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NEW UPDATE: Zelenskyy Asks The Unthinkable: Is The Air Defense Shortage Intentional? Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNtWiwAzuYY
Satellite imagery confirms the destruction of the Wildberries warehouse in Novosemeykino following the Ukrainian drone strike. The logistics facility was completely burned out. #Ukraine
How deep strikes drones are changing the war in Ukraine YouTube video by Sky News #Ukraine youtu.be/0-5SsDOhGO0?...
How deep strikes drones are changing the war in Ukraine
YouTube video by Sky News
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🛢️In July 2026, Russian seaborne exports of petroleum products via the Black and Azov Seas fell by 45.6%, — Institute for Black Sea Strategic Studies ▪️In the Baltic Sea, exports of petroleum products fell by 40.1%. ▪️Also, crude oil exports via the Black Sea in July of this year fell by 18.1%
I'd be more than happy for NATO to boot America out and gain Ukraine in its place. Then they could perform their role of defence, instead of being pulled into decades of unnecessary wars started by USA as we have been for far too long.
Ukraine's 40-day pressure campaign against Russia ends, new operations begins www.yacnews.com/ukraines-40-...
Ukraine's 40-day pressure campaign against Russia ends, new operations begins
Zelenskyy approved new Security Service operations on 4 August and said nothing about the campaign he authorised on 25 June, which was meant to push Russia towards ending the war.
yacnews.com
Ukraine's 412th Nemesis Brigade says it struck or destroyed nearly 500 vehicles and about 400 motorcycles and military buggies in July. Hornet and Morrigan middle-strike drones are hitting Russian logistics routes 50 to more than 200 km behind the front, including trucks and fuel tankers. #Ukraine
💡🇬🇪 A massive blackout is occurring in Georgia. Power is out in every city across the country, and Tbilisi metro has stopped working. This is the third power outage in Georgia in the last two weeks.
Zelensky said Ukraine is coordinating with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and countries holding interceptor missiles to secure urgent deliveries. He called for bureaucracy to be removed and political decisions made, saying lives in Ukraine depend on partners' resolve. #Ukraine
Folding like a cheap umbrella? The US has removed Iran-related sanctions, according to the US Treasury's website, Reuters reports.
Your cut out and keep guide to how Trump is doing in Central and South America. (Credit on image.)
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham is to meet Epstein survivors and may hold a full public enquiry into Epstein.
Burnham 'looking into' conducting Epstein inquiry, says victims minister
Alex Davies-Jones tells BBC Newsnight she discussed an inquiry with the PM when she was re-appointed as minister.
bbc.co.uk
The Trump administration is drafting a new nukes strategy which emphasises the possible use of tactical nuclear weapons in a regional conflict with China or Russia.
Pentagon drafting a new U.S. nuclear strategy in case of regional war with China or Russia, sources say
The classified strategy informs nuclear options for the commander in chief during crises.
nbcnews.com
OpenAI and Anthropic’s AIs launch potentially harmful’ hacks on their own ‘Some of the agents being tested had engaged in sustained, potentially harmful activity directed at real people and organisations,’ says UK’s AI safety watchdog #AI www.independent.co.uk/tech/securit...
OpenAI and Anthropic’s AIs launch potentially harmful’ hacks on their own
‘Some of the agents being tested had engaged in sustained, potentially harmful activity directed at real people and organisations,’ says UK’s AI safety watchdog
independent.co.uk
Cash ISA changes on the cards as Andy Burnham could 'scrap' policy, says expert www.express.co.uk/finance/pers...
Cash ISA changes on the cards as Andy Burnham could 'scrap' policy, says expert
Another tax bill on the way
express.co.uk
Ukraine's National Police, with support from HUR, identified three members of Igor Bezler's Russian-backed group suspected of torturing and sexually assaulting a Ukrainian volunteer in occupied Horlivka in 2014. The suspects have been formally notified of suspicion. #Ukraine
⚡️Over 8,300 glide bombs dropped by Russia on Ukraine in July in record figure since full-scale invasion, military says. The number passes the previous record of 8,266 set the previous month, the Defense Ministry said.
Over 8,300 glide bombs dropped by Russia on Ukraine in July in record figure since full-scale invasion, military says
The number passes the previous record of 8,266 set the previous month, the Defense Ministry said.
kyivindependent.com
Video reportedly shows the moment a Ukrainian fixed-wing strike drone hit a launcher of a Russian S-400 air defense system in occupied Kerch. The battery helped defend the Kerch Bridge and nearby ferry crossings from drone and missile attacks. The date is unknown. #Ukraine
NEW UPDATE: Budanov’s Bombshell: Russia’s War Is at a Dead End—But Putin Won’t Quit Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD4SckFPxqM
Big night for Ukraine. The oil refinery in Syzran is on fire and a Wildberries warehouse in Krasny Bor, Leningrad, has been destroyed. #explodey
The #climatecrisis is driving drastic measures. In Romania the navy has carried out a controlled explosion to deepen the channel of the Danube to keep water flowing to the Cernavoda nuclear plant's cooling systems.
In a report endorsed by the former head of MI6, the Henry Jackson Society said a staggering 50% of the Russians in London - 75,000 - were informants for Putin. Russia has many operatives across Europe.
POLITICO Europe@politico.eu · 3d agoA Paris court today rejected Russian television star Xenia Fedorova's appeal against a ruling that she must leave the country, a week after French authorities accused her of acting as "a conduit for disinformation campaigns" orchestrated by Moscow.
More evidence that Reform voters are not like other people in the UK. Show them some potential corruption and they’re all in.
Kemi Badenoch certainly seems to be advancing with her agenda to turn the Conservatives into Reform.
Badenoch Slammed After Former Neo-Nazi Activist Chosen As Tory Election Candidate
Joshua Bonehill-Paine is the creator of the Crewkerne Gazette.
huffingtonpost.co.uk
The US has now used up 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during the Iran war, Reuters World News reports.