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The U.S. Department of the Treasury has once again temporarily authorized certain transactions with a number of Russian banks, provided they are related to civilian nuclear energy.
General License No. 115B allows such operations until Dec 19, 2025.
This applies, in particular, to Gazprombank, VEB.RF, Sberbank, VTB, Alfa-Bank, Rosbank, Sovcombank, and others, as well as the Central Bank of Russia and entities that are 50% or more controlled by these institutions.
"Related to civilian nuclear energy" refers to transactions conducted exclusively in support of or servicing projects that were initiated before Nov 21, 2024
It is worth noting that this is not the first such step. A similar directive was issued during Biden’s term. It concerned Gazprombank and was in effect until June 30 — that is, yesterday. Now it has essentially been extended.
Earlier, Hungary reported that the US lifted part of its anti-Russian sanctions to allow Rosatom to complete construction of the Paks nuclear power plant.
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The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund has approved the ninth credit tranche for Ukraine under the EFF program in the amount of $500 million.
This is stated in a statement by the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine.
With reference to IMF Deputy Managing Director Gita Gopinad, it specifies Ukraine's commitment to modernize the customs and tax services (including holding competitions to elect their heads). As well as to strengthen the fight against tax evasion, which, apparently, will result in more intensive inspections by the State Tax Service and tougher fines.
It will just go to repaying the IMF.
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War in Ukraine: Where have the Russian tanks gone? - Le Monde
France notices Russia is using less tanks and far less are being lost, but why is production so high?
The combination of the transparency of the battlefield and the lethality of weapons, made possible in particular by the drone revolution, has produced an inextricable "tactical blockage" that is forcing each belligerent to disperse its forces.
"Every month, the Russian stock of T-90M increases by about twenty units ," summarizes a high-ranking French officer. As for the older "retrofitted" tanks , the Russians are now producing twice as many as the losses, which have fallen to a trend of 500 per year. The total is therefore around 1,500 new tanks (300 new and 1,200 restored), or 1,000 more each year for the duration of the war. Since the beginning of 2025 alone, Russia is said to have set aside at least 500 tanks, including more than a hundred T-90M tanks. "It is very likely that Russia is thus reconstituting a strategic reserve ," concludes our military source.
Recently at the National Assembly, General Thierry Burkhard, Chief of Staff of the French Armed Forces, declared that he feared that Russia, despite a "very complicated" situation, could "hold out five minutes longer than us.” ”We must succeed in breaking the linearity of the battle and prevent a strategic defeat from turning into a victory [for Russia], with the consequences we imagine ," he added, referring to this tactical blockage on the ground. It is true that the Russians are advancing 20 km2 per day, but always in small steps: in-depth maneuvers are impossible at this stage. The danger of a war of attrition is nevertheless that the front will eventually give way, "and we always realize this too late in this type of conflict ," historian Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau, director of studies at the EHESS, explained to Le Figaro , citing the precedent of the First World War. And it is when a localized collapse occurs that tanks can come back into play.
The new head of Ukraine’s National Memory Institute, Oleksandr Alfiorov, says Putin can’t be compared with Hitler because Hitler - he believes - was highly educated and influenced by German philosophy and art (fact check: Hitler didn’t have a university degree).
He also adds that Russians can’t be compared to Germans (of the Holocaust period), because Germans are highly cultured and Russians are worse than Orcs and more like goblins.
Alfiorov is an alumni of the original Azov and of the 3rd detached assault brigade which is controlled by Azov movement’s political leadership. The first neo-nazi in charge of a government institution in Europe, perhaps.
Via Politika Strany
Putin has a law degree and PhD in economics, while Hitler left school at 16. I actually see a few Ukrainians tweeting their disgust that Zelensky would appoint this guy into such a role.
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Peak Gleb Bazov is back. Maurice doesn’t stand a chance now ⚰️
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The 114th Brigade liberated Dachnoye in the Dnepropetrovsk region and broke through 4 km into the region!
➖06/30/2025. The date on which a new chapter begins.
The 114th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 51st Army liberated the settlement of Dachnoye and advanced more than 4 km from the DPR border into the Dnipropetrovsk region, report fighters of the 114th Brigade.
▪️The offensive was ensured by the coordinated work of all elements:
– reconnaissance and UAVs — provided a picture of the situation;
– assault — with minimal losses, with the occupation of advantageous lines;
– artillery — worked preemptively.
▪️The 114th Brigade is developing an offensive in this direction.
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Please remember that every lie can be tracked and checked against appropriate sources. We have a sufficiently laissez-faire approach, but there are firm boundaries, and we do not shy away from “red lines.”
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"Contract 60+ Enough to finally finish building the bathhouse!"
➡️An advertising campaign for the Armed Forces of Ukraine contract for seniors 60+ has begun in Ukraine.
