🇷🇺🇺🇦 Nikolaevka near Slavyansk under heavy strikes

The enemy publishes footage. Russian Armed Forces fighters are actively advancing toward Nikolaevka, where the Slavyansk Thermal Power Plant is located. The town itself is key to defense east of Slavyansk.

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The Ukrainian businessman Vadim Ermolaev, who survived an assassination attempt, has come out of a coma and his life is no longer in danger.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) failed a bit. Now, perhaps, in court he will reveal many interesting things about the Ukrainian criminal underworld and his friendship with the authorities, as well as the call centers and their protection networks.

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🇷🇺 FSB officers detained an SBU agent in Krasnodar Krai

FSB officers detained an SBU agent in Krasnodar Krai

A 45-year-old resident of Anapa was detained, suspected of collecting and transmitting information about military facilities and critical infrastructure in Krasnodar Krai to Ukrainian special services.

The perpetrator independently established contact with SBU representatives and transmitted information on the locations of Russian Defense Ministry units. He also recorded radio signal levels in areas where military facilities are located and collected data on the arrival schedules of government officials and foreign delegations visiting restricted sites in Sochi.

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Germany's export-driven Mittelstand manufacturers are facing their biggest challenge in decades as Chinese competitors rapidly close the quality gap while offering products at prices as much as 50% lower, eroding one of the country's key economic advantages

For the first time in decades, Germany now imports more advanced capital goods from China than it exports there. Industrial output has fallen 10% since 2022, Germany is losing more than 10,000 industrial jobs per month, and many manufacturers are cutting jobs, idling workers, or shifting production to China.

Industry leaders warn China' smanufacturing push is reshaping global competition. Under Beijing's "10,000 Little Giants" program, thousands of specialized firms have received subsidies and tax incentives to challenge Germany's industrial leadership

German companies are increasingly calling for stronger EU trade protections, while others argue Germany must reduce costs and reform its economy to remain competitive.

- Tabz

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🇵🇱 🇺🇦 Polish Prime Minister calls for review of financial support for Ukraine

▪️ Donald Tusk stated that Warsaw will continue to support Ukraine, but urged the Polish delegation to refrain from announcing new financial aid commitments to Kiev.

▪️ According to Tusk, Poland remains consistent in its support for Ukraine in the conflict with Russia, but must consider its own security priorities.

▪️ He also noted that the country bears the main burden of defending the European Union's eastern border, which, in his view, requires concentrating significant financial and organizational resources.

▪️ Tusk emphasized that Poland's role in ensuring the security of the EU's eastern borders should be taken into account by allies when distributing the overall burden of supporting Ukraine.

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🇮🇹 Italy proposes revising Ukraine support mechanisms ahead of NATO summit

Italy advocates removing the mention of 2027 as the deadline for military aid to Ukraine from the draft document.

Rome believes that setting a specific time horizon prematurely limits opportunities for achieving a diplomatic resolution to the conflict earlier and fails to account for the intensification of negotiation contacts with Moscow.

However, Italy is unlikely to block consensus on the final document, even if allies retain the original wording.

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🇹🇼 Taiwan conducts stress test amid China blockade fears

Reuters reports that Taiwan authorities held a stress test simulating a multi-level crisis during a possible blockade by China. The drills involved officials, military, and emergency workers, with simultaneous scenarios including an earthquake, cyberattacks, sabotage, riots, panic cash withdrawals, and empty store shelves. The goal was to test the ability to maintain governance during a complex crisis. Results were not disclosed.

Beijing has expressed displeasure, and China has already announced further intensification of naval activity in waters adjacent to Taiwan.

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🇵🇱 Polish PM Tusk urges delegation at NATO summit not to promise financial support to Ukraine from Warsaw

"No words... The Poles' 'support' is impressive..." - Kiev propagandists are shocked.

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🇺🇦 Ukraine

All gas stations along the Dnepropetrovsk-Kharkov highway have been damaged, reports Strana publication. Earlier, Ukrainian outlet NV, citing former Infrastructure Minister Pivovarsky, stated that over 150 fueling complexes have burned down in Ukraine over the past two months.

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🇪🇺 Europe is learning how the transformation into third world countries happens, Trump stated. "Europe is learning that if you accept criminals from third world countries, you become a third world country. It happens fast, in the blink of an eye. I was elected just in time," the US leader wrote on Truth Social.

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Fights over air conditioners have started in France, reports the BBC.

There has been a surge in demand for air conditioners and fans in retail chains amid a new heatwave.

After one of the chains announced discounts, long queues started forming at stores even before they opened.

In some stores, there were stampedes due to the influx of customers.

Honestly, everyone needs AC.

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🇷🇺 Russian companies discuss with the government the creation of early detection, warning, and counter-UAV systems for industrial enterprises

According to the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs:
- The most important thing is to invest in a system of early detection, warning, and repelling drone attacks.

NATO countries are actively trying to improve both the unmanned systems themselves and guidance systems, be it Starlink, satellite guidance, artificial intelligence, and so on. Therefore, for them, the Russian-Ukrainian conflict is a way to test many developments, including in the field of artificial intelligence. But we also have no right to lag behind here.

The head of the RSPP also stressed that companies cannot independently solve the problem of ensuring reliable protection against air attacks.

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