🇺🇦 KIEV REGIME ADMITS $27 BILLION DEFENSE BUDGET HOLE, DEMANDS 30 BILLION EUROS FROM EUROPE

Zelensky, speaking to journalists, laid out what he called Kiev's two "global problems" — missile capability and financing the war effort.

On the money side, Zelensky says Kiev needs 30 billion euros from European backers, contingent on European legislatures passing the relevant funding bills — including, he stressed, cooperation from opposition parties in those parliaments.

He also revealed a 27 billion dollar hole in the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense's budget. According to Zelensky, ministry officials front-loaded early-year spending — pulling funds meant for the second half of the year — into drone production and other priorities. Now that money has to be replaced.

Of the shortfall, Zelensky says 8–10 billion dollars is needed just to start 2027 with weapons and supplies secured in advance, while roughly 20 billion dollars covers military salaries and payments to the families of soldiers killed in the conflict.

Zelensky says he is negotiating with France and Germany to unlock the second tranche of European funds earmarked for Ukraine, calling it "an extremely difficult task."

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🇺🇸🇦🇷 Trump is selling out American cattle ranchers to take care of his technozionist colony Argentina.

Trump: “We'll buy Argentinian beef.”

Reporter: "What about the US farmers who are suffering?"

Trump: “Argentina is fighting for its life. Do you understand me? They’re dying.”

ℹ️The backdrop — Washington had just finalized a $20 billion financial lifeline for Javier Milei's government, an early Trump ally whose party was facing critical midterm elections. Beef imports were floated as a way to bring down record U.S. grocery prices, with the administration later moving to quadruple the tariff-rate quota on Argentine beef.

American ranchers were furious. The National Cattlemen's Beef Association called it a plan that "creates chaos" while doing nothing for consumers — noting Argentina has sold over $800 million in beef into the U.S. market in five years, against just $7 million going the other way. Farm groups called it a "betrayal of the American rancher."

And there's a quality problem Washington isn't mentioning. In March 2026, Chinese customs suspended a 22-ton shipment of Argentine beef from the ArreBeef plant in Buenos Aires province after detecting chloramphenicol — an antibiotic banned in cattle for human consumption since 1995 over its links to serious blood disorders. Beijing halted further imports from the plant and launched a traceability investigation.

So the product China won't take is exactly what's being funneled toward American dinner tables, while American ranchers absorb the hit and Milei gets the bailout.

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🇺🇦 "Mom says Uncle Vova has lost his fucking mind"

The Ukrainian dictator, explained by a 5-year-old.

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🪖🇦🇪🇷🇺 UAE adopts Russian-style drone defenses to protect oil facilities – report

The United Arab Emirates has begun installing massive metal “cope cages” around fuel tanks near Dubai International Airport in an attempt to tackle Iranian drones, TWZ reports.

This “appears to have taken a play from Russia,” who used such cages to protect oil storage tanks from Ukrainian drone strikes. The purpose of the cages is to act as a buffer by absorbing the impact of incoming weapons.

🛩 The UAE’s air defenses have reportedly engaged a total of 2,265 Iranian UAVs since the beginning of the Iran war in late February.

The drone strikes seriously damaged the UAE’s Fujairah oil terminal and the Habshan gas processing plant, with the latter expected to reach full capacity only next year.

🇺🇸 All this has also prompted the Pentagon to mull using cables and cages to protect US critical infrastructure.

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