❌ US forces eliminate senior ISIS leader in northern Syria

US Central Command announced an operation on August 19 in northern Syria targeting a senior ISIS* member and key financier.

According to the statement:

➖ He planned attacks in Syria and Iraq

➖ He had connections throughout the ISIS network, posing a direct threat to US and coalition forces and the new Syrian government

✅ In late July, US Central Command said its forces had killed an ISIS leader and his two accomplice sons during a raid in Syria.

*Terrorist organization banned in Russia

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🔊 Trump–Zelensky meeting: Ukraine left hanging on security guarantees

The White House meeting between US President Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky underscored one thing: The US is offloading the task of building Ukraine’s security architecture onto Europe, The Sydney Morning Herald reports.

⚔️ While the final form of any guarantees for a post-peace deal Ukraine remains unresolved, there is “a more realistic approach to making a deal than under the Biden administration,” the outlet notes.

💬 “It’s more grounded in the battlefield reality,” it cited analysts as saying, where Russia enjoys a clear advantage, and Ukraine’s defensive lines are over-stretched, facing a lack of manpower.

Russia insists European collective guarantees for Ukraine must be based on the 2022 Istanbul negotiations, and that talks on a security framework without Russia lead nowhere.

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💣 'GOTCHA': Russian Lancet drone EXPOSES & DESTROYS camouflaged NATO tank

Watch as a Ukrainian tank, disguised near the Kupyansk front, is identified, targeted, and obliterated by a precise strike with a Russian Lancet loitering munition.

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🔛 EU security guarantees for Ukraine designed to DRAG OUT conflict with Russia – analyst

💬 These security guarantees could be used to pull Europeans into the conflict, and “it would be a perfect incentive to fight to the last Ukrainian,” warns Norwegian political scientist Glenn Diesen.

According to Diesen, Europe is determined to block any peace deal at all costs—a stance that will only escalate the crisis further.

🗣The proxy conflict is hurtling toward a “humiliating and painful end on bad terms” for Ukraine, he says.

Russia insists that any European security guarantees for Ukraine must reference the 2022 Istanbul negotiations, warning that talks without Moscow will go nowhere.

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🚨GAZA IN CRISIS: KEY UPDATES

🔹 At least 40 people have been killed in Israeli attacks since dawn, including eight awaiting aid

🔹 83% of Gaza war dead are civilians, a classified Israeli military database shows (joint investigation by The Guardian, +972 Magazine, and Local Call)

🔹 Israeli efforts to shift medical resources to Gaza’s south would strip over a million people of care and put patients’ lives at “imminent risk,” the Palestinian Health Ministry says

🔹 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will greenlight the takeover of Gaza City while reopening talks with Hamas to secure the release of the remaining hostages on “terms acceptable to Israel”

🔹 21 countries—including the UK, France, Australia, Canada, and Italy—condemn Israel’s approval of a major West Bank settlement as "unacceptable" and a "breach of international law”

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▫️ US forces eliminate senior ISIS leader in northern Syria

▫️ Kim Jong-un awards state honors to KPA soldiers who participated in Russia's Kursk liberation

▫️ Declassified records reveal Clinton’s empty NATO promises

▫️ US blocks allies from intel on Ukraine conflict talks with Russia

▫️ Nord Stream sabotage suspect revealed as ex-SBU officer

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❌ RUSSIA'S FSB DETAINS UKRAINIAN SPIES IN DONETSK

Two Ukrainian military intelligence agents have been detained in the Donetsk People’s Republic, Russia's Federal Security Service says.

🪖 A Donetsk native (b. 1987) was recruited by Ukrainian intelligence in 2022 and later enlisted a friend (b. 1997), who twice traveled to Moscow on reconnaissance missions for a Ukrainian officer in 2023.

They were involved in two car bombings (March and December 2024):

👉 Targeting a Kherson region government employee

👉 Targeting a former senior official of Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service in Donetsk

Planned two more terrorist attacks against:

🟠 A Donetsk municipal head

🟠 A volunteer battalion commander

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⚡️BREAKING: Famine confirmed for 1st time in Gaza

More than half a million people in Gaza are trapped in famine, marked by widespread starvation, says the UN

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🚨DRUZHBA OIL PIPELINE ATTACKED AGAIN – Slovak economy minister

As a result, “pumping may stop shortly,” Slovakia’s Economy Minister Denisa Sakova warned.

💬 “We are assessing the scale of the damage,” she added in a social media post.

👉 Earlier, on Wednesday, Slovakia’s Economy Ministry reported that oil deliveries via the Druzhba pipeline—halted on Monday after an attack linked to Ukraine—had resumed.

Russian oil supplies to Hungary via the Druzhba pipeline were also previously suspended following the Ukrainian military’s attacks on the pipe’s key distribution station "Unecha" in Russia’s Bryansk region.

✅ Expressing gratitude to Russia for the swift repairs, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto added that Hungary considers strikes on energy infrastructure an attack on its sovereignty.

The attacks come as Ukraine has been desperately attempting to jeopardize the peace process, which gained momentum after the historic Putin–Trump meeting in Alaska.

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👉 SPOTTED: M113 APC with Russian & US flags in special military op zone

🧐 Western media quickly dismissed the original clip as fake—claiming “AI manipulation” and “digital oddities.”

😎 Now, RT has released new, extended footage of the same vehicle in motion, directly challenging those claims.

Even the AI bot Grok has analyzed the video and confirmed its authenticity.

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🚨Israel rejects the UN report on the presence of famine in the Gaza Strip, calling it "fabricated" and tailored to serve the interests of Hamas

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🚨❗️ BREAKING: Former Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe ARRESTED

👉 The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has taken former President Ranil Wickremesinghe into custody over allegations of misuse of public funds.

📑 The charges relate to a personal trip he made to London while serving as president—a visit allegedly financed with state money.

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🗣✍️ 'I AM VERY ANGRY': Trump writes to Orban over Ukraine’s strikes on Druzhba pipeline

In response to Viktor Orban informing him about Ukraine’s attacks on the Druzhba pipeline, Donald Trump wrote an angry letter, according to Hungarian media.

💬 “Viktor, I do not like hearing this – I am very angry about it. Tell Slovakia. You are my great friend,” Trump wrote.

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🚨Zelensky said "NO" to all of Trump’s proposals for a Ukraine resolution during the meeting in Washington that the US considers essential – Lavrov to NBC

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🚨🇷🇺💥 RUSSIAN MOD UPDATE: HUGE GAINS & DEVASTATING UKRAINIAN LOSSES

⚡️KATERINOVKA, VLADIMIROVKA, RUSIN YAR (DPR) LIBERATED

By freeing these settlements, Russian troops have strengthened their hold near Konstantinovka, tightening the encirclement of Ukrainian forces and cutting their supply lines.

◻️ Nine settlements freed in the past week

◻️ Air defense superiority: 25 air bombs and 11 rockets from US-made HIMARS systems intercepted this week 

◻️ Ukrainian losses: 9,375 soldiers

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