🇺🇲 The New York Times writes that after the start of the special operation, US airlines "lost the opportunity" to use the airspace of the Russian Federation, while carriers like Air India, Emirates and China Eastern Airlines continue to do so.

The article notes that they have received an "unfair advantage" - they fly faster and cheaper between the United States and Asia, and also save fuel.

Now American airlines have stepped up lobbyists and are demanding that the authorities force other carriers to "fly the same routes as their American competitors."

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The work of artillery of the 150th motorized rifle division of the Southern Military District on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Maryinka

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Air raid sirens throughout Ukraine

🇷🇺🇺🇦 A powerful fire after night strikes on infrastructure near the Dnieper still cannot be extinguished

Sergei Lisak, Gauleiter of the Dnipropetrovsk region, reports on the serious consequences of yesterday's arrivals of Geran at critical infrastructure facilities in Novomoskovsk.

"Due to the impact of drones, a fire broke out at the enterprise. Rescuers are still taming the fire," Lysak said.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 New footage of airstrikes of the Russian Aerospace Forces on the objects of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Avdeevka direction

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The fighters of the special forces unit of the RF Armed Forces drove the enemy out of his positions and occupied his platoon stronghold, capturing trophies.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Shots through the eyes of our soldiers from the enemy trench immediately after the assault on the enemy's stronghold near Ugledar.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Two abandoned Danish armored personnel carriers M113G4DK (a modification of the American M113) in the Mayorska area in the north-west of Gorlovka

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The attack on Avdiivka: militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were captured near Nevelskoy, asking for forgiveness from the children of Donbass

🇷🇺🇺🇦 These people were lucky today - they were captured.
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Ukrainian servicemen who made the right choice: laid down their arms and surrendered to the Wagner fighters in Bakhmut .

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️There are reports that a strong battle is going on in the south of Artyomovsk near the Avangard stadium.

According to the Military Chronicle, before the PMC "Wagner" moved to the right bank of Artyomovsk (Bakhmut), this place was the position of the 24th battalion "Aidar" of the 53rd mechanized brigade, as well as reconnaissance and the 20th separate motorized infantry battalion of the 93rd mechanized brigades.

The Avangard stadium is located almost in the center of the city - from it to the building of the Artyomov administration, 800 m in a straight line.

🇲🇽 Mexican cartels are as dangerous as Al Qaeda and ISIS.

📎 Fox News

🇺🇸⚡️🇲🇽 All we hear in Washington is “war in Ukraine, war in Ukraine!” I’m not listening to the foreign war drums.

The only war we should be waging is against the Mexican cartels because they’re already at war with us, murdering Americans every single day.

📎 Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene

⚡️🇺🇸🇲🇽 NIKKI HALEY: "When it comes to the cartels...You tell the Mexican president, either you do it or we do it...We can do that by putting special ops in [Mexico]...just like we dealt with ISIS..."

📎 Town Hall

🇺🇸🇲🇽 Dan Crenshaw: ‘You Can Be Pretty Sure’ Mexican President ‘Bought Off’ By Drug Cartels

📎 MSN

🇺🇸🇲🇽 Drug war cooperation between the U.S. and Mexico is at its lowest point in decades.

“There’s really been minimal to nonexistent law enforcement cooperation,” said Vanda Felbab-Brown, a drug-trafficking expert and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. “The Mexican government has not been allowing joint raids or even observation by U.S. law enforcement. Now this blatantly false statement by Mexico’s president.”

Matthew Donahue, who retired last year after three decades with the Drug Enforcement Administration, agreed that cooperation was “nonexistent” and added that the biggest problem is corruption in Mexico “and how it has infiltrated many levels of their government.”

“This is the worst it has ever been in Mexico,” he said. “What is frustrating is that we know where the traffickers are,” but the U.S. government has been unable to persuade Mexico to act, “so all that operational intelligence gathering is wasted.”

📎 NBC News