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  • Zelensky Jets to Denmark For Talks With European Backers

    07/03/2025 5:29:42 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 6 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 07/03/2025 | Breitbart London
    AARHUS, Denmark (AP) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Denmark on Thursday as the Nordic country launched its European Union presidency, the Danish prime minister’s office said. Zelenskyy flew into the western city of Aarhus. A Ukrainian flag flew from the aircraft cockpit as it parked. He was due to hold talks with Prime Minister Mette Fredericksen and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, both staunch backers of Ukraine. His trip comes after the Trump administration decided to halt some arms shipments promised to help Kyiv fight off Russia´s invasion. “Ukraine belongs in the EU. It is in...
  • Reports: NKorea Deploys 25K Troops to Fight in Ukraine

    07/02/2025 5:23:05 PM PDT · by SmokingJoe · 77 replies
    Newsmax ^ | 02/07/2025 | Sam Barron
    North Korea is tripling the number of troops fighting for Russia in Ukraine, sending 25,000 to 30,000 more soldiers, CNN reported, citing an intelligence assessment from Ukrainian officials. The country sent 11,000 troops to help repel Ukraine from the Kursk region of Russia last November. About 4,000 North Korean soldiers have been killed, CNN reported. Russian President Vladmir Putin did not confirm North Korea's involvement until late April.
  • Russia's economy just flashed warning signs about manufacturing and employment

    07/02/2025 3:02:16 AM PDT · by Apparatchik · 39 replies
    Business Insider ^ | 2 July 2025 | Huileng Tan
    Russia's wartime economy may finally be losing steam, fresh data shows. In June, Russia's manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index, or PMI, sank to 47.5 — its sharpest pace of contraction since March 2022, according to S&P Global. This was a reversal from the PMI of 50.2 in May, when Russia's manufacturing activity expanded. The results from the latest S&P Global manufacturing PMI survey are a contrast against the resilience that Russia's economy has been projecting over the last few years. Russia appears to have avoided an economic collapse since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. But many analysts have...
  • Putin officers ‘killed in droves’ by first Brit-made Storm Shadow strike in MONTHS on military base in occupied Ukraine

    07/01/2025 3:06:15 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 59 replies
    Sun UK ^ | 7/1/2025 | Annabel Bate, Will Stewart
    Until today, there have been no confirmed reports of Storm Shadows being deployed since November last year. VLADIMIR Putin's officers have been killed in droves in the first British-made Storm Shadow strike in months, reports claim. Bombshell footage showed the damage in Donetsk amid claims of “massive casualties among Russian officers” and the “crippling” of a mad Vlad fighting force. If confirmed, it would be the first use of the British-supplied missiles in months. Red-faced Russian authorities admitted only that a woman had died and three people were wounded, including a teenager. A building collapsed in the combined missile and...
  • North Korea state TV airs program honoring soldiers killed in Russia

    06/30/2025 1:22:02 PM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 9 replies
    NHK World ^ | 6/30/2025 | Staff
    North Korea's state television has aired footage of leader Kim Jong Un viewing, together with a delegation from Russia, an art performance honoring soldiers. A program broadcast on Monday by Korean Central Television featured Kim watching the performance together with Russian Minister of Culture Olga Lyubimova, who was visiting Pyongyang. Behind singers on stage singing a song honoring soldiers was a large screen displaying various images. They included photos of soldiers raising the national flags of both countries, as well as of Kim welcoming what appeared to be a flag-draped coffin and paying tribute. Some audience members from the two...
  • Ukraine F-16 pilot killed in large-scale Russian attack, Zelenskiy calls for US help

    06/29/2025 11:24:59 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 9 replies
    Reuters ^ | June 29, 202510:19 AM CDT | Pavel Polityuk and Andriy Perun
    SummaryPilot shot down seven targets before crash, Air Force says Ukraine's third F-16 loss since deploying the jets last year Zelenskiy urges US, Western allies for more air defence support Russian attack involved more than 500 drones and missiles, Ukraine says KYIV/LVIV, Ukraine, June 29 (Reuters) - A Ukrainian F-16 fighter pilot died in a crash while repelling a Russian air attack that involved hundreds of drones, cruise and ballistic missiles, authorities said on Sunday, as Moscow intensifies night-time air barrages in the fourth year of war. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called for more support from Washington and Western allies to...
  • Frontline report: Kupiansk front turns into mass execution zone as Russian soldiers murder their commanders, steal trucks, and vanish

