🗣️ On Ukraine losing the West’s sympathies:

"Regardless of what's happening in Ukraine and again, our commiserations and sympathies to Mr. Zelensky, who has fallen off the front pages, nice and shivering in his Kiev office, no one's visiting him anymore. It was a stage where he was as popular or Kiev was as popular destination as Epstein's island for various Western leaders. Not anymore. So, Ukraine is now kind of yesterday's problem. It's not going to go the way the West want. They backed a loser," Phil Kelly, Belfast-based political commentator and socialist activist, told Sputnik.

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🇵🇸🇺🇸🇮🇱 Antony Blinken has little to show for his three-day Middle East diplomatic push

Israel, Jordan, the West Bank, Iraq, and Turkiye were the stopovers made by the US secretary of state in a flurry of activity ostensibly aimed at preventing further regional fallout from the Palestine-Israel conflict. However, America’s top diplomat elicited a tepid response.

Blinken had pressed Israel to agree to “humanitarian pauses,” but his call was publicly dismissed by Tel Aviv. Representatives of Israel's Arab neighbors in one voice reiterated calls for an “immediate ceasefire” as they faced Blinken in Jordan, urging him to “stop this madness.”

However, wrapping up his diplomatic back-and-forth, the secretary of state doubled down on the US stance that it would not push for a ceasefire.

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🇷🇺🪖 Russian artillerymen hit Ukrainian troop positions near Berestovoye

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🇵🇸 Hamas political leadership offered ‘clemency' for hostage release by Israel in secret talks

The fate of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza has prompted Israel to offer an incentive for political leaders of the militant group, US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh wrote on Substack.

“We’re holding out clemency for the Hamas political leadership - giving them a chance to surrender the hostages and cling to life,” a source told the Pulitzer Prize-winner.

Sy Hersh wrote that Yahya Sinwar, who now directs the political wing of Hamas and his colleagues have been told that if they want to survive, they must “release the Israeli hostages and agree to begin holding immediate war-crime tribunals.”

“The thought was that if they agree to try their own people and order them executed, they will be given their lives while also exonerating Israel for the war,” an American official was quoted as saying.

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🇺🇸 Biden's waning support among non-whites & progressives may cost him the presidency in 2024

Joe Biden won the support of over 70% of Hispanic and Black Americans in 2020: in particular, exit polls from 2020 demonstrated that Joe led his rival Donald Trump by 87%-12% among African Americans and 65%-32% among Latino voters.

However, a series of surveys carried out over the past year have shown that the US incumbent president's backing among these two groups is on the decline across ages, genders and education-levels, as per Axios. Even though Biden still leads Trump in this respect, his support among non-whites has plummeted by a staggering 33 points since 2020.

The US media has drawn attention to the fact that Black and Hispanic voters were "a key" force during Biden's 2020 presidential race, adding that the eroding support could mean a lower turnout in 2024 and, accordingly, more volatile results.

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🇮🇱 Which countries changed diplomatic relations with Israel after the escalation of the conflict on October 7?

Countries that have severed diplomatic relations with Israel:

🇧🇴Bolivia

Countries that recalled ambassadors:

🇯🇴 Jordan
🇨🇴 Colombia
🇨🇱 Chile
🇭🇳 Honduras
🇹🇷 Türkiye
🇿🇦 South Africa

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🇮🇷 Iran slams Israeli minister’s suggestion that nuking Gaza ‘an option’, demands Tel Aviv’s nuclear disarmament.

Tehran has dubbed Israeli cabinet minister Amichai Eliyahu’s comments on the possible use of nuclear weapons in Gaza “an alarm to the whole world,” and called on the international community to take the threat seriously.

The UN Security Council and the International Atomic Energy Agency “must act immediately” to disarm Tel Aviv, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has said. For more details on the decades-old back-and-forth Iranian-Israeli nuclear spat, click here.

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🇺🇸 What message does US Tomahawk-carrying submarine send amid Gaza war?

An Ohio-class guided missile submarine arrived in the Middle East on Sunday joining the already large US military group in the region comprising combat aircraft, warships, and troops. Per the US media, a sub of this class can carry 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles.

Some US think tanks have raised concerns over the ongoing military escalation, saying that the US is "barreling toward another war in the Middle East."

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💥 What has been the problem with Russian aircraft-borne munitions? They often hit the upper floors. And while the destruction may look impressive from the outside, Ukrainian soldiers in the basement often manage to survive.

However, not long ago, news began to appear that the Russian Army had started to use the "Grom" (“Thunder”) guided missile and bomb system. Thus, a video of the destruction of an observation post of the Ukrainian Army as a result of an airstrike using "Grom" near Kherson has been published.

Footage of the airstrike shows a quantum leap for Russia's defense industry. Now the Russian Army can fire missiles at the base of a house. It is almost impossible to escape such a blow, even in the basement. Houses are stacked like a house of cards.

