Ukrainian drones deliberately targeted Russian civilians in deadly warehouse attack – survivor

Seven workers were killed in an overnight strike on an online retailer’s logistics center in Russia’s Tambov Region

Published 18 Jul, 2026 03:23 |

Ukrainian drones deliberately targeted civilians during a deadly overnight strike on a warehouse in Russia’s Tambov Region, one survivor hastold Russian media, saying workers were prevented from escaping the building.

Seven people were killed and another 25 injured in the attack on the logistics center operated by online retailer Wildberries, according to local officials.

Staff began evacuating after the first strikes landed near the building, the survivor, who asked not to be identified, said. According to his account,workers tried to escape through an emergency exit but were forced back inside because the drones were striking the area around it.As they retreated into the warehouse, another drone hit the building.The blast blew out all the doors and windows, and everyone nearby was injured, he said.

The eyewitness account was recorded from a hospital bed in Tambov on Saturday after doctors operated on the injured.

The drones had been fitted with shrapnel to maximize casualties, Tambov Region Governor Evgeny Pervyshov said, describing the strike as a premeditated terrorist attack.

Doctorsremoved metal ball bearingsfrom several of the wounded during surgery.

Russian Human Rights Commissioner Yana Lantratova said she had sent appeals to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk and the UN secretary-general’s special representative, Vanessa Frazier, over what she described asa new wave of terrorist attacks by the Ukrainian military on Russian regions.

Another Wildberries logistics center was also attacked overnight in Elektrostal, around 50 km east of Moscow, the company said. Fire crews and emergency services worked at the site after employees were evacuated. Twenty-four people were injured, according to Moscow Region Governor Andrey Vorobyov.

The attack was part of a larger Ukrainian drone raid on Moscow Region. A drone crashed on the grounds of an oil depot in Noginsk, an industrial city around 35 km east of Moscow, causing a fire.As a precaution, the authorities evacuated a nearby maternity hospital, transferring all patients and staff to other medical facilities. An apartment block in the city was also evacuated. Two people have been injured, the governor said.

Another massive drone raid was launched toward Moscow.More than 370 UAVs flew in the direction of the Russian capitalsince 8:30 PM on Friday, Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said. Most were neutralized by Russian air defenses at long range, while 64 were destroyed on approach to the capital, he added.

In neighboring Vladimir Region, one drone struck an apartment in a residential building in the city of Vladimir and sparked a fire, Governor Aleksandr Avdeev said. People were evacuated while emergency services extinguished the flames.

The latest barrage followsanother large-scale attackon Thursday, when more than 200 drones were launched toward Moscow, most of which were also intercepted far from the capital.

Russia has described the strikes as indiscriminate terrorist attacksintended to divert attention away from Ukraine’s setbacks on the battlefield and has responded with a renewed campaign of long-range strikes targeting dual-use and military-industrial sites.

Most of the Russian strikes have focused on the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, with military plants, drone assembly and storage facilities, and weapons stockpiles targeted in recent weeks.

https://www.rt.com/russia/643197-ukrainian-drones-wildberries-warehouse/

Trump ‘betrayal’ puts US on path to revolution – Tucker Carlson

The president has been “totally disloyal” and “cheated” on the country with a foreign power, the conservative journalist has told Bloomberg

Published 18 Jul, 2026 03:56

The US is on the path to revolution because President DonaldTrump has betrayed Americans by putting foreign interests ahead of those of his own country, journalist Tucker Carlson has said.

In an interview on Bloomberg’s The Mishal Husain Show aired on Friday, the conservative commentator – once among Trump’s most prominent supporters – accused the president of being “totally disloyal” to the US, sayinghe had “cheated on the United States with a foreign power.”

“This is why countries have revolutions,”Carlson said, adding:“I don’t want revolution, but we’re going to get a revolution if this continues.”

The former Fox News host, who backed Trump’s 2024 reelection campaign before breaking with him over Iran, argued that manyAmericans no longer believed the political system represented their interests. He said Republicans had failed to fulfill promisesto dismantle the “deep state,”citing the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files as evidence of why many supporters had lost faith in the party. (We knew that many years ago and it wasn’t Trump that did it!)

Carlson has become increasingly critical of US backing for Israel’s war in Gaza and publicly urged Trump not to attack Iran during Israel’s 12-Day War with the Islamic Republic in June 2025. Their rift deepened after the US joined Israel’s strikes on Iran in late February, with Carlson accusing Trump of putting Israeli interests ahead of America’s.He also described Trump’s “true religion” as “Israelism” and called the Iran war “disgusting and evil.”

“Trump allowed the US government to be completely steered by this tiny little country in the Middle East, Israel, to our great detriment,” Carlson told Bloomberg, adding that he had argued directly against Trump’s approach, but “that had no effect at all.”

“And then we wound up in a war with Iran that has gravely hurt the United States,” he said.

The interview comes as the US continues its military campaign against Iran. US Central Command said it had completed a sixth consecutive night of strikes on Thursday after Trump threatened to expand attacks to Iranian energy infrastructure and bridges.

Iran has responded with drone and missile strikes on US military facilities across the region. Tehran has also warned that regional oil and gas exports could be halted, while the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy has declared the Strait of Hormuz closed until Washington ends its “illegal” military intervention.

https://www.rt.com/news/643173-tucker-carlson-us-trump-revolution/

Tucker is a propagandist now, he’s a coward and traitor.

