A close aide to the Russian president tells us that Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky might use elections as a stalling mechanism to simply regroup and re-arm his military. Using AI software 2 American surveillance companies confirm the hi-tech is being used to i.d. and strike targets in Gaza, despite a so-called US-brokered ceasefire between HAMAS and Israel. Venezuela condemns the US seizure of an oil tanker as an act of piracy while Donald Trump threatens to conduct land strikes against the resource-rich South American country.