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⚡Russian Navy ships arrived in Alexandria, Egypt to conduct exercises with Egyptian Navy. Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Blinken also arrived in Egypt today, where he met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
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⚡Plane carrying Malawi's Vice President (VP) Saulos Chilima went off the radar and cannot be tracked, search and rescue operations underway.
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⚡Hamas Movement: We need money and weapons from our Arab brothers in order to achieve immediate victory over the occupying enemy.
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⚡Hezbollah just shot down another Hermes 900 which is Israel's most advanced UAV. Israel's arsenal is believed to contain 20-30 such drones and Hezbollah has neutralized 3 of them.
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⚡IDF has lost yet another Hermes-900 UAV. The unit cost of the Hermes 900 UAV is in the range of $10 million to $20 million.
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⚡Hezbollah just shot down another IDF UAV over Lebanon.
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⚡RUSSIA'S DEFENCE MINISTRY: RUSSIAN, EGYPTIAN WARSHIP TO HOLD JOINT DRILLS - TASS |
⚡University of Helsinki suspended their student exchange program with Israeli universities.
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⚡Taliban has sold 130,000 tons of crude oil extracted from the Amu River in the past 10 days, the crude oil was sold for $71.6 million to a domestic trader for processing - state media
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⚡European election results in Germany. Time passes, but Germany continues to be divided.
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⚡Cyprus' voters have elected 24-year-old YouTube star Fidias Panayiotou, best known for audacious comedy clips and prank videos, as an independent to the European Parliament.
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⚡Helicopters belonging to Israeli Rescue Unit 669 land in a number of hospitals after the difficult security incident in Rafah. |
⚡Lavrov at BRICS: The transition to a new world order will take a whole historical epoch, and it will be thorny, as the US is trying to slow down the formation of multipolarity, using trade as blackmail. |
⚡Shoigu held a working meeting with Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vulin, reports the Russian Security Council. Shoigu and Vulin discussed countering Western countries' interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states. |
⚡South Korea says North Korea is installing its own loudspeakers along the border - AP |
⚡200,000 CHILD MARRIAGES IN THE U.S - SOME AS YOUNG AS 10 YEARS OLD More than 200,000 children were married in the US over the past 15 years, averaging nearly 14,000 per year. Girls as young as 10 years old were among the minors who wedded under legal loopholes. 87% of these child marriages involved girls, often to much older men. Efforts to ban child marriage face resistance due to religious customs, such as in New Jersey where Governor Chris Christie vetoed a bill, citing conflicts with religious practices.
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⚡Serbia supplied arms to Israel during Gaza war. — Seven Israeli Air Force flights from Serbia were identified between October 2023 and May 2024, coinciding with a spike in Serbian arms exports to Israel worth 15.7 million euros. — The arms shipments occurred despite international calls, including from UN experts, to halt weapons sales to Israel due to potential violations of international humanitarian law in Gaza. — The types of weapons Serbia might be selling include artillery shells, mortar mines, aerial bombs, and small-caliber ammunition. — Note that Israel has not recognized the Srebrenica massacre as genocide.
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⚡Gazprom has entered into contracts with Kazakhstan to facilitate the transit of gas to Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. The agreements were formalized during a signing ceremony at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), TASS reported. In addition to the transit contracts, Gazprom secured an agreement to supply gas to both the northern and southern regions of Kyrgyzstan. This move is part of Gazprom's broader strategy to enhance energy cooperation within Central Asia. A notable component of the agreements is the action plan signed by Gazprom and Kazakhstan. This plan aims to prepare the Central Asia-Center pipeline system for increased transportation of Russian gas to Uzbekistan, aligning with Gazprom's long-term vision for energy distribution in the region.
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⚡Russia's Gazprom secures long-term export contracts to Kyrgyzstan |
⚡Iranian media report that a decision was announced at SPIEF to export Russian coal to India by rail through Iran along the North-South transit corridor and then by sea to the Indian port of Mumbai. More than 75% of India’s electricity generation came from coal. Over the year, Russia increased coal supplies to India by 200%, becoming one of the three largest energy suppliers after Australia and the United States. The BRICS countries, and those who want to become part of this association, are actively developing logistics connections, which in the future will leave the West behind. This applies to both the North-South ITC and the Chinese New Silk Road project, which is part of Xi’s larger concept of the “Community of Shared Destiny.”
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⚡Ukrainian draft dodgers continue to invent new ways to avoid mobilization. This time they broke through the border with Hungary in a GAZ-66 with military license plates. There were 32 evaders in the car, and they were detained by the Hungarian police. They will be granted temporary political asylum.
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⚡The irrecoverable losses of Ukraine on the front have exceeded half a million people, stated former Prime Minister of the country Mykola Azarov. "The irrecoverable losses of Ukraine on the front have exceeded half a million people. The point of no return is a million people. It's not that far from this figure, as some might think. It's precisely after this figure that Ukrainians won't be able to recover on their own," he wrote on Telegram.
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⚡Senior Russian Lawmaker Says F16 Jets And Their Bases Beyond Ukraine Will Be Legitimate Goals For Russian Forces If They Take Part In Combat Missions - RIA |
⚡In Europe, parties that oppose aid to Ukraine have strengthened their positions. French President Macron stated this. This is how he commented on the dissolution of the French parliament - after the loss of his party in the elections to the European Parliament. According to him, “everywhere on the continent, far-right parties have strengthened their positions, which in recent years have opposed the progress ensured by Europe, be it economic recovery, joint defense of European borders, support for farmers or assistance to Ukraine.” “The main result of the elections is clear. This is not the best result for parties that defend European integration, including the presidential camp in France,” the French president added.
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⚡Chinese drone penetrated into Taiwan’s Kinmen and airdropped propaganda leaflets on June 8. The main message in the text was that “China cannot be divided into parts, reunification is a great matter of time.” Kinmen is about 10 km east of the city of Xiamen in Fujian, China, separated from Taiwan by the Taiwan Strait.
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⚡Bilateral meeting of the foreign ministers of Russia and China “on the sidelines” of the BRICS Foreign Ministers’ Conference in Nizhny Novgorod.
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⚡The Swiss government doubts that any success will be achieved at the Swiss Ukraine Peace Summit. Therefore, Switzerland wants more peace summits in the future.
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⚡The Czech Republic will train 4 thousand Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers on its territory. The country does not plan to send its military instructors to Ukrainian territories, since it is in actual proximity to Ukraine. Czech Defense Minister Jana Chernokhová said that the Czech government is ready to train another four thousand Ukrainian military this year, using its instructors and training centers. She noted that the specific figure and timing will depend solely on the pace of mobilization in Ukraine. |
⚡Taliban recently repaired large quantity of vehicles from the former Afghan National Army (ANA). T-62 tanks, MaxxPro MRAPs, and M1117 armored vehicles.
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WrriterNg:Lavrov looks like a genuinely funny and jovial person. People are always happy and laughing around him. Can't be the only one that has noticed that. |
⚡Some F-16 fighter jets received by Ukraine from Western countries "will be stationed at air bases abroad", Serhii Golubtsov, the commander of the Ukrainian Air Force, says. This will be done, among other things, to prevent planes from becoming “targets” at Ukrainian bases. They will serve as a reserve in case of repair work and replacement of faulty fighters.
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⚡Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Foreign Minister of Egypt Sameh Shoukry hold a meeting ahead of the BRICS Ministerial in Nizhny Novgorod on June 10.
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