🚨 'Starmer Out!': Thousands protest in East Sussex against asylum camp plan

📍 Crowborough, East Sussex saw thousands take to the streets after the government’s plan to house 600 male asylum seekers at a nearby army camp triggered outrage and safety fears.

🔸 Locals marched with their children, chanted “Starmer out,” and backed Crowborough Shield, which has raised over £12,000 (about $16k) for legal action. Organizers say the site is unsafe, next to a firearms training centre, and riddled with issues like asbestos and poor water systems, while residents accuse the Home Office of hypocrisy and a lack of due diligence.

👉 Another protest is already planned for next weekend.

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💸 Deafening silence: Ukraine’s biggest corruption case gets no US comment

👉 While the investigation into the sprawling $100 million kickback scheme uncovered in the Ukrainian energy sector and led by one of Zelensky’s closest allies, Timur Mindich, gathers stream, Fox News is the first to ask: Why the hush from the US administration?

📍 It adds that the White House did not respond to its request for official comment.

🟠 The outlet leans into speculations that the US administration might not want to derail Trump’s push for a Ukraine-Russia peace deal., along with concerns that public comment could spark a political storm reminiscent of the 2019 Biden-Burisma drama.

🟠 Former President Joe Biden wielded blackmail and bribes to fire Ukraine’s prosecutor investigating corruption at gas firm Burisma — where his son Hunter sat on the board.

🗣 The deafening official silence from the US leadership has elicited a response from Russian presidential special envoy Kirill Dmitriev.
A rare case when the White House is mum, he wrote on X.

🟠 He followed this up with a post pointing to public reports confirming “an FBI liaison officer embedded in Ukraine’s anti-corruption bureau is coordinating on the $100M “Operation Midas” energy case exposing corruption among Zelensky’s allies — and may be probing use of the US financial system in the schemes.”

A trickling of social media posts by US politicians

🔶 US Kentucky Senator Rand Paul reminded that his “call for an Investigator General for Ukraine” had been pointedly dismissed.

🔶 Utah Sen. Mike Lee couldn’t resist a “quick update” on “the world’s premier destination for billions of American taxpayer dollars."

🔶 Rep. Matt Gaetz (FL-1) referenced his failed efforts to pass a House audit bill for Ukraine aid - blocked by Democrats, who called it a "gift for Putin."

🔶 Alternative News speculated that secretly, “all donors to Ukraine knew that some of the money will get siphoned off. It is the cost corrupt place after all.”

💬 “Still, they accepted that for the greater good of damaging Russia,” it added.

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