Dramatic moment AI drones strike Russian armoured vehicles on Kharkiv border

Trump wants a deadline for Peace Russia/Ukraine

Trump cites tens of thousands dead each month as he presses Kyiv and Moscow toward a deal

President Trump told reporters that tens of thousands of people are dying each month in the Ukraine-Russia war, and he wants Zelenskyy and Putin to settle before winter.

Standing on the White House South Lawn as he departed Saturday, President Donald Trump put hard numbers on the bloodshed and made plain what he wants next from both sides.

Fox News reported that Trump said last month alone brought 25,000 deaths in the Ukraine-Russia war, with 32,000 the month before that and 33,000 two months ago. He framed the toll as a reason to end the fighting, not prolong it.

“Last month, 25,000 people died in the Ukraine-Russia war, OK? Twenty-five thousand,” Trump said.

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Russia testing NATO defense

Russian warplanes spark first joint Finnish-Swedish scramble as Putin mocks European warnings

Finnish and Swedish fighter jets scrambled together for the first time to intercept Russian warplanes over the Gulf of Finland, as Putin dismissed European security warnings as political clowning.

It wasn't clowning when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.

On Sept. 24, Finnish F/A-18 Hornets and Swedish JAS 39 Gripens launched after detecting a Russian military formation in international airspace over the Gulf of Finland, Fox News reported.

The Russian group included a Tu-134 transport plane, MiG-31 interceptors, and Su-30 multirole fighters. It was the first joint scramble of its kind by the two Nordic air forces since both joined NATO.

The intercept landed amid a string of airspace incidents along the alliance’s eastern flank and fresh Russian denials that Moscow has any plan to strike Europe.

Finland joined NATO in April 2023 as the alliance’s 31st member, roughly doubling NATO’s land border with Russia. Sweden followed in March 2024 as the 32nd. Both countries spent years outside the alliance. Now their fighters are flying the same mission on short notice.

On Sept. 18, less than a week before the Finnish-Swedish scramble, armed Russian jets entered Estonian airspace and were intercepted by NATO aircraft. That incident sits in the same stretch of tense weeks as the Gulf of Finland flight.

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Lindsey Graham's legacy invoked on the House floor--262/159

House sends sweeping Russia-Iran sanctions bill to Trump's desk in honor of late Sen. Lindsey Graham

The House passed the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act by a 262, 159 vote Wednesday, sending a bill that authorizes tariffs of up to 100 percent on countries buying Russian energy to President Trump, who is expected to sign it into law.

The legislation clears Congress with broad bipartisan margins after the Senate approved it last month 86, 11. It marks the final major piece of unfinished business championed by the late Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who died at 71 following a trip to Ukraine where he pressed lawmakers to act on the very sanctions package that now bears his name.

Rep. Michael McCaul, the Texas Republican who led the floor fight for passage, framed the vote in personal and strategic terms. He told colleagues the bill would force Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table and keep his ambitions in check, preventing him from pushing deeper into Eastern Europe.

McCaul did not let the moment pass without honoring the man whose name is on the bill. As the New York Post reported, McCaul delivered a direct appeal to his colleagues:

"Lindsey Graham once said this bill would be his great achievement. I can think of no better way... to honor his life and his legacy than by passing these tough sanctions."

He added a broader call to action.

"Evil is on the march, history is calling, and now is the time to act."

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Zelensky knocking out diesel fuel in Russia

Trump Calls on Zelenskyy to Stop Attacks on Russian Diesel Facilities

Diesel prices in the United States hit their highest ever on Sunday

U.S. President Donald Trump has called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to stop targeting Russian diesel fuel as the attacks are causing a global shortage and diesel in the United States has hit a record high.

Zelenskyy “has to do one thing—he has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia,” Trump told reporters on the sidelines of the Irish Open, adding that he had spoken to the Ukrainian president about it. “There are plenty of other targets. Don’t hit diesel fuel, because that’s hurting the world.”

Ukraine has targeted Russia’s oil and gas industry for months with long-range attacks and Russia has responded with fuel rationing. In July, Russia banned diesel exports.

Diesel in the United States rose to $6.20 a gallon on average on Sept. 13, a new record, while regular gas is selling for $4.31 a gallon on average, according to American Automobile Association.

Zelenskyy has defended Ukraine’s tactics of striking Russian refineries.

