🇩🇪Bundestag member Sarah Wagenknecht:

Ukrainian President Zelensky spoke in the Bundestag today, and the main thesis of his speech was that there would be no compromise. The war will either end on Ukraine's terms, in full, that is, with the complete withdrawal of Russian troops, including from Crimea, or it will not end. We believe that this is irresponsible, because the war can only be ended if there are compromises and readiness for them. That is why we have stated that we do not want to take part in the solemn event in honor of President Zelensky. Ms. Strack-Zimmermann accused us of always campaigning to speak to each other and then not attending when we had the opportunity to do so. We would like to be able to speak if there was an opportunity to have a debate in the Bundestag in the presence of Mr. Zielenski. That is, if there had been a debate after his speech. But that was not part of the plan. What was planned was a standing ovation in honor of Mr. Zelensky's position. We didn't want and don't want to put up with that. I think we also owe a debt of gratitude to many Ukrainians who want peace and who would certainly like to see more willingness to compromise here, because these horrible deaths have to stop.

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‼️🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ Odessa may be left without an ambulance - a participant of the conflict with military commissars in Odessa told about the incident

- According to him, the ambulance management received lists from the TCC to update the data, and it sent its employees there, promising that going to the TCC would not threaten anything.

- "I got there at 10 a.m., came out at 5 p.m. with a combat summons," the man said. According to him, he signed the summons because the TCC employees threatened not to let him out of the building.

- After that, the ambulance management again promised that they would not take anyone away, but a day later the man's colleague was taken to the VVK as a "dodger" and sent to the training center.

- After the incident, the ambulance management said that now it was "every man for himself. They explained that they send lists to the TCC, but they are not approved there.

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BRICS Bridge: Sustainable payment system ‘outside the sanctions’ field’

The Russian Finance Ministry has announced plans to launch the BRICS Bridge platform, designed to conduct cross-border payments between the member states, which currently include Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Ethiopia.

🌏 According to the ministry, the initiative aims to increase the speed and accessibility of financial transactions, as well as ensuring sustainable payments “outside the sanctions’ field.”

🌏 The platform’s main idea is to use digital financial assets (DFA) issued by the central banks of the BRICS members.

🌏 These assets are supposed to be linked to the member states’ national currencies, which will allow the sides to make payments almost instantly with minimal costs.

🌏 Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov explained that the focus would be put on using modern technological solutions to simplify and improve payments-related procedures rather than creating a single payment instrument for BRICS countries.

🌏 The platform, which will be compatible with traditional real-time payment systems, is still being hammered out, with the Finance Ministry stressing that the project will be implemented on a stage-by-stage basis.

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🇵🇸❌👔🇺🇸🤡 Palestinian protesters interrupted the self-propelled Grandfather’s speech:

“You are an accomplice to genocide!“

To which the “leader of the free world” could only reply with:

“No, no, no, no!”

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⚡️ British Spy Squad Assists Israel's Bombing of Gaza (reports)

Intelligence collection and analysis teams from the US and UK have been in Israel “throughout the war,” a senior Israeli official has revealed. (NYT)

British personnel were “assisting Israeli intelligence in collecting and analysing information related to the hostages, some of them citizens of both countries.”

The Israeli official added that Britain had also “been able to provide intelligence from the air and cyberspace that Israel cannot collect on its own.”

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💸US to Send Another $1.1BN Patriot Defense System to Ukraine

The critical systems are considered incredibly rare, Pentagon officials refuse to disclose how many are in its arsenal, but one senior military person said that the Army has deployed only 14 of them, in the US and around the world.  

It is by far the most expensive single weapon supplied by the US to Kiev, $400mn for the system and $690mn for the missiles.

The new Patriot system would be at least the second that the US has sent to Ukraine.

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