"Russia attacked near-port infrastructure in Odesa Oblast with Shahed drones overnight, damaging facilities, and injuring one in the Izmail district, local administration reported.
Updated at 7:43 a.m. Ukraine’s State Emergency Service clarified that, as a result of the strikes in Odesa Oblast, a large fire broke out at a fuel-and-energy infrastructure facility. 54 rescuers and 16 pieces of equipment took part in the response, and a Ukrzaliznytsia firefighting train was deployed." NV
"It is “impossible” for Crimea to return to Ukraine or for the country to join NATO, U.S. President Donald Trump told Fox & Friends on Tuesday.He added that Kiev had approached the U.S.-led military bloc to seek help in trying to get the peninsula back.
“They went in and said ‘We want to get Crimea back’. This was at the beginning,” Trump revealed. “The other thing they said was ‘We want to be a member of NATO’. Well, both of those things are impossible.”
“It was always a no-no,” both during the time of the Soviet Union, and now with Russia, Trump explained, adding that Russia has always stressed it did not want “the enemy” on its border." RT
"Extremely heavy rainfall caused severe flooding in Mumbai, India, leaving at least three people dead and two missing. The event prompted mass evacuations, transport collapse, and the extraction of over 16 451 million liters (4.35 billion gallons) of floodwater from the city’s pumping network." W
"A Russian general has been seriously injured near the Ukrainian border, officials in Russia's republic of Dagestan - which is where he's from - have said, which is consistent with earlier reports sourced to Ukrainian intelligence.Dagestan’s leader, Sergei Melikov, announced on Telegram that Gen. Esedulla Abachev was critically wounded several days ago in a border region. Regional media says he holds the honorary government-awarded title of 'Hero of Russia'.
Ukraine’s military intelligence had previously claimed that 57-year-old Abachev lost both an arm and a leg after his convoy was attacked overnight in Russia’s Kursk region.
He was rushed to a hospital in the Moscow area, the reports said, where military doctors carried out the emergency amputations." ZeroHedge
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