🇵🇸🇮🇱 Truce talks between Israel and Hamas have reached the finish line and the parameters of the agreements will be announced at an appropriate time, Qatar's Foreign Ministry said

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🇦🇷 Argentine people voted for right-wing economist Javier Milei out of "despair in a hopeless situation", Professor Heinz Dieterich told Sputnik.

The South American country is mired in foreign debt, with hyper-inflation, whose "political class is totally corrupt", the former adviser to late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez said. Weighing in on Milei’s suggestions of ditching the peso, "dollarizing’ the economy and possibly rejecting BRICS", Dieterich added:

"You don't need to be an economist to understand that from a macroeconomic point of view [these proposals] are complete nonsense. Their transcendental meaning is the end of the Argentine sovereign nation and its annexation as a kind of 'Free Associated State' like Puerto Rico or a kind of 51st state of the US."

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⚡️ Ukrainian losses over the month amounted to more than 13,700 servicemen and about 1,800 units of weapons and military equipment, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said

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🇷🇺🪖 Russian troops are continuing to successfully conduct active defense in the special op zone and are confidently holding the lines, gradually improving their position, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

All attempts by Ukrainian forces to conduct a landing operation in the Kherson direction have failed, and Ukrainian units have suffered enormous losses, the minister added.

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🇺🇸🇦🇫💰 $4,000 “exit fee”: US soldier quitting Army blasts state of military for forcing him to pay for botched Afghan withdrawal

“Today, I'm reminded of how disappointed I am in our government. Go to turn in my gear. They want to charge me $500 to $1000 for gear that I was ordered to leave in Afghanistan two years ago because as the last two birds were sitting on the tarmac ready to leave, there wasn't any room for extra gear, extra weight”.

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🇷🇺 Live event is now over: Sergey Lavrov addresses Arab League, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation States, focusing on Gaza Crisis

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 The amount of humanitarian aid arriving in Gaza is insufficient, the main priority now is to stop hostilities, release hostages and resolve humanitarian issues, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said

Moscow considers it necessary to create an "external support mechanism" to ensure a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli problem, Lavrov said.

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🇫🇷🥖🍷🇷🇺 Border guards in Russia’s Leningrad Region detain French citizen who illegally crossed the Narva River on boat

The man's motives are unknown, and he was taken into custody.

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Zelensky publicly criticizes ex top Ukrainian general Zaluzhny for the first time

Commenting to British newspaper The Sun on relations with commanders, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that during the war, generals cannot engage in politics, as it does not contribute to the unity of the nation.

“If you manage war keeping in mind that tomorrow you will do politics or elections, then in your words and on the front line you behave as a politician and not as a military man, and I think that is a huge mistake … With all the respect to Gen Zaluzhny and to all the commanders who are on the battlefield, there is an absolute understanding of the hierarchy and that is it, and there can’t be two, three, four, five.”

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🇺🇸 Critical geopolitical shift: Cardi B no longer supports Ukraine or Israel

Cardi B, who memorably helped promote Biden’s candidacy as he successfully ran for the White House in 2020, vowed that she would no longer endorse political candidates in the future.

“I’m endorsing no presidents no more,” Cardi B warned. “Joe Biden is talking about, ‘Yeah, we can fund two wars,’ … talking about, ‘Yeah, we got it, we’re the greatest nation.’ No … we’re not. We don’t got it, and we’re going through some sh*t right now. So say it!”

She added: “We are really, really, really f**ked right now. No, we cannot fund these … wars.” Cardi B asked whether the US was going broke and then answered: “Yes, it is. We ain’t got McDonald’s money.”