    06/29/2025 12:50:51 PM PDT · by Uncle Lonny · 85 replies
    Euromaidan Press ^ | June 14, 2025 | Euromaiden Press
    "This violent mutiny did not emerge in a vacuum; it is directly tied to the hopeless bloodbath unfolding near the Kupiansk front, specifically at the Pischane funnel. For months, Russian forces have tried and failed to break through Ukrainian defenses here. The Ukrainians have created a deadly trap by controlling the flanks, exposing any Russian assault to relentless drone and artillery fire from both sides. Yet commanders continue to send wave after wave of infantry into the funnel, hoping to drive a wedge through Ukrainian lines. Every new wave knows exactly how it will end, as almost no one from...
  • Russia economy meltdown as mortgage rates soar to 25% and pensioners 'struggle to survive'

    06/28/2025 9:28:46 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 72 replies
    Express UK ^ | 6/26/2025 | JON KING
    Housing and utility bills in some parts of Russia are expected to soar by up to 25% as the country's economic meltdown worsens. Russian media reports that tariffs on housing, gas, water and electricity will go up by an average of 11.9% on July 1, but some regions will see an increase between 23% and 25%. Mortgage rates have also soared to 25% in recent months. One Russian newspaper, translated into English by the BBC's Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg and shared on social media, says the increase will be "painful for many families". The same publication reports the experience of...
  • Lukashenko’s potato racket sparks outrage from regime opponents

    06/28/2025 4:32:25 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 17 replies
    Politico EU ^ | 6/26/2025 | GREGORY SVIRNOVSKIY
    The Belarusian ruler’s price controls have backfired. Alexander Lukashenko’s stubborn grip on the Belarusian economy plunged the potato-happy country into a spud shortage this spring. Critics of the authoritarian ruler, who in January grabbed a seventh term in power, say he has warped the economy with strict price controls on staples like potatoes — while encouraging citizens to snitch on grocery stores that flout regime rules. The limits, launched by Lukashenko in October 2022 as he aimed to keep prices low and stave off inflation, instead made potatoes far less profitable for farmers to produce. Opponents say that decisions made...
  • Humiliated Putin loses warplanes worth £148,000,000 despite stepping up security

    06/28/2025 4:23:23 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 29 replies
    Metro UK ^ | 6/28/2025 | Brooke Davies
    Vladimir Putin has lost four warplanes worth £37 million each despite stepping up their defences after Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb. A pair of Su-34 fighters were destroyed and two more damaged after an attack on on Marinovka military airfield in Volgograd. Ukraine used long range drones to fly more than 200 miles to inflict the latest £148 million blow to Putin’s aerial firepower. It came less than a month after Russia supposedly tightened its military air base security after 40-plus strategic bombers and spy planes were hit in Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb. Russia responded by hitting Ukrainian civilians with a strike on...
  • Trump’s Disbanding Of A Secret “Deep State” Working Group Raises Hopes Of Peace With Russia

    06/26/2025 7:18:49 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 11 replies
    Andrew Korybko's Newsletter ^ | 25 Jun, 2025 | Andrew Korybko
    Its inter-agency members sought to sabotage the Russian-US rapprochement. Reuters reported in mid-June that the Trump Administration had recently disbanded a secret inter-agency working group overseen by now-dismissed National Security Council members tasked with formulating strategies for coercing Russia into concessions to Ukraine. According to their three unnamed US official sources, Trump’s hitherto refusal to escalate American involvement in the conflict led to this initiative losing steam, though he could still potentially reverse gears in the future. At any rate, what’s most significant about Reuters’ report is that it confirms that a secret group of officials from the US’ permanent...
  • Zelenskyy pointedly thanks Trump, America for Ukraine support months after Vance's jab about lack of gratitude

    06/25/2025 11:24:57 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 15 replies
    Fox News ^ | 6/25/2025 | Diana Stancy
    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked President Donald Trump after they had a talk Wednesday at the NATO summit in the Netherlands — months after Vice President JD Vance called out Zelenskyy for not voicing more gratitude for U.S. support for Kyiv as it battles Moscow. When Zelenskyy visited the White House in February he sparred openly with Trump and Vance in the Oval Office over engaging in diplomacy with Russia to end the conflict, prompting Vance to ask the Ukrainian leader if he'd "said thank you once this entire meeting." But on Wednesday Zelenskyy made sure to thank Trump and...
  • Trump: Zelensky ‘couldn’t have been nicer’ during meeting

    06/25/2025 9:51:27 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 19 replies
    The Hill ^ | 6/25/2025 | SARAH FORTINSKY
    President Trump said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “couldn’t have been nicer” during their one-on-one meeting Wednesday on the sidelines of the NATO summit at The Hague. Trump said at a press conference that the two leaders did not discuss details of a ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine war, but stressed their shared desire to end the war swiftly. “No, no, I just — I wanted to know how he’s doing,” Trump told the reporter. “It was very nice, actually. We had a little rough times. He couldn’t have been nicer. I think he’d like to see an end to this, I...
  • Zelensky Assassination Plot Foiled: What to Know

