🔸 BRITISH COUNCIL EXPOSED: SOFT POWER & SPY TOOL

🔸 Russian Foreign Intel veteran untangles spider’s web of British soft power ops

🔸 US pivot to Middle East leaves Ukraine up a creek without a paddle on drone defense

🔸 Ukraine’s intelligence is involved in preparing and supporting terrorists in Mali

🔸 Cracks in dollar’s armor? Big investors BETTING AGAINST the US

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🚨📹 NOW: Israeli air forces launched a series of strikes on southern Beirut.

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🤡 Nazi CONMAN with a rap sheet: Zelensky’s drone chief pick

Zelensky just handed command of an official Ukrainian Armed Forces unit – the Unmanned Systems Forces - to a conman and unapologetic Nazi - Robert Brovdi.

Why does Brovdi fit the bill?

From conman to commander

Robert Brovdi’s entire “business” career was a mix of scams, cons, and shady dealings, claim media reports:

Shadow deals under his watch as head of state "Bread Investbuda" are estimated to have drained hundreds of millions of dollars

🔸 In 2013, while First Deputy Chairman of Ukraine’s State Food and Grain Corporation (SFGCU), he oversaw a $1.5B grain deal with China. Up to $800M vanished in fake sales

🔸Kickbacks and shady schemes with fake companies allowed him to rake in roughly $100 million

🔸 Brovdi is said to be a dollar millionaire without official income to justify it, and holds a Canadian passport

Birds of a grifter

🔸 In 2022, Brovdi joined Ukraine’s Territorial Defence Forces (TDF), but trench warfare wasn’t to his taste, so he launched “Madyar’s Birds” drone unit

🔸 He used crowdfunding funds for his drone unit to purchase fewer UAVs than reported, pocketing "hundreds of thousands of dollars," per media reports

Toxic lies & rants

🔸 Brovdi’s unit was caught on video supposedly using banned chemical weapons, attaching red cylinders to drones

🔸 He fuels hate online, calling Russians “insects” and faking combat footage to boost his myth and his budget

🔸 Brovdi openly admits he plans to flee abroad with his "brothers" the moment active fighting ends

If this choice of fraudster doesn’t scream volumes about the regime, what does?

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💥 US sanctions ICC judges for targeting US and Israeli nationals

The US State Department says the move aims to sanction 4 individuals who attempted to prosecute a protected person without the consent of their country of nationality.

"The ICC’s baseless and politicized targeting of America and our close ally Israel must end," wrote Secretary of State Marco Rubio on X.

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📹 IDF reports strikes on Hezbollah facilities in Beirut

Israeli forces claimed to have struck UAV production sites used by the Hezbollah Aerial Unit in southern Beirut.

🇱🇧 Lebanese President Joseph Aoun expressed "firm condemnation of the Israeli aggression" that took place "on the eve of a sacred religious festival."

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🥴 'That was not a pleasant day for you' —Trump to Merz on D-Day

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz joined in the Trump's gaslighting by saying that the US ended the war in Europe without mentioning the Soviet Union's role.

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🚨 Russian air defenses shot down 9 Ukrainian drones approaching Moscow overnight, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin stated

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🚀 SpaceX will decommission Dragon, Musk says, then pulls back

The capsule, which was made with the help of US subsidies, plays a key role in delivering US astronauts to the International Space Station.

It's the same capsule that saved the Starliner crew in March.

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❗️ The White House is ANGRY with Ukraine's drone strikes on Russia and is weighing whether TO ABANDON KIEV COMPLETELY, The Atlantic reports, citing US officials.

The surprise Ukrainian attack has reignited Trump's long-held displeasure with Zelensky. The US president believes Ukraine should have focused on the Istanbul negotiations.

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🚨Locomotive derails in Russia's Belgorod region after tracks likely BLOWN UP

Part of the railway track was damaged, the traffic is delayed, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said.

There are no casualties, he added.

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🇷🇺💣Russia's success in ammo production is "staggering" – NATO Chief

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has admitted that Russia has gained superiority over the Atlantic alliance in arms production.

Russia now “produces, in core ammunition, in three months what the whole of NATO — a bloc with a 25-times larger economy — produces in a year,” Rutte emphasized during a press conference following a NATO defense ministers meeting.

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🌍🤝Global South, East states seek to expand cooperation with Russia DESPITE WESTERN PRESSURE

"The results of the conference once again proved that the countries of the Global South and East are seeking to expand cooperation with Russia, despite the pressure on them from the West. In this regard, the partners unanimously noted the importance of holding our conferences in the future," Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council Alexander Venediktov told Sputnik.

The international security meeting in Moscow was attended by 126 delegations from 104 countries.

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📉 DOLLAR’S LOSING ITS GRIP

The dollar was headed for a weekly loss, undermined by signs of fragility in the US economy, Reuters reports.

✅ Trade talks with China lack progress
✅ Trump-Xi phone call offered little, if any, clarity on the future of the trade talks
✅ Tariff burden on US economy goes insane

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▫️ MUSK AND TRUMP'S BEEF HEATS UP

▫️ US angry with Ukraine's drone strikes on Russia

▫️ Israeli air forces strike southern Beirut

▫️ Trump's tariffs threaten Germany's economy — Merz

▫️ Nazi CONMAN with a rap sheet: Zelensky’s drone chief pick

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🚨💰Trump-Musk spat: Who has lost MORE CASH?

🗣Trump: ~$1bln (Axios)

▪️The 8% decline in Trump Media & Technology Group cost the president about $202 million
▪️The roughly 10% decline of his Official Trump meme coin, potentially costing him nearly $900 million

🗣Musk: ~$34bln (Bloomberg Billionaires Index)

▪️Tesla shares closed down over 14%, losing about $150bln in market value in the largest single-day decline in value in its history

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✈️📈Trump’s pricey gift just got PRICIER: Upgrading Qatari Boeing will cost top dollar

Retrofitting a Qatari luxury Boeing 747 jetliner to serve as Donald Trump's Air Force One will cost around $400 million, Air Force Secretary Troy Meink told US lawmakers.

🔎What’s driving the hefty price tag?

Experts say the aircraft will need extensive security upgrades, including advanced communication systems to block eavesdropping and sophisticated defenses to detect and counter incoming missile threats.

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🔥Russia seizes NEW TROPHIES in Sumy

Russian 22nd Motorized Rifle Regiment HUMILIATES Ukrainian militants, seizing their wrecked foreign hardware at the border.

Among the captured trophies were:

🔶two M1 Abrams tanks,
🔶two International MaxxPro armored personnel carriers,
🔶one Stryker armored fighting vehicle,
🔶one Challenger armored recovery vehicle

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