Мерц призвал Трампа ужесточить санкции США против России https://t.co/VpRPBRlcr4 pic.twitter.com/fmE1HzopOC
— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) June 25, 2025
Day: June 25, 2025
, #Japan 
, #NewZealand 
& #SouthKorea 
at the #NATOsummit. In a more dangerous world, it is clear that our security is global. Our growing partnership keeps us all safer.
”Putin is definitely not winning” – Zelensky spoke with Trump about the situation on the battlefield.
“Europe, by taking on greater responsibility for its security, will help prevent future catastrophes similar to the terrible situation with Russia and Ukraine, and I hope we can solve this problem”, — Trump during a briefing at the NATO summit.
The Israeli Chief of Staff revealed in a statement: “The ground commando forces were secretly operating deep inside Iran and creating freedom of operation for us.”
…..DON’T KNOW IF THIS IS SUCH A GOOD IDEA
Russia plans to train Chinese military methods for countering
U.S. & E.U. weapons systems. lessons learned from its ongoing invasion of Ukraine, the Kyiv Post reported.https://t.co/wtoIQOl0fu https://t.co/obER8VpwyP— Nick Zar (@nicneutron) June 25, 2025
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Russia plans to train hundreds of Chinese military personnel this year on lessons learned from its ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
Instructors will cover methods for countering weapons systems used by Ukrainian forces that were produced by the United States and its NATO allies.
— Alec Gormley (@AjgormAlec) June 25, 2025
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Javier Bardem called his “F1” producer and co-star Brad Pitt “a beautiful man” driven to help everyone on set. pic.twitter.com/dBNWBBqTUQ
— AP Entertainment (@APEntertainment) June 25, 2025
Azerbaijan’s Qarabag FC players visit Khankendi (PHOTO) Trend News Agency
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Begging for money and weapons for a war that he can never win. Putin will take all of Ukraine and I don’t blame him. It’s a Russian civil war and no country should have ever been involved in it. It would have ended in months if we didn’t.
— Joseph Laskarzewski (@laskarzewski06) June 25, 2025
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NYC’s Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge will undergo a cabling rehab job to keep it in good condition for years to come.
During its monthly meeting on Wednesday, the MTA board approved a $249 million contract to protect the Verrazzano and keep it in a state of good repair for the 220,000 vehicles that cross it each day.
The centerpiece of the work is a new dehumidification system for the four main suspension cables of the double-decker span, which connects Staten Island to Brooklyn and is the country’s longest suspension bridge.
Wires inside the cables can suffer from corrosion, which is accelerated by humidity, MTA officials explained. Dehumidification will not only help prevent corrosion but also preserve the current strength of the 60-year-old bridge’s cables.
“Essentially all of those cables, the wires bound up inside those cables, suffer from corrosion over time, and it’s humidity that really accelerates the corrosion,” Jamie Torres-Springer, president of the MTA’s construction and development, said. “So, the goal is to get us back to under 40% humidity within that tightly bound cable, and keep it there.”
He added that the system extends the useful life of the cables.
“It’s a new system for us, but it’s become a widely accepted method of preventing steel cable corrosion around the world,” he said.
The MTA is already installing the system on the suspension portion of the RFK Bridge. The goal is to have all four MTA bridges outfitted with the system
“With the 2025-2029 plan, we will be able to install the system on our two other suspension bridges as well,” Torres-Torres Springer said.
In total, the MTA operates seven bridges in NYC. Combined with its two tunnels in the Big Apple, the connections handle more than 336 million vehicle crossings each year.
A ‘cost-effective’ solution
An article in the trade publication Roads & Bridges describes main-cable dehumidification as a “cost-effective” solution for preserving cables and the structures they support.
The MTA contracted with Skanska Koch, Inc., a construction company, to conduct the work, which will include installing an acoustic monitoring system on the bridge’s four main cables.
The system will track conditions within the cables, associated electrical and communication systems, internal inspection of selected cable panels, replacement of hand ropes and stanchions, and maintenance of the cable dehumidification and acoustic monitoring systems for five years after commissioning.
According to an article in the Staten Island Advance, the cable dehumidification project was discussed last year but put on hold when Gov. Kathy Hochul paused the start of congestion pricing in NYC on June 5, 2024.
Now that the project is revived, work is expected to take about four years to complete.
It is unclear right now when the work will start.
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