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⚡️Zelensky, Erdogan discuss future peace talks in Turkey.
President Zelensky spoke w/ Turkish President Erdogan, who offered to host future peace talks in Turkey. The call comes just days before the Aug. 15 Trump-Putin summit on ending the war in Ukraine—without Ukraine's participation.
3/ Turkey pressured Syria to withdraw from the US- and French-brokered integration negotiations in Paris and encouraged Syria to strengthen ties with Russia to counterbalance US and partner influence in Syria, which undermines US policy objectives in Syria.
Read more: isw.pub/IranUpdate08...
2/ Iranian officials have strongly criticized the US proposal to oversee a transit corridor in the South Caucasus due to Iranian fears that its adversaries and competitors seek to use the corridor to undermine Iranian security and economic interests.
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Likely Hezbollah sources threatened to incite protests in Lebanon against US Special Envoy Barrack’s visit if sr. Lebanese officials don't meet w/ Iranian Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Larijani’s visit on Aug. 13.
Iran Update: isw.pub/IranUpdate08...
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⚡️ India’s Nayara Energy, partly owned by Russia’s Rosneft, is set to receive its smallest crude shipment ever this month after EU sanctions hit Russian oil.
13.08.2025 01:35 — 👍 94 🔁 20 💬 2 📌 1
The Ukrainians have held off Russia for 3.5+ years, causing over 1m Russian casualties, of which about 1/4 are deaths. Ukraine gets equipment from Europe too, and makes a lot domestically, in particular a drone industry that’s now world class. The US president can’t order them to surrender.
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Ukraine hits deep inside Russia, liberates new villages, and holds the Pokrovsk line against 110,000 enemy troops. As Trump and Putin prepare to meet in Alaska, Moscow pushes for concessions — Kyiv stands firm.
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⚡️Over 121,000 Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine identified by media investigation.
Russian independent media outlet Mediazona, in collaboration with the BBC Russian service, has confirmed the identities of 121,507 Russian military personnel killed in Ukraine.
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Ukraine hits deep inside Russia, liberates new villages, and holds the Pokrovsk line against 110,000 enemy troops. As Trump and Putin prepare to meet in Alaska, Moscow pushes for concessions — Kyiv stands firm.
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⚡️Defense Ministry official suspected of accepting $1.3 million bribe over construction of military housing.
A Defense Ministry official has been charged with accepting a bribe from a housing developer worth upwards of $1.3 million, Ukraine's anti-corruption agencies announced on Aug. 12.
4/ UA intelligence indicated that North Korea recently deployed 11,000 soldiers to RU to facilitate RU's war effort in UA, demonstrating RU's commitment to leaning on its anti-Western partners.
RU forces recently advanced near Velykyi Burluk, Borova, & Pokrovsk.
Read more: isw.pub/UkrWar081225
3/ RU advances in the Pokrovsk direction are also only the most recent result of over 17 months’ worth of protracted campaigning.
RU officials are attempting to exploit the tactical penetration near Dobropillya to influence the upcoming US-RU summit in Alaska.
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13.08.2025 04:22 — 👍 108 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0The only positive is the surveillance on the base. Everything else is sickening
13.08.2025 04:39 — 👍 59 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0It is reprehensible that Trump is bringing a war criminal terrorist to a U.S. military base. This is a slap in the face to our military and everything this country used to stand for.
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BREAKING: It’s official. The Trump regime will deploy the National Guard in D.C.
Let’s be clear about what this is.
This is NOT about homelessness or crime.
This is an authoritarian regime using the US military to seize a Democratic city, terrorize its residents, and lock up Black & Brown people.
11.08.2025 13:49 — 👍 56 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
Russia looted his artworks and killed his great-grandson, an artist.
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Russia’s withdrawal from Chechnya, Dagestan, Karelia, Buryatia, Rostov, Kursk, Belgorod, Saint Petersburg, and Sochi — full demilitarization of Russia — and the relinquishment of its nuclear weapons to Ukraine in exchange for guarantees of Russia’s protection from Ukraine,
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🔥 Ukraine’s Strikes Halt Rosneft’s Largest Refinery for a Month.
Rosneft’s oil refineries hit by Ukrainian drones will remain offline for weeks, sources told Reuters.
Rosneft faces a surplus of crude oil and will boost exports through western ports from 1.77 million to 2 million barrels per day.
New York Post: A Trump-Putin peace deal would mean nothing without Ukraine at the table
nypost.com/2025/08/10/o...
Source: www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-ato/4...
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❗️Russia is pulling airborne troops to the Zaporizhia direction: they are recording the active transfer of additional forces and equipment to the region, — spokesman for the Southern Defense Forces Voloshyn
11.08.2025 13:57 — 👍 52 🔁 8 💬 5 📌 0The second is to significantly increase funding for combat units, and so that it is fair - so that the brigades really get more opportunities. Updated rules: 7 million hryvnias per brigade.
The third is to significantly simplify and digitize the write-off of property.
🇺🇦 Zelensky: I held military Headquarters.
The first is an absolutely clear decision regarding pickup trucks, ATVs, and other such equipment, which can now be purchased with direct funding for combat brigades.
Russia wouldn’t start a war over Putin — especially since those left behind would be eager to seize power for themselves and would actually be grateful for such events. Unless, of course, the Kremlin revealed that it was a body double at the meeting 🙂
11.08.2025 14:03 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Interesting fact — if Putin came to Alaska and was arrested there as an international war criminal and terrorist leader, it could instantly end the war.
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