Thread by @PrateekRoutray

They were beaten not just with artillery, but with Himars MLRS, a pretty accurate weapon for killing. All representatives of the Kiev regime boasted about his pinpoint strikes.

Well, dear Ukrainians, how do you like the cynicism of your rulers? They called these prisoners of war heroes from all the screens, and when they began to expose their crimes, they were killed in cold blood!!

You say you're fighting for freedom?? Well, well, in my opinion, there can be no worse slavery than you have now. Slaves are at least spared, but you are driven like cattle to the slaughter.

Look at the bodies of your own dead soldiers, your own scum-rulers. Maybe now, finally, your rose-colored glasses will fall off and you will take a sober look at what is happening!

In short, before the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, mobilized Ukrainians should be driven in with the thought: do not give up for anything, because you will be executed or blown up

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Another video from the 40th brigade of the Pacific Fleet. destroying hohols

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Forward positions of militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv direction captured by the allied forces

The commander of one of the units of the NM LPR with the call sign "Apostol" told RIAN about Ukrainian losses.

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Fragments of HIMARS missiles found at the site of the strike on the colony with Ukrainian prisoners of war in Yelenovka

🇩🇪🇷🇺⚡Germany is ready to use Nord Stream 2 "if there are no other options"

So says the head of the Bundestag Committee on Energy and Climate Klaus Ernst.

When Anti-Russian Sanctions Do More Harm Than Help

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Another Colonel of the Ukrainian Air Force surfaced, destroyed as a result of an attack on the House of Officers in Vinnitsa, where a meeting of the Ukrainian Air Force command with foreign curators was held.

Colonel Sergei Zagrevsky was destroyed

🇨🇳🇺🇲⚡China has officially warned the US that any attempt to separate Taiwan from China will lead to war. China will inevitably use its armed forces in any attempt to wrest the island from the PRC.

Earlier, a short message "Prepare for war" appeared in the account of the 80th Army of the PLA. Muscle flexing ahead of Pelosi's provocative visit to Taiwan is gaining momentum.

As it is easy to see, both in the case of Ukraine and in the case of Taiwan, the United States acts as the main warmonger, raising both the threat of a local war and the general threat of a clash of nuclear powers.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Russian troops are now actively pressing on the Artemovsk direction. There is an active destruction of positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine around the city and in the city itself. The enemy responds in the direction of Klinovoe and Pokrovsky.

🇷🇺 Rehearsal of the parade on Navy Day in Novorossiysk. A trophy Ukrainian boat of the "Gyurza" type also takes part in the festive events.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Destroyed Ukrainian T-64

🇨🇳🇺🇲⚡The situation escalates: diplomatic sources confirm Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan next week

The Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin announced this on his Twitter.

The Chinese side reacted to this information, expressing the hope that all states will respect the sovereignty of the PRC, and the "relevant country" (USA) will not play with fire.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The special forces of the Russian Guard detained a Ukrainian accomplice in the LPR

In addition, the special forces found three caches with ammunition, which contained more than 100 kg of explosives, 6 pieces of rocket and artillery weapons, two foreign-made jet flamethrowers, more than 40 rockets and 95 rounds for grenade launchers, over 9 thousand ammunition

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Blinken, before negotiations with Lavrov, stated that he would not discuss Ukraine with Lavrov, but only the exchange of Bout for and Whelan and the situation with grain.

But after the conversation, he himself blurted out that he had warned Lavrov that the United States would impose sanctions against Russia if it annexed new territories.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Soldiers of the LPR army corps use foreign weapons obtained in combat with the Armed Forces of Ukraine

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The village of Novoluganskoye is under the full control of the DPR army

The village of Novoluganskoye remained the last stronghold of the Ukrainian army on the banks of the reservoir of the Uglegorsk TPP, but the Ukrainian militants were driven out of the village by assault detachments of the 3rd Guards Brigade of the DPR Army.

The main news item is till the bombing of the prisoner detention center. The western and even Ukr media appear a bit flat footed trying to explain it and coming out with far fetched accusations against Russia

the attack on the pre-trial detention center in Yelenovka was carried out by the Ukrainian side, I assure you, they did not want to do this.😁 (c) Pentagon

This should just about dispel any doubts on who carried out the attack....fragments of GMRLS rocket from Himars at the Yelenovka detention centre

I haven;t had a chance to check out the MilitaryMaps site properly but there doesn't seem to be any major movemets on the frontlines since the last update

What's interesting is reports of a significant Russian build up in the south of Ukraine. There are rumours that once the Ukr launch their offensive on Kherson, the Rus are panning a counter attack towards Nikolaev and Krivoy Rog

Su-25s flying over a Russian column in Kherson region

Ukr bombing of Energodar (Zaporzhye region) and Nova Kakhovka (Kherson region)

Aftermath of a Rus airstrike on Ukr facilities in a village next to Kramatorsk

Video from locals in Donetsk of fighting at the Ukr stroghold of Marinka

Older video from the fighting in Mariupol of the 2S4 240mm Hv Mortar that's just been published

Arestovich is also forecasting a Russian offensive in the south in first half of August

Germany to supply Ukr with bridging equipment

Some unusual Ukr transport that can be seen on the frontlines...cammo bus and armoured limo

Things are heating up around Pelosi's planned visit to Taiwan...I wonder whether there are plans to expand the war to the Asia-Pacific region?

🇨🇳 China issues Navigation Warning From 8:00 to 21:00 on July 30th, in the waters near Yiqi Island, Pingtan, Fujian. Live-fire training missions are to be carried out, all ships are prohibited from entering

The specific warning and blocked areas are:
A: 25°25'27"N/119°48'15"E,
B: 25°21'55"N/119°44'35"E,
C: 25°14'45" N/119°48'17"E,
D: 25°22'10"N/119°53'27"E and other waters within the range of the four-point line.
Approximately 4 hours from now

🇨🇳Train carrying PLAmilitary equipment passed through the high-speed railway in Hangzhou (Zhejiang Province)-the area of responsibility of the PLA Eastern Command

Either to the exercises again,or to the south closer to Fujian Province,which is in the Taiwanese direction

Ukrainians started having problems with German howitzers Panzerhaubitze 2000 — Spiegel

According to the German publication, many self-propelled howitzers supplied to the UAF militants are in need of repair and begin to give out a lot of errors after the battles.

The Bundeswehr suggests that the problems are related to the high rate of fire, as a result of which the howitzer loading mechanism is under enormous stress. For German troops, 100 rounds per day is already considered an extremely high load for a given weapon,

but the Ukrainians apparently fired many more rounds.

How the Kiev regime is going to repair them is unknown.

Kharkov overnight

Like I wrote earlier, there's no major movements on the frontlines just a lot of shelling and bombing. But there are some details available on a couple of locations.

On the Donetsk frontline, the DPR forces are creeping forward under heavy artillery cover trying to dislodge the Ukr from their frontline fortifications.

At Marinka, a mine north of the town was captured after the Ukr garrison was forced to withdraw from heavy shelling.

A bit further north, local reports are saying the DPR entered the town of Krasnogorovka (between Pesky and Marinka) and fighting for control of it is going on

Currently, the fighting is reportedly centred for the control of a factory situated between the 2 local rivers and for the settlement of Bakhmutskoe (outer susburb of Soledar). The capture of the factory by the Russians would cut off Soledar from Bakhmut (Artemovsk)

⚡️⚡️⚡️Post from a influential Russian channel that writes about geopolitics and intelligence matters
-> dated June 5th <-
t.me/russica2/46486
via ZradaXXII

Mi 6 is considering three possible options for using the MLRS supplied for Ukraine.

The delivery itself will take place on the night from Sunday to Monday, the cargo has already arrived at Rzeszow Airport. All the job will be done by the Ukr under the full control of the officers of the British Ministry of Defense, as was the case with the attack on the Moskova

▪️The first target is the Crimean Bridge, but this is the most unlikely operation, since the Crimea is covered by multi-layer S-400 systems and a number of brand-new air defense systems, including the newest S 500 division.

▪️The second target is a prisoner of war detention center in the village of Yelenovka, where the Nazis from Azovstal and the military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are being kept

The British want to disguise the MLRS strike as an attempt by the Russian Armed Forces to hide "the execution and torture of prisoners, and then to play the Bucha scenario.

▪️The third target is Sevastopol, the center of the city or the base of the Black Sea Fleet is being discussed, but there is a risk of falling into the air defense coverage area on Zmeiny Island

Kiev is not yet considering a missile attack on Kursk or Belgorod, since the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has an understanding that the cost of such attack will be the levelling of the government quarter in Kiev

The United States has deployed a strike group led by the aircraft carrier "Ronald Reagan" to ensure the protection of Nancy Pelosi, - RFA agency.

"If a US carrier strike group attacks the relevant islands in the South China Sea or collides with Chinese warships and fighter jets, it could be tantamount to creating a conflict," Song Shingling for the Global Times.

Tanks of the LPR 2nd Army Corps opening fire on a Ukr fortification and then withdrawing to avoid counter battery fire

Video of Ukr artillery using ammo with self guiding sub-munitions...date and location not provided

Pics of the Chinese exercise in the South China Sea... note the SP Guns firing from the deck of a cargo ship to support a landing

Video of Taiwanese exercise to repel a Chinese landing

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Another Colonel of the Ukrainian Air Force surfaced, destroyed as a result of an attack on the House of Officers in Vinnitsa, where a meeting of the Ukrainian Air Force command with foreign curators was held.

Colonel Sergei Zagrevsky was destroyed

Video from the LPR media unit from the Soledar frontline

‼️ 🇸🇾 The first ever joint large-scale military exercises of the Syrian military (SAA) and Kurdish combat formations

As part of the deterrence of Turkish aggression in northern Syria, the Syrian army, with the involvement of Kurdish artillery and special forces units, conducted a large-scale exercise to force water barriers in the Aleppo area.

Kharkov again...reportedly 4 more Iskanders early this morning causing a big fire

⚡️⚔️ Zaporozhye region - Pavlovka & Novopavlovka taken⚡️

in Novopavlovskoe direction. Allied Forces took the offensive and occupied both settlements. AFU got repulsed and severely damaged in vehicles and manpower.

Ukr have bombed Alchevsk in the LPR (video) and Energodar (pic)

The Ukr also launched a missile attack on the hydro-electric power plant at Nova Kakhovka. The local authorities say the missiles were intercepted

Nova Kakhovka is in Kherson region and was the target of several previous attacks

The offensive in the Kurakhovsky direction...which is W of Donetsk (red sq) and Marinka (blue sq)

The DPR Territorial Defense Headquarters announces the liberation of the settlements of Oktyabrskoye, Yalynskoye, Georgievka and Maly Kermenchik

US Air Force Boeing C-40 with Nancy Pelosi took off from Andrews Air Force Base heading for Asia

🇺🇸🇷🇺US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is afraid to recognize the Russian Federation as a state sponsor of terrorism, - The New York Times.

Despite the fact that the US Senate adopted the relevant resolution, the head of the American diplomatic department is worried that this will complicate diplomatic relations with Russia, which are already at a minimal level

As a result of a deliberate missile strike on July 29 from the American "himars" salvo fire system on the remand detention center in the area of ​​the settlement of Elenovka, the kiev regime killed and maimed most of the 193 Ukrainian prisoners of war held there.

◽️ According to updated data on the morning of July 30, 50 Ukrainians were killed as a result of the missile attack. The remains of 48 Ukrainian prisoners of war were found and recovered from the rubble of the detention center

Two more Ukrainian prisoners of war who were seriously wounded died on the road while being transported to a medical facility.

◽️ 73 Ukrainian prisoners of war were taken to medical facilities with serious injuries. All of them were provided with the necessary medical assistance

📑 Family lists of those killed and wounded as a result of a missile attack by the Kyiv regime on Ukrainian prisoners of war, published on the official information resources of the Ministry of Defense of Russia.

◽️ All political, criminal and moral responsibility for the massacre against Ukrainians is personally borne by Zelensky, his criminal regime and Washington, which supports them.

🇷🇺🇺🇲 According to CNN, Rus, during negotiations over the exchange of Bout for Whelan and Greiner, suggested that the US add to the exchange Vadim Sokolov, or as the Germans call him Vadim Krasikov, who is sentenced to life in Germany on charges of killing Chechen militant Zelimkh

🇷🇺🇺🇦 It is reported that the forces of the DPR entered the North-Eastern outskirts of Krasnogorovka. Now there are fierce battles.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Troops of Russia and Donbass inflict powerful strikes on the fortified areas of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Donetsk, "chandeliers" and lighting mines hang over Maryinka, artillery hits enemy positions

🇷🇺🇺🇦 "Iskanders" hit Kharkov: a series of explosions rumble in the city

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Powerful fire in Kharkiv after the strike of 4 Iskanders

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Specialists destroyed more than 600 high-explosive anti-personnel mines in Donetsk in just two days, Aleksey Kostrubitsky, head of the DPR Ministry of Emergency Situations, told RIA Novosti

🇷🇺🇺🇦 While the soldiers of the allied forces break into the positions of the enemy in the areas of Pesok, Maryinka and Avdiivka, the infamous Ukrainian artillerymen throw mines behind their backs, which, in fact, carry a danger only for inexperienced civilians.

In Donetsk, Makiivka and a number of other settlements, they continue to neutralize anti-personnel mines "Petal". Over 600 charges were destroyed in two days

The positions of the Ukrainian artillery unit fighting civilians will definitely be destroyed. It is not necessary to take such lads as prisoners.

🇺🇲🇨🇳⚡The situation is heating up: China's state media have offered the country's army to shoot down the plane of the speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi if she flies to Taiwan, - senator

That would be a direct act of war, and the US does not accept foreign policy demands from communist China or any other belligerent bully, says US Senator Marsha Blackburn.

🇨🇳🇺🇲⚡Footage of the transfer of Chinese military equipment to Fujian province, where the Chinese army suddenly announced large-scale exercises
It is interesting that floating military equipment is being transferred

It is reported that live firing is scheduled for tomorrow. Military experts believe that the arrival of a US senator in Taiwan could be a decisive factor in the start of hostilities.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡The work of mortars of the 100th brigade of the DPR army on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Lisichansk direction.

🇺🇲🇹🇼⚡Two American Republicans offered to supply Taiwan with weapons under Lend-Lease

According to Fox News, the bill is bipartisan.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇵🇱⚡Polish T-72s in service in the LPR

The fighters of the republic use captured tanks and weapons “kindly provided by the Poles”, which the Ukrainian fighters abandon during the retreat. After repairs, they are ready to return to battle again.

🇷🇺⚡Anti-Russian sanctions have made Putin stronger than ever. It is reported by The Guardian.

According to the author of the article, Western sanctions have become the most ill-conceived and counterproductive decision in recent history.

They made Putin stronger: Russia increased exports to Asian countries, which led to an unprecedented surplus in its balance of payments, the ruble became one of the strongest world currencies this year, having strengthened by almost 50 percent since January.

🇺🇲🇷🇺⚡The State Department was surprised at Putin's ability to "speak without a cheat sheet"

US First Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, in an interview with The Economist, said that during her conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi in 2015, she drew attention to his erudition and "ability to speak without a cheat sheet."

She clarified that she had the opportunity to communicate with the Russian leader for a long time at a meeting in Sochi in 2015. “I spent most of my time in Putin’s company in Sochi, accompanying then Secretary of State John Kerry.

We talked for about four hours. He was very smart, did not use any cheat sheets, spoke fluently and was very confident in himself.

The Deputy Secretary of State also drew attention to Putin's ability to "always stand his ground."

“He has a vision of where to go next. I believe he does not intend to go astray,” she said. Sherman added that the rest of the world needs to realize "how ambitious he is."

🇺🇲 The plane with Pelosi took off from the United States. So far, this does not mean anything: she still has visits to Japan, Korea, Singapore, which will take place in any weather.

But will it bring the grandmother to Taiwan ... Our forecast is that it won't.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian tankers on the front line in the Kharkov region. On the road you can see the Destroyed tanks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

🇷🇺 Miners, lawyers, students from the DPR protect civilians from the terror of Ukrainian militants. They quickly mastered artillery and reconnaissance, and some 25 years old become company commanders

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Artillery of the NM DPR, with the support of the Russian Aerospace Forces, breaks into the enemy’s defenses in the Avdiivka direction. The artillery battalion hits enemy firing points, fortified areas, equipment and manpower.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The Russian Ministry of Defense published lists of 50 dead and 73 wounded as a result of a rocket attack by the Kiev regime on a pre-trial detention center in the village of Yelenovka in the DPR on July 29, 2022.

🇺🇲🇷🇺🇺🇦 The American Institute for the Study of War, referring to geolocation image data, captures the advance of Russian troops southwest of the Borshcheva settlement (Kharkiv region).

Thus, the Americans confirm that in Borshcheva, which is noted in the reports of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as a “gray zone”, there are positions of Russian troops that are regaining control over the settlements lost in May in the north of Kharkov.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Iskander missiles hit the deployment point of the national battalion Kraken in the Kharkiv region, they hid in the warehouses of a local meat processing plant.

Destroyed more than 30 Nazis and 10 units of military equipment. (c) MO RF

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡A military train transporting an elite battalion of the 1st Separate Brigade of the President of Ukraine was destroyed by a direct hit, more than 140 soldiers were killed. The blow was struck at the Krasnoarmeysk station in the DPR, - the Russian Ministry of Defense

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Izdeliye-305E high-precision missiles destroy temporary deployment points of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The report of the Ministry of Defense mentions that Russian troops destroyed the points of temporary deployment of the 110th and 14th mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Iskander cruise missiles hit the deployment point of the national battalion "Kraken" in the Kharkiv region

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Reactive artillery of the "Brave" level the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donbass

A platoon of D-20 guns was destroyed near Seversk

🇷🇺🇺🇦 During the day, Russian air defense systems shot down 13 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles, intercepted six shells of a multiple launch rocket system in the air, as well as two Tochka-U ballistic missiles.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Radio Liberty, citing satellite intelligence data, reports that Russia is pulling together a huge amount of equipment on the border with Ukraine.

🇨🇳🇹🇼 Taiwan today lifted fighter jets from the Chiayi airbase into the sky against the background of the PLA's exercises in the Taiwan Strait, which is blocked by the PRC. The Chinese armed forces in the direction of Taiwan are having live firing exercise from MLRS and artillery

🇨🇳🇹🇼 PLA firing practice on the shores of the Taiwan Strait right now.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡China deploys PHL-16 MLRS to a province just 180km away from Taiwan. 🇺🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼 The plane with Nancy Pelosi landed at Honolulu Airport (Hawaii) for refueling.

🇺🇦 The company commander of the 127th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine complains that Ukrainian society is tired of the war and ignores the needs of the front.

Along the way, he reports that out of the personnel of the company of 80 people, 40 survived, of which 20 were combat-ready.

🇺🇲🇷🇺⚡US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken blocks congressional attempts to include Russia on the national list of countries sponsoring terrorism

According to The New York Times, the adoption of such an initiative could force the US Secretary of State to impose sanctions on Washington's allies who conduct joint activities with Moscow.

🇷🇸🇦🇱⚡Albanians are preparing "hell" for Serbs in Kosovo, - Serbian Foreign Minister

The Kosovo Albanian authorities of the self-proclaimed Republic of Kosovo are planning to take new steps to cancel the documents and car numbers issued by the Serbian leadership, to arrange "hell" for the Kosovo Serbs, which will be addressed by President Aleksandar Vucic - FM

🇮🇹🇺🇦⚡The Italians call on the authorities to stop the supply of weapons to Ukraine - an action was held in Milan under the slogan "Stop arming Kyiv"

Activists took to the streets of Milan demanding to stop the supply of weapons to Ukraine. The protesters said the day before that Italy and Europe should take their assigned role - to become a mediator and guarantor between East and West.

In the meantime, this is not the case - according to the representative of the Committee against sanctions and weapons, European policy aimed at supporting Ukraine is destructive for everyone and will not benefit anyone.

If we continue to send weapons, it will never stop, the death toll will increase, the planetary crisis will become even more acute and peace will never be achieved .

We demand that a new government be formed in September that would block the supply of weapons so that other countries also followed the same strategy and finally sat down at the negotiating table,” said the representative of the Committee

🇨🇳 The beginning of the sudden exercises of the People's Liberation Army of China. Takeoff of combat helicopters Harbin Z-19 of the 72nd Army Aviation Brigade of the PLA Eastern Combat Command Zone (operational zone - Taiwan and the Taiwan Strait). Fujian Province. July 30, 2022

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The Russian army continues to strike at enemy targets in Kharkov and the region

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡New explosions reported in Kharkov

🇨🇭🇨🇳 The head of the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, Marie-Gabriel Inaichen-Fleisch, said that in the event of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, sanctions would be imposed against China that would be tougher than those taken against Rus in connection with the mil Ops

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The 40th brigade of the Pacific Fleet destroys the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of ​​Ugledar.

🇺🇲⚡️Flightradar24 has restricted access to view the location of Nancy Pelosi's plane

Earlier, the plane landed at the Honolulu airport, and almost 100 thousand people watched the flight of the speaker of the US House of Representatives.

🇳🇴🇷🇺 Elisabeth Ellingsen, the “diplomat” of the consulate of Norway to Russia showed the disgusting true face of a Russophobic swine that she is, to the employees of a hotel in Murmansk.

I really, really pray that the Kremlin gnomes, this time get a pair of balls and don’t “express their deepest concern”, but instead throw that Norwegian bitch out the country in 24 hours and forbid her to ever step foot in Russia again.

🇷🇺⚡“Let everyone who hates Russians go to hell from Russia” - Governor of the Murmansk region Chibis after the situation with an employee of the Norwegian consulate in Murmansk

🇹🇼🇨🇳 The army of the unrecognized Taiwan is also conducting exercises, codenamed Han Kuang, on the other side of the Taiwan Strait. The maneuvers have been going on for a week now and are designed to work out scenarios to counter a potential Chinese PLA's attack on the island.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡The Ukrainian General Staff confirms the retreat of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Semigorye.

As indicated in the evening report, part of the settlement completely came under the control of the Russian army and allies.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian forces spot a Ukranian sabotage group in Kherson direction and Destroyed them

Two survivors of the crash decided that personal belongings, toothbrushes, the corpse of a comrade and a driver with a severed leg would weigh them down a little, and after a little thought, they retreated in the opposite direction ...

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Khokhols have announced that they will carry out a mandatory evacuation from the Donetsk region, the remnants of which they still control.

Naturally, they present this as some kind of humane measures, but knowing how much Kiev didn’t give a damn about people on the ground, we are talking about a banal interest in leaving these lands as empty and difficult to restore as possible, realizing that militarily can't hold

🇨🇳 In the Chinese province of Fujian adjacent to Taiwan, a division of medium-range air defense systems HQ-22 of the People's Liberation Army of China was spotted.

Lepestki, the center of Donetsk right now, the wheels of cars are exploding on mines that have been shot towards the city by Ukrainian forces.

Lots of Chinese equipment on the move 👀

🇨🇳🇹🇼 Another epic video of today's Chinese 300mm multiple rocket launchers firing towards the Taiwan Strait in Fujian Province.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 Georgian mercenary David Menadbishvili. Destroyed by Russian troops in Kharkov region.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 On the roof of the high-rise building in Avdiivka there was a communications center and mortar crew positions of Armed Forces of Ukraine

Destroyed very accurately

🇺🇲 Biden tests positive for COVID-19 again, will go back into isolation, doctor says

🇷🇺❗Russia, in the interests of an objective investigation of the attack on the pre-trial detention center in Yelenovka, officially invited experts from the UN and the Red Cross - Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

Pelosi's aircraft has been taken off the civilian flight radar so as to make it more difficult to track.

2 military aircraft thought to be connected to Pelosi's flight have taken off from Honolulu

🇨🇳🇺🇸Meanwhile the Chinese have continued their build up & started their live fire exercise in the straight of Taiwan and have closed it for shipping and flights. The distance between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan is approx 120km

🇨🇳🇺🇸Chinese DF-17 ballistic missile with hypersonic warhead fired during the exercise

The Taiwanese Army is also holding a large scale exercise

🇷🇺❗Russia, in the interests of an objective investigation of the attack on the pre-trial detention center in Yelenovka, officially invited experts from the UN and the Red Cross - Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

Chinese volunteers signing up to take part in Russia’s Special Military operation

They must know russian and have previous military experience

Zelensky has ordered a mandatory evacuation of civilians from the DPR territory under its control,....I think they can see the writing on the wall

Update on the situation in Bakhmut (Artemovsk) area

There is fighting in Zaitsevo and Mirna Dolina. The report of their capture from yesterday (as I suspected) was premature (see link below) ....The Ukr are withdrawing from Semigorye
Map with current positions

In Bakhmut itself, the 🇺🇦14th Mech Bgd was attacked and sustained significant losses

Heavy strikes were carried out on the transport of the 🇺🇦"Presidential" Bgd in Pokrovsk, which was sent to the Donbas to stiffen defences in the Donetsk area. Acc to the Rus MOD estimates 140 killed & over 200 wounded + scores of vehicles

Other units attacked in the rear were the 🇺🇦110th & 114th Bgds in Yasnobrodovka (yellow circle on map). The video of the airstrike is from there. Basically, the Ukr are sending renforcements while the Rus try to degrade them before they arrive on the frontline

Artillery strike on a 🇺🇦communications facility and mortar position on top of a building in Avdeevka (Donetsk area)

The township of Berestovoe (on the Soledar-Lisichansk road) seen from a UAV after prolonged fighting...basically leveled

Missile strike reportedly on the Malishev tank factory in Kharkov

Destroyed 🇺🇦vehicles that were hit by artillery while withdrawing from Vrubovka back in June...video is from that event (june)

A 🇺🇦Recon-saboteur group was detected and attacked in the Kherson-Nikolaev area near Snigerovka

🇷🇺Engineering equipment on a train, heading from Crimea to southern Ukraine

Few 🇷🇺PR videos...Iskander, Pantsir and Aviation

MOD statement

"On the evening of July 28, a military train train carrying an elite assault battalion of the 1st separate brigade of the President of Ukraine was destroyed by a direct hit from an air-launched high-precision weapon at the Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk)

the report says.
According to the MOD, more than 140 nationalists were killed, and about 250 militants were injured.

🇷🇺Quadrocopter drone used for recon

DPR Reservists undergoing training

The Ukr Command admitted the loss of Semigorye in their briefing
...
To the east and south of Artemovsk, the troops of Russia and Donbass attacked Pokrovskoye and Travnevoye. Next to Travnevoye, the Russian army entered Semigorye and is entrenched there.

The troops of the Russian Federation and Donbass attacked Avdeevka from Spartak, as well as Krasnogorovka.

▪️ Near Ugledar, Russian troops attacked Pavlovka.

The Ukr decided to spoil Russian Navy Day celebrations in Sevastopol...

💥 A Ukrainian drone attacked the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol - five people were injured.

All festive events in honor of the Navy Day in the city have been canceled for security reasons, Sevastopol Governor Mikhail Razvozhaev said.

There are no photos published yet of the type of drone but acc to some preliminary reports it was a small drone. How it got there is a mystery...perhaps it was launched from within Crimea itself

💥 Nikolaev has been hit pretty hard overnight and again this morning. It seems by guided LR MRLS rockets and not cruise missiles.

The governor of Nikolaev region says it's the heaviest attack on the city since the start of the conflict.

Video from this morining

The Rus army is massing large forces to the border (in Belgorod region) for a large-scale offensive - Radio Liberty. It's Radio Liberty so take it with a grain of salt. Acc to them, these forces are destined for the Kharkov Izum area from where they will be used in the Slavyansk

One of the 🇺🇦Pick Up mounted Rocket Launchers in the field

Support for Dutch farmers from the participants of the Truck Festival in Assen

There are reports that the DPR have entered Pesky (a Ukr stronghold close to Donetsk) and fighting is going on inside the town.

Video of fighting from the Pesky direction

Video of the bridge at the Nova Kakhovka power plant...this is the other bridge that the Ukr have been trying to destroy

Pics from the courtyard of the Black Sea Fleet headquarters, as well as at the entrance to the dining room.

Judging by the bloodstains and the bandage, people were injured at the entrance to the dining room, from which the courtyard is about 40-50 meters away.

A low-power explosive device mounted on a homemade drone went off on the territory of the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol.
/press service of the Black Sea Fleet/

Increased activity of combat aircraft was noted in the sky over the city by residents

Unless they're planning to do it on the quiet, officially Pelosi won't be visiting Taiwan.The White House said that the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the US Congress Nancy Pelosi will visit only Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan.

