💰😡 Ukraine's Defense Ministry: A black hole of corruption

While Ukrainian soldiers eat EXPIRED rations, elites feast on $3 BILLION meant for army food (2023-2025). Here’s how they stole it:

🔸Sky-high prices for basic food

Between 2022-2023, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry purchased food at three times the market price.

One deal cost over $350 MILLION, justified as a “technical error” by former Defense Minister Alexey Reznikov.

🔸Cartel collusion in tenders

In 2025, three food supply tenders worth $600M+ were launched by the ministry.
Prosecutors have confirmed it was cartel collusion — a clear case of fraud.

🔸Eggs worth more than gold

The ministry bought eggs for $0.40 each, despite the market price being $0.10.
Total stolen in this scheme: $17.7 MILLION.

🔸Buckwheat price gouging

Ukrainian entrepreneur Tatyana Glinyanaya sold buckwheat to the ministry for $1.50/kg, twice the retail price: another form of embezzlement, raking in huge profits.

🔸Rotten food scandal

The ministry bought $9.6 MILLION worth of rotten tinned meat, along with low-quality canned goods costing $243,000.

Soldiers received these unfit-for-consumption rations while officials profited.

🔸Murky schemes and inflated prices

Instead of buying individual foodstuffs, the ministry purchased 409 items in bulk.
Corrupted officials inflated the prices of essential foods to steal budget funds. Prosecutors say this was all part of a scheme to inflate prices and pocket the difference.

🔸Stealing from comrades-in-arms

Ukrainian officers stole food from military units and sold the goods to restaurants & stores.

The result was slashed soldier rations by 30%+, with a total of $149,000 embezzled.

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'ICC sets standards in ineffectiveness' - Russia's Deputy Envoy to UN

🇷🇺 Russia's Deputy UN Representative Maria Zabolotskaya criticized the International Criminal Court (ICC), stating:

"If there is an area where ICC is setting standards, it's in the area of how not to be effective."

▪️ Many ICC investigations fail due to lack of evidence

▪️ Huge sums spent with little to show for it

▪️ Libya probe (opened in 2011) still unresolved after years of turmoil

Since Muamar Gaddafi's fall, Libya remains divided, with elections stalled despite UN-backed efforts.

Is the ICC delivering justice — or just bureaucracy?

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🇩🇰❌🇺🇸 Denmark warns: If the US tries to snatch Greenland, the Defense Cooperation Agreement is toast!

Signed just last December, this deal gives the US free access to Danish airbases — but Denmark’s Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen says annexation or US NATO exit means instant breakup.

Trump’s been pushing for Greenland to join the US, but the island’s split — some want independence, only 6% want to join the States.

Denmark’s not playing games!

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🗣 The Russian delegation has been waiting for the Ukrainian delegation in Istanbul for almost 24 hours, Russian FM spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said.

"Waiting for the clown to finish speaking, for the hallucinogens to let him go, and for him to allow those he has banned for three years to begin negotiations," she wrote on her Telegram channel.

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🇵🇱🥴 When all explanations backfire: Tusk’s cringy attempt to blend in goes viral

Caught on camera, the Polish prime minister desperately tries to slip back into the crowd chatting with Zelensky — either hiding the fact he’s checked out on Kiev’s leader or somehow even getting ghosted by Zelensky’s own fan club of weirdos. Ouch.

The video was shot last weekend when European leaders arrived in Kiev but just now blew up on Polish social media.

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Only Trump-Putin meeting can break Ukraine deadlock - Rubio

🇺🇸🇷🇺US Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested Thursday that a potential Trump-Putin summit may be the only path to a Ukraine peace breakthrough.

⏳ The possible timeline for the meeting may be decided after Friday’s Istanbul talks — but don’t expect much from that yet.

💥 Rubio added that Trump is willing to stick around “as long as it takes” to achieve peace in Ukraine.