    06/23/2025 3:40:55 PM PDT · by bimboeruption · 47 replies
    Newsweek ^ | 6-23-25 | Shane Croucher
    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was the target of an assassination plot to be carried out by a Polish pensioner who had first been recruited by the Soviet Union decades ago, the head of the country's internal security agency said. Lieutenant General Vasyl Malyuk, head of Ukraine's SBU, the main internal security agency of the Ukrainian government, detailed the alleged plot in a closed briefing with Ukrainian media. Malyuk said the Polish man was activated by Russia with a plan to take out Zelensky at Poland's Rzeszów–Jasionka Airport using either a first-person view drone or a sniper rifle, TSN reported. The...
  • Putin says Russia is ramping up production of Oreshnik missile

    06/23/2025 7:43:51 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 8 replies
    Reuters Yahoo News ^ | 6/23/2025 | Vladimir Soldatkin and Dmitry Antonov
    Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that Russia is stepping up production of its Oreshnik intermediate-range hypersonic missile, which it launched for the first time against Ukraine last November. "Serial production of the latest Oreshnik medium-range missile system is under way," Putin told a graduating class of military cadets in televised comments. The system has "proven itself very well in combat conditions," he added. -snip- Putin has boasted that the Oreshnik is impossible to intercept and has destructive power comparable to a nuclear weapon, although some Western experts have cast doubt on those claims. In December, a U.S. official...
  • Volodymyr Zelensky Demands $40 Billion in Annual Budget Support for Ukraine

    06/23/2025 6:35:57 AM PDT · by SoConPubbie · 47 replies
    The Last Refuge ^ | June 21, 2025 | Sundance
    This is madness. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sends a twitter message as if he’s ordering coffee from the guy down the street, telling NATO members not to forget to send him his $40 billion in “budgetary support.”[SOURCE]Budgetary support means we pay for the operational cost of Ukraine government, including govt payrolls, pensions, healthcare services, welfare and social services for the people in Ukraine.The crazy thing is, unless Trump stops it, our congress will give it to him. And even if Trump tries to stop it, congress will demand the payment as part of their appropriations process.Maybe it’s just me, but...
  • Iran will emerge victorious in face of Israeli aggression: Erdogan at OIC summit

    06/21/2025 4:27:46 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 20 replies
    Samaa ^ | 6/21/2025 | Staff
    Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has expressed full confidence that Iran will emerge victorious amid rising tensions with Israel, calling the Netanyahu government the greatest threat to regional peace and stability. Speaking at an emergency summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Istanbul on Saturday, Erdogan likened Israel’s current actions to those of Nazi Germany under Hitler, warning that Tel Aviv’s policies are setting the region—and the world—on fire. “We are confident that victory will be on Iran’s side,” Erdogan said, adding that “just as the spark ignited by Hitler 90 years ago set the world ablaze, Netanyahu’s...
  • Putin quips that the 'the whole of Ukraine is ours' - in theory

    06/21/2025 4:30:54 AM PDT · by tlozo · 67 replies
    Asia One ^ | June 21, 2025 | Unnamed
    - Russian President Vladimir Putin quipped on Friday (June 20) that in his view the whole of Ukraine was "ours" and cautioned that advancing Russian forces could take the Ukrainian city of Sumy as part of a bid to carve out a buffer zone along the border. Putin, who ordered troops into Ukraine in 2022 after eight years of fighting in eastern Ukraine, also said he was not seeking the capitulation of Ukraine or denying Ukraine's sovereignty, but that Ukraine had to be neutral. Russia currently controls about a fifth of Ukraine, including Crimea, more than 99 per cent of...
  • US confirms that Witkoff will attend Iran nuclear talks in Oman on Sunday

    06/12/2025 8:25:20 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 6 replies
    Times of Israel ^ | 6/12/2025 | JACOB MAGID
    The Trump administration confirms that US special envoy to the Mideast Steve Witkoff will travel to Muscat on Sunday for the sixth round of nuclear talks with Iran. Talks will be both direct and indirect, as in previous rounds, says a statement to reporters attributed to a source familiar.
  • Iran vows new nuclear steps in response to IAEA censure

    06/12/2025 7:40:32 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 4 replies
    Axios ^ | 6/12/2025 | Barak Ravid
    Iran on Thursday repudiated a declaration from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that it's not complying with its nuclear obligations, and said it would enhance aspects of its nuclear program in response. -snip- The IAEA board of governors approved a resolution proposed by the U.S., U.K., France and Germany to condemn Iran for not providing clarity about its undeclared nuclear sites and material. 19 countries on the 35-member voted in favor. Russia, China and Burkina Faso opposed the resolution, and the others abstained or didn't vote. -snip- The Iranians announced that in response, they would launch a new Uranium...