🇺🇸🇷🇺Trump says Putin should end the Ukraine war, not test missiles

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday Russian President Vladimir Putin should end the war in Ukraine instead of testing a nuclear-powered missile, and that the United States had a nuclear submarine positioned off Russia's coast.

"They know we have a nuclear submarine, the greatest in the world, right off their shores, so I mean, it doesn't have to go 8,000 miles,"

"I don't think it's an appropriate thing for Putin to be saying, either, by the way: You ought to get the war ended, the war that should have taken one week is now in ... its fourth year, that's what you ought to do instead of testing missiles." Trump told reporters

Looks like Trump isn’t buying into Russia’s nuclear sabre rattling the way Biden’s administration used to. He double downed on calling Putin out.

During the Biden years, every time the West did something Putin didn’t like regarding Ukraine— Putin and Medvedev would start talking about nukes, and then Biden and Jake Sullivan always seemed to shit their pants and back down.

🇬🇷🇷🇺Greek tanker companies, which transport one-third of Russian oil, have begun to refuse to work with Russian oil companies due to Trump's sanctions, according to Reuters.

Situation in Cameroon 🇨🇲 is getting worse as thousands protest in the streets

Another Frankenstein of the Russian army, equipped with “bushes” made of steel wire and metal sheets, is designed to withstand as many FPV drone strikes as possible. With such protection, it is sometimes difficult to say for sure what kind of armored vehicle is underneath.

For Russian commanders, the mobilised are just a resource. Everything is based on fear and the violation of human dignity. And this is what leads to mass desertions, panic, mental breakdowns, and, ultimately, catastrophic combat losses.

Nobody treats them worse than they treat each other.

🎪🇰🇵 Korean propaganda video of North Korean soldiers preparing for an assault with a portrait of leader Kim Jong-un.

I transcribed the video for those who are interested what schizo shit they are being fed with:

Before the face of such a great leader, how can a warrior who has high honor regret his blood and life?

When they again rush into a deadly battle, the death without fear meets the soul, which is deeply stored within the freedom of their soul.

Ukrainian swarm of drones above Pokrovsk each locating their target to hit.

🇸🇩Footage of RSF militias slaughtering dozens of civilians in El Fasher.

Thousands of civilians remained trapped in Sudan's stricken city of El-Fasher, with fears growing for their safety, the United Nations and local groups said on Monday, after paramilitary forces claimed control of the army's last stronghold in the western Darfur region.

🇫🇷 Ten people will stand trial in Paris for the alleged cyber harassment of France's first lady, Brigitte Macron.

✍️ The eight men and two women, aged 41 to 60, are accused of spreading rumours that Brigitte Macron is Transgender and that she(?) is a pedophile due to meeting Emmanuel Macron when he was 15 and she was 39.

Investigations across Europe show that Russian Orthodox churches linked to Moscow have been quietly turning up near airports, military bases, power plants, and government buildings.

In Sweden, one church in Västerås was built just a few hundred meters from an airport and a nuclear fuel plant. Sweden’s security service (Säpo) officially confirmed that the Russian state “uses the Russian Orthodox Church as a platform for intelligence activities.” After that, Sweden cut all state funding to it.

It’s not just Sweden. In Norway, Finland, and the Netherlands, Russian parishes have appeared suspiciously close to strategic locations. Finland recently shut one down near a naval base. Dutch authorities closed a Moscow-linked monastery in The Hague after journalists noticed it was surrounded by government and defence offices.

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Ukrainian SBU recently sentenced the 22-year-old daughter of a Moscow Patriarchate priest to 15 years in prison after she installed a camera under the church dome to track Ukrainian troop movements and send the footage to the Russians.

Two more locals working for the FSB were caught too.

It's not just Europe.

A few years ago FBI suspected an employee of the Russian Orthodox Church of recruiting agents for Russian intelligence services in the United States.

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation suspected Dmitry Petrovsky, an employee of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department of External Church Relations, of working for Russian intelligence.

The FBI believes that Petrovsky, under the cover of the Russian Orthodox Church, was engaged in recruiting agents for Russian intelligence services among priests and parishioners of the Russian Orthodox Church and other Orthodox churches in the United States.

In May 2021, Petrovsky was searched upon entering the United States. Files related to Russian intelligence were found on his computer. Among the documents found were dossiers on well-known Orthodox priests in the US with details of biographies of their family members. The FBI believed that such information was necessary for Petrovsky to blackmail these people during the recruitment process.