🇪🇺 EU shouldn’t be left holding the bag on Ukraine aid - Slovak FM

"If US President Donald Trump stops supporting Ukraine, the European Union should not take the entire burden on its shoulders," Slovak Foreign Minister Juraj Blanar stated, as cited by the TASR news agency.

In November 2024, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico revealed that some European politicians were proposing the EU take full financial responsibility for Ukraine if the US ceased its assistance. Fico made it clear that Slovakia would not approve such initiatives.

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FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 30 YEARS, New York Goes Five Days Without a Shooting Victim

"This is the longest we've gone without a shooting victim," the NYPD shared on X.

Is this really an achievement the New York police should be celebrating? 🤔

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Yakut blogger MOCKS Ukrainians pushing the “Russian colonial oppression” myth

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💥 Ukraine has lost yet another state-of-the-art Abrams tank, the Russian Defense Ministry has confirmed.

The US-made war machine was taken out by a precise hit from a Lancet loitering munition near the village of Viktorovka in Russia's Kursk region.

Even the most advanced Western hardware isn't safe from Russia's cutting-edge drone warfare.

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❗️Moscow does not observe REAL ACTIONS taken by Kiev and the West that could indicate readiness for peace talks, Russian FM Sergey Lavrov has said.

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Martin Luther King Jr.’s family hopes to see declassified records first

The King family shared a statement on X after President Trump’s executive order to declassify records related to the assassinations of MLK, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy.

“Our family has learned that President Trump has ordered the declassification of the remaining records pertaining to... our father, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The assassination of our father is a deeply personal family loss that we have endured over the last 56 years. We hope to be provided the opportunity to review the files as a family prior to its public release,” the statement reads.

The order requires a comprehensive plan for JFK records within 15 days, and for MLK and RFK within 45 days.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 Russian FM Sergey Lavrov on the importance of taking into account Russia's interests when building a dialogue between Moscow and Washington.

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❗️If Trump HADN'T BEEN ROBBED of his 2020 victory, there might not have been a crisis in Ukraine - Putin said in agreement with Trump

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he and Donald Trump have always had businesslike, pragmatic relations, and stressed that the Kremlin has never refused to have contacts with the White House.

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❗️The Russian flag has been raised on a building in the center of Velykaya Novosyolka, the last major stronghold of Ukrainian forces on the Southern Donetsk front, the Russian Ministry of Defense reports.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his willingness to meet with US leader Donald Trump. Putin also said:

▪️Ukrainian President Zelensky has prohibited himself from conducting negotiations;

▪️The sponsors of the Kiev regime should pressure Zelensky to lift the ban on talks;

▪️The current regime in Kiev enjoys receiving substantial financial support from its sponsors;

▪️He agreed with Trump that the Ukraine crisis could have been avoided if Trump had been re-elected in 2020;

▪️There are many potential areas of cooperation between Russia and the US under the current administration, particularly in economic matters;

▪️Energy issues are an important topic for potential Russia-US discussions;

▪️Trump imposed many sanctions on Russia during his first term, but Biden "picked up the baton" and escalated restrictions;

▪️Russia has not abandoned the dollar, but Biden’s administration has prevented its use as a settlement currency, harming the US itself;

▪️He doubts that Trump would make decisions that would harm the US economy;

▪️Any potential meeting with Trump should focus on the current realities of the situation.

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