Treasury Secretary Bessent said the US is considering lifting sanctions on Russian oil to ease a temporary global supply shortage. Hundreds of millions of barrels of sanctioned crude are currently at sea; lifting sanctions would create immediate supply, Bessent said.
Ukraine's SBU has released exclusive footage of today's prisoner exchange, carried out on the orders of President Zelensky by the Joint Center for POW Search and Release and the POW Coordination Headquarters.
Finland plans to lift its ban on hosting nuclear weapons for the first time since 1987 to strengthen NATO defense, Defense Minister Antti Hakkanen announced.
❗️Trump said Mojtaba Khamenei's leadership is unacceptable and that he personally must have a role in selecting Iran's next supreme leader, comparing it to what was done in Venezuela. Like a true dictator. #Iran
Despicable, without any moral boundaries. Everything to win him the election in April, which he will lose. Hungarian PM Orban said he visited two Hungarian prisoners of war released by Russia, saying they are "finally safe, under our protection."
❗️Zelensky said Ukraine wants to quietly receive Patriot missiles from partner countries in exchange for interceptor drones, noting Middle East countries fired 800 PAC-3 missiles in three days, more than Ukraine has had in its entire war.
Confirmed: 200 Ukrainian prisoners of war have returned home from Russian captivity, Zelensky said, thanking the United States for supporting the exchange. Returnees include defenders of Mariupol, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia.
Confirmed: 200 Ukrainian prisoners of war have returned home from Russian captivity, Zelensky said, thanking the United States for supporting the exchange. Returnees include defenders of Mariupol, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia.
US military transport aircraft were spotted at a very low altitude in the deserts of Najaf, Iraq. Yesterday, there were rumors that US special forces landed and got into clashes with the Iraqi government forces.
Azerbaijani President Aliyev said Azerbaijan will not participate in any operation against Iran but demanded an apology and explanation over the drone strikes on his country.
The State Department is sending extra staff to Athens to aid stranded Americans as CENTCOM requests more military intelligence officers to support Iran operations for at least 100 days, Politico reported. One State Department official said relatively few people had been read in on war plans, which contributed to delays on evacuation orders and travel alerts.The State Department said its task force...
Iraqi PM told Iran's Foreign Minister Araghchi that Iraq will not allow any threat against Iran to originate from its borders. Araghchi said Iranians are determined to defend their national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
❗️Iranian officials seem to confirm something is happening along their border. Iran's Foreign Minister Araghchi called Patriotic Union of Kurdistan leader Bafel Talabani, citing "terrorist movements" on shared borders and urging stronger cooperation under their bilateral security agreement.
Slovakia's government approved the termination of emergency electricity supply to Ukraine, with state company SEPS set to cancel its contract with Ukrenergo, Dennik N reported. Ukrenergo said the move will not affect Ukraine's energy grid as the supply was already limited.
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