🇺🇸 Plenty of former, active criminals serve among Kiev's mercenary gangs, security analyst says

A US Army veteran Craig Lang, who is wanted for double homicide in Florida and who now fights side by side with Ukrainian neo-Nazis, is but one of a large number of shady types who flocked to Kiev’s banners for money, thrills and a chance to murder people with impunity.

The regime in Kiev has also enlisted the services of many domestic criminals, having “opened up their own prisons right in the very beginning of the conflict,” international relations and security analyst Mark Sleboda told Sputnik.

According to him, the likes of Lang, who has been fighting in Donbass as part of Ukrainian neo-Nazi units since 2015, essentially highlight the nature of the Kiev regime.

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🇩🇪 German Eurosceptic conservative party Alternative for Germany (AfD) has recorded record high support rate this week at 22%, a poll conducted by the Institute for New Social Answers showed.

This puts the party in the second place after the opposition bloc, consisting of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany and the Christian Social Union in Bavaria parties, which gained 26%, the survey has found.

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🇧🇼📹 Hundreds hold anti-LGBTQ protest in Botswana

A proposed bill, which aims to legalize same-sex relationships, has been the subject of protests by citizens in Botswana's capital, Gaborone.

Pastor Pulafela Mabiletswane Siele of the Evangelical Fellowships of Botswana, a Christian group, delivering a petition to the parliament, said "We urge our parliament to opt for a referendum regarding this matter."

Receiving the petition on behalf of parliament, opposition lawmaker Wynter Mmolotsi said that MPs would take into consideration the views of the church

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📹 Joe Biden should be ‘dead and gone’ by now, according to Senator Biden

In 1991, the Delaware senator didn't know he would one day be a president facing questions about his physical and mental fitness for the highest office in the land.

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🇮🇱 You're making my heart flutter: Israeli PM Netanyahu reportedly in good health after pacemaker surgery

Earlier this month, Netanyahu was hospitalized at the Sheba Medical Center in the city of Ramat Gan east of Tel Aviv, where he underwent a series of comprehensive medical tests, including a heart examination.

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🇺🇸 Washington becoming weary of Zelensky’s never-ending demands for aid

Joe Biden reportedly "lashed out" at Zelensky in June 2022, yelling that the Ukrainian leader "should be showing more gratitude for the billions in aid he was getting from the US via the American people."

"Zelensky is acting like a spoiled, petulant child who gets everything he wants and it’s still not enough. Many in the U.S. government and many of our citizens are growing tired of his act. I can assure you he is burning bridges in Europe as well. There is only so much money and good will to go around," Douglas MacKinnon, a former special assistant for policy and communications at the Pentagon, said.

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🥴 Xitposting: Musk to kill Twitter bird in favor of new X logo

The X is intended “to embody the imperfections in us all that make us unique,” the "Chief Twit" said.

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🇬🇷 30,000 evacuated from Greece’s Rhodes as wildfires continue to ravage island

Forest fires are continuing to wreak havoc on the Greek island for the fifth day. At first they were limited to the inland mountainous areas, but then shifted towards the coast.

Many visitors of evacuated hotels had to leave without even taking their belongings, and some tourists left the danger zone in their swimsuits.

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🇩🇪 German opposition sounds alarm as army’s security check backlog hits 70k troops

“It's a scandal! The security of the country is being dealt with sloppily here, apparently because MAD’s [Germany’s Military Counterintelligence Service] workload is too big,” Ingo Gadechens, a former career soldier and budget committee intelligence subcommittee member, said.

“I expect [Defense Minister Boris] Pistorius to explain to parliament immediately after the summer break how he intends to close these security gaps as quickly as possible.”

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❗️Russia unleashes strikes against Ukrainian facilities in Odessa used for plotting terror attacks, MoD says

All targets were destroyed, the ministry said, adding that the facilities hosted foreign mercenaries.

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🇷🇺 Russian forces have eliminated over 160 Ukrainian servicemen, destroyed seven Leopard tanks, 15 armored fighting vehicles, including 10 Bradley IFVs, in the Zaporozhye and South Donetsk directions, MoD says

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🇷🇺🇧🇾 Talks between Vladimir Putin and his Belarussian counterpart Lukashenko begin in St. Petersburg

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❗️Information from Kiev regime about Russian forces attacking Transfiguration Cathedral in Odessa is incorrect, MoD says

All designated targets in Odessa, where terrorist attacks against Russia were being prepared, were at a safe distance from the cathedral.

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🇷🇺🇧🇾 "There is no [Ukrainian] counteroffensive," Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said during talks with the Russian president.

Putin clarified: "There is one, but it has failed."

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⚡️ Putin: Record number of West-supplied military equipment was destroyed in special military op zone in the past 24 hours

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❗️LIVE NOW: Putin, Lukashenko Meet to Discuss Ukraine's Counteroffensive, NATO Encroachment

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❗️Putin reveals losses suffered by Ukraine during its counteroffensive in meeting with Lukashenko:

▪️Ukrainian side was fully equipped with Western-supplied military equipment;

▪️On the destruction of more than 15 Ukrainian Leopards and over 20 Bradleys: We’ve never destroyed so many foreign vehicles in one day;

▪️Ukrainian losses amount to 26,000 servicemen since the start of the special military op.

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