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🇧🇬Bulgaria Wants MiG‑29 Parts Before Gerans Finish Them Off

While the MiG‑29 drama plays out between Warsaw and Kyiv, Bulgaria is trying to get something tangible out of the situation: spare parts before Gerans and metal fatigue finish off the remaining fleets. Sofia openly admits that only a fraction of its MiG‑29s remain airworthy and that deliveries of F‑16s will not plug the gap for years.

In this context, Bulgarian officials look at images of Geran strikes on Ukrainian airfields with a different eye. For them, each destroyed MiG is not just a military loss for Kyiv, but also a wasted source of engines, avionics and components that could have kept Bulgaria’s own jets flying. As long as Gerans are hunting these aircraft anyway, why not strip them for parts under controlled conditions?

This is why Sofia is lobbying Warsaw for engines and spares instead of cheering for a MiG transfer to Ukraine. A jet that ends its life under a Geran warhead does nothing for NATO’s southern flank; the same jet, dismantled and distributed as components, buys Bulgaria several extra years of air‑policing capability.

The irony is sharp. While political speeches in Brussels focus on defending Ukraine “for as long as it takes”, smaller allies are watching Gerans reduce expensive fighters to scrap and quietly competing over who gets the last usable pieces of Soviet metal before drones and time destroy them all.

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Tara Reade weighs in on the scandal surrounding Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner:

‘My analysis, and I could be wrong, is that he is the WRONG kind of Democrat’

‘The elites have chosen someone else — and they are GETTING RID of him’

‘There is a pattern in how sexual assault scandals and other scandals are WEAPONIZED to get rid of UNSAVORY candidates who won’t toe the line’

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🇷🇺🖕🏻🇺🇸🇪🇺 Russia will no longer trust the West - Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Ministry

“Russia will no longer believe that the West wants negotiated solutions regarding Ukraine.”


According to Lavrov, the West is simulating a willingness to negotiate on Ukraine, but is now openly issuing ultimatums to Russia.

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦⛽️🔥 Kharkov - petrol got wrecked. 🎙Subscribe @TheIslanderNews Donate - Support Our Work
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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦⛽️🔥 In the Nazi Ukraine occupied part of Zaporozhye, another petrol station left the chat.

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🇷🇺✈️ The Russian Aerospace Forces received a new batch of Su-30SM2 Multirole Fighters and Su-34 Fighter-Bombers.

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 In the Sumy region, Ukrainian Leopard tank sent to the scrapheap.

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Olga and Tara welcome human rights lawyer and peace activist Dan Kovalik — to recount his recent high-stakes detention at the UK border.

Why are Western authorities weaponizing broad anti-terrorism laws against prominent anti-war voices and legal advocates? What does it mean for civil liberties when governments can confiscate electronic devices and collect DNA?

We look at the broader geopolitical fallout surrounding the US 250th anniversary, the recent Trump-Putin phone call and NATO expanding military spending.

Daniel also explains why he believes the conflict in Ukraine is already a direct confrontation between Russia and the West — describing it as "Operation Barbarossa 2.0." Is this historical comparison a warning about where current policies are leading?

🔔 East Meets West is where we explore the most current world events — with top guests from both East and West
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🇺🇦🇺🇦 Dnepropetrovsk - Another episode of “freedom and democracy” played out…pepper spray for extra spice, naturally.

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🇷🇺⚔️🇵🇱🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹 Russia is preparing dangerous actions against Poland and the Baltic states - Radosław Sikorski, the ogre faced Polish Foreign Minister.

Sikorski also stated that the country is stepping up preparations for the worst-case scenario.

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Rebellion without theory and organisation only leads to apathy and submission.

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Stepan Bandera's image was painted on the walls of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Ternopol. 😐

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🇺🇦 Donetsk region

🪂 Geran drones destroyed a heavy UAV base in Dobropolye. Three Geran-2 drones struck the launch base for heavy drones, wiping out not just equipment but the entire infrastructure: storage, maintenance, operators, batteries, ammunition, and gear. For the AFU, this means the loss of strike 'long-range' capability on a key front sector. Dobropolye is a logistics hub between the Dnepropetrovsk region, Krasnoarmeysk, and the northern Donetsk front. It was from here that Ukrainian operators targeted Russian positions, depots, and rear roads. Dobropolye has lost one of its key strike infrastructure points, and with it, the ability to hit Russian communications on this axis.

