The situation around Pokrovsk is rapidly developing. According to incoming reports, Russian units have reached the central districts of the city, and some sources claim that fighting is already taking place near the railway station. If this information is confirmed soon, it can be said that the main stage of the battle has begun. It is still unclear what forces Syrsky will be ready to deploy to retake lost positions, but the outcome of the Russian advance into the center will determine whether the Armed Forces of Ukraine will still be able to hold the connected line of positions in the city or if the defense will start to collapse throughout the district up to Konstantinovka.

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🇺🇦🇮🇱Ukraine amazingly combines a tendency to beg and blackmail if someone is not eager to support the beggar.

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China will increase investments and loans to partners and outlined a plan to bolster a China- and Russia-led security bloc.

He also announced that China will provide grants to member states of the SCO and issue loans to lenders in the group's interbank consortium.

Xi called on the group to "oppose the Cold War mentality, bloc confrontation and bullying practices" and proposed setting up an SCO Development Bank "as soon as possible".

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The Clown Prince of Crack has slunk back into his white room (likely after having turned his previously white underwear into brown wink wink).

"During the day, reports were given by Ukrainian Interior Minister Igor Klimenko and the head of the Security Service of Ukraine, Vasyl Malyuk, regarding the investigation into the murder of Andriy Parubiy. They reported on the progress of the investigation and are examining all the circumstances. All necessary agencies are involved: the police, the SBU, and the prosecutor's office. They are working practically around the clock. I thank everyone who is assisting with the investigation. We hope for a result."

Better to send a cleanup detail later to deal with Elensky's shorts after this one, or better yet, throw them away and buy new ones. It's not as if he's short on money.

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🇷🇺🇪🇺 Moscow denied the information about Russia's involvement in the GPS failure on von der Leyen's plane

"Your information is incorrect," Peskov said in a comment to the British newspaper The Financial Times.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 "NATO for Ukraine is a road to disaster": Yanukovych appeared and supported Putin

- The former president of Ukraine, who had long disappeared from the public eye, unexpectedly spoke to Russian journalists.

- According to him, when he was in power, his strategic goal was Ukraine's accession to the EU, but he was categorically against NATO membership.

- Yanukovych agreed with Putin's position voiced at the SCO summit: it was the West's attempts to drag Ukraine into the alliance that became one of the causes of the current conflict.

- "This is a road to nowhere, a disaster and a direct path to civil war," emphasized the ex-president.

- He also added that European leaders behaved "inappropriately" during negotiations with Kiev.

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"Nazi": This is how Ursula von der Leyen was welcomed in Bulgaria

Ursula von der Leyen had planned to visit a military factory in Sopot today, but her access was blocked by outraged citizens. The country's authorities had kept the exact time of her visit to the Sopot military plant strictly confidential.

"If the European Union is preparing for war against Russia, then let Ursula come here and say so clearly. Over 80% of Bulgarians do not consider Russia an enemy, but 'they see an enemy in the European Union's policy, they see an enemy in Ursula, they see an enemy in NATO's policy,'" said Kostadin Kostadinov, leader of the "Renaissance" party.

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Professor Glenn Diesen of the University of South-Eastern Norway – on India's choice between the USA and Russia.

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I demand reparations from Germany’ – Polish President Nawrocki sends a signal to Merz, emphasizing that the money will go towards preparing for war with Russia.

‘For us to be able to build a partnership with our western neighbor based on truth and good relations, we must finally resolve the issue of reparations from the German state, which I, as the President of Poland, unequivocally demand in the name of the common good. For our future, reparations will not replace historical amnesia, but Poland, as a frontline state, as the most important state on NATO’s eastern flank, needs justice, truth, and clear relations with Germany, but also needs reparations from the German state.’

“Gimme moneys” Everyone in Europe thinks they should get something for nothing these days. Suffering from Ukraine brain.

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⚡️Putin and Modi could not come to an agreement on who cared less about the American sanctions and tariffs.

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A BBC journalist interviewed men aged 18–22 at the border about their reasons for leaving.

The young men swore that they were not fleeing the war and were not leaving Ukraine forever.

– I’m going to a vacation;
– To see my father;
– To walk around the city at night without a curfew;
– I’m going to Przemysl and back for work – to pick up a car.

The journalist did not specify when the young people would return from their European tour.

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‘Putin wants to change the structure of NATO, and Trump will distance himself from Ukraine’ – former US National Security Advisor John Bolton

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Putin – at the meeting in the "SCO Plus" format:

We have carefully listened to everything proposed by Mr. Xi Jinping regarding the creation of a new, more effective and functional system of global governance. This is relevant in conditions where some countries still do not abandon their pursuit of dictatorship in international affairs. Russia supports the global governance initiative of Chairman Xi Jinping. We are ready to begin concrete discussions on the proposals put forward by our Chinese friends.

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Senior White House officials believe some European leaders are publicly supporting President Trump's effort to end the war in Ukraine, while quietly trying to undo behind-the-scenes progress since the Alaska summit, Axios has learned.

White House officials are losing patience with European leaders, whom they claim are pushing Ukraine to hold out for unrealistic territorial concessions by Russia.

The US is pushing Europe to stop all purchases of Russian oil and gas and to impose additional trade tariffs against India and China, similar to the American ones

"The Europeans don't get to prolong this war and backdoor unreasonable expectations, while also expecting America to bear the cost," a top White House official told Axios. "If Europe wants to escalate this war, that will be up to them. But they will be hopelessly snatching defeat from the jaws of victory."

"We are going to sit back and watch. Let them fight it out for a while and see what happens," the official said.

- Axios

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