Krasnov's new hostage diplomacy technique to get US citizens out of cold damp Russian prisons at discount rather than flying Witkoff on private jet to Moscow? "Give us back our citizens and we'll send you some Germans". "Nice blond Germans". Best Germans you ever had". Hate to be in the wrong here.

Italian navy officer Walter Biot got a definitive sentence of 29 years in prison for passing military secrets to the Russians. Biot got 20 years in the first-instance trial last January.
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A senior North Korean general has been wounded in Russia’s Kursk region after a Ukrainian airstrike. At least 10,000 North Korean troops currently deployed in the Kursk region and reports claim now in Kharkiv region as well. Previously, training camps were set up near temporarily occupied Mariupol.

Russia makes at least $1 billion on stolen Ukrainian grain. Since 2022, Russia and its partners have sold nearly one billion dollars worth of grain stolen from temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, with companies also linked to IRGC.
www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...

Modi, India's populist Hindu nationalist PM and ICC wanted warcriminal Putin appeaser, famously bought Tulsi Gabbard and her husband a wedding gift. There won't be a FBI screening for Gabbard despite her relations to the Hindu sect and its reclusive leader Chris Butler and other obvious red flags.

Williams, a part-Māori, part-Samoan filmmaker and surfer from Auckland, New Zealand, met Gabbard, a former Army officer, during her first run for Congress in 2012, when he volunteered to shoot her campaign ads. The practicing Hindus married in a traditional Vedic ceremony in Kahaluu, Hawaii, 2015.