Glenn Greenwald | Project Mockingbird was the name of a secret CIA project that caused the Agency significant embarrassment when it was exposed in the mid-1970s as part of the Senate's Church Committee investigation. Its basic purpose was to covertly infiltrate and then influence the nation's largest media corporations by implanting agents and other methods for ensuring that corporate news in the United States served the agenda rather than undermining the agenda of U.S. foreign policy. ● Today, there's absolutely no need at all for Operation Mockingbird. That is because, as we previously reported, U.S. security state agents openly send their top operatives to get hired by television networks, which proudly tout the number of former CIA, FBI, NSA and Homeland Security operatives on their payroll to report the news to Americans. But it's not only corporate media outlets that are drowning in former operatives of the U.S. security state. These agencies have also utterly infiltrated Big Tech corporations, especially Google and Facebook, and especially among those positions that are responsible for censoring political content from these monopolistic platforms. In other words, at exactly the same time that a small army of security state operatives openly get hired by and help shape the propaganda that emanates from the country's largest media corporations, they are also dictating the boundaries of what citizens can say online, of what ideas and people can be heard and which ideas and people are prohibited. We'll show you the extent of this infiltration and what it means.

According to Igor Kirillov, documents that were found in Ukraine indicate that the Pentagon planned to test unregistered medical drugs on the local population and then submit them for approval by supervisory authorities "in the interests of the so-called big pharma" | The Pentagon planned to use its bio-laboratories in Africa to test unregistered medicines on the local population, Chief of Russia’s Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov said on Tuesday. ● According to Kirillov, documents that were found in Ukraine indicate that the Pentagon planned to use the US army to test unregistered medical drugs on the local population and then submit them for approval by supervisory authorities "in the interests of the so-called big pharma." For these ends, it was planned to use its bio-laboratories and facilitating agencies, such as Metabiota. ● Apart from that, in his words, evidence was found showing that Metabiota had been involved in the study of the H7N9 bird flu virus and that it had played a leading role in the implementation of the Predict project for the study of new coronavirus types, under which their carriers - bats - had been caught. "We have repeatedly pointed to the company’s ties with the son of the US incumbent president, Hunter Biden, and government organizations. Notably, Metabiota’s representatives admit that as a matter of fact they are establishing ties to ensure the Pentagon and other American agencies’ work abroad," Kirillov added.

■ We Are at War in the US and Globally: A Summary of Everything (Sasha Latypova)(06/28/23)
■ On enforcement mechanisms wielded against non-compliant nation-states (Katherine Watt)(04/09/23)

A critic, anti-vaccine activists and restaurant owners suing Wu are on the list | Boston's Democrat Mayor Michelle Wu, the first woman and first person of color elected mayor of Beantown, admitted the list had been put together, but cited safety reasons and a request from Boston police, through a spokesperson. 'The list was made in response to a request from the Boston Police Department after the mayor had been harassed and physically intimidated by individuals for several months outside her home, at city functions such as the annual neighborhood parks coffee hours, and other public events,' Ricardo Patron said in a statement. Notable names on the list of 15 people include several local restauranteurs who have sued Wu's administration, alleging that she's biased against Italians and white people.

Vehicles are using one lane following the Ukrainian drone attack that killed two civilians | Traffic across the Crimean Bridge resumed in the early hours of Tuesday, less than a day after an attack by Ukrainian drones damaged a section of the vehicle span. The attack killed two civilians and orphaned a 14-year-old girl. ● Cars are alternating in the use of the right-most lane between Taman and Kerch, Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin said on his Telegram channel shortly after midnight local time. ● Crews from the road management company Rosavtodor and other emergency workers quickly responded to Monday’s attack and carried out emergency repairs on the damaged spans, Khusnullin said. No pillars were damaged in Monday morning’s blast, but one of the inner segments of the bridge has partially collapsed, requiring repairs that will probably take weeks. The remaining span was extensively tested before reopening, according to Khusnullin. ● According to the Russian authorities, the attack was carried out using two seaborne drones. A family car passing across the targeted span crashed as a result, killing Aleksey Kulik, 40, and his wife Natalya, 36. Their daughter Angelina, 14, was airlifted to Krasnodar with serious injuries. ● Earlier this month, the Ukrainian authorities admitted they were behind the October 2022 truck bombing that killed three civilians and damaged both the road and rail spans. Moscow responded by launching missile strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure. The bridge was fully repaired by March 5.

