officials who met or cooperated with them.
Leadership overlaps heavily across the six primary coordinating groups. Jeremy Corbyn—the antisemitism former Labour Party leader— alone holds posts in three of them simultaneously. The funding for Corbyn's own group, the People's Forum UK, is undisclosed.
Youth recruitment is a high priority — Amnesty International UK is cited for running an activism-training program aimed at UK youth; Friends of Al-Aqsa for youth-mobilization messaging.
—Of the 40 groups, only 10 are registered charities.
—Thirteen operate completely outside any formal UK regulatory framework — while still soliciting public donations.
—Nineteen receive UK government funding via the FCDO or Gift Aid. At least 11 draw taxpayer money from other governments too, including the US and several EU states.
—Funding also flows from major US progressive foundations — Open Society, Rockefeller Brothers Fund among them — plus, per the report, cryptocurrency channels used by CAGE and Palestine Action, the latter now a proscribed organization under UK law as of a June 2026 Court of Appeal ruling.
What the NGO Monitor report shows is a well-funded, coordinated infrastructure that existed before October 7 and moved fast because it was already built — organizationally, financially, and rhetorically — around "genocide" messaging with no space made for Israeli victims.
Here is the full report: https://t.co/mKZ52y67Oy
Not likely to alleviate the already catastrophic fuel situation across Russia, more storage facilities are burning this morning near Stavropol - the Mikhailovskaya oil depot.
The Mikhailovskaya oil depot is located near the town of Mikhaylovsk in Stavropol Krai, just northwest of the regional capital, Stavropol.
⚡️The 21st package of EU sanctions against Russia has reportedly excluded Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church and the founder of "Lukoil," Vagit Alekperov, according to "European Pravda," citing diplomatic sources.
According to the publication, this was done at the request of Bulgaria. Additionally, some other restrictions were removed from the draft, including those related to the import of certain types of fish and stricter sanctions against Russian liquefied natural gas.
At the same time, the final agreement on the 21st package of EU sanctions is still ongoing.
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💥In early summer, a perfect storm of events fuelled Baltic anxiety — and Russian propaganda instantly capitalized, claiming Ukraine was preparing attacks from Latvian soil and that Latvia risked retaliatory strikes. @rebaltica@VSquare_Project https://t.co/zZEoxuDJSf
Progressively, the Kremlin's primary narrative will be that Putin must be protected from Ukraine. Already, the Kremlin is allocating enormous efforts in western media toward "only a stable Russia is good for the world".