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Zelensky's plane near miss by Russian Drone

Russian drone nearly hit Zelenskyy's plane during takeoff from Moldova, Norwegian PM reveals

A Russian drone came dangerously close to striking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's aircraft as it prepared to leave Moldova for a state funeral in Norway, an incident the Kremlin dismissed as a staged provocation.

Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre disclosed the near-miss on Wednesday, telling Norwegian public broadcaster NRK that Zelenskyy's plane was "almost hit by a drone as it was about to take off from Moldova." Støre did not specify how close the drone came to the aircraft. But his account was blunt.

"His plane was almost hit by a drone as it was about to take off from Moldova. That is the reality he is facing."

Zelenskyy had traveled to Moldova en route to Oslo for the state funeral of Norway's King Harald V. His departure from Chișinău International Airport, Moldova's main civilian hub, was delayed Tuesday afternoon after Russian drones entered Moldovan airspace, forcing authorities to shut down all flights. Incoming planes were placed in holding patterns or diverted to neighboring countries.

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Ret General Michael Flynn got screwed

Michael Flynn: newly declassified FBI notes prove he never should have been charged

Retired General Michael Flynn says fully unredacted FBI interview notes, released this week by the White House, show the bureau's own agents knew he did not lie, and that he would never have accepted his 2018 guilty plea had he seen the evidence at the time.

The Trump administration's Government Transparency Task Force on Wednesday declassified the complete, unredacted handwritten and typed notes from Flynn's January 24, 2017 FBI interview, documents that had been partially blacked out for years, even from Flynn's own defense team. Flynn, appearing on the Just the News, No Noise television show that evening, said the newly visible material changes the entire picture of his prosecution under Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

The core of Flynn's argument is simple: the agents' own contemporaneous notes show he gave hedged, qualified answers about his December 2016 phone call with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, answers the FBI then repackaged into flat denials in the official typed summary filed weeks later. That repackaging, Flynn contends, manufactured the false-statement charge that upended his life.

Handwritten notes versus the official FBI summary--Two FBI agents, Peter Strzok and Joe Pientka, sat across from Flynn in that January 2017 interview. Both took handwritten notes. The FBI later produced a typed summary called an FD-302, the bureau's standard interview report. The FD-302 was not entered into the FBI's system until more than 20 days after the sit-down.

Strzok's text messages and the 20-day gap--

The delay between the interview and the filing of the FD-302 has long raised questions. Text messages between Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page, publicly exposed in 2020, shed light on why. Strzok told Page he was "trying not to completely revise" the summary because of its poor original state. Page, who did not attend the Flynn interview, also provided edits, the messages show.

An FBI lawyer who was not in the room editing the official record of a witness interview, weeks after the fact, is not standard procedure. It is the kind of irregularity that, in any other context, would prompt serious questions about the reliability of the document.

In Flynn's case, that document became the evidentiary foundation for a federal felony charge.

Flynn said the declassified documents contain information he had never seen before. "There is a lot of new information that I was not aware of," he said. What specific sections were previously hidden behind redactions, and why the FBI kept them blacked out for years, even from the defendant, remain open questions.

The government eventually paid Flynn $1.2 million and walked away from the conviction.

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Russia now helping Iran

Russia Reportedly Resupplying Iran as US-Russia Tensions Persist

Russia is reportedly shipping drone components, ammunition, and explosives to Iran to help Tehran replenish military stockpiles damaged by U.S. and Israeli strikes, according to NBC News.

NBC News reported Tuesday that the shipments are traveling across the Caspian Sea to Iran's Amirabad port, citing a document from a European government that the network said was verified by a Western official.

More than two dozen Russian vessels have reportedly transported the materials, with many of the ships operating under U.S. or European sanctions, according to NBC.

The reported shipments include drone components, small-arms ammunition and TNT, which NBC said is used in Iranian ballistic missile warheads and drones.

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Russia and North Korea more involved in Ukraine War

Russia is firing North Korean missiles at Ukraine, Zelenskyy claims, as more overnight attacks kill 9

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of using North Korean ballistic missiles in its attacks, as another night of bombardment killed at least nine civilians and injured dozens of others.

Zelenskyy said Russian forces used ballistic missiles supplied by North Korea in their attack on the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, where local officials said six people were killed and 19 wounded.

"Every step Russia takes — increasing ballistic missile production, bringing in North Korean equipment, preparing for mobilization — all of this shows that Moscow is preparing not for peace, but for escalation," Zelenskyy said on social media.