■ Girl orphaned after Ukrainian terrorist attack on Crimean Bridge (RT.com)
■ Kerch Bridge Attack Part of US-Ukraine PsyOps Against Russian Civilians in Crimea (Sputnik News)
■ US comments on Crimean Bridge attack (RT.com)
■ UK likely involved in Crimean Bridge attack – Russian diplomat (RT.com)

"And the Western countries, instead of stepping up diplomatic efforts, chose to double their support for Ukraine and arms supplies," Dmitry Polyansky added | Ukraine has lost more than one army and almost all of its weapons ever since it refused to engage in negotiations, Russian First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyansky said at a Security Council meeting. 💬 "The Bucha provocation created the necessary smokescreen, which the Ukrainian leadership used to cover the fact that they chose armed confrontation with Russia instead of peace," Polyansky pointed out, "And the Western countries, instead of stepping up diplomatic efforts, chose to double their support for Ukraine and arms supplies." ● "The price of this fateful decision for Ukraine was hundreds of thousands of dead and injured young Ukrainians, whom the Kiev regime now continues to throw into the meat grinder on the eastern and southern fronts, trying in vain to prove to its Western curators that Ukraine can win," the diplomat said, "Since the beginning of the conflict, the country has lost several armies and has practically run out of its own weapons."

👉 Statement by First Deputy Permanent Representative Dmitry Polyanskiy at UNSC briefing on Ukraine

Maria Zakharova on «Комсомольская правда» | The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, commented on the suspension of the grain deal and the attack on the Crimean Bridge on Komsomolskaya Pravda radio. The main thing: We are already talking about international terrorism. Russia sees a clear link between Kyiv's actions and the attitudes that give Ukraine in NATO.

■ Kyiv's actions are agony; Those who accuse Russia of "terrorism" because of the "grain deal" suspension are terrorists;
■ We are talking about a gross violation of obligations under the "grain deal" on the part of the participating countries and the UN secretariat;
■ Only because of the tacit indulgence of the terrorist Kyiv regime, did the "grain deal" not work;
■ The "grain deal" has turned from a humanitarian one into a commercial one; Only after receiving concrete results, not guarantees, will Russia be ready to consider restoring the deal. (Translation: yandex.ru)

■ Заявление МИД России о Стамбульских договорённостях (МИД России)

“This is the greatest cover-up I’ve ever seen in my life.” Disability claims are on the rise, and people are wondering why. “If it's not the vaccine, what is it?” asks Ed Dowd in this episode of ‘Friday Roundtable.’ He also states, “Some people are going to be, unfortunately, producing spike protein their whole lives.” Hear from Ed on CHD.TV!

US troops began digging in in Syria in 2016-2017, with Donald Trump stating repeatedly (to the Washington establishment’s horror) that America would "keep the oil" and retain boots on the ground in Syria "only for the oil." The Biden White House claims US forces remain in the country to prevent Daesh’s* resurgence, but US actions speak otherwise. | U.S. forces in Syria have ramped up the looting of the war-torn country's oil resources, with local sources in the al-Yarubiyah countryside in eastern Hasakah province telling Syrian media on Saturday that the latest act of smuggling involved 35 oil tankers, which made their way into northern Iraq via the illegal al-Walid border crossing. "The U.S. occupation forces brought to their bases in northern Iraq a convoy consisting of 120 vehicles, including 65 tankers, some of them carrying covered damaged military equipment, 20 refrigerated trucks, and 35 tanks loaded with stolen Syrian oil," the sources said, adding that the convoy was accompanied by four Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia pickups for protection. Saturday’s account follows on reporting last week that a convoy of 39 tankers loaded with Syrian crude left fields in Hasakah and was similarly smuggled into Iraq, this time via the Mahmoudiya checkpoint -- another border crossing which the Damascus government doesn't control and hence considers illegal.

Efforts by countries to replace the US dollar in international trade will reach a new high when BRICS nations discuss the feasibility of introducing a common currency at a summit in South Africa later this year, Chinese experts said, noting that the move can be a fresh blow against the dollar's hegemony. | The BRICS group of nations will discuss the issue, which is likely be on the agenda of a meeting of the nations' heads of state in Johannesburg on August 22, Bloomberg reported recently, citing the foreign minister of South Africa. ● The BRICS group of nations - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - accounts for one-third of global economic output, and their combined output is larger than the Group of Seven economies by some measures. ● Experts said the desire for a currency that offers better accessibility and fairer treatment in international trade is the main objective for BRICS nations. They pointed out that the US dollar, used as a tool for the US to exercise international hegemony, has caused great uncertainty for the recovery of the world economy.

