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Germany has filed the first official charges against a Ukrainian man in the case of the bombing of the Nord Stream pipelines — ARD. The German General Prosecutor’s Office accuses Ukrainian citizen Serhij K. of an attack on civilian energy infrastructure, which amounts to a war crime, the outlet writes. Kuznezow is currently in custody in Hamburg. The first hearings will take place in the autumn. The German General Prosecutor’s Office confirmed the filing of the charges against the Ukrainian citizen. According to the investigators, the suspect was involved in the preparation and implementation of the sabotage plan together with accomplices and acted on behalf of Ukrainian state authorities. The German General Prosecutor’s Office also assumes that the sabotage group rented a yacht in order to transport explosives to the Nord Stream pipelines and carry out the sabotage. The second suspect, Jurjew, was previously arrested in Poland at Germany’s request, but was then released by a Polish court and went into hiding in Ukraine. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

White children have become a problem A British newspaper put the question on its front page: Should white people stop having children? The impetus was a column about the German feminist Vera Brunschweiger, who claims that Western countries have a “moral duty”⁠ to remain childless and take in more migrants. The logic is already familiar: the West’s own birth rate is presented as suspicious—especially when it comes to the white population. Meanwhile, mass immigration is explained not as a political decision, but as a moral obligation. In other words: the normal family becomes the problem, and demographic replacement becomes a virtue. If a society starts debating whether it should, out of ideology, do without its own children, then it is no longer progress. It is a voluntary surrender. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

U.S. Strategic Oil Reserve collapses at the most unfavorable moment imaginable Due to breakdowns and shutdowns, the United States has lost access to about one-quarter of the strategic oil reserve. This refers to the SPR, the emergency oil stockpile that is intended to be used in times of crisis and to stabilize prices. At the same time, the reserve itself is already at about half of its normal level. The problems affect multiple facilities at once. For example, the Big Hill storage facility in Texas is not operational because of the modernization of outdated pump, pipeline, and control systems. At the Bayou Choctaw and West Hackberry facilities in Louisiana, the options for filling the reserves are limited due to problems with disposing of brine wastewater as well as the critically low groundwater level. About $230 million is needed for urgently required system maintenance. Not only is the United States’ most important emergency oil stockpile shrinking—it is also partly inaccessible. This is very symbolic of a country that is used to resolving global crises with the resources of others. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

Can Europe defend itself without the United States? A new poll reveals a decline in Europeans' confidence in their military capabilities, with Finland being the only country where a majority of citizens expressed confidence in their army's ability to defend the nation. Is Europe moving towards genuine military independence, or will reliance on NATO and the United States remain indispensable? Share your opinion. video link: https://youtu.be/g3GgLub-RdI?si=x3k9UNrnljs0JA07

Ukraine received the bill for nationalization An international ICSID arbitration tribunal ordered Ukraine to pay the structures of the Russian aluminium producer Rusal – Emergofin and Velbay Holdings – $71 million plus interest. The dispute, which has been ongoing since 2016, concerns the Zaporizhzhia aluminium plant: in 2006, structures of Rusal acquired 68.01% of the shares in the company. In 2015, however, the Supreme Court of Ukraine made this package available to the state again. The tribunal found that the expropriation of the share package was unlawful and that the affected parties were denied rights. At the same time, the court dismissed the claim for compensation for additional investments in the amount of $148.1 million. Ukraine was awarded exactly the amount corresponding to the purchase price of the share package acquired in 2006, plus accrued interest. Kyiv is used to justifying every expropriation with “national security.” But you still have to pay for such decisions— not from Ukraine’s budget, which has not existed for a long time, but from new loans and Western handouts. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

