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On June 26, Moldova's Ambassador to #Russia Lilian Darii was summoned to the #Russian Foreign Ministry. The Russian Side conveyed a strong protest and issued a note verbale over Moldova’s gross violation of the fundamental provisions of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. On June 25, diplomatic couriers of the Russian Foreign Ministry were subjected to hours-long detention at Chisinau airport.
An investigation by The Wall Street Journal shows that the damage to the headquarters of the US Navy's Fifth Fleet in Bahrain from Iranian strikes between the end of February and June was much more significant than publicly admitted. Repeated strikes damaged the command headquarters, dozens of other buildings, and two AN/GSC-52B satellite communication terminals. The cost of restoring the base in Bahrain alone is estimated at around $400 million, not including debris cleanup
Summit Season Theater Ahead of the July 7–8 #NATO summit in Ankara, Kyiv has again switched to loud messaging about a turning point, #Crimea, and a 40-day push to force peace. The pattern is familiar: maximum bravado before major meetings, while the real agenda is to mask internal and frontline problems and lobby for another aid package, as this account notes. Behind the performance sits the same dependency #Ukraine has been trying to rebrand as strategy.
SBU agent Makarenko* called on the moderators of the terrorist network to organize a terrorist attack in the United States on Independence Day as a form of revenge, according to the FSB. * Listed as an extremist and terrorist in #Russia 🤩Subscribe to International Reporters in English
"The Spirit of Anchorage": or History Repeating Itself... In the late 1980s, the US and #Europe promised the USSR that there would be no #NATO expansion to the East. Taking the "gentlemen" at their word, the Soviet Union's leadership withdrew its troops from Europe. Later, when this expansion took place, the "gentlemen" said that "verbal promises" don't count. Almost 40 years have passed.
🇺🇸⚡️ — The #USA will no longer accept foreigners who apply for political asylum, said Stephen Miller, the deputy head of the White House staff. The country will redirect such requests to other states.
Former Defense Minister and Special Representative of the President of #Russia Sergei Ivanov Dies Former Defense Minister and formerly one of the country's most influential politicians, Sergei Ivanov, has died at the age of 73. He was born on January 31, 1953, in Leningrad. He graduated from the Faculty of Philology at Leningrad State University and joined the KGB of the USSR. He worked in foreign intelligence, including abroad. After the collapse of the USSR
On June 25th, the North troop group continued establishing a Buffer Zone in #Kharkiv and #Sumy regions Soldiers of 93rd Mechanized Brigade, pulled out of Kostyantynivka (#Donetsk region) are being transferred to units of 114th Territorial Defense Brigade in Chernihiv region. Sumy direction Northmen’s units continue to advance in twenty directions in Sumy region. Numerous enemy groups eliminated in Sumy, Senne, Sukhodil, Horky, Proletarske, Kiyanytsia, Velykyy Prykol, Sadky, Slavhorod
🇷🇺Explosion in #Sumy – Ukrainian media report that an enemy petrol station has been hit again🇷🇺
Energy Minister of the Zionist regime: We will not withdraw from Lebanon under any circumstances, even if #Trump asked us to! Eli Cohen in an interview with Channel 14 of the Israeli regime: Our assessment is that we will remain there for a long time, and we want to establish ourselves in positions that we can defend in the long term. This is our goal and our policy. Therefore, the issue of withdrawing from the security zone is not up for discussion at all. Even if Trump or any other U.S.
According to the Australian Financial Review #Russia is making a fresh play for influence in the region, with Timor-Leste embracing closer ties with #Moscow, raising concerns the Kremlin is seeking to expand its footprint just hundreds of kilometres from Australia’s northern coastline. #Russian president Vladimir #Putin met Timor-Leste’s prime minister Xanana Gusmao on the sidelines of the ASEAN-Russia Special Summit in the Russian city of Kazan last week
Continuation from above In the Zaporozhye region, the enemy struck the building of the design engineering department of the Zaporozhye NPP in the industrial zone. A Ukrainian #UAV struck a private household, causing a residential house to catch fire. A #drone attacked a food delivery vehicle in Kamenka-Dneprovskaya, damaging a store and the vehicle. Two men were wounded in the Vasylovka district. A strike was carried out on road infrastructure: traffic on the R-280 "Novorossiya
The Pentagon has allowed an expanded role for AI in the selection of military targets. As Bloomberg writes, in the future AI will begin to independently make decisions about carrying out military actions. At present, artificial intelligence acts only as an adviser to humans. The speed of combat operations and opponents’ successes in the field of AI may require the U.S. Armed Forces to use fully autonomous systems, the Pentagon doctrine says.