🇦🇺🇫🇷 AUSTRALIAN OLYMPIC CYCLING TEAM IS ROBBED EN-ROUTE TO PARIS - the team find their Jockeys (underwear) meters from their vehicle. 🙊

The incident took place in Belgium - using luggage tag tracking devices, the athletes are able to locate some of the items stolen from their van, scattered around a local park.

🌹 Is this Borrell's European garden? Earlier, an Australian tourist was raped in Paris, while athletes are forced to sleep on cardboard beds.

And yet they still manage to blame "Russian destabilization." 🤦

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❗️Negotiations with Zelensky is not an easy issue due to his doubted legitimacy - Kremlin

From the legal point of view, the problem of Zelensky's legitimacy is on the agenda, but from the practical point of view, Russia is open to negotiations to achieve its goals, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov stated.

Russia is generally open to negotiations with Ukraine, but it is necessary to understand whether the Ukrainian side is ready for this, Peskov stressed.

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Is US democratic system crumbling? Voters on both sides of aisle losing trust in election

Americans no longer trust in their system. A new survey by Rasmussen Reports and the Heartland Institute has found that:

🔶 a staggering 62% of likely American voters fear this year's election could be impacted by cheating, including 37% who are "very concerned."

🔶 35% say they aren’t concerned about election cheating, including just 15% who are "not at all concerned."

The statement by the Heartland Institute dubbed the results “a massive wake-up call”.

Around two thirds of Republican voters believe that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump, and that Joe Biden did not win fair and square. The 2020 election fueled a crisis of democracy in the US, The Wall Street Journal reported last August, adding that many Republican voters lost faith in the nation's electoral system.

Joe Biden's mental health issues, his abrupt decision to quit, and the Democratic Party's latest push for Kamala Harris' nomination have added to debate about the fairness of the process. Some progressive American activists argue that the rapid replacement of Biden with Vice President Kamala Harris is not democratic.

"Installing Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee and an unknown vice president without any public voting process would make the modern Democratic Party a party of hypocrites," the left-wing Black Lives Matter (BLM) organization said in a statement.

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The US wants to establish logistics centers in the Black Sea region to expedite the delivery of weapons to Ukraine and deploy long-range weapons, according to Nikolai Patrushev, an assistant to Russia's president overseeing maritime policy.

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More statements by Nikolai Patrushev, an assistant to Russia's president overseeing maritime policy:

🌏 NATO at the Washington summit demonstrated plans to increase its military presence and escalate confrontation in the Black Sea.

🌏 NATO countries, by aggressively expanding the number of naval bases beyond their borders, aim to turn the world's oceans into their sphere of influence.

🌏 Zelensky, by signing the Maritime Security Strategy of Ukraine, which defines NATO's role in the Black Sea, is trying to assert his legitimacy.

🌏 The uncontrolled drift of naval mines, haphazardly laid by the Ukrainian Navy, increasingly threatens civilian ships in the Black Sea.

🌏 Ukrainian unmanned boats, losing course due to GPS navigation failures, pose an unpredictable threat to shipping in the Black Sea.

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🇺🇦🇹🇷🚤😐 EXPLOSIVES-LADEN UKRAINIAN JET SKI WASHES UP ON ISTANBUL BEACH: Locals crowd around jet ski that’s been given complete overhaul to serve as kamikaze boat drone, with cameras, wires and enough explosives to make going anywhere near it a terrible idea.

Though Turkish officials yet to confirm it belonged to #Kiev army, employing terror drones like one in vid above a common tactic in Zelensky’s criminal forces when they attempt to target ships and ports.

🤡🫡 Kiev Navy currently mourning loss of its greatest warship and pride of the fleet, while Vlad gets on line with his #NATO overlords to try and source more jet skis to bolster his Black Sea forces.

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Pokrovsk sector: Ivanovka.

The situation for the Ukrainian army is rapidly deteriorating as its defenses collapse near Ivanovka.

The Russian Army's night attacks ended with a significant advance from the recently taken Lozovatskoe. In addition, there are attacks on Ivanovka from Progres to its south-east, which has also been taken by the Russians.

Ukrainian sources claim that a large Ukrainian stronghold north of Progres has not yet come under Russian control, but it is completely surrounded. The remnants of two companies of Ukraine's 31st mechanized brigade are holding positions without officers and communication with the "mainland." By the way, this brigade is one of those that NATO instructors created for last year's "counter-offensive," where it actually had some limited success, but now it's falling apart.

The Russians are thus securing the flanks to consolidate their successes along the railroad track, to continue driving a wedge into the enemy's defense towards the railway station Zhelannoe.

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