"Putin's election victory speech and Q&A with the press was full of familiar themes, but he used the occasion after capturing a record 87% of the vote to warn the US and Europe that a "full-scale World War III" is "possible" should any Western troops enter Ukraine.
The remarks came in response to a journalist's question on President Macron's recent statements saying he thinks sending troops to Ukraine should be a realistic possibility. Putin responded: "I think anything is possible in today’s world and it’s clear to everyone that this would be one step from a full-scale World War III." But the Russian leader also emphasized that NATO military personnel are already present in Ukraine, with Russian intelligence having observed English and French at times being spoken on the battlefield. "There is nothing good in this, first of all for them, because they are dying there and in large numbers," he said." ZeroHedge
"Sahra Wagenknecht was long well-known as one of the leading members of the Left Party (Die Linke), but currently she's head of the recently formed Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance – Reason and Justice. She recently gave a stirring and rare, courageous speech warning against the German government being on the warpath with Russia, also as a handful of European leaders, with France's Macron leading the way, even contemplating sending Western troops to Ukraine as a viable 'option'."Have you all lost your minds?" she questioned members of the Bundestag. She said in the speech: "The Scholz government has already crossed one red line after the other. In the meantime we reached the point where German Air Force officers calmly debate how to destroy Russian targets with German cruise missiles..." She continued, "The scandal is that we have reached a point where it has become normal to have such debates."
Wagenknecht went on: "Our grandiose military experts from the Greens have been telling us for two years now what 'game changer' we have to deliver next so that Ukraine can win this war." The hawks "dream" about using German missiles to "destroy ministries in Moscow," she said. "And when the pope speaks out against this madness, saying that Kiev should negotiate rather than drive the country to suicide, he was called a 'Putin troll'." She then emphasized, "The whole world outside the German political bubble knows that Ukraine cannot with this war. For a long time there has been no winning in Ukraine. There has only been.. bloody dying day in and day out. And Taurus missiles won't change any of that." ZH
"In the past day, enemy air strikes targeted Velyka Pysarivka, Lukashivka, and Ponomarenky in the Sumy region; Rozdolivka, Semenivka, Oleksandropil, Ocheretyne, Novobakhmutivka, Krasnohorivka, Paraskoviivka, Kostiantynivka, Novomykhailivka, Velyka Novosilka, Staromaiorske and Urozhaine in the Donetsk region; Robotyne in the Zaporizhzhia region.In the Kupiansk sector, the enemy carried out three unsuccessful assaults on the positions of the Ukrainian Defense Forces near Synkivka, Kharkiv region.
In the Lyman sector, Ukrainian soldiers repelled four enemy attacks outside Terny, Donetsk region, where the enemy tried to break through the defense of Ukrainian troops.
In the Bakhmut sector, Ukrainian defenders repelled seven enemy attacks near Ivanivske, Klishchiivka and Andriivka of the Donetsk region.
In the Avdiivka sector, Ukrainian defenders repelled nine enemy attacks near Berdychi, Orlivka, Tonenke and Nevelske of the Donetsk region.
In the Novopavlivka sector, the Ukrainian Defense Forces continued to hold off the enemy near Krasnohorivka, Heorhiivka, Novomykhailivka, Vodiane, and Urozhaine of the Donetsk region, where the enemy, with the support of aviation, made 25 attempts to break through the defenses of Ukrainian troops.
In the Orikhiv sector, the enemy attacked the positions of Ukrainian defenders nine times near Staromaiorske in the Donetsk region and Robotyne in the Zaporizhzhia region.
In the Kherson sector, the invaders pursue their attempts to dislodge Ukrainian troops from their bridgeheads on the left (eastern) bank of the Dnipro. In the past day, three assaults were carried out on the positions of Ukrainian troops." Ukrin
"Kariņš specifically advocated for banning imports of Russian agricultural products and expanding the export and transit ban on raw materials essential for the Russian military industry to include manganese ore and aluminum oxide. “It was getting clear that nothing would change in the nearest coming years and Russia would remain on the warpath,” Kariņš said." MS
"The Biden administration confirmed that Israel killed a top Hamas official during its ongoing war against the terrorist organization.
The Biden administration’s national-security adviser, Jake Sullivan, spoke to reporters and said in his opening remarks that Israel killed senior Hamas commanders, including its number three in charge. Marwan Issa, was killed in an Israeli operation last week. The rest of the top leaders are in hiding, likely deep in the Hamas tunnel network, and justice will come for them too,” Sullivan stated." MS
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