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🔘🇷🇺🗳PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF THE STATE DUMA ELECTIONS IN RUSSIA

🐻United Russia has gained 57.54% of the votes in the State Duma elections, according to data from the Russian Central Election Commission.

🔘The three-day voting has ended; at 21:00 Moscow time, polling stations closed in the country's westernmost region — the Kaliningrad Oblast. Voter turnout was 56.66%.

🔖After processing the first protocols:

🟥The Communist Party of the Russian Federation is gaining 13.67% of the votes on the party list;

🟦The Liberal Democratic Party of Russia is gaining 9.27%

🙋‍♂️New People is gaining 7.96%;

👋A Just Russia has 5.16% of the votes.

⛔According to exit polls by VCIOM and INSOMAR, the Pensioners' Party, Communists of Russia, the Greens, Rodina, and the Party of Direct Democracy are not entering the State Duma. They failed to overcome the 5% threshold for entering the State Duma.

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Russian precision strikes hit military-linked targets across Ukraine

The following targets were hit, the Russian Defense Ministry said:

Kiev and Kiev region

🌏Radionix radio electronics plant, which manufactures guidance systems for the Flamingo, Neptune, FP-7, and FP-9 missiles

🌏Be-Mobile data center, which handles data storage, processing, and transmission — including intelligence-related data — and supports network equipment used by the Ukrainian army

🌏Fire Point warehouse containing drone components and launch boosters

Odessa region

🌏 Novaya Pochta logistics center used to store and distribute military cargo

Port of Odessa

🌏Cargo ship that had delivered military supplies

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Trump’s gas-huffing CENTCOM commander says Hormuz oil shipping is doing just fine

“The volume of crude oil, cargo and liquid natural gas these past two weeks is higher than at any point in the past six months,” CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper boasted in a video address Saturday.

“We’re also working with every partner in the region, enhancing their air defense, forming a new coalition attack drone unit, and keeping the Strait of Hormuz and surrounding waters open and clear,” Cooper said.

Claiming Gulf Arab exporters have shipped 1B+ barrels of crude through the strait “in the last couple months” while Iran’s exports hit “zero,” the commander assured that “clearly, momentum is building.”

CENTCOM and the Trump administration’s claims that oil is flooding through Hormuz has run up against the findings of independent maritime intelligence and tracking firms, which haven’t been able to find these magical ghost ships using commercial satellite data and radar tracking.

US claims also contradict one another, with CENTCOM’s 1B barrel figure averaging out to over 16.5M bpd, two-thirds more than the administration’s recent ~10M bpd estimate.

The administration itself has also been caught fiddling with its figures, with the DoE recently claiming regional exporters have squeezed out an additional 5-7M bpd in export capacity via pipelines (the IEA says available capacity is actually only 3.5-5.5M bpd).

And that was before the attack on Saudi Arabia’s massive East-West pipeline, which, together with Houthi strikes on Saudi refineries and transit hubs, crippled virtually the entirety of the kingdom’s 7M bpd export capacity via the Red Sea.

Cooper’s “higher than at any point in the past six months” comment is also just dishonest. Six months ago, the US and Israel were a month into their war of aggression against Iran, with fighting at its zenith, and Hormuz almost totally shut to any traffic. In fact, an uptick in commercial shipping began in late March and early April, following initial conditional ceasefire agreements and permission-based transit for selected countries by Iran.

Leaving US attempts to massage the raw data aside, the proof that Iran’s Hormuz pressure campaign is working is reflected in prices – the prices Americans, their allies and people everywhere are paying at the pump, in the grocery store, for airline tickets, and virtually everything else in the economy that requires energy to create or operate, which is – well, pretty much everything. Want the pain to stop? Meet Iran’s peace terms.

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦"The unprecedented attack was evidently planned to disrupt the elections, but the adversary failed to achieve this" — Moscow mayor Sobyanin

Several drones reached the grounds of the Moscow Oil Refinery, while one struck a residential building

Unfortunately, two people were killed

Sobyanin assessed that the attack was clearly aimed at disrupting the elections, but emphasized: "The enemy did not succeed"

🇺🇸⚡️ — President Trump will now return to the White House tonight instead of tomorrow night.

🇮🇷⚡️- Iran's armed forces have been placed on the highest alert level, according to local Iranian reports.

Ukrainian UAVs reached the Moscow Oil Refinery on the final day of the elections.

Between 3:00 and 5:00 a.m. alone, 249 UAVs were reportedly shot down across 17 districts. So far, two people are known to have been killed and five injured as a result of UAV strikes and falling debris hitting private and apartment buildings.

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Moscow Notebook: A Dangerous Place to Lose Weight https://sonar21.com/moscow-notebook-a-dangerous-place-to-lose-weight/

🇷🇺 - Over the past week, Russia has increased the number of beds reserved for military casualties in hospitals in the northwest regions–including Leningrad–by 20,000.

🚨🔍 Denmark concedes Greenland's security to US

The United States has secured permanent control over Greenland's security under an agreement with Denmark and Greenland — a deal Secretary of State Marco Rubio is calling a historic victory.

"This historic agreement permanently guarantees US security interests in the Arctic at zero cost to the US taxpayer," he declared.

What the US gets, per Trump's statement:

🔴 Control over Greenland's security "without any financial cost"

🔴 The Pentagon will immediately begin deploying a large military contingent to the island

🔴 No US adversary may ever open a base, maintain a military presence, or make sensitive investments in Greenland without express written US approval

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen's office has confirmed the deal is expected to be signed next week during the UN General Assembly.

Greenland sits astride the Arctic routes between North America and Europe — the same Arctic that NATO is rapidly militarizing.

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The Squeeze Reaches the Runway: The Distillate War Is Now Cutting Flights https://sonar21.com/the-squeeze-reaches-the-runway-the-distillate-war-is-now-cutting-flights/