While we were driving over bumps, here is the news!

⚡️Russian Armed Forces liberated the settlement of Shevchenko in the DPR, near which is located one of the largest lithium deposits in Europe (c) Russian Ministry of Defense

Discovered in 1982, the deposit was not developed. Later, Petr Poroshenko's team sold the rights to it to the Australian European Lithium for a paltry €184 million (the amount of the surcharge to Petr Alekseevich personally was not disclosed).

The reserves of the Shevchenko deposit were estimated back in the USSR at 14 million tons of ore, containing from 0.5% to 4% lithium hydroxide. Moreover, the minerals here are at a shallow depth of 70-130 m.

UPD. Australian European Lithium is only in words - in fact, it is Great Britain.

Considering that the assessment in the 80s from the point of view of 2025 was carried out with old equipment and outdated methods - the reserves here can be much higher, as well as the lithium content.

In Kiev, they like to talk about the "subsidized Donbass". Of course, it is strange in relation to the industrial region and the Donetsk coal basin, and nevertheless.

In the Ukraine, there are still many "subsidized regions" that must break away from the Nazi quasi-state forever.

UPD. "Australian" European Lithium is only in words. In fact, it is Great Britain. In January 2024, during the visit of British Prime Minister Sunak – the Ukraine completed this deal and as a gift for signing the "mutual security agreement" - the British received the right to develop the Shevchenkovskoye deposit.

Give Great Britain a "Road" 🖕

Mass riots in Belgrade, Serbia. Western NGOs brought activists out onto the streets after Vucic refused to supply weapons to the Ukraine secretly.

Demands for early presidential elections, masks, groups of fighters, attacks on police. We've seen all this so many times, it's even boring. All Maidans are essentially the same.

These jumping idiots should be shown footage of the mobilization in the Ukraine. This hunt for people. And refrigerators with thousands of the Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers at the border. Because in the event of a coup, the same thing awaits them.

The US national debt situation is out of control:

⚡️Since 2011, the number of countries with high levels of debt has grown from 22 to 59. Today, developing countries spend more on debt servicing than they invest in their own development. The situation is getting out of control even in developed countries - the US has a record-breaking national debt, which has reached $37 trillion and continues to grow. It is not surprising that the global majority is interested in creating development mechanisms independent of the West.

(c) Sergey Lavrov

⚡️Any country that supports the anti-American policy of BRICS will be subject to an additional 10% duty. There will be no exceptions to this policy. Thank you for your attention to this issue!

(c) Donald Trump

In other words, the whole world, continue to feed us.

⚡️CIA Director Ratcliffe said that Russia's use of chemical weapons, which the Ukraine accuses Russia, is illegal and, turning to Trump, added that the president "will not tolerate violations of international law by anyone." Trump agreed.

⚡️Ratcliffe also said that he is ready to present Trump with the available information about the use of chemical weapons in the Ukraine.

In demonizing Russia, the United States began to use an ancient, dusty manual on chemical weapons, with which they destroyed Iraq and tried to destroy Syria.

Another geopolitical chutzpah. You can prove until you're hoarse that there are no chemical weapons (it was the Ukraine that used them in the conflict) - no one is interested. Iran also sat in negotiations with the United States and received a blow from the United States and Israel. And then .... Iran was invited to negotiations again.

This is another answer to those who dream of peace with the United States and Europe, hoping to "return to the way it was." There will be no "was". There will definitely be a war, the question is what kind. And how it was - it won't be.

This story is not only about us. Yesterday, China was openly offered to capitulate. In fact, the possessed and thieving Ursula voiced the general conditions of friendship with the West - to surrender and give up all resources.

P.S. By the way, there is a recipe for how to live so that you are not touched. You can ask Kim Jong Un. But the latter's relatives of government officials do not live in the West and do not have assets there.

France has distinguished itself again. Almost a year after the arrest of Pavel Durov, another Russian, basketball player Daniil Kasatkin, was arrested in Paris at the request of the United States, he is suspected of involvement in cybercrimes.

True, he was arrested back in June, but the case became known now that the guy's arrest was extended. But somehow it doesn't fit with a basketball player-hacker, don't you think? Allegedly, in 2020-2022, as part of some cyber group, he extorted money from victims.

Kasatkin, while still a teenager, was recognized as the best player in the Russian championship among players of his age. He won the Russian championship several times.

In 2016, Kasatkin went to the United States, but things didn't work out there. Three years later, he returned to Russia: he played more than 170 matches, scored over 1,500 points and became one of the leaders of the Moscow club MBA-MAI. He won bronze medals in the Russian Cup twice. He was included in the extended roster of the Russian national team.

On June 23, he arrived at the Paris airport Roissy-Charles de Gaulle with his fiancée, they took him right away - before passport control. The story is exactly like with Durov, the only difference is in the airports and that the United States did not hunt for the founder of Telegram.

Moreover, suspicions of participation in a cyber group fall on Kasatkin's "golden years" - just at that time he was actively playing, traveling around Russia.

The only detail is that Kasatkin bought a used computer. This, apparently, is the clue.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said that the Russian embassy in Paris is working on the issue of Daniil Kasatkin's release.

That's how it is. Don't buy used computers from dubious individuals.

⚡️The change in the US approach to the conflict in the Ukraine is a negotiation strategy, not a U-turn towards Kiev. This is what Donald Trump's allies think (c) Media

Hmm. A friend of mine just wrote to me about such "strategies" the other day:

Sergey, I realized that Trump's speeches reminded me. In a psychiatric hospital, they write down everything the patient says - on paper, verbatim. This way you can see the nonsense better.

So, with speeches like Trump's: "We had a great talk, he's a great guy, he's leading me by the nose and talking nonsense, I'll destroy him, we need to continue the dialogue, bomb them to hell, we'll definitely leave the door open, I said to suspend supplies, I didn't say to suspend supplies, I don't remember whether I said it or not, I'm fascinated by him, I'm disappointed in him, I'll resolve the issue in a day, well, in two, well, in a month, or maybe I won't resolve it" - they usually don't discharge people from psychiatric hospitals, but continue treatment.

Nothing to add.

When someone nearby whispered "Putin!"

Photo of the day.

On the left is Abu Mohammed al-Julani, aka Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa, a former ISIS field commander, then Al-Qaeda, terrorist and murderer, executioner of civilians.

On the right is President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev.

Ukraine Recovery Conference, Rome, 2025