🇷🇺Today is Navy Day in Russia.

Putin inspecting the fleet units in Kronshtadt (St Petersburg) where the main parade is being held

One more video

More pics from the BSF HQ during the provission of first aid to the wounded....acc to latest info, 6 people were wounded, mostly light injuries

The drone attack on the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet was carried out from Sevastopol.
The search is underway for those who carried out the attack.
/ Senator of the Russian Federation Olga Kovitidi/

According to Channel One correspondent Olga Kuzenkova, the UAV was launched from a distance of 3 km from the fleet headquarters.

Rus artillery hits positions of the 🇺🇦59th Bgd

D-30 howitzer from a special FSB unit...unknown location

Uran-6 unmanned vehicles have been brought to Donetsk to help with the clearing of mines in the streets

The headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet was attacked in Sevastopol. A Ukrainian drone exploded in its courtyard. There were no deaths, 5 employees of the headquarters were injured. This was announced by the Governor of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhaev.

🇺🇲🇨🇳As we can see, the military plane with the grandmother on board continued its flight on July 31 as part of a trip to Asia. Acc to our assessment, Beijing can be calm today. Judging by the air corridor along which the plane is moving, it will land at the airport in Singapore.

🇷🇺⚓ Congratulations to all those involved on the Day of the Russian Navy!

🇨🇳🇹🇼 A map of a potential landing operation by the Chinese Armed Forces in the event of a negative development of events around Taiwan. The AFP map also shows key military installations on the island that will be targeted by the Chinese military.

🇺🇲🇨🇳⚡Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi thought well and excluded Taiwan from the visiting program. Now the task of the US State Department is to explain to the big-eared flock why this is a win.

🇨🇳🇺🇲🇹🇼 In the video of China Central Television, which is dedicated to the next anniversary of the creation of the PLA, for the first time the launch of a medium-range ballistic missile Dongfeng-17 (DF-17) with a hypersonic shock warhead was shown.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 As a result of night arrivals in Nikolaev, one of Poroshenko's sponsors Alexei Vadatursky, who was on the Russian sanctions list, was eliminated.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Allied forces continue the operation near Avdiivka

Units of the 1st Army Corps of the DPR continue their operation near Avdiivka. Intense artillery strikes are inflicted on Ukrainian positions. They are corrected with the help of drones.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Putin was officially informed about what happened in Sevastopol. The attack was carried out by a low-yield explosive device dropped from a makeshift drone. The total number of injured is 6 people, 2 of them are in a state of moderate severity, the buildings were damaged

In fact, it's a terrorist attack. Prefabricated quadcopter with a reset device and explosives (grenade or IED). The perpetrators are agents of the Ukrainian special services in the Crimea.

🇺🇦🇷🇺 A huge line of residents of Ukraine wishing to enter the territory of Zaporozhye, controlled by the Russian Federation

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Due to the Ukrainian drone attack and the threat of new terrorist attacks in Sevastopol, the naval parade and public events in the city have been cancelled.

I will repeat once again. Terror must be met with terror. At multiple magnification. It is our enemy who should be afraid to hold public official events & solve related problems non-stop. When this becomes a constant headache for the enemy, it will be more difficult for him

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Fighters of the People's Militia of the DPR and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation knocked out Ukrainian nationalists from their positions in the area of ​​the ventilation shaft of the Butovka mine on the southern outskirts of Avdiivka.

These fortified positions were of greater importance and played an important role in the general system of defensive fortifications of the enemy's Avdiivka grouping.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡The explosion of the ammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the village of Shevchenkove.

15 Ukrainian soldiers were killed + everything in the warehouse itself.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 40th brigade of the Pacific Fleet destroying Ukrainian militants

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The work of Russian sniper.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡High-precision strike of the "Products 305E" missile at the point of temporary deployment of the 72nd Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Destroyed up to 50 servicemen, 2 Msta-B howitzers and 10 units of military equipment

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The authorities of the Zaporozhye region will appeal to the CEC of the Russian Federation with a request to hold a referendum

Volodymyr Rogov, head of the military-civilian administration (CAA) of the Zaporozhye region, announced that the region's authorities would apply to the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation with a request for assistance in holding a referendum on joining Russia.

🇨🇳🇹🇼 A convoy of vehicles from the People's Liberation Army of China moves towards the Taiwan Strait.

🇷🇺 Parade on the Day of the Russian Navy!

🇷🇸🇽🇰❗Shooting is reported near the Serbian town of Novi Pazar near the border with Kosovo.

Air raid sirens are sounding

🇷🇸🇽🇰❗Unconfirmed reports of casualties among the Serbian military in the conflict zone on the border with Kosovo.

🇷🇸🇽🇰 First barricades in the town of Rudare.

🇷🇸🇽🇰⚡Gunshot wounds reported among Serbs at the Jarinje checkpoint

The Serbian population of Kosovo and Metohija began to build barricades, the national television of the republic reported.

🇽🇰🇷🇸❗Kosovo army plans to attack the northern part of Serbia at midnight - Vučić
🇽🇰🇷🇸❗️ #Breaking
Serbian President Vučić intends to issue an emergency address to the nation on the situation in Kosovo

🇷🇸🇽🇰⚡Kosovo special forces are on their way to the border crossing point of Yarinje in the north of the country.

🇷🇸🇽🇰⚡Units of the Serbian Armed Forces are gathering on the border with Kosovo to ensure the safety of the Serbian population of the self-proclaimed republic.

🇷🇸🇽🇰 All over Northern Kosovo, the alarm bells - churches and monasteries have been continuously ringing the bells for half an hour.

🇷🇸🇽🇰⚡Serbia is gathering its army to the borders of Kosovo, including combat aircraft.

🇷🇸🇽🇰 The Serbian Ministry of Defense stated that the Serbian army has not yet crossed the borders of Kosovo.

Meanwhile, the situation in the northern regions of Kosovo continues to escalate.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation strike at the positions of the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Avdiivka.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Allied forces in Soledar direction.

🇷🇸🇽🇰Serbian President on the situation in Kosovo: All I can say is that we will ask for peace and ask for peace, but I will tell you right away: there will be no surrender and Serbia will win. If they try to start persecuting Serbs, bullying Serbs, killing Serbs, Serbia will win

🇽🇰🇷🇸 Special forces units of the self-proclaimed Republic of Kosovo are deployed to the border with Serbia on the eve of the expected operation against the Serbian population

🇷🇺🇽🇰🇷🇸The Russian Foreign Ministry called on Pristina, as well as the controlling actions of the Kosovo authorities of the United States and the European Union, to prevent provocations against the Serbian population. Moscow also accused the West of wanting to punish Belgrade

🇽🇰🇷🇸 In Kosovo, cars with Serbian numbers began to be robbed.

🇪🇸🇽🇰🇷🇸⚡Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez urgently leaves Belgrade, where he was on a visit.

According to the plan, he was supposed to fly home only tomorrow.

🇽🇰🇷🇸 Kosovo special forces at the border.

🔗Vorposte

🇷🇸🇽🇰 Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic: “I ask for peace, I pray for peace. I appeal to both Serbs and Albanians - keep the peace. The atmosphere is brought to a boil, the Serbs will not tolerate any more cruelty, I almost knelt before them and begged them & finally got a promis

🇺🇲🇷🇸🇽🇰 CNN: There are unofficial reports of transfers of Serbian planes to airports and fields near Kosovo's border.

🇽🇰🇷🇸 Transfer of Kosovo police officers. There are more than a thousand of them in the north

🇽🇰🇷🇸 Transfer of Kosovo police officers. There are more than a thousand of them in the north

🇽🇰🇷🇸⚡The police of the self-proclaimed Kosovo announced the shots in their direction

🇷🇺🇺🇦❗Air raid throughout Ukraine.

🇽🇰🇷🇸 The Prime Minister of self-proclaimed Kosovo has said the coming days will be difficult as Kosovo faces "Serbian chauvinism".
He also said that the main culprits of this mess are the President of Serbia and the director of the office for Kosovo and Metohija Petar Petkovic.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The video shows a real night battle of the Crimean border guards.

🇽🇰🇷🇸⚡Kosovo police special forces are regrouping at the Belvedere base in the southern part of Kosovska Mitrovica – RTS

🇽🇰🇷🇸 Kosovo security forces are gathering on the "border" with Serbia.

🇮🇹🇽🇰🇷🇸 Italian peacekeepers in Pristina

Peacekeepers from the UN contingent stood on the bridge that separates the Serbian and Albanian sides of the city.

🇷🇸🇽🇰⚡Albanians enter settlements along the administrative line - Serbian Bulletin

🇽🇰🇷🇸⚡The militants of the so-called. The "police" of Kosovo are beginning to massively enter Serbian settlements on the border with Serbia.

🇽🇰🇷🇸 Gunfire was reportedly heard last night near the Brnjak crossing on the border between Kosovo and central Serbia.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡The battle for the south of Ukraine is coming: Russia is moving troops, - Zelensky

Now the Russian army is trying to strengthen its positions in the south, increasing activity in the relevant areas.

"Part of the Russian forces from their positions in the east are being transferred to the south - Kherson and Zaporozhye regions," Zelensky said in an evening address.

🇽🇰🇷🇸⚡Government Leaders of the Kosovo militants postponed the ban on Serbian documents until September 1

Now this is potentially interesting....a Ukr An-124 transport aircraft transporting a Israeli F-16 belonging to a Israeli company "Top Aces" which provides training for pilots. It's not confirmed but some rumours that Ukr pilots will undergo training in the US on F-16s

A Russian patrol in Syria has for the first time reached the border with Iraq, an area which is considered to be under the control of the US & allied militias

Repairs of the Antonovsky bridge in Kherson region that was previously damaged by Ukr Himars rockets

Rus artillery at Seversk

🇷🇺Strela-10 SAM system shooting down a 🇺🇦 "Fury" drone in Nikolaev region

🇺🇦Problems with the German supplied "Gepard" AA guns...apparently the ammo is no good

There's been an explosion at a warehouse in Bulgaria from where weapons were sent to Ukraine

Remains of decoy submunition from a Iskander missile in Odessa. These are designed to generate a fake radar and heat signals to confuse air-defences

Missile strikes reported Nikolaev and Kharkov...video is from Nikolaev

Evening briefing of the AFU command they mention fighting at Nova Gusarovka & Gusarovka adjacent to the Izum bridgehead which has been quiet in recent days. Nova Gusarovka is on the other side of the S. Donets river and was previously marked as under Ukr control.

▪️ The Rus Army are firing barrel and rocket artillery in the Kharkiv direction, advancing in the direction of Husarovka.

▪️ On the Slovyansk, Kramatorsk and Bakhmut directions, there is also shelling. Under air cover, the Russian military attempted to improve the tactical situation in the areas of Vershina, Soledar, Yakovlevka and Pokrovskoye.

▪️ In the Avdiivka direction, shelling and air strikes. The Russian Army is advancing in the areas of Kamenka and Peski. Russian units have partial success in the Avdeevka area.

▪️ In the Novopavlovsk direction there are artillery shelling and airstrikes.

▪️ The movement of certain Russian units from Slovyansk to the Zaporizhzhya direction was also recorded.

Latest news say the Albanians have under advice from the Americans decided to postpone the implementation of their plan for a month so as to give time for talks to sort out a compromise

The commander of the NATO forces in Kosovo, KFOR, is going to arrive in Kosovo Mitrovica and talk to the leader of the Kosovo Serbs, Rakic.

The Kosovo Albanians won't even scratch their arse without permission from their mentors. This was all done to pressure Serbia to join the anti-Russian camp...I don't think there will be a major conflict as the West doesn't need one but things can easily get out of control....

🇩🇿⚡The President of Algeria announced the country's desire to join the BRICS: "We have almost all the conditions for joining the BRICS, and we are very interested in joining this alliance," Tebbun said

🇺🇲🇷🇺🇺🇦 American economist Jeffrey Sachs: "Ukraine will disappear from the map, or a third world war will begin"

Among the well-known Americans who disagree with the official White House version of events in Ukraine, a serious addition: the economist Jeffrey Sachs has warned that the conflict in Ukraine will not end with the defeat of Vladimir Putin.

“Ukraine will disappear from the map, or the third world war will begin,” he gave a forecast of the development of events during the Free Thoughts on the Future conference.

It is noteworthy that Sacks blames the West for starting the current conflict, saying that there is only one option to end hostilities - NATO must admit that it will not expand at the expense of Ukraine.

The arrogance of the Western military alliance, which refused to take into account the demands of Russia to ensure its security, is the reason for the outbreak of hostilities in the center of Europe.

And if the West really wants peace, Sachs believes, it needs to end the war against Russia, not on NATO terms, but with Moscow's interests in mind

Russian Patrol Boat opening fire on a Ukr boat at night

The operational Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine "South" is reporting that the Russian army is building up it's grouping in the Krivoy Rog direction. They predicts that in the future, strike groups will be created for an offensive on the Dnepropetrovsk region.

Chinese Navy Su-30Mk2 during exercises in the Taiwan Straight

The head of the German Finance Ministry, Christian Lindner, proposed to stop using gas for electricity generation in order to save energy resources against the background of a decrease in the volume of supplies from Russia

"We must work to ensure that there is no shortage of electricity following the gas crisis. Therefore, gas should no longer be used for electricity generation, as it is happening now," he urged.

The Finance Minister spoke in favor of extending the service life of three nuclear power plants in Germany, which are planned to be decommissioned by the end of this year.

"Instead of gas, we need to use other capacities. There are a number of arguments in favor of not closing safe and climate—friendly nuclear power plants, but using them if necessary until 2024," Lindner said.

The politician added that he himself is trying to give the population an example of efficient use of electricity, including by switching the air conditioners in his office to an economical mode of operation.

We should note that, compared to the previous escalation of the situation in Kosovo in Sept 2021, Serbia has become much stronger: An air defense systems “Pantsir-S” got from Russia have been mastered, an FK-3 division – the Chinese analogue of S-300 -has been received from China

- The Mi-35 attack helicopters received from Russia and the H-145M received from Germany have been mastered.

- Chinese strike drones S-92 have been mastered and the strike drones «Pegasus» of Serbian production have been successfully fired at the firing range.

- An anti-tank guided missile system «Kornet» has been received from Russia

- The newly formed independent tank battalion using the Russian-made T-72MS vehicles conducted exercises most actively

- The formation of the 72nd Special Operations Brigade and the 63rd Parachute Brigade which report directly to the General Staff was completed.

During this time, Kosovo has continued to receive light armored vehicles and anti-tank missile systems, army Special Forces have been trained in the UK, and helicopters in Turkey but no helicopters supplies have yet been delivered, or any other major equipment.

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ #Donbass latest - #Artemivsk⚡️

AFU confirmed the beginning of fighting for Artemo(i)vsk/#Bachmut.

Wagner PMC and LPR Militia advanced from the south-eastern side directly to the city, with fire support from the 🇷🇺 RF Forces.

⚡️⚔️ #Donbass latest - #Avdeevka direction⚡️

▪️ Peski: Allies entered into the settlement from the south-eastern side. Heavy clashes are ongoing.

▪️ Avdeevka: Allies occupied Krasnohorivka settlement in the North, from the South approached to the city border.

By @operativsvo

❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Highlights of Russian Military Operation in Ukraine on July 30-31, 2022

▪️ On Sunday morning, an explosive device was dropped from UAV on the territory of Black Sea Fleet headquarters of the Russian Navy in Sevastopol, injuring six people.

▪️ In northern Kharkiv region, information is spreading among the local population about AFU's counteroffensive on Kozacha Lopan'. Positional fighting is taking place near Cherkas'ki Tyshky and Vesele.

▪️ Russian Armed Forces carried out massive strikes on facilities in Kharkiv: AFU positions at Malyshev plant were hit, as well as near Seminarska St and the Printing House.

▪️ Positional fighting is taking place in Bakhmut, on the eastern outskirts of Soledar and the suburbs of Bakhmut (Artemivsk).

▪️ Allied forces launch offensive on Zaitseve, Semyhir'ya and Vesela Dolyna. Ukrainian formations are resisting the Russian Armed Forces near Vershyny.

▪️ Allied forces are advancing in Donetsk direction: a stronghold near Avdiivka has been occupied near Butivka mine. Fighting is taking place on the outskirts of Pisky.

▪️ Ukrainian commanders try to divert Allied forces' attention from Avdiivka direction. A platoon of 110th AFU Separate Mechanized Brigade supported by two tanks is attempting a counterattack near Spartak.

▪️ Western-made anti-tank systems have been supplied to AFU forward positions in Orikhove, Novoandriivka, Kam'yans'ke in Zaporizhzhia region.

▪️ In Mykolaiv-Kryvyi Rih direction, a group of fighters of 18th battalion of 35th Marine Infantry Brigade tried to gain a foothold in Andriivka, but suffered losses and retreated.

▪️ On Sunday morning, the Russian Armed Forces struck targets in Mykolaiv. Oligarch Oleksiy Vadaturskiy, who was funding Ukrainian military formations, was killed.

▪️ On Sunday evening, Russian troops launched a rocket attack on the outskirts of Odessa airport

🇮🇶⚡Troops have entered the Iraqi capital of Baghdad ahead of protests against the new prime minister.

According to local media reports, most of the high-ranking officials left the country.

The head of military intelligence went over to the side of the protesters. Earlier, Sadridist leaders had called for a revolution if the government did not force the country's prime minister to resign.

Earlier, Shiite protesters stormed the (previously 😊) heavily defended "Green Zone" in Baghdad

Britain will soon hand over several minesweepers to Ukraine

According to the Ambassador of Ukraine to the UK, we are talking about anti-mine ships. Ukr sailors are already being trained on these ships.

🇷🇺Armored trucks Ural-63704 "Tornado-U" (6 x 6) in the zone of the SMO

🔹 The Tornado-U car has a load capacity of 16 tons.

🔹 The total weight of the car is 30 tons.

🔹 "Tornado-U is equipped with a 440 hp engine and can reach a maximum speed of up to 100 km/h.

The Ural-63704 Tornado-U armored car is equipped with an armored module that protects the driver from small arms fire and detonation of an explosive device.

On the roof of the cabin there is a protected turret for the machine gunner, and in the glazing of the doors there are embrasures with flaps for the use of personal small arms.

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They need more of these to replace regular trucks

Project for a land based launcher for the Izd-305 (LMUR) missile currently used only from helicopters

🇺🇦The first ship with a cargo of Ukrainian grain left the port of Odessa today in the direction of Lebanon along the agreed sea corridors.

The ferry that's operating for civilians in place of the Antonovsky bridge in Kherson region

A Ukr soldier in Bakhmut-Artemovsk says the locals are not friendly and pass on their positions to the Russians on Telegram

Algeria is the latest country that wants to join the BRICS. The country's president Abdelmajid Tebboun, believes that his country as a whole meets the criteria for membership in the group

🇨🇳🇺🇸The plane carrying the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the US Congress Nancy Pelosi may try to land in Taiwan under the pretext of a technical malfunction or the need for refueling.
/ Chinese media Global Times/

Pics from a Spetznas raid in the village of Malye Shcherbaki...2 Ukr were killed and 1 captured. The last photo is from the prisoners mobile phone posing with a NLAW. Acc to him, rockets for the NLAW are now very scarse and they're seldom used

Knocked out Ukr tank in Zaporozhye region

Ukr video showing a firefight at unspecified location

A series of explosions caused by farmers encountering randomly scattered mines in the Sumy region, one dead, four wounded

The earlier report about fighting starting in Bakhmut (Artemovsk) seems to be confirmed by a well known pro-Ukr supporter

China launched a hypersonic DF-17 missile near an island 120 kilometers off the coast of Taiwan during it's ongoing exercise

🇷🇺video from Pesky (Donetsk frontline)

Video feed from 🇷🇺Airstrike

Smoke rising from missile strike in Avdeevka as seen from Donetsk

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The Russians gathered about 30 BTGs in the south for an attack on Krivoy Rog and Nikolaev, - Arestovich

Zelensky’s spokesman also claims that the Russian army in the south has been tasked with being ready for the offensive on August 6.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The headquarters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the city of Artemovsk, a couple of hours ago.

🇮🇷Iran Promises to create nuclear warheads & warns that it has the ability to turn New York into "hellish ruins" The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps released a statement promising to quickly begin production of nuclear bombs if "the American or Zionist regime makes any mistake

🇺🇲🇺🇦🇷🇺 Vladimir Zelensky had to come to an agreement with Vladimir Putin and abandon the idea of ​​​​joining NATO (c) former US President Donald Trump.

🇺🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼 Ms. Pelosi has not confirmed any plans to travel to Taiwan.

She has the right to visit Taiwan, like other US lawmakers.

China appears to be preparing to take further steps in the coming days, which could include military provocations.

White House

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Ukronazi flew to Bandera

🇺🇲🇹🇼🇨🇳 US DOES NOT SUPPORT TAIWAN INDEPENDENCE: KIRBY

🇺🇲🇹🇼🇨🇳 Kirby says China could fire missile into the Taiwan Strait if Pelosi visits the island

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡DPR units fought their way into the fortified area of ​​the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Peski and entrenched themselves on the streets of the village

With massive artillery support, the allied forces 2 days ago broke through the most powerful defense of the Ukr forces & fought their way into the village near Donetsk, which the enemy had turned into a real fortress. Now they managed to move inward and gain a foothold

🇷🇺 In our opinion, Ukraine remains the only real hot spot in the world today.

Taiwan, Serbia, Karabakh have no prospects for a serious aggravation in the near future. And what will happen next spring, only God knows.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The first prisoners from the village of Peski. Today they were taken prisoner by the fighters of "Somalia" battalion

🇨🇳🇹🇼🇺🇲⚡China Eastern Command: We are ready to bury any invading enemy, Chinese diplomat Cao Yi

🇺🇲🇰🇵⚡North Korea prepares for new nuclear test: US Secretary of State Blinken

🇷🇺 Soldiers of the 40th Brigade of the Pacific Fleet somewhere in special military operation zone

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Ukrainian media report that on July 28, Russian troops killed the battalion commander of the 36th separate marine brigade, Major Yevgeny Chernokon.

🔗milinfolive

🇦🇿🇦🇲⚡Information about the advancement of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces in Artsakh is confirmed

🇦🇿🇦🇲⚡Mortar explosions reported near Khnatsakh village in Syunik

🇺🇲🇺🇦❗A member of the House of Representatives of the US Congress, Elissa Slotkin, said that Kiev in the next month and a half will receive ATACMS missiles for the HIMARS MLRS with a range of up to 300 km.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡ In the Kharkiv region, the National Guard discovered caches with weapons and ammunition.

In specially equipped caches, several NLAW ATGMs, Javelin ATGMs and Igla MANPADS, foreign-made grenade launchers and various ammunition were found.

Also in one of the settlements, the uniform of the Armed Forces and the chevrons of the Azov National Battalion were found.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡The Russian army has already come close to Artemovsk: fighting is going on on the outskirts and along the M-03 highway

Deputy Commander of the operational command "North" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Krasilnikov made a negative forecast for the Ukrainian Nazis in this direction:

"In the event of the loss of Bakhmut, Kramatorsk, Slavyansk and the Donetsk direction will be under threat ..."

It should be noted that the allied troops continue to break into the defense of the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the outskirts of Artemovsk. The 14th OMB Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, located in the defense of this sector, has heavy losses.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Captured Ukrainian soldiers

🇷🇺🇨🇳 China, Russia with you - broadcast on the Ostankino tower.

🇹🇼🇨🇳❗Taiwan military put on high alert

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡The Chinese aircraft carrier "Shandong" left the base on Hainan and departed in an unknown direction.

Japan reports high activity of warships of the Chinese Navy.

🇹🇼🇨🇳⚡The Taiwan Ministry of Defense canceled vacations for military personnel and announced the mobilization of air defense forces to "prepare for war."

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Russian artillery strikes directly into the shelters of the Ukrainian militants

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Russian artillery strikes directly into the shelters of the Ukrainian militants

Update on the situation in Bakhmut (Artemovsk) which was mentioned in a couple posts yesterday.

Acc to the info I have, the Rus/DPR forces are fighting along the highway on the east side of the city, from where tanks can fire directly into the city.

Update on Pesky (Donetsk frontline) . It seems the Russians have captured the trenches-fortifications in the southern sector while the Ukrainians are entrenched in the Northern sector. The north section is has more buildings which will probably make it harder to clear

Reportedly a 🇺🇦HQ in Bakhmut has been hit and is on fire

❗️The Taiwanese press writes that tomorrow Pelosi will arrive in Taipei at around 17.30 Moscow time (22.30 local time), spend the night at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, and the next morning will visit the Taiwan Legislative Council, where she will meet with the leadership of the island

First a crisis in Kosovo now Azerbaijan is moving troops into Karabakh and the stand off in Taiwan....I could be wrong but in my opinion these are just distractions currently while the main battle is still in Ukraine...vidoe of Azeri troops entering Karabakh

The Ukr keep talking about a Russian offensive on Krivoy Rog and Nikolaev city based on reinforcements arriving in those areas....which is the same areas they're suppose to be on the offensive

Meanwhile, an interesting opinion on further developments in August - September from a Russian analyst who posts under the name "Zastavnij"

He believes the Russians are preparing for a big cauldron in the western Donbas area

Translation of his text in following post

@Zastavnyii writes: Russian army brings reinforcements to the Izyum and Zaporozhye theatres of the conflict.

Remember the hysteria of the Khohls about the huge accumulation of Russian military equipment in Sobolevka, near the border with Kharkov region? Not for nothing: the Yankees have already recorded Russian army preparations at Izyum for a further offensive to the west (or north).

In parallel, the Ukrainians claim a massive regrouping of the Russian Army in Zaporozhye and in the Krivoy Rog directions. The goal of this preparation is seen by the enemy as an assault on the city of Zaporozhye.

@Zastavnyii doubts that the Russian army will seek to storm the million-population cities in the near future. There is no direct need for this, but there is a need to save the lives of the military personnel and civilians.

The purpose of so much reinforcement and regrouping may be a slightly different operation. A massive one, too, though. It is quite possible that right now the Russian Army is preparing to create a super-cauldron in western Donbass.

The northern, Izyum grouping of Russian troops will indeed launch a rapid offensive westwards - towards Pavlograd, via the Lozovaya settlement. The southern grouping will go to close the supercauldron from Orekhovo and Gulyai Pole, also to the north, towards Pavlograd.

Pavlograd, therefore, will play the role of the main gateway in this big performance, which will close within the cauldron about a 100 thousand Ukrainian fighters.

All of this, as is customary here, is merely an assumption. Except for the Repki, of course. If the master plan gives priority to the supercauldron, the Repki will play the role of a massive distraction, a containment of a substantial enemy force

Abandoned shells for M-777 howitzer at Berstovoe (east of Bakhmut-Soledar)

Destroyed 🇺🇦BTR, BMP and MT-12 "Rapira" Gun again at Berestovoe

🇺🇦Brimstone missile that didn't go off in Zaporozhye region

Damaged / captured 🇺🇦Saxon APC

🇷🇺Rosgvardia with captured weapons in Kharkov region

DPR "Snezhinka" rocket launcher, made in one of their workshops that fires 2 x 324mm rockets at a max range of approx 10km

🇺🇦video from the Kherson-Nikolaev frontline showing the aftermath of a Russian artillery barage

🇺🇦BUK-M1 SAM shooting down a Russian drone...undisclosed location

🇷🇺Sniper from a unit of the "V" group

Soldiers from the 🇺🇦58th Bgd mutneed and refused to go on fighting complaining about their command & conditions they've been forced to live in

🇺🇦Defence minister announces the receipt of M-270 "Mars II" MRLS from Germany....reportedly 3 units....there are also reports of delivery of 4 more Himars from the US

‼️🚢🇨🇳🇺🇸🇹🇼The aircraft carrier Liaoning of the PLA Navy left the Qingdao Naval Base on July 31, the aircraft carrier Shandong from the Sanya Naval Base on August 1. Probably from the north and south will move and reach to position themselves near the island of Taiwan‼️

◾ Ukrainian troops aren't happy because the locals of Kharkov Oblast tell the Russians about their positions.

If Ukraine does not resist Putin's imperial plans, Poland and the Baltic states face further expansion of Russia's sphere of influence in Central Europe, - the President of Poland

"Greater Russian ideas about the subordination of other peoples are not just the ideas of the president of Russia, they permeate a large part of Russian society.

Their journalists are talking about Russia stretching to the Polish city of Kalisz," said Andrzej Duda said in an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper.

