Libya: GNU PM Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh is reportedly deploying forces in Tripoli to challenge RADA, which controls Mitiga airport and other key sites.

Russian Foreign Ministry:

Security guarantees for Kyiv should not be a condition for negotiations, but a result.

IDF:

We have begun preliminary operations and the initial stages of the attack on Gaza City.

Kremlin:

Putin does not rule out the possibility of a meeting with Zelensky. But it cannot yet be said that work at the expert level is in full swing.

Nigel Farage:

I am the antidote to the far right.

NEW: India and Japan will facilitate human resources exchange of 500,000 people in next 5 years.

BREAKING: Trump has canceled former Vice President Kamala Harris’ Secret Service protection, effective September 1, 2025.

Zelensky:

Ukraine wants security guarantees from allies to be ratified by the respective parliaments.

NEW: Türkiye says it has completely cut trade with Israel. Turkish ships are banned from Israeli ports, and Israeli planes are denied access to Turkish airspace.

Zelensky:

Ukraine wants Trump to join discussions on security guarantees with allies.

NEW: Pakistan and Armenia agreed to consider establishing diplomatic ties.

Türkiye says Israel has shown it does not want a stable, strong, and united Syria.

"We will not allow Syria’s ancient, valuable communities to be exploited for this distorted goal."

Türkiye stress that "no other country has cut trade with Israel."

Zelensky:

The war will end in one way or another, Putin has nowhere to go.

Zelensky:

Russia has massed “up to 100,000” troops near Pokrovsk, a key city in eastern Ukraine.

Interesting: Ukraine’s anti-corruption bureau (NABU) has launched an investigation into Fire Point, the maker of Flamingo missiles and Fire Point attack drones.

Detectives are examining whether the company inflated component costs or the number of drones supplied to the Defense Ministry.

They are also probing possible ties to Timur Mindich, co-founder of Zelensky’s former Kvartal 95 studio.

Zelensky says the two-week deadline Trump gave Putin expires on Monday.

A new Quinnipiac poll finds Trump’s approval rating at 37%, his lowest of the second term, with 55% disapproval. This marks Trump’s worst approval since January 2021.

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