The Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi:
“Egypt charges hundreds of thousands of dollars for every passage through the Suez Canal, with fees exceeding one million dollars for large container ships and tankers. Turkey imposes transit fees for vessels passing through the Bosphorus Strait. Canada charges fees for the St. Lawrence Seaway. Panama collects hundreds of thousands of dollars per transit, reaching up to 500,000 dollars for large Neo-Panamax vessels. The United States also charges fees related to the St. Lawrence Seaway.
Yet when Iran keeps the Strait of Hormuz open for free passage for decades, without imposing any transit fees, despite facing sanctions, isolation, and relentless accusations, it is portrayed as the problem.
Isn’t it hypocritical to condemn Iran while ignoring the fact that many other countries profit from controlling vital waterways? And you still expect me to believe that Iran is the ‘bad guy’ here?”
— @ricwe123 Jul 25, 2026
Month: July 2026
It has been one of the most tempestuous weeks of Volodymyr Zelensky’s presidency.
Indeed, the sackings the Ukrainian leader has made to try to end the turmoil could also make it one of the most consequential weeks of the war with Russia.
@adrianblomfield looks inside Zelensky’s worst week since the war began ⤵️
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2…— @Telegraph Jul 25, 2026
The heated debate surrounding Wildberries—whether it was a crime or not, whether it was legitimate or illegitimate, the complaints along the lines of “Why us?” (“We were only selling diapers”) and the appeals to sympathy—is nothing more than an attempt to distract from a simple, obvious fact: After five years of war, during which Russia has sought—and continues to seek, day after day (truly *every single day*)—to literally force Ukraine to its knees, it is simply absurd to debate the legitimacy or illegitimacy of these attacks.
I could cite a million reasons why this is legitimate, but—I repeat—that makes absolutely no difference. What matters is the price of the war—a price Ukraine is trying to drive up massively in order to end the conflict.
The man who instigated all this could literally put an end to it with the snap of his fingers. So let him snap—and do it quickly—while there is still something left.
— @jurgen_nauditt Jul 25, 2026
President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed pro-Russian drug allegations spread by conservative bloggers as “crazy.”
Zelensky denied bizarre claims regarding cocaine use with Emmanuel Macron and rejected criticism from his former press secretary.
— @KyivPost Jul 25, 2026
🇮🇹🇺🇦 Italian Defense Minister offered Fedorov the position of advisor, — Reuters.
“I called him the day after his dismissal and said: ‘When do you want to come to Rome and work with me as an advisor?’”
— @Maks_NAFO_FELLA Jul 25, 2026
Ukraine is still fortifying its border with Belarus more than four years after Russia used the country to launch its assault on Kyiv. abcnews.link/KtO7tfm
— @ABC Jul 25, 2026
Italy defence minister offers ousted Ukraine counterpart Fedorov adviser role reut.rs/4woNWvl reut.rs/4woNWvl
— @Reuters Jul 25, 2026
Провів збори керівного складу Генерального штабу ЗСУ. По попереду — велика відповідальність та виклики, які стоять перед ним і всім українським військом в ході відбиття широкомасштабного вторгнення рф.
Робота на результат вимагає максимальної згуртованості.
Окреслив команді свої пріоритети: нарощення спроможностей ППО для кращого захисту повітряного простору країни, розвиток та масштабування безпілотної складової, підвищення летальності ураження противника, усунення зайвої бюрократії. А в роботі з особовим складом – акцент на компетентності та людяності.
— @Drapatyi_M Jul 25, 2026
A fire broke out near Russia’s Engels-2 airbase early July 25, with OSINT citing a blaze at a military unit on Engels-1 Street.
Over 1,000 miles away in Yekaterinburg, a drone hit a Wildberries warehouse, alongside reported fires in Rostov.
— @KyivPost Jul 25, 2026
Putin is trapped in his own war – textbook trap.
Call up another 500,000? That publicly admits the whole thing is a disaster.Don’t call them up? The front collapses this winter, the military says. 30,000 losses a month and rising.
But mass mobilisation scares the Kremlin more than the body bags.It drains an already exhausted workforce, wakes the soldiers’ mothers (the only group that has ever made the Russian state actually sweat), and makes the war personal for every Russian family – exactly what four years of state TV carefully hid behind “special military operation”.
No version where he doesn’t have to admit what he’s refused to admit for four years.A winning army doesn’t get this choice between bad and worse. Meanwhile Lavrov keeps swinging that utopian Anchorage dream, hoping Trump will magically deliver “end the war in 24 hours”.
Ukraine and the Europeans: “No deal without us, thanks.”
Lavrov is reaching higher than any beggar outside the Kremlin would ever dare.— @jalle51 Jul 25, 2026