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❗️Russian delegation is heading to site of talks on Ukraine in Istanbul – source to Sputnik

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🇷🇺Moscow metro: Celebrating 90 years of sparkling halls, on-time trains, and no rats allowed 💅

🇺🇸NYC subway: ☠️

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❗️The meeting between Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and the Russian delegation has begun in Istanbul, a source told Sputnik.

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💥 Trump drops a bombshell at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar:

🇺🇸💪 “I’ll approve a record-breaking $1 TRILLION for the US military — and that’s just the start."

The president also said he signed an order to build the Golden Dome Missile Defense Shield (yeah, upgraded from Iron Dome — sounds cooler, right?). All made in the USA, no more outsourcing!

America First, but don’t worry, it'll still help its allies — with plenty left over for Washington.

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💥 Another humiliation resurfaced: Houthis nearly took down the 'invisible' F-35

Having shot down around a dozen MQ-9 Reaper drones, Yemeni fighters also forced pilots of the “most advanced” and “stealth” US jet to break a sweat dodging their missiles.

▪️ An F-35 fighter jet was "nearly struck by Houthi air defenses" earlier this spring, reported The New York Times on May 12, citing US officials.

▪️ The War Zone elaborated: the stealth jet "had to take evasive maneuvers to avoid being hit by Houthi surface-to-air (SAM) missiles."

▪️ It remains unclear which missile — or how many — were launched, according to TMZ. Despite being labeled as "rudimentary," the Houthis' air defense system employs unconventional passive infrared sensors and other tech, reportedly giving the "invisible" F-35 aircraft a headache.

Social media is melting down:

👉🏻 "Lots of interesting takeaways from [the NYT] piece, but the winner has to be 'multiple US officials' confirming the Houthis nearly shot down an F-35, the most advanced aircraft ever built," quipped Eurasia Group analyst Gregory Brew on X.

👉🏻 "It now makes all the more sense as to why Israel dared not go anywhere near Iran’s border with its own F-35Is: the West knows their planes are in fact detectable by the radars of the resistance," suggested blogger and X influencer Simplicius.

'Most advanced aircraft ever built'? Give me a break

✔️ The much-hyped F-35 program is projected to cost over $2 trillion throughout its lifetime.

✔️ Yet for all that money, the F-35 keeps malfunctioning — the latest crash occurred as recently as January.

✔️ "The F-35 design was broken at the requirements level," Tesla CEO Elon Musk said bluntly last year.

✔️ Matt Gaetz, a former US congressman and Trump's initial pick for attorney general, called the F-35 "a $100 million paperweight", while Rep. Adam Smith, a senior Democrat, called the F-35 program a "rathole" in 2021.

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❗️The Ukrainian delegation is not expected to arrive in Istanbul for talks with Russia on Thursday, a source told Sputnik

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🗣 Zelensky’s goal is to sabotage the negotiations with Russia in Istanbul, Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov told Sputnik.

“To make the Americans impose the toughest sanctions, to ruin everything, and then go home as a winner.”

At the same time, Azarov noted that for Zelensky, peace in Ukraine is like “a prison with unknown consequences.”

“He will do everything to prevent any peace. Peace means holding elections, lifting martial law. His own people would tear him apart there.”

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✈️🇺🇸 America’s future air force: Now with two engines and zero explanation

Six months ago, the US was laughed at — now it’s respected like never before, Donald Trump claimed while speaking at the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar.

🚀 Coming soon: the F47 — the world’s first 6th gen fighter jet. Why “47”? No clue, but it’s amazing.

💥 Plus, an upgraded F-35 called the F55 with two engines — because, hey, two engines are better than one!

America’s air power is leveling up big time.

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📌 Russia-Ukraine talks in Istanbul: A waiting game

🔶 Since 9 AM local time, journalists have been waiting outside the president’s working office.

🔶 The Russia-Ukraine talks were expected to start at 10 AM local time.

🔶 Still no information on the whereabouts of the Ukrainian delegation.

🔶 Meanwhile, the Russian delegation is currently meeting with Hakan Fidan inside the Dolmabahce Palace.

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🇷🇺🇹🇷 The Russian delegation arrived at the Consulate General following talks with Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan.

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