According to Duda, thanks to Ukraine, this threat is still contained.

"But I think that, unfortunately, this danger will escalate in the future. The only thing that remains for all of us is to strengthen our defense security from Russia," Duda added.

Reportedly a 🇺🇦convoy attacked by 🇷🇺VDV and Wagner about 2 km east of Bakhmut (Artemovsk)

🇺🇦🇺🇸Ukraine will receive ATACMS missiles with a range of up to 300 km," said Elissa Slotkin, a member of the House of Representatives from the US Democratic Party.

According to her, the Congress understands the need to provide Ukraine with ATACMS in the next three to six weeks to help the AFU conduct a successful counteroffensive in the south of Ukraine.

An opinion piece on the formation of a 🇺🇦"Special Command" for the much talked about offensive

Go to link
vk.com/id585874971?w=…

Destroyed 🇺🇦M1083A1P2 MTV + Kozak armoured vehicle that eneded up in the Seversky Donets river

Serbian Pantsir from the 250th Air-Def Bgd on exercise

🇨🇳🇺🇸Tensions continue to rise around Taiwan. The PLA has announced a new exercise starting today and ending on Aug 6. Equipment has been shown on TV being loaded on ships

🇨🇳🇺🇸Reportedly Chinese bunker-busting bombs

🇺🇲🇹🇼🇨🇳 Politico: The fact that Pelosi is apparently still planning to visit Taiwan indicates that the Pentagon has revised its assessment of the danger from the Chinese military.

"The visit ... suggests that both sides have reluctantly reached a compromise agreement that will allow it to take place while reducing the likelihood of miscalculations in a period of increased tension," the publication says.

American military experts interviewed by the newspaper have no doubt that China and the United States are in contact at the military level in order to avoid unwanted incidents.

Politico adds that Washington will apparently at the same time confirm to Beijing through diplomatic channels that it remains committed to the "one China" policy.

The Washington Post, citing sources, insists that Pelosi may cancel her visit to Taiwan at the last moment.

Today is the holiday of the VDV Forces in Russia and the 92nd anniversary since their formation in 1930

Radar reflectors at the Antonovsky bridge...presumably for Harpoon missiles

🇦🇲🇦🇿 On August 1, as a result of a provocation by Azerbaijani units, a soldier of the Artsakh Defense Army Albert Vladikovich Bakhshiyan was wounded. The condition of the wounded soldier is assessed as satisfactory – Artsakh Defense Ministry

🇺🇲⚡The United States killed al-Qaeda leader al-Zawahiri in Afghanistan, Politico, Reuters and AP reported, citing sources. The blow, according to media reports, was inflicted by drones.

🇹🇼🇨🇳⚡The Taiwanese air force base Taitung Zhihang has entered a state of "full combat readiness". Another 8 Mirage 2000s have also been dispatched to guard the southwestern airspace; joining the 2 already guarding it.

🇨🇳🇹🇼🇺🇲 China's PLA Fujian Provincial Military Command conducted a live-fire shooting in a sea area off E China's Fujian Province to test its overall combat capability under complex conditions.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡Almost all flights departing from the coastal Fujian region have suddenly been cancelled.

🇹🇼🇨🇳🇺🇲⚡ Chinese journalist on Twitter:

Based on what I know, in response to Pelosi's possible visit to Taiwan, Beijing has formulated a series of countermeasures, including military actions.

🇷🇺🏅 More than five thousand paratroopers were awarded various state awards during their participation in Russia's special military operation in Ukraine, 17 of them were awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Ukrainian troops opened fire on the territory of the Luhansk People's Republic. The blow fell on the settlements of Pervomaisk and Stakhanov. American MLRS M142 HIMARS, 15 missiles were used for the attack.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Artillery battles on the front line Kherson - Nikolaev
Explosions are thundering in Nikolaev

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡China's Liaoning aircraft carrier left Qingdao on July 31, and the Shandong left Sanya on August 01.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 In the morning summary, the Ukrainian General Staff reports that the attack on Artemovsk is taking place in two areas:

Fights are taking place directly on the outskirts of Artemovsk - the area between Artemovsk and the village of Pokrovskoye

🇹🇼❗Taipei's Taoyuan Airport received 3 bomb threats to disrupt Pelosi's visit when she was scheduled to arrive at another airport - media

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Combat work of MLRS hurricane

🇨🇳🇹🇼 Two aircraft carriers of the People's Liberation Army of China put to sea ahead of a possible visit by Pelosi to Taiwan - Zhongguo Shibao Newspaper

Eyewitnesses report PLA helicopters flying over the coast of the South China Sea

🇬🇧🇺🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼 Following the US, the British also plan to visit Taiwan. Visit could take place in November-December - The Guardian

🇨🇳🇹🇼 In the province of Fujian, where large-scale exercises of the PLA are taking place, the loading of military equipment onto landing craft is recorded.

🇨🇳🇹🇼 A convoy of PLA military equipment was spotted on the bridge between Xiamen Island and mainland Fujian

🇨🇳🇹🇼❗Chinese Foreign Ministry confirms China's determination to retaliate harshly if Pelosi visits Taiwan

🇨🇳🇹🇼 Chinas Military tanks deployed at Xiamen City beaches nearer to Taiwan Strait in Fujian . Tensions Raising in Taiwan Strait .

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Footage of the shooting battle of the DPR assault group in the Avdeevka direction.

🇨🇳🇹🇼 Military equipment of the Chinese army spotted on the beaches of Fujian province

🇺🇲🇹🇼🇨🇳 Politico: The fact that Pelosi is apparently still planning to visit Taiwan indicates that the Pentagon has revised its assessment of the danger from the Chinese military.

"The visit ... suggests that both sides have reluctantly reached a compromise agreement that will allow it to take place while reducing the likelihood of miscalculations in a period of increased tension," the publication says.

American military experts interviewed by the newspaper have no doubt that China and the United States are in contact at the military level in order to avoid unwanted incidents.

Politico adds that Washington will apparently at the same time confirm to Beijing through diplomatic channels that it remains committed to the "one China" policy.

🇨🇳🇺🇲❗China and the United States are in close contact at all levels, keep in touch through various channels - Chinese Foreign Ministry in the context of the topic of a possible visit of Pelosi to Taiwan

🇺🇲🇨🇳 Pelosi's plane has left from Malaysia

🇨🇳🇹🇼🇺🇲❗The United States is going beyond what is permitted, China will deprive the separatists and their accomplices of the slightest chance for Taiwan independence - Chinese Foreign Ministry

🇨🇳🇺🇲🇹🇼 Protests erupt in Taiwan against Nancy Pelosi's visit

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡The Chinese authorities have suspended the import of a number of foodstuffs from Taiwan

According to the island's Central News Agency, citing the Taiwan Agriculture Committee, the measures are being interpreted as a retaliatory move for a likely visit to Taipei by Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi.

🇹🇼🇺🇲 Several dozen people took to the streets in Taiwan to protest Pelosi's visit

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇺🇲 Ukrainian intelligence consults with the United States before using American HIMARS.

Washington can cancel strikes if it is not satisfied with the designated targets. Vadym Skibitsky, deputy head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, confirmed the information that Ukrainian militants have “good satellite images”

It turns out that the order to kill the prisoners of war of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Azov in Yelenovka was given by the NATO command. In general, all strikes resulting in the death of civilians are the result of the military plan of the NATO command.

There is nothing surprising in this, because the collective West has a lot of experience in the destruction of civilians.

🇺🇲🇹🇼🇨🇳 US Navy deploys four warships, including aircraft carrier, east of Taiwan as Pelosi approaches island - Reuters

🇺🇲🇹🇼🇨🇳⚡ US Surveillance Planes in the Skies Around Taiwan - Global Times

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡The Russian Armed Forces destroyed 6 launchers and over 200 HIMARS MLRS missiles, 33 M777 howitzers and five Harpoon launchers

Also, Ukrainian troops lost 396 Javelin and NLAW anti-tank missile systems in 2 weeks, Sergei Shoigu said.

🇨🇳🇹🇼🇺🇲⚡In Fujian Province, complexes with ballistic missiles DF-16 with a range of up to 1000 km were spotted

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Captured militant of "Azov" said that cannibalism was practiced in the regiment - the head of the PMC of Moscow

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Footage from the recently recaptured positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Avdeevka

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Work of Russian artillery

🇨🇳🇺🇲⚡Another US government aircraft arrived in Malaysia from Scott US Air Force Base in Illinois and can be used to accompany US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's flight to Taiwan or to replace her special aircraft, writes the Global Times newspaper.

🇺🇲🇨🇳 NATO monitors the aggravation of relations between China and the United States around Pelosi's visit to Asia, but does not take part in it - media source

🇹🇼🇨🇳⚡ The Taiwanese national army's combat readiness in Penghu, a island in the taiwan strait, has been "significantly strengthened" - Liberty Times

🇺🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼 A government plane carrying Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi approaches the coast of Indonesia.

Presumably, the aircraft will follow the route over Indonesia and the Philippines, from where the special aircraft will be escorted by US Navy fighters, and local forces will be received in the Taiwan air defense identification zone.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡️The video is believed to be from the port city of Xiamen in Fujian, the closest province to Taiwan.

🇺🇲🇹🇼🇨🇳⚡Pelosi delegation booked an entire floor in a hotel in Taipei

According to Taiwan's Sanli TV channel, the American group consists of 40 people for whom 48 rooms are booked. The Speaker of the US Parliament may arrive in Taiwan around 21:20 local time (16:20 Moscow time

🇺🇲🇹🇼🇨🇳 U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan could last until Wednesday 5:00 pm local time, longer than previously expected, Taiwan's Sanli TV channel reported.

🇷🇺🇺🇲⚡Declaring Russia a sponsor of terrorism may lead to a break in diplomatic relations with the United States - Russian Foreign Ministry

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation recognized the Azov Battalion as a terrorist organization

🇺🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼 SPAR19 swinging north towards Taiwan.
It will approach Taiwan from the eastern side

Completing avoiding south China sea

🇨🇳🇹🇼🇺🇲 Fujian Province

🇨🇳🇹🇼 Train of Tanks moving into Xiamen

🇺🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼 US government aircraft Beech King Air 360 just landed in Taiwan

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡Website of the Taiwanese presidential administration was subjected to a cyberattack - Reuters.

🇨🇳🇹🇼 More chinese equipment heading to Fujian

🇨🇳🇹🇼 The chairman of the New Taiwan Party said that Pelosi will turn Taiwan into fire and water, and called on people to protest at the Grand Hyatt hotel, where she is expected to arrive.

🇨🇳🇹🇼 Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying answered the question of what countermeasures China has the right to take if Pelosi visits Taiwan: "I can tell you that the American side will definitely take responsibility and pay the price for harming China's sovereignty

🇨🇳🇹🇼 Chinese Tank movement occurring in Fujian earlier. Reports from citizens that roads are being closed for hours as the military continues to move assets.

🇨🇳🇹🇼🇺🇲⚡Flightradar website under attack by hackers, aircraft tracking website owners say

🇷🇺🇨🇳🇺🇲⚡Russian Foreign Ministry on Pelosi's plans to visit Taiwan: the United States has repeatedly engaged in provocations, today Washington is doing it live

🇷🇺🇨🇳Russia proceeds from the fact that there is only one China. The government of the People's Republic of China is the only legitimate government representing all of China - Zakharova

🇨🇳🇹🇼 The Taiwanese government website is also down.

🇨🇳🇹🇼 “Fire trucks on every street” in Xiamen

🇨🇳🇹🇼❗️ PLA Air Force interceptors flew out on combat patrols to the identification zone of Taiwan, Taiwan raised Mirage-type fighters - media citing eyewitnesses from social networks

🇨🇳🇹🇼❗TVBS reports that the outer Taiwanese islands have entered a state of "combat standby". The last time this happened was during the Taiwan Strait crisis in 1996

The Ministry of National Defense denies that the islands have raised their alert level.

🇪🇸🇺🇦⚡️Spain abandoned the idea of ​​transferring Leopard tanks to Ukraine - Minister of Defense of the Kingdom

🇨🇳🇹🇼 Several Taiwanese government websites have reportedly been DDoS'ed per Taiwan's Presidential Office.

🇹🇼🇨🇳❗️Taiwan has increased its readiness in response to China-led live-fire military exercises in the Taiwan Strait. These exercises, in turn, were a response to a possible visit to Taiwan by Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi.

The heightened alert will continue until noon on August 4 and will be adjusted depending on the level of threat from the People's Liberation Army of China, according to the Central Taiwan News Agency, citing a source in the Ministry of Defense.

🇨🇳🇹🇼 PLA military armor continues to reach Fujian near the Taiwan Strait for military exercises.

🇨🇳🇹🇼 The Chinese intercontinental missile DF5b is being transported somewhere.

The DF5b has an estimated range of 12,000-15,000 kilometers and can carry 3-8 hydrogen warheads.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡A huge amount of PLA military equipment on the streets of the city of Xiamen in Fujian province, the territory closest to Taiwan in mainland China.

🇨🇳🇹🇼 Taiwanese military helicopter is patrolling the area over Taipei.

🇨🇳🇹🇼 Another video of the transfer of tank units by rail in Fuzhou, Central Fujian Province, China

🇨🇳🇹🇼 The situation at the Sunshan airport before the possible arrival of Pelosi

🇺🇲🇹🇼🇨🇳⚡US Air Force fighter jets, escorted by tankers, are lifted from a base in Japan to escort Pelosi's plane.

The Taiwanese aviation authorities confirm the arrival of the special aircraft at Taipei airport soon.

🇹🇼🇺🇲🇨🇳⚡At the Sunshan Airport in Taiwan, one of the buildings has the inscription "Love. Hope. Peace" before the possible arrival of Pelosi

🇨🇳🇺🇲⚡Official statement by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian:

"Pelosi's visit to Taiwan will be a gross interference in China's internal affairs, and will lead to very serious events and dire consequences.

The Chinese side once again warns the American side that the PRC is on high alert, the Chinese army will by no means remain an indifferent observer and will definitely take decisive and effective countermeasures to protect sovereignty and territorial integrity."

🇺🇲🇹🇼🇨🇳 8 F15 fighter jets and 5 tanker aircraft lifted from US base in Okinawa, NHK reports

🇺🇲🇹🇼🇨🇳⚡US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's special flight will land at Taipei's Songshan Airport on Tuesday at around 10:00 pm local time (5:00 pm Moscow time), Taiwan's Sanli TV channel reported, citing police data.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs site is also down.

🇺🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡The SPAR19 aircraft carrying Nancy Pelosi enters Taiwan's air defense zone.

🇹🇼🇺🇲🇨🇳⚡Taiwan Air Force fighter jets escorted a US government special flight carrying what is believed to be Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi - media

🇨🇳❗China closes its airspace to civil aviation in the direction of the Taiwan Strait, - media.

It's funny how in a couple of days Ukraine faded into the background in the news flow, isn't it?)

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡️ In the Chinese province of Fujian, Chinese fighter jets can be heard flying towards the sea.

🇹🇼🇨🇳⚡Taiwanese television announced the introduction of a second level of combat readiness in the country.

🇹🇼🇨🇳⚡PLA Air Force's Su-35 fighter jet(s) is crossing the Taiwan Straits, according to social media account Yuyuan Tantian. (Global Times)

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡PRC coastline province, Fujian, warming up the missile shots tonight

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡ Air raid sirens in China

🇨🇳🇯🇵🇹🇼🇺🇸⚡️It is reported Dozens of US Air Force fighter jets have lifted off from bases in Japan, headed for Taiwan.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡️Nancy Pelosi's Plane has landed safely in Taipei.

🇺🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡Nancy Pelosi in Taiwan

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡️ It is reported Taiwanese aircraft opened warning fire in the Taiwan Strait.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡️ China will be conducting war games off the coast of Taiwan between August 4th-7th.

I don't expect any military escalation between the US and china. It is just that this type of readiness will stay until Nancy leaves

🇺🇲🇹🇼🇨🇳 Full text of Nancy Pelosi's statement.

“Our congressional delegation's visit to Taiwan demonstrates America's unwavering commitment to supporting Taiwan's vibrant democracy.

Our visit is part of our wider journey to the Indo-Pacific region, including Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan - we are focused on mutual security, economic partnership and democracy.

Our discussions with the Taiwanese leadership will focus on reaffirming our support for our partners and advancing our common interests, including a free and open Indo-Pacific.

America's solidarity with Taiwan's 23 million people is more important today than ever as the world faces a choice between autocracy and democracy.

Our visit is another visit by congressional delegations to Taiwan, and in no way conflicts with longstanding United States policy based on the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979, the US-China Joint Communiqué, and the Six Pledges.

🇨🇳🇺🇲🇹🇼 President Xi Jinping on Pelosi's visit to Taiwan: We continue to look at the world with wide eyes so as not to miss a single provocation by American reactionaries. Pelosi's visit to Taiwan is yet another demonstration of the uncivilized campaign of the imperialists

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Explosions thundered in the vicinity of the city of Radekhiv, Lviv region

🇺🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼 The Chinese Ambassador to the United States said that China will give a powerful and strong response to the provocation with Pelosi's flight to Taiwan.

A lot has already been said about strong answers. It remains to demonstrate them in practice, since the United States has made its move and now China needs to respond somehow. Words alone are obviously not enough.

🇨🇳🇹🇼 Taiwan Defense Ministry states 21 chinese aircraft entered Taiwanese Air Defense Zone on Tuesday.

🇮🇷🇺🇸🇨🇳 Iranian Foreign Ministry condemns Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan

The reaction of the Iranian Foreign Ministry to the visit of the Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan:

Respect for the territorial integrity of other states is one of the foundations of Iran's foreign policy. Therefore, the issue of supporting the principle of indivisible China in this context is undeniable for us Iran

Pelosi's visit clearly illustrates that the consequence of American interference in the politics of other countries of the world is the growth of instability and the escalation of conflicts

The behavior of the US administration is interference in internal affairs

Iranian Foreign Ministry strongly condemns such a move by the US administration

🇨🇳🇺🇲 Pelosi's landing in Taiwan, first results:

1. To be honest, we did not fully believe that she would decide on it. Including because even Biden, not to mention the many American elites tied to cooperation with China, disowned this provocation.

2. It is strange that someone expected a strike on the plane - from the very beginning it was clear that China's response would be, at least for now, in the diplomatic plane. Or in the military-diplomatic, but, of course, there is no talk of a war with the United States.

3. For Russia, this development of the plot is simply ideal, because without China it would not be easy to hybridize against the West, and the extremely ambitious Xi, at the head of a billion-strong, disciplined and patriotic population, will never forgive this insult.

And the best form of response is not to get involved in a direct clash with the United States, to harm them where it will be especially noticeable. Of course, this primarily concerns the increase in assistance to Russia in terms of circumventing Western sanctions.

4. With all our criticality to what is happening, we evaluate this particular case as a "overcome",

5. "Zrada" would be China's consent to Pelosi's visit and the Sino-American "reset".

6. The story is just beginning. Thanks to the grandmother for driving the last nail into the lid of the unipolar world, showing that the US is not going to reckon with China, which, according to all forecasts, is becoming the scientific and economic locomotive of the planet.

🇹🇼🇨🇳 Taiwan's Ministry of Defense reports that 21 PLA Air Force warplanes have entered the Taiwan Air Defense Identification Zone.

In itself, "entering the identification zone" is not unusual - the Chinese Air Force regularly visits there.

The Taiwanese Defense Ministry also said that the PLA's upcoming exercises are "an attempt at intimidation."

🇷🇺🇺🇦 An anti-aircraft complex of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed by a missile attack

Russian troops attacked the outskirts of the city of Radekhiv in the Lvov region.

The enemy confirms that an anti-aircraft missile system was destroyed as a result of the strike.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Video of the destruction of the pontoon crossing of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by loitering ammunition. From the first person - as you like.

🇺🇳🇨🇳 The UN adheres to the policy of "one China" - the office of the Secretary General on Pelosi's visit to Taiwan.

🇷🇺🇨🇳🇺🇲 Moscow views Pelosi's visit to Taiwan as a clear provocation - Russian Foreign Ministry.

🇨🇳🇹🇼❗China's People's Liberation Army begins exercises in three areas around Taiwan - China Central Television

🇷🇺 The only one who benefited from today's air show over the Taiwan Strait is the Kremlin.

Unlike China, Russia was not afraid to enter into a fierce geopolitical and military battle with the United States of America. The whole world perceives the Ukrainian war in this way.

In the long run, Russia will benefit from any development of the Taiwan story.

If China retreats again, which is more than likely, Russia will receive the status of the undisputed leader of the "alternative" world, capable, and more importantly, ready to use force where it considers it fundamental and important for itself. For 30yr only the US could afford

Around this strengthened leadership, Russia will build new geopolitical configurations and balances of power in various regions of the world - from Central Europe, Transcaucasia to West and Central Africa.

If China does not back down and starts an open political and economic confrontation with the United States, this will ease the pressure on Russia. “There won’t be enough Himars for everyone”

🇨🇳⚡First images of China's military exercises begin to appear on local TV

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡In Kherson, people who previously served in the special unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine "Kord" were detained.

In the course of ongoing operational activities, the detainees told law enforcement agencies about a cache that contained a large arsenal of weapons as well as explosive devices that the Ukr special services were supposed to use to carry out sabotage & terrorist activity

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡Chinese missiles will fly over Taiwan during the exercise.

Global Times

🇨🇳🇹🇼 The Chinese Air Force's fifth-generation Chengdu J-20 fighters are involved in large-scale exercises near Taiwan.

🇺🇦Official Kiev claims it's Kherson offensive has already "liberated from Russia" 53 settlements of the Kherson region (just adding 7 more last night in their latest despatch)....however, they have yet to provide any names of any of these settlements so far in their despatches

❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Highlights of Russian Military Operation in Ukraine on August 2, 2022

▪️ Russian Armed Forces stuck AFU positions near Myhal'chyna-Sloboda in Chernihiv Region.

▪️ In the northern Kharkiv Region, positional fighting and mutual shelling continue.

▪️ During the night, Russian forces struck AFU’s facilities in Kharkiv, Chuhuiv and Bohodukhiv district. Russian Aerospace Forces hit the positions of Ukrainian formations in Staryi Saltiv.

▪️ Russian Armed Forces managed to gain a foothold on the eastern outskirts of Soledar, securing a bridgehead for a further offensive deep into the city. Fighting is taking place in Bakhmuts'ke.

▪️ Russian troops liberated Semyhir'ya near Vuhlehirsʹka TPP, and advancing further towards Kodema.

▪️ Allied Forces break up AFU defence in the suburbs of Donetsk. In Pisky, Ukrainian formations suffer heavy losses and retreat from the fortified positions.

▪️ AFU’s 21st Battalion of the 56th Motorized Brigade came under "friendly" fire while retreating in the direction of Vodyane.
▪️ Ukr formations once again shelled towns in the Donetsk agglomeration and continue using Butterfly Mines (PFM-1), which are extremely dangerous

▪️ In Zaporizhzhia Region, artillery duels continue. Russian Armed Forces struck enemy positions in Zaliznychne, Mala Tokmahka, Kam'yans'ke and Novoandriivka.

▪️ In the morning, Russian forces launched several missile strikes on facilities in Mykolaiv and hit AFU garrison in Mykolaiv V.O. Sukhomlynskyi National University.

▪️ Russian units also targeted a deployment point of Foreign Legion mercenaries. A large number of enemy manpower and military equipment was eliminated.

▪️ In the evening, Russian Armed Forces struck AFU positions in the Chervonohrad district of Lviv Region.

▪️ Other missile strikes targeted Vinnytsia. Ukrainian air defence failed to protect AFU facilities.

Reports of clashes of Rus/DPR with English-speaking mercenaries at the KNAUF plant located within Soledar.

Temporary base of the 🇺🇦 nationalist Aidar Btn was struck overnight in Bakhmut

🇨🇳🇹🇼 The Chinese military is now conducting a massive shelling in the direction of the Taiwan Strait from the territory of Fujian province, where the PLA exercises are being held in response to Pelosi's visit to Taiwan.

🇺🇲🇹🇼🇨🇳 Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi held talks with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen during her visit to Taipei.

🇨🇳🇹🇼 China has suspended the import of some fruit and fish products from Taiwan

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡It's just hell! - Zelensky recognized the advantage of the Russian army, which smashes the Armed Forces of Ukraine

"We still cannot break the advantage of the Russian army in artillery and in manpower, and this is very felt in the battles, especially in the Donbass - Peski, Avdiivka, and other directions. It's just hell. It can't even be described in words..."

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Russia deploys airborne units to the Kherson region

This was stated by the adviser to the Gauleiter of the virtual Kherson Regional Military Administration S. Khlan.

Earlier, Arestovich and other representatives of Kyiv announced the transfer of Russian troops to the south and the preparation of a large-scale offensive.

🇨🇳❗The world's largest Chinese fuel cell and lithium-ion battery maker CATL is postponing an announcement to build a giant $5 billion factory to supply batteries for electric vehicles in North America after US Congress Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, Bloomberg reports.

The plant is supposed to employ 10,000 workers and be able to reduce shipping costs around the world.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡The Chinese authorities promised the leader of Taiwan "accelerated collapse" and "great disaster"

China will uphold its sovereignty and territorial integrity, said Ma Xiaoguang, spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office under the State Council.

The PRC has already announced sanctions against two funds in Taiwan for separatism, and has also suspended the export and import of a number of goods

🇹🇼 Near an industrial area in Tainan, Taiwan, migrant workers photographed a large number of helicopters appearing.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian artillery destroys Ukrainian howitzer

🇩🇪🇺🇦⚡Germany blocks $8 billion aid package for Ukraine.

Just what I recently wrote about. Winter is coming

🇺🇦🇨🇳 An interesting detail from The New York Times publication about Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan: newspaper columnist Thomas Friedman noted that such a rash step is not at all in the interests of the USA, especially when the situation in Ukraine is not in favor of the West

According to the journalist, US officials are actually extremely concerned about the behavior of the Ukrainian leadership, and "deep distrust" has formed between US President Joe Biden and Volodymyr Zelensky.

Of particular concern to the White House were Zelensky's recent high-profile decisions to dismiss the head of the SBU and the Prosecutor General of Ukraine.

"It's as if we don't want to get to the bottom of what's going on in Kyiv because we're afraid to find corruption or other machinations there, after all the effort we've put in," Fridman writes.

What is interesting here is that Thomas Friedman is far from being an ordinary journalist. And it's not even that he was awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize three times.

Friedman is known for his close ties to the American intelligence agencies, whose members often become sources for his material. Of course, on condition of anonymity.

Moreover, Friedman has direct access to the President of the United States. It is said that the journalist is in Biden's circle of confidants and enjoys his great respect. nytimes.com/2022/08/01/opi…

🇺🇲🇺🇦⚡The United States does not hide that their goal is war to the last Ukrainian

US Senator Lindsey Graham: "I like the path we are on. As long as we help Ukraine with the weapons it needs and economic support, it will fight to the last man"

🇷🇺🇨🇳🇺🇲⚡With the hype around Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, the US authorities tried to divert attention from Ukraine and domestic problems, including inflation - Russian Foreign Ministry

"Pelosi's visit to Taiwan is yet another demonstration of the uncivilized campaign of the imperialists. We continue to look at the world with wide eyes so as not to miss any provocation from the American reactionaries." Xi Jinping.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Destroyed air defense missile system Buk of the Armed Forces of Ukraine after the strike of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Russian troops entered Soledar

sources report that clashes with English-speaking mercenaries began at the KNAUF plant located within the city.

🇨🇳🇺🇸 Well, without succumbing to direct provocation, in the coming days, Beijing will demonstrate its strength and capabilities by conducting military exercises, launching missiles near Taiwan, but without direct military confrontation

The reaction of the PRC authorities is likely to be phased - the economic blockade of Taiwan, including the creation of a partially no-fly zone, as well as the restriction of maritime traffic, followed by cyber and information impact on the island.

With regard to the United States, China will take the necessary measures to decisively counter it, for example, by stopping a number of important industries.

Now in the hands of Beijing there is a trump card that will soon be used and the USA will not be able to oppose this in the international arena. We are talking about open interference in the internal affairs of another state and no respect for its integrity and independence.

🇨🇳⚡Beijing has warned airlines to avoid flying in the Taiwan area, Bloomberg reports citing air carriers.

🇨🇳⚡China restricts flights around Taiwan during exercise

The restrictions will be in effect from 07:00 Moscow time on August 4 to 07:00 Moscow time on August 7.

