🪖🤝🇺🇸 — NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte:

"Without President Trump, this deadlock with Putin would not have been broken. He is the only one who could do this."

🔗 Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47)

🇺🇸🕊🇺🇦🇷🇺 — US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio:

"The whole thing was a big moment — unprecedented ... After three years of deadlock and no talks and no change in circumstances, this is the first time where there seems to be some movement."

🔗 Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47)

🇺🇸🕊🇺🇦🇷🇺 — US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio:

"The only leader in the world that can talk to both [Putin and Zelensky] and bring them both to a meeting is Donald J. Trump,

We should be proud that we have a President that's made peace a priority."

🔗 Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47)

🇺🇸🤝🇪🇺 — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on securing a lasting peace in Europe:

“We will work with our European allies and non-European countries, by the way, to build such a security guarantee.

We’re working on that right now… that will be something that will have to be in place after a peace deal.”

🔗 Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47)

🇷🇺🔫🌐 NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in June: “Russia produces as much ammunition in three months as NATO produces in a full year.”

The Economist: “At current rates of procurement it will take seven years to bring America’s ammunition stocks back to where they were before military aid to Ukraine began.”

🔗 Lucas Tomlinson

🇮🇷💸📉 — Deputy Information Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mehdi Tabatabaei:

"It is true that Iran's economy is damaged and in recession. Society is somewhat in shock and unstable, and nobody should expect any miracles from the government."

➡️ He later states that negotiations with the US can only take place after review from the Supreme National Security Council and approval from the Supreme Leader, predicting this stage may take 40 days.

🇪🇸🔥📹 — Spain is experiencing the most severe wildfires in its history - according to the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), the total area burned since the start of the year has exceeded 380,000 hectares.

➡️ Thousands of residents have been evacuated.

➡️ The heatwave that tormented Spaniards for two weeks, with temperatures reaching up to 45°C, is now gradually easing.

🔗 Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24)

🇨🇭🕊🇷🇺🇺🇦 — Swiss Foreign Minister says Switzerland is prepared to grant Russian President Vladimir Putin immunity from the International Criminal Court arrest warrant and host peace talks in Geneva.

🗣💬🇺🇸😵‍💫🛫🇷🇺 — ▪️ Kommersant:

"Vladimir Putin proposed to meet with Vladimir Zelensky in Moscow during his call with Donald Trump, an AFP source close to the negotiations reported."

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