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🔵 Trump Turns on Putin
Citizen Frank
April 27, 2025
Good evening. It’s Saturday, April 26.
President Donald Trump has expressed doubts that Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to end its war with Ukraine which has raged for more than three years.
Trump took to Truth Social on Saturday to express his growing frustration with the Russian leader in a week that saw Russia launch a deadly missile attack on Kyiv. The Thursday attack on Ukraine killed 12 people and injured at least 90, including children.
“There was no reason for Putin to be shooting missiles into civilian areas, cities and towns, over the last few days,” Trump wrote, shortly after he met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Vatican on Saturday for Pope Francis’ funeral.
Amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, Moscow has claimed its forces have retaken the Kursk region, but Kyiv has denied any such gains. Meanwhile, a top Russian military official has admitted for the first time to deploying North Koreans into Ukraine.
Putin declared on Saturday that his forces had liberated the Kursk region from Ukrainian forces and helped to bring “the defeat of the neo-Nazi regime closer,” Russian news outlet Tass reported.
“The enemy’s complete rout in the borderline Kursk Region creates conditions for further successful operations by our troops in other major frontline areas and brings the defeat of the neo-Nazi regime closer,” Putin said during a meeting with his Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and agents teamed up with Florida state police to round up nearly 800 illegal aliens during a four-day operation this week.
The round-up came as part of a multi-agency immigration enforcement crackdown, ICE officials stated.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said this is a warning to criminal illegal aliens across the country. “We’re coming for you,” Noem said in a post on social media.
A Wisconsin judge is now threatening not to hold court after the FBI arrested Milwaukee-based Judge Hannah Dugan on Friday on obstruction charges.
Judge Monica Isham of Sawyer County made the stunning claim in an email sent to all state judges on Saturday, Wisconsin Right Now reported. Isham claimed she no longer “feels protected or respected as a Judge” after the arrest of Dugan and will “refuse” to hold court without new “guidance” or “support.”
“I no longer feel protected or respected as a Judge in this administration. If there is no guidance for us and no support for us, I will refuse to hold court in Branch 2 in Sawyer County. I will not put myself or my staff who may feel compelled to help me or my community in harms [sic] way,” she wrote.
Experts from the United States and Iran held their first technical discussions about the future of Iran’s nuclear program.
The discussions in the Omani capital of Muscat follow two high-profile meetings between U.S. presidential envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in the preceding weeks.
Omani Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi, who mediated the two previous rounds of talks in Muscat and Rome, said that Iran and the United States “identified a shared aspiration to reach agreement based on mutual respect and enduring commitments.”
The son of a senior CIA official who fought alongside the Russian army in the Ukraine war died of “massive blood loss” in an artillery barrage, his parents revealed, citing his Russian death certificate.
Michael Gloss, 21, died on April 4, 2024. His death came as a shock to his parents, who knew their son had struggled with mental illness but had no idea he was in Ukraine. They were in “disbelief” when they found out he had been fighting alongside the Russians.
“It was absolutely news to us that he was involved in any military relationship with Russia,” his father, Larry Gloss, told the Washington Post.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth expressed his dismay on April 25 after a new report found that more than two-thirds of U.S. military reserve personnel are overweight.
Washington-based think tank American Security Project (ASP) published a white paper this week that found that nearly 68 percent of reserve troops are overweight or obese.
In 2018, when the Department of Defense last surveyed obesity rates in the reserve military components, it found that around 65 percent of reserve troops were considered overweight or obese.
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