■ Thoughts on the BRICs Currency (Sasha Latypova)

Overnight, traffic had been suspended on the Crimean Bridge linking the peninsula to the Krasnodar region via the Sea of Azov due to an emergency that resulted in the death of two people. | The attack on the Crimean Bridge was committed by the regime in Kiev, stated Russia's Foreign Ministry on Monday. ● The decision to target the Crimean Bridge was made by Ukrainian officials, their military, and with the participation of US, and UK Special Services, added the ministry in a statement. ● Overnight, two unmanned surface vehicles attacked the infrustructure, according to the Russian National Anti-Terrorism Committee. Russian investigators are identifying those involved in the organization of the terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge carried out by the Kiev regime's special services and armed units, according to the committee.

■ Putin Calls Crimean Bridge Incident Terrorist Attack, Promises Military Response (Sputnik News)
■ Traffic on key bridge from Crimea to Russia's mainland halted amid reports of explosions and deaths (Hürriyet)
■ LIVE UPDATES: Ukraine's Terror Attack on Crimean Bridge (Sputnik News)
■ Crimean Bridge targeted by Ukrainian terrorist attack – Moscow (RT.com)
■ Ukraine behind new Crimean Bridge attack – media (RT.com)
■ Local TV shows VIDEO of damaged Crimean Bridge (RT.com)
■ Part of Crimean Bridge road section destroyed – media (RT.com)

Maria Zakharova (Мария Захарова) | Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that the Kiev regime is a terrorist regime and has all the signs of an international organized crime group. 💬 "Today's attack on the Crimean bridge was committed by the Kiev regime. This regime is a terrorist regime and has all the signs of an international organized criminal group. Decisions are made by Ukrainian officials and the military with the direct participation of US and British intelligence services and politicians. The USA and Britain are in charge of the terrorist state-organized structure," Zakharova said. Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) attacks on Moscow and the Moscow region would have been impossible without US and NATO assistance to Ukraine. 💬 "Such attacks would have been impossible without assistance to the Kiev regime from the United States and its NATO allies, which continue to pump it with weapons, including UAVs, train drone operators and provide the intelligence information necessary to commit such crimes, including images of the Earth's surface obtained by civilian and military satellites," the ministry said in a statement published on its website. (Translation: DeepL.com)

Elena Panina | Only depriving Ukraine of access to the Black Sea will secure the Crimean Bridge. | New measures to ensure the protection of the Crimean bridge are necessary. But all these are tactical level defense measures. ■ If we look at the issue strategically, the most reliable protection of the Crimean bridge is the complete deprivation of Ukraine's access to the Black Sea. In addition, given the increasing range of weapons already supplied to Kiev by the West, as well as the upcoming transfer of fighter jets and Ukraine's own development of missile technology and UAVs, Russia needs to reach all of Ukraine's external borders, as we keep writing about. Only in this way will all the tasks of the NWO be solved. ■ We should start by declaring Ukraine's political and military leadership as terrorists. In particular, such structures as the SBU and the GUR of the Defense Ministry of Ukraine should be declared terrorist organizations - with the subsequent methodical liquidation of all their top and middle-level leaders. ■ The long-awaited transition to the systematic destruction of Ukraine's entire transportation infrastructure, including strikes on bridges over the Dnieper River and strategic tunnels in the Carpathian Mountains, is also called for. We recall that after the October bombing of the Crimean bridge, an attempt was made to "take the Ukrainian energy sector out of the game". It should be stated that, due to its unsystematic nature, this attempt was not a complete success. It is time to move the Western project "Ukraine" to the state that best corresponds to its barbaric nature - to the Stone Age. (Translation: DeepL.com)

The US leader should acknowledge his “failure” in Ukraine and focus on domestic issues, the presidential candidate has said | By ordering the deployment of 3,000 more reservists to Europe, US President Joe Biden is preparing to fight Russian forces on the ground in Ukraine, Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said.

💬 “Biden has lost his way,” Kennedy tweeted on Friday, arguing that the president should focus on America’s domestic problems instead of trying to achieve “global military dominance.” “I want people to understand what this troop mobilization is about. It’s about preparing for a ground war with Russia,” he said. The idea of defeating Moscow in its conflict with Kiev is a “futile geopolitical fantasy” of the Biden administration, the Democratic presidential candidate added. Thousands of Ukrainians have already lost their lives because “America’s foreign policy establishment manipulated their country into war… Now, rather than acknowledge failure, Biden admin prepares to sacrifice American lives too,” Kennedy said.