🇷🇺DPR Artillery at Avdeevka

Kharkov....also reports of explosions in Nikolaev, Kurakhovo

There's a fire at a fuel depot in Makeevka (near Donetsk) after 🇺🇦shelling

Captured Starlink equipment in the Donbas

🇷🇺The Soyuz-21b" launch vehicle. with a satellite developed in the interests of the Russian Defense Ministry, successfully launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome
The sat has been placed into the calculated orbit.

🇷🇺🇨🇳Russia has no reasons to deny aid to China should they request it in case of a military conflict in Taiwan, — said Vladimir Dzhabarov, first deputy head of the International Affairs Commision for Russia’s Upper house

North Korea can send up to 100 000 fully equipped soldiers to support Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics’ war effort, a notable Russian writer, politician and pro-Donbass activist Zakhar Prilepin said to Pravda.ru news website.

An alliance treaty between the Republics and the DPRK is being prepared.

Under the treaty, Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics may pledge to supply DPRK with resources, food, consumer goods and and high-tech products & other articles that fall under the US sanctions

The so-called “Taiwan Crisis of 2022” is a perfect example of the mechanism by which news stories are shaped and reacted to within the media field. Nancy Pelosi flies to Taiwan, and 300,000 users watch tensely on FlightRadar to see whether China will shoot down her plane

The plane is not shot down, and social networks are flooded with insulting remarks against "the weakling Xi"; the free world rejoices: the US has confirmed its status of global hegemon, the world remains unipolar, everything is OK.

Against this background it is somehow forgotten that Chinese officials have not said anything about planning to shoot down the plane or even preventing it from landing in Taiwan.

Why would they do this is also unclear: Pelosi is not the first American official to fly to Taipei, and she is there on a working visit, not to declare Taiwan's independence. Moreover, American officials have reiterated their commitment to a one-China policy

The Chinese promised a "military response"? Well, here it is, with artillery firing, concentration of force, and all the rhetoric appropriate in such cases.

In general, the Western media and bloggers themselves invented the news, promoted it, got scared, and then calmed themselves down.

The tail may well have wagged the dog in the situation, but the majority of the Chinese people are on Weibo, not Twitter, not to mention the PRC leadership [that cares not one bit for the Western social media hysteria], & they are relatively little affected by all this hysteria

Further south from Bakhmut, Semigorye is confirmed under Rus control and fighting is shifting towards Kodema. and Travneve

🇨🇳⚡China will definitely take drastic measures in response to Pelosi's visit to Taiwan - Chinese Foreign Ministry

🇨🇳⚡Chinese Foreign Minister called the reunification of China with Taiwan a historical inevitability

🇪🇺🇨🇳⚡EU pursues a clear "one China" policy and remains committed to it - representative

🇨🇳🇹🇼As of this morning, China's response to the US provocation so far has been:
1. Condemnation at the diplomatic level.
2. Started military exercises with rocket firing, including missiles potentially capable of carrying nuclear warheads but so far with non-nuclear warheads.

3. Partial blockade of the island by exercise zones. Until at least August 8th.
4. Requirements for airlines not to fly in Taiwan airspace.
5. Suspension of the $5 billion CATL battery plant project which would create 10,000 US jobs.

6. An embargo on the supply of natural sand to Taiwan (on the island it is used for the production of cement and glass).
7. Suspension of imports from Taiwan to China of two types of fish and citrus fruits.

8. Prohibit Chinese companies from cooperating with Taiwan Democracy Foundation and Taiwan International Foundation for International Cooperation and Development.

9. In general, it can be expected that China's main response will be on the economic plane. But in general, it is obvious that current events have brought a future war over Taiwan closer.

🇹🇼 🇺🇲 Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen tweeted photos of her meeting with Nancy Pelosi

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Here is one episode of the war for you. The day before, the enemy decided to counterattack in the Pokrovsky area. With forces of up to three battalions, the militants of the Kiev regime went on the offensive, with the support of tanks and artillery, of course.

The offensive ended sadly for the enemy. Only confirmed losses of the regime formations: more than 300 people, 5 tanks, more than 20 units of other armored vehicles.
This is to talk about the "battle for Kherson" and in general the ability of the enemy to conduct offensive Ops

🇷🇺🇪🇺🇺🇲⚡The era of cooperation with the West is over, there will be no return to the situation before February 24 in relations with the US and Europe - Russian Foreign Ministry

🇺🇦 From Ukrainian serviceman in peski

🇹🇼🇺🇲 Not everyone in Taiwan is thrilled with Nancy Pelosi's visit

🇹🇷🇺🇦🇷🇺 The Turkish Ministry of Defense publishes footage of the inspection of the first bulk carrier with Ukrainian grain

The inspection team is conducting an inspection in Istanbul. Journalists are watching from the shore

🇺🇲🇨🇳⚡️Blinken and Chinese Foreign Minister during the G20 meeting last month discussed a possible visit of Pelosi to Taiwan - Reuters, citing a representative of the State Department

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Consequences of the missile attack on Kharkiv

A missile hit destroyed one of the workshops that the Armed Forces of Ukraine used to repair military equipment.

🇷🇺🇲🇲 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov meets with the Chairman of the Myanmar State Administration Council, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing

🇱🇹🇺🇲🇨🇳 Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis welcomed US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taipei, saying she "opened the doors to Taiwan much wider."

🇨🇳⚡China releases new footage of ongoing military exercises in Taiwan

Warships, missile systems and aircraft are involved, including Chengdu J-20 fifth-generation fighters.

🇹🇼 The Taiwanese army released a video demonstrating the readiness to defend the homeland

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡High-precision long-range air-launched missiles near the village of Radekhiv, Lviv region, destroyed a storage base with foreign-made weapons and ammunition delivered to the Kyiv regime from Poland — Russian Defense Ministry

🇷🇺🇺🇦❗The commanders of the units of the 132nd reconnaissance battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Kharkov refused to follow the orders of the command and departed for a temporary deployment point - Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

🇱🇻⚡The authorities of the Latvian capital decided to completely destroy the Monument to the Soldiers of the Soviet Army - the liberators of Soviet Latvia and Riga from the Nazi invaders and place a park in its place.

🇹🇼❗Taiwan authorities are negotiating with Japan and the Philippines to provide alternative routes for aircraft in connection with Chinese military exercises and the closure of certain areas.

🇽🇰🇷🇸 Footage of the arrest of Serbs by ROSU special forces.

🇺🇲🇭🇺 Former President Trump on Tuesday met with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban

🇷🇺🏅 Head of Chechnya Kadyrov was awarded the title of Hero of the LPR.

🇺🇲🇹🇼 Pelosi has left Taiwan. She is flying to Seoul, meanwhile, South Korean President Yoon Seok-yeol is on vacation during her visit (August 1-5), they are not expected to meet.

🇦🇿🇦🇲❗Azerbaijan violated the ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh, 7 Armenian soldiers were injured

The shelling of Armenian positions has been going on since 9 am today. The Azerbaijani side uses grenade launchers and UAVs. Together with Russian peacekeepers, measures are being taken to stabilize the situation, Stepanakert's Defense Ministry says.

🇺🇦🇽🇰 Ukraine withdraws its peacekeepers from Kosovo - local media

🇦🇿🇦🇲⚡One serviceman killed, 8 more soldiers injured - Artsakh Defense Ministry

At about 15:00, Azerbaijani units used attack drones in the northwestern section of the contact line, as a result of which one serviceman of the Artsakh Defense Army was mortally wounded.

"Eight more servicemen received injuries of varying degrees, we will report on further developments," the department notes.

🇨🇳🇹🇼 DF-17 ballistic missile launchers spotted in Fujian.

🇦🇲🇦🇿⚡ Partial military mobilization announced in Artsakh - Armenian media quoting president

🇦🇿🇦🇲⚡Azerbaijani Army's Bayraktar TB2 strikes Armenian Army position in Karabakh

🇦🇿🇦🇲❗The Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan publishes new footage of the defeat of the Armenian forces with the help of UAVs.

🇨🇳🇹🇼❗In the exercises that began off the coast of Taiwan, China will use long-range artillery and use the DF-17 hypersonic missile for the first time, Global Times reports.

The publication indicates that missiles will fly over Taiwan for the first time, and Chinese forces will enter an area within 12 nautical miles of the island.

🇦🇿🇦🇲⚡The Azerbaijani army has carried out the "Retribution" operation, the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan reports.

“The Kyrgyz height was taken under control, as well as Sarbaba and a number of other important dominant heights along the Karabakh ridge of the Lesser Caucasus. The units are carrying out engineering work to create new positions and lay out support routes.

As part of the operation, several combat positions of the Armenian armed formations were destroyed, an air strike was carried out on a military unit in the Upper Oratagh settlement of the former Aghdam region

As a result, the manpower of the Armenian armed formations was destroyed and wounded, as well as several D-30 howitzers, military vehicles and a large amount of ammunition were destroyed,” the ministry said.

🇺🇦🇧🇾⚡Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said that Kyiv would break off relations with Minsk if the armed forces of Belarus enter the territory of Ukraine.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Self-propelled guns "Msta-S" and support equipment on the Crimean bridge.

🇮🇷⚡Iran is moving army units to the border with Azerbaijan amid the current escalation in Nagorno-Karabakh.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡The International Criminal Court does not recognize the SMO as aggression against Ukraine

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba said that the International Criminal Court, for legal reasons, cannot apply the article "aggression" specifically to the case of Ukraine and Russia.

🇷🇺🇺🇦❗Allied forces took control of half of the village of Peski. The units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, according to some reports, left the settlement.

It also reports on the active advance of the allies along the entire front line in the Donbass

🇿🇦 In South Africa, mass protests and clashes with police continue against the backdrop of the economic crisis.

“It’s hell”

Ramzan Kadyrov was awarded the title of Hero of the Lugansk People's Republic.

The award was personally presented to the Head of Chechnya by the Head of the LNR, Leonid Pasechnik, at a ceremony in Grozny.

it is being reported in Donetsk that DPR & Russian Forces are storming Donetsk suburb of Maryinka.
There are reports that Ukraine forces are retreating that already most of Maryinka is under the control of the DPR & Russia

-Patrick Lancaster

❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 The situation in the Soledar direction
as of 20.00 August 3, 2022

In the Soledar direction, the efforts of the allied forces are concentrated on pushing through the defensive lines near Soledar and Bakhmut (Artyomovsk).

▪️In Soledar, fighting is going on along the Bakhmut-Lysichansk highway. Rus units came close to the southeastern outskirts of the settlement: clashes unfolded on the territory of the Knauf Gips plant and the Extra railway station. 1 km southwest, the cleansing of Bakhmutsky cont

▪️The attackers from the side of the Pokrovsky unit are grinding the enemy defenses in Bakhmut, suppressing firing points in the city.

▪️The capture of Semigorye made it possible to establish control over Travnev and come close to Kodem. The assault on the fortified areas of the Armed Forces of Ukraine continues throughout the Travnevoe-Kodema-Vershina section.

A pair of Su-25 attack aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces is working on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Destroyed Ukrainian Hummer (HMMWV) on the bridge between Lisichansk and Severodonetsk.

🇦🇿🇦🇲 Destruction of the Ural truck of the Armed Forces of Armenia by the UAV strike of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Troops of Russia and the DPR are storming the fortified area of ​​the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Peski, the enemy has been knocked out of half of the village

Half of the village of Peski near Donetsk is under the control of the DPR. Presumably, from the other half of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, for the most part, they fled.

The allied forces are actively destroying the strongholds of the Ukrainian invaders along the entire front in the area of ​​Avdiivka, Soledar and Artemovsk, the authorities of the Republic report.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Massive artillery strikes on the fortified area of ​​the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Marinka.

🇨🇳 🇹🇼 ⚡First round of Chinese Military drills will begin in the waters around Taiwan within the coming hours.

🇨🇳 Meanwhile somewhere in China

The company commander of the 4th battalion of the Right Sector DUK (an extremist organization banned in Russia) Andrey Zhovanik (callsign Tatarin) & his henchman Yuri Kovalenko (callsign Sokar) were destroyed near Soledar. Both of them were part of the battalion "Carpathian Sich

Zhovanik was a hardened Nazi - since 1989 he was a member of the Union of Ukrainian Youth, which advocated the education of youth in the spirit of the OUN and UPA

Later, he became one of the founders of the radical Ukronazi Svoboda party, and was also an active member of the pseudo-historical society Kholodny Yar, whose books educated fascism in Ukraine.

After the start of the war in the Donbass, he took part in the killing of civilians and the battles at Saur-mogila as part of the "Right Sector"

🇰🇵⚡The DPRK has legally withdrawn from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and has the right to self-defense, the DPRK's permanent mission to the UN said in a statement.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Ukrainian militants set up a command and observation post in a mansion on the shore in Pisky. The 11th regiment of the NM DPR not only discovered them, but also accurately delivered a crushing blow with artillery

Now they will not be able to watch, and there is no one to watch. Peski is practically under the control of Russian and allied forces.

🇺🇦⚡Amnesty International accuses Ukraine of stationing troops in civilian facilities

Ukrainian forces are endangering civilians by establishing bases and using weapon systems in populated residential areas, including schools and hospitals, Amnesty International said today.

🇨🇳🇹🇼❗Chinese armed forces conducted live firing in the eastern part of the Taiwan Strait - PRC Ministry of Defense

🇱🇻🇷🇺 Deputies of the Latvian parliamentary faction "Consent" issued a statement in which, emphasizing that they condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine, they announced that they would not take part in the vote on recognizing Russia as a terrorist state.

We believe that the military circumstances require a special responsibility to evaluate every political step, including the statement, which is planned to be adopted at a meeting of the Seimas. Does it have a rational purpose?

Doesn't this expand the zone of conflict, thereby increasing tension? The deputies of the Accord believe that the very posing of the question - to recognize Russia as a terrorist state - is provocative.

🇷🇺🎖️Vladimir Putin signed the Decree on awarding the title of Hero of Russia to Colonel Olga Kachura (posthumously) for courage and heroism shown in the performance of military duty.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Russia's goal is the Zaporozhye and Kherson direction, where Russia's largest counteroffensive is planned, - Lyusya Arestovich

According to him, these two directions are the directions of true danger.

Now we are facing a lull, and the real events will begin within about a week.

he said.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Battle for Soledar: Allied troops break into the defensive line of Seversk-Artemovsk

Soldiers of the 6th Cossack Regiment of the LPR are fighting in the Soledar industrial area. The capture of the city cuts off important logistical routes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and makes it impossible to conduct a mobile defense

🇺🇲🇨🇳 In Taiwan, as in Ukraine, the West is flirting with disaster.

The Guardian published an op-ed with that title, written by writer and BBC broadcaster Simon Jenkins.

According to Jenkins, the actions of Western countries, primarily the United States, represent a "strategic ambiguity": on the one hand, Washington declares its readiness to provide military assistance to Taiwan, but on the other, it continues to support the "one China" principle

A similar uncertainty in the actions of the West, Jenkins believes, is observed in relation to the situation in Ukraine: the US & Brit are talking about the need to defeat the Rus but do not realize that the growing support of the Kyiv authorities leads to an even tight reaction

Can Russia really be counted on to put up with even more destruction of its troops without escalation? The West seems determined to keep Ukraine tied, hoping to delay a horrific penalty shootout.

🇷🇺⚡️The date of the referendum on the issue of joining Russia in the Kherson region is going to be determined within a month - the authorities

🇨🇳🇹🇼 Today, in the Chinese province of Fujian adjacent to the Taiwan Strait, the exercises of the troops of the Eastern Zone of the PLA Combat Command started.

From the city of Pingtan, launches were made from 300-mm MLRS PHL-16 with an extended range of guided munitions up to 480 km.

🇨🇳🇹🇼 The Chinese military launched PCL 191 ballistic missiles (MLRS) across the Taiwan Strait.

🇨🇳🇹🇼 Chinese military helicopters flew near the Taiwan Strait

🇨🇳🇹🇼 The Chinese Foreign Ministry called the exercises of the Chinese Armed Forces in the Taiwan area a necessary and legitimate response

🇨🇳🇹🇼 Chinese military helicopters fly over Pingtan, Fujian Province, heading towards the Taiwan Strait.

🇨🇳🇹🇼 Chinese military launches of PCL 191 (MLRS) missiles across the Taiwan Strait.

Hohols shelling downtown Donetsk again. "Zvezda" reports that its film crew came under fire.

One of the shells hit near the Donbass Palace Hotel. The very center of the city.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Allied forces destroyed a group of mercenaries near Kharkov

They spoke Spanish, but there is no exact data on their citizenship yet

🇹🇼🇨🇳 Taiwan Mainland Affairs Council: Chinese teachings won't change the fact that the two sides don't belong together

🇨🇳⚡Chinese Foreign Ministry: if the G7 countries do not change their erroneous position on Taiwan, China may reconsider its attitude towards dialogue with them. The head of the Chinese Foreign Ministry has already canceled a meeting with his Japanese counterpart

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Gods of War at work

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Having lost combat capability due to heavy losses, the units of the 54th mechanized, 56th and 58th motorized infantry brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine left their positions

🇷🇺🇦🇿🇦🇲⚡️Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh, after the aggravation of the situation in the conflict zone, advanced to the line of contact and settled down at some posts along with Armenian servicemen, Sputnik Armenia reports.

According to information from sources close to the RCC command, such measures were taken as part of measures to de-escalate the situation.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports on the battles for Gusarovka in the Izyum direction. There are even statements that it has already been taken.

Let's wait for confirming photos / videos.

🇨🇳🇹🇼 China Central Television releases footage of missile launches in areas around Taiwan during exercise

🇩🇪 A major fire and explosions in an ammunition depot near Berlin, where shells to be disposed of were stored. The fire spread to the surrounding Grunewald forest. Explosions continue, firefighters are unable to put out the fire.

🇩🇪 A major fire and explosions in an ammunition depot near Berlin, where shells to be disposed of were stored. The fire spread to the surrounding Grunewald forest. Explosions continue, firefighters are unable to put out the fire.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian paratroopers with well-aimed artillery fire denazify the fortifications of the Ukrainian militants

🇷🇺🇨🇳🇹🇼 China's military exercises near Taiwan are China's sovereign right, tension in the region was artificially provoked by the visit of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Peskov said.

🇨🇳🇯🇵❗️Five rockets fired by China fell in the exclusive economic zone of Japan, Tokyo protested - Kyodo News

🇹🇼🇨🇳 The Taiwanese army began the transfer of 155-mm howitzers M114 and 120-mm mortars closer to the areas of the exercises of the PLA

🇷🇺🇺🇲⚡The Russian Ministry of Defense is considering the possible involvement of USAID in the emergence of coronavirus

According to the agency, the development of the COVID-19 pandemic suggests its deliberate nature and the involvement of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in its occurrence.

PLA firing PCL=191 LR MRLS in the Taiwan straight. Reportedly they'll be firing some missiles over Taiwan to hit targets on the other side of the Island

A man who was placing explosives under the car of a local official in Berdyansk (Zaporozhye region) was arrested by security forces. He says he was recruited by the SBU and provided with equipment

🇷🇺Orlan-10 UAV with 7 stars on the top of the wing...apparently 1 x Star = 10 recon flights

🇨🇳3 x Chinese Type 071 (Yuzhao Class) Amphibious Transport Dock ships are heading to the South China Sea...last 2 pics are stock photos of the type

❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Highlights of Russian Military Operation in Ukraine on August, 3 2022

▪️In the northern Kharkiv Region Russian Armed Forces are fighting with Ukrainian formations near Borshchova, Vesele and Dementiivka.

▪️Russian army struck AFU military infrastructure facilities in Kholodna Hora and Novobavar districts of Kharkiv.

▪️Fighting for liberating Yakovlivka continues. Russian artillery and MLRS fire at AFU positions in the settlement.

▪️In Soledar, fighting is reported on the approaches to KNAUF Gips Donbass. However, the control over the eastern outskirts of the city has not yet been confirmed.

▪️Near Bakhmut (Artemivsk), AFU failed to counterattack near Pokrovs'ke. Three battalions suffered significant losses in manpower and armored vehicles.

▪️DPR People's Militia supported by Russian artillery conducts an offensive in Donetsk direction attempting to expand the security zone around the Donetsk agglomeration.

▪️Somalia Battalion and DPR People’s Militia’s 11th regiment advancing in Pisky gained a foothold near the dam and took control over about half of the village.

▪️Positional fighting continues in Mar'inka, where advancing DPR forces are trying to gain control of the strategically important waste heap of Shchurivka mine.

▪️In Zaporizhzhia direction, Russian Armed Forces hit the command post of AFU´s 65th Mechanized Brigade by artillery fire near Yul'ivka.

▪️In Mykolaiv Region, missile and artillery ammunition depots and fuel storage facilities in Varvarivka and Halytsynove were destroyed.

▪️In Lviv Region, high-precision air-launched missiles destroyed a storage base with foreign-made weapons and ammunition.

Schools and hospitals are used by the Ukrainian military as military bases — British human rights organization Amnesty International

Multiple cases of civilian buildings and facilities being used as military bases, warehouses and firing points have been documented in a AI article in which the NGO it directly accused the Ukrainian army of offenses.

From April to July, Amnesty International journalists conducted their own investigation of the consequences of missile strikes by the Rus Army in the Nikolaev and Kharkov regions, interviewing local residents & inspecting the places of strikes

coming to a well-known conclusion: the Ukrainian army used residential facilities and civilian infrastructure for its own purposes in 19 cities, which provoked return fire.

The article also documents the fact that the Ukrainian military used a grain warehouse as a storage place for ammunition and equipment. In early July, this warehouse was destroyed by the Russian army,

A colonel from the headquarters of the Ukrainian Air Force Command, Ruslan Tyukh, who operated Turkish Bayraktars has been killed.

Yesterday, President of Ukraine Zelensky published another award decree, where Colonel Ruslan Tyukh appears among the posthumously awarded Ukrainian military.

Ruslan Tyukh had previously served in the A3808 military unit (383rd separate UAV regiment), where he was awarded a certificate of honor.

In 2019, Lieutenant Colonel Ruslan Tyukh, as head of the Unmanned Aviation Department of the headquarters of the Ukrainian Air Force Command, was sent to Turkey to retrain for Bayraktar TB2 attack UAVs supplied to Ukraine.

MOSCOW, Aug 3-RIA Novosti. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has said that the International Criminal Court (ICC) cannot apply the article "aggression" against Russia.

"The statute of the ICC says that one of the crimes on which he can judge is aggression. But in practice, for purely legal reasons, he cannot apply this article specifically to the case of Ukraine and Russia, "the Ukrinform publication quotes him as saying.

According to Kuleba, there is a problem of institutional selfishness both in the issue of the ICC & in the issue of creating a special tribunal. The Minister believes that Ukr's partners urge not to create a special tribunal since there is an ICC, so as not to create alternatives

"What is more important — the interests of the ICC, which does not want any temporary alternatives to itself, or the justice for which the ICC exists? Here they have a stupor, because they are both for justice and for the ICC," the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said.

Kuleba previously said that he intends to ask the Prosecutor's office of the International Criminal Court, the European Commission and the Dutch government to create a special international tribunal for Russia.

Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev in response stressed that the Ukrainian initiative to create a tribunal for Russia is devoid of an international legal basis.

◾Remember our old friend Neo Nazi Sergei Korotkikh "Boatsman"?

◾He was with the first groups of troops that entered Bucha after Russian withdrawal, he boasted about Gonzalo Lira kidnapping giving up the involvement of his friend Sergey Velichenko "Chile".

◾Boatsman has lost the favour of Russian and Belarusian Neo Nazis fighting for Ukraine, his former colleagues from White Supremacist group "Format 18" have just made a defiant public video calling him a coward and talking about the size of his manly parts.

◾This story it's been dragging for weeks, while Boatsman was enjoying life in the rear, advertising restaurants in his Telegram Channel, his old friends are in the front.

◾The new "Fuhrer" Artem Krasnolutsky "Hurricane" is ready to take over the ranks of exiled Russian Nazis in Ukraine, and has the support of groups like Format 18 and other Nazi volunteer battalions.

🇺🇦video of Himars being fired...interestingly from a wheat field

Colonel Olga Kachura, call sign “Corsa”, commander of a “Grad” rocket artillery batalion, honorable citizen of Gorlovka, died tragically today. A defender of Donetsk from Ukrainian invasion since 2014, she was one of the first members of Donetsk People’s Militia. Memory eternal.

🇨🇳🇹🇼 22 PLA fighter jets crossed the median line over the Taiwan Straits today, Taiwan's Ministry of National Defence - TVBS

🇨🇳⚡China urged the West to "wake up from sleep" and stop controlling the fate of other countries

China invited the world powers to "wake up from sleep" because Beijing will no longer allow itself to be humiliated, as it was 100 years ago. This was stated at a regular briefing by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying.

From Clonel Cassad: PMCs "Wagner" with the support of the artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation hacked the enemy's defenses and was able to enter Artemovsk (Bakhmut). Now the fighting is going on on Patrice Lumumba Street.

Regarding the Pesky info, I don't think it's fully captured as mentioned in video

Report on the Donetsk area from Rybar

Go to link
vk.com/@585874971-the…

The AFU command is reporting a Russsian attack on the town of Gusarovka from the direction of Novo Gusarovka. This is NW of the Izum Bridgehead.

For the past 2 months, the Ukr have attempted to attack the bridgehead on several occasions in order to cut the main Russian supply route which passes through it.

The attack on Gusarovka could be an attempt to push the Ukr away from the western edge of the bridgehead. There is also an increase of pressure in the southern section towards Slavyansk likely aimed at fixing Ukr units in that area in place

Situation in South Ukraine

There is no major movements on the map apart from heavy positional bombing & shelling (as can be seen by the icons on the map)

The Ukr are continuing to move reinfocements to the Krivi Rog area from Dnepropertrovsk and even from the Chernigov area (Northern Ukr)

The Russians have also reportedly massed around 30 Batalion Tactical groups in the wider Kherson area...2nd map is just an overview of South Ukr with major centres marked

Acc to reports, we should see something major happen here in the next few days

🇷🇺Russian tanks firing on Ukr positions in the Donbas

Ukr technicians are reportedly in North Macedonia to repair 4 x Su-25s which are to be handed over to Ukraine tofgether with 30 x T-72A tanks. Ironically, these tanks and aircraft were originally bought by Macedonia from Ukr back in 2001 to fight against Albanian insurgents

🇺🇦 The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine transferred 2 companies of the 17th tank brigade from the Chernihiv region to the Krivoy Rog direction.

The operational command "South" and the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine plan to launch an offensive against the positions of the Russian army from August 7 to 12.

24 tanks are only a part of the reinforcements deployed to this area to the detriment of Ukraine's interests in the Donbass and along the border with Russia.

The RF Armed Forces are well aware of this and are building up their grouping as a mirror, preparing for a counteroffensive.

🇺🇦M-777 howitzer destroyed in counter-battery fire

RT Arabic video from the Soledar area

🇨🇳The PLA has extended the exercise around Taiwan till Monday.

21 PLAAF aircraft have entered Taiwan's air-identification zone

Japan has published a map of Chinese missile strikes, some of which have landed just inside their Exclusive Economic Zone

🇨🇳Kj-200 AEW aircraft during the drills

🇨🇳Seems like Taiwan doesn't have enough pilots and would need "some" time to train new ones

🇷🇺Kornet Missiles in action

🇷🇺TOS-1A Sunburn PR video

The White House wants Britney set free

Interesting

Russia will launch an Iranian satellite into space on Aug-9 together with a bunch of smaller Russian ones tass.com/science/1488729

⚡️ 🇺🇦"Tochka-U" was shot down by air defense in the Bryansk region.
The wreckage of the rocket damaged infrastructure in the village of Klimovo.

Destroyed Ukr positions on the Seversk-Bakhmut road (near Bakhmut)

Not sure how authentic this is but IMO sounds pretty plausible

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The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny reported to Vladimir Zelensky about the situation in the troops.

Tg-channel "Nachstabu" with reference to a source in the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine gives details of the report that caused the anger of Zelensky:

- the staffing of the Armed Forces remains at the level of 43-48%, despite the mobilization;

- more than 191 thousand killed and wounded;

- more than 80% of reservists from the fifth wave of mobilization have already been killed, wounded or deserted;

- statistics on missing persons are not kept;

- medicine is working at the limit, the seriously injured are being taken through Poland to EU for treatment;

- small arms & means of armor protection are sorely lacking;Only one of the three servicemen is equipped & ready for combat, while the rest have to fight with limited

the mobilized have stopped payments at their main place of work, the military is detained for up to three months;

the resource of Western military equipment is running out: the first batches of American M777 howitzers and M109 self-propelled guns, German PzH 2000 self-propelled guns and MARS II MLRS from recent batches;

- lack of qualified specialists in the operation of Western weapons;

- the problem with spare parts, consumables and the need for special conditions for the repair of foreign weapons, the equipment is unsuitable for intensive use in the field.

