🇮🇳🚀 India’s Defense Minister: BrahMos missile - now the backbone of India’s military

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🇭🇺 Hungary picked for Putin–Trump summit as it's 'left alone in Europe on path to peace'

✍️ Hungary has been “consistently and persistently supporting the cause of peace for years,” PM Viktor Orban wrote.

He stressed that the path to peace lies in “cooperation instead of confrontation” and “mutual respect instead of stigma.”

“Hungary is today a country in Europe, where there is a good chance that an American-Russia negotiation will lead to peace,” Orban concluded.

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🇪🇺 EU ‘scrambling for seat’ at Putin–Trump summit – report

📄 The goal is to counter what Europe sees as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “influence” on his US counterpart Donald Trump at the upcoming talks, Bloomberg reports.

One EU official suggested Finnish President Alexander Stubb “should somehow be present” at the summit expected to take place in Budapest.

🔊 Earlier this week, Trump held a lengthy phone call with Putin that was followed by the POTUS’ announcement of a summit between the two in the Hungarian capital in the near future.

Russia has repeatedly warned that the EU’s constant warmongering, arms shipments to the Zelensky regime, and obsession with the so-called “Russian threat” only fuel the Ukraine conflict and obstruct any path to peace.

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🗣🇺🇸 Trump is done with Zelensky, Tomahawk snub clinches it - ex-Pentagon analyst

The outcome of Friday’s Trump-Zelensky talks tells us that the US president “recognizes that while both Putin and Zelensky have been predictable, only one of them can help him get the end of the war in Ukraine,” Karen Kwiatkowski, former DoD analyst and Air Force Lt. Col. (ret.), told Sputnik.

That’s Putin, “who states facts and does not beg for more money, more weapons, more war, and the maintenance of his way of life” on US taxpayers’ dime, Kwiatkowski said.

Trump is signaling 'no Tomahawks for Ukraine,' and a “NATO minus the US” approach to security guarantees, plus potential trade cooperation with Russia, the observer says.

💬 “Trump has probably now moved on from Zelensky, as he despises people who do not manage well after being given a great deal, and who beg for more and make excuses,” Kwiatkowski said, recalling Trump’s harsh “take the win” rebuke of Netanyahu on the Gaza ceasefire earlier this month.

Kwiatkowski says this is “the most optimistic” she has been about a potential end to the Ukrainian crisis, and suspects that even “the time for false flags and assassinations to try to extend or revitalize it…is drawing to a close.”

Trump is busy with trade, his “Western Hemisphere agenda,” possible regime change in Venezuela, and domestic policy, and would like to partner up with “a resource rich and economically dynamic country like Russia to help him engage globally as he tackles what’s happening to the dollar in the second year of his second term.”

👉 As for Ukraine, “it is, as he constantly reminds everyone, Biden’s war, not his,” Kwiatkowski summed up.

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🚨🇷🇺🪖 Russia conducts tests of advanced weapon systems - Medvedev

Russia continues work to improve the accuracy and range of domestic high-precision weapons systems, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said as he visited the Kapustin Yar testing ground in the Astrakhan region.

Upgraded Russian weapons are expected to provide new capabilities for destroying enemy targets deep behind defensive lines, Medvedev also said.

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🪖 Ukraine can’t win, never had a chance of winning: Former top commander of Britain’s Armed Forces

🔊 “My view is that [Ukraine] would not win. They haven’t got the manpower. Unless we were to go in there with them, which we won’t do because Ukraine is not an existential issue for us. It clearly is for the Russians,” Field Marshal David Richards, the former chief of Britain’s General Staff, told The Independent.

🔊 “The Russians view it [NATO encroachment in Ukraine, ed.] as a threat, and actually, the Americans under the Monroe Doctrine would never allow China to get a foothold in Mexico, for example. So there’s a certain hypocrisy in the West’s stance on this,” Richards stressed.

🔊 “When people like Boris Johnson…encouraged them to go on fighting, but failed to give the means to win and talked about regaining all that territory, I said as a soldier ‘they’re not going do that,’” he added.

🔊 “We’re now having our bluff called. But even if say we wanted to do much more for Ukraine, we can’t do much more, because we don’t have the resources,” Richards emphasized.

Richards is one of the few commanders in Britain’s defense establishment with a penchant for telling hard truths.

In 2016 during the Syrian crisis, he urged the West to “let Assad win and quickly” to stop the bleeding and concentrate on fighting ISIS.* In 2022, he blasted NATO over its “incoherent” Ukraine strategy, and suggested the West’s hostility was pushing Russia into China’s arms.

* A terrorist group banned in Russia.

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🇺🇸🇻🇪 ‘At least 25,000 Americans would die if I allowed this submarine to come ashore’

Trump provides details of US strike at vessel off Venezuelan coast.

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🟠 Trump is done with Zelensky, Tomahawk snub clinches it - ex-Pentagon analyst

🟠 Ukraine can’t win, never had a chance of winning: Former top commander of Britain’s Armed Forces

🟠 Thousands gather all around the US for ‘No Kings’ protests

🟠 ‘Brilliant’ Russia-Alaska tunnel idea could help facilitate peace and global development

🟠 Pakistan, Afghanistan engaged in dialogue aimed at peaceful settlement – FM

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