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Senate Sanctons Russia and Iran

Senate Passes Bill to Impose New Sanctions on Russia and Iran

The bill must next go to a vote in the House of Representatives before the president can sign it into action.

The Senate on Aug. 7 overwhelmingly passed a bill to impose new sanctions against Russia and Iran.

In an 86–11 vote, the Senate passed the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia Act of 2026. The bill still needs to pass a vote in the House of Representatives before it can go to President Donald Trump for his signature.

The late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who died on July 11, had sponsored legislation to raise economic sanctions on Russia, as punishment for the ongoing war in Ukraine. The bill was revised and renamed in Graham’s honor following his death.

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Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act passes Senate

Senate advances Lindsey Graham's Russia sanctions bill hours after his funeral

The U.S. Senate cleared a major procedural hurdle on the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act with an 86, 12 vote, just hours after lawmakers attended the late senator's funeral at Washington National Cathedral.

Senators filed from the cathedral to the Capitol on Tuesday and did something rare in modern Washington: they voted overwhelmingly, across party lines, to advance a sweeping sanctions package that the late South Carolina Republican had spent his final days pushing toward the finish line.

The 86, 12 tally was not close. It was a statement.

The bill bearing Graham's name targets Russian oil and gas exports, extends existing sanctions on Iran's energy and weapons sectors, and hands President Trump authority to impose tariffs of up to 100 percent on the five largest purchasers of Russian crude, a provision aimed squarely at China and India.

It also imposes primary and secondary sanctions on Russian officials, oligarchs, their family members, Russian banks, and the so-called Russian Shadow Fleet of tankers used to skirt existing restrictions.

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Ukraine Strikes Russian Oil Refineries Deep Inside Russia

Vladimir Putin admitted that Russia is experiencing “problems” in its war with Ukraine

Kyiv’s drone strikes destroyed more oil depots on Sunday

He made what appeared to be a rare admission of setbacks, commenting on the latest round of Ukraine’s retaliatory strikes on Russia’s energy infrastructure.

The air attacks have intensified with fighting along the front line having largely reached a stalemate, and Russia reportedly suffering 30,000 casualties a month.

“Yes, we see the problems, we are aware of them and are responding to them, but we will certainly ensure the security of both the country and our citizens, as well as the inviolability of Russia’s borders,” Putin said at the congress of United Russia, his ruling party.

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Ceasefire in Ukraine discussed on Trump's birthday

Birthday calls turned into peace talks

President Donald Trump spent part of his 80th birthday on the phone with two of the biggest names in the Ukraine war, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. That alone is news.

In a world where most leaders act like a quick call is some great diplomatic sacrifice, Trump was reportedly pressing both sides on the same issue: stopping the bloodshed. According to Kremlin adviser Yuri Ushakov, Trump told Putin that ending the conflict in Ukraine was vital and said he was ready to help. The conversation lasted 55 minutes, which is longer than many modern politicians can stay focused on one problem, let alone a war.

Moscow says Trump wants the fighting to stop.

Ushakov said Trump stressed that a ceasefire was important and that he was prepared to work with European partners and Kyiv, including talks at the G7 summit in France.

Reuters reported that Trump also said a quick resolution could open the door to a better U.S.-Russia relationship. That is not exactly the usual Washington script, where peace tends to get buried under talking points, filters, and three layers of staff approval.

If the reports are accurate, Trump is once again trying to force the conversation back toward results instead of endless speeches about how “concerned” everyone is while the war keeps grinding on.

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Democrats - Embracing the Past

Zelensky complains about the U.S. again

The United States' shift in focus to the Middle East has reduced pressure on Russia>

Zelenky said these risks prolong the war, and Moscow will not move toward peace without stronger action from Washington.

"We all want to stop this war," Zelenskyy told Newsmax's Shelby Wilder in an interview conducted at the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant on Sunday that aired Wednesday on "National Report." "The problem is that the priority for the United States has now shifted to the Middle East."

"I'm afraid that if we will have just talks, Russia will not feel the most important thing that America can give us, pressure on them," he added.

Zelenskyy said U.S. military support for Ukraine continues, even as diplomatic pressure has eased.

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It's always, somehow, the fault of the United States.

Ayatollah reported to be in Russia

Ayatollah Fled to Russia, IRGC Has Taken Control

A stunning new Newsmax Platinum Intelligence Brief pulls back the curtain on the real power structure inside Iran — and the implications could reshape the Middle East overnight.

