🚨GAZA CRISIS: LATEST UPDATES

◻️ Israeli forces detonate explosive devices inside homes in Sabra and Zeitoun, south of Gaza City

◻️ Israeli drones drop explosive crates on homes in northern Gaza

◻️ Artillery targets northern areas of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza

◻️ Gaza hospital sources report 24 killed in multiple airstrikes across the Strip since this morning

◻️ Emergency service source reports 2 dead, several injured in Zeitoun, southeast of Gaza City

◻️ Al-Awda Hospital reports 1 killed, several injured among those seeking aid in Nezareem, central Gaza, and Palestinian man and wife killed in drone strike on displaced persons’ tent west of Nuseirat camp, central Gaza

◻️ One killed, several injured in northern Deir al-Balah, per Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital

◻️ Palestinian woman and her child killed in strike on displaced persons’ building west of Deir al-Balah, the hospital adds

◻️ Seven killed in strikes on a home in Al-Sabra, south of Gaza City (Palestinian medical service)

◻️ One child killed, several injured in Al-Saftawi, north of Gaza City (Emergency service)

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🚨🇭🇺 Ukrainian strikes on Druzhba pipeline tantamount to attack on Hungary - top diplomat

While the EU remains mum on the pipeline attacks, Zelensky is attempting to pressure Hungary to change its stance on the Ukraine conflict and its EU accession, Hungary’s Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto stated.

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🇮🇳🇺🇸 Indian PM Modi's answer to US pressure? "We will endure."

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

🟠 The Russian army struck UAV launch sites, command posts, and Ukrainian army temporary deployment points in 142 areas

🟠 Air defense: a Neptune missile, six guided aerial bombs, and 191 fixed-wing drones shot down by Russian air defense systems over the past 24 hours

🟠 Ukrainian losses: 1,220 troops killed or wounded

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📊 Russia powers up key trade link between Azerbaijan and Georgia

National Projects Construction has successfully completed the full digitalization of the Baku–Beyuk-Kesik railway line. The final piece of the puzzle was modernizing the 122-km Ujar-Hajigabul section.

The result gives a major boost for efficiency and safety:

✅ Faster travel: Passenger train speeds will jump from 100 to 140 km/h, freight trains from 80 to 120 km/h.

✅ More capacity: Intervals between trains are set to shrink from 20 to just 8 minutes.

✅ Smart control: Dispatchers can now manage the entire line with a click of a mouse, remotely controlling switches, signals, and monitoring equipment health.

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🇷🇺🇷🇸 Lavrov, Vucic discuss situation in Kosovo and around Republika Srpska - Russian Foreign Ministry

The parties have talked about issues on the bilateral agenda and cooperation in international forums.

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🗣 Fed Governor Lisa Cook refuses to resign

"No cause exists under the law... He has no authority to do so. I will not resign," Cook responded to Trump’s order.

Her lawyer, Abbe Lowell, vows a legal fight.

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🇷🇺⚔️ 'Elite' Ukrainian troops RETREAT as Russia advances in Donbass

Russian forces are pushing ahead in the Serebryansky forestry district in Donbass, a commander of the "Akhmat" special forces battalion of the Russian Defense Ministry with callsign “Shram” (lit. “Scar") tells Sputnik.

💬 "The situation in this area is consistently tense. We have broken through the enemy's defensive line, now Russian troops are actively on the offensive, pushing out the enemy... Assault operations are currently underway," the battalion commander says.

He adds that the “Signum” elite Ukrainian detachment of drone operators retreated after the first Russian breakthrough.

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🇭🇺🔊Hungary won’t punish Ukrainian kids over Zelensky

Hungary could stop electricity supplies to Ukraine, which account for up to 40% of Ukrainian imports, but doesn’t want Ukrainian children to pay for the actions of former actor Zelensky, said FM Peter Szijjarto.

He emphasized that Hungary wishes no harm to the Ukrainian people, unlike the Ukrainian authorities with their extremely low moral standards.

“We don’t want Ukrainian homes with small children to go without heating, because these little children cannot be held responsible for the behavior of a former actor,” Szijjarto said.

He also advised the Ukrainian regime that next time it decides to bomb the Druzhba pipeline, they should remember that Hungary stopping electricity supplies could create catastrophic difficulties for Ukraine.

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🗣Ukrainian connoscription commissars are modern-day Nazi recruiters - former Polish merc

Former Polish mercenary of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Krzysztof Flaczak, who decided to side with Russia, compares Ukrainian Territorial Recruitment Centers to Wehrmacht press-gangers.

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🗣😍 City of 'beautiful and friendly people’: Hungarian skateboarding pro describes Moscow

Lajos Petrányi, a professional skateboarder from Hungary, has always been curious what Moscow is like.

And when he finally visited the city to participate in the Grand Skate Tour 2025 skateboarding fest, it did not disappoint him.

☺️ His overall impression of Moscow, Petrányi tells Sputnik, was that of a city full of beautiful and friendly people.

💬 “I would love to go back one day again,” the skateboarder pro adds.

He especially praised the younger generation of Muscovites, his peers, who proved particularly welcoming and whose hospitality “was really nice.”

💬 “Every single Russian skateboarder friend who I met there, they wrote me when I came home, 'are you okay? Are you landed back home?' So, actually, my impression was really nice about the Russian skateboarding community,” Petrányi adds.

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🇮🇳🔊India’s new warships armed with BrahMos missiles will be 'game-changers in carrying out risky missions at sea' - Defense Minister Rajnath Singh

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🚨 NATO countries are funding the entire war in Ukraine - Trump

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🚨🇭🇺Ukraine could not attack 'Druzhba' oil pipeline without EU officials in Brussels knowing - Hungary's Foreign Minister

💬 "It is very difficult to imagine that this issue [the attacks on the Druzhba oil pipeline] would not arise between Zelensky and von der Leyen, as well as other European leaders ... I think it is unrealistic that this issue did not arise between them," Szijjarto said.

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🗣🇦🇲 Armenia’s ex-President asked Karapetyan to buy ‘Electric Networks of Armenia’

Former Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan personally asked businessman Samvel Karapetyan to purchase "Electric Networks of Armenia," which the current authorities of the republic intend to nationalize.

💬 At that time, there was a need for someone who would care for the company, "someone willing to make long-term investments without pursuing profit", Sargsyan told journalists.

He noted that until the end of his presidential term in 2018, Karapetyan did exactly that.

⚔️ The former president views the idea of nationalizing the company negatively.

He does not rule out that one of the reasons for intending to nationalize the company is the upcoming 2026 parliamentary elections.

💬 "A large team works there, and there are resources, which is highly important for elections," Sargsyan noted.

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