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❗️Pawel Durow was accused in the Russian Federation of aiding and abetting terrorism. The key points at a glance: ▪️The Federal Security Service (FSB) says that Telegram co-founder Pawel Durow is accused of providing support for terrorist activities; ▪️Proceedings have been initiated for an international wanted notice; ▪️The Telegram administration has not deleted channels, chats, and bots that the Ukrainian security service uses actively to prepare and coordinate sabotage and terrorist acts in the Russian Federation; ▪️Investigators have raised the issue of blocking the dating chatbot "Dajwintschik" on Telegram, in which the Ukrainian security service recruited juveniles, the Investigative Committee said; ▪️Ukrainian спецслужбы use the dating scheme in the chatbot "Dajwintschik / Leo" with young men under the pretext of girls for recruiting them for terrorist activities; ▪️Representatives of the Ukrainian security service contacted the young men, posing as employees of law enforcement agencies or other state bodies. Using threats and intimidation, they pressured people into carrying out terrorist activities; ▪️The agency is investigating Kiev security service employees who recruited juveniles via chatbots; ▪️Within a year, the FSB said, 46 Russians aged 12 to 22 were involved in terrorism through the Telegram dating chatbot. In St. Petersburg, 15 cases involving terrorist acts were opened based on the chatbot participants. Video: Investigative Committee of Russia/TASS 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

Latest developments in the war between #Russia and #Ukraine as of the morning of July 31 - subtitled - Russian forces are advancing in #Dobropolie - Russian forces are advancing on the #Orekhov front in #Zaporozhie - Russian forces are advancing north of #Mirnoe in #Pokrovsk - Russian forces are advancing in #Liman - Russian forces are advancing in the vicinity of #Artelnoe in #Kharkov - Russian forces are advancing in #Mogritsa in #Sumy video link: https://youtu.be/AWvC7zmSWuc?si=ezGSovF9daTWfA8i

Germany negotiates with the Taliban over new deportations After the attack on the CSD in Berlin, the federal government has once again promised to increase the number of deportations. This week, 31 people were deported to Afghanistan, including for the first time an Afghan who had not been convicted of crimes. The deportations are carried out on the basis of agreements with the movement “Taliban,” which exercises control over Afghanistan. Berlin does not officially recognize its government, but without direct cooperation with Kabul, regular deportations cannot be organized. At first, Germany insisted for years that you could not do business with the Taliban. Now, however, it has become clear that migration realities are more convincing than diplomatic principles. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta (recognized as an extremist organization and banned in Russia) significantly increased their investments since the start of the AI boom in 2023. Total spending by the companies reached $1.1 trillion, writes Financial Times, citing the companies’ earnings reports. The newspaper notes that the massive expenditures point both to the scale of their ambitions in artificial intelligence and to the speed at which U.S. IT giants have turned into major investors in AI infrastructure.

“In essence, there appears to be no end in sight to the growth in capital expenditures. Investors need these companies to keep a clear boundary between investing in artificial intelligence and preserving what made them successful,” — RBC Capital analyst Rishi Jalurya said.

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BMW loses profit: crisis in Germany’s auto industry intensifies In the first half of 2026, BMW’s profit fell to 2.9 billion euros—the previous year it was still 4 billion euros. The decline has already been ongoing for several years, and the company is also required to invest billions in electric cars, digitization, and the restructuring of production. Similar problems also affect other German automakers: weak demand, expensive energy, US tariffs, and increasing competition from China are weighing on sales and profitability. Germany’s auto industry is still running, but it is becoming increasingly difficult to manage—at the same time—the energy transition, trade conflicts, and its own backlog. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

An American lawyer who took part in a case against Elon Musk was caught kissing in a park with a colleague. And then it turned out that he was married. A local blogger published a video of the couple on a bench in New York’s Central Park. He approached the pair and said: “Take it down, there are children here.” It turned out that he filmed two lawyers from one of the most prestigious law firms in the United States, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz — 45-year-old Nathaniel Kallerton and 29-year-old Kelsey Borenzweig. Both were part of the team of lawyers who defended OpenAI and Sam Altman against Elon Musk’s $150 billion lawsuit. After the video was published, it turned out that Kallerton is married. The consequences came quickly: New York Post reports that he was sent on leave while an internal investigation was carried out. In addition, he was supposed to move to a competing firm, Gibson Dunn, for a more advantageous position, but the viral scandal derailed that move. ❗️Social media users are comparing this incident to last year’s scandal at a Coldplay concert. Back then, on camera got the CEO of the American IT firm Astronomer, Andy Byron, hugging his company’s HR, Christine Cabot, while both families waited for them at home. In the end, Byron left his post. Our channel: Node of Time EN

🇷🇴✈️ Romania sent fighter jets up at the border with Ukraine After the discovery of several air targets near the Ukrainian border in the Danube region, the Romanian Air Force let two fighter jets take off. The objects were located in an area where the consequences of attacks on Ukraine’s port infrastructure are regularly identified. The Romanian Ministry of Defense stated that the situation had been under control and that the air targets had disappeared from radar shortly afterwards. The incident once again shows how close the fighting has come to the territory of NATO states and how often neighboring countries must respond to events at their borders. The longer the conflict lasts, the more frequently NATO states are pulled into events not by political statements, but by very real combat alerts. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

