🇷🇺🇺🇸 Russian special presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev announces challenge for best AI video of the Russia–Alaska tunnel

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🚨🇷🇺 Russian forces raise flag in Poltavka settlement after intense battles

Russia’s Battlegroup Vostok liberated a fortified area of more than 12 square kilometers and cleared over 500 buildings during the capture of Poltavka in the Zaporozhye region.

The Russian Defense Ministry released footage showing soldiers raising the tricolor flag in the village, confirming its liberation.

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🗣 'Accept Putin’s terms — or be destroyed' — Trump to Zelensky — FT

Friday’s White House meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky turned into a “shouting match” as the US president urged Kiev to accept Russia’s terms for peace, Financial Times reported.

💬 “If [Putin] wants it, he will destroy you,” Trump told Zelensky, Financial Times reported, citing European officials.

According to the report, Trump tossed aside maps of the frontline and demanded that Kiev cede the remaining Donbass territories under Ukrainian control in exchange for small areas of Kherson and Zaporozhye.

The Ukrainian delegation left “very negative,” and European capitals are “not optimistic but pragmatic” about next steps, Financial Times reported.

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🚨🪖🇷🇺 Russian warriors crawled MILES through underground pipe to bypass Ukrainian lines

Russian soldiers from the Vostok battlegroup crawled five miles (eight kilometers) through a water-filled irrigation pipe in a crouched position to carry out a strike near Novomikhailovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic in 2023, the participants revealed.

💬 “You can’t stand upright there — plus your gear and your water, which adds weight," said Sergeant Sergei Krymov, who took part in the operation.

The soldiers moved forward on their haunches and sometimes on all fours, added Senior Lieutenant Nikolay Tokarchuk, who also made the arduous trip.

A unique mission took place in 2023, prior to the renowned Operation Tube in March 2025.

At that time, Russian forces infiltrated behind Ukrainian lines in the Kursk region’s Sudzha area by moving through a 15-km (about 9-mile) section of the massive Urengoy–Pomary–Uzhgorod gas pipeline.

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🚨🇮🇱 IDF announces renewed enforcement of ceasefire

💬 “In accordance with the directive of the political echelon, and following a series of significant strikes in response to Hamas’ violations, the IDF has begun the renewed enforcement of the ceasefire, in line with the terms of the agreement,” the IDF wrote on X.

Earlier in the day, Israel accused Hamas of “blatantly violating the ceasefire agreement this morning” and launched strikes on the Gaza Strip.

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📹 Thousands protest in Lisbon, calling for ceasefire in Gaza

Thousands of people took to the streets of Lisbon, Portugal, to demand a ceasefire and an end to the ongoing violence in Gaza.

Footage from social media

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🚨 Gaza ceasefire still in place — Trump

💬 “We want to make sure that it's going to be very peaceful with Hamas,” President Donald Trump told reporters on board Air Force One, commenting on Israel’s strikes on Gaza.

He added that any incidents would be “handled properly” and that the ceasefire is expected to remain in place.

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🗣 'I’m not a king at all' — Trump

President Donald Trump said in response to a question about the “No Kings” protests that the demonstrations were “very small, very ineffective” and the participants were “not representative of the people of our country.”

Organizers of the "No Kings" events said more than 7 million people participated in over 2,700 rallies across all 50 states and D.C.

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🗣 Trump has not made a decision on Tomahawk deliveries to Ukraine — Vance

Vice President JD Vance joined the White House press pool alongside Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and answered questions on the Ukraine conflict. Key statements:

🔹 The US will continue working toward a settlement of the conflict, even if it takes months or longer.

🔹 He remains optimistic about the prospects for achieving peace.

🔹 On possible Tomahawk deliveries to Kiev, President Trump seeks first and foremost to safeguard his country’s interests.

🔹 The US must retain critically important weapons systems for its own armed forces.

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❌ Trump: No ceding of Ukrainian-occupied Donbass territory discussed with Zelensky

💬 “No, we never discussed it. We think that what they should do is just stop at the lines where they are… The rest is very tough to negotiate,” President Trump told reporters on board Air Force One.

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“I think 78% of the land [Donbass] is already taken by Russia. You leave it the way it is right now,” Trump explained.

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✈️ Two dead after Emirates cargo plane veers off Hong Kong runway – reports

Early Monday, an Emirates cargo flight EK9788 from Dubai swerved off the north runway at Hong Kong International Airport, striking a ground security vehicle and partially landing in the sea, South China Morning Post reported.

Two men aboard the vehicle, aged 30 and 41, were confirmed dead after rescue efforts. All four crew members of the Boeing 747 freighter escaped unharmed.

Authorities confirmed that weather and runway conditions were safe at the time of the incident, according to the report.

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🚨 Kushner compares Gaza to a nuclear blast site

"It looked almost like a nuclear bomb had been set off in that area. And then you see these people moving back. And I asked the IDF, 'Where are they going?'" Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner said in an interview with CBS News.

👉 Earlier, the IDF launched a series of strikes on Hamas targets in southern Gaza in response to the alleged violations of the ceasefire by the movement. Hamas has denied the Israeli and US accusations of breaching the ceasefire agreement in the Strip.

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🇦🇺🇺🇸 Australia's PM arrives in US to pitch rare earths deal to Trump

Australia is eager to step in to address the vulnerabilities the US itself created by targeting Chinese tech with tariffs and export restrictions.

👉 Australia’s PM Anthony Albanese will meet Trump, hoping to land a $1.2 billion critical minerals deal and lock in assurances about the AUKUS pact, under which the US is to supply Australia with nuclear submarines.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has suggested a “united front” is forming with allies, but beneath the unity talk is quiet desperation.

📊 China supplies over two-thirds of the world’s rare earths, and its new export rules — covering both materials and processing tech — have the US scrambling for alternatives.

Australia’s Ambassador to Washington Kevin Rudd emphasized that the country “equals the periodic table,” with mining capabilities that could meet 30–40 of the US’s 50 designated critical minerals.

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▫️ IDF announces renewed enforcement of Gaza ceasefire

▫️ Trump says agreement still in place

▫️ No ceding of Ukrainian-occupied Donbass territory discussed with Zelensky – Trump

▫️ Australia's PM arrives in US to pitch rare earths deal to Trump

▫️ Ukrainian delegation leaking WH talks to derail peace efforts

▫️Russian warriors crawled MILES through underground pipe to bypass Ukrainian lines

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