In recent months, we managed to ease the pressure by finding alternative export routes, including Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline, which bypasses the Strait of Hormuz. That pipeline was struck in recent days.

So today, we are at a very low level, with less than half of what is produced actually getting out.

Winter is coming, and some countries are now buying much more, whereas last spring those same countries reduced their consumption in order to adapt.

As of today, Ukraine no longer has a steel industry.

The plants produced ~90% of remaining output, employed 15,000+, and had already shrunk from 21Mt pre-war to 7.4Mt in 2025.

August output crashed 57% year-on-year; September will be worse.

The sector once contributed 7% of GDP and 15% of exports — now approaching zero.

EU quota cuts, port closures, and loss of coking coal had already crippled the industry before the strikes.

Source: FT

I do not want a military conflict between NATO and Russia, and I will do everything to ensure that Slovakia is not dragged into any irresponsible military adventure.

Under my government, nobody will send Slovak soldiers outside the territory of Slovakia under some fabricated pretext to fight against Russia or any other country.

Article 5 of the NATO treaty, even in the event of a genuine aggressive armed attack against one or more NATO member states, provides broad possibilities regarding the form of assistance given to the attacked countries.

Donald Tusk said yesterday that his Ukrainian partners had confirmed to him the growing number of Ukrainian soldiers killed and wounded, and that this number reaches 27,000 in a single month.

I have no right to question this figure, although deliberately exaggerating the scale of human losses could serve as a factor in pushing the Western world to provide even more military and financial assistance to Ukraine.

Dear friends, that is a terrible number.

I cannot speak for our Czech friends, but we Slovaks have our own experience with Munich in 1938, when democratic powers bound to us by treaty deceived us, betrayed us and threw us to Hitler like a roasted chicken.

The key item: "S-300 Clone missiles", not Soviet replicas, but new US-developed interceptors designed to fire from Ukraine's existing S-300 launchers, replacing Russian-origin missiles Ukraine can no longer get.

Also included: GAM-67 cheaper mass-producible SAMs, laser-guided anti-drone rockets, counter-UAS radars, and mobile launcher kits.

No quantities or delivery dates yet.

If there is just one child in a class who does not understand Italian, that child will probably manage, with classmates and teachers, to learn the language and integrate quickly.

But if the children who do not understand the language of the lesson become many, or even become the majority, that is no longer integration. That is abandonment.

And the only thing those children risk learning is marginalization.

It cannot happen — it cannot happen — that in an Italian classroom, Italian children are the ones who feel pushed into a corner because they have become the minority. That cannot happen.

Calling all of this "integration" is another lie — a convenient lie for those who live by ideology, for those who lecture us from their drawing rooms and then send their own children to schools where this problem does not exist.

Not for us. For us, anyone who comes to Italy and wants to build their future here must learn our language, know our culture and respect our rules.

That is the only serious way to welcome people.

The proposed measure will introduce an obligation for the parents of foreign students with serious school-integration problems to learn Italian, and it will introduce a ban on the burqa and niqab at school.

In Italy, nobody, in the name of a real or supposed tradition, can decide that a young woman must hide herself.

Equality between men and women is not negotiable. It is not negotiable on our streets and it is not negotiable in our schools.

At the strong request of the United States Military, and for National Security purposes, I have agreed to convert the magnificent Triumphal Arch, planned since the Civil War Era many years ago, at the Receptive Circle adjoining the Arlington Memorial Bridge, into a top grade Military Complex/Triumphal Arch, to house, store, and have the rapid ability to use large numbers of drones, plus Snipers, on both the roof and plaza areas, and additionally have and hold large quantities of sniper ammunition in storage.

There will be no facility like this anywhere in the World. Out of the 59 top cities and Capitals, Washington, D.C., IS THE ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD THAT DOES NOT HAVE A TRIUMPHAL ARCH, but it will now and, by far, the greatest of them all! Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Prime Minister Kristen Michal said Russia may eventually need further measures to sustain the war, claiming “30,000 to 40,000 men are killed or wounded every month.”

If mobilization changes Estonia’s threat assessment, Michal said: “The border can also be closed immediately.” He added that Estonia has the capability to shut border crossings “very quickly.”

Unlike the weak and hollow regime, which constantly stages propaganda shows, we have no need for false propaganda.

The magnificent Toronto demonstration, amid the storm and bitter cold of Canada, was one of the enduring scenes in Iran’s history.

I am in a “deciding mode,” and very big things are going to be happening in the not-so-distant future.

The choices are: wiping Iran out, letting them rot economically, or making a deal.

They better behave!

Source: Fox News