Nikolaev is getting pounded for hours now, not a single photo or video.

Interesting

🇷🇺Orlan-10 UAV in the field

SYRIA: During the air patrol, the crews of the Russian Aerospace Forces identified and destroyed another group of militants of the terrorist group "Liwa Shuhada El-Qaryatein" who are trained by US instructors

The terrorists were hiding in the equipped shelters of the Belaya Desert, from where they carried out sabotage activities against Syria

💥The AFU command also reports about a 🇷🇺 missile strike on object in Nikolaevka in Odessa region

🇷🇺Video from Pesky

Russian Army soldiers (from Weastern Military District) attacking a Ukr strongpoint with RPO thermobaric launchers

The destroyed object of the Ukrainian army in the Korabelnij (Ship) district of Nikolaev

Remnants of the Russian air-to-surface missile X-59MK in Mirovskoye, Dnepropetrovsk region.

Japanese media report on activity at one of the nuclear test sites in the DPRK (#NORTH KOREA)
According to the US State Department, Pyongyang is preparing new tests.

Earlier, North Korea announced its withdrawal from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

The Taiwan Ministry of Defense sent aircraft & ships & deployed ground-based missile systems to monitor the situation as China conducts large-scale military exercises in areas surrounding Taiwan. video of Taiwanese Artillery being deployed...M-114 155mm howitzers & 120mm Mortars

🇨🇳🇺🇸 China accused the US of violating the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) by transferring nuclear weapons to third countries. Beijing also believes that Washington's nuclear arsenal threatens international security.

🇷🇺Wagner artillery

🇨🇳PLA missile launches with unit bases and types of missiles used

🇨🇳🇺🇸A US Rc-135 recon plane has been spotted flying near the Chinese exercise...and Chinese drones flying in the Taiwan strait

🇺🇸F-22s from the 90th Squadron have arrived in Poland...they're usually based in Alaska

Arestovich the latest to gossip about Iranian drones in Russia

He claims that Iran has transferred 46 drones to Russia, and the Russian army is already using them in Ukraine

❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Highlights of Russian Military Operation in Ukraine on August, 4 2022

▪️ AFU continue strikes on Russian territory: Klimovo was shelled in Bryansk Region.

▪️Russian Armed Forces hit Ukrainian army positions in the border village of Medvedivka in Chernihiv Region, as well as in Krasnopillya and Myropillya communities of Sumy Region.

▪️In northern Kharkiv Region, Russian Armed Forces units are engaged in positional fighting near Pytomnyk, Vesele and Cherkas'ki Tyshky. ▪️In Derhatchi and other towns of the region there is a forced mobilization of civilians, thus the command of AFU try to replenish losses

▪️ In Izyum direction to the east of Protopopivka two Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups from AFU's 93rd Mechanized Brigade of are sent to uncover the movement of Russian reconnaissance groups

▪️The most intense fighting is taking place on the eastern outskirts of Soledar, where Allied Forces are storming the Knauf Gips Donbass.

▪️Forward units of the Wagner's PMC have entered Bakhmut (Artemivsk) from the east near Patrice Lulumba Street. Fighting is already taking place within the city limits.

▪️Allied Forces advancing from Semyhir'ya are fighting on the outskirts of Kodema.

▪️ In Avdiivka, Mar'inka and Pisky, Allied Forces, supported by the Russian Aerospace Forces, develop an offensive and engage in street battles in residential areas.

▪️ AFU shelled the centre of Donetsk, where the farewell ceremony with DPR Colonel Olga Kachura was held at the Opera and Ballet Theatre: at least five people were killed.▪️ In northern Zaporizhzhya, the Russian Armed Forces hit an oil depot supplying fuel to AFU at the Zvezda

▪️ Ukrainian command continues to prepare for an offensive in Kryvyi Rih direction: rotation of units of the 60th Infantry Brigade is underway.

Industrial facility in Nikopol in Zaporozhye region hit by 🇷🇺MRLS fire

The 2nd battalion of the 56th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade of the AFU in Avdeevka is refusng to continue fighting as cannon fodder and complaining about lack of support

In the Ukrainian and Western segments, they are discussing the way in which the ethnic units of the RF Armed Forces have learned to deal with the electronic intelligence of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Foreign observers note with regret that the Tuvan units that took Liman encoded their communications, speaking Tuvan among themselves, so that their movements and plans would not be revealed by the enemy.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine recognized the loss of the Butovka mine, the surrender of positions in the Avdiivka area and in the direction of Artemovsk

In the Avdiivka direction,the enemy has stepped up assault operations to oust the Ukrainian troops from the occupied lines in order to capture Avdiivka and Peski," said A. Gromov, deputy chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

After the massive use of aviation and artillery on July 30, the Armed Forces of Ukraine were forced to leave the Butovka mine and go on the defensive south of Avdiivka.

He also added that the Armed Forces of Ukraine withdrew from the occupied lines in the direction of Bakhmut (Artyomovsk).

🇺🇦⚡In Ukraine, the date of the "counterattack and victory" has been postponed again

Our main plans will be as early as next year, when stockpiles of weapons will be accumulated ... (At the moment) we do not even have 30% of what we need," an unnamed Ukrainian senior official told the British newspaper Financial Times

We do not expect to receive (from the West) enough capabilities (weapons) to plan any decisive counter-offensive this year," the official said.

But what about the statements of Zelensky and Arestovich?

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Allied troops liberated Peski

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Battle for Artemovsk

The work of artillery of the Allied Forces at the checkpoint of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the exit from Artemovsk towards Seversk.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡PMC "Wagner", with the support of artillery of the RF Armed Forces, broke into the enemy's defenses and was able to enter Artemovsk. Now the fighting is taking place on Patrice Lumumba Street.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Soldiers of the Russian special forces with thermobaric ammunition destroy the firing points of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, located in residential buildings.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡video of the defeat of the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Pisky. The tanks of a separate tank battalion are working

🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈 ☣️The Biden Administration declares monkeypox a public health emergency. 🤡

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleg Degtyarev liquidated in Marinka near Donetsk

🇷🇺🇺🇲 American basketball player-drug addict Greiner received 9.5 years in prison + 1,000,000 rubles fine, as the prosecution actually requested. The court also noted that Greiner pleaded partially guilty.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 I think that despite all the failures and losses near Donetsk, the Armed Forces of Ukraine will decide on a counteroffensive and most likely it will be somewhere in the Kherson direction.

The very logic of war forces dill to move from defense to attack, otherwise the army will be crushed on the defensive, and the morale of the troops will drop to the point after which wholesale desertion will begin.

In this connection I want to note 100500 times. There are no "Nazis" separate from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Any, absolutely any person in the form of opposing forces is a criminal, just with varying degrees of guilt.

There are no forcibly drafted into the army, they all had a choice whether to fight or not. The degree of guilt of each of the crests will be determined after the victory, but for now, as Abbot Arnold Amalrich said: "Kill everyone, the Lord will recognize his own."

And if someone is outraged by such harshness of my words (of course, the guys on the front line are not outraged by it and they nod approvingly)

🇺🇦⚡ The 56th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine refuses to fight and complains that there is no supply, that they are being sent to certain death.

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Ukraine killed this child today. And her grandmother

🇺🇦⚡️Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny reported to Volodymyr Zelensky about the withdrawal of troops from the settlements of Avdiivka and Peski due to the lack of artillery, which was transferred to the south to attack Kherson.

🇺🇲Biden's wife is concerned about his condition - the president's well-being, acc to her, is affected by his low political ratings, criticism of opponents because of his age & ongoing illness, as well as foreign policy challenges, including the crisis in Ukraine, CNN sources say

🇪🇺🇺🇦 The EU has added ex-president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych and his son Alexander to the sanctions list, which is associated with a Russian special operation in Ukraine.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇹🇼 US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken: The United States opposes any unilateral effort to change the status quo in Taiwan, especially by force, and its policy on Taiwan has not changed.

🇿🇲🇨🇳 Zambian Socialist Party President Fred Mmembe: Taiwan is an integral part of China's territory.

🇹🇼🇨🇳 Due to PLA exercises around Taiwan on August 4, only 74 passenger flights and 35 ships used alternative routes to arrive and depart from the island.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡A unit of PMC Wagner, with the support of the special forces of the Special Operations Forces of the Russian Federation, entered the outskirts of the city of Artyomovsk (Bakhmut), where it conducts street battles, a RT source in the NM DPR said.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Attack on Artyomovsk 5th of August

Militarymaps.info

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Positional battles on the front line Energodar - Nikopol, explosions of artillery shells rumble

The Russian army is hitting the enemy in the Nikopol area, from where the Armed Forces of Ukraine are shelling Energodar.

🇲🇰🇺🇦 North Macedonia secretly handed over to Ukraine 4 Su-25 attack aircraft, which have been mothballed since 2004, the local MKD portal reports.

Earlier, the Macedonian Ministry of Defense confirmed the transfer of T-72 tanks to Ukraine.

🇹🇼 Taiwan has denied rumors that China is evacuating its citizens from the country as tensions escalate across the strait.

🇷🇺🇸🇾⚡In Syria, an attack helicopter of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed the lair of pro-American terrorists

During air patrols, the crews of the Russian Aerospace Forces identified and destroyed another group of militants from the Liwa Shuhada El-Karyatein terrorist group trained by US SOF instructors

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Changes at the front: The activity of combined arms artillery and EW systems of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Donbass has noticeably decreased, - brigade commander of Vostok

Alexander Khodakovsky: “There is a decrease in the intensity of the work of the enemy’s combined-arms artillery in the Donbass. The activity of electronic warfare systems has also noticeably decreased - we fly (drones) more freely than a week ago.

This is due to the preparation of their own counteroffensive, or to the preparation to repel our offensive - time will tell. Now it is logical to increase the pressure on the Donetsk land and proceed to its liberation."

🇺🇦⚡The main thing from the summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine:

▪️ in the Donetsk direction, the Russian army is conducting an offensive operation on Artemovsk and Avdeevka

Russia is trying to create favorable conditions for the capture of Soledar and Artemovsk, to expand the controlled territory on the western outskirts of Donetsk;

▪️There are shooting battles in the Kramatorsk direction;
▪️ The Russian army launched a missile attack on an infrastructure facility near the settlement of Nikolaevka, Odessa region.

The Russian Armed Forces continue shelling almost along the entire line of hostilities.

🇨🇳🇺🇸 China claims the US is violating the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) by transferring them to third countries. Which countries are in question is unknown. Beijing also believes that Washington's nuclear arsenal threatens international security.

🇹🇼 Taiwan's Ministry of Defense: The island's military sent planes and ships and deployed ground-based missile systems to monitor the situation as China conducts large-scale military exercises in areas surrounding Taiwan.

🇺🇸Analysis of the situation in Ukraine from enemies

The main conclusions of the American Institute for the Study of War:
▪️Rus troops are trying to advance northwest of Izyum.
▪️Ukrainian forces carried out a series of unsuccessful local counterattacks between Izyum & Slavyansk

▪️Russian troops continued ground attacks northeast and south of Artemovsk.
▪️Russian troops continued their offensive on Peski and carried out a ground attack southwest of Donetsk.

▪️Russian troops continued to transfer equipment and personnel to the northeast of the Kherson and western Zaporozhye regions.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Flame throwers destroyed the strongholds of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the path of advancement of Russian armored vehicles. The platoon fighters attacked the Ukrainian military from a distance of up to 300 m with thermobaric ammunition from hand-held flamethrowers

🇹🇼🇨🇳 Taiwanese expert Tang Shaochen said that relations between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait will continue to deteriorate and are irreversible.

🇺🇲🇨🇳⚡White House National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby announced on Aug. 4 that US military "will conduct standard air and maritime transits through the Taiwan Strait in the next few weeks".

Members of the sabotage group, including two commanders, were detained. The detainees themselves, that they were being trained for subversive activities - to disable equipment, blow up bridges and roads

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡The result of a missile attack on one of the Ukrainian facilities in Nikolaev

🇷🇺🇺🇦 UAV "Orlan-10" fixes artillery strikes on Ukrainian positions

🇨🇳 Another diagram illustrating the August 4 strikes by ballistic missiles of the 61 PLA Missile Forces Base on the closed areas around Taiwan.

1 Ukrainian operator of Javelin ATGM launchers. Acc to the Cherkasy regional media on Aug 4, Alexander Mishchenko, the senior driver-operator of the battery of guided anti-tank missiles of the 72nd brigade named after the Black Cossacks was buried in Gorodishch

🇭🇺🇺🇲 Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks at the American Conservative Convention:

- … but we want a different future for ourselves! So let the globalists go to hell, and I came to Texas!

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The fighters of the "O" group held a humanitarian action, distributing food packages to the residents of Lisichansk.

🇦🇲🇦🇿 Situation on line of contact in Nagorno-Karabakh remains tense - NKR Defense Ministry

On August 3, Stepanakert reported that Azerbaijan was shelling its positions. 3 people died, about 16 more were injured. The situation is being stabilized by Russian peacekeepers.

🇷🇺⚡ In Karachay-Cherkessia, an explosion was prevented in the prosecutor's office and the military registration and enlistment office - FSB

A 20-year-old young man was preparing an attack on law enforcement officers in Cherkessk on the instructions of IS* militants, according to the FSB. Then the guy wanted to escape to Ukraine. However, he was detained before the attack.

During a search, two bombs of 3 kg in TNT equivalent were found on the guy, and correspondence with criminals was found on his phone. The young man confessed about his plans, a criminal case was opened on preparation for a terrorist attack and participation in a terrorist org

🇰🇵⚡Japanese media report activity at one of the nuclear test sites in North Korea.

According to the US State Department, Pyongyang is preparing new tests.

Earlier, North Korea announced its withdrawal from the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.

🇺🇲⚡An unknown person opened fire on people in the shopping center of the city of Bloomington, US state of Minnesota a few hours ago.

🇷🇺🇹🇷 Erdogan flies to Sochi. Today is a very important day.

Official items on the agenda: Syria, Ukraine, export of grain.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡Ukrainian troops shelled hospital No. 17 in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, there are victims.

The Ukronazis do not have enough artillery to defend Peski and Avdiivka, as they themselves declare. But it is enough for shelling the peaceful quarters of Donetsk, hospitals, schools, kindergartens, hotels.

🇺🇦🇷🇺🇮🇷⚡ Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Oleksiy Arestovich said that Iran handed over 46 drones to Russia, and the Russian army is already using them in Ukraine

🇺🇲🇨🇳⚡US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Beijing should "immediately" stop missile launches near Taiwan, Axios reports.

🇺🇲🇨🇳⚡China's military exercises near Taiwan are a major escalation: US Secretary of State Blinken

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR announces the liberation of the village of Gladosovo in the Gorlovka region.

We are waiting for confirming photos / videos from the village.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 News from the front. Peski is completely cleared, Russian guys are entrenched. Cleansing continues in Maryinka. More than half of the territory has been cleared and under russian control

There are successes in other areas as well. The 11th Regiment, the 100th Brigade, the 1st Slavic Brigade, the assault battalion "Somalia" of the DPR army, Wagner and other units are performing well. Artillerymen deserve special praise.

🇺🇲🇷🇺❗Half of G20 countries do not share US desire to isolate Russia - Bloomberg

🇨🇳🇺🇲⚡China will impose sanctions on Pelosi and her immediate family due to a visit to Taiwan, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said.

🇨🇳 And here are the footage from the PLA medical exercise on the evacuation of the wounded during the conduct of simulated hostilities with Taiwan.

🇺🇲🇨🇳⚡The White House summoned the Chinese Ambassador, according to the Washington Post.

Ambassador Qin Gang has been summoned to the White House after China fired ballistic missiles in response to Pelosi's visit to Taiwan.

🇨🇳⚡Chinese army exercises to continue Friday in three zones around Taiwan - statement

🇨🇳🇺🇲⚡China foreign ministry: We will cancel dialogues between US and China military.
🇨🇳🇺🇲⚡China foreign ministry: We will suspend US and China cooperation on cross border crime prevention.

🇨🇳🇺🇲⚡China foreign ministry: will suspend US - China maritime safety mechanism talks.
🇨🇳🇺🇲⚡China has suspended dialogue with the United States at the level of regional military commands.

🇺🇦⚡Nikolaev in the south of Ukraine is "closed" for the weekend, a curfew is introduced - Gauleiter Kim.

Earlier, local publications cited him as saying that they plan to close the city for several days for a raid, in which they will look for people willing to cooperate with Russia.

We remind you what a free European country looks like, not to be confused with the bloody Mordor.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Colonel of the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine Ruslan Popov was eliminated in the southern direction.

Popov has been involved in the terrorist operation in Donbas since 2014, for which he received many awards. He also participated in helicopter flights to Mariupol during the battles for the city. Information about its liquidation is officially confirmed on the website of the GUR

🇷🇺🇮🇷 The Washington Post, citing unnamed Western security officials, writes that Russia is preparing to launch a spy satellite for Iran. However, Russia will use it for several months to monitor it's military targets in Ukraine.

The publication notes that Roskosmos announced the launch of a satellite, called Khayyam, on August 9 as part of the implementation of an agreement with Iran. The satellite will be launched by a Russian Soyuz launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

🇨🇳🇺🇲⚡The main statements of the Chinese Foreign Ministry:

- China suspends dialogue with the United States at the level of regional military commands;

- China cancels working meetings with representatives of the US Department of Defense;

- China temporarily suspends cooperation with the United States in the field of combating illegal migration;

— China suspends cooperation with the United States in the fight against drugs;

— China suspends Sino-US talks on climate change;

- China suspends cooperation with the United States in the field of justice;

— China suspends cooperation with the United States in the fight against international crime.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 In the Kharkiv region, local residents suffered as a result of a conflict with the commanders of the 92nd brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine — Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

The commanders of the Ukrainian militants tried to forcibly evict civilians from their homes to accommodate foreign mercenaries, as well as equipment in the adjacent plots of positions of military equipment and artillery.

To suppress objections, nationalists and foreign mercenaries opened fire, as a result of which 4 local residents in the settlement. Shestakovo and 5 in Upper Saltov received various injuries.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 high-precision missile strike on an enemy object

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Ukranian Militants attacked Donetsk railway station

🇹🇷🇷🇺 Erdogan flew to Sochi, where he will meet with Vladimir Putin.

🇷🇺🇹🇷Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting with Turkish counterpart expressed the hope that it would be possible to sign a memorandum on the development of trade & economic ties. Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Putin that they have to open a new page in matters of cooperation.

🇨🇳🇹🇼 PLA Air Force J-16 fighter jets flew along the coastline of the northern part of the island of Taiwan during the exercises of the troops of the Eastern Zone of the People's Liberation Army Combat Command of China.

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡The Israeli army attacked the Gaza Strip
🇮🇱🇵🇸❗Israel Army announced start of the Operation Dawn against Islamic Jihad group in Gaza Strip - IDF press service

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡The target of the Israeli strike in Gaza was one of the skyscrapers.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡Hamas-controlled MoH:
4 killed [including a child] and 23 injured.
🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡PIJ leader Al Nakhalwa says that there is “no ceasefire” anymore , says that “rockets will be fired towards Tel Aviv

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz arrived at the IDF headquarters.

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡The Israel Defense Forces releases footage of an airstrike on one tier of high-rise buildings in Gaza.

The target of the attack was one of the commanders of the military wing of the Islamic Jihad group.

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡8 killed, 44 wounded, according to Gaza's Ministry of Health.
🇵🇸🇮🇱❗General mobilization declared throughout all of the Gaza military factions

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡Officials at Ben Gurion International Airport are redirecting air traffic eastward fearing rocket fire from the Gaza Strip.
🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡Iron Dome deployments in Jerusalem, rocket fire is expected there.

🇮🇱🇵🇸❗Israeli Defense Minister approved the order to call up up to 25,000 reservists "for operational purposes" - press service

🇷🇺🇹🇷⚡The talks between Putin and Erdogan in Sochi ended, the meeting lasted more than 4 hours

🇷🇺🇹🇷⚡Putin and Erdogan agreed to increase the volume of trade between Russia and Turkey, meet the expectations of both sides on energy issues

statement

🇷🇺🇹🇷⚡Putin and Erdogan agreed to start partial payment in rubles for Russian gas supplies to Turkey

Novak

🇮🇱🇵🇸❗The Chief of Staff has instructed the IDF to go into emergency mode.

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡The Israeli security establishment is preparing for a possible response by PIJ, which may include shooting rockets at central Israel - Channel 12

🇺🇦🇷🇺 The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to attack Donetsk. A city bus was hit. Three civilians died and five were injured.

The shelling of Donetsk and adjacent Makeevka continues at this moment.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡Iran says that "The Zionist attacks on Gaza are a crime and a provocative adventure, Israel will bear the responsibility of their consequences"

🇺🇲🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡White House National Security Council spox: "We are monitoring developments in Gaza. We urge all sides for calm. We firmly believe that Israel has the right to protect itself."

🇮🇱🇵🇸 The Israel Defense Forces release footage of the destruction of Hamas observation posts in the Gaza Strip as part of Operation Dawn.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 The Israel Defense Forces is building up its presence on the Gaza border in anticipation of a response from Palestinian groups to attacks on Islamic Jihad targets tonight.

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡IDF spokesperson: "we started with strong strikes - and we will up the rate of strikes"

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡Leader of Hamas Ismail Haniyeh: "All options are open" - N12

🇷🇺🇺🇦 When mortar fire is not enough to destroy a entrenched enemy, ATGMs with thermobaric munitions, similar to those used in the famous TOS-1A, are often used

🇮🇱❗Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Defense Minister Benny Gantz to issue a statement soon.

🇮🇱❗Israeli Minister of Internal Security orders call up of 10 reserve companies of the Israeli Border Police to cities that could have disturbances following the IDF strikes in Gaza, cities with potential for riots, etc.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡Just about 10 minutes until the time that the Islamic Jihad likes to launch rockets, 9pm.

🇵🇸🇮🇱❗ Rocket alerts over Israel. So it begins

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡The batteries of the Iron Dome air defense system are intercepting missiles in the sky over southern Israel.

You can hear and see rockets on the live stream

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡ More Rockets Fired towards Israel

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Rocket artillery of the allied forces is working on enemy firing points from which the Nazis strike at Donetsk.

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡Video of Iron dome intercepting rockets

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡ Footage of rockets being intercepted.

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡The Iron Dome air defense system is currently intercepting missiles over Ashdod.

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡Missile launches from the Gaza Strip a few minutes ago and intercepted by the Iron Dome systems.

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡Israel is not interested in prolonged hostilities in the Gaza Strip, but is not afraid of them, the Israeli prime minister said.

🇵🇸🇮🇱❗Air raid sirens in central Israel. Loud explosions heard in Tel Aviv
🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡Prime Minister Yair Lapid: We are not seeking a full-scale operation against the Gaza Strip

Gaza moments ago:

🇮🇱🇵🇸 Over Israel right now

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡The moment the missiles were intercepted by the Iron Dome complexes in the sky over Ashkelon a few minutes ago.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡At least 50 rockets fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israel in the last 20 minutes.

🇵🇸🇮🇱 More than 10 consecutive volleys were fired from the Gaza Strip.

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡It is reported that rockets hit Israeli territory in Ashkelon and a number of other cities.

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡The IDF says it has begun widescale strikes against PIJ sites in Gaza

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡Missile interception in the sky over Netivot.

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡Missile interception in the skies over southern Israel a few minutes ago.

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡"Islamic Jihad" announced the launch of more than 100 rockets in the direction of Israel.

🇵🇸🇮🇱 Video of rocket launch on Israel from the Gaza Strip

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡The Israeli Air Force is working on targets in the Gaza Strip.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 Israeli Airstrikes in Gaza

🇺🇲🇺🇦⚡Joe Biden announces $1 billion arms package for Ukraine - biggest to date

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡Military wing of the Islamic Jihad mobilizes in preparation for hitting Israeli targets.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 The work of air defense "Iron Dome".

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡ Israeli Airstrikes in Gaza

🇺🇲🇨🇳 The US has officially stated that China is in the process of increasing its nuclear capability by 3-4 times.

Of course, not bound by nuclear arms limitation treaties, China will seek to increase its nuclear arsenal with the distant goal of achieving nuclear-missile parity with the United States. Mass construction of new missile silos in China transparently hints at this.

🇮🇱🇺🇲 Defense Minister Benny Gantz speaks to his US counterpart Lloyd Austin on the Gaza situation, his office says.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 Israeli Airstrikes in Gaza continues

🇮🇱🇵🇸 Rocket launches from the Gaza Strip towards Israel.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 Destruction of Islamic Jihad warehouse in Gaza according to IDF

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Since early morning, the Ukrainian military have been shelling residential areas of Donetsk.

The fire is being conducted, including from positions in Avdiivka, an active offensive against which is being developed by allied formations.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 A series of raids were carried out by the Israeli security forces tonight in the West Bank of the Jordan River.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Servicemen of the 11th regiment of the NM of the DPR are carrying out the final cleaning of the village of Peski from the remnants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Orlan-10 UAV in the Zaporozhye direction

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Strikes on Artemovsk in the morning

🇮🇱🇵🇸 Over the past 24 hours, 30 sorties of combat aircraft were carried out against 40 targets using 55 missiles and shells.

The Iron Dome air defense system intercepted 60 shells and missiles. The interception efficiency was 95%.

Israel Defense Forces statement

🇺🇲🇨🇳⚡The United States had a hand in creating both the Ukrainian and Taiwan crisis - Chinese Ambassador to France Liu Shaye

🇪🇺🇷🇸🇽🇰 Borrel invited the leaders of Serbia and Kosovo on August 18 for talks in Brussels

🇩🇪🇷🇺 “He is the people" Why So Many Russians Support Putin's War - German magazine Spiegel headline

German journalists are trying to answer this question, but they are interviewing opposition figures in Moscow and are perplexed by misunderstanding. Yes, because you need to go to a Siberian village, a fishing village in the Far East & a farm in the Kuban - Russia begins there

Beijing's decision to drastically limit diplomatic contacts with the USA following Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, including cutting off the crisis channels the Biden administration has worked hard to create, is an increasingly clear sign that the two countries relationship low

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Battle for Artemovsk: APU abandoned strategic heights that covered the city

The commander of the 20th battalion of the People's Militia of the LPR with the call sign "Jackson" showed the heights that allow you to control the situation and keep the Ukrainian army in Artemovsk at gunpoint.

Now the fighting is already going on directly for the city itself, but with the loss of these heights, they will not be able to hold it for a long time.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Khokhols!
Wherever you hide, wherever you move your positions, we will find you and destroy you!

🏳️‍🌈🐒 Attitudes towards homosexuality and the incidence of monkeypox in European countries

We don't need to say much

🇺🇲🇨🇳⚡Chinese military ignored numerous calls from the Pentagon - Politico

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡The Chinese army began another live-fire exercise - from August 6 to 15 in the southern part of the Yellow Sea - PRC Maritime Security Administration

🇦🇿🇦🇲⚡Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan reports on taking control of Mount Buzdukh and nearby heights in Karabakh

🇮🇱🇵🇸 Israeli Airstrikes in Gaza continues

🇺🇲🇨🇳 "China is in the process of building up its nuclear arsenal at a very rapid rate - three or even four times," - US Deputy Secretary of Defense.

In addition, Politico reports that the US military command has repeatedly tried to contact their Chinese counterparts amid the escalation around Taiwan, but Beijing does not answer calls.

What pindos? Nobody picks up the phone? What to do now?
A typical situation in American politics. It looks something like this -we will spoil your soul in the political field in such a way that it will not seem a little. But in the military field we will maintain contacts

Approximately the same thing happened in Syria, when they were spoiling on all fronts, and the only communication channel was the telephone line at the level of the chiefs of general staffs (more precisely, our General Staff and their analogue).

What is the point of China picking up the phone if it has already started the flywheel of the "hybrid war" against Taiwan.

Listen to someone's conditions and ultimatums? What for? The PRC will do an excellent job of gradually "suffocating" Taiwan economically and then politically.

