❗️Our task is to DEFEAT the enemy entrenched in the Kursk region in the SHORTEST possible time - Putin

Vladimir Putin instructed to "give special thought" to the creation of a security zone along the Russian-Ukrainian border.

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⚡️Prisoners taken in the Kursk region should be treated as TERRORISTS - Putin

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❗️Putin reminded that foreign mercenaries are not covered by the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War.

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🔎 Trump’s tariffs reportedly helping US-based foreign steelmakers

Donald Trump’s 25% steel import tariffs have led to a sharp rise in US steel prices, which favors American producers like Nucor and US Steel.

Surprisingly, foreign steelmakers with a strong presence in the US market have also profited from this situation. Namely, the Australian BlueScope and Japanese Yamato Kogyo, as reported by the Financial Times.

Despite the short-term benefits for US manufacturers, experts claim that higher production costs could fuel inflation since steel is critical in the automotive industry.

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📹 Donald Trump said that Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky didn’t seem to want peace before, but now he’s suddenly on board.

"I had somebody that didn't seem to want peace. Now he's agreed to peace. So we'll see what happens."

Quite the turnaround, don’t you think?

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📹 FULL VIDEO: Vladimir Putin visits command point in Russia's Kursk Region

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😂 CNN's Dana Bash CAN'T HELP IT, drops ‘BALLS’ to make Musk smile

💬 "I think at the risk of Elon Musk tweeting about me, because apparently he likes when I say the word ‘BALLS’ on TV, I will say that BALLS and strikes, when you're talking about Steve Bannon, when he calls BALLS and strikes, he calls strikes BALLS and BALLS strikes," CNN's Dana Bash went ALL IN in an attempt to avoid a tweet storm from Elon Musk, seemingly savoring the word "BALLS".

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