🇻🇪🇻🇪 — Jorge Rodríguez, president of the National Assembly under Nicolás Maduro’s regime, stated that he will arrest any foreigner who enters the country:

“Whoever enters this country without permission, enters, but does not leave. Here they remain imprisoned.”

🇺🇦❌🇷🇺❗️ — Russian channels report that Ukrainian Armed Forces launched Cruise missiles against targets in Russia

🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Air Raid Sirens sounding in most of Ukraine

🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Monitoring pages report the takeoff of Tu-95MS Strategic Bombers from the Engels-2 airbase

🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — The capital of Ukraine, Kyiv, is under Russian drone attack tonight. Ukrainian air defenses are engaging targets.

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🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — Ukrainian strike campaign against Russian oil infrastructure continues.

There's a fire at the Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery located in Rostov Oblast following a Ukrainian drone attack tonight.

This is the largest refinery in southern Russia.

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🇷🇺❌🇦🇿 — 🇷🇺 Kremlevskaya tabakerka:

"The Kremlin did not rule out conducting a special military operation in Azerbaijan

Against the backdrop of the negotiation track with the Americans on Ukraine, there is a rapid deterioration of relations with Azerbaijan. According to rumors, the Russian authorities are discussing two critical decisions at once: a ban on entry for Azerbaijani citizens, as well as conducting a special military operation in this country.

This is spoken about very cautiously for now, but many in the president's circle were surprised by Baku's persistent desire to obtain apologies and compensation from Moscow for the AZAL plane shot down over Grozny.

We will be monitoring the situation."

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🇻🇪📞🇺🇸🇨🇺🇨🇴 — In a video statement, under a very desperate mood, following the start of the US military pressure against the Venezuelan Regime, Chavista dictator of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro calls on all "People's Movements and Rebel Peoples" in USA, European Union and Latin America to mobilize in defense of "Venezuelan Right for Sovereignty and Self-Determination", as well calling on the "National Unity" between Venezuelans

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🇨🇳🚀🇲🇽 China launches Kinetica 1 rocket, in partnership with Mexico, to deploy Chinese and Mexican Earth-observation and radar satellites.

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🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 White House Press Secretary Leavitt does not rule out deploying U.S. Airmen and aircraft to Ukraine, deferring to Trump's comments on supporting Ukraine "with things by air."

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🇺🇸🇨🇳 The US Navy is Building a Drone Fleet to Take on China. It’s Not Going Well.

U.S. military leaders, seeing the outsized impact of maritime drones in the Ukraine war, have repeatedly said they need autonomous swarms of aerial and maritime drones to hinder a potential advance by China across the Taiwan Strait. Taiwan itself has begun acquiring its own maritime drones.

The drones being developed in Ukraine, which often look like speedboats without seats, and are capable of carrying weapons, explosives and surveillance equipment, are primarily remote-controlled and cost close to $250,000 – making them optimal for kamikaze missions that have effectively neutralized Russia’s Black Sea Fleet.

The U.S., meanwhile, is aiming to build an autonomous naval fleet that can move in swarms and without human command – a more ambitious task at a higher price point; as much as a few million dollars per speedboat.

The recent test failures highlight the challenges facing the Navy’s effort to deploy the nascent technologies, said Bryan Clark, an autonomous warfare expert at the Hudson Institute. It will need to adapt its “tactics as it better understands what the systems can do and what they can’t do.”

But the Navy’s problems go beyond getting the boats to work: its autonomous maritime drone acquisition unit has also been rocked by the firing of its top admiral, and a top Pentagon official voiced concerns about the program in a candid meeting with Navy brass last month, Reuters found.

Since the most recent incident, the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), which had acquired technology for the tests, has indefinitely paused a contract – valued close to $20 million – with L3Harris LHX.N, one of the companies providing autonomous software used to control some of the vessels, according to two people familiar with the matter.

https://gcaptain.com/the-us-navy-is-building-a-drone-fleet-to-take-on-china-its-not-going-well/

🇷🇺❌🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇸 — Long-serving Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov rebukes Trump-EU talks:

Russia supports the principles of security guarantees agreed upon in Istanbul in 2022. Everything else is a futile undertaking.

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