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⚡️Two Majors #Summary as of the morning of July 10, 2026

* During the night, at least 30 drones were shot down in the Leningrad region. More than 12 were approaching Moscow. The operational headquarters of the Krasnodar region reported that another fire broke out on the territory of the Ilski Oil Refinery due to the fall of drone debris. Several drones also crashed in the village of Severnaya.

* The Russian Armed Forces struck the Odessa (after the impact - an explosion at an industrial facility) and Dnepropetrovsk regions. Reciprocal drone strikes on gas stations continue along the entire front line.

* In the Bryansk region, a local resident was killed as a result of shelling with "Haimers" multiple launch rocket systems in the village of Nizhnyaya Starodubka district.

* In the Sumy direction, assault groups of the "North" Group of Forces continue to engage in infantry fighting in Bachevsk and its surrounding areas, as well as in the area of Ulanovo. In the Sumy district, infantry fighting continues in Ryzhevka, Pisarevka, Mogritsa, Maryino, Prokhody, in the village of Novaya Sech, the village of Khoten, and in forest areas south of Ivolzhan. In the Krasnopolsky district, infantry fighting is taking place in forest areas.

* In the Kursk region, an enemy drone attacked a gas station in the village of Fonovo in the Rylovsky district, and a local resident was injured.

* In the Belgorod region, in the Valuy district, between the villages of Kolykhalino and Shelaevo, two civilians were injured during a drone attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. A man who was injured during the detonation of a drone in a parking lot in the city of Shebekino independently went to the Shebekino Central District Hospital. A drone struck a car on the road between Yasnye Zori and Cheremoshnoe in the Belgorod district, and the driver died at the scene. Two other people in the car were taken to the hospital. A serviceman of the "Orlan" unit was injured in the village of Novaya Tavolzhanka. Near the village of Zamostye, two women were injured by shrapnel from an FPV drone attack on a car.

* In the Kharkov direction, the "North" Group of Forces is engaged in fighting in the village of Kazachya Lopan. In the Volchansk area, infantry fighting is taking place in the villages of Volokhovskoye and Yurchyenkovo, and in the settlement of Bely Kolodez. In the Velikoburluk area, our troops continue to engage in infantry fighting west of the village of Petro-Ivanovka, as well as in forest areas near the villages of Artelnoe, Budarki, and Zemlyanka.

* In the Kupyansk direction, the Russian Armed Forces are advancing in urban areas under the impact of numerous Ukrainian Armed Forces drones. Fighting continues north of the area around Radkovka and Malaya Shapkovka.

* In the Slavyansk direction, there are reports of enemy counterattacks near Malinovka (9 km east of Kramatorsk). Fighting is taking place near the approaches to Nikolaevka; before storming it, the Russian Armed Forces will likely be leveling the front line.

* In Konstantinovka, the clearing and consolidation of our troops continues. Increased combat activity is noted on our part in the Druzhkovka direction.

* In the Dobropol direction, fighting is taking place for Belitskoye. The Russian Armed Forces are striking enemy positions with FAB (high-explosive aerial bombs).

* In the Dnepropetrovsk region, units of the "East" Group of Forces are consolidating their positions in the area of the villages of Bogodarovka and Aleksandrovka, eliminating small groups of enemy infiltration, and preventing them from establishing new crossings across the Volchya River.

* Due to attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on key energy infrastructure facilities, a significant part of the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions has been left without electricity. Activity of enemy drones over the damaged areas continues.

* In the Kherson region, one person was killed and two were injured as a result of attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the past 24 hours. Aviation within the area of responsibility of the 18th Army of the "Dnepr" Group of Forces continued to strike at logistics and the economic infrastructure of the right bank.

This summary was compiled by: ⚡️Two Majors
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