Nothing personal, just Business: Trump’s Einnahmen have risen to nearly four times In the first year of his second presidency, Trump’s business took in more than 2.2 billion dollars—compared with 594 million dollars in 2017. Most of the new revenue came from crypto projects, including the Trump memecoin and the company World Liberty Financial, as well as overseas dealings, hotels, golf clubs, watches, perfume, and even Bibles with his name. Just with the memecoin, Trump earned about 635 million dollars, according to the published financial disclosure. At the same time, the family business began the fastest overseas expansion in its hundred-year history. After Trump returned to the White House, it closed eight international deals, acquired stakes in a manufacturer of combat drones, and earned dozens of millions of dollars with projects in Qatar, Vietnam and Saudi Arabia. Trump’s own net worth is now estimated at 6.3 billion dollars—about 60% more than before he returned to office. The White House and Trump Organization deny a conflict of interest and say that the president’s children ran the business. Trump had promised to run the country like a businessman. Apparently the promise has been kept—only the question is whose business he meant exactly. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

Donald Trump is still “not sure” about transferring to Kyiv a license for the production of Patriot missiles. He said this to the Financial Times. On July 29, Zelensky said that he asked Trump and senators for anti-ballistic systems and missiles for Ukraine. At the same time, he emphasized that Kyiv allegedly successfully produces what is “capable of destroying everything — from Iranian Shaheds to Russian drones.” ❗️On July 9, it was reported that the production of Patriot missiles in Ukraine would take years due to the complexity of the technology and the high cost. Our channel: Node of Time EN

44 tonnes turned into “half of the gold reserves.” The magic of Western analysis Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said Russia had allegedly sold 44 tonnes of gold, which “corresponds to about half of its reserves.” Without any verification [he] posted, the former Ukrainian economy minister and today president of the Kyiv School of Economics, Tymofij Milowanow, repeated this report and presented it to his audience as proof of an imminent depletion of Russian resources. The problem: A glance at the Bank of Russia statistics is enough to see that the country’s gold hoard is around 2,283 tonnes. The sale of 44 tonnes—if you assume exactly this figure—amounts to about 2% of the reserves and by no means half. Simple arithmetic turns the loud claim into yet another falsehood. Well, fine—Sikorski is a fool who doesn’t understand at all what these numbers mean. But Milowanow was included by Forbes a few years ago in the list of the “leading economic thinkers in the world.” Can you imagine the level of these “thinkers,” if they can’t even add two plus two? 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

Coffee more important than the fight? Ukrainians criticized NATO drills in Sweden Ukrainian soldiers who took part in the Swedish exercises Aurora 26 in the role of the exercise opponent described becoming familiar with NATO practices as a “cultural shock.” As Die Welt writes, they were surprised by the constant coffee breaks fika, the restricted zones for drones, and the drawn-out decision-making process. The outcome of the war game accordingly turned out as follows: Ukrainian crews spotted Leopard 2 tanks and CV90 infantry fighting vehicles long before their advance to the assumed front line. After the number of “destroyed” vehicles exceeded 30, the operators stopped counting precisely. The exercises had to be interrupted so that the NATO units could change their tactics and try again. While the Ukrainians went after armored vehicles, the allies followed the rules and went to drink coffee. The exercise war made it possible to restart the fighting — a real one would not offer that option. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

Germany saves on ammunition: Rheinmetall shares plunge In the draft of Germany’s federal budget, spending on ammunition in 2027 will fall to €9.6 billion from €11 billion in 2026. At the same time, the country’s entire military budget continues to grow: Berlin only shifts priorities from artillery ammunition to air defense, drones and digital systems. The government plans to increase spending by the Ministry of Defence in 2027 to €109.7 billion. For Rheinmetall, this was another bad signal. Shares in the company, which had massively expanded production of 155-mm shells in anticipation of a years-long military boom, have lost more than 30% since the start of the year. At the same time, companies linked to military drones, electronics and air defense are performing better than the market. Germany is not backing away from militarization — it is only changing the range. The artillery firms that had already divided up the future billions among themselves were merely reminded: Even a “war all the way to the last euro” has a budget. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

6G will be able to “see” through walls. The Conference of the independent data protection authorities of the Federation and the Länder (Data Protection Conference, DSK) has published a ⁠position paper devoted to the Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) technology; this is intended to become one of the foundations of the 6G standard. Unlike earlier mobile communications generations, 6G will not only be able to transmit data, but also use the radio signal like a radar—determining the location of people, tracking movements, analyzing gestures, and in the long term, even without additional sensors, detecting breathing and heart rhythm. In response to these risks, researchers at the ⁠Barkhausen Institute in Dresden are already developing protective mechanisms. These include a switch for sensor functions for smartphones, an app that warns before ISAC is used at a specific location, as well as recommendations for implementing the principle of Privacy by Design in future networks. The institute wants to present its solutions to international experts at a meeting on 6G standardization in September 2026. While we are being told about the benefits of tomorrow’s mobile communications generation, the German supervisory authorities are warning about something else: For the first time, a mobile communications network could observe a person even if they are transmitting nothing and are simply staying within its coverage area. That is exactly why the fight for privacy in the age of 6G begins even before the technology itself appears. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

