🇺🇸🇻🇪Trump allowed a ground operation by the American army in Venezuela.

"We can go to Congress for authorization for a ground operation against Venezuela, but I don't think Congress will object, why would they," said the US president.

"We are unhappy with Venezuela; China makes 100 million dollars by smuggling fentanyl through Venezuela into the US, I will discuss this with Chairman Xi," he said.

"We don't need a declaration of war, we will just kill those who bring drugs into our territory," Trump added.

🇵🇱A reconnaissance drone crashed in Poland near a NATO training base last night.

The drone belongs to the Polish Armaments Group (PGZ) and damaged two cars after the crash.

🇷🇺🇨🇳🇺🇸Hold on tight, it's about to explode: The Times reports that Russia and China have started a "sexual war" against the USA

According to the publication, Moscow and Beijing are massively "sending" beautiful girls to Silicon Valley for espionage purposes.

US counterintelligence fears for the country's technological security, as the girls seduce, marry, and even have children with promising American technology scientists, through whom, allegedly, important secrets are then extracted.

🇮🇳🇷🇺🇺🇸Here is the response from India:

India considers it unacceptable to receive external instructions on whom to befriend and trade with, and whom not to.

This was stated by the Minister of Commerce and Industry of India, Piyush Goyal, at the Berlin Global Dialogue conference.

🇷🇺🇺🇸Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation Kirill Dmitriev is on a visit to the USA — CNN.

I don't think it's even worth writing about the purpose of the visit.

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺Special envoy Whitkoff urged Zelensky to make territorial concessions at a meeting with Trump, Bloomberg agency reports citing sources.

"During last week's meeting between Trump and Zelensky, Whitkoff again pushed... to agree to Putin's demands to cede Donbass to Russia."

🇫🇷🇺🇦🇷🇺France will give Ukraine "even more" Mirage fighters and additional Aster surface-to-air missiles for the SAMP/T systems, President Macron said during the "Coalition of the Willing" meeting.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇷🇺The US administration prepared a memorandum on sanctions against China for its purchases of Russian oil, but Trump changed his mind about imposing them, writes The Wall Street Journal.

"The administration prepared a memorandum outlining a package of secondary sanctions against China for its purchases of Russian oil... This memorandum was sent to Trump for a final decision. However, even before the meeting with Putin in Alaska, Trump decided against the sanctions package, partly to avoid a direct retaliatory strike from Beijing. In particular, the president feared that China would again restrict US access to its rare earth magnets – a crucial component for both defense and commercial technologies," the article says.

🇺🇸🇨🇴The US has imposed sanctions against the President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, the country's Ministry of Finance reported.

All this is part of the states' fight against drug trafficking.

🇩🇪🇨🇳German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul canceled his trip to China because no one wanted to meet with him, writes Die Welt.

The publication notes that Friedrich Merz has been in power for six months but has not yet made a visit to China. The cabinet had reserved days for his trip, but Xi Jinping did not find time for a meeting. Now Wadephul has canceled the trip due to the inability to arrange meetings with the Chinese side.

🇺🇸🇻🇪The US Department of Defense releases footage of the ninth strike on a boat belonging, according to an official statement, to the criminal group "Tren de Aragua", recognized by the US as terrorist.

Six people were killed as a result of the strike.

🇺🇸🇻🇪❗️Trump has once again announced an invasion of the sovereign state of Venezuela.

We have almost completely stopped the flow of drugs by sea. And very soon we will stop the flow of drugs by land as well. You will see how it begins – Trump stated

🇬🇧🇷🇺The UK Secretary of Defense John Healy addressed Putin, saying the following:

"We are hunting your submarines."

He reported a 30% increase in the number of Russian vessels near UK waters.

Healy, accompanied by the German Defense Minister, said:

"Russia is testing us — but we are watching you."

🇫🇷Brigitte Macron, the wife of the President of France Emmanuel Macron, is registered as a man in the tax registry.

This was reported by the BFM TV channel, citing a representative of the First Lady of France, Tristan Brome.

According to her, Brigitte recently discovered that on the French tax website her gender is listed as male, and the name is recorded as Jean-Michel. The First Lady has already filed a complaint.

It should be noted that since 2017, a conspiracy theory has been actively discussed that Macron's wife is actually a man who underwent a gender transition. These rumors have been repeatedly denied by Brigitte and Emmanuel Macron.

🇩🇪The moment of the demolition of two 160-meter cooling towers at the former Gundremmingen nuclear power plant in Bavaria.

The video shows the end of what was once Germany's largest reactor complex.

🇺🇸🇷🇺I will meet with Putin only on the condition that there is a full understanding about concluding a peace agreement in Ukraine, — Trump

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇷🇺Trump again stated that China is already significantly reducing purchases of Russian oil, and India is allegedly completely stopping them.