🇩🇪⚡The German authorities believe that protests may begin in the country amid inflation, a possible aggravation of the energy crisis and the situation with the coronavirus — Welt am Sonntag

🇺🇦 Khokhols began blowing up bridges in Bakhmut.

This one was pedestrian. Prepare for urban battles.

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Last week, a Ukrainian military vehicle blew up on its own mine on the border with Russia.

🇵🇸🇮🇱 Last night rocket launches from Gaza strip

🇷🇺🇺🇦 On the video, the destruction of the vaunted MLRS "Himars", disguised in a forest plantation near the village of Stepnoe, Mykolaiv region.

🇹🇼🤡 In an attempt to conduct military exercises in response, the Taiwanese army began artillery firing, but something went wrong and the forest caught fire.

🇺🇲 Donald Trump Says US Is No Longer Energy Dominant

According to the ex-president, the Americans have become a nation that begs Venezuela and Saudi Arabia for oil.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The commander of the battalion of the 25th Airborne Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed

It became known that as a result of a mine explosion, the commander of the battalion of the Ukrainian 25th airborne brigade, Major Vitaliy Bokhanok, was eliminated. He hit a mine on 25 July and died in hospital 4 days later.

🇺🇦🇷🇺 In Nova Kakhovka, an attack was made on the deputy head of the local administration for housing and communal services. Vladimir Gur was seriously injured and is now taken to the hospital in serious condition. Quite expected acts of terrorism by the Zelensky gang.

I remind you that the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense and the Security Service of Ukraine have not yet been recognized as terrorist organizations, although their actions have zero differences from the activities of ISIS.

🇨🇳⚡PLA Rocket Forces are transporting Chinese DF-26 medium-range ballistic missile systems with a maximum range of 3,000-4,000 km

🇷🇺🇺🇦The Ministry of Defense of the Rus reports the destruction of more than 400 personnel of the 46th Airborne Assault Brigade of the UKR in the Belogorka region (Kherson region) & more than 80 foreign mercenaries in the Vyvodovo region as a result of missile and air strikes

As a result of strikes with high-precision weapons of the Rus on the combat positions of the 105th battalion of the 63rd mechanized brigade of UKR in the areas of the settlements of Andreevka, Lozovoye and Dolgovoe of the Kherson region, more than 70 nationalists were killed

Against the background of massive losses of Ukr troops in the Mykolaiv direction, servicemen of the units of the 59th motorized infantry and 61st infantry brigades, as well as the 35th marines brigade, refused to carry out the order to attack, leave their positions and desert.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡In the Kharkiv region, a platoon of the MLRS "Alder" and HIMARS of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Destroyed: two depots of rocket and artillery weapons and ammunition in the areas of the settlements of Trudovoe and Soledar of the Donetsk People's Republic.

In addition, in the vicinity of the city of Zaporozhye, a fuel depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with more than 50,000 tons of diesel fuel for military equipment of the Dnepr operational group of troops was destroyed.

The duality of man

🇷🇺🇹🇷 Turkey and Russia signed a "road map" for economic cooperation.

The countries intend to increase the trade turnover to $100 billion.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 The Israeli IDF has published footage of Airstrikes in Gaza

🇨🇳🇹🇼 Chinese IRBM DF-17 with hypersonic gliding warheads during the exercises of the troops of the Eastern Zone of the PLA Combat Command in the Taiwan Strait.

🇨🇳🇹🇼 Today, hackers hacked into the website of the government of Taiwan and displayed a flag of China on it

🇮🇱🇵🇸 Israeli missile strikes on the Gaza Strip continue.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The commander of the tank battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed near Maryinka

It became known that during the fighting near Marinka, the commander of the tank battalion of the Ukrainian 54th mechanized brigade, Lieutenant Colonel Aleksey Garyan, was destroyed. He died in hospital from his wounds on 24 July.

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡The Israeli army is preparing for the fact that the military operation in the Gaza Strip will last a week, RIA Novosti was told in the press service

🇹🇼🇨🇳⚡The Taiwan Ministry of Defense said 20 Chinese Air Force aircraft entered Taiwan's air defense zone on Saturday, 14 Chinese warships conducted exercises in Taiwan waters, and 14 Chinese aircraft crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 Israeli Airstrikes on Gaza continues

🇮🇱🇵🇸 Israeli missile strikes on the Gaza Strip continue.

Serbian Nora B-52 SP Gun ...Russia should've bought some of these

The consequences of the use of MLRS HIMARS on the southern outskirts of the city of Tokmak 05.08.22 The warehouse was destroyed, minor damage to the railway infrastructure which has already been restored.

In the photo, the consequences of the fall of about 1 million US dollars, 12 missiles arrived. There are no civilian casualties. HIMARS is indicated by the characteristic markings and diamond-shaped segments on one of the fragments.
t.me/boris_rozhin/5…

🇷🇺Ka-52 video from Kherson-Nikolaev front

🇷🇺🇺🇦📐 Analysis of the HIMARS destruction video by @Rybar:
Our team analyzed the video of the alleged destruction of HIMARS, published by the channel Khersonsky Vestnik. Once again we were convinced that the channel's editors, despite having exclusives, are not very good at Ukr

The case was near Stepnoe village of Zaporozhye region, HIMARS was standing along the highway just 2 kilometers from the territory of the military unit and the Bliznetsy training ground.

This once again confirms the thesis that the AFU is not very concerned and uses regular military infrastructure facilities both as transshipment bases for equipment delivered from the West and as permanent bases.

Coordinates: 47.78053506964904, 35.30434490662296

We cannot confidently confirm that the video is indeed a HIMARS MLRS (apparently shot from an Orlan UAV, whose camera is not clear enough).

Assuming that the video was shot around 10 am, compare the ratio of light and shadows and you can barely make out something that looks like a HIMARS with its warhead upside down. The large 1.5-meter gap behind the cockpit is also a distinctive feature of the HIMARS MLRS.

🇺🇦M-777 video

2 dead after lightning strike hits White House

🇷🇺Video of the "Yenisei" train of the Russian Railway troops in Ukraine

🇺🇦 🏴‍☠️ Summary of the latest briefing from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine:

▪️ In the Kharkiv and Slavyansk directions, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation fired from barrel and rocket artillery.

▪️ In the Donetsk direction, Russian troops are conducting an offensive operation, the main efforts are focused on the Bakhmut and Avdiivka directions.

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation conducted offensive battles in the directions Yakovlevka – Vershina and Kodema – Zaitsevo. They are advancing towards Bakhmut, fighting continues

▪️ In the Avdiivka direction, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation fired from barrel and rocket artillery at the neighborhoods of New York, Pervomaisky, Vodiane and Opytne. They carried out air strikes near Novogradsky, Pavlovka and Prechistovka.

They were attacking in the direction of Lozove - Nevelskoye. Regrouping was carried out.

▪️ The threat of missile strikes remains throughout the territory of Ukraine.

Four sea-based cruise missile carriers are in readiness for the use of high-precision weapons.

China extends military exercises around Taiwan until August 15.

The Ministry of Defense of Taiwan reports that 49 combat aircraft of the Chinese Air Force entered the identification zone of its air defense at once, which is a record figure.
#Taiwan

🇷🇺UVZ video of the previously mentioned (in link) T-90M and BREM-1M delivery

🇨🇳DF-26 Ballistic Missiles (aka "Guam Killer") being deployed near the South China Sea

China has been steadily scaling down it's holdings of US debt and is now considering accelerating the process due to the Taiwan crisis. Chinese finance experts believe Japan which has been covering the Chinese reduction recently will not be able to cover the shortfall

China has prohibited use of the phrase "Made in Taiwan" on any product the island now exports to the mainland, and now must use the name "Chinese Taipei" or "Taiwan, China".

Apple is asking all its suppliers to follow the regulation.

Izvestia report from the Bakhmut frontline....the reporter says the artillery doesn't stop firing day and night and constant supplies of shells are crucial to maintaining the tempo of fire

🇷🇺Nona-SVK 120mm Gun-Mortar of the Tuvan 55th Bgd

🇨🇳🇹🇼 Associated Press: Blockade of Taiwan, which was previously predicted against the backdrop of large-scale exercises of the PLA, is already underway

Taiwan cancels flights as China conducts military exercises, AP writes. The publication notes that the blockade "increased the risk of failures in the flow of Taiwanese-made processor chips needed by the industry's global telecommunications and automotive companies."

Hong Kong newspaper The South China Morning Post called the exercise "an effective blockade of Taiwan." Against this background, China is extending military exercises around Taiwan from 7 to 15 August.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Destroyed as a result of Russian shelling BTR-80 and a pickup truck of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the checkpoint

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Destroyed as a result of Russian shelling BTR-80 and a pickup truck of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the checkpoint

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Russian artillery is destroying the remnants of the Nazis settled in the Peski.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The mortar crew of the RF Armed Forces is pouring on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region. After a long shelling, the latter abandon their equipped shelters and, suffering losses, run away into the sunset.

🇫🇷⚡French National Federation of Agricultural Trade Unions (FNSEA) announced the expectations of a shortage of milk in the country in the coming autumn and winter

"For milk production, fodder is needed, mainly alfalfa and corn, which were not harvested this year. So there is a risk of milk shortages this autumn and this winter," Yannick Fyalip, chairman of the FNSEA economic commission, told Franceinfo.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian TOS-1A giving khokhols hell

🇬🇧🇺🇦 Zelensky panders to nationalists, harasses Russian-speakers, did not comply with the Minsk agreements, and openly provoked Russia with statements about joining NATO. And now he is just brazenly promoting himself in order to get more money from the West.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 More footage of Israeli strikes on targets in Gaza

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Dmitry Medvedev on Zelensky asking the Ukrainian parliament to approve the decision to confiscate all Russian property:

"They take from us on paper, while we take from them on the ground. And the issues of confiscating the Kiev regime's criminally acquired property and turning it into the property of the Russian Federation are successfully handled by our Armed Forces."

🇮🇱🇵🇸 The IDF released footage of attacking a high rise building in which one of the commander of Islamic Jihad was in.

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡Military source says that a Hamas operative has been killed in a IDF airstrike in Gaza

🇺🇦🇷🇺 In Alchevsk, LPR, as a result of the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a shell hit a nine-story residential building, a fire started.

According to the Prosecutor General's Office of the LPR, nine people were injured and one person died. Previously, it was a child, he died in intensive care.

🇵🇸🇮🇱 launch of rockets from the territory of the Gaza Strip a few minutes ago.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 The Iron Dome air defense systems are currently intercepting targets in the sky over Sderot and Ashkelon.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡footage of allied artillery in Peski

🇵🇸🇮🇱 Rocket launch from Gaza

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡ Israeli Airstrikes again kill Palestinian kids.

Meanwhile the World is silent about the atrocities Israel is committing

🇮🇱🇵🇸 Iron dome intercepting rockets

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Closer to the night, they report active actions of the RF Armed Forces and the DPR Army in the area of Marinka and Ugledar, as well as offensive operations of the RF Armed Forces in the Nikolaev direction in the Blagodatnoye area. Their result will be clear tomorrow

🇸🇦🇵🇸🇮🇱 Saudi Foreign Ministry's statement condemning Israel.

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡IDF says it has killed Khaled Mansour the commander of the southern brigade of Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Rafah, southern Gaza

🇮🇱🇵🇸❗ Israel army claims it has killed the whole military leadership of the Islamic Jihad in Gaza

There's a bit more clarity on the current positions in Pesky. The NW section of town is considered a gray zone with presence from both sides. The Ukr have a stronghold centred on a unfinished bridge just outside of Pesky.

There's a video of a Rus artillery strike on the Ukr under the mentioned bridge in Pesky

There is heavy fighting reported in and around Krasnogorovka (just north of Marinka), including close quarter street fighting
Haven't seen any major updates on neighbouring Marinka and Avdeevka...

Situation at Bakhmut-Artemovsk

The Ukr have blown up 2 bridges (not just 1 as reported yesterday) in the eastern suburbs of Bakhmut where Wagner was reported to have entered the city. The city itself can be divided into several sections by water barriers.

The main Ukr stronghold is the large section between the 2 rivers

To the south of Bakhmut, the Russians have moved west from Travnovo and captured the town of Gladosovo and are pushing towards Zaitsevo and Dacha

To the south of Seversk, the Ukr attempted an attack towards Spornoe probably with the aim to cut the supply road through which supplies to the Bakhmut area go. The attack was repulsed with losses....the DPR/Rus had moved some of their units from this area towards Bakhmut earlier

Moving to the South Of Ukraine...

There's been a Rus missile strike on the town of Voivodove targeting foreigners who acc to the Rus were providing intel & artillery correcting to Ukr units in Nikopol who are shelling Energodar where the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant is.

Recall that yesterday there was a fairly serious attack on the power plant which could've resulted in something very serious.

The Russians say there were dozens of casualties in the missile strike

The Grand 🇺🇦Ukr offensive in the south was suppose to start yesterday or overnight.

There are reports that several Ukr units have refused orders to move forward as they have been subjected to heavy Rus fire in the preceding period and been degraded significantly (some of the blue icons on map). Also reports of desertions and abandoning of positions.

The latest to have been hit is the 63rd Mech Bgd which acc to Rus reports suffered approx 400 killed & wounded (via Mil Summary)

Paradoxically, there's been a Rus offensive action in the South. The 🇷🇺108th VDV Regiment has launched an assault from Snigerovka towards Blagodatnoye in the Nikolaev direction...this BTW is the area where the Ukr units are reported to have abandoned some positions

A Ukrainian soldier likely killed at the start of the conflict. He’s partially sunk into the dirt and had been rolled over by tanks quite frequently.

The 🇺🇦 authorities of Nikolaev, where a two-day curfew was introduced on Friday, organized an apartment-by-apartment search of all houses to identify disloyal residents, the head of the Nikolaev Regional Council Anna Zamazeeva said.

They walk right through the apartments. They check everyone, check documents and mobile phones - they check everything," the Ukrainian agency UNIAN quotes her. According to her, all residents of the city should get under the wave of this check.

This "Witch hunt" is an indirect confirmation of the high effectiveness of the 🇷🇺 missile strikes on the objects of the Ukrainian army in Nikolaev in recent times. The Ukri suspect their locations are being passed onto the Russians by residents of Nikolaev.....

🇷🇺Artillery strike on a 🇺🇦Communications post in Nikolaev area which was also used to control drones

DPR Artillery from the 100th Bgd working on Ukr positions. 3 x Tanks and a field ammo dump hit

the Escalation in the Gaza strip
The situation by the end of August 6 , 2022 PART-1

Strikes on the Gaza Strip

▪️ After 18.00, Israeli aircraft continued to strike the territory of the Gaza Strip, focusing on the places of residence of high-ranking members of the Islamic Jihad.

Targets in the areas of Tel al-Hawa, Shejaya and Sheikh Radwan were attacked in Gaza City.

In addition, Israeli aircraft hit targets in Khan Yunis, Beit Hanoun, Rafah and Jabalia.

According to various sources, several members of Palestinian groups were allegedly eliminated during these strikes. Nur Zuidi, a militant of the Hamas military wing Kataib Izz al—Din al-Qassam, allegedly died in Beit Hanoun.

And as a result of the attacks on the houses of Rafah, high-ranking members of the Islamic Jihad Abu Tarek al-Madale, Khattab al-Amatsi and Khaled Mansour were killed.

The alleged liquidation of Khaled Mansour was announced by the official representative of the Israeli army Ran Kohav.

During the joint operation of the Israel Defense Forces and SHABAK, another high—ranking member of the Islamic Jihad, Khaled Mansour, a colleague of Jabari (t.me/rybar/36728 ), the commander of the "Islamic Jihad" in the south, apparently, was eliminated.

At the same time, one of the leaders of the Islamic Jihad, Khaled Al-Batsh, did not confirm the information about Mansour's death.

The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip reports 24 dead and 203 wounded since the start of Operation Dawn.

Shelling from the Gaza Strip

After 18.00, the combat wing of the "Islamic Jihad" "Saraya al-Quds" together with other Palestinian groups carried out shelling of Ashdod, Ashkelon, Sderot, Tel Aviv. Netivot, Kissufim, Sufa, Gush Dan district and Netanya.

In total, since the start of Operation Dawn, Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip have fired over 350 rockets into Israel. Almost all of them, with rare exceptions, were intercepted by Israeli Iron Dome missile defense systems.

The farthest point where the Palestinian rocket could reach was the beach in Netanya.

PART-2

The incident in Jabalia

At about 20.30 an explosion occurred in one of the residential buildings of Jabalia.

The Palestinian side blamed the Israeli air force for the incident, which actually carried out strikes on this area.

A spokesman for the IDF said that the explosion was the fault of Palestinian militants:

"This is an unsuccessful launch of a rocket that hit a residential building in the Jabalia area, which led to casualties and the death of innocent people."

In addition, the Israeli media began to distribute a video that allegedly captured the moment of the fatal launch.

The Palestinian sources called these reports fake, pointing out that the video was filmed back in 2018 in Khan Yunis.
Whoever was to blame for the tragedy, the explosion claimed the lives of six people, four of whom were children, and several more civilians were injured.

🇺🇦 Difference between Ukrainian SSR and modern day Ukraine explained:

Unrest in the north of Kosovo and Metohija continues.

Local resources actively disseminated information about the Serbian "guerillas" allegedly opened fire on the Kosovo police at the Gazivode reservoir

At the same time, there were no official statements from the Police department.
There's some speculation that the incident was fabricated by the Albanians themselves to justify a crack down on the local Serbs

Russian journalist, Daria Aslamova was arrested by Kosovo Police at the border for trying to cross into Kosovo allegedly illegally and for being a Putin "propagandist"

Video of a Kosovo Special Police (ROSU) convoy at the Gazivode reservoir

The Chief of the General Staff of the Serbian Army, General Milan Moisilovic, visited the army group near the border with Kosovo, in particular, the Tabalia and Rudnica bases (pics)

Yeserday, the Ukrainian military shelled Donetsk with 155-mm SMArt-155 German shells, equipped with self-aiming submunitions, which descend to their target by parachute.

Ukr truck loaded with shells that was hit by 🇷🇺artillery in Slavyansk area

🇺🇦Mi-24V (Czech) and Mi-17V5 (ex Afghan)

Commercial shipping lanes around Taiwan and area of PLA exercises.....it's effectively a temporary blockade. Some analysts are wondering whether they will extend it after the end of the exercise

🇺🇦Artillery piece hit by counter battery fire at Avdeevka

US supplied MaxxPro truck in 🇺🇦service

🇷🇺Orlan-30 marking a target for a Krasnopol 152mm guided round

🇨🇺 In Cuba, lightning hit an oil storage facility with a volume of more than 25 thousand cubic meters. m.

The explosion and fire injured 121 people, 17 were missing. Venezuela sent rescuers to help put out the fire.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡The main thing from the summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine:

▪️In the Kharkiv and Slavyansk directions of the RF Armed Forces, artillery fires along the entire line of collision.

The Russians fought offensive battles in the area of ​​​​Bogorodichny and the Valley.
▪️In the Kramatorsk direction, shelling from tanks, cannon and rocket artillery was recorded in the areas of a number of settlements.

The Russian military tried to advance in the area of ​​Verkhnekamenskoye.
▪️In the Bakhmut direction, shelling and airstrikes near Zaitsevo and Bakhmut.

The RF Armed Forces conducted assault operations in a number of areas, the fighting continues.

▪️In the Avdeevka direction, the Russian military conducted offensive battles in the directions of Novobakhmutovka - Krasnogorovka, Spartak -

▪️In the Novopavlovsk and Zaporozhye directions, shelling from artillery and aviation was recorded.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Attack on Nikolaev August 7

The Russians got tired of waiting for the Ukrainian counter-offensive on Kherson, so they launched an offensive on Nikolaev.

According to numerous sources, right now the Russian army is conducting artillery preparation before the assault on the village of Partizanskoye, and is also entering the village of Blagodatnoye.

Most likely, after taking the powerful fortified area Partizanskoye-Blagodatnoye, our troops will go to storm the village of Pervomayskoye, with adjacent villages

After the liberation of Pervomaisky, the Russian army will have operational space and not a single settlement along the Snigirevskaya highway, up to the city of Nikolaev.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡In the morning, the breakthrough of the Russian army into Blagodatnoye was confirmed, along Partizansky our artillery worked all night. There are reports of the beginning of a broad offensive in the Nikopol-Krivoy Rog direction.

The entire front near Donetsk is active right now. Russian artillery, aviation are involved, the infantry attacks in fire contact. Khokhols snarl: all areas of Donetsk receive frequent artillery arrivals.

There is also a broad offensive in the Artyomovsky direction from Soledar to Kodema. The Kodema has been cleared, battles are underway for Zaitsevo, Bakhmutskoye has been liberated. They report the beginning of the assault on Artemovsk, the infantry entered the city from 3 side

Taking into account yesterday's reports about the beginning of the advance of our troops in the Ugledar and Izyum directions, as well as artillery preparation in Kharkov, it turns out that at the moment 7 (SEVEN) directions of the large SMO front have been activated.

If this trend continues over the next couple of days, then it will be possible to state the beginning of a WIDE OFFENSIVE of the Russian army along the entire SMO front.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡A powerful blow to Kramatorsk

According to the Gauleiter of Kramatorsk, the blow was inflicted on the industrial zone, a favorite place for Ukrainian militants.

🇺🇲🇺🇦⚡A significant part of the weapons that the West provides to Ukraine does not reach the front

Donor countries cannot control whether military aid is used for its intended purpose. This is stated in a documentary filmed by the American television channel CBS.

Journalists say that most of the Western weapons and military equipment are sent to the Polish border, and then the US and NATO allies smuggle them "into the hands of Ukrainian officials," and this is where US control ends. only about 30% of deliveries reach their final dest

Experts believe that weapons can fall into the wrong hands and become a source of instability in the rest of the world, as it has already been during and after the conflicts in Libya, Iraq or Afghanistan.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Battle for Soledar: Ours broke through to the KNAUF factory

According to the "Wagner Orchestra", they managed to break into the territory of the plant, about a quarter of its territory was occupied. Under control are the nearest streets adjacent to the enterprise.

🇦🇲🇦🇿⚡Armenian Defense Ministry reported wounding a serviceman due to shelling of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces on the border

🇮🇱🇵🇸 The military operation of the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip against the "Islamic Jihad" will continue as long as necessary, said the Prime Minister of the Jewish state Yair Lapid

🇺🇲🇺🇦⚡ Pink Floyd Founder Roger Waters Calls Joe Biden a War Criminal - CNN

The musician, in an interview with a major American television channel, said that Biden continues to kindle the fire of the Ukrainian conflict.

“This is a serious crime. Why doesn’t the US call on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to start negotiations with Moscow to end this terrible conflict?” Waters asked.

The musician also stressed that the special operation to protect Donbass was a reaction to an attempt to expand NATO to the borders of Russia, although the organization promised not to do so.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Morning arrival in Kharkov.

🇬🇧 Britons should shorten their shower time by at least a minute to avoid water shortages, The Sunday Times reported, citing sources at water companies in the kingdom.

🇪🇺⚡Half of Europeans blame their governments and energy companies, not Russia, for rising energy prices, Spanish newspaper Mundo publishes a poll of the Euroskopia alliance.

The survey was conducted in Austria, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and France.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡Ukrainian militants shelled the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant at night

This /RIAN/ was reported by the authorities of Energodar. Under fire was the territory of the storage of nuclear fuel. Fragments of the Uragan MLRS rocket fired at the nuclear power plant were found no more than 400 meters from the power unit.

🇷🇺⚡Russian Defense Ministry:

◾In Kharkiv, on the territory of CHPP-3 and Karpovsky Garden, over 100 nationalists were killed as a result of attacks by the Russian Aerospace Forces on the points of temporary deployment of the 3rd National Guard Brigade

◾The Ukrainian authorities sent mobilized citizens ahead of schedule to the front line, who began training at the training center of the 72nd mechanized brigade in the city of Belaya Tserkov, Kyiv region

Together with them, the wounded who were in hospitals are also sent, without waiting for them to complete a full course of rehabilitation after injuries.

◾As a result of the strike of the Russian Aerospace Forces on the temporary deployment point of units of the 72nd mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the territory of an agricultural enterprise in Artemovsk, DPR, up to 130 military personnel & 8 vehicles destroy

◾Up to 70 servicemen, three Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mounts and four vehicles were destroyed by the strike of air-launched high-precision missiles on the temporary deployment point of the howitzer battery of the 95th separate air assault brigade of the AFU in Dzerzhinsk

◾An arsenal was destroyed near Voznesensk, Mykolaiv region, where 45 tons of ammunition recently supplied to the Armed Forces of Ukraine by NATO countries were stored

🇹🇼🇨🇳⚡Taiwan Armed Forces to hold live artillery exercises in southern Pingtung on August 9 and 11

This was reported by the Central News Agency of the island, citing an army source. The military training will take place in response to the current maneuvers being carried out by the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) around Taiwan.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡China has announced its intention to regularly conduct exercises east of the conditional median dividing line in the Taiwan Strait.

This statement came out almost simultaneously with the one made by Taiwan. The island said its armed forces would conduct live artillery exercises in southern Pingtung County on August 9 and 11.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 One of the units of the allied forces is fighting with the Ukrainian military in Maryinka, DPR.

🇺🇲⚡The US is in many ways becoming a "third world" country - Donald Trump

“We are a country whose economy is faltering, whose supply chains are disrupted, stores are not full, whose packages do not reach the recipients, and whose education system is at the bottom of any list,” the former President of America said during his speech

According to the politician, what is worth paying attention to is that the United States is no longer “respected and not listened to” in the world.

He added that during his years in office the situation was radically different, so the Republicans should begin to correct the current state of affairs in November, after the midterm elections to Congress.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 MLRS work on the outskirts of Bakhmut

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡Israel agreed to a truce from 22.00. Awaiting a response from the Palestinian side.

It should be noted that before the introduction of the ceasefire following the results of similar agreements, the most intense shelling began last time, before the agreed time of "silence

🇵🇸🇮🇱 Rocket launches towards Israel from Gaza

🇵🇸🇮🇱 TV crew of Almayadeen news almost got hit by a failed rocket launch from Gaza while livestreaming from Al-Ghefari tower.

🇵🇸🇮🇱 Multiple interceptions in the skies over Sderot tonight.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Air raid alarms are being sounded in almost all regions of Ukraine at this moment.

Missile strikes were recorded in Vinnitsa, Kremenchug, Poltava, Mykolaiv regions, as well as other regions.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Local residents record the passage of a cruise missile over the Vinnitsa region.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Artillery of the 7th Airborne Division destroys enemy self-propelled guns.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Ukrainian sources report the liquidation by Russian troops in the Donbas of another special forces soldier of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, a native of the Lviv region, Captain Alexander Sobolev.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡Palestinian group "Islamic Jihad" confirmed the conclusion of a truce with Israel - AFP, citing a statement

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Ukranian soldiers that surrendered in Peski

This is only a small part of those who surrendered near Donetsk. These are not gunners. These are mobilizants

🇷🇺🇹🇷⚡️The transition of Turkey and Russia to settlements in mutual trade in rubles, and then in Turkish liras will help protect Turkish foreign exchange reserves — Milliyet newspaper

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Ukrainian truck with artillery gun in Avdiivka getting destroyed

🇺🇦🇷🇺 CNN aired a report showing people following their parents and grandparents through Zaporozhye to Kherson, Russia-controlled territory.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 According to information from the field, the Armed Forces of Ukraine deployed additional forces to hold the lines in the area of ​​Soledar, Artemovsk and Avdiivka.

This could not but affect other sectors of the front. Yesterday's information that the intensity of enemy attacks north of Soledar has decreased is confirmed. Most likely, now the resistance here will be the least.

The number of refugees from the territory of Ukraine and Donbass who arrived in Russia since February exceeded 3.2 million people - TASS source

Both CBS and CNN have been showing some uncomfortable truths to the mainstream the last couple days, because at some point you can't lie about it.

CBS confirmed that only 30% of western military hardware/equipment is actually ending up on the frontlines, where is the other 70%? Nobody knows...

CNN confirmed that Ukrainians are actually fleeing towards Russia with all their belongings, why? Because Russia is wining and its safer to live under it + a lot of Ukrainians are fleeing from conscription

🇷🇺🇺🇦 New batch of Russian volunteers graduated from Russian special forces school and are no heading to special military operation zone

🇺🇲🇷🇺🇺🇦 From the August, 2022 USMC Gazette. Marinus is the pseudonym of a senior Marine officer who regularly writes on warfare. The Russians are fighting a ‘revolutionary’ war.