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❗️As a result of careless handling of a grenade, Gennady Chastyakov, assistant to the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian troops Valery Zaluzhny, died in the Kiev region, his son was hospitalized in serious condition, Ukrainian media reported citing a source in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

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🇮🇱🇵🇸 Latest updates on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict:

▪️The death toll from Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip exceeds 10,000, the Al Arabiya broadcaster reported, citing the enclave's Health Ministry.

▪️Tehran has dubbed Israeli cabinet minister Amichai Eliyahu’s comments on the possible use of nuclear weapons in Gaza “an alarm to the whole world,” and called on the international community to take the threat seriously.

▪️Hamas political leadership offered ‘clemency' for hostage release by Israel in secret talks.

▪️Israel launched airstrike on Gaza's only psychiatric hospital, Palestinian foreign ministry says

▪️Thousands of seriously wounded civilians in the Gaza Strip no longer have access to hospitals, the violence against medical facilities in the enclave will lead to a grave loss of life, the International Committee of the Red Cross said.

▪️The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Monday Gaza is becoming a graveyard for children and the the need for a humanitarian ceasefire is bigger than ever.

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🇨🇦🇷🇺 The economic sanctions Canada imposed on Russia are affecting negatively the lives of ordinary Canadians who wish to continue contacts with that country, Royal Bank of Canada Economic Sanctions global head Stephen Alsace said on Monday.

"It’s actually perhaps easier to just de-risk and not process any transactions with certain countries because of the level of complexity that you have to implement ... It is a challenge especially when you look at the unintended consequences because you still have people, ordinary citizens who do want to be able to complete transactions, let’s say in Russia, pension payments, it could even be hockey teams that we’ve seen where it's just a question about their payroll that it's being interrupted," Alsace said.

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🇺🇸 Zelensky shifts goal posts as legacy media readies the American public for Ukraine’s defeat

A visibly agitated President Volodymyr Zelensky defiantly denied Sunday that the NATO-Russia proxy war in Ukraine had entered a “stalemate,” assuring in an extensive interview with US media that Moscow has not “checkmated” Kiev, and that Ukraine still has many “different plans” to maintain the initiative.

“Our military are coming up with different plans, with different operations in order to move forward faster and to strike the Russian Federation unexpectedly,” Zelensky said, in stark contradiction to Zaluzhnyi’s comments about the counteroffensive’s utter failure to penetrate Russian defenses.

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🇺🇸📄 Leaked Memo Reveals US Diplomats' Concerns Over Biden Administration's Israel Policy

State Department officials, in a leaked memo, reportedly criticized the Biden administration's approach to the Palestine-Israel conflict, calling for a more public condemnation of Israeli actions.

A Monday US media report detailed that the memo outlines two requests: endorsing a ceasefire and adopting a more balanced approach in public and private communications regarding Israel, including the open discussion of concerns about Israeli military tactics and the treatment of Palestinians.

Authored by two mid-level staffers with Middle East experience, the memo also reportedly acknowledges Israel's legitimate right and obligation to seek justice against the Hamas militant group over the October 7 surprise attack while deeming the subsequent high number of Palestinian casualties - mostly civilians and many children - as unacceptable.

🇷🇺 Western politicians are provoking a major conflict in the Middle East, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during a marathon event at the Znanie Society within the framework of the Russia International Exhibition-Forum.

"Other consequences include a surge in terrorism and extremism, shattered human destinies, broken families and the massive influx of refugees," Lavrov noted in his speech at the “Znanie” (lit. “Knowledge”) Society event.

The methods used by the United States and its allies are sowing chaos in various regions of the world, fueling conflicts between countries and peoples, exacerbating inter-religious and inter-ethnic tensions. The West has grown accustomed to solving its own problems at the expense of others and exploiting other people's resources and, contrary to global processes, hopes to rule the world by interfering in the internal affairs of states, Lavrov concluded.

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Anti-War Organizer: Being Pro-Palestine Isn’t Anti-Semitic, But ‘Pro-Justice’

A leading US pro-peace organizer told Sputnik that supporting Palestinian rights isn’t anti-Jewish, as it’s widely presented in the media, but pro-justice.

The growing peace demonstrations are evidence that the narrative surrounding Israel and Palestine is changing in America, he said.

🇪🇺 The era of western intellectual superiority is over, says the EU's chief diplomat, Josep Borrell

The head of European diplomacy admitted that although "many countries condemned" Russia's actions in Ukraine, "many also did not support EU sanctions".

"The current Palestinian-Israeli conflict reinforces accusations of double standards," he said at a conference of EU Ambassadors in Brussels.

He concluded that all of this was the result of "Western intellectual superiority" coming to the end of an era.

“The Global South was formed in response to the dominance of the West ... This era of dominance has ended in intellectual terms, we must admit this. But we have not yet fully grasped the consequences and practical implications of this new reality,” said Borrell.

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🇿🇦🇨🇳 Xi says China-South Africa relations enter "golden age"

💬 "This year marks the 25th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and South Africa, the relations between the two countries have entered a 'golden age," Chinese President Xi Jinping said.

China is ready to work together with South Africa to continuously develop the comprehensive strategic partnership, contributing to the promotion of relations between the two countries to a new level, he added.

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