🇺🇸🇸🇾The US lifted sanctions on some Syrian banks and oil companies

Washington also suspended some restrictions on Damascus for 180 days to provide the country with electricity and improve the humanitarian situation.

🇬🇧🇷🇺Britain is investigating whether Russia may have been involved in the arson attacks on Starmer's homes carried out by Ukrainians.

High-ranking officials told the Financial Times about this.

They said: "British officials are investigating whether actors in Russia may have recruited the trio accused of starting the fires."

Let us recall that three Ukrainian citizens have been detained in this case, one of whom also has Romanian citizenship. However, the British authorities are looking for a "Russian trace".

At the same time, the investigation did not officially comment on the motives of the three Ukrainians.

🇫🇷🇷🇴❗️The head of France's foreign intelligence service, Lerner, came to Romania two days before the presidential elections, Durov reported, citing a Romanian journalist.

"Before his visit, MEP and Macron's closest supporter Valerie Hayer said that everything would be done to ensure that the next president of Romania was pro-European. So what was he doing there after such a promise?" the Telegram founder wrote on social media.

🇷🇺🇨🇳Russia has overtaken China to become the leader in the race to produce and use medium-range FPV drones, The Times reports.

As the publication specified, drones with fiber-optic modifications “change the front line and tactics” of military operations.

🇷🇺🇺🇦Russian military launched a group strike at night on a Ukrainian enterprise producing missile weapons and UAVs, as well as on a Patriot air defense missile system position and a radio-technical intelligence center — Russian Defense Ministry

🇷🇺🇺🇦The Russian Armed Forces have liberated Loknya in the Sumy region, Stupochki and Otradnoye in the DPR, the Russian Defense Ministry reports.