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The United States will discuss critical minerals, defense partnerships, economic cooperation, and migration during a three-day summit with leaders from five coastal West African countries.
Russia is issuing Russian passports to Ukrainian children at the Artek International Children’s Center in occupied Crimea.
Russia offered to help replenish Iran’s depleted uranium stockpile to support a peaceful nuclear program. Russia's involvement in the US-Iran nuclear talks would be very unlikely to secure US interests due to Russia's alignment with Iran.
Russian forces conducted the largest combined drone and missile strike of the war so far on the night of July 8 to 9 with 741 total drones and missiles — an about 34 percent increase from the previous record high of 550 Russian drones and missiles launched on the night of July 3 to 4.
PRC Foreign Affairs Minister Wang Yi stated that the PRC does not want Russia to lose in Ukraine, supporting ISW’s assessment that Beijing and Moscow’s fates are intertwined in the war in Ukraine.
US President Donald Trump announced on July 7 that the United States would resume weapons deliveries to Ukraine as discussions about provisions of additional air defense systems and interceptors are reportedly ongoing.
Iranian Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei denied on July 8 US President Donald Trump’s July 7 claim that Iran requested nuclear talks.
The Adversary Entente failed to decisively respond to the Israel-Iran war on Iran’s behalf. Neither Russia, the People’s Republic of China (PRC), nor North Korea came to Iran’s aid during the Israeli and US strikes on the Iranian nuclear program, despite each country’s pre-existing relationship with the Islamic Republic.