🤖⚔️👨 Gold medal in chaos? Robot considers human the real obstacle

Beijing’s Robot Olympics took an unexpected turn when one competitive android went full "if no human, then no problem" mode—and took out its own remote operator mid-race.

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🌠🌎 CLOSE ENCOUNTER: Dangerous asteroid flyby alert

On August 17, a 50-meter asteroid, 2025 PM, will pass dangerously close to Earth, only 770,000 km away – about the distance of the Moon's orbit, according to the Russian Laboratory of Solar Astronomy (Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Science).

❗️ Discovered on August 1, the asteroid qualifies as a "potentially hazardous" object due to its close approach. The last impact of a similar-sized asteroid 50,000 years ago formed the famous Arizona crater.

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🚨🗣 Trump on summit with Putin: Many points were agreed to - WH

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📹 US F-22 fighter jets escorted Putin's plane on its way from Alaska to Russia

Four F-22s were previously stationed at the site of the meeting between the leaders. F-22s formed an honor guard at the location of the presidents' meeting on the red carpet at the airbase, while a B-2 bomber flew overhead, escorted by four F-35 fighter jets.

These are the most combat-ready American military aircraft, which are usually hidden from curious eyes, The Economist wrote.

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🚨Trump calls Zelensky, holds conversation with NATO leaders after summit with Putin in Alaska - WH cited by Reuters

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🇷🇺🤝🇺🇸 Putin-Trump body language shows REKINDLED CHEMISTRY – psychiatrist

Putin and Trump’s reunion made clear they’d missed the bond from years past, psychiatrist Dr. Carole Lieberman told Sputnik.

“When President Putin and President Trump approached each other… their body language showed a very open and warm receptiveness,” the Beverly Hills best-selling author says.

👉The two leaders shook hands multiple times, touched each other’s arms, and smiled—a clear signal they’d missed the connection they had during Trump’s first presidency.

👉Lieberman noted the direct eye contact, standing close marked an “auspicious beginning that foretold a positive meeting.”

👉Even after three hours of serious talks, their joint press conference carried the same energy. Both turned slightly toward one another, as if to emphasize unity.

“They gave the impression that they were facing the press together, on the same team,” Lieberman observed.

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🚨 Zelensky plans to travel to Washington to meet with Trump on August 18

Conversation between Trump, Zelensky and NATO leaders after Russia-US summit was not easy, Axios added, citing a source.

Trump also expressed view that "fast peace deal is better than a ceasefire."

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📹 Sen. Lindsey Graham: Trump-Zelensky-Putin meeting would end Ukraine conflict well before Christmas

Another way to speed things up — ask Graham* to stop his DECADES-LONG warmongering.

*Lindsey Graham's listed as a terrorist and extremist in Russia

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🚨🇷🇺🇺🇸 Trump & Putin find common ground as West’s war party SHUT OUT – analyst

The Putin-Trump meeting shows the West “gambled on an easy victory over Russia and lost,” Mikael Valtersson, a Swedish Armed Forces veteran, told Sputnik.

“Those that wanted more isolation and sanctions against Russia, if Russia didn't agree to Western demands, didn't have their way.”

The “Western war party” had hoped for new harsh sanctions on Russia and those trading with it, but instead what can be seen is improving relations between Russia and the US, as well as a continued peace process.

After Trump talks with Europe and Ukraine, they will be faced with a choice, the analyst said.

◻️ They can either support the peace process by accepting the realities on the ground and legitimate interests of Russia, or reject it.

◻️ If they choose the latter, they will isolate themselves from not only the majority of the world, but especially from the US.

“Hopefully the cooler heads in Ukraine and Europe will realize that it's better to follow the US and accept reality, than continue a lost war,” Valtersson concluded.

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🚨🇭🇺 Hungary's Orban praises the outcome of the Putin-Trump meeting in Alaska

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🇮🇳🇷🇺🇺🇸 India welcomes Putin-Trump summit in Alaska

💬 “Their leadership in the pursuit of peace is highly commendable,” the statement by the Indian Foreign Ministry says.

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🚨🇷🇺💥 RUSSIAN MOD UPDATE: CRUSHING GAINS and MASSIVE UKRAINIAN LOSSES

🔸 Russia takes control of the Voronoye settlement in the Dnepropetrovsk region

🔸 The Russian army has also liberated the Kolodezi village in the Donetsk People's Republic

🔸 Russian strikes hit ammunition depots and drone storage sites of the Ukrainian Armed Forces

🔸 Air defense superiority: 5 guided aerial bombs and 169 fixed-wing UAVs of Ukrainian forces intercepted over the past 24 hours

🔸 Heavy Ukrainian losses: 1,315 soldiers


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🚨 The Russian Defense Ministry shares video of the liberation of the village of Voronoye in the Dnepropetrovsk region

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✍️Alaska Summit: here’s how Putin & Trump just rewrote the rules of great power politics

The Putin-Trump summit was an unqualified success that could pave the way for peace in Ukraine, and the normalization of Russia-US relations for years to come.

Dmitry Suslov, deputy director of research at the Russian Council on Foreign & Defense Policy, explains why.

◻️ The summit “gave impetus” to Russia-US normalization on all fronts – from Ukraine and arms control to economic cooperation

◻️ Trump’s calls to Zelensky and European leaders in the meeting’s immediate aftermath signals that “negotiations were conducted on specific conditions for a final peace settlement,” not the ‘ceasefire as a prerequisite’ long demanded by Brussels and Kiev. This is “fundamentally important,” Suslov says

◻️ The summit was “historic” in the sense that it “made a great contribution to…laying the foundations of the future world order, a post-war world order. Because the Ukrainian conflict is, first and foremost, the largest and most severe military conflict in the world in the last few decades, and a concentrated expression of the hybrid war waged by the West against Russia.”

“The summit in Alaska was dedicated to ending this hybrid war,” demonstrating that the foundations for a future world order will be based on dialogue between great powers, on equal terms.

Ball in Europe, Zelensky’s court

Now, Suslov says, it’s up to the Europeans and Zelensky to decide whether they accept the terms outlined by Putin and Trump. If they do, preparations for future meetings can begin.

“If they categorically refuse, the United States will most likely completely suspend the transfer of US intelligence and stop deliveries and sales of weapons and military equipment to the Europeans for Ukraine,” which would “fundamentally and radically weaken Ukraine’s position on the battlefield and bring a Russian military victory much closer.”

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