🇷🇺🇧🇾Lukashenko - about "Oreshnik" and the conversation with Putin about the deployment in Belarus:

We can see this immediately from the statements of the media. You can see, though, that there is no unified line, everything has gone in pieces. This shows that they are a little confused. Well, the weapons are good. Not nuclear weapons, but comparable in power to nuclear weapons. But without penetrating radiation, without contaminating the target area. That's why it had such a strong impact on the so-called "world community", and especially on those who thought that everything would be fine. It won't.
I made a joke to my older brother, I said: "Places of deployment are ready". When? We'll think about it.

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Lowering the age of mobilization is pointless because there are not enough weapons for soldiers, Zelensky's adviser said

▪️"It makes no sense to call on Ukraine to lower the draft age, presumably to draft more people, when we see that previously announced equipment is not arriving on time. Because of these delays, Ukraine does not have enough weapons to equip soldiers already mobilized," Litvin wrote on X.

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The drones are incessant overhead. Amb. Craig Murray reports from Lebanon about the construction of the second largest US embassy in Beirut

@thegrayzonenews

🚨🇺🇸🏦 Trump’s Coming War on BRICS

Pepe Escobar joins #NewRulesPodcast to discuss what Trump 2.0 means for the Global South.

(0:56) Why Trump will go after BRICS
(10:25) Can Trump stop de-dollarization?
(15:40) Rubio and regime change in Latin America
(22:43) Trump and resource colonialism

Russia launched a massive missile attack, backed by drones, on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure on Thursday, leaving millions of people without power, Ukrainian officials said.

“The energy sector is under massive enemy attack again,” Ukraine’s energy minister, Herman Halushchenko, wrote on his Facebook page. The operator of the Ukrainian transmission system “has urgently introduced emergency power outages,” Mr. Halushchenko wrote.

In the western regions of Lvov, Volyn and Rovno, more than a million people were without power, officials said. Further to the east, the city of Zhytomyr in central Ukraine was without power and water. The southern city of Kherson was also without power, as was much of Kiev, the capital.

“Unfortunately, we have to state that in the near future, we will be limited in generating capacity for at least three to four years until we build new ones,” Oleksandr Kharchenko, director of the Energy Research Center.

Keep trying to build more of a domestic defence industry...

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