■ Nato isn’t defending Ukraine. It’s stabbing it in the back (Jonathan Cook)
■ Douglas Macgregor - Striking The Salient Target of Ukraine (VIDEO)
■ Biden Order Activates 3,000 Reservists for Europe Deployments (bringing US troop levels on the continent to over 100,000 for the first time since 2005). (07/14/23)

Maria Zakharova: "This is a False Flag War." | Question: The results of the NATO summit held in Vilnius on July 11-12 once again demonstrated that the alliance, in which the Anglo-Saxons play the main fiddle, makes decisions aimed, in fact, at sponsoring terrorism in the region. One gets the impression that the supply of prohibited weapons by the member countries of the alliance to the Kyiv regime is aimed at preparing for war with Russia. Do you agree with these statements?

Maria Zakharova: In fact, NATO is already waging a hybrid war with Russia, the instrument of which is the Kiev regime. It is pumped up with weapons, military equipment. The countries of the alliance are actively involved in the training of militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine according to their standards, they plan to train and then transplant Ukrainians to Western fighters. All this is complemented by economic blackmail and illegal sanctions against both Russia and other countries that have not caved in to the Anglo-Saxons. It is no secret that the states of the North Atlantic bloc share intelligence with the Armed Forces of Ukraine, take part in the planning of military operations. At the same time, formally, NATO stands aside. Declares that he is not a party to the conflict and does not seek confrontation with Russia. Actually, this is a false flag war. In pursuit of an attempt to maintain some kind of superiority, and, in fact, neocolonialism, Washington and its allies consistently use the population of Ukraine as cannon fodder. They are methodically working to destroy the economies of European states in order to eliminate them as competitors in world markets. At the same time, they are solving the problems of enriching American companies and enterprises, including the military-industrial complex, whose products will be purchased by Europeans.

We categorically reject the logic of the Westerners, which is that military assistance to Ukraine is designed to bring a political and diplomatic settlement closer. They are simply not interested in the end of hostilities, but, on the contrary, benefit from the ongoing crisis of the security system in the European space. The main goal of Washington and its satellites is to inflict a "strategic defeat" on Russia and maintain its dominant influence in the international arena. For the sake of it, they are ready with all their might to seek from the puppet regime of Zelensky the continuation of the "war to the last Ukrainian." One gets the impression that at the NATO summit a decision was made and even declared - to unfold a major European war.

However, no supply of Western weapons and equipment can change the course of the special military operation, the goals and objectives of which will certainly be fulfilled, as the Russian leadership has repeatedly stated. [Original in Russian]

Earlier in the day, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) announced that it had detained members of a neo-Nazi group plotting to kill Margarita Simonyan, the Rossiya Segodnya news agency's editor-in-chief, plus liberal journalist and socialite Ksenia Sobchak, at the behest of the Ukrainian military. | The latest suspected Ukrainian plot to assassinate Margarita Simonyan and Ksenia Sobchak "once against demonstrates the terrorist essence of Volodymyr Zelensky's regime, which is already responsible for a series of terrorist attacks," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Saturday. Zakharova said Moscow doesn't really expect any real response from international organizations over the foiled plot, due to the "pathological hypocrisy [which] has long been a political tradition of Western liberalism and its unconditional reflex." Zakharova added that the "Kiev regime" plotting this and similar attacks against civilians continues to enjoy the "thorough support of Western curators." More here

New guidance states ‘withholding money for transitioning’ or refusing to use a preferred name or pronoun, would be seen as abusive behaviour | Spouses who refuse to fund their partner’s gender surgery may be domestic abusers, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) says in new guidance. The CPS has listed nine types of behaviour which could amount to abuse of trans or non-binary people by their partners or members of their family. These include “withholding money for transitioning,” which would include either spouse refusing to pay for gender surgery, counselling or other treatment in a way that "amounted to coercive control or abuse." [???] ● Other behaviours could be “criticising the victim [sic] for not being ‘a real man/woman’ if they have not undergone reassignment surgery,” or “threatening or sharing pre-transition images,” or refusing to use their preferred name or pronoun. ● The guidance has, however, been criticised by the Women’s Rights Network (WRN), which campaigns for the sex-based rights of women.The group has written to Max Hill, the head of the CPS, citing the guidance as “detrimental to women’s trust and confidence” in the service. [Paywall]

■ 'Ideologically captured' CPS for guidelines stating parents could be charged with DOMESTIC ABUSE for refusing to pay for their child's transgender treatment or not using their preferred pronoun (Daily Mail)