🇺🇲🇷🇺🇺🇦 М777 destroyed by Russian forces

After examining the American howitzer, the fighters report that, judging by the wear and tear of the bore and its cleanliness, the gun managed to fire just a couple of shots.

🇷🇺🇷🇸⚡A Russian military base will appear in Europe

Russian Ambassador in Belgrade Alexander Botsan-Kharchenkov said that a Russian military base would be set up in Serbia.

He stressed that this decision is a sovereign affair of the republic and Russia itself.

🇷🇺🇵🇱⚡The main thing from the statement of the press bureau of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service:

▪️Poland is preparing to establish control over the most promising sectors of the Ukrainian economy;

▪️Ukrainian authorities, in fact, have already begun to sell their sectors of the economy to Poland;
▪️Polish companies are buying grain from Ukraine at low prices, dooming Ukrainian enterprises to bankruptcy.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡The "Izdeliye 305" missile destroys an object of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with a high-precision strike

🇹🇷🇺🇦⚡The Turkish company Baykar will build a plant for the production of Bayraktar drones in Ukraine and has already created a legal entity in Ukraine and acquired a plot of land - Ukrainian Ambassador to Turkey Vasily Bodnar in an interview with RBC-Ukraine.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡The Taiwan Ministry of Defense reports that on August 7, 14 Chinese warships and 66 aircraft units were recorded near the island.

22 combat aircraft entered the Taiwan Air Defense Identification Zone.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 Destruction of an Islamic Jihad memeber by fire from a remote-controlled combat module of the border guards of the IDF, Gaza 05/08/22

🇷🇺⚡Head of the Zaporozhye region at the forum "We are together with Russia" announced that he had signed an order to hold a referendum on reunification with the Russian Federation

🇷🇺🇺🇦 In the Zaporozhye region, they say that the referendum on joining Russia can be held online so as not to endanger people's lives in the context of terrorist attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

In my opinion, it is necessary to boldly and openly state here that the Zaporozhye region decided to adopt the best practices of the United States and conduct voting according to advanced American standards and emphasize mail-in voting, as it was in the Biden elections in 2020.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Another video of the use of the Lancet UAV in the Kherson direction. Enemy checkpoint destroyed.

🇷🇺🇦🇲 A telephone conversation took place between the President of Russia and the Prime Minister of Armenia.

Vladimir Putin and Nikol Pashinyan discussed the current situation in Nagorno-Karabakh and security issues on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

🇷🇺🇺🇲⚡Russia has notified the United States that it is temporarily withdrawing its facilities from inspections under the offensive arms reduction treaty due to Washington's actions, which actually deprive the Russian Federation of the right to inspections in the United States.

🇨🇳🇹🇼 On August 8, China showed footage from the PLA exercise, during which a landing operation was simulated in the Taiwan direction.

The personnel and military equipment of the brigade 73 of the Army of the Ground Forces of the Eastern Command of the PLA crossed the water barrier and landed on the coast.

Crews of ZLT-05 amphibious tanks and combat crews of tracked 122-mm Type 89 multiple launch rocket systems were used to strike at a mock enemy.

🇺🇲🇹🇼⚡The United States does not support Taiwan's move towards independence.

Pentagon

🇷🇺🇱🇻 After refusing to pay for Russian gas in rubles, Latvia’s gas supply was cut off by Russia.

8 days later and Latvia has decided to resume the purchase of Russian gas *in rubles.*

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The artillery of the 10th brigade annihilates the artillery positions of the enemy.

Nikolaev authorities crackdown on "disloyal residents"

CBS deleted the post where they said that only 30% of weapon deliveries to Ukraine reach the final destination. Well good that we have a screenshot!

in 2018, the American military company Northrop Grumman at an exhibition in America presented a concept that is a ground-based launcher for such missiles located in a cargo container. Judging by the concept, up to 9 anti-radar missiles can be located in one container.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine are facing a shortage of officers. All analytical agencies have noticed that the Russians are targeting the training camps of the command facilities of officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Now the President's Office is trying to work out solutions to this issue.
At the moment, there are already units where the officers are retired officers from NATO countries.

There is information that they sign a contract with the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and are listed on paper as "advisers and instructors", but in reality they perform the duties of a regular officer.....from Rezident-UA

Soon your local drugs gangsters will have acces to NLAWs, javelins, switchblades and who knows what. All thanks to Zelensky and you know who.

Video from the NPP at Energodar showing remnants of 155mm shells. The soldiers says they were fired from NW direction from the town of Marganets in territory under Ukr control

🇺🇦 🏴‍☠️ Latest summary from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine:

In the Kramatorsk direction, the Russian Army is trying to improve the tactical situation in the Verkhnekamenskoye area.

▪️ In the Bakhmut direction, the offensive on Bakhmut, Zaitsevo, Yakovlevka and Vershina;
▪️ In the Avdiivka direction, Russian troops continue to advance on Peski, Nevelskoye, Avdiivka;

🇺🇸 🇨🇳 🇹🇼Kamikaze grandma Pelosi: "Since I was a little girl, I was told on the beach that if you dig a deep enough hole, we would reach China. So we have always felt a connection with China"

🇮🇱A ceasefire has been announced between Israel and the Palestinian groups in Gaza....brokered by Egypt. Isreal says it has achieved it's aims

🇹🇼🇨🇳Retired Taiwanese Lieutenant General Gao Ango calls for unification of Taiwan with PRC

We used online translation program,if there are any mistakes,you can add them in the comments,but the last time the translation was good with this program

🇷🇺OSA-AKM from the Pacific Fleet Naval-Infantry Bgd

🇷🇺🇺🇦 After the annexation of the Zaporozhye region to the Russian Federation, Russia will have a real, full-fledged, large and juicy casus belli - part of the country's territory,

more importantly, together with the administrative center of the subject of the federation, will be under the occupation of another state.

That is, yes, the logical conclusion from the successfully held Zaporozhye referendum is war.

Flawlessly launched, according to all international standards

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡The Russian army is concentrating its main efforts in the east of Ukraine to establish full control over the DPR and LPR - the main thing from the summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

▪️In the Donetsk direction, Russian and allied troops, using the available means of fire destruction, are forcing the Armed Forces of Ukraine to suffer heavy losses and do not allow Ukrainian militants to effectively transfer reinforcements to other directions;

▪️In the Bakhmut direction, the Russian army carries out assault operations in the areas of the settlement. Artyomovsk, Zaitsevo, Vershina and Kodema;

▪️Russian and allied troops are carrying out an offensive in the directions of Avdiivka and Peski;
▪️In the Zaporozhye direction, the Russian army inflicts fire damage on the enemy in the area of ​​the settlement. Maryinka and Shevchenko.

🇨🇳🇹🇼 China releases new footage of military exercises around Taiwan

🇮🇷🇷🇺 Iranian satellite "Khayyam" on the launch vehicle "Soyuz-2", the launch of which is scheduled for tomorrow

🇺🇸 ⚡️It is reported that the FBI executed a search warrant at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort. Statement by Donald Trump above.

🇨🇺 ⚡️There has been a explosion at Cuba's Supertanker Port in Matanzas.

Video from the Antonovsky bridge in Kherson region after the missile attack.....1 hit on the roadbed was recorded damaging the roadbed. Some equipment includinga a construction trailer, in which the construction crew, engaged in the restoration of the bridge, stored their tools

The Ukr command says the Russians used a Kh-47M "Kinzhal" hypersonic missile during yesterdays attack on a airforce target in Vinnitsa

Melitopol has been bombed by the Ukr. This is the second attack in 24 hrs. The first one wasn't succesful (missies were shot down) but this time at least 1 missile hit the mark

The US President approved the allocation of another portion of military aid to Ukraine in the amount of $ 1 billion. The package includes:

-1.000 Javelin ATGM
-Disposable grenade launchers AT-4
75.000 155- mm artillery shells
-20 120 mm mortars and 20,000 mines for them

-Ammunition for MLRS M142 HIMARS
-Ammunition for NASAMS
-50 armored vehicles for medical units
-C4 explosives, Claymore mines, engineering accessories for detonation
- Medicine

The only notable event is the recapture by the Ukr of the village of Mazanovka which is just South of the Izum bridgehead (North of Slavyansk) about which the Ukr have been crowing about on their channels. there is fighting going on in this wider forested areapositions in 2nd map

Situation at Pesky with a few more details

Ukr reinforcements have arrived from the North. Once they reach the bridge area, they can use trenches and tunnels to infiltrate the NW section of the town which is where the fighting is centred on currently.

So IMO the road needs to be cut before the town can be secured.

There was an airstrike on a Ukr warehouse in the town North of Pesky from where supplies were coming

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3rd map shows current situation at Marinka

🇺🇦MT-12 Rapira Gun and Tank hit by artillery at Pesky

🇺🇦SP Gun hit by Artillery at Avdeevka

🇺🇦Artillery position hit by 🇷🇺Artillery- Kherson-Nikolaev frontline

🇷🇺T-90M tank with 'Nakidka' thermal shroud and roof screen — unspecified loction

Ukr has received a batch of Turkish "Kirpi" 4x4 MRAP vehicles....acc to Ukr media, 50 have been ordered with an option for further deliveries

Pentagon for the first time acknowledges sending previously undisclosed anti-radar missiles to Ukraine
From CNN's Oren Liebermann

The Pentagon announced Monday that the US has sent anti-radar missiles for Ukrainian aircraft to target Russian radar systems. It marks the first time the Pentagon has acknowledged sending the previously undisclosed missile to Ukraine.

Colin Kahl, the under secretary of Defense for Policy, said at a news briefing that the US had sent “a number” of the missiles without specifying how many the US has provided or when exactly they were sent. Kahl also did not explicitly say what type of anti-radiation missile.

A defense official told CNN the type of missile sent was the AGM-88 High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missile (HARM).

Produced by Raytheon, HARMs have a range in excess of 30 miles (more than 48 kilometers), according to the US Air Force, making them one of the longer-range weapons the US has provided to Ukraine

The missiles can be used to target Russian anti-aircraft radar systems, such as the S-400, which have made it very difficult for the Ukrainian Air Force to operate over large swaths of Uk airspace. The missiles can also target Rus counter-battery radars, which Ru uses to target

Kahl said the missiles had been sent over “in recent [Presidential Drawdown Authority] packages,” but the five most recent packages, dating back to July 1, make no mention of HARMs.

“In the near term, we’ve been doing lots of things to make Ukraine’s existing air force stay in the air and be more capable,” Kahl said.

He then pointed to the spare parts for Mig-29s the US helped send into Ukraine to keep the Soviet-era fighters flying. Kahl then mentioned the missiles, saying they “can have effects on Russian radars and other things.”

The Ukrainians have not publicly acknowledged receiving or using HARMs.

In recent days, open source reports have shown the remains of what appear to be the fin of a HARM missile that targeted a Russian position in Ukraine.

Meet Ivan Volkov, a Senior Project Leader at the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine and also...

...wait for it....

The founder of 'Digital Forces of Ukraine' Discord page according to the group's website.

Ever wondered where all the NAFO trolls that coordinate the attacks on pro-Russian Twitter accounts come from?

Well there you go

The United States believes that Ukraine already has enough Western multiple launch rocket systems of the HIMARS type
Therefore, they will only supply ammunition to the remaining systems, the White House said.

🇺🇦Tochka-U shot down early this morning near the locality of Koloskovo (Belgorod region). They were fired in the direction of Valuyok, a major railway junction.

According to some reports, there were three missiles. They tried to hit the location of the motorized rifle compound, residential facilities and the airfield. All three missiles were shot down.

The pro-Russian administration of the Zaporozhye region has officially declared the holding of a referendum on joining Russia (I believe in September).

If the referendum passes, that would imply a move to liberate the capital of the region (Zaporozhye city) will be inevitable as the region would need to join as a whole within it's admin borders

400 people were arrested during the "long" curfew in Nikolaev, many worked for Russia, - General Marchenko

"They were passing information to the other side. I can't talk about it yet, but the operation was very successful."

🇷🇺VDV correcting Artillery fire in Nikolaev direction

Iskanders being fired towards Kharkov

🇷🇺Recon-Command vehicle for a Kornet-D1 battery...the last pic are the regular Kornet-D1 launchers for comparison

🇷🇺Tyre insert on a Tornado-U armoured truck

🇷🇺Typhoon-VDV armoured truck (medic version) that had a close encounter with a 155mm shell in Ukr (exploded 2 m from vehicle) ..the people inside survived

🇷🇺DYI Field modification/ add on armour on a Tiger in Ukr

Taiwanese Military has announced live fire exercise starting today....the locations are just next to PLA exercises....could get interesting

Pentagon: “Russia has 70.000-80.000 military casualties since the start of the operation.”

Casualties meaning killed and injured, so that means 20.000 killed & 4x that number of injured if were being generous.

20.000 deaths is an insane number. That is something you can’t hide. That means hundreds of corpses rotting all over Ukraine. That means endless trucks of bodies travelling between Ukraine and Russia.

That means Russian graveyards working nonstop— all the stuff we see from the Ukrainian side. Huge funerals, huge amounts of graves on pictures and huge trucks transporting bodies. — none of that was spotted in Russia.

Not even once. Russia has over 145 million people. Not one person has filmed it? 🤔

Source; Pentagon’s propaganda department.

The realistic number, if you’re generous is 10.000-15.000 deaths amongst LPR, DPR and Russian forces combined & 35-40k injured.

No way Russia has taken 80k casualties. The rotation of troops to keep 200k active in Ukraine with 80k casualties would be impossible to hide from social media. All we’ve seen were small rotational convoys.

🇷🇺Strikes reported this morning from Nikolaev and Konstantinovka (near Slavyansk-Kramatorsk)

▪️In Kursk Region, Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group fired several mortars at the Khalino airfield and blew up a power transmission tower. The saboteurs were spotted and neutralized.

▪️North of Kharkiv Region, positional fighting is taking place near Dementiivka. Russian Armed Forces show offensive activity near Rus'ki Tyshky and Cherkas'ki Tyshky.

▪️Russian troops launched missile strikes against concentrations of Ukrainian Army manpower and equipment in Kharkiv and Chuhuiv. ▪️Near Sivers'k, positional fighting continues near Serebryanka, Ivano-Dar'ivka and Verhn'okam'yans'ke.

▪️On the southeastern outskirts of Soledar, LPR's 6th Cossack Regiment liberated part of the KNAUF Gips territory. All AFU counterattacks were repelled.

▪️Wagner’s PMC units fight on the eastern outskirts of Bakhmut (Artemivsk).

▪️South of Soledar, Allied Forces units are advancing on Kodema.

▪️In response to Allied Force's success in Donetsk direction, AFU shell Donetsk and its suburbs with artillery and MLRS.

▪️In Pisky, fighting continues on the northwestern outskirts of the settlement. Ukrainian formations prepare a new defence line Vodyane and Pervomais'ke.

▪️AFU Command is forced to redeploy reserves to Donetsk due to severe losses in Pisky, Mar'inka and Avdiivka.

▪️AFU once again struck Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station and targeted the spent nuclear fuel storage facility.

▪️Shelling continues in Nova Kakhovka and Kherson. Ukrainian Command keeps attempting to destroy Antonivsʹkyy Bridge.

▪️In Mykolaiv, a curfew is imposed to catch people on suspicion of disloyalty to the Kyiv authorities.

▪️To the east of the regional capital, Russian Armed Forces launched an advancement on AFU's fortified stronghold in Pervomais'ke and are fighting for Blahodatne.

The Rus shelled Nikopol (Dnepropetrovsk region) overnight with 120 MRLS rockets...the Ukr released a pic of this building only

SU-25s have been working along Marinka since the morning.

Leaving everything behind

Ukr using German DM-31 mines at Soledar

🇺🇦"Krab" 155mm SP Guns

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One more video featuring the Orlan-10 UAV

Taiwanese Artillery during their live fire exercise....taking it easy

Launch of the 🇷🇺Soyuz-2.1b rocket with the Iranian satellite and 16 mini Rus sats from Baikonor cosmodrome in Kazakhstan

🇺🇦🇱🇧 The Ukrainian embassy in Lebanon stated that the Lebanese customer refused Ukrainian grain due to a delay of 5 months

Lebanon no longer needs the grain coming from Odessa on the Razoni dry cargo ship, the first ship to leave the Ukrainian port as part of a food deal, and now the carrier is looking for other buyers, RIAN reports.

The UN tried to "smooth out" the situation, saying that there are cases when commercial ships change their destination for resale of cargo already during the voyage and that these are the decisions of private companies, "countries do not buy grain -

The DPR is negotiating with Pyongyang on the arrival of builders from North Korea in the republic.

Head of the DPR Denis Pushilin

I'm a day late but it was Ukr-AF day yesterday apparently. A Ukr Su-24 and a poster of what they hope to get in the future

🇺🇸 ⚡️It is reported that the search is linked to 15 boxes of classified documents that Trump had brought to Mar-a-Lago resort upon his departure from the White House. Trump was not on site when search was conducted.

🇺🇸 ⚡️ Explosion reported at Google's data center in Iowa, 3 electricians critically injured.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡A document on the start of preparations for a referendum on the reunification of the Zaporozhye region with Russia appeared on the Web

🇺🇦🇱🇧 The Ukrainian embassy in Lebanon stated that the Lebanese customer refused Ukrainian grain due to a delay of 5 months

🇺🇲 Florida Gov. Ronald DeSantis called the US a "banana republic" because of searches at Trump's estate

🇧🇾 The Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus is conducting the second stage of a comprehensive inspection of the territorial defense authorities of the city of Minsk, the ministry said in a statement.

Headquarters of the territorial defense and military units of the territorial troops will be formed in three districts of Minsk, which will have to solve the tasks of protecting the life support facilities of the population

and participate in ensuring public order together with the internal affairs bodies. It is planned to call up more than 300 persons liable for military service from the reserve for military training, the department added.

🇷🇺⚡More than 77% of foreign enterprises did not close their business in Russia, despite the unprecedented pressure and blackmail from the West, said State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin.

Foreign companies are "reluctant to leave the Russian market," as they not only incur costs, but lose the prospect of returning, Volodin added

🇷🇺🇺🇦 captured Ukrainian soldier Vitaliy Markus about the real losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Literally, “Half the people I fought with are either killed or wounded now.”

🇺🇲 “Fake news is CNN” - with such a poster, a man came to the Trump residence, where the FBI was conducting searches.

He stood behind the channel's reporter when it went on the air. Trump himself announced the searches the day before. He links them to the upcoming presidential election in 2024.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡ The People's Liberation Army of China on Tuesday announced an imminent exercise aimed at encircling and defending the island of Taiwan, the South China Morning Post reported.

🇷🇺 Special Forces of the Russian Guard in the Kherson region

🇪🇪🇷🇺⚡Visiting Europe is a privilege, not a human right, it's time to stop tourism from Russia now - Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas

🇷🇺🇪🇪⚡Peskov on calls to restrict Russians from entering Europe: similar statements were made from the center of Europe 80 years ago, common sense will manifest itself over time

🇵🇱🇬🇧 The Office of the Prime Minister of Poland refused to meet the former head of the British government with Morawiecki due to the lack of free time for the latter.

Boris Johnson was scheduled to visit Warsaw as part of a series of farewell meetings.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Against the backdrop of a special military operation, attempts by the special services of Ukraine to persuade young residents of Russia to commit terrorist attacks have intensified.

Since the beginning of 2022, 61 terrorist crimes have been prevented.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡The ammunition depot was hit in the Uman region, more than 300 shells for HIMARS, ammunition for the M777 were destroyed.

Ministry of Defense of Russia

🇹🇼🇨🇳⚡China uses military exercises as preparation plan for invasion - Taiwan MFA.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Fresh Ukrainian prisoners of war.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Fresh Ukrainian prisoners of war.

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Statements about the counteroffensive of Ukrainian troops on Kherson were part of an information and psychological operation, said Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of Volodymyr Zelensky's office 🤡

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡The command post of the Ukrainian Air Force in the Vinnytsia region was destroyed by a high-precision weapon strike.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Destruction of the American howitzer M777.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Amid Kyiv's new attacks on the Zaporozhye NPP, the Russian Federation hopes that the IAEA will send a mission to the plant, we are ready to provide the maximum possible assistance for this - Russian Foreign Ministry

🇷🇺🇺🇦 They confirm from the ground that the 6th regiment of the LPR stormed the KNAUF plant in Soledar & part of the surrounding area. Establishing control over the plant will complicate the position of the forces of Ukr defending in Bakhmutskoye, which is being stormed by Wagner

🇷🇺 Kiev admitted that two-thirds of the countries of the world do not support Ukraine

Most of the world community is neutral or pro-Russian on the conflict in Ukraine, said Zelensky's spokesman Mikhail Podolyak.

Earlier, Bloomberg reported that half of the G20 countries did not join the anti-Russian sanctions. Among them: China, India, South Africa and Turkey.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Attack helicopters of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroy military equipment of Ukrainian militants

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡According to preliminary information, 7 explosions sounded

According to local residents, a column of smoke rises over the village of Novofedorovka.

Smoke is visible from different cities and even on the beach in Evpatoria.

🇷🇺⚡Mash publishes the first footage of the moment of the explosion in Novofedorovka in Crimea

🇷🇺⚡Several explosions occurred near the village of Novofedorovka in Crimea, an adviser to the head of Crimea said.

The incident occurred at an airfield in the Saki region of Crimea, according to preliminary data, the authorities said.

🇷🇺⚡The head of the Crimea, Aksenov, went to the scene in the village of Novofedorovka, Saksky district. The circumstances are being clarified.

🇺🇦⚡As you can understand, missiles with a range of 200-300 km are already in service with us and are being used, - writes the former adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Andrusiv.

This is to the question that no assurances of the Americans can be trusted. Washington decided to escalate.

🇷🇺⚡Eyewitnesses post new footage of the explosion in Crimea, on the beach people are asked to hide in shelters

There were no missiles.

There is a powerful air defense in Crimea.

There were no 9 missiles, Marines from the Crimea and some subscribers told us.

So probably a sabotage

🇷🇺❗️ RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan writes with reference to eyewitnesses that the explosions in Novofedorovka were not after missile strikes, but what happened was a sabotage

Train load of T-80BV tanks in Kazan (Russia) . Note they don't have ERA mounted which probably means they've been taken out of a storage facility

"Hrizantema-S " AT system used to destroy a camera installation in Kherson-Nikolaev frontline. In this area, the Ukr actively use high-resolution cameras that allow them to adjust fire and conduct surveillance.

The cameras are usually installed on tall buildings, towers etc

There is information overload about this and its not a secret that Ukrainians mike to take credit for things like these.

Eyewitnesses, which there are thousands, do not report missiles or anything like that.

Hold your memes about „desicion making centers“ until there is a clear picture of whats going on.

If you claim that you know whats going on because you read on some hohol page, good luck in life.

Russian Ministry on explosions in Novofedorovka:"About 15.20 on the territory of the airfield 'Saki' near the settlement of Novofedorovka on a bunded storage site, several aviation munitions detonated""As a result of the explosion, no one was injured.

🇷🇺⚡All necessary measures have been strengthened to ensure the safety of infrastructure facilities and the population - Aksenov

Measures have been taken to set up a cordon perimeter in a 5-kilometer zone: fences, traffic police crews and foot patrols in order to prevent injuries to local residents. The Ministry of Emergency Situations monitors fires.

🇷🇺 Based on the statement of the Russian Ministry & reports of the absence of missile arrivals, the key issue is the cause of the explosion of ammunition which led to secondary detonations at the airfield - sabotage, negligence & violation of safety regulations

Specific conclusions should be expected after the completion of secondary detonations at the airfield and the opportunity for investigators to inspect the site of the explosion and examine the testimony of witnesses.

🇺🇦 US kamikaze Switchblade drones are already being sold on the Darknet. The price of the drone is $4,000.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡National Militia of LNR fully controls territory of Knauf plant on outskirts of Soledar, confirmed assistant head of MVD of LNR

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🇷🇺 After the explosions, three people were taken to the Saki hospital with minor and moderate injuries. One is being operated on. One of the wounded, a 13-year-old teenager, has already been discharged after receiving assistance.

🇷🇺 Steven Seagal in Donbass.
Judging by the photo, these are the ruins of the pre-trial detention center in Yelenovka.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 New rocket arrivals in Nikolaev. Several explosions are reported.

🇷🇺🇲🇱 The Russian Federation handed over to Mali several Su-25 and L-39 attack aircraft, as well as several Mi-8 and Mi-24 helicopters.

On the footage, you can see the fighters of the Wagner PMC, which is expanding its activities in this country, which, thanks to their efforts, has finally fallen away from the French neo-colonial empire

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡The liberated territories of the Nikolaev region will be temporarily annexed to the Kherson region

The settlements of the Nikolaev region, which came under the control of the Rus army during a special operation (temporarily - until the liberation of Nikolaev) will be administratively attached to the Kherson region, said Ekaterina Gubareva, deputy head of the kherson

“This is necessary for the payment of social benefits, the issuance of humanitarian assistance and ensuring a normal life in the village,” Gubareva explained.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡An ammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed near Artemovsk.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 A captured khokhol in Soledar

🇷🇺 Heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser "Admiral Kuznetsov" is being repaired at dock 35 SRZ in Murmansk

🇺🇲🇺🇦 The US authorities will allocate $ 89 million to Kiev to train sappers who will have to deal with mine clearance, Reuters reported.

🇬🇧 The UK authorities are considering the worst-case scenario, according to which the inhabitants of the country will face planned power outages, Bloomberg reports.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Beautiful arrival of "Krasnopol" on the American howitzer M777.

🇺🇦🇺🇲 American mercenaries say that their comrades died, and the Ukrainians looted their corpses.

They say that the authorities do not communicate with them, and this is a problem. They have no right to see the corpses of their comrades in the morgue.

🇷🇺🇮🇹 Italian volunteer in Donbass

🇷🇺🇺🇦❗ Explosions are reported in Nova Kakhovka, Kherson region, Zaporozhye and Nikolaev.
🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Explosions in the Dnieper!

🇷🇺 From the Dnieper to Gulyaipol some kind of activation on our part. We are waiting a couple of hours for confirmation.

It's not about artillery duels and artillery preparation.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The moment of launching rockets from the Kherson region towards Zaporozhye

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The Ukrainian authorities say that in the Zaporozhye region, rocket arrivals were not in Zaporozhye itself, but at objects in the region.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Zaporozhye region has been under our shelling for three hours. Explosions are heard not far from the line of contact.

🇷🇺🇺🇳🇺🇦 Russia has requested a UN Security Council meeting on August 11th because of the AFU strikes on the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. After the latest attack, there was a fire at the plant.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The driver of the minibus carrying the Ukrainian military worked out the skills of emergency ejection after an encounter with a Russian guided missile

🇺🇲🇸🇾 The international anti-terrorist coalition led by the United States is transporting oil stolen from the Syrian people with endless columns of tankers

Pictures from a collegues recent trip to Lwów.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡The Belokamensk Refractory Plant was liberated

Russian troops took control of another industrial facility in Soledar - the Belokamensk refractory plant.

Under artillery shelling, the Armed Forces of Ukraine retreat to Artemovsk (Bakhmut).

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡The village of Gladosovo was liberated in the DPR, it completely came under control, according to the People's Militia of the Republic

🇺🇦🇵🇱 Well, a few poor Ukrainian refugees in Poland

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Dropping homemade ammunition - RGD-5 grenades in a glass - from a quadrocopter at the position of the Ukrainian army.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Press service of the People's Militia of the DPR from the liberated village of Gladosovo near Gorlovka.

🇵🇸🇮🇱 Last night, Palestinian fighters fired on the Israeli military at the Qalandiya checkpoint in Jerusalem.

It is reported that there were no casualties among the security forces.

🇷🇺 In Krasnoyarsk, two supporters of the "antifa" movement, suspected of robbery, were detained.

According to operational information, the detainees planned to set fire to the military registration and enlistment office because of their position on the operation in Ukraine.

🇺🇲🇨🇳 China is one of the freest countries in the world - Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi.

🇺🇸🇱🇻🇺🇦 Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin arrived in Latvia to discuss military assistance to Ukraine

🇨🇳🇹🇼 China will not abandon the use of force scenario if peaceful reunification with Taiwan fails, according to the White Paper published by the PRC.

"China is ready to create a wide space for peaceful reunification, but we will never leave room for various forms of separatist activities to achieve Taiwan independence," Beijing said.

