Israel Rejects US Request To Transfer Missiles To Ukraine

"Israel has rejected as US request that it transfer advanced anti-tank missiles manufactured in Germany and based on Israeli technology to Ukraine's forces.

The plan was to use Israel as a third party to "allow Berlin to supply Ukraine with anti-tank missiles produced in Germany with Israeli technology under an Israeli license," the report indicates." ZH

Putin 'underwent successful cancer surgery last week', opposition sources say as he's seen awkwardly twisting his feet again in meeting with ally Lukashenko

"Putin underwent 'successful' cancer surgery last week and is recovering, it has been claimed
in just the latest rumour about the Russian leader's health.  

The 69-year-old underwent an unknown procedure late last Monday following advice from medics that treatment was 'essential', according to Telegram channel General SVR which claims to be getting information from inside the Kremlin.

The news emerged just hours before Putin appeared on state TV meeting with ally Alexander Lukashenko in Sochi, when he was caught on camera awkwardly twisting his feet while the pair sat down for talks.... and comes off the back of rumors that he is suffering Parkinson's." DailyMail

‘Go f**k yourselves’, Zelensky aide tells Western officials

"High-profile Ukrainian presidential adviser Alexey Arestovich has resorted to obscene
language to criticize those in the West urging Kiev to cede part of the country’s territory to Russia for the sake of peace.

“Go f**k yourselves with such proposals, you dumb f**ks, to trade Ukrainian territory a little bit! Are you f**king crazy? Our children are dying, soldiers are stopping shells with their own bodies, and they are telling us how to sacrifice our territories. This will never happen,” he insisted in an interview on Wednesday." RT

Ukraine admits major defeat

"Russian troops have taken over the town of Liman in the northern Donetsk region, the
government in Kiev revealed, on Thursday evening. Ukrainian forces have reportedly withdrawn west-southwest towards Slavyansk.

“We have lost the town of Liman,” Alexey Arestovich, a key adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, admitted in a livestream on Thursday." RT

Russian Village Near Ukraine Border Asks Putin for ‘Protection’

"Residents of a Russian village near the border with Ukraine have launched a petition calling
on President Vladimir Putin to provide better protection against an increased number of cross-border attacks. 

About 2 kilometers from Ukraine, the Kursk region village of Tyotkino has been repeatedly targeted by shelling.

The latest shelling attack in Russia’s border area was reported Wednesday in the Belgorod region village of Zhuravlevka during which a local resident was badly wounded.

A truck driver making a delivery to a distillery in Tyotkino, which has about 3,200 residents, was killed in shelling last week — the second civilian death inside Russia since the start of the invasion. The incident was the third attack on Tyotkino in 48 hours." MT