American law professor: The war situation with Iran has gotten so bad that Trump's wife brought up the Epstein affair to distract attention.
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Nobody saw that coming! 🤣

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The IDF approved the continuation of the operation in southern Lebanon.

The number of victims after the recent Israeli strikes in various parts of Lebanon has risen to 303, with 1,150 injured, according to a report from the country's Ministry of Health.

Source: RIA Novosti

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Seriously, go away. You aren't helping.

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Europe has significantly increased its imports of Russian liquefied natural gas amid the war in the Middle East, spending billions of euros on it, according to the Financial Times.

In the first quarter of this year, the EU took 69 out of 71 shipments (97%) from the giant Yamal LNG project in Siberia. 25 of them were received in March - more than in January or February separately. For comparison, in the same period of 2025, the share was 87% (68 shipments). The remaining cargoes were sent to Asia.

According to data from the analytical group Kpler, imports from the Yamal LNG project in the first quarter increased by 17% to 5 million tons compared to the same period in 2025.

It is estimated that EU member states spent about 2.88 billion euros on gas from this plant.

Despite this, Europe does not show much desire to review the planned ban on the import of Russian LNG, which is due to come into effect in January 2027. The ban on imports under short-term contracts is already in effect.

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Military Chronicle:

The Ukrainian side reports that Kramatorsk, one of the main intermediate targets in Donbass and in this direction in general, has become increasingly dangerous for defense in recent weeks. The threat from Russian artillery and FPV drones is felt more acutely than ever. Some units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been ordered to limit nighttime movement due to the mass use of Russian drones with thermal imagers and night vision devices.

The Slavyansk-Kramatorsk highway has also become an extremely risky route, where cars are a rarity. Specialized networks and systems to counter UAVs have begun to be installed on this section, which partially helps the Armed Forces of Ukraine against Russian "Lightning-2" (Molniya) drones, but the threat from small drones cannot be eliminated.

Russian troops are approaching Kramatorsk from two directions, but there is no urgency in the matter of the offensive, despite the importance of the assault on this area along with Slavyansk.

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АДЕКВАТ Z writes,

Summary of the latest episode of the Middle Eastern soap opera: Iran is increasingly tying virtually everything — from the start of negotiations to the expansion of transit through the strait (full unblocking is out of the question) — to a lasting cessation of Israeli terror against Lebanon. The Americans are putting rather feeble pressure on Israel for a ceasefire; Israel quite openly disregards this pressure, continuing to emphasize that they are also in a brief pause with Iran. For all these reasons, the strait remains at an almost complete standstill, and everyone who continues to suffer increasingly as a result is developing a multi-story hatred for Israel — which in itself is not a bad thing.

Since the closed strait continues to serve our national interests excellently, one can observe this squabbling with relative detachment. But with the understanding that the ceasefire is being used by both sides to actively prepare for a resumption. The Americans are continuously rushing new forces and, I suspect, means to replenish what has been exhausted into the region, while Iran, from the north and the east, is certainly also receiving a lot that is important and necessary.

In the very near future, I think we can expect the continuation of the song and dance around Lebanon: either there will be complete silence there, or no negotiations at all. Backing down from this position would be politically and reputationally inconvenient for Iran, while Israel would find accepting these demands both humiliating and pointless. Therefore, one should not be too surprised if this dancing lasts for more or less the entire time preliminarily allocated for the negotiations themselves. And if we proceed from the assumption that the parties, especially the Americans, need not so much the negotiations themselves right now, but rather time to prepare for the second round, then there won't be much difference between using that time for negotiations or for dancing around them.

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The Brussels authorities have stopped funding and evicted the largest Ukrainian center "Voice of Ukrainians", reports the Euractiv portal.

According to the portal, the center's budget was €800 thousand per year, but due to acute financial problems, non-essential expenses in the Brussels budget were cut.

Source: TASS
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Trump was begging like a dog

Alternet: A knowledgeable source in Washington says that Trump was "begging like a dog" in his calls to the leaders of other countries to save him from the Iran deadlock.

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❕The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have established control over the populated areas of Miropolskoe in the Sumy region and Dibrovo in the DPR, the Ministry of Defense reported.

Over the week, in response to terrorist attacks by Ukraine, the Russian army carried out five group strikes, including with high-precision long-range weapons, on targets in Ukraine. The targets hit include:

▪️Enterprises of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine.

▪️Objects of the fuel and energy, transport and port infrastructure used in the interests of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

▪️Military airfields.

▪️Ammunition depots, assembly points, storage and preparation for launch of strike drones and unmanned boats.

▪️Temporary dislocation points of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries.

⚡️The forces of the Black Sea Fleet destroyed four unmanned boats of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a long-range guided missile "Neptune-MD".

💥Air defense systems shot down 54 guided aerial bombs, four HIMARS rockets, three long-range cruise missiles "Flamingo", six long-range guided missiles "Neptune" and2,411 UAVs.

Source: Zvezda
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Durov stated that WhatsApp's encryption* claims the title of the largest fraud in history, as billions of people were deceived in this way.

According to Durov, the messenger reads its users' messages and transfers their data to third parties.

* Belongs to Meta, which is recognized as extremist and banned in Russia

Source: TASS
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The thing is, that all the messengers do it.

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