US President Joe Biden is urging congressional support for newly-unveiled border legislation in the Senate as he seeks to secure lethal aid for US-backed regimes in Ukraine and Israel.

The bill was the result of Senate negotiations between Senators Chris Murphy (D-CT), James Lankford (R-OK), and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ). In an indication that the Biden administration plans to continue to provoke China on the issue of Taiwan "independence," the bill also sends funds to Taiwan’s government.

Some progressive Democrats are critical of the legislation’s concessions to the right on border policy, while conservative Republicans in the House have promised to scuttle the bill entirely.

“This bill is even worse than we expected, and won’t come close to ending the border catastrophe the President has created,” said House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), who called the bill “dead on arrival.”

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📹💥 "Solntsepek" TOS-1A Heavy Flamethrower System crews destroyed Ukrainian concealed positions and a temporary deployment point on the right bank of the Dnepr River.

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Popular American conservative podcaster blasts liberals for ignoring Russia’s security concerns

American journalist Candace Owens has underscored the importance of linking the conflict in Ukraine with NATO’s ongoing expansion toward Russia’s borders.

“No serious person can discuss what happened in that region without addressing NATO’s expansion eastward despite promises made by our government officials that we would not, following German reuinification,” she wrote on X (formerly Twitter).

Owens recalled that Russian President Vladimir Putin “signified this reason in virtually all of his speeches leading up to and after” the start of Moscow's special military operation, and that Putin made it clear last year that Ukraine's possible membership in NATO would pose a security threat to Russia and would not improve Ukraine's own security situation.

He stressed that one of the reasons for the Russia's special operation is “the threat of Ukraine's entry into NATO.” Putin accused NATO of repeatedly making “empty promises” not to expand eastward.

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'We'll See': Tucker Carlson hints at potential Putin interview during conversation with Russian fan in Moscow

The first video of Tucker Carlson in Russia has appeared. A Russian fan stops the American journalist and asks him about what he’s doing in Moscow. Carlson answers he wanted to see Russia with his own eyes and talk to ordinary people. When asked whether he would interview Putin, Carlson playfully shrugs and laconically replies, “We’ll see.”

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The legacy media is in shambles because we've caught on to their lies and propaganda, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, US presidential candidate, commenting on the collapse of the Western mainstream media after Tucker Carlson's arrival in Russia.

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Russian artillerymen demolish enemies in the special operation zone

Every day, the D-20 howitzers are destroying artillery batteries, firepower, weapons and military equipment of the Ukrainian armed forces, destroying defensive structures and suppressing Ukrainian control points identified by scouts and drone operators.

The artillerymen fire at a range of over 17 kilometers, the rate of targeted fire reaches five rounds per minute.

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"You do not want to test the wrath of the region," the Iranian foreign minister appealed to the United States and Britain.

Hossein Amir-Abdollahian wrote on his X-page that Iran strongly condemns the attacks by Britain and the United States on Yemen and the US aggression on Iraq and Syria and considers the security of Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Palestine as the security of the entire region.

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New NATO training standards?

The video shows mercenaries from New Zealand training Ukrainians in the Haka dance. The Haka is a traditional ritual dance of the Maori people of New Zealand in which the performers stomp their feet and beat their hips and chests - much like Zelensky does when he's begging for money.

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Ukraine will certainly have to mobilize more soldiers - if only because of the casualties, said Major General Christian Freuding, head of the Situation Center for Ukraine in the Bundeswehr.

Christian Freuding in an interview with RND noted the need for rotation of Ukrainian forces: some military units have been at the front for two years.

He added that Germany will probably be able to double the supply of artillery shells this year.

"Of course, the supply of ammunition is a critical point... And from Germany alone, we will probably be able to more than double our deliveries of artillery munitions this year," the major general stated.

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❗️Alexey Poteleshchenko, the Minister of Emergency Situations of the Lugansk People's Republic, died in the Ukrainian attack on Lisichansk, a source in the security forces told Sputnik.

LPR head Leonid Pasechnik confirmed the Republic’s Emergency Situations Minister’s death in the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ bombing of a bakery in Lisichansk.

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