Israel planning to use crocodiles to guard Palestinian inmates – media

The reptiles have reportedly been reclassified as “tended” animals, removing a key legal obstacle to their use in prisons

Published 17 Jul, 2026 19:56

Israel has reportedly reclassified Nile crocodiles as “tended” animals, potentially clearing the way for their use as part of prison security.

The controversial proposal to surround prisons with crocodile-filled moats was reportedly floated late last year by far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who argued the reptiles would strengthen security and deter escape attempts. The plan was initially deemed legally unfeasible by the Israel Nature and Parks Authority because Nile crocodiles were classified as wild animals that could only be kept in zoos and wildlife sanctuaries.

That legal obstacle was reportedly removed this week when Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman redesignated the Nile crocodile as a “tended wild animal,” Israeli media reported on Friday. The new classification allows the reptiles to be kept in a wider range of facilities, potentially including prisons.

The new designation reportedly comes despite warnings from the ministry’s legal adviser, who told Silman she had no authority to unilaterally decide on the status of the crocodiles and lay the groundwork for their deployment into prisons. A few weeks ago, Ben-Gvir and Silman reportedly held a meeting with the legal adviser and Nature and Parks Authority chief Raya Soraki, pressing them into accepting the dubious plan.

According to Israeli media reports, Ben-Gvir wants to first introduce the reptiles to Ketziot Prison, a penitentiary in southern Israel that holds primarily Palestinian prisoners. After he first floated the proposal, the Israel Prison Service (IPS) reviewed it and sent officers to the Hamat Gader crocodile farm early in January to familiarize themselves with the reptiles.

The IPS reportedly received the minister’s proposal favorably, considering settling forsmaller specimens that would cost about $8,000 per head rather than elder reptiles costing around $20,000. “This is a relatively small sum compared with the security investment a prison requires, and the results would be even better,” an IPS source told the Maariv newspaper at the time, adding thatthe “also dangerous” small reptiles would eventually grow inside the prison compound.

(https://www.rt.com/news/643191-israel-crocodile-palestinian-prison/

Polish president shoots down pro-LGBTQ civil partnership bill

The legislation goes against the constitutional definition of marriage, President Karol Nawrocki argued

Published 17 Jul, 2026

Polish President Karol Nawrocki has vetoed a bill introducing ‘cohabitation contracts’ for couples living together regardless of their gender, arguing that the legislation goes against the constitutional definition of marriage as the union of a man and a woman.

The veto is another blow to pro-EU Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who has repeatedly pledged to deliver reforms on LGBTQ rights and less strict abortion laws. A lack of unity on the sensitive issues within the ruling coalition, as well as resistance from the nationalist president, has hampered the advancement of these plans.

The legislation envisioned the introduction of cohabitation contracts, which would have allowed two adults to enter into a marriage-like agreement governing various issues, including access to medical information, joint property rights, and burial matters. The final version of the bill was already watered down to secure support from conservative partners within the ruling coalition, which argued that the original legislation would have undermined marriage.

Nawrocki argued that the bill “would lead to the loss of the ‌special status of marriage, defined in… the Constitution as the union of a man and a woman.”

“These proposals create a new, formalized institution of family law, equipped with a broad catalog of rights similar to those of marriage,” he said on Friday.

Tusk condemned the veto, calling Nawrocki’s decision “an expression of contempt for people and their right to happiness and a normal life.”

The government now needs to secure a three-fifths majority in parliament to overturn the presidential veto. This is highly unlikely, as the legislation is strongly opposed by right-wing opposition parties and the ruling coalition lacks the necessary numbers by a wide margin.

This comes after the EU’s highest court forced Poland to recognize same-sex marriages registered in other countries of the bloc. The ruling was handed down last November, with Poland’s SupremeAdministrative Court citing it for the first time in March when it ordered the authorities to recognize the marriage of two Polish men registered in Germany and the first same-sex marriage certificate was issued in the country in May.

https://www.rt.com/news/643187-poland-lgbtq-partnership-veto/

Netanyahu postpones US trip to coincide with Lindsey Graham's funeral: Reports

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said this week the prime minister has rescheduled his planned trip to the United States by a week to coincide with the funeral of the late-Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham.

Graham, who was a major supporter of Israel, died unexpectedly last week at the age of 71-years-old. His office said the senator's funeralswill take place on July 28 in Washington, D.C., and July 29 in South Carolina.

Netanyahu, who is also expected to meet with President Donald Trump during the U.S. trip, was expected to depart Saturday and remain in the U.S. through Tuesday, according to the Jerusalem Post.

The prime minister praised Graham as a "great friend of Israel" in a reaction post to the late-senator's death and stated that Israel had "no better friend than Lindsey."

"Lindsey understood that the security of Israel and America are inseparable," Netanyahu posted on X. "He devoted his life to defending America, strengthening our alliance and standing up for the free world. Israel has lost one of its greatest friends. America has lost a great patriot. I have lost a beloved friend."

The upcoming visit will be the leader's first official trip to the U.S. since American forces engaged in a conflict with Iran.

(I’d say Trump ET Al, are pissed at Bibi for lying and dragging the US into war with Iran, that’s why he’s not welcome.)

https://justthenews.com/government/diplomacy/netanyahu-postpones-us-trip-coincide-lindsey-grahams-funeral-reports

US military marks historic FIRST in operation against Iran

Retired Navy Captain Brent Sadler, a former Pentagon official, discusses the U.S. military's first combat deployment of unmanned sea drones against an Iranian naval facility in Bandar Abbas

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https://youtu.be/j1bVGgZ4J9g