These are not shots from a post-apocalyptic movie, this is what the Serebryansky Forest looks like now in the Luhansk region.

Overexcavated land, scarred by shelling, bodies and trees of which only one name remains.

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Russia is advancing on five fronts at once. Now is the most dangerous situation since the beginning of the war - NYT

The publication writes that we are talking about Avdiivka, Maryinka, Robotinsky, Kremenka and Bakhmut directions. In this way, the Russians are trying to regain the territories that the AFU fighters occupied during counter-offensives in 2022 and 2023.

In addition, the material notes that the Russian Armed Forces have concentrated up to 40 thousand troops in the area of Mariupol and about 110 thousand - near Kupyansk and Liman.

"The capture of Avdeevka is the first significant victory of the Russian army since May 2023, when the Russians captured Bakhmut....

And Ukraine's attempts to seize the flanks around Bakhmut have stalled. The initiative has passed to Russia," the NYT also reported.

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Top 20 recipient countries of U.S. aid from 1946 to 2023.

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???? A few hours ago, at least six U.S. Air Force KC-135 refueling planes took off from air bases in Southern California and are heading northeast across the United States. Their route involves crossing the Atlantic Ocean toward Great Britain and Europe, and then possibly heading to the Middle East.

Against this background, Bloomberg says that Biden is about to make the most important decision of his presidency.

- US may launch a direct strike on Iran - Bloomberg.

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Iranian army on alert, air defense units change alert level to red

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"Hit them right now."

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham has called on the U.S. to attack Iran following the deaths of three American soldiers at a military base on the Jordanian-Syrian border.

CNN noted that this is the first official acknowledgement of US military deaths in strikes in the Middle East since the escalation in the Gaza Strip began. Earlier, Biden said "groups loyal to Iran" were responsible for the attack.

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