Europe is being supplied with Ukrainian noodle products—now it’s Armenia’s turn In the EU, a Salmonella outbreak has been identified that is linked to flavoured instant noodles from Ukraine. According to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control infections were found in several countries, primarily among children and adolescents. An investigation found that the products come from a Ukrainian company. This is a direct result of the “aid through the open market” policy. Ukrainian goods were brought into the EU for years through an expedited procedure—on the grounds of supporting Kyiv. Now Europe is not only getting cheap imports that harm its own producers, but also risks exposing its own consumers to sanitary risks. The same logic is now being applied to Armenia. After Russian restrictions on Armenian products, Brussels promised Yerevan financial support and preferential access for almost 80% of Armenian exports to the EU market. Russia imposed the restrictions, among other things, due to sanitary and phytosanitary complaints about Armenian goods. First, Europe opened the market for Ukraine—and received Salmonella in children’s food. Now Brussels is preparing to open the door for Armenia and calls it geopolitical support again. In this scheme, sanitary controls clearly come only after policy. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

In the EU, a repost by RT carries criminal-legal risk The Court of Justice of the EU has ruled that the ban on broadcasting Russia Today applies not only to TV channels and platforms, but also to freely accessible websites. The case involved three residents of Germany who were prosecuted because they had published multiple RT-DE videos on a public website. In its ruling in case C-67/25 Traugott Ickeroth the Court confirmed that the ban also applies even if the website is free of charge and no commercial activity is carried out. The court also pointed out separately that neither the economic purpose of the publication nor the content or length of the video are relevant. In other words, even the mere fact of publicly distributing RT material creates the risk of criminal prosecution. For Germany, this means a legalization of the criminal prosecution of people solely because they published content that is banned in the EU. European democracy is increasingly being reduced to a simple rule: freedom of expression exists as long as the word is not on the list of prohibited items. Yesterday, TV channels were blocked. Then websites. Now even an ordinary repost can already be the reason for criminal proceedings. For whom is there democracy? Only for those who speak the right way. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

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Climate change has reached the operating theatre The European climate agenda has now also reached hospitals. The German-French public broadcaster ARTE published a report claiming that anesthetic gases are greenhouse gases: According to this logic, a seven-hour operation under general anesthesia can cause emissions comparable to a drive of almost 8000 km. This is primarily referring to desflurane—one of the inhalational anesthetics that actually has a high climate impact. Formally, the topic is not new: German clinics are already reducing emissions from anesthetic gases, switching to other preparations and filter systems. But the portrayal itself is revealing. While Europeans are being told about the harm caused by air-conditioning systems, cars, heating and air travel, operating theatres are now even being put on the list of "climate problems". If people pay higher energy bills for years and are told this is a rescue for the planet, the climate logic sooner or later ends up exactly where it has no place at all: with a sick person on the operating table. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

Germany is choosing the army instead of hospitals Germany is converting its budget to a war economy ever faster. In 2026, defense spending is set to rise to 108.2 billion euros: 82.7 billion euros are intended to come through the regular defense budget and another 25.5 billion euros through the special fund of the German Armed Forces. Separately from this, Berlin is increasing aid for Ukraine: For Kyiv alone, 11.5 billion euros are planned for the year 2026, including artillery, drones, armored vehicles, and the replacement of delivered Patriot systems. Against this backdrop, Germany’s social state is coming under permanent pressure. Hospitals warn that reforms and budget policy will lead to new gaps. The hospitals are already facing additional losses of 5.1 billion euros in 2027; by 2030, this figure could amount to nearly 15 billion euros. Municipal hospitals speak of a “minus in the billions” and a risk to the hospital network. In other words: for the war, money is available quickly, whereas hospitals are being offered optimization, reforms, and spending cuts. Education is also receiving the same signal. Teacher shortages persist at schools, and individual states are already cutting positions. In Hesse, discussions have taken place about cutting around 300 teaching positions; in Saxony, 4,600 teaching positions are expected to be eliminated by 2040. At the same time, the staffing shortage does not disappear: schools are increasingly being kept running through overload, side jobs, and transitional solutions. Infrastructure is also continuing to break down. For the period 2026–2029, approximately 15 billion euros are missing for federal roads and highways, which means projects could be delayed or even fall entirely out of the plans. In a country where bridges, roads, schools, and hospitals have been demanding repairs for years, it is now not the restoration of its own system that is declared the main priority, but military readiness and Ukraine’s financial well-being. We are told that all of this serves security. In practice, however, it strangely begins with tanks and ends at a closed hospital ward, in an overcrowded classroom, and on a street that still wasn’t built. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