Drawing on a senior Gulf-based source, the report reveals how Iran’s civilian leadership has been effectively sidelined.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is now driving nearly all major decisions — from military strategy to nuclear policy.

Even more alarming, the country’s top leadership is described as increasingly isolated and vulnerable, amid growing fears of deep foreign intelligence penetration.

Our source reveals that Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei has been wounded and was evacuated to Russia. [Newsmax Platinum]

Russia lands a military plane in Cuba

Russian Military Plane Lands In Cuba As Trump Declares National Emergency

A sanctioned Russian military cargo plane landed Sunday night at a Cuban military airfield outside Havana, raising fresh concerns in Washington as President Donald Trump sharply escalates pressure on the communist government in Cuba.

The aircraft — an Ilyushin Il-76 heavy transport jet operated by Russian state-linked airline Aviacon Zitotrans — touched down at San Antonio de los Baños Airfield, a Cuban military installation roughly 30 miles south of the capital, according to public flight-tracking data. The Il-76 is commonly used to move military equipment and personnel and has been scrutinized by U.S. officials in past operations.

Flight records show the plane traveled through St. Petersburg and Sochi in Russia, Mauritania, and the Dominican Republic before arriving in Cuba. Each stop would have required authorization from host governments, highlighting which countries continue to permit Russian military-linked aircraft to operate despite Western sanctions.

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The United States provides significant foreign aid to the Dominican Republic, totaling approximately $92 million to $104 million annually in recent fiscal years. Who can you trust?

A lot of us can remember the Cuban missile crisis when Kennedy was president...pretty scary time. The October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day, direct confrontation between the U.S. and Soviet Union, marking the closest the Cold War came to nuclear war. Following the failed Bay of Pigs invasion and U.S. missile deployment in Turkey, the USSR installed nuclear weapons in Cuba. President Kennedy enacted a naval "quarantine," leading to a tense standoff.

So, Putin is up to the Soviet Union's old tricks.

Operation Destroy America

Greenland

Greenland: The Midnight Sun Fortress That Could Decide America’s Survival

If America secures Greenland, America secures leverage over the next century of industrial and military competition.

Many Americans are baffled as to why the United States must acquire Greenland. It is because President Trump realizes that we cannot permit the Arctic to become an enemy highway, and the American people deserve to understand, in plain language, why this matters right now. Greenland is not a novelty.

It is not a Scandinavian snow globe. It is not a quirky Arctic postcard full of colorful houses, seal soup, and midnight sun selfies.

Greenland is the most strategically valuable island on Earth, and if America treats it like a trivia question, we will wake up one day to find that Russia and China have treated it like a military objective.

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If the United States can acquire Greenland, Russia will be stopped. The Arctic is rapidly becoming the most dangerous arena of geopolitical competition on the planet. Shipping routes are evolving. Military postures are shifting. Critical resources are being hunted like trophies. Power is moving north, and America cannot afford to be last to the battlefield.


This has everything to do with our national security and Russia knows this and so does the EU.

Why we need Greenland

Jens-Frederik Nielsen, Greenland Prime Minister

Russia China Arctic Threat: Denmark Intelligence Proves Trump Right

Denmark scrambled to dismiss Trump's warnings about Russian and Chinese threats around Greenland. Top Danish officials called Trump's concerns "delusional."

But Denmark's own spy agency just exposed that lie.

Denmark's spy agency confirmed in a recent assessment that Russian and Chinese forces are expanding operations in the Arctic — exactly what Trump's been saying all along.

Denmark has zero capability to stop Russian submarines or Chinese research vessels prowling Greenland's waters.

A 1951 treaty already gives America permanent jurisdiction over defense areas in Greenland including Thule.

But Trump knows treaties aren't enough when adversaries are positioning for control.

Trump revealed Wednesday that Greenland sits at the heart of America's most ambitious defense project. The Golden Dome is a $175 billion missile defense system inspired by Israel's Iron Dome but vastly larger in scale.

Announced in May 2025, the system uses ground-based radar, space-based sensors, and missile interceptors to shield America from ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and hypersonic threats.

Greenland's strategic location makes it irreplaceable for the Golden Dome architecture. Without Greenland, the Golden Dome can't protect the American homeland from threats coming over the North Pole. Russia would launch missiles at America over Greenland airspace.

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