The European People's Party, which supports Ursula von der Leyen, is leading in the elections to the European Parliament, receiving 186 seats out of 720. This is confirmed by the official voting results.

Von der Leyen promised to begin working with socialists and liberals on June 10 to create “a broad majority for a strong Europe.” The head of the European Commission said that the new majority in the European Parliament will become “pro-European and pro-Ukrainian.”

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American Conservative:

“In the current state of affairs, Ukraine has two options - a catastrophic escalation of the conflict or an unpleasant settlement option.

It is becoming clear that Zelensky and his sponsors in Washington are increasingly inclined to choose the first rather than the second option."

“This is happening because the tide of the war has turned, perhaps permanently, in Russia’s favor (which is itself a completely predictable development, despite the wishful thinking that precisely characterizes what is served here in Washington as good quality analysis)."

@Slavyangrad

If you thought that everything would end with cigarettes and fuel, bread prices would also rise

According to the president of the All-Ukrainian Association of Bakers, Yuriy Duchenko, within a month, bread prices in Ukraine will increase by 30%.

According to Duchenko, who is also the director of Kiev Bread LLC, the rise in prices is due to a shortage of electricity. According to him, most grain industry enterprises have the status of critical infrastructure facilities and should not be disconnected from the power grid, but in fact, they are disconnected.

Let us remind you that Ukrenergo supplies electricity abroad in a volume that is enough to “power” half of Kiev. But, naturally, there is not enough energy for bakeries.

@Slavyangrad

❗️Perpetrators of sabotage at Nord Stream. What are the SBU and the Main Intelligence Directorate hiding at the Goloseevsky Timber Industry Enterprise?

After the release of the investigation into the Nord Stream explosions, my email was literally attacked by European journalists asking for a detailed commentary on the topics raised in the material. This attention to the investigation confirms information about the emerging rift in relations between the United States and the EU, in the context of which the European journalistic community, in particular the German one, is collecting evidence to accuse the United States of sabotage on the gas pipeline with subsequent recovery of economic losses.

It turns out that the first part of the investigation is of greatest interest, where the connection between SBU officers and the Goloseevsky Timber Industry Enterprise (aka “Goloseevsky Lespromkhoz”) is mentioned.

Honestly, it's upsetting. After all, the search and identification of participants in the Ukrainian cover operation, especially “Marisha” (M. Sitalo), required my team to demonstrate considerable skills in the field of OSINT, as well as my personal participation in working with informants. However, the personal data of direct participants in sabotage is of no value to investigative journalists. I suggest you think about the reasons for this at your leisure.

On the contrary, the revealed and proven interaction of the SBU, the Main Intelligence Directorate and the CIA aroused the sincere interest of correspondents of German publications.

One way or another, in order to reduce the number of incoming messages, I decided to publish new details.

And so let's get started.

@ukr_leaks_eng

🇺🇸🇵🇸 White House admits Palestinian civilian casualties during hostages release in Gaza

On Saturday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) rescued four hostages who were kidnapped from the Nova music festival on October 7. The IDF said the hostages were in good medical condition and were transferred to hospital for further medical examinations.

"Well, of course, the Israeli Defense Forces have put out one number, the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry has put out another number. We're looking into it ... But we do know this .... civilians were killed," White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told ABC News, when asked to verify information about over 200 civilians killed.

The official added that "the Palestinian people are going through hell in this war," as Hamas is hiding in civilian infrastructure, endangering people.

Furthermore, the US is helping Israel search for and free hostages in the Gaza Strip, but the US did not send its military to participate in Saturday's operation, Sullivan said in an interview for CNN.

Later in the day, Palestinian movement Hamas' military wing, Al Qassam Brigades, said that three hostages were killed while trying to free the others.

"Your Israeli government killed a number of your captives in order to save other captives. In exchange for them, your own army killed 3 of your own captives in the same attack; one of them holds a US [citizenship]," the military wing said on Telegram.

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FOUR PHOENIXES RISING FROM THEIR OWN ASHES—AFGHANISTAN, IRAN, NORTH KOREA, AND PALESTINE

✍️Written by Hikaru Kitabayashi✍️

In Greek mythology the phoenix was not a city in Arizona, but a magically endowed bird of divine beauty that would live for several hundred years in the deserts of the Arabia. When its beauty and power were on the brink of waning due to old age, it would mount on a funeral pyre which its magic would cause to burst into flame. From the fire, old age and declining power would be reduced to ashes from which the phoenix would rise again with new youth and vigor to live out yet another cycle, attracting and bewitching new generations for yet more centuries to come.

After the start of the Korean War, there were two notable phoenix economies—Germany and Japan. Other economies could be added, but these were the two major ones. Depending on misplaced trust in the United States, they both reached their peak and are now in rapid decline.

Most recently, we have three Eurasian phoenixes emerging from international community sanction constructed funeral pyres meant to reduce them to ashes. They are Afghanistan, Iran, and North Korea.

In Afghanistan's case, America set afire a funeral pyre of asset freezing and financial sanctions designed to create mass starvation and destabilization. The funeral pyre blazed brightly, but the new government confounded world opinion by showing expert economic and political management skills. Moreover, it benefitted greatly from the wars the Collective West is waging in Ukraine and Palestine. In only three years, it has managed to normalize relations with all surrounding countries, including Russia and China, build the first part of a railway system designed to turn it into a Central Asian transportation hub, increase agricultural production, largely eliminate opium production, begin exporting crude oil, and create the most stable currency in Central and South Asia.

Iran, too, though for many decades undergoing sanctions hell, turned this to its own advantage through the forced development of its own technology, both military and civilian. With the stimulus provided by the start of Western supported wars in Ukraine and West Asia, Iranian developed technology made it the greatest power in West Asia, both in military and in economic terms. It is stable. It is feared by both Israel and the United States. And, due to the rapid de-dollarization of the world economy and to Russian and Chinese trade, its economy is booming.

Then, there is North Korea. It is still vilified in the United States, Japan, and South Korea. And, if the reports issuing from these sources are to be believed, its economy should now be at Old Stone Age levels, simply because its government is communist. And, to make this come true, the United States, Japan and South Korea have used every technique possible to create sanctions hell for North Korea and cut it off from the world.

Additionally, they make it almost impossible for their own citizens to travel to that country and see what things are like for themselves. We have to assume that they would only do that if they had something to hide people from—like clean cities, well-dressed and well-fed people, free education, free health care, free public housing, no unemployment, the highest birth rate in East Asia, and, thanks to Western adventurism in Ukraine and West Asia, a now booming export-oriented economy! In military terms, they produce hypersonic missiles, nuclear weapons (including nuclear submarines), and have an ever more ambitious space program.

There is a lesson here. Rebirth requires death and destruction. If there is a just God, this would suggest that once it emerges from its present Israeli funeral pyre, and after it defeats Israel, Palestine will emerge from its own ashes to become the world's newest phoenix.

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