Elena Panina (Елена Панина) | In principle, why not? Since another boxer is the mayor of Kyiv, the Defense Ministry is headed by the person responsible for the Eurovision Song Contest, the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council is headed by a veterinarian, and the country as a whole is headed by a comedian with a habit of illegal substances. Ukraine is a country of opportunity. Isn't that what Maidan stood for? Especially since, from the Western point of view, it makes no difference who sits on the native throne and reports to the suzerain. (Translation: DeepL.com)

This report details misconduct by the FBI that is unconstitutional. | The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is the bedrock of our political system and guarantees every American the right to speak his or her mind freely and without interference from the government. It is predicated on the under-standing that no government official has a monopoly on the truth and that every American is capable of evaluating competing claims and deciding what to believe. ● On February 15, 2023, as part of its investigation into the federal government’s role in censoring lawful speech on social media platforms, the Committee on the Judiciary issued a subpoena to Meta,2 the parent com-pany of Facebook and Instagram, and Alphabet,3 the parent company of Google and YouTube. Documents obtained in response to those subpoenas revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), on behalf of a compromised Ukrainian intelligence entity, requested—and, in some cases, directed—the world’s largest social media platforms to censor Americans engaging in constitutionally protected speech online.

■ REPORT: FBI Colluded With Ukrainian Intelligence to Silence American Voices On Social Media (Trending Media)

Full video: CRIME IS NOT HEALTH WITH MIKE YEADON | "We're in the middle of the biggest crime in history. It's global. It has the intent of control, removing everybody's freedom, and will involve killing further millions, if not billions of people. It is long planned." "If you comply with this tyranny, it will end with the loss of your liberty, and probably your life. That's what's going to happen if you and everybody else choose to do nothing at all." "You have to be brave now and risk embarrassment, and recruit other people to this cause. And we can roll them over." - Dr. Mike Yeadon

■ Why I don’t believe there ever was a Covid virus (06/05/23)
■ Why are we being lied to about Covid? There’s no good reason (05/12/21)
■ Vaccine Passports: It’s illegal, medical apartheid (05/09/21)

The US is shipping them directly from Pentagon stockpiles | A Ukrainian general told CNN on Thursday that Ukraine has received a shipment of US cluster bombs, controversial munitions that have a devastating impact on civilians. “We just got them, we haven’t used them yet, but they can radically change the situation on the battlefield,” Gen. Oleksandr Tarnavskyi said. ● The Biden administration announced last week that it was sending Ukraine cluster munitions in the form of 155mm artillery shells as part of an $800 million weapons package. It’s not clear how many have arrived in Ukraine so far, but Pentagon officials have said they will provide “hundreds of thousands” of rounds.

■ Pentagon Dragging Its Feet Over F-16 Gifts To Ukraine (MoA)
■ Lt. Gen. Douglas A. Sims II: [T]he conditions right now for the employment of the F-16s are probably not -- they're probably not ideal. (defense.gov)

Since February 2022, the US has sent over 20,000 additional troops to Europe | President Biden on Thursday signed an executive order allowing the Pentagon to mobilize 3,000 reservists for deployments in Europe, where the US military has significantly increased its presence since Russia invaded Ukraine. ● Since February 2022, the US has deployed over 20,000 additional troops to Europe, bringing US troop levels on the continent to over 100,000 for the first time since 2005. The US has beefed up its presence in Eastern Europe and currently has over 10,000 troops in Poland, which has become a hub for weapons bound for Ukraine. ● The mobilization of 3,000 reservists signals the US military is strained by maintaining a large troops presence in Europe. A spokesman for US European Command (EUCOM) said the authority will “not change current force-posture levels,” suggesting the reservists might be used to rotate other troops out of Europe.

The end goal in both cases is to develop the technological foundation to track and trace every person and object on the planet in order to incentivize, coerce, or otherwise manipulate individual human behavior. | The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) carrot-or-stick approach to climate policies is virtually the same as it was for COVID. From COVID contact tracing and vaccine passports to carbon footprint tracking and measuring, the end goal is practically identical — to develop the technological foundation to track and trace every person and object on the planet in order to incentivize, coerce, or otherwise manipulate individual human behavior.

Kit Knightly | Or, “how people are blinded by meaningless statistics”. | Now, first off let’s be clear – we haven’t had the “7 the hottest days” in the last 100,000 years since July 4…or, more accurately, there is absolutely no way for anyone to reliably know if we have or not. Actually, think about what they’re saying when they make this claim. They are claiming that they know, for a fact, the global average temperature to two decimal points over the last 36 million days. A couple of things to bear in mind here before we go any further.

