🇺🇦✈️ Ignat explained why the Swedish Gripen are the most optimal fighters for Ukraine

‼️ Our pilots have already mastered the Gripen. He noted that these aircraft are suitable, firstly, because of the relatively cheap maintenance.

"There is such a position as a flight hour. How much does a flight hour of Gripen and F-35 cost? There is a significant difference," he said.

Secondly, Gripen is also suitable because it can easily use Ukrainian airports.

🇺🇸🇨🇳 The Trump administration is weighing new export restrictions on goods made with US software — from laptops to jet engines — as retaliation for China’s rare earth export curbs, - Reuters

❗️🇺🇸 Rutte supports Trump's call to stop the war in Ukraine on the front lines:

🗣️"Stop where you are - that's the main message. And again, we will continue the dialogue this afternoon, and I'm here to help him do everything that NATO can do - to help him realize this vision."

👀 The US carried out a new strike against a suspected drug trafficking boat in the Eastern Pacific.

🇪🇺🇺🇦 Ukraine is urging European countries not to limit its use of a proposed $163 billion loan based on frozen Russian state assets, arguing that it needs to be able to buy non-European arms, repair war damage from Russian attacks and compensate victims, - Reuters

With EU leaders to discuss the "Reparations Loan" to Kyiv on Thursday at talks attended by Ukraine's president, some states suggest the funds be spent mainly on European-made weapons to boost their defence industries as threats from Russia grow.

👀❗️Three bills designed to ramp up pressure on Russia are teed up to pass the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on Wednesday, - Axios

▪️One would label Russia a state sponsor of terrorism over kidnapped Ukrainian children.
▪️Another would impose economic penalties on China for its support of Russia's war effort.
▪️A third bill repurposes frozen Russian assets held in the U.S. and then transfers them to Ukraine every 90 days.

😎👌 They raised their hands, white rags and went into captivity "in packs": in the Dobropillya direction, more than 50 Russians were captured.

🇺🇦 This was made possible thanks to the liberation of the settlement of Kucheriv Yar

🇺🇦⚔️ European allies have already purchased $2 billion worth of American weapons for Ukraine, - NATO Secretary General Rutte

🤩 Strike on Russians during unload of ammunition in Oleshky, - 406th Artillery Brigade.

😔 Moment of explosion in Kyiv during night shelling…

🇸🇪🇺🇦 Zelensky: We signed a letter of intent between Ukraine and Sweden on cooperation in the field of air capabilities development with the Prime Minister of Sweden. A document that paves the way for Ukraine to receive Gripen combat aircraft.

We also met with the owner of the Swedish aerospace and defense company Saab AB. Gripen aircraft, anti-drone and reconnaissance systems, simulators for training military pilots - we saw the company's production facilities with our own eyes.

🇮🇳👀 Indian President helicopter got stuck in fresh concrete poured just hours before landing.

🇺🇸🇺🇦 The first package of weapons from the US, paid for under PURL, has already been sent to Ukraine, - Rutte

💬 "European allies are increasing spending on ensuring the security of Ukraine after a long-term ceasefire or peace agreement," Rutte added.