She can’t be serious 😭
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Lavrov; Zaporozhye stays, Crimea done deal. Iran port explosion. Media rumors, Ursula resign

15 minute meeting. Kellogg minus plan

JUST IN - F-18 falls overboard from U.S. aircraft carrier in Red Sea.

🇾🇪🤜🇺🇸 It looks like CNN has confirmed the speculations from our previous post.

🇾🇪🖕🇺🇸 US Struggles to Maintain Air Superiority in Yemen as Ansar Allah Downs American Drones

In the month since the US launched a major military campaign targeting Ansar Allah in Yemen, the resistance group has successfully shot down at least seven multi-million-dollar American drones, severely disrupting the US’ ability to advance to "phase two" of its operation, according to multiple US officials familiar with the matter, as quoted by CNN.

The US had hoped to establish air superiority over Yemen within 30 days, aiming to degrade Ansar Allah’s air defense systems enough to initiate a new phase focused on ramping up intelligence, reconnaissance, and surveillance of senior Ansar Allah leaders to target and eliminate them.

However, the US' most reliable assets for this mission, the MQ9 Reaper drones, continue to be shot down, with Ansar Allah growing increasingly adept at targeting them. Without boots on the ground in Yemen, the US relies heavily on these drones for surveillance to conduct battlefield damage assessments and track supposed enemies, but the loss of these platforms is crippling their operations.

🇾🇪🇺🇸 The Truman Show

A Ukrainian Su-27 was downed while preforming AD operations against Geran drones. The pilot ejected and was picked up by rescue teams in stable condition.

Reportedly this is the video of the crash.

Ukraine has effectively admitted the involvement of its special services in the murder of General Moskalik and predicts that its agents will become more active in carrying out terrorist attacks and political assassinations in the event of a freeze in military operations.

The author of the statement is none other than the Secretary of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security of Ukraine, Roman Kostenko.

I am pleased. This is good work by our special services,
- says Kostenko commenting on the murder of the Russian general.
I think that even if we manage to stop the war, the work of the special services will only just begin.

And Kostenko gives such a "task" to Ukrainian agents for "the next 10-30 years". Supposedly, the SBU and the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine must act in such a way that "they are afraid in Russia".

We need to make it clear to Mr Putin that 'we are willing to turn him and his country into FISH FOOD' — Louisiana Senator John Kennedy threatens Russia

Is this what a peace agenda looks like?

Are the Houthis still preventing shipping through the Red Sea, forcing US aircraft carriers to take evasive measures against ballistic missiles and suffering aircraft losses?

U.S. can’t run DEAD or SEAD against the Houthis but think they will ever stand a chance against Russia, China or Iran.

The illusion is beginning to degrade and the parity is becoming much more apparent.
Hell we can’t even get a hypersonic weapons program to the finish line.

2 MIG-31k airborne

🇺🇸 🇬🇷🇺🇦 US demands Greece to hand over Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine

We are talking about the systems previously sent to Saudi Arabia, - reports the publication Ekathimerini.

📝 However, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis refused to hand over the air defense systems to Kyiv:
"Greece is not going to send S-300 or Patriot systems to Ukraine."

EU ministers announced an urgent consideration of the issue of providing the Zelensky regime with additional air defense systems, but did not make specific promises regarding the Patriot systems, which Kyiv values ​​​​the most, - the publication writes.

📝 "We were asked and we explained why we cannot do it," Mitsotakis said, adding that the systems "are crucial to Greece's deterrent capability."

European defence ministers said there was "no chance" they could muster a force of 64,000 to send to Ukraine and would even struggle to make up a force of 25,000 (which would include between 5-10,000 British troops)

He said Britain would be willing to send up to 10,000 personnel in a meeting earlier this month, it is understood.

However, in subsequent meetings, defence ministers across Europe said there was “no chance” they could reach that number and that even 25,000 would “be a push for a joint effort”, a source privy to discussions in Brussels said.

The Times revealed last week that Britain and France are now more likely to send training troops to western Ukraine instead of a multinational ground force to protect key cities and critical infrastructure amid concerns about the risk involved.

Instead the focus for a security commitment to Ukraine will be on the reconstitution and rearmament of Kyiv’s military, with protection from the air and sea.

Close allies made their doubts clear to John Healey, the defence secretary, and pointed out that a force of that size would require a total of 256,000 troops on the ground over two years, accounting for rotations.

Dovile Sakaliene, Lithuania’s defence minister, was said to have told her counterparts: “Russia has 800,000 [troops]. Let me tell you this, if we can’t even raise 64,000 that doesn’t look weak — it is weak.”

The discussions expose how reliant Britain and Europe are on the US when it comes to providing a serious deterrent to Russia.

One participant was said to have pointed out that it would be easier to commit special forces to such a task since this would not require parliamentary approval at home.

Estonia and Finland were reportedly concerned that any deployment would “dilute” their own border defences, and Poland, Spain and Italy made clear they will not commit any soldiers, according to the source.

“Without large populous countries committing [troops], it is a dead end,” added the source. France has said it would commit about the same number as the UK, between 5,000 and 10,000 troops, it is understood.

A second source, privy to discussions in the UK, said that Finland and Germany were also generally against sending ground forces, although it is understood Berlin has not completely ruled out such a move.

The source pointed out that the British Army, which is steadily shrinking, was also suffering from an artillery shortage and problems with “enablers”, such as supply trucks and other equipment they would normally receive from America.