Russia's gas shutoff is forcing Europe's biggest buyer of its supplies to draw down winter emergency reserves

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⚡️Finnish President Sauli Niinisto says that a possible rapprochement between Türkiye and Russia would have little effect on the process of admitting Finland and Sweden to NATO.

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🇩🇪⚡⚡️The German Prosecutor's Office is investigating the leak of German intelligence information about the crimes of the Russian military against the civilian population in Bucha, – Bild reports.

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⚡The foreign ministers of Bulgaria and North Macedonia - Teodora Genchovska and Bujar Osmani - signed a bilateral protocol on the implementation of a roadmap that opens the way for Skopje to start negotiations on joining the EU.

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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz delays the transfer of modern IRIS-T air defense systems to Kyiv.

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⚡️ UNHCR: 3.7 million Ukrainian refugees receive temporary protection status in EU.

According to the UNHCR, 3.7 million refugees from Ukraine registered for Temporary Protection or similar national protection. In total, 6 million Ukrainian refugees are recorded across Europe.

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Pilots and aviation personnel of Russian state airlines operating within the structure of the Russian Ministry of Defense are involved in the Russian military aggression against Ukraine, reported the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.

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JUST IN – According to British media, Boris Johnson wants to make his third trip to Ukraine since February 24, 2022 to meet Zelensky again before he resigns.

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Diplomatic tensions rising between Israel and Russia: Russia has threatened to shut down all other Jewish agencies as well. Similar letters have been sent to many Jewish organizations across Russia.

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A bold idea: NATO offers to withdraw nukes from Europe (militarily useless, ineffective deterrents as we’ve just seen, & recklessly dangerous) in return for ending the invasion. Putin gets a “win” which costs us nothing worth having.

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Poland will no longer take part in events attended by Russians and Belarusians, said Poland's Deputy Foreign Minister Pawel Jablonski on Polskie Radio.

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The United States has allocated $100 million for the training of Ukrainian pilots, which may indicate their readiness to transfer aircraft

This was announced by the speaker of the command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Yuriy Ignat:

“A bill was passed by the US government to allocate $ 100 million for the training of military pilots in 2023. If the US government allocates funds for the training of Ukrainian pilots on American aircraft, then this indicates the seriousness of the US intentions. And that we will receive aviation equipment.”

He noted that now the number of transferred aircraft is not made public.

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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had an urgent message for the American congressional delegation: "We only have only a few weeks left to take back the territory Russia seized before it gets much harder to do so,"

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German national carrier Lufthansa said it would have to cancel almost all flights at its domestic hubs in Frankfurt and Munich on Wednesday because of a planned strike by ground crew, adding to a summer of travel chaos across Europe.

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This week, President Putin’s war on Ukraine entered its sixth month. The costs continue to climb in the form of unimaginable death, destruction, and a global food crisis. All this, because President Putin was determined to conquer a country.

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French President Macron had a telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Zelensky.

The leaders discussed the transportation of Ukrainian grain and the practical aspects of increasing exports in other logistical ways.

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Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba accused Germany on Tuesday of ignoring Kyiv's requests for Leopard tanks and Marder infantry fighting vehicles, saying Berlin was afraid of what was happening in Ukraine.

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The Office of the President of Ukraine has published a draft on security guarantees, where Kyiv offers the EU countries, the USA, Britain, Australia and Turkey as guarantors.

It is expected that the core group of allies will make clear commitments to support the Armed Forces, while the wider group will provide non-military guarantees built around sanctions mechanisms.

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BREAKING – Ukraine's president Zelensky was involved in a car accident in Kyiv, but has been unhurt.

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BREAKING – Ukrainian APC crews were trained in Finland to operate the Finnish XA-185 APCs that Finland quietly donated to Ukraine.

This is the first time Finland has been revealed to train Ukrainians directly in Finland.

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Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that if the United states decides to supply Kyiv with longer-range missiles for U.S.-made HIMARS systems in use by Ukraine it would cross a "red line" and become "a party to the conflict".

ℹ Russia has set repeated "red lines", and done exactly nothing when NATO has run over them, because it is not capable of doing anything.

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