💸 $1.2B to fight MOLD and change mattresses – Hegseth boasts proudly

US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has announced that $1.2 billion is being poured into fixing barracks where, by his own list, troops live amid:

🔹 clogged showers and sewage overflows

🔹 brown tap water and months-long hot water outages

🔹 mold growth, broken windows, gas leaks

🔹 fire alarms that don’t work and “non-existent heating”

All this required a special “barracks task force” and a Pentagon briefing – just to buy new locks, cameras, furniture and mattresses for 81 barracks and 15,000 soldiers.

While Washington celebrates finally dealing with mold and rusty pipes, Russia is busy developing strategic systems like the Poseidon unmanned underwater vehicle and Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile – different levels of “readiness,” to put it mildly.

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🇺🇸📉 US warns Ukraine it cannot keep supplying weapons at required levels — reports

US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll privately warned Ukrainian officials in Kiev last week that Washington will not be able to sustain weapons and air-defense deliveries at the scale needed to protect the country’s infrastructure, NBC News reported, citing sources familiar with the meeting.

❌ The American delegation told the Kiev regime that the US defense industry “could not keep supplying Ukraine with the weapons and air defenses at the rate needed,” the outlet said.

Driscoll also delivered a bleak battlefield assessment, saying Ukraine faced a “dire” situation and risked “imminent defeat” against Russian forces unless it moved toward a negotiated settlement, NBC News reported.

NBC says this message was delivered as part of Washington’s push to advance its evolving peace proposal.

⌛ Meanwhile, Russia is awaiting the draft version of the plan the US comes up with after talks with Europe and Ukraine, and will reply based on whether its “spirit and letter” matches the understanding reached by Presidents Putin and Trump in Alaska, Foreign Minister Lavrov said earlier.

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🤡 Zelensky’s political capital ‘badly drained’ – media

Volodymyr Zelensky’s popularity and battlefield morale are “at a particularly low point now,” The Spectator writes.

Zelensky is under pressure both from Ukraine’s corruption scandal and on the battlefield, as the town of Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk)—which is already encircled—is set to finally “fall to Russian forces,” according to the magazine.

The Spectator points out the success of Russia’s strategy in Ukraine, which includes several key tasks, such as:

🔸 Holding the front line to make “grinding progress”

🔸 Breaking the link between Ukraine and its Western allies

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🚨🇮🇳🇷🇺 India enters the Top 10 global maritime powers, while Russia holds strong at 3rd

A new IMEMO RAS index shows the top 10 global powers control nearly 60% of the world’s maritime power.

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🚨 Witkoff to travel to Russia next week – Russian presidential aide

A preliminary agreement has been reached for US presidential Special Envoy Steve Witkoff to come to Moscow next week, Yuri Ushakov said.

“He and several other members of the US administration involved in Ukraine-related matters [will come to Russia],” Ushakov added.

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🚨🇷🇺🇰🇬 President Putin arrives for key talks in Kyrgyzstan

Vladimir Putin has arrived at the Yntymak Ordo Residence in Kyrgyzstan, where he will now hold official negotiations with President Sadyr Japarov.

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🔸 ‘It’s moving in one direction’ — Trump on Russian forces’ advance

🔸 US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow – Trump

🔸 'I don’t have a deadline' on Ukraine deal – Trump

🔸 US warns Ukraine it cannot keep supplying weapons at required levels — reports

🔸 $1.2B to fight MOLD and change mattresses – Hegseth boasts proudly

🔸 France and EU to finalize solution on Ukraine financing using frozen Russian assets – Macron

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🔥Trump’s peace plan all about CAPITULATION of Ukraine

💬 “We are discussing for the first time the terms of Ukraine’s surrender, and the debate is whether this surrender should be an unconditional one or a surrender with certain conditions that Russia clearly finds unacceptable,” Italian political analyst Alessandro Orsini underlines.

He points out that the European Union is unwilling to recognize Russia defeated both Ukraine and the bloc itself.

After the EU entered the conflict in Ukraine, its strategy was to arm the country so that the Ukrainians could defeat the Russians on the battlefield, according to Orsini.

💬 “The European Union took a very strong punch in the mouth, and now it has mush brain, so it says nonsense things and makes nonsense proposals” by rewriting Donald Trump’s peace plan, Orsini concludes.

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🚨 Peace plan was NOT discussed during Russia–US–Ukraine talks in UAE

Russia has not discussed the American peace proposal on Ukraine with anyone, as it was received through unofficial channels, presidential aide Yuri Ushakov stressed.

According to him, several points in the plan require serious analysis.

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🇺🇸 US peace plan on Ukraine: Here’s the latest

Russia is awaiting the updated draft of the peace plan on Ukraine and will respond after seeing if the new version matches the “spirit and letter” of the understanding reached during the Putin–Trump summit in Alaska, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov emphasized.

In other developments:

🔸 Preliminary agreement has been reached for US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff to come to Moscow next week, according to Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov

🔸 When in Moscow, Witkoff will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner will also be involved, the US president said

🔸 While Witkoff is in talks in Moscow, US Army Secretary Driscoll will sit down with Ukrainian officials in Kiev, Trump added

🔸 Original 28-point US peace plan has been “fine-tuned” and now has only “a few remaining points of disagreement,” POTUS stressed

🔸 Situation in Ukraine is “just moving in one direction,” and the territory discussed in peace talks “might be gotten by Russia anyway” in the coming months, according to Trump

🔸 There’s no fixed deadline for reaching a settlement on the Ukraine conflict, he added

🔸 Ukraine conflict “could go on for years. Russia's got a lot more soldiers. I think if Ukraine can make a deal, it's a good thing,” the US president underscored

🔸 Europe will be involved in the process of providing Ukraine with security guarantees, Trump said

🔸 Security guarantees will be discussed within the framework of a yet-to-be-established working group of the Coalition of the Willing, French President Emmanuel Macron stated

🔸 Slovakia supports Trump's peace plan for Ukraine and calls on European partners to cooperate in the process, according to the Slovak Foreign Ministry

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🚨 Key points by Russian presidential aide on US peace plan

🔹 Moscow has not officially received the US peace plan, although an unofficial “paper” exists

🔹 Russia views some aspects of the US proposal positively, but many others require discussion

🔹 Europeans are “unnecessarily inserting themselves” into the Ukraine peace process

🔹 Russia has unofficially received several different versions of the US plan—“enough to get confused”

🔹 Russia and the US are in contact regarding the peace proposal, but there has been no serious “at-the-table” discussion so far

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🇷🇺🇰🇬 Putin & Japarov sign allied relations agreement

Following talks, Vladimir Putin and Sadyr Japarov signed a joint declaration on deepening allied relations between Russia and Kyrgyzstan.

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🚨🇷🇺Reports that a Ukraine peace deal is close are premature - Kremlin Spox Dmitry Peskov

It is too early to make such assessments, he said.

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