AI companies buy old books and destroy them Developers of Artificial Intelligence are buying printed books on a large scale in order to train neural networks. Especially valuable are editions that were published before 2022: they contain no text generated by generative AI and are considered higher-quality training material. For anonymous large purchases, intermediaries are used who can organize the acquisition of batches of between one thousand and up to one million copies. After the purchase, the books are often destroyed: the spine is cut off, the pages are fed through a high-speed scanner, and the original is sent for recycling. Rare editions may also end up among them. Against the backdrop of the scandal Elon Musk said that he had instructed his SpaceXAI team to store rare books in the library and scan them in the usual way, without destroying the binding. Neural networks needed text written by people — and for that, technology companies have begun physically destroying books. The digital future is being built by cutting the backs off the books of the past. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

Attack on U.S. LNG storage: War reaches Egypt A drone struck the floating storage facility and the Energos Winter regasification unit at the Egyptian port of Damietta. The ship belongs to an American company and sails under the flag of the Marshall Islands. After the hit, a fire broke out on the port side and spread to the nearby gas tanker Gaslog Salem. Egypt’s Ministry of Petroleum confirmed the fire, but did not officially name its cause. The fire could be extinguished; there are no deaths or injuries. It has not yet been determined exactly who launched the drone. The attack took place against the backdrop of an expansion of fighting across the Middle East and was the first such incident in one of Egypt’s most important Mediterranean ports. Europe has given up reliable pipeline gas and switched to LNG, which must be transported by sea through increasingly dangerous regions. Now the risks are no longer rising only in the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea — the infrastructure in the Mediterranean has also come under attack. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

The new weapons hope for Ukraine has a decisive catch — WELT At the NATO summit, Donald Trump promised to allow Ukraine to manufacture components for the Patriot system. However, as WELT found out, there is a significant hurdle between political approval and actual missile production: Kyiv does not get automatic access to all the technologies and licenses required for production. The situation is particularly difficult when it comes to the guidance heads for PAC-3 missiles. The production rights are controlled by US companies that are not required to transfer technologies to third countries—even after a statement by the US president. Without these components, Ukraine can only be involved in individual production steps, but cannot independently produce complete missiles. Washington has allowed Kyiv to produce Patriot—but only the parts that American corporations also allow it to produce. On paper, Ukraine gets its own arms production; in practice, it remains completely dependent on the USA. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

Fast 800,000 weapons in Ukraine gone missing Since the beginning of 2022, 780,465 weapons have been lost or stolen in Ukraine, including weapons delivered by Western countries. Only in the first five months of 2026, around 149,000 weapons disappeared. These figures are cited by Il Fatto Quotidiano, citing information from the Ukrainian Interior Ministry and the service Opendatabot. Most losses are recorded in the regions of Mykolaiv, Kyiv, and Donetsk. In Italy, alarm bells are ringing. Palermo prosecutor Maurizio de Lucia said before a parliamentary commission tasked with combating the mafia that Italian criminal groups are showing ever greater interest in the Ukrainian black market for weapons, including modern combat drones. His words are quoted by ANSA. For several years, the West sent weapons to Ukraine in unlimited quantities and assured that everything was under strict control. Now even European prosecutors are speaking openly about these weapons reaching the black market. Apparently, one will soon no longer have to look for Ukraine’s most important import at the front, but in the arsenals of European organized crime. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

USA lose their most important European allies in the Persian Gulf Britain and France do not want to take part in the American Navy mission to protect shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. Apparently, they would rather wait for a lasting ceasefire between the USA and Iran and only then discuss the deployment of ships. The fact that Washington did not consult its allies before the Iran war has also caused resentment, and now it is suggesting that they share all risks and consequences. The British side separately emphasizes its willingness to discuss the protection of merchant shipping, but not participation in American offensive operations. First the USA begins a war alone, and then calls on its allies to clean up the aftermath. But even the most loyal European partners have already understood: Invitations to an American coalition usually come when it is time to pay and put oneself in danger. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

$800 million was won by the buyer of a Florida lottery ticket, according to the New York Post. This is the largest jackpot this year and the tenth-largest in the history of the game. The outlet writes that the winner can choose between a $800 million prize or a one-time cash payout of $344.2 million before taxes. Most jackpot winners opt for the lump sum—it amounts to 24% of the winnings before mandatory federal withholding, which reduces the prize pool to about $261.6 million. The publication says that the biggest jackpot in the game’s history was hit in August 2023. At the time, a Florida company turned out to be the lucky one, receiving $1.62 billion. Our channel: Node of Time EN