🇷🇺🇺🇦 Destruction of a Ukrainian tank in the Zaporozhye direction.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Destruction of Ukrainian infantry and equipment in Pyatikhatki, Zaporozhye region.

🇺🇸🇨🇳💵 The hegemonic power of the USD has been steadily declining while the RMB has been on a rising path. This tendency could replace unipolarity in the financial world, creating a multipolar harmony, writes Levente Horváth, Director of Eurasia Center.

📎 Eurasia Magazine

🇷🇺🇺🇦 BMP-2M of the Pskov Airborne Forces mows down khokhols in the forests near Kremennaya.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 In Ukraine, they recognized the strikes of the Russian Armed Forces on the headquarters of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, but stated that they "did not reach the goal", hinting that Budanov was alive.

Previously, three weeks went into denial😁

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirms the loss of part of the positions in the forest area west of Kremennaya and the advance of the RF Armed Forces in the Krasnoliman direction. The counterattacks undertaken to stabilize the front did not bring success to the enemy.

🇪🇺🍽 It seems that people in France and Germany collectively decided to lose weight 👇 But seriously, anybody surprised about the rise of right and left populism?

🔗 Michael Arouet

🇬🇧 🍽 People turn to microwave meals as prices soar

Grocery price inflation has slowed to its lowest level since the start of 2023, it said, but remains very high.

Nearly 70% of households say they are "extremely" or "very" worried about rising food prices, it added.

"People are thinking more and more about what they eat and how they cook as the cost of living crisis takes its toll on traditional behaviours," said Fraser McKevitt, head of retail and consumer insight at Kantar.

"The most prominent change we've seen is that people are preparing simpler dishes with fewer ingredients.

"We also saw a reduction in hob use and a rise in food prepared with toasters and grills."

People have been looking to cut back on their energy bills after prices soared following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and microwaves consume far less energy than conventional ovens.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65954252

🇷🇺🇺🇦 As the Ukrainian offensive begins to culminate well short of its intended objectives, Ukrainian channels have begun to analyze their failures and it provides an interesting insight into the operational difficulties the AFU now finds itself in. ZeRada has this to say:

1️⃣Complete absence of surprise effect. The APU went where they were expected. Why the hell did the speakers of the OP announce an offensive there in six months? The question is open.

2️⃣Mistakes in the general planning of the operation. Kharkov relaxed. The command expected that the battle of the Sea of ​​Azov would be the same easy walk. There are no tactical surprises at all‼️

3️⃣Underestimation of the engineer-sapper training of the enemy. Conspiracy theorists even wrote that the Russian Armed Forces carried out mining covertly. This, of course, is nonsense. It’s just that even theoretically SUCH total mining was not calculated, although the Tsar trench was visible even from space.

4️⃣The RF Armed Forces were able to produce and accumulate a sufficient amount of guided weapons, both ground and air based. The equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that passed the first minefields was met by Kornets and their counterparts.

5️⃣Echeloned EW front cover by the defenders. Combined-arms systems are also operating, and, which was completely unexpected, trench EW of the RF Armed Forces, which were not often seen before. The Armed Forces of Ukraine faced a loss of communication during the offensive, and FPV drones were ineffective.

6️⃣Massive use of guided bombs. Even at the stage of preparing the offensive, the Aerospace Forces knocked out warehouses and accumulations of equipment with UABs and KABs, preventing them from concentrating normally for a full-fledged strike. Residents of Berdyansk and Primorsk say that after the start of the Sushka offensive, they began to fly even more often. The Aerospace Forces do not spare for the key targets of planning bombs.

7️⃣ Alligators. Ka-52 are back in the game. Since the beginning of the great war, they have been written off by drone aficionados. But during the offensive, they were able to fully cover their troops, as if in a shooting range, knocking out the armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with impunity. Arestovich's stories about 6 downed Alligats are not confirmed by anything at all, except for his and Malyar's statements.

8️⃣Deficiency of air defense. A couple of months before the start of the offensive, the command of the Russian Federation declared the main priority of the radar and air defense systems of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. During this time, they managed to knock out a large number of complexes and their components. Therefore, when the offensive began, the infantry of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on the contrary, was left without cover. During the Battle of the Sea of ​​Azov, not a single helicopter was shot down.

9️⃣ The human factor. One and a half years of war are beginning to affect the quality of personnel. Mariupol and Bakhmut, Lisichansk and Severodonetsk, Marinka and Vuhledar - the Armed Forces of Ukraine have lost a huge number of military personnel, volunteers and ideological fighters. Tankers and attack aircraft, even trained in the West, but consisting of mobilized citizens simply do not want to die. They sometimes break and abandon equipment (as the world press wrote about), refuse to follow orders.

Any subsequent offensive actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine MUST take into account the above factors. Otherwise, this will continue to be not an offensive, but the destruction of our own troops.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The short version

🇺🇸🇲🇽 Senators urge Biden admin to slap sanctions, visa bans on Mexican officials to force action against cartels

In a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, senators led by Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., say that the administration’s approach to diplomacy with Mexico has downplayed the Mexican president’s "provocations" and accommodated "his insistence on fundamentally negotiating security cooperation with the United States."

"President Lopez Obrador has proven unresponsive to the administration’s policy to date," the Republicans wrote. "Despite the Executive Branch’s overtures and attempts at accommodation, he has clearly made the deliberate choice to pursue a permissive and non-confrontational policy toward the cartels, to turn a blind eye toward pervasive corruption in Mexico, and to downgrade counter-narcotics cooperation with the United States."

The letter is co-signed by Sens. James Risch, R-Idaho, Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and John Barrasso, R-Wyo.

- Fox News

⚡️🇺🇸🇲🇽 Diplomatic tools today become the pretext for a war tomorrow.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 FPV drone strikes on Ukrainian armored vehicles. As a result of one of the hits, the BMP-2 of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was burned.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 "The old, unmarked graves of those who died in past wars will be dug up to make way for a seemingly endless stream of the dead."

This grim phrase is a quote from a recent New York Times article. The fact that there are no more places in the cemetery of Lviv for the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who died during the counteroffensive.

Reporters from the American edition cite the words of locals who were at the funeral of the military. One woman who lost her 30-year-old son says: "The best of the best died. He graduated from the university. He had an honors degree. Why did he die?" Another: "It's so hard to think - last summer there were so few of them [the dead - approx.], and now there are so many of them."