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🇺🇸 Ukrainian M2A2 Bradley BMP was hit and abandoned... Sad story for US military-industrial complex🇺🇦 Subscribe for Where it's hot|Geopolitics

🔢The 1st use of a kamikaze maritime drone in the SMO zone by Russian troops🚤 ▪️The project of the "There Beyond the Mists" has finally reached success; the USV is assembled in the Tula Region with the support of the regional government. ▪️ Declared range: up to 250 km in basic load (larger tanks can be installed). Explosive volume: 250 kg (in the video). ▪️ Equipped with modern satellite modules and inertial navigation system based on compass deflection. Subscribe for Where it's hot|Geopolitics

🇺🇸US hikes tariffs on an array of Chinese imports🇨🇳 U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday unveiled a bundle of steep tariff increases on an array of Chinese imports including electric vehicle (EV) batteries, computer chips and medical products, risking an election-year standoff with Beijing in a bid to woo voters who give his economic policies low marks. China immediately vowed retaliation. Its commerce ministry said Beijing was opposed to the U.S. tariff hikes and would take measures to defend its interests. The United States imported $427 billion in goods from China in 2023 and exported $148 billion to the world's No. 2 economy, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, a trade gap that has persisted for decades and become an ever more sensitive subject in Washington. Subscribe for Where it's hot|Geopolitics

🏁💬🇷🇺 Russia poses the biggest threat to NATO - Lieutenant General Charles Costanza, Commander-in-Chief of the V Corps of the U.S. Army. Subscribe for Where it's hot|Geopolitics

US, France are fleeing to the last bastion of ‘Françafrique’ The US and France, having been kicked out of much of the African Sahel, including Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad, are fleeing to Côte d'Ivoire, aka the Ivory Coast, and Senegal which are among the few remaining places on the continent where French influence still holds significant sway.

“Very few people thought they [US] were going to go there because Côte d'Ivoire is the place [and] is sort of one of the two most important countries, with Senegal, where the French or what's called "Françafrique" is still very strong,” Koffi Kouakou, an Africa analyst and senior research fellow at the Center for Africa-China Studies at the University of Johannesburg told Sputnik’s Fault Lines.

Kouakou also noted that the US submarine deal reportedly angered French officials, making them feel “a little bit suspicious” of the US. The US has been in Niger since 2012, setting up bases there ostensibly to support the government’s fight against terrorism. Since the US entered Niger, instances of terrorism in the Sahel exploded from less than 200 incidents in 2011 to more than 800 incidents in 2021.

“French troops weren’t any help with [fighting terrorism],” international relations and security analyst Mark Sleboda told Fault Lines, “Or the Americans, it must be said.”

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🇺🇦Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba gave an interview to the US Foreign Policy❗️ 💬 Russian military efforts are more effective than Western ones. 💬 Half of Ukraine's energy infrastructure has been destroyed. 💬 Russian ballistic missiles cause the most serious problems. 💬 American aid has not yet arrived in Ukraine and it is not clear when it will arrive. 💬 Before the arrival of American weapons, Ukraine may lose some more territory. 💬 Western countries always delay arms deliveries. 💬 After the conference in Switzerland negotiations between Russia and Ukraine may start in any format. It is impossible to end hostilities without negotiations between the participants. Subscribe for Where it's hot|Geopolitics

🇮🇹🇺🇦The first available image from Ukraine of an Italian Puma 6x6 wheeled armored vehicle (light armored personnel carrier) destroyed near Belogorovka (video). The transfer of Italian Puma vehicles to Ukraine was not reported earlier. Subscribe for Where it's hot|Geopolitics

🇺🇦🇫🇲 😐 "NOT TOO LATE FOR UKRAINE TO PREVAIL" - NATO CHIEF (00:22): Stolty jumps up and down like hyperactive toddler as he attempts to convince everyone that chucking cash at Ukraine best option for West 'cause otherwise they'd have to spend even more:

Biggest risk is if President Putin wins and biggest cost is if Russia wins in Ukraine. Then we speak about much bigger amounts of money that NATO allies have to invest in our security - Stoltenberg claims (00:01).

NATO leader's parroting baseless fearmongering claim that Russia will attack NATO when if Kiev loses - he's gotta stoop real low to try and get bloc's members to continue flushing cash down toilet that is Zelensky's junta. Boost us here! @IntelRepublic

🇺🇸 The United States put pressure on Kiev over the mobilisation law — The New York Times According to the article, Washington demanded that Kiev resolve the mobilisation issue because the country's mobilisation efforts were as critical to stabilising the front and turning the tide of the war as artillery supplies. t.me/ukraine_watch

🇺🇦Ukrainian resources report that the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Umerov and the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Bargilevich took part in the ceremony of handing over 40 armored vehicles of a new production of the Kyiv NPO "Praktika" to the 225th separate assault battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - 15 Kozak-2M1 vehicles and 25 Kozak-5 vehicles. Subscribe for Where it's hot|Geopolitics