Who is ready to die for 30 thousand hryvnia a month (56 thousand rubles) and free food?
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Part I | Part II
Then the old man himself fell. Face down on his hands, on the table, on the paper. He cried heavily, trembling and sobbing. Clumsily, painfully, just as he had cried the last time. Sixty years ago. That’s how a well-built century-old dam breaks—first the drops, then a flood.
Someone opened the door, peered into the basement, and immediately took a step back, quietly closing the door.
The old man stopped trembling. He wiped his face with his long beard; he sniffled. He crumpled the sheet of paper and wiped the table. Painstakingly, as he had lived, he took the next sheet of paper. He lay it on the slightly damp table, and the paper immediately stuck.
The old man resolutely wrote the same word again:
A Testament.
Iran's Ambassador to Armenia storms out of presser over presence of US-funded media
Only returns after RFE/RL —owned by the US government— exits the room upon his request
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‘About 150,000 Britons to be pushed into poverty by 2030 as a result of welfare cuts’ – Financial Times on Starmer’s priorities.
Cuts to be made to boost spending on NATO and Ukraine.
Starmer is a Labour leader?
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He is jumping the gun, as usual, though unusually lightly.
Comrade Iosif would know what to do with eager beavers.
Поперед батьки в пекло не лезь. 😁
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'We should create a Japan without US military bases' — former Japan PM Hatoyama
He warns that American bases make Japan a target and undermine its sovereignty
Else Japan will find itself dragged into a war with China that the US desires.
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In addition to cruise missiles, the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched kamikaze drones at Donetsk; air defense is operating in the city.
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Destruction of a wheeled 155mm self-propelled howitzer "Bogdana" on a Tatra Phoenix chassis by a fiber-optic FPV drone in the Kharkov region.
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From Ukrainska Pravda:
Almost 56% of Ukrainians are in favour of seeking a solution through compromise with the involvement of international leaders in order to end the war. Almost 17% of Ukranians are in favour of a temporary freeze of the war, and 21.4% want to continue the fight to restore the borders of 1991 or 2022.
According to the survey, 55.7% of Ukrainians are in favour of finding a solution through compromise to end the war, while 16.6% agree to a suspension of hostilities and a temporary ceasefire along the current line of contact.
Brutal murder near Pokrovsk: Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers dealt with a family of Ukrainian volunteers
▪️A Ukrainian soldier told the details of a terrible story from the village of Grishino near Pokrovsk.
▪️At night, people in military uniform broke into the family, first they shot the mother and the dog. The son Vlad tried to hide in the basement, but he was found and after torture and interrogation, he was also killed. They stole a Toyota and cleaned out the house.
▪️The murdered Vlad was engaged in car repair, including Ukrainian Armed Forces cars, the family had a service center and a small shop.
▪️The stolen car was later seen in the Dnipropetrovsk region. The search for the killers continues.
- RVvoenkor
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India to arm Su-30MKI jets with Russian R-37M hypersonic missiles—Mach 6 speed, 300km range — DNA
According to the newspaper, the IAF may also integrate them into MiG-29s, with local production and tech transfer offered by Moscow
Nice! Should have ordered them way before mind you.
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Footage of North Korean fighters and commanders who participated in the liberation of the Kursk region.
The demonstration took place during a joint event dedicated to the first anniversary of the conclusion of the Treaty on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between Russia and the DPRK.
Moments were also shown of Kim Jong-un meeting the coffins with North Korean servicemen who died in battles with the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region.
Juche 4 life
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Ukrainians in the "occupied" territories are looking for excuses to stay there.
This was stated by the representative of the Ministry of National Unity Yulia Lysenko.
Answering the question whether the Ministry of National Unity will help such people, she said that first of all they should want to leave for Ukraine.
But, according to her, residents of the new regions of Russia do not have such a desire.
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Ukraine and the EU have agreed on new trade conditions to replace the "visa-free trade regime," Reuters reports.
The publication, citing European Commissioner Maros Sefcovic, writes that the new version of the agreement "establishes a long-term, prospective and mutually beneficial framework that will benefit exporters, businesses and farmers on both sides, and strengthen Ukraine's path to EU membership."
It is reported that the agreement, in particular, contains Ukraine's commitment to gradually bring its agricultural production standards closer to EU standards by 2028, in line with its EU accession goals.
Recall that the EU decided not to extend the "visa-free trade regime" with Ukraine after it expired on June 5 and returned to the pre-war conditions.
Ukrainian agricultural production would crush Polish and French farmers and is the central reason I doubt Ukraine will be part of the EU.
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“Nikita” is banned for life from the Chat and the Channel, without recourse, for knowingly spreading malicious propaganda and lies.
