🗣🇺🇦🤡🤝🏻🇵🇱🤡 Former Ukrainian president and drug addict Volodymyr Zelensky and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk have met in Warsaw, where the pair signed a security agreement between their two countries.

At the end of June, Tusk revealed that he would meet with Zelensky before the NATO summit in Washington, which will start tomorrow. However, the fact that the meeting would take place in Warsaw today was only announced this morning.

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🇺🇦❌🇺🇦➡️🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺 Kharkov - The TCC butchers found another “Ukrainian patriot” ‘willing’ to die for Zelensky.

❗️Kidnap is ‘willing conscription’ right?

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From zero to "hero" in five weeks: Why NATO training doesn't help Ukrainians

Over 40,000 Ukrainian troops have completed training as part of the UK-led Operation Interflex, Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said during a press conference with his British counterpart John Healy in Odessa on July 7.

What's wrong with the much-touted NATO training of Ukrainian troops and can it prove effective?

▪️Operation Interflex, launched in June 2022, was designed to train ordinary Ukrainian men and women with little to no previous military experience "to survive and be effective in frontline combat," as per the UK government's website.

▪️Interflex's course is delivered over five weeks and includes "weapons handling, battlefield first aid, Law of Armed Conflict training, patrol tactics and rural environment training."

▪️Retired US Army Major General Paul E. Vallely and ex-Pentagon analyst Michael Maloof explained to Sputnik that it's virtually impossible to turn a Ukrainian soldier from zero to hero in five weeks or so.

▪️The training Ukrainian troops receive in different NATO countries also lacks uniformity which complicates combat coordination, CIA veteran Larry Johnson told Sputnik.

▪️Battlefield assessment by Germany’s Bundeswehr leaked during Kiev's botched counteroffensive in July 2023 said the Ukrainian military was failing to implement NATO training.

▪️Ukrainian soldiers slammed NATO training for being "rigid", "ineffective", and taken from manuals that were at odds with the realities on the ground in Ukraine.

▪️Politico reported in September 2023 that Ukrainian soldiers' training was based on NATO counterinsurgency warfare in Afghanistan and Iraq.

▪️Jack Watling of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) wrote in July 2023 that NATO troops and instructors appear unprepared for conventional warfare. Much of the training provided has been poorly designed and complicated by "bureaucratic constraints," as per the British analyst.

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🇷🇺🇮🇳 All-weather friends Russia and India continue to deepen cooperation

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold talks on July 9 within the framework of Modi's two-day visit to Russia. The last time Putin welcomed Modi in Russia was in 2019, while in September 2022 the two leaders met at a Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Uzbekistan. They have met 16 times since Modi assumed office.

How have Russo-India relations evolved?

▪️Despite the West calling upon India to join anti-Russia sanctions, trade turnover between the two leaped in 2023, reaching a record $65 billion and increasing 1.8 times compared to 2022. Russian exports reached $60.9 billion (+79.1 percent), supplies of Indian goods increased to $4.1 billion (+41.4 percent).

▪️Russia is India's fourth-largest trading partner after the US, China and the UAE. Russia is India's second largest partner in terms of volume of imported products (after China).

▪️India's crude oil imports from Russia have risen to 1.97 million barrels per day (mbpd) in June and constitute roughly 40 percent of the country's oil imports. It's the biggest buyer of Russia's seaborne crude despite the West's shipping sanctions against Moscow.

▪️India and Russia cooperate closely in a vast variety of international platforms, including the UN, G20, BRICS and SCO. India's presidency of the G20 and SCO in 2023 saw increased communications between the countries' officials.

▪️The two countries are continuing to enhance defense cooperation under the Agreement on the Program for Military Technical Cooperation for 2021-2031. Russia is India's largest arms supplier.

▪️Ahead of his July 8-9 visit to Russia, Modi hailed the "special and privileged strategic partnership between India and Russia," in an official statement.

▪️"Modi’s Russia visit showcases the importance of India-Russia ties for India, especially in energy and defense," as per the Indian press.

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🇺🇦🫴🏻 🇫🇲 Like clockwork, Andriy Yermak, the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, starts coping ahead of the NATO summit.

Russia’s strikes in occupied Kiev are “a threat to the whole world”.

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🇷🇺🇮🇳 Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi meet over tea at Putin's residence in Novo-Ogarevo.

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