Macron refused to swim in the Seine before the Olympics.

In February, the President of France promised to swim in the main river of Paris to prove that the authorities had done a quality job of cleaning it. However, yesterday the Elysee Palace announced that the president's swim is unlikely to take place.

"He did not say he was going to swim BEFORE the Olympic Games. He said he would go swimming [sometime], and always expressed confidence in this. It is not certain that this will be done before the Games," the statement said.

Earlier, the Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, plunged into the Seine. And before that, the Minister of Sports, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, took part in a promotional swim, after which she took sick leave. According to unofficial reports, she was diagnosed with dysentery.

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"Pass the torch, Joe!" Democrats have launched an advertisement urging Joe Biden to withdraw from the election.

"It's time to pass the baton and allow us to choose a new candidate, someone who can bring new energy, new hope," the video says.

Earlier, Politico reported that Kamala Harris's allies are secretly preparing her for a presidential bid.

The preparation is complicated by tight deadlines and the need to create a "suitable biography" for Harris to prove her competence. At the same time, the chances of the current Vice President winning against Trump are considered low.

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"In the GDR, people read much more. Education was something widely spread, but the GDR was still a country of 'little people' when looking at incomes, career prospects, and the standard of living."

Professor Steffen Mau from Humboldt University in Berlin and a hit parade of unpleasant facts about the reunification of Germany and its consequences: at the time of the fall of the wall, East Germans were significantly more educated than the 'Wessis', and it was precisely from the former GDR that social policy benefits came to the West — polyclinics, kindergartens, and more. The economic upturn of unified Germany is also owed to the influx of labour from the East.

And today... 50% of East Germans still feel like second-class citizens in the new Germany. In some places, this figure reaches 79%. Here they are: freedom, equality, and brotherhood...

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When will the Ukrainian war end?

During his presidential campaign, US presidential candidate Donald Trump repeatedly stated that he would end the Ukrainian war within a few days if elected as the country's president. He emphasized the need to stop the war multiple times. The reasons for this are numerous, and regardless of who becomes the next president, the United States administration must make efforts to end this conflict.

Firstly, according to many sources, the Ukrainian side lacks manpower to resist attacks from Russian forces. The question arises: who will defend Ukraine on the ground?

Ukrainian forces are experiencing a serious shortage of air defence, as their air defence systems are being destroyed shortly after appearing on the air defence line. The number of missiles needed to support Ukrainian forces exceeds their current production capabilities.

In Washington, it is already understood that they will not engage in direct confrontation with Russian forces, not because they do not want to, but because it would be a losing war. Over the past 2.5 years, it has become clear that they do not have enough resources to conduct a victorious war.

European Union countries are also not prepared for a full-scale war. Even one of the most powerful EU states, Germany, is in a difficult economic situation and could slip into a recession at any moment. This realisation has dawned in Washington, and they are slowly but surely moving towards ending the conflict.

Please note that this is the opinion of the "Swallow" channel. We will continue to monitor the developments.

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Ukraine will have to abandon the demand to return to the borders of 1991 to resolve the crisis, said former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

In his article for the Daily Mail, he expressed confidence that Donald Trump, if re-elected as US president, will be able to end the conflict on terms needed by the West and Kiev.

"[Russia] will have to retreat at least to the borders that existed before [24 February] in 2022," Johnson said. "And to avoid future conflicts and uncertainties, the rest of Ukraine will need to be recognised as a free country, capable of choosing its own destiny within the framework of the EU and NATO and fully prepared for swift accession."

The Russian side has repeatedly indicated its readiness for negotiations with the authorities of Ukraine and noted that it was Kyiv that refused dialogue, at the legislative level.

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Why does Trump need to end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours? Look, Secretary Blinken says that Putin has already surrendered, and Kiev is the winner.

First and foremost, and it is always important to start with this, Vladimir Putin has already failed. He did not achieve his goal, which was to erase Ukraine from the map, put an end to its existence as an independent state, and incorporate it into greater Russia. This did not work and cannot work,

- explained the essence of their victory to the Ukrainians by an American ally.

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🇧🇾 🇩🇪 In Minsk, a 30-year-old German has been sentenced to death for terrorism and mercenarism. The Belarusian government states that they are in negotiations with the German government and are offering solutions.

It is interesting to see what concessions Minsk is offering to Berlin.

