🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Russian motorized rifle units have reached the western border of the Donetsk People's Republic and, alongside armored divisions, are now advancing into Dnepropetrovsk Region, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russia has transferred the remains of [1,212] Ukrainian servicemen killed in action, confirmed Shamsail Saraliev, a State Duma deputy and member of the parliamentary coordination group on the military operation, in comments to RBC.

War correspondent Sasha Kots reports that Russia recieved the bodies of 27 servicemen in return.

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🇷🇴🇷🇸🇺🇦 Alongside Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, Romania’s new president, Nicușor Dan, is also visiting Ukraine today.

They will attend the “Ukraine–Southeastern Europe” summit in Odessa. A similar summit was held last year in Croatia.

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🇫🇷🇬🇧🇵🇱☢️Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said his country had received nuclear security guarantees from France

"I am very proud that we have completed the work and signed the treaty with France. For the first time, we have a commitment from a major nuclear power to fully defend ourselves against attack. We are also completing similar work on a treaty with the UK."

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‼️🇮🇷⚔️🇺🇸 Iranian Defense Minister:

If negotiations fail and war is imposed, we will target American bases[in the region] and the Americans must leave the region.

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🇩🇪German Ambassador to Ukraine Martin Jaeger will be appointed head of German intelligence, Der Spiegel reports, citing a source.

This is Chancellor Merz's decision.

And the current head of the BND, Bruno Kahl, will become Germany's ambassador to the Vatican.

Jaeger has been working in Ukraine since 2023.

"With the help of Martin Jäger, one of the most experienced crisis diplomats at the Foreign Office, the BND is to be reorganized in the coming years. For this purpose, the intelligence service can count on a significant increase in funding. In addition, the federal government intends to give the service more flexibility in matters of espionage abroad and technical intelligence," the newspaper writes.

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🇺🇸🇨🇳 Trump said that the trade agreement between the US and China is ready and awaits final approval at the level of the leaders of the two countries.

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🇩🇪 Senior German Social Democrats Demand Talks With Russia

Several prominent members of Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD), part of the ruling coalition, have issued a public manifesto urging Berlin to restart dialogue with Russia and to abandon the current militarization policy pursued under NATO’s guidance.

As reported by Stern, the signatories strongly oppose the planned deployment of new U.S. intermediate-range missiles in Europe and reject Berlin’s push to raise defense spending to 5% of GDP — calling it "irrational" and detached from Germany's actual defense needs.

Instead, they call for military budgets to be based on realistic security requirements rather than arbitrary GDP percentages.

Crucially, the manifesto underscores the need to reestablish diplomatic dialogue with Moscow to restore peace and security in Europe. The authors warn that "military rhetoric and massive arms programs do not create more security for Germany or Europe — they fuel instability and escalate the sense of mutual threat between NATO and Russia."

The SPD figures further argue that any support to Ukraine must be balanced against the broader and legitimate security interests of all European countries — including Russia. Only on this basis, they say, can a difficult but necessary dialogue with Moscow resume after a ceasefire.

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