🇮🇹 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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An Egyptian video of the opening of the epic-scale new massive central complex of the Egyptian Ministry of Defense, better known as "The Octagon" (State Strategic Command Center), built in New Cairo. The area of the complex is said to be eight times larger than that of the American Pentagon.

Wild... though what happens in conflict to a a serious opponent with these structures.

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🇺🇦 Brutal battle in Dnepropetrovsk: enraged Ukrainians attack military commissariat militants

Passersby en masse fought back against the manhunters, smashing their cars, beating them, and spraying pepper spray. Even women joined in.

The military commissariat fled without their 'catch'.

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The Russian army has completed preparations for a massive strike on western Ukraine, — monitors

▪️A massive attack is expected in the next 48 hours. The main threat is energy, according to Ukrainian monitoring resources.
▪️The priority for the strike is the Lvov region and all western regions of Ukraine.
▪️At night, Russia deployed an additional 6 Tu-95MS to the airfields "Olenya" and "Engels".
▪️In total, 11 strategic bombers have already been concentrated.
▪️They may be involved:
➖10-11 Tu-95MS;
➖3 Tu-160;
➖About 800–1000 strike UAVs;
➖6 MiG-31K fighters with hypersonic "Dagger" missiles.

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🇷🇺 Russian Forces on Targeting Ukrainian Commanders

Russian officials state that retribution will come for Ukrainian leaders including Zelensky, Zaluzhny, Fedorov, and Budanov, though they acknowledge Anglo-Saxons may be out of reach.

Regarding the commander known as "Magyar" (Robert Brody), sources claim he consistently uses civilians as human shields, hiding in occupied apartment buildings. Russian officers reportedly refrain from striking when he is detected in such locations to avoid civilian casualties, in contrast to Russian troops who position away from civilians. The dilemma of targeting him at the cost of destroying a residential building with women and children is emphasized.

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The Indonesian military recovered the body of an American pilot who was killed by rebels. The West Papua National Liberation Army said the aircraft had been “frequently dropping Indonesian military personnel and violating the ​TPNPB’s ultimatum”, ⁠and said there would be ‌more attacks if Indonesia kept allowing civilian aircraft to enter rebel-controlled red zones of Papua.

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