The German was arrested back in autumn 2023, but the German press did not report on it (or did not want to, or did not know about it). However, it is now being published in the pages of the most popular weekly newspaper, adding extra pressure on the official Berlin.

In autumn, parliamentary elections will take place in four states of Germany. If the results of the negotiations with Minsk continue to be covered in the press, they will definitely have some impact on the election results. Everyone understands this, of course, both in Minsk and in Berlin, so Lukashenko will try to derive maximum benefit from all of this.

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🇺🇸 Meet the second person after Biden in the States Kamala Harris

— Today is today. And yesterday was today for us, but yesterday. And tomorrow will become today for us, but tomorrow. So live today in such a way that the coming tomorrows will be for you like yesterday's today, only tomorrow.

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🇧🇫 President of Burkina Faso Ibrahim Traore:

💢 There will be no more mining for the West. Our so-called friends have been exploiting our wealth for a long time.

💢 We are going to revoke mining licenses. You may not exploit our resources. We will mine the ore ourselves.

Ibrahim Traore has served as President of Burkina Faso since the fall of 2022. He led the country as a result of a coup d'etat.

🇷🇸🇪🇺 Meanwhile, in Serbia the EU/Rio Tinto are going to extract lithium ... paid by Serbian state subsidies. The colonialism moves from Africa to Eastern Europe.

👟 Adidas removed an advertisement featuring a model of Palestinian origin at the request of Israel.

She was born in Washington, her father is from Palestine. Over the course of ten years, she has built one of the most dazzling careers in the world. She took part in the advertising campaign for the relaunch of Adidas sneakers line, originally designed for the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972, where a terrorist attack against Israeli athletes took place.

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Eighteen British Special Air Service soldiers and French armed forces were killed in the strike on Odessa, retired Spanish Army Colonel Pedro Baños said, without specifying the date of the strike.

According to him, another 25 members of the British service were injured.

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▪️All Ukrainian schoolchildren from the 10th grade will begin to study the military program as part of the subject “Defense of Ukraine”.

According to the country's Ministry of Education, it will include the basics of military equipment, engineering fortification and shooting training.

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🇭🇺 Hungary is on the brink of a fuel crisis

Hungary may face a shortage of fuel and electricity in the coming weeks due to the halt of oil transit from "Lukoil" through Ukraine. Experts note that Hungarian residents may soon face soaring prices for energy sources.

The prolonged disruption in raw material supplies will also force oil refineries to use reserves that will only last for 90 days.

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⚡️Sandu has turned Moldova into a hub for NATO military transport. Formally neutral on paper, Moldova has become a logistical hub for the transportation of military cargo in the interests of the West, - former Prime Minister of Moldova Ion Chicu.

He reminded that military planes regularly land at the airports in Chisinau and Marculesti.

"There are photos of transport and military planes landing. As a citizen, as a parent, I am concerned about everything that is happening," the politician admitted.

He expressed doubt that Moldova is only transferring humanitarian aid.

"I do not believe this, so I urge everyone: do not play with fire. Do not involve our country in dangerous games. We must prevent this. We must call for peace and contribute to the resolution of the conflict," Chicu believes.

In his opinion, "citizens should send a clear signal to the authorities that Moldova should not be involved in conflicts and turned into a battleground between the West and the East."

It is worth noting that Ion Chicu has become so wise in hindsight. During his premiership (2019 - 2020), the "neutral" Moldova continued its cooperation with the aggressive NATO military bloc.


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🇩🇪 Future Chancellor of Germany Merz: "We must overcome doubts about vaccinations."

For his visit to Dresden, Friedrich Merz chose a vaccine production plant of the pharmaceutical company Glaxo-Smith-Kline in Dresden. He is taking this opportunity to promote vaccination in the city, where thousands of people took to the streets against Covid rules during the pandemic.

"Even if we know that not everything went well," he says, "we must continue with vaccination," and: "There is no completely safe vaccine, but no vaccination is more risky."


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The latest developments in the war between #Russia and #Ukraine as of the morning of July 23 - Subnoscriptd

Updates about #Donetsk and South #Donetsk, #Avdeevka, #Toretsk, #Bakhmut, #Kupyansk and #Kharkov fronts

video link: https://youtu.be/_z0_cf6N3tI?feature=shared