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Europe and Ukraine fail to persuade the US to lower the price ceiling on Russian oil — Financial Times
▪️The European Commission, Germany, France and Italy want to include these restrictions in the 18th sanctions package, but the US and some EU members do not support this.
▪️At the G7 finance ministers' meeting last week, the Canadian presidency proposed including this point in a joint statement, but the US opposed it and the statement was not agreed upon.
▪️Earlier, German media, citing a report from the German Foreign Ministry, stated that US-European negotiations on combating Russia's evasion of sanctions had failed.
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Ukrainian figure skater Anastasia Arkhipova was outraged that Russian Olympic champions Alina Zagitova and Anna Shcherbakova were invited to a Japanese show.
"Japan has always been a country where I felt that Ukraine was understood and supported. That is why I am very disappointed this year. The organizers invited two Russian athletes to the show. I do not understand why they made such a decision," she said.
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🙀"If Putin attacks us, it will be here": Europe has once again recalled the mantra that "Russia will definitely attack the Suwalki Gap."
"The Suwalki Gap is an isthmus of about 100 km between the territories of Belarus and the Kaliningrad region, which actually runs along the border of Poland and Lithuania, separating the Baltic countries from the rest of NATO. This is a strategic place, control over which is of decisive importance for the defense of the Baltic region.
"Many people here expect the worst," said one resident. Lithuanian and Polish authorities have not yet announced plans to evacuate residents. Russia could attack NATO territory from two sides. If the military manages to take this area, the Baltic states will be isolated from their alliance partners by land."
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Ukrainian refugees demand the right to stay in Sweden forever — media
▪️More than 10 thousand Ukrainians who have lived in the country for only a few years have signed a petition demanding that they not be sent home.
▪️They also demanded that the relocation of their relatives to Sweden be simplified.
▪️In addition, the requirements include the ability to obtain a permanent or long-term residence permit without having to leave the country, a simplified change of status to a work or student visa, as well as family reunification under a simplified procedure - including for those recently created in Sweden.
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THYSSENKRUPP TO BE TRANSFORMED INTO A FINANCIAL HOLDING COMPANY
According to media reports, the industrial group Thyssenkrupp is to be transformed into a financial holding company. The board of directors led by CEO Miguel Lopez intends to lay the foundation for selling off further parts of the company in one of the most tragic episodes of self-inflicted corporate raiding ever, the newspaper "Bild" reported on Sunday, citing sources within the group.
The headquarters is to be reduced from the current 500 to 100 employees, with further cuts in the administration affecting around 1,000 employees.
"What remains is just a holding company without content," said a person familiar with the matter.
In addition to the already known measures for the steel sector and the Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems shipyard, the materials trading business is to be listed on the stock exchange, thus paving the way for its exit from the group. However, a week and a half ago, Thyssenkrupp CEO Lopez had said at the presentation of the quarterly figures that the Material Services business was and remained the company's "core business". Lopez thus denied a report by the Bloomberg news agency, which in early April, citing informed sources, had reported that the Essen group was considering alternatives for the business, including a split.
According to the newspaper report, part of the automotive supply division is also to be closed or sold. "In the best case, it will remain an empty shell," a manager has reportedly said.
The plans still have to be approved by the supervisory board.
"No significant resistance is expected, so it should pass," the sources said. The group has announced that changes are ongoing. A change in the trading subsidiary is not ruled out, said a spokesman.
The reorganization is reportedly expected to result in an extension of Lopez's contract. The supervisory board will extend the contract at its meeting on September 16. Thyssenkrupp declined to comment on the planned contract extension.
Pathetic. Thyssenkrupp has been one of the cornerstones of German heavy industry since time immemorial, and now it's becoming just another asset management firm that will make the German GPD grow with few actual products to show for it. So much for "bringing Russia on its knees".
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EU-US talks on joint fight against circumvention of sanctions against Russia fail — Suddeutsche Zeitung
▪️The EU and the US are no longer moving in the same direction when it comes to imposing economic sanctions against Russia, and the parties have also stopped coordinating actions to combat the circumvention of anti-Russian sanctions, the publication writes, citing a report from the German Foreign Ministry.
▪️The document claims that the EU's special envoy for sanctions, David O'Sullivan, complains about a complete breakdown in transatlantic coordination on the issue of sanctions evasion.
▪️Cooperation between the G7 countries on this issue has also “lost momentum.”