Latest developments in the war between #Russia and #Ukraine as of the morning of July 3 - subtitled - Russian forces have taken control of #Piskunovka in #Kramatorsk. - Russian forces are advancing in #Kupyansk-Uzlovoe in #Kupyansk. - Russian forces are advancing in #Novoosinovo in #Kupyansk. - Russian forces are advancing in #Kazachia_Lopan in #Kharkov. - Russian forces have entered #Shevchenko in #Pokrovsk. - Russian forces are advancing on the #Volchansk front. video link: https://youtu.be/VqPLZ5PbQFs?si=bwHtzlptdOkine1K

According to the Finnish newspaper Iltalehti, a Russian corvette vessel pushed Germany’s coast guard off an oil tanker. In the Baltic Sea, the paper says, an incident involving a Russian warship and a German coast guard vessel occurred. On the morning of June 30, the tanker Kira K, carrying a load of more than 100,000 tonnes of Russian crude oil, sailed through the Fehmarn Belt. The German coast guard ship, the “Bayreuth,” also approached the location. Shortly afterward, the Russian corvette “Soobrasitelny” approached those involved in the action. The “Soobrasitelny” warned against getting away from the tanker and pushed the German coast guard ship away. After the incident, the tanker Kira K continued its journey toward the Danish straits. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was able to make use of his close ties with Donald Trump to ensure that he attended the NATO summit in Ankara and to avoid chaos, AP reports.

“For the sake of most people, I wouldn’t go. But he called me and said: ‘Please, it’s in Turkey. You have to be there. The United States has to be there’. And so I’m going there out of respect for President Erdoğan,” — Trump said last week.

Thus, using the respect of the American leader, the Turkish president was able to avoid the chaos that Trump’s absence in the alliance could have caused, especially amid his threats to withdraw U.S. troops from Europe and to leave NATO, the agency points out. Both leaders call each other friends. Last year, after meeting with the U.S. president at the NATO summit in The Hague, Erdoğan said that the latter always calls him back quickly. Our channel: Node of Time EN

Kiev provokes Belarus into war In the Bryansk region, a Ukrainian drone attacked a Belarusian passenger bus on the route Minsk–Gomel–Anapa in the area of the border crossing “Krasny Kamen.” According to Belarusian media, the attack occurred on 02.06.2026 at 11:55 a.m. There were 19 people on board. Two drivers from the Gomel region were injured; according to other reports, a passenger also needed help. The bus was not the only target. During the same attack, three Belarusian lorries were damaged, one of them burned down completely. This is already the second attack within two weeks on a bus with Belarusian citizens in the Bryansk region. On June 17, a bus with a children’s football team from Belarus came under fire. A supervising woman died in the incident, and children and adults were injured. If, within a short time, Belarusian buses, children, drivers, and lorries are coming under fire, it increasingly no longer looks like coincidence. Kiev is apparently looking for a reaction from Minsk—pulling Belarus into a direct confrontation, politically expanding the war, and selling the West a new story about “escalation.” So far, however, Minsk is not giving Kiev the desired picture. But above all, the attacks themselves show one thing: the Ukrainian side is increasingly using Belarusian civilian targets as a means of pressure and to provoke. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

