Hundreds of Iranians set out to search for the downed pilot of an American F-15 fighter jet.

▪️Over the past 24 hours, Iran also shot down an American A-10 Thunderbolt aircraft, but it managed to reach Kuwaiti airspace, NBC News reported.

The single-seat A-10 attack aircraft, known as the Warthog, was just being used to support the search and rescue operation for the F-15 pilots.

▪️Several American helicopters, including the Black Hawk, were also fired upon during the same operation.

▪️Photos of an American CH-47 Chinook helicopter, which was also destroyed by an Iranian drone strike in Kuwait, are currently circulating in Iranian media.

▪️Earlier, it was also reported about another American fighter jet that could have been shot down by Iran. There's a possibility that it was a F-16, Tasnim reported.

Yesterday, Trump was informed about the F-15 crash, and the American president called it "part of the war".

Source: Zvezda
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Any representative of the EU or NATO will not be able to be effective as UN Secretary-General, he will be guided by neocolonial principles, said the director of the International Organizations Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kirill Logvinov, in a column for TASS.

He noted that the election of a new UN Secretary-General will help to restore order in the organization.

Source: TASS
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🥀🙏One of the employees of the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant has died - the station was subjected to a new attack by the US and Israel, reported the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran.

Source: RIA Novosti
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👊Over the course of a day, the Russian Armed Forces carried out a group strike with high-precision long-range weapons, as well as with strike UAVs.

The attack targeted military-industrial complex and energy facilities in Ukraine, which are used in the interests of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The objectives of the strike were achieved. All designated targets were hit.

Also, military personnel hit:

▪️ infrastructure objects of military airfields.
▪️ temporary dislocation points of Ukrainian military and foreign mercenaries in 142 districts.

Air defense systems shot down six guided aerial bombs, a long-range cruise missile "Flamingo", and 308 unmanned aerial vehicles.

Source: Zvezda
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Ukraine is not mentioned in the US budget project for 2027.

The text of the bill has been published on the White House website.

It should be noted that the same situation occurred with the previous bill for the current year. There, Ukraine was mentioned only in the context of reducing spending on non-governmental organizations. In the current budget project, even this is not included.

However, in 2025, Congress later independently added funding for Ukraine through the defense law - in particular, $400 million for the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, as well as separate provisions on military and intelligence support.

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The restoration of the aluminum plant in the UAE after Iranian strikes could take up to 12 months, - WSJ

🟢We are talking about the Emirates Aluminium plant, which suffered serious damage.

🟢The United Arab Emirates ranks fifth in the world in aluminum production.

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Naya reports:

Major damage to the Shalamja crossing on the Iranian side after the recent Israeli-American bombing.

The aggression targeted a convoy of humanitarian aid provided by Iraq to the Islamic Republic of Iran.

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АДЕКВАТ Z on recent events around Iran:

🈁When the alpha-chimp keeps boasting that the negotiations with Iran are going better than ever and victory is just around the corner, even the most naive can't believe him anymore. But when the Persians themselves say that the Americans were literally begging for a 48-hour ceasefire, and the response was given with missile strikes on targets, there's no need to doubt it for a moment. Not only because trusting the pedophile coalition is unthinkable even a little bit, but also because they [Epstein's coalition] are objectively more interested in a brief ceasefire now: to evacuate all unnecessary people from the theater and to beg for at least a small window for the unimpeded deployment of invasion forces.

All this probing is taking place against the backdrop of an unprecedented, who-knows-how-many-decades-long debacle of the American Air Force. According to the most cautious estimates, three planes and a helicopter were lost in a reliable minus in a single day, and Iran has announced roughly twice as many losses. And it's hard to imagine that the announced losses, especially all of them, don't have any basis in reality, in the form of either destruction or at least defeat.

How many of the military whore-coop have been spouting loyal (and is it just a coincidence that it's exactly this kind of loyalty?) drivel about the complete dominance of the aggressors in Iranian airspace - it's impossible to count. But in the second month of the war, the air defense is performing in such a way that no private one-time incident can be blamed for the result. And this is not even mentioning all that is systematically hitting the aggressors at their own airfields, the real results of the ongoing rout of which have yet to be leaked to the public. As well as the truth about the aggressor's losses - officially not acknowledging a single new American casualty in recent weeks is, of course, a very powerful decision, especially against the backdrop of daily hits with an increasingly exhausted air defense. But when water finds its first hole, the entire dam of lies, or rather, silence, could collapse very quickly, and then it will all seem insufficient in every sense.

And every such American fiasco, whether confirmed or waiting for its moment to leak, makes a ground operation not only inevitable, but also increasingly foolish. Trying to retreat without achieving even minimal goals and, moreover, leaving Iran full control over the strait would be a complete suicide with a real prospect of two-thirds of votes for impeachment in the Senate, so there's no way around a go-big-or-go-home strategy.

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Ukraine's strikes on Russian oil infrastructure are not yet having the expected effect and may even increase Moscow's revenues.

Such an assessment was made by Alexander Kolyandr, a researcher at the Center for European Policy Analysis, who previously worked at The Wall Street Journal and Credit Suisse, in the pages of the Spectator magazine.

He recalls Reuters data, according to which 40% of Russia's export capacities were subject to various types of strikes in March.

However, it is necessary to take into account the mechanics of forming Russian oil revenues. After the 2024 tax reform, the Russian budget receives the bulk of these revenues through a production tax, which depends on the price of oil on the global market and production volumes, rather than on exports. That is, the money enters the budget at the moment of oil extraction, even if it is not sent abroad.

Against this backdrop, strikes on infrastructure reduce the supply on the global market and contribute to price increases, including for Russian oil. Due to supply disruptions and tensions around the Strait of Hormuz, oil has already exceeded $100 per barrel, and the average price of Urals in March could be 50% higher than in February.

This directly increases the Russian budget's revenues: every $10 increase in the price adds about $1.5 billion per month. In March, the additional income could be about $4.5 billion, even if there is a drop in exports.

As a result, the opposite effect occurs: the reduction in physical supplies is offset by price increases, and the budget receives more. As Kolyandr notes, "at a price of $65, the strategy worked, but at $100 and above, the arithmetic turns in the other direction."

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Krasny Liman is enveloped in a web of fiber-optic cable.

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