🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦💎 — 📰 The Washington Post | U.S. and Ukraine announce signing of contentious minerals deal | The deal’s language marks a win for Kyiv, which has been seeking any concrete show of support from the United States since President Donald Trump returned to power | April 30, 2025:

"KYIV — The United States and Ukraine have signed a deal to establish joint investment in Ukraine’s mineral wealth, oil, gas and other natural resources, officials said Wednesday, in a move that would fulfill a key White House request and give Kyiv a degree of much-desired U.S. backing.

“As the President has said, the United States is committed to helping facilitate the end of this cruel and senseless war,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said. “This agreement signals clearly to Russia that the Trump Administration is committed to a peace process centered on a free, sovereign, and prosperous Ukraine over the long term.”

The deal will establish the “United States-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund,” which will allow the “two countries to work collaboratively and invest together to ensure that our mutual assets, talents, and capabilities can accelerate Ukraine’s economic recovery,” Bessent said in a statement."

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🇺🇸🇺🇦 The United States and Ukraine signed a deal granting the US privileged access to Ukraine’s natural resources.

The agreement sets up a joint fund that allows American companies to develop Ukrainian aluminum, graphite, oil, and gas projects.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-30/us-and-ukraine-sign-agreement-on-access-to-natural-resources?embedded-checkout=true

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🇺🇸❌🇮🇷🛢 — US President Donald J Trump announces a Total Blockade on Iranian Oil and Petrochemical industries!

ALERT: All purchases of Iranian Oil, or Petrochemical products, must stop, NOW!

Any Country or person who buys ANY AMOUNT of OIL or PETROCHEMICALS from Iran will be subject to, immediately, Secondary Sanctions.

They will not be allowed to do business with the United States of America in any way, shape, or form.

😆 It's known that Communist China is the biggest buyer of Iranian oil since the pandemic days

—🚫🇧🇦/🇷🇸 URGENT: Interpol rejects Bosnia’s renewed request for arrest warrant against Milorad Dodik.

Interpol has dismissed the Bosnian court’s appeal to issue a red notice for Republika Srpska President Dodik, citing political motivation behind the charges.

📰 Source: The National Independent.

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🇷🇺🇷🇺⚠️📹 — Video: Air Raid sirens sound on Sevastopol, Russia-controlled Crimea

🇺🇦❌🇷🇺🇷🇺❗️ — Russian-Crimean channels report that Ukrainian Armed Forces fired Neptune missiles against Sevastopol, Russian-controlled Crimea

https://news.1rj.ru/str/chp_sevastopol/42891

🇺🇸 Sec of Defense Pete Hegseth's message to Iran: "We see your LETHAL support to The Houthis. We know exactly what you are doing.

You know very well what the U.S. Military is capable of — and you were warned. You will pay the CONSEQUENCE at the time and place of our choosing."

📝 Congressman Thomas Massie: "I support this administration, but the Secretary of Defense doesn’t have the Constitutional authority to declare war on a sovereign country.

A planned military attack on Iran is an Act of War and requires a vote of Congress according to the U.S. Constitution."

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🇯🇵🇹🇼 In March, the Japanese government announced plans to evacuate up to 120,000 civilians from the Sakishima Islands, part of Okinawa Prefecture, in the event of a Taiwan contingency.

Below is TSM's visualization of those plans, showing the impacted islands and evacuation routes.

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🇺🇸/🇨🇳 The CIA released two videos in Mandarin aimed at recruiting Chinese officials to help United States

CIA Director John Ratcliffe: "One of the primary roles of the CIA is to collect intelligence…by recruiting assets that can help us steal secrets."

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