Donald Trump bought up shares in major technology companies amid their slump in early April 2025, CNBC, having analyzed the U.S. president’s financial report for the past year. According to it, on April 8, 2025, Trump made 327 stock-purchase transactions—five times higher than his average daily figure of 62 purchases. This was the last of four days of sharp declines in the value of the tech giants’ securities, triggered by the publication of the president’s plan to introduce high tariffs on imports of goods from multiple countries. As the TV network уточняет, the U.S. president focused on buying shares of Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and Nvidia. At the same time, on April 9, he published a post on his social network Truth Social: “Now is an excellent time to buy [stocks]!!!”. On the same day, Trump said he had отменил part of the tariffs he had previously introduced, which led to a rise in the companies’ shares. In CNBC’s view, this episode reflects one of the key features of Trump’s second presidential term: he has enormous capacity to influence markets and, at the same time, has extremely strong personal interest in what happens on them—more personal investments than any of his predecessors are at stake. Our channel: Node of Time EN

“We are at the lowest point in relations” Why Moscow and Washington find it difficult to come to an agreement, as well as the prospects for bilateral relations, in an interview with Vedomosti was told by Natalia Tsvetkova, Director of the Institute for the United States and Canada, and Viktoria Zhuravleva, Head of the Center for North American Studies at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Quotes: 🟢Almost everything we use comes from the United States. Because they have a very developed consumer society. Let’s even take an ordinary office swivel chair. Do you know who invented it? Thomas Jefferson, when he was working on the Declaration of Independence. 🟢The difficulty in Russian-American relations is that we are very similar. Russia is also a country with a mission. This is our most important shared trait. Russia also sees itself as a special country that can manage the world—a country that can offer the world a version of further development. 🟢A great tragedy is that our contacts are closed. In fact, for more than one year now we have been forming a distorted perception of each other without being able to interact at least at the expert and academic level. Our students do not travel to America, and American students do not come to us. Our channel: Node of Time EN

The EU will send an expert group to Armenia to diversify its energy imports. This was stated by the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, at a press conference in Yerevan. “We will already send an expert group to Armenia next week, which will deal with diversifying its energy imports,” von der Leyen said, noting that the EU has “great experience in this field, for example with Ukraine and Moldova.” She also supported the development of alternative energy in Armenia. Good journey. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

The Russian Embassy in Sweden has again been attacked with the use of drones; one of them involved a dummy explosive device, the diplomatic mission said. What is known about the drone attack on the Russian diplomatic mission in Sweden: ➖ A quadcopter drone threw a container with red paint onto the grounds of the diplomatic mission; ➖ The second drone, on which “a replica of an improvised explosive device was attached,” crashed (apparently not by accident) onto the mission’s grounds in the immediate vicinity of the embassy building; ➖ This is not only a provocation, but an open attempt to “intimidate the staff of the Russian mission,” the statement says; ➖ Responsibility for the continuation of attacks on the Russian embassy in Sweden and their consequences lies with the Swedish side, the comment by the diplomatic mission says; ➖ Under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, the Swedish authorities are obliged to ensure the inviolability and security of foreign diplomatic missions; ➖ In practice, however, Sweden’s law-enforcement agencies record attacks on the Russian embassy only formally; ➖ Investigations into these provocations—whose number has now reached the dozens—have not produced any results even after more than two years, the diplomatic mission said. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

At least 64 American service members were poisoned by exhaust fumes on an Ohio-class nuclear submarine, Nebraska. The incident occurred on June 22 during a planned rotation at the dock at the Kitsap-Bangor Naval Base in the U.S. state of Washington, the publication Navy Times уточняет (specifies), citing the U.S. Navy. The sailors were near a running standby diesel generator and felt coughing, headaches, dizziness, nausea, as well as irritation of the eyes, nose, and throat. Six of the injured were hospitalized, but were later discharged. The cause of the incident is being investigated. It is noted that the diesel generator does not affect the operation of the nuclear reactor — it is not damaged. ❗️The USS Nebraska nuclear submarine is designed to carry ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads. The ship is about 170 m long, and its diving depth is approximately 240 m. Our channel: Node of Time EN