I do not take such steps lightly, but this measure is always available is appropriate circumstances.
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The weekend of heavy strikes brought Poland to a panic and they scrambled their own air force in response.
Debate is out whether this is a masochistic signal for, “Hit us too, daddy” or a wave to Zelensky, “Shame you lost another F-16, beg us for these ones.”
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Written by Ivan Dobrolyubov, translated by G😏B
Part I | Part II
The Man Who Knew Gold
The boy looked around and cautiously entered the pawnshop.
A gaze met him. The very one that the boy had been waiting for and the one that he feared. A silently questioning and understanding gaze. A gaze that immediately evaluated the small clenched fist.
The gray-bearded old man made a welcoming gesture without saying a word. It was impossible to tell if he was smiling or frowning beneath all the layers of his beard.
The boy approached the counter and took a gold ring from his clenched hand with his other hand. The boy placed the ring on the table and began to speak, quickly slipping into a hurried, bouncing speech of someone apologizing for a mistake.
The antiquarian old man took a magnifying glass and began to examine the ring carefully.
—This came to me from my grandfather. Well, I mean, he’s still pretty solid—he can walk on his own—he just gave it to me. He gave it to me, yes...
The man who lived in his pawnshop had once been a boy too. He listened half-heartedly, unhurriedly mulching in his mind his slow gray thoughts.
Old, but not antique. A man’s ring, with a broad seal. Naturally, there was nothing on the mirror of the seal. No doubt, it really was a gift, not something that had been stolen. The grandfather must be quite old—a man who understands that a personal seal isn’t something that his heir is ready for. Or maybe never will be. But time spares no one, and he has decided to give a symbol of his dynasty to a naive young man. While he still could. Looks like he is not going to see one. Nor will I... Time won’t spare me either. No grandchildren to carry on my legacy...
The boy kept chattering about his grandfather with words stolen from a banal school essay, all the while stupidly stuffing his hands into his pockets and looking around in embarrassment. And then, all of a sudden, he fell deafeningly silent.
A tear ran down the old man’s cheek.
A few seconds of silence was enough—one stern look over his beard, a dozen words, and a few bills turned over as payment. The piercing joy of the boy was paralyzing, as he palmed the temptingly beautiful banknotes clearly for the first time.
The grandfather looked at the screen to his left. The young man swiftly slipped out from the basement and was immediately attacked by a gleeful gaggle of friends. They cheered noisily, and the whole gang rushed immediately to the kiosk across the street.
The man did not have the strength to move. Time, the passage of which had become so ruthless in recent years, finally seemed to have lost its cruel power. He simply sat and watched.
Teenagers ran out of the kiosk holding bottles of soda and chips. They argued about where to go next and then ran along somewhere, off to the their next target.
The old man forced himself to look away the screen. He took a ring from a dusty drawer. There, in that exile, lay things that one could immediately tell no one would come for. They would wait a whole year for the obvious and only occasionally return to their owners. This was the fate awaiting the ring with the empty stamp — a year in a dark drawer…
I wonder, could I raise a grandson? Through and despite my son? To raise him to be wise, prudent, foresighted? So that he would accept an unmarked family seal and make it his own? Raise him to be unlike the boy who had just left, who’s already old enough to have his own children, and yet behaves like a sparrow. He doesn't know life. He has no clue what he had inherited from his grandfather. When I was his age, I was completely different. I did everything right. I knew the value of things. I knew the value of people. Of people...
The gray old man sat motionless with the ring in his hand. Even his slow gray thoughts seemed to have completely stopped.
A tear fell onto the hand beside the ring.
The pawnshop owner put the gold ring away in the drawer. With a habitual gesture, he took a piece of paper and a pen. He wrote a word in large letters on it.
Another drop fell onto the paper. Then another.
Hunting for Ukrainian 155-mm wheeled self-propelled guns 2S22 "Bogdana" in the area of the village of Shakhovo between Pokrovsk and Konstantinovka (first video) and near the village of Andreyevka in the Kharkov region (second video).
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Iran’s civilization ‘hundreds of times’ RICHER ‘than that of America’ — Supreme Leader Khamenei
Talk of Tehran’s surrender ‘ABSURD’
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Trump to sign EXECUTIVE ORDER lifting sanctions on Syria — CBS News
The US announced it would be taking the decision last month, with sanctions lifting occurring alongside Syrian-Israeli normalization process
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'Disappointed that justifications for Hiroshima and Nagasaki are still being made in the US' — former Japan PM Hatoyama
He adds that still no one in the US apologized for the atomic bombings
Trump comparing bombing of Hiroshima similar to the bombing of Iran was pretty tasteless.
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The enemy is attacking Lugansk: explosions and gunfire are heard
▪️The army is repelling an attack by enemy attack drones.
▪️There are several fires.
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