1 – Humans have only had the ability to accurately measure the temperature of anything for maybe four-hundred years.
2 – Official “global temperature” records only began in 1880.
3 – Beyond that point, we only have partial, local and pretty inaccurate readings back to the mid-17th century.

That’s 400 years, give or take. So, how do climatologists get the data for the other 99,600 years? Well – they guess.

■ Nobel Prize winner denounces alarmist climate predictions: ‘I don’t believe there is a climate crisis’ (LifeSiteNews)

Back in 2020, we were one of the few platforms that questioned the mainstream narrative and continued to speak with experts and insiders that had important information we felt the public needed to hear. ● One of those people was Dr. David E. Martin, the professor, researcher and author who many of you will remember as the star of the groundbreaking documentary Plandemic 2. That film was livestreamed here on our Digital Freedom Platform to over two million viewers, becoming the largest live broadcast of a documentary film in human history.

■ American Domestic Bioterrorism Program (Katherine Watt)
■ We Are at War in the US and Globally: A Summary of Everything (Sasha Latypova) (06/28/23)
■ Dr. McCullough Uncovers Smoking Gun: Autopsies Found 74% of deaths related to mRNA vaccination (Zero Hedge)

Western plans to provide US-designed fighter jets to Kiev are an “extremely dangerous development,” the foreign minister says | Western plans to provide US-designed fighter jets to Kiev are an “extremely dangerous development,” the foreign minister says. Moscow can’t ignore the nuclear capability of US-designed F-16 fighter jets that may be supplied to Ukraine by its Western backers, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. By continuing to provide more sophisticated arms to Kiev, 💬 “the US and its NATO satellites create the risk of a direct armed confrontation with Russia, and this may lead to catastrophic consequences,” Lavrov warned in his interview with Lenta.ru on Wednesday. “We have informed the nuclear powers – the US, UK and France – that Russia can’t ignore the ability of these aircraft to carry nuclear weapons,” the foreign minister continued. “No assurances [by the West] will help here,” he warned. In the midst of fighting, the Russian military isn’t going to investigate whether any specific jet is equipped to deliver nuclear weapons or not, he added. “The very fact of the appearance of such systems within the Ukrainian Armed Forces will be considered by us as a threat from the West in the nuclear domain,” Lavrov said.

■ Ukraine will receive F-16s – White House (RT.com)

The facts of criminal actions by the Kyiv regime against civilians and the use of civilian facilities by Ukrainian armed groups for military purposes:

● In Velyka Balka, Odessa region, a stronghold was set up by AFU soldiers on the territory of a school (Tsentralnaya Street), and an anti-aircraft gun was placed on the roof of the educational establishment.
● In Nerubayske, Odesa region, militants of nationalist battalions were stationed at the school, ammunition depots were equipped, and armored vehicles were deployed.
● In Znobi-Novhorodskoye, Sumy region, militants of Ukrainian armed formations equipped a stronghold and placed large-caliber machine guns in a school (Shkolnaya street);
● In the Berestovenki settlement, Kharkiv region, in the school building (18 September St.), AFU personnel were stationed in the school building (18 September St.), and a large amount of military equipment was placed Some documented cases of the use of schools, kindergartens, and hospitals by Ukrainian armed groups (Translation: DeepL.com)

The Turkish leader noted that he sent his official representative, chief adviser Arif Cagatay Kilic to Brussels to hold talks on European integration | Turkey intends to expedite negotiations on its accession to the European Union as a full member, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan announced to reporters of the presidential corps upon his return from Vilnius, where he took part in the NATO summit. 💬 "There is a positive atmosphere in the European Union regarding the revival of our European integration process. We will speed up negotiations on renewing relations as part of the customs union, which will positively affect the Turkish economy. I hope to bridge the distance on the visa-free regime issue," he said. "We have sent our adviser, Mr. Cagatay, to Brussels, where the related talks will take place tomorrow. They will discuss both a customs union and a visa-free regime. I hope the talks will benefit Turkey. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen also told us several positive things in this regard."

■ Türkiye’s EU bid to boost economy: Erdoğan (Hürriyet Daily News)
■ Biden offered Erdogan IMF support to ratify Sweden NATO bid – Hersh (urdupoint.com)
■ FEAR AND LOATHING ON AIR FORCE ONE (Seymour Hersh)