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 Putin: Urgent task now is long-term Palestinian-Israeli truce

▪️The situation in the Gaza Strip shows that the US is trying to monopolize mediation functions in the Palestinian-Israeli settlement

▪️Due to the sabotage of UN decisions, more than one generation of Palestinians are being brought up with a sense of injustice, Israel cannot guarantee security

▪️Russia's position on Gaza is consistent and not opportunistic, Moscow insists on a diplomatic settlement of the problem

▪️Full humanitarian pauses in the region are necessary for the release of hostages

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🇷🇺 “The deaths of thousands of people, the mass displacement of civilians and the humanitarian catastrophe that has unfolded are deeply disturbing”

🇵🇸🇮🇱 Vladimir Putin speaks at the BRICS summit on the Palestine-Israel conflict

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🇷🇺 "Due to the sabotage of UN decisions, more than one generation of Palestinians are being brought up with a sense of injustice"

🇵🇸🇮🇱 Vladimir Putin speaks at the BRICS summit on the Palestine-Israel conflict

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🇷🇺 "The situation in the Gaza Strip shows that the US is trying to monopolize mediation functions in the Palestinian-Israeli settlement"

🇵🇸🇮🇱 Vladimir Putin speaks at the BRICS summit on the Palestine-Israel conflict

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Euromaidan: Color Revolution that brought Ukraine to ruin

Tuesday is the 10th anniversary of the start of the Euromaidan (lit. “Euro Square”) protests in Kiev. Three months after the unrest began, in February 2014, the crisis culminated in the ouster of Ukraine’s democratically elected government, and its replacement with a fanatically pro-European, pro-NATO regime. What did the protesters want? And what did ordinary Ukrainians get?

‘Ukraine is Europe’

▪️ Wanted: Association Agreement with the European Union and speedy integration into the bloc, meaning economic aid, access to EU markets, and visa free travel with Schengen Zone countries.

▪️ Got: Uprisings in Crimea and the Donbass culminating in their breaking off from Ukraine, restricted access to EU markets and “anti-dumping” measures among bloc members bordering Ukraine, widespread depopulation (from 45.5 million in 2013 to as few as 19 million now), and vague promises on possible EU membership “decades” from now, to quote French President Emmanuel Macron.

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‘Economic prosperity’

▪️ Wanted: Western levels of economic prosperity facilitated by charting a ‘European course’ and breaking off centuries of economic integratory ties with Russia.

▪️ Got: GDP per capita in purchasing power terms shrinking from about $13,000 in 2013 to $10,730 in 2022, inflation rising from near zero in 2013 to 20 percent in 2022, collapse of the hryvnia national currency’s value from 0.1126 USD in 2013 to 0.028 USD in 2023, national debt growing from 37.5 percent of GDP in 2013 to nearly 85 percent of GDP today, increase in the price of water, electricity, heating and other utilities by several hundred percent over the past decade.

‘No to corruption’

▪️ Wanted: An end to political corruption and largesse and a shrinking of the wealth gap between the country’s poorest and wealthiest citizens.

▪️ Got: “A country that is corrupt at all levels of society,” in former European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker’s words, and a slight increase in the GINI coefficient measuring inequality from 24.6 points in 2013 to 25.6 points in 2020.

Ukraine’s internal corruption turned outwards amid the pilfering and illegal resale of NATO military assistance to criminal gangs, militants and terrorist groups, prompting Interpol, Europol, and authorities from Europe and Africa to the Middle East to sound the alarm.

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‘Dignity and freedom’

▪️ Wanted: A ‘Revolution of Dignity’ (as the Euromaidan coup is officially called) that would free Ukraine from the “authoritarian tendencies” of the Yanukovych government and strengthen the fundamental rights and freedoms of Ukrainian citizens.

▪️ Got: Wholesale bans on more than a dozen opposition political parties, a crackdown on Russian and other languages in education, media, publishing, and the creation of a “language ombudsman” to “protect Ukrainian” as the sole state language. Restrictions against trade unions, and media, an unprecedented crackdown on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which accounts for well over half of the country’s Orthodox believers, over claims of its “ties to Russia.” Threats by Zelensky to cancel the 2024 elections. Restrictions on movement of fighting-age men, who are not allowed to leave the country and face the constant threat of being grabbed on the street and sent to the front to fight Russia.

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