Federal judge blocks Trump's executive order banning transgenders* from serving in military - report

A US district judge ruled the EO likely violates US constitutional rights. The order was delayed for 3 days to allow the administration to appeal, the Guardian writes.

Earlier, Trump signed an executive order asserting that the sexual identity of transgender service members "conflicts with a soldier’s commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle, even in one’s personal life," and is detrimental to military readiness.

*banned in Russia

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🚨🇬🇧 British special forces on standby for possible Ukraine deployment

The UK is preparing to send special forces to Ukraine as part of a potential peacekeeping mission, with a ceasefire agreement edging closer, The i Paper reports.

Sources reveal that elite units have been told to get ready for mobilization.

Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that NATO troop presence in Ukraine, in any capacity, poses a THREAT to Russia.

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⚡️UKRAINE LAUNCHED DRONE ATTACK ON RUSSIAN ENERGY FACILITY HOURS AFTER PUTIN-TRUMP TALKS

This facility plays a key role in transferring oil to the pipeline system of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium.

As a result of the drone crash, a fire broke out, covering an area of 1,700 square meters. The ministry emphasized that this act by the Kiev regime is a deliberate provocation aimed at undermining Trump’s peace initiatives, Russia's Defense Ministry informed.

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⚡️ PUTIN ORDERED TO HALT STRIKES ON UKRAINE’S ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE, FOLLOWING HIS CONVERSATION WITH TRUMP — Russia's MoD

At that moment, seven Russian drones were already in the air, targeting Ukrainian energy facilities in the Nikolaev region linked to the defense industry.

Russian air defense was instructed to NEUTRALIZE ITS OWN DRONES—six were shot down by the Pantsir system, and one was taken down by a fighter jet.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 Donald Trump on his impressions of yesterday's conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin

“Putin was very solid, very strong, which he is,” Trump said. “It was a very good call. I know him very well. I think he is very serious that he wants to end it,” Trump said.

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🇷🇺🪖Key statements from the Russian Defense Ministry's daily briefing on the special military operation's progress:

▪️Ukraine lost up to 465 troops and four armed vehicles in the Russian Tsentr Battlegroup's combat zone.

▪️Ukraine lost up to 45 soldiers and four warehouses in the area of responsibility of Russia's Battlegroup Dnepr.

▪️Ukrainian losses amounted to 145 militants in the Russian Vostok Battlegroup's combat zone.

▪️Ukrainian losses amounted to 250 militants in the Russian Zapad Battlegroup's combat zone.

▪️Ukrainian losses amounted to 70 militants in the Russian Sever Battlegroup's combat zone.

▪️Ukraine lost more than 230 militants and two tanks in the Kursk region over the day.

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🔎 Trump’s latest statements on Ukraine ‘MOSTLY TRUE’ - US media

POTUS’ remarks come amid a “steady diet of disinformation” about Ukraine that Western audiences have been fed for more than a decade, The Hills contributor, Alan Kuperman, underscores.

He points to an array of Ukraine-related facts that the Western public should have known:

▪️Right-wing Ukrainian militants were the ones who triggered the 2014 Maidan violence which led to resignation of then-Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych

▪️Zelensky added fuel to the fire of “a wider war” by violating the Minsk peace agreements and seeking NATO military aid and membership

▪️Zelensky campaigned in 2019 on a pledge to prevent further war, but reneged after winning the elections, “apparently less concerned about risking war than looking weak on Russia.”

▪️The subsequent increase in weapons imports from NATO countries by the Zelensky regime proved the last straw for Russian President Vladimir Putin

▪️Former US President Joe Biden “contributed crucially” to the escalation of the Ukraine conflict by failing to force Zelensky to comply with Putin’s request to implement the Minsk accords

▪️If Trump had been the US president at the time, he wouldn’t have provided Zelensky with “such a blank check”, which emboldened Ukraine and further sparked the standoff.

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❗️Ukraine's overnight attack on the Russian Federation can be seen as sabotage of attempts at a peaceful settlement — Kremlin spokesman

Ukraine has not canceled its night attacks on facilities in Russia, which runs counter to the efforts of Putin and Trump to reach a peaceful settlement, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.

At the same time, the Russian president's command to stop attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure facilities was immediately implemented, he stressed.

Now, Russian authorities are closely watching whether Kiev will listen to the intention of Moscow and Washington to do everything possible to get back on a peaceful track.

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❗️🪖 A Russian strike in the Sumy region hit a large group of Ukrainian militants, which, with the support of armored personnel carriers and tanks, was heading to the border with Russia, Sputnik was told in the underground resistance movement.

A strike in the suburbs of Sumy hit the location of mercenaries, the Russian Volunteer Corps* and militants the national formation "Kraken"*, the movement added.

*The Russian Volunteer Corps is a terrorist organization outlawed in Russia.

*Kraken battalion is a terrorist organization outlawed in Russia.

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🇵🇱🪖 Poland to plant anti-personnel mines, escalating border tensions with Belarus

Warsaw don’t possess such mines, but is capable of producing them, claimed Polish Deputy Defense Minister Pawel Beida. He argued that the country wants to manufacture up to one million anti-personnel mines as part of the country’s East Shield defense initiative.

Earlier, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said that the Polish leadership, politically dependent on the United States, spends a lot of money on weapons, creating additional military tension in the region.

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🔊LIVE NOW: Putin takes part in an extended meeting of the board of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation

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⚡️Russian soldiers are COMPLETING THE DEFEAT of the enemy in the Kursk region — Putin

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❗️Recently, the Russian Armed Forces have carried out a series of swift and DARING operations, Putin said at a meeting of the Prosecutor General's Office Collegium

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❗️Putin instructed military prosecutors to identify, document, and investigate the CRIMES of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region.

All those who had committed crimes against the civilian population in the Kursk region must be identified and punished, Russia's President said.

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