*🇱🇹*🇪🇪🇺🇳 Under pressure from Trump, Lithuania and Estonia have become the first NATO members to commit to raising their defense budgets to 5% of GDP, according to the FT.**

Currently, Lithuania allocates 2.9% of its GDP to defense, while Estonia spends 3.7%, the report notes.

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*⚡️ *Declassified U.S. intelligence documents, released under Trump's order, reveal that President Kennedy was shot by a driver from his own Secret Service detail, who then disappeared. Oswald, forgive us.

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?? The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region have exceeded 53,000 people — Russian Ministry of Defense.

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???? Ukraine wants to bring refugees back from Germany.

To this end, so-called "centers of unity" are planned to be established in Berlin and later in other locations, which will assist refugees with employment, housing, or the opportunity to receive education.

"A significant number of Ukrainians are seriously considering the possibility of returning to their homeland," said Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Chernyshov in an interview with DPA. He heads the Ministry of National Unity, which was established in December specifically for the purpose of returning refugees.

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?? Trump will shut down all inclusivity programs in the federal government after taking office, Fox News reports, citing sources.

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August *6️⃣*. Special military operation progress, stay tuned for tomorrow:

▪️Ukrainian troops shelled border areas of the Kursk region on Tuesday morning and border guards and the military took measures to repel the aggression, Russia's Federal Security Service said.

▪️The defence ministry said Kiev had attacked Russian positions with up to 300 fighters, 11 tanks and more than 20 armoured vehicles.

▪️Forces guarding the state border together with border guards of the Russian Federal Security Service repelled the attacks and hit the enemy in the area and reserves in the Sumy region.

▪️Kiev has already lost 6 tanks, 2 infantry fighting vehicles, 4 armoured personnel carriers, 3 Kozak armoured fighting vehicles.

▪️There has been no reaction from Kiev so far to the conditions for resolving the situation in Ukraine that Putin set out in June, Shoigu said.

▪️The West and its servants in Ukraine are trying at all costs to achieve a pause in hostilities to give the Kiev junta a chance to regroup, Shoigu said.

▪️The Central Group of the Russian Armed Forces liberated Timofeevka in the DPR, the Defence Ministry said in its summary.

▪️Kiev's losses were up to 1,535 servicemen, a tank, an M113 armoured personnel carrier, Braveheart, Paladin, Caesar and three Krab SAUs, the defence ministry said.

▪️The Russian military destroyed two Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter jets at the base airfield, the Russian Defence Ministry said.

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