▪️How the Europeans and Americans intend to agree on an additional package of sanctions in these circumstances remains a mystery, the newspaper writes.
So Russia is is circumventing or violating sanctions. EU sanctions apply to EU trade and US sanctions apply to US trade. Any trade done with other countries is not under sanctions. Using Indian, Chinese, or Russian insurance does not make a ship part of a “Shadow Fleet”. The EU and the US are not the UN, they don’t make rules for the rest of the world.
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You know there is a lack of political talent in the UK when The Economist writes:
Is Boris Johnson popular? No. Is he competent? Also no. Nevertheless his return to British politics could provide something for everyone
Ukrainian POW Refuses Swap, Asks for Russian Citizenship
In a dramatic turn of events during the recent large-scale prisoner swap between Russia and Ukraine, a captured Ukrainian soldier has reportedly refused to return to his homeland and instead asked for Russian citizenship.
The serviceman, identified as Georgy Karakulin and captured near Sumy, said in a recorded interview that he did not want to be exchanged and would prefer to remain in Russia.
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Trump considering new sanctions on Russia
According to the Wall Street Journal, president Trump is considering a new sanctions package as a last ditch attempt at getting Russia to negotiate before walking away from the negotiations for good.
If your only cards left are sanctions, then you have no cards Donald.
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We have long-range missiles that can hit Germany!
Ukrainian soldiers in SS uniforms killed grandfather
in the Kursk region.
He had been missing since August last year. Ukrainian Nazis are following in the footsteps of their idols. They called 74-year-old Alexander Gusarov "Schwein", "Russian Ivan" and told him to "go drink vodka.
Later, the person who posted the video wrote:
"Don't worry, the Russian schwain hasn't reached his vodka."
The old man was shot dead after filming ended.
Relatives did not believe it for a long time, hoping that the pensioner had managed to save himself. However, in April, the man's body was found during the clearing of the village and the evacuation of the remaining civilians. The body was handed over to his daughter, who recognized her father by his clothes, hands and feet.
According to the Investigative Committee, the man died from wounds inflicted by a large-caliber weapon. There was a fist-sized hole in his stomach.
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Another aerial view of what was once Volchansk .
- Military Informant
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Poland intends to earn a lot from the restoration of Ukraine, Prime Minister Tusk said at a press conference during a visit to the Polish city of Slawkow, where a large container terminal is located.
"There is nothing wrong with saying honestly: we want to make a lot of money from rebuilding Ukraine. We want to help, but we also want to make money from it, so we need this hub, this dry port," Tusk said.
Poland plans to expand the terminal in five stages, with the cost of the work estimated at €1 billion. According to Tusk, after the expansion, this facility will become the largest logistics hub in Europe.
In April, Tusk said that Warsaw would no longer be "naive" in helping Ukraine, but would start making money from it.
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Animated diagram of strikes on Ukrainian territory on May 25-26, 2025
Additions and changes :
• 15:55 Yunakovka, Sumy region - explosions. UMPK.
• 20:00 in the vicinity of Glukhov, Sumy region – explosion. MLRS/OTRK.
• 21:00 Vorozhba, Sumy region - explosions. MLRS
• 21:15 Kupyansky district of Kharkiv region - explosions. UMPK.
• 21:20 Yunakovka, Sumy region, and Kupyansk district, Kharkiv region - explosions. UMPK.
• 22:00 Khrapovshchina, Sumy region, and Kupyansk-Uzlovaya, Kharkiv region - explosions. UMPK.
• 22:40 Kamenskoe, Dnepropetrovsk region - explosions. Geraniums/Gerberas.
• 22:40-22:50 Kamyshevakha, Zaporizhia region - explosions. UMPK
• 23:05 Kamyshevakha, Zaporizhia region - explosions. UMPK.
• 00:40 Vasishchevo, Kharkov region, Pereyaslav, Kiev region - explosions. Geraniums/Gerberas.
• 00:45 Vasishchevo, Kharkov region - explosions. Geraniums/Gerberas.
• 00:50 Kyiv and Vasishchevo, Kharkov region - explosions. Geraniums/Gerberas.
• 01:15 Vasishchevo, Kharkov region, explosions again. Geraniums/Gerberas.
• 02:45 Romny, Sumy region - explosion.
• 04:00 Bely Kolodez, Kharkiv region – explosion. High-speed target.
