French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said he will file for resignation on Monday, July 8, but will serve until a new cabinet is formed.

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Ukraine’s top military commander may be given the boot less than six months after his appointment

Mere months after replacing Gen. Valery Zaluzhny as commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, Gen. Oleksandr Syrsky may soon be ousted himself amid a recent string of humiliations suffered by Ukrainian troops at the hands of Russian military.

As Ukrainian forces struggle and fail to stop Russia’s advance on multiple fronts, it appears that Volodymyr Zelensky wants to “get rid of Syrsky and replace him with God knows who,” former CIA analyst Larry Johnson said during an interview on YouTube podcast Dialogue Works.

Such a move won’t actually matter, Johnson says, pointing out that Syrsky is “not a magician” who could conjure out of thin air “new brigades of soldiers that are trained and ready to go to combat” – something that Ukraine currently has in very short supply.

That said, Syrsky himself is not some kind of peerless commander, with Johnson noting that the Ukrainian general “made some bad tactical decisions” such as not building adequate defensive lines before Russian troops went on the offensive this year.

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Supporters of left-wing forces in France's parliamentary elections gather in the Place de la Republique in Paris to celebrate the victory, media reported.

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Opposition leader Marine Le Pen, commenting on the results of the French elections, said the victory of the right-wing party National Rally, which was thwarted this time, "is only postponed".

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