Reunification of mainland China with Taiwan will not harm the interests of other countries, Beijing promises to maintain Taiwan's high autonomy and guarantee legal rights, white paper says

🇷🇺🇺🇲⚡The Russian hacker group Killnet announced a hacking of the website of the American corporation Lockheed Martin, which, in particular, manufactures and delivers HIMARS MLRS and Javelin anti-tank systems to Ukraine

At the moment, authorization for employees and the authorization system using a NASA smart card do not work.

Also, Killnet was able to obtain the data of all candidates for a job at an American defense company. The Lockheed Martin website also went down.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Destruction of a tank of the Armed Forces of Ukraine hiding in a forest plantation in the Kherson direction.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation declares that the 1st of the German-supplied ZSU "Gepard" was destroyed in Ukraine, for which they were looking for ammunition for several months after Switz refused to approve the re-export of its ammunition to Ukr from Ger

🇺🇦 Infantry is dying in batches Ukrainian chief medical officer on the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

In her emotional posts, Chief Medical Officer of the 56th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Anna Kornitskaya reports losses in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. “Infantry is dying in batches,” she writes, while sharply criticizing the Kiev command.

Artillery, she said, has become a "curse" rather than a cover for Ukrainian soldiers. Widely advertised American MLRS and howitzers became the number one target for Russian missiles. Thus, more and more often arrives at Ukrainian positions than before.

The long-suffering 56th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is now suffering losses in Peski of the Donetsk People's Republic. One of Zelensky's soldiers fighting there, Sergei Gnezdilov, called the place a real hell.

He said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine urgently deployed reserves to close the breakthroughs, and after a few minutes only one of the 15 Ukrainian military remained alive.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Russian Aerospace Forces shot down three Ukrainian planes in the sky over the Nikolaev region - Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Izdeliye 305E high-precision air-launched missile destroys APU ammunition depots

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Self-propelled guns "Msta-S" are engaged in a counter-battery fight to destroy the artillery of Ukrainian militants

Fearsome future troops of NATO from Sweden, Stockholm

🇬🇷🇪🇺⚡Greece will exit the European Union's external financial monitoring mechanism on August 20 - Reuters, citing Greek Finance Minister Christos Saikouras

Rebuilding Mariupol.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡"Ukraine is not a tenant": Russia controls its trillions of dollars of minerals - WP

Ukraine's richest mineral deposits worth at least $12.4 trillion are now in the hands of Russia, writes The Washington Post.

We are talking about 63% of all coal deposits, 11% of its oil, 20% of gas, 42% of metals and 33% of rare earth elements. Since February, the Russians have seized deposits of titanium, zirconium, lithium, strontium, uranium and gold. And that's not counting agricultural land.

Ukr has found 117 of the 120 most widely used metals and minerals, the American newspaper writes. “If the Kremlin succeeds in annexing the captured territory - & US officials believe it will try to do so in the coming months - then Kyiv will forever lose access to almost 2/3rd

However, the fate of the Ukrainians is of little concern to the newspaper: it worries about Europe. It will now be harder for the continent to seek alternatives to imports from Russia and China.

Ukraine will not only lose most of its territory and resources, but will also be constantly vulnerable to a new onslaught of Russia,” WP quotes the opinion of Jacob Kierkegaard, a research fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington.

No private company in their right mind will invest in the rest part of Ukraine if it turns into a frozen conflict."

Ahead of Ukraine is the worst, analysts emphasize - "turning into the Baltic States, unable to support its industrial economy."

🏳️‍🌈🇷🇺 The Foreign Ministers of the G7 countries called on Russia to "immediately transfer" the Zaporizhzhya NPP under the control of Ukraine.

Earlier, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that the United States is calling on Russia to return full control over the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant to the Ukrainian authorities.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Units of the People's Militia of the DPR, with the support of the Russian army and the forces of the LPR, liberated about half of the territory of the republic

Pushilin

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡The 3rd brigade of the 1st Corps of the NM DPR entered the outskirts of the settlement. Zaitsevo. The settlement is of strategic importance for covering Avdiivka from the north and bypassing Artemovsk (Bakhmut) from the south.

🇷🇺 Atmospheric footage of the first days of the special operation in the Kiev region

🇸🇪🇪🇺🇷🇺⚡Minister for Integration and Migration of Sweden Anders Igeman does not rule out that the EU may stop issuing visas to residents of Russia

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The wargonzo project got the first shots of the assault on the village of Zaitsevo.

Today, the 3rd brigade of the 1st Corps of the NM DPR entered the outskirts of the village.

🇨🇳🇹🇼 China says military exercises around Taiwan concludes

🇪🇺🇷🇺⚡The EU is discussing the content of the seventh package of sanctions against Russia, including the issue of stopping the issuance of Schengen visas - the Cabinet of Ministers of Germany

🇺🇦🇷🇺 The destruction of the Crimean bridge is a necessary measure, - terrorist general Marchenko confirmed the correctness of Russia's decision to launch an operation against Ukraine's Banderstadt

“We will liberate Crimea by military means. Crimea is Ukraine, it is our land, our people are there. No one gave Russia the right to come, take a piece of land and say that "this is mine.

We will retake Crimea, just as we will retake Kherson, Luhansk and Donetsk,” said a drug addict in uniform, whose subordinates are getting killed by the 1000s everyday along the front line, while he prepares to send new crowds of Ukr to the slaughter while sitting in a office

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Consequences of arrival in the village of Kushugum (near the outskirts of Zaporozhye).

A group of US Navy warships will soon make a demonstration passage through the Taiwan Strait in support of Taipei. The exact date is unknown. The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan of the US Navy will not be sent to the bay, as this step would be too provocative.

🇺🇲 Former US President Donald Trump said he would be questioned by the New York Attorney General's office today.

According to Trump, he and his entire entourage are under attack from all sides.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 One more captured Ukrainian militant

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The first prisoners taken near Gorlovka in the Zaitsevo settlement liberated by our units (the part that was under Nazi occupation)

🇷🇺🇮🇷 The American media say that the Russian Federation has been training operators of Iranian drones since June, which have already been delivered to the territory of the Russian Federation. We are talking about reconnaissance and strike drones Shahed-129 and Shahed-191.

2. As before, the American media say that in exchange for the supply of drones, Iran can receive a batch of Su-35 fighters, which were previously supposed to be delivered to Egypt.

3. At the moment, there is not a single photo or video that would testify to the use of Iranian reconnaissance and strike drones on the front, as well as traces of Iranian ammunition after the defeat of Ukrainian targets, which would necessarily be shown to convict Iran.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Work of TOS-1A on Ukrainian positions

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Explosions are reported in Nikolaev and Bogodukhov, as well as in the Seversk region.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 One of the hottest spots today is Peski. The 2nd Battalion of the 11th Regiment of the People's Militia of the DPR is firing at two targets from a tank. The drone operator coordinates its work.

Video from "1st International Special Purpose Company" during the battle for Grigorievka (just east of Seversk)...the talking sounds Polish

Indian companies swapping dollar for Asian currencies to buy Russian coal - Reuters

‼️🇧🇬 🇷🇺 Bulgaria's new energy minister has said he does not rule out the possibility of restoring Russian gas supplies‼️

P.S. 2 Bulgarian PM lost their goverments on the Russian gas issue so far...

🇷🇺AT missile destroys armoured vehicle in Pesky

Ukr Tank targeted by VDV Artillery — Kherson-Nikolaev area

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦💥🎥 Artillery Duel⚡️

Watch a real artillery duel between the artillerymen of the 3rd motorized rifle division and the howitzer M-777 of the AFU.

I have already written that compared to the beginning of the SMO, the level of skill of Russian artillery has increased by an order of magnitude. Here is just a clear confirmation of my words.

https://twitter.com/PrateekRoutray/status/1557469448927227904?t=GE1uVLTvRwDesgUI8aMJeg&s=19

Volunteers from Tuymen region (east Russia) that are going to Ukr

Georgian opposition media report that the Georgian Defense Ministry may transfer data on Georgian mercenaries in Ukraine to Russia

An exchange on the dark net between an employee of RT Arabic (posing as a buyer from the Middle east) and Ukr sellers of western equipment

🇷🇺Nikoleav -Krivoy Rog direction

Also video of the Dam at the Kakhovka Power Plant in Kherson region which was bombed yesterday....the dam also has a road and railay crossing over the Dnieper river

Statement by the official representative of the DPR People's Militia Eduard Basurin on the situation in the Donbas during a press conference with foreign media:

- DPR forces have entered Soledar and Artemivsk, there is fighting in the industrial zone;

- No one is going to enter Avdeevka, DPR forces are surrounding the city. The Armed Forces of Ukraine will have a choice - to lay down their weapons or die—

- The area of the village of Peski is not yet fully controlled;

- 2/3 of Maryinka is under DPR control

- An advance has begun in the north of Gorlovka in the Zaitsevo area;

- The enemy in the Donbass will gradually be cut into sections and then destroyed.

Situation at Soledar.

The main fighting has shifted from the Rauf Plant to the Plaster factory

Once it's secured, it's expected that the Ukr will withdraw behind the river and try to hold out in the urban area

Situation at Pervomaisk which is a town just North of Pesky

🇷🇺DPR video from Soledar....the correspondent says the DPR 7th Bgd is engaged in street fighting

For a better perspective...here's a map of Pervomaisk and Pesky

🇷🇺Su-25s — Donetsk Frontline

🇷🇺DPR video from Pesky area

🇷🇺Video from the DPR so called "Slon" (Elephant) detachment

🇷🇺Giansint-B 152mm howitzer carrying out counter-battery fire

4 captured 🇺🇦BTRs

Episode from Kherson-Nikolaev front...reportedly a Kornet missile

The Ukr have shelled the Donetsk Brewery...an ammonia leak happened as a result. Acc to latest reports, the leak has been stopped

🇺🇦M-270 MRLS

🇷🇺column in the Donbas

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦 MOSCOW, August 10. /TASS/. The Kiev regime intends to send a group of intelligence operatives to Kharkov to uncover and punish those residents who are sympathetic toward Russia, head of Russia’s National Defense Control Center Mikhail Mizintsev said on Wednesday.

🔞AFU militants burn the bodies of foreign mercenaries, - LPR intelligence

Soldiers of the reconnaissance battalion of the People's Militia of the LPR found burnt bodies during a reconnaissance exit near Soledar.

Only 33% of Pzh 2000 working rest are unusable 5 out from 15

M777 had similar statistics ,attrition is heavy not just in combat

🇷🇺TOS-1A Sunburn at Pesky...looks like the NW corner of the town where there are still Ukr...don't think they can last long

❗️The agreement in principle on the purchase of Russian gas by Turkey in rubles has been reached, the situation with the schedule and prices will become clear soon.

Ministry of Energy of Turkey

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Explosions are thundering in Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk region: powerful strikes are inflicted on enemy targets and positions

🇷🇺🇺🇦❗The authorities of the Zaporozhye region would like to hold a referendum on joining Russia on September 11 — Yevhen Balitsky

The head of the military-civilian administration of the Zaporozhye region stated this in an interview with the Izvestia newspaper.

"Elections on September 11 are held in Russia on a single voting day, so far we are de jure not Russia. But, of course, we would very much like this," the head of the region said.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Several missile strikes were carried out in Kharkiv and the region

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Su-25 Russian Aerospace Forces operate in the Soledar area.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 ATGM work on (possibly) a supply truck. The driver is unlikely to have survived

🇰🇵 North Korean leader Kim Jong-un solemnly declared victory over the coronavirus in the country.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The allied forces continue to advance on the positions of the Ukrainian nationalists and are getting closer to Bakhmut in the DPR.

🇪🇺🇷🇺 Europe has run out of resources for new sanctions against Russia, reports the WSJ

As American journalists write, European countries are already "feeling pain" from the economic war with Russia,

but the European Union is not yet ready to retreat from the sanctions policy, as it sees no other opportunity to influence Russia. However, as The Wall Street Journal found out, some Western politicians admit that Europe itself suffers from the sanctions policy

Already, some Western politicians are beginning to question the wisdom of sanctions against Russia, and there are increasing calls for greater efforts to reduce tensions.

The confrontation with Russia is especially difficult for politicians in Western Europe, the journalist adds. For example, French President Emmanuel Macron's party recently lost its parliamentary majority after opponents took advantage of high inflation

🇺🇲🇨🇳⚡ The White House decided to postpone the imposition of customs duties on Chinese goods - Reuters, citing sources

🇷🇺🇺🇦The operational situation in Ukraine as of August 10th.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️Three border guards were wounded as a result of shelling in the Glushkovsky district of the Kursk region — Baza

🇷🇺 Russian helicopter Ka-52 in the sky over Donbass.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Russian air defense systems repulsed all attempts of attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Energodar, where the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant is located, on the night and in the morning of August 11, the authorities said

🇷🇺🇹🇷 ⚡️Agreement in principle on the purchase of Russian gas by Turkey in rubles has been reached, the situation with the schedule and prices will soon become clear - Turkish Ministry of Energy

🇷🇺 Multi-purpose helicopter Mi-8AMTSh patrols the Black Sea coast of Sevastopol.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Battles of the DPR army in the Zaporozhye direction

🇹🇼🇨🇳 Taiwan has rejected the “one country, two systems” model that China has been proposing for it since the 1980s. Earlier, Beijing mentioned it in the White Paper, the national defense strategy.

“Taiwan strongly rejects the idea of ​​'one country, two systems'. Only the people of Taiwan can decide their own future," Taiwanese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Joanne Ou said.

🇷🇺🇺🇲⚡KILLNET has published the data of employees of the American corporation Lockheed Martin, which supplies MLRS HIMARS to Ukraine

Russian hackers from the KILLNET group promised to publish the data of employees. The hackers kept their word - the list of names, phone numbers and other data is now in the public domain.

🇱🇻🇷🇺 Baltic shithole also known as Latvia declared Russia a sponsor of terrorism

🇱🇻🇷🇺 The parliament of Latvia also called on EU countries to stop issuing visas to citizens of Russia and Belarus.

🇪🇺🇷🇺 The idea of ​​banning the issuance of Schengen visas to Russian citizens is unlikely to receive support in the EU countries, according to an analytical commentary published in the Spanish newspaper Mundo

The newspaper recalls that "the European Commission has delegated the decision to ban the entry of Russian citizens to the national authorities of the participating countries."

“But even if Latvia and Finland ban the issuance of visas, the Schengen system itself allows Russian citizens to enter and leave the territories of the Schengen countries.

The Schengen Code of Free Movement guarantees every person with a visa issued by any of the 26 participants, free movement within the territories of the countries of the agreement within 90 days," the newspaper emphasizes.

🇪🇪🇷🇺⚡️Estonia has decided to close the borders for citizens of the Russian Federation with Schengen visas issued by the republic, with some exceptions - Estonian Foreign Ministry

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡ Russian TOS-1A Heavy flamethrower burning Ukrainian pigs 🐽

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Commander of the 20th Special Forces Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Volodymyr Torogoy was liquidated in Donbas.

The information is confirmed by the mayor of Ternopil Serhiy Nadal and the Boxing Federation of Ukraine.

Wagner forces took out an American mercenary.

Ukraine shelled Zaporozhye NPP again and they blame Russia for it in their media🌚

Smoke rises again over Zaporozhye NPP

🇷🇺🇺🇦Ukr troops are attacking the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant using MLRS & heavy artillery from the right bank of the Dnieper, the authorities of the region said. The shelling occurs for the second time in a day. These madmen must be stopped otherwise it will be a big disaster.

🇬🇧🇺🇦⚡Britain will supply Ukraine with three more MLRS M270 MLRS, as well as ammunition for them. British Defense Minister announced today that the delivery is ready. To date, the British have already sent three M270 MLRS MLRS to Ukraine with missiles with a range of up to 80 km.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡The battery of the most powerful mortars in the world "Tulip" destroys the fortifications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Photo from the site of the APU strike on the fire station near the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in Energodar. Apparently, it was from there that the cloud of smoke caught in the video rose.

The building was heavily damaged. In total, five rockets flew into the area of ​​the unit.

Perhaps it's time we start striking at nuclear power plants located in Lviv

Pesky

Map of the area with the marked section that was shelled by TOS flamethrowers in video posted yesterday

SOLEDAR

The Rus/DPR have entered Bakhmutskoe just to the south of the are they captured in the past day which made the position of the Ukr there difficult. A 🇺🇦unit (14th Bgd) that withdrew from Bakhmutskoe was hit hard by Artillery and airstrikes suffering heavy losses

AVDEEVKA

Units defending Avdeevka have also been hit hard resulting in the 42nd Btn of the 57 Moto Bgd to abandon it's positions (see map & video). Another unit mentioned is the 66th Bgd....there are 5 🇺🇦Bgd in the Avdeevka sector

Haven't seen any major updates on other frontlines except local battles and artillery duels

The Rus report multiple strikes on ammo warehouses and field ammo dumps all along the Donbas front....Some of them are marked on the maps

🇷🇺Su-25s — Avdeevka Sector

Shoigu visited defence enterprises in the Moscow region to get briefed on deliveries for the current year

During the meeting in the UN, the Russian rep accused Ukr of trying to cause a nuclear catastrophe that could potentially be worse than the Chernobil incident in 1986. He called Ukr and western accusations that Russia itself is shelling the NPP, Absurd.

The Ukr actually shelled the PP whilst the meeting was going on. Whilst the PP itself is very difficult to damage substantially (it was built to withstand serious impacts, incl a crash by an airliner) the Ukr are targeting the depot with spent nuclear fuel & the cooling unit

The mayor of the Ukr held townof Mazanets says the Russians just shelled it. Mazanets and Nikopol is from where the Ukr shell the PP

More detailed explanation on the potential danger with the Zaporozhye NPP situation
❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦☢️ Zaporozhye NPP, "the second Chernobyl" and innocent Ukraine by @Rybar (1/2):

Because of the shelling of Europe's largest nuclear power plant in Zaporozhye, the world media is in a panic: the Russian Armed Forces (sick!) want to arrange a nuclear disaster and prevent the Ukrainian Armed Forces from saving the world.

The fact that the strikes are carried out by the Ukrainian side does not confuse anyone.

The @Rybar team decided to do a breakdown and explain if a new catastrophe awaits the world, who is to blame and why what is happening is happening.

🔻Reactor depressurization:

Fans of the "Chernobyl" series know all too well about reactors, rods, containment damage and other horrors that accompanied the disaster of the last century.

▪️ The firings do not threaten the reactors themselves.

The outer shell of a reactor is a meter and a half of steel and concrete. To destroy it you have to use tactical nuclear weapons. And the reactor lid is capable of withstanding a 20-ton impact at 200 km/h.

▪️ But now the AFU is hitting power lines. If the reactors are disconnected from consumers, there will be an emergency shutdown - the ZNPP will not be able to generate electricity.

It takes 10 seconds to stop the reactor. But then it has to be cooled down for another two or three years: to run water through it so that it does not overheat, since the secondary decay of the nuclear fuel will take place. ▪️ The strikes by VSU can lead to a permanent shutdown

It is easy enough to disrupt the water supply after the power line is out of service. There is no way to defrost a reactor that has been shut down. What will be left is a red-hot air-cooled metal cask, which cannot be restarted.

❗️ There will be no threat of a nuclear catastrophe, but the ZNPP will be a classic "so don't let anyone get you.

🔻There are several radioactively hazardous facilities at ZNPP:

▪️ A dry storage facility for spent nuclear fuel and an isotope storage facility for radiography.

If these facilities are destroyed, depressurization may occur and radioactive substances of cesium and strontium may enter the environment.

This will cause increase of radiation background on the NPP site in the radius of 50-100 meters from the radioactive objects. Staying in this area for a long time will be dangerous.

▪️ Will the plant work? Yes. But it will become difficult to maintain, you can't be there without radiation protection.

It will become difficult to guard the nuclear power plant because the dry storage facilities are close to the perimeter. The contaminated soil will have to be isolated somehow, and this will require special equipment.

▪️ At the dry storage site, rainwater collection is organized, but there is still a possibility of radioactive elements entering the Dnieper River through the drainage water.

As a result, water contamination may occur. Downstream water intakes, including those in Kherson and Nikolaev, cannot be used (but it all depends on the concentration).

❗️ We are not talking about nuclear, but about a local environmental disaster, which would make it much more difficult to use the ZNPP.

🔺☢️ (2/2)

🔻Asking the question: then what is all this for?

▪️Do Ukraine and the West understand the possible consequences?

Yes! Because of the constant shelling, ZNPP employees and residents of Energodar are fleeing the city. Zaporizhzhya NPP is turning into an exclusion zone - only not because of a nuclear disaster, but because of the actions of the caring AFU.

▪️ The price of this is simple: in the case of emergency shutdowns of ZNPP generators and damage to the 750kV transmission line, the consequences could affect all of Ukraine.

Transient processes in the grids can lead to a decrease in the stability of the entire power system and the emergence of overloads in the operating lines. The whole of Ukraine will have a problem with electricity.

At the meeting of the UN Security Council the situation around the ZNPP has already been used to pump the topic of introducing a demilitarized zone in this region. It is not hard to guess what this will lead to.

And at the same time the public opinion in the West is turning to poor poor Ukraine whose authorities are so eager to save the world from "Russia, the messenger of a nuclear catastrophe.

Today is AirForce Day in Russia ...110 year anniversary since the formation of the 🇷🇺Airforce...couple of videos from the SMO in Ukr...Su-35 and Su-25

🇷🇺Artillery fire on Ukr positions along the Izum - Slavyansk road

🇷🇺T-90M in Izum - North Donbas area

Deputy Chairman of the 🇷🇺Security Council Dmitry Medvedev paid a visit to the Lugansk People's Republic, where he met with the leaders of the Republics Denis Pushilin and Leonid Pasechnik.

🇷🇺Air-Defences active at Nova Kakhovka a few hours ago....this where the PP and Bridge-Dam is located

⚡️🇿🇦🇺🇸🎥 Hey Blinken, welcome in a multipolar world 🦁⚡️

The price of 1 Megawatt of electricity in France has reached 602 Euros....for comparison, the price in Russia is approx 60 Euros

The AFU are evacuating Nagorny after significant successes of the People's Militia fighters.

According to the representative of the LPR Andrey Marochko, Ukrainian military are heading towards Soledar.

Some news from the Seversk sector, which has been quiet (news wise) in the past 2 weeks, as both sdes had moved units from there towards Soledar and Bakhmut

It's reported the Rus/DPR have broken through a Ukr fortified area on the East edge of Verkhokamenskoye and there is now fighting inside the town.

Also report that Ivano-Darievka (to the South) has fallen.

Russia has doubled the number of airstrikes in Ukraine compared to the previous week

/Deputy Chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - A. Gromov/

🇷🇺MSTA-S SP Guns in Izum area

#Su57 weaponry from P. Butowski who is a long time writer and researcher on the RuAF

Another video of VDV — Kherson-Nikolaev front

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Consequences of night battles on the eastern outskirts of Artemovsk. Video from the Ukrainian side

🇷🇺🇺🇦 An enemy S-300 air defense system was destroyed by a Russian missile attack

Media loyal to the Kyiv regime report that on August 9, the operator of the anti-aircraft missile battery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was liquidated

This news confirms the statement of the Russian Ministry of Defense on August 10 about the destruction of the enemy S-300 air defense system as a result of a missile attack.

"Saint Javelin and Saint Himars". What do svidomo Russophobes of Ukraine and natives of the Pacific Islands have in common?..................CARGO CULT

The British are hiding that they are directing the shelling of the Zaporozhye NPP, the regional authorities said.

The British MoD has sent its instructors who coordinate the gunners of the AFU, but officially these specialists have either gone awol or are on vacation

Foreign military aid for Ukraine...seems the peak was in April-May

🇷🇺🇺🇦💥 @Rybar: Ukrainian artillery struck the Kalinin district of Donetsk. Ukrainian resources have already managed to announce another hit on an "ammunition depot" based on a video of a fire at one of the facilities.

Except that in fact the shells hit the premises of the Dontekhsnab company. There was no trace of ammunition in the photo: only firewood and civilian goods. There are also no signs of any destruction characteristic of the explosion.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Residents of Zaporozhye report explosions. Details are being clarified.

🇲🇪 An unknown person opened fire in the city of Cetinje in Montenegro, several people were killed. According to the In4s portal, the shooter also died.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 A powerful blow was delivered to a target in occupied Kramatorsk, a column of smoke above the hit object

Local residents write that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are based in this area

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Air Force Day was not without an air victory. A Ukrainian Su-25 attack aircraft was shot down near Slavyansk.

🇨🇳🇺🇲⚡Chinese officials are preparing a meeting between Xi Jinping and Biden on the sidelines of the G20 or APEC summits - The Wall Street Journal

🇺🇦 Zelensky submitted to the Verkhovna Rada bills on extending the terms of martial law and mobilization

Ukrainians, you are being deceived!! The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are colossal. Run or demolish this power.

🇮🇷 🇷🇺 Iran will start joint production of satellites with Russia. This was announced by the Minister of Communications and Information Technology of Iran Isa Zarepour

Earlier, the Iranian authorities reported that the satellite, named after the Iranian astronomer, mathematician and poet Omar Khayyam, was launched the day before from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan by a Russian Soyuz 2.1b satellite launch vehicle.

Isa Zarepour clarified that the satellite was made by Russia on the order of Iran. Now Tehran plans to create a joint production line with Russia for the second, third and fourth versions of this satellite.
The head of ISA added that the cost of Khayyam is $ 40 million

At the same time, the West fears that Moscow will try to use Khayyam to spy on Ukraine (they act as if Russia doesnt have its own satellites) and Tehran will try to spy on Israel and other countries in the Middle East

🇺🇦⚡Zelensky and the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine are receiving threats from Ukrainian militants from the front line

The mood of the Khokhols can be understood - everyone knows that the end is near and they do not want to die so quickly.

🇺🇲🇷🇺⚡The United States does not recognize the annexation of Donbass to the Russian Federation, rejects the results of a possible referendum, and promises a quick and tough response in the form of anti-Russian sanctions, a senior government official said.

As the official told reporters, "the US does not recognize" the annexation of Ukr territories to the Russian Federation, and possible referendums "will not be allowed to pass indisputably." According to him, the annexation of parts of Ukraine would be contrary to the UN Charter.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian artillery destroys Ukrainian tank in Avdiivka direction.

⚡️ The office of President Zelensky issued a command to withdraw local administrations, military registration and enlistment offices from Zaporozhye, Nikolaev and the cities and towns of Donbass and take out all the documentation.

Another destroyed Ukrainian lieutenant colonel

It became known about another liquidated senior Ukrainian officer. Lieutenant Colonel of the 3rd brigade of the National Guard Igor Selidbovsky was destroyed in the Kharkov region on June 27.

Thanks for the tip to LostArmour.

🇺🇸 ☣️ Polio detected in sewage in New York City, suggesting there is transmission of the virus in the local population, officials report.

Kek

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The "Wagner Group" conducts inspection activities after the storming of the house belonging to the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the village of Pokrovskoye

🇺🇦⚡Ukraine is on the verge of financial collapse: Kiev is struggling to find funds for the salaries of soldiers, but is ready to risk the stability of the financial system for this - Wall Street Journal

According to the largest US business newspaper, taxes cover only about 40% of the budget, more than 60% of which is military spending. The National Bank of Ukraine requires the government to increase taxes and reduce payments in order to maintain financial stability.

However, the Minister of Finance of the Kiev regime, Sergei Marchenko, does not agree with such a policy.

"Sometimes our views with the National Bank differ ... It is better to risk high inflation than the ability to pay soldiers," he said.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 "Oops. The Donbass land turned out to be too tough for the Americans.”

The network is discussing a video from Ukrainian publics: new American MaxxPro armored vehicles that arrived to fight for the Armed Forces of Ukraine get stuck on the roads.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 This is how the days of the Armed Forces of Ukraine pass, thanks to the artillery of the RF Armed Forces

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Another -1 senior officer of the Special Operations Forces of Ukraine. On August 7, Rus troops in the Donbas liquidated the head of the combat training support group of the 142nd training center of the MTR of Ukraine (military unit A2772, Berdichev), Major Dmitry Padalko.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian long range MLRS working in Zaporozhye direction

⚡️Interesting info...do they expect something to happen in these areas?

Zelensky issued a command to withdraw local administrations, military registration and enlistment offices from Zaporozhye, Nikolaev and the cities and towns of Donbass and take out all the documentation.

Heavy fighting is going on in the area south