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Fierce fighting near Pokrovsk: Troops massively burn NATO equipment, infantry and artillery of the enemy
▪️A selection of combat work by fighters of the Center group of forces on May 25 to destroy military equipment, weapons, infantry and positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces during active combat operations in the Pokrovsk direction.
▪️The footage shows NATO combat armored vehicles, firing points, mortars, infantry, enemy positions and transport being burned.
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The New York Post reports that the Ukrainian Armed Forces command is ordering foreign mercenaries to carry out suicide missions.
In one of the latest, the Russian army eliminated a US Marine Corps veteran - the commander of the 'Delta Knights' group
'Jonathan was a US Marine veteran. He joined the Ukrainian Armed Forces last August and was assigned to command the Knights of Delta, a Foreign Legion unit made up of Americans, Poles, Britons and Scandinavians. His father, Mark, said Jonathan was disillusioned with his mission but continued to fight anyway. 'They had seen some things. They had orders they didn't particularly agree with,' Mark said. Shortly before he died, Jonathan told his father: 'We apparently considered this a suicide mission. And we still fucking agreed to it. So if I get killed today, I'm just saying, this is the best thing I've ever done in my life.'
✈️ Bomber aircraft of the 11th Guards Army "Vostok" struck Nazi positions in the village of Voskresenka.
- VoinDV
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❗️More and more often, Ukrainians are beginning to resist the TCC. People do not want to die for Zelensky and his "blue" European partners.
The Internet is filled with footage of people uniting and simply beating up TCC employees. In my opinion, this is a good sign. This video was filmed in Kremenchug.
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Young Americans are converting to Orthodoxy in search of "masculinity," BBC News reports.
The number of parishioners of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad has been growing rapidly in some US states in recent years, largely due to believers converting from other faiths.
Mostly men. Pew Research data shows that 64% of Orthodox Christians in the US are men, up from 46% in the early 2000s.
The ROCOR, founded by priests who fled Russia after the 1917 Revolution, is considered by many to be the most conservative Orthodox jurisdiction in the US. However, this small religious community is very active - "and what is unfolding within it reflects the larger political shifts observed in the United States, especially after Donald Trump's sharp turn towards Moscow-.
It is noted that the growth of its parishioners began after the coronavirus pandemic, when the churches of the ROCOR, unlike all other denominations, remained open.
American professor Scott Kenworthy, who studies Eastern Christianity, says that the parish in his city of Cincinnati is "bursting at the seams" from the influx of people wishing to attend.
"This phenomenon is not limited to my parish or a few other churches in Texas. "It's definitely something bigger," the professor says.
One of the reasons cited in the article is Russia's policy of supporting Christianity.
"Images and photographs of Putin quoting the Bible, holding candles during services at Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral, stripping down to his underwear to dive into icy water on Epiphany Day, seem to have struck a chord with Americans. Some of them, in America and elsewhere, see Russia as the last bastion of true Christianity," the BBC writes.
SLG can neither confirm or deny any increase in penis size after conversion.
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American economist Wolf on how the West miscalculated on two fronts in relation to Russia:
The Russians have a bigger country than the Ukrainians. They have an advantage in human resources, which the Russians are using in this conflict. This alone should have given one pause. But in the age of spying, satellites and other means of intelligence, no one guessed that Russia also has many more missiles and drones.
Even if the situation was different in February 2022, Russia has enormous industrial potential that allows it to increase production. The West miscalculated on two fronts. They underestimated the military potential of the Russians, and they overestimated the impact of sanctions. That is why they lost.
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🇰🇵North Korea calls US Golden Dome missile defense system a security threat:
"The future American missile defense system "Golden Dome" is aimed at the militarization of space, not the defense of the United States, it poses a threat. The United States seeks unipolar dominance. The system is not a "defensive measure" to respond to someone's "threat", but a scenario for a space nuclear war.
Romania’s Calin Georgescu LEAVING politics
‘This stage of the sovereignist movement is…OVER’
REMINDER: Pro-EU forces in Bucharest canceled Goegescu’s win last year, and almost lost to his replacement this month
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⚡️Russia has requested a meeting at the UN in connection with threats to peace and security due to the actions of a number of European states trying to hinder a peaceful settlement of the Ukrainian crisis.
This was reported by the Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN Dmitry Polyansky. The meeting is expected to be scheduled for 17:00 Moscow time on May 30
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Machine guns " Pecheneg " in service with fighters of the mobile air defense group from the special forces " Nomad ".
- Military Informant
Note the widespread use of thermals.
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Ukrainian drone operators now beg Russian drones not to shoot them down
or they’ll be sent to die as infantry
‘PLEASE, no FPV, it’s the last drone, we’ll be transferred to the infantry’
Zelensky's army running out of men fast?
- RT
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38% of the U.S. debt maturity needs to be rolled over into long-term Treasuries by 2026. That is $9 trillion in 2025 alone.
People like Graham simply do not understand the inflationary effects of going after Russian exports especially on commodities where demand is inelastic. The US faces a $1.9 trillion deficit (6.5% of GDP) in 2025. The central bank sets the rate on US short-term debt and raises rates to lower inflation. Meanwhile the long-term borrowing rate also keep increasing (market driven) with weaker demand for US long-term debt.
Right now the greatest threat to the US is itself.
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Imposing 500% tariffs on nations that trade with Russia will backfire - Senator Rand Paul - Responsible Statecraft
While tariffs make wars more likely, embargoes make wars difficult to avoid. Senator Graham’s Sanctioning Russia Act calls for 500% tariffs on dozens of countries and essentially amounts to an embargo.
If this bill were to pass, it would cause an economic calamity on a scale never before seen in our country.
In its insistence that Moscow be a permanent enemy of the US, the foreign policy establishment is pushing to impose more punitive measures on Russia should they refuse to negotiate a peace deal with Ukraine. The Sanctioning Russia Act seeks to inflict a series of additional sanctions and prohibitions of various financial transactions with Russia.
Yet, the most consequential and outright reckless provision of the bill seeks to enact minimum 500% secondary tariffs on countries who trade with Russia. Though the bill seeks to punish Russia, it will also punish America’s allies and even the United States itself. The global policemen in Washington are so incredulous that they cannot force peace between Russia and Ukraine that they formally abandoned even the pretense that their meddling is in America’s interests.
Specifically, the bill directs the President to impose 500% tariffs on all goods and services imported into the US from a country that “knowingly sells, supplies, transfers, or purchases oil, uranium, natural gas, petroleum products, or petrochemical products that originated in the Russian Federation.” This tariff is subject to increase by no less than 500% every 90 days, meaning some countries could face 1,000% tariffs in just a few months.
In response to its invasion of Ukraine, the US and its allies imposed some 16,000 sanctions, froze Russia’s sovereign assets, and implemented a series of severe financial restrictions. As the war wages in its fourth bloody year, it is safe to say that these measures unequivocally failed to alter Moscow’s war aims.
This inevitable failure was, of course, easily predictable to anyone who honestly assessed Russia’s motives for launching the war. The Kremlin views maintaining influence over Ukraine as necessary to prevent Ukraine’s alignment with the West, particularly preventing its efforts to join NATO, as a core national security interest. Countries will go to great lengths to secure what they deem are core interests, and given the tremendous amount of blood and treasure it has expended, Russia is no different.
Dozens of countries continue to trade with Russia directly and indirectly including key strategic allies and even the US itself. In 2024, the US imported $624 million worth of enriched uranium and plutonium directly from Russia. The US, like many other countries, has also seen Russian crude oil imported from third countries who buy Russian oil and then sell it abroad. Are the proponents of this legislation honestly seeking to require the President to enact a 500 % tariff on ourselves?
It would also degrade our relations with several important allies at a time when geopolitics is increasingly volatile. The US should be leveraging its allies now more than ever as we face a myriad of pressing priorities, including an unsustainable $36 trillion national debt. Instead, this misguided legislation would drive many of our allies away and into the arms of other trading partners, including China. The bill certainly will not do anything to convince Russia to sue for peace in Ukraine. Rest assured that Moscow would welcome the US sowing further division with its key trading partners.
Never underestimate Washington’s ability to make things worse. The Sanctioning Russia Act of 2025 will cut off our nose to spite our face. Congress should reject this misguided bill and instead focus its efforts to advance realistic peace negotiations in Ukraine and pursue policies that advance America’s national interests.
The bill lacks credibility. Commodity prices would skyrocket, and the world would have massive inflation. Interest costs would skyrocket.
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South Donetsk direction
To the north of the recently liberated Vostok village of Bogatyr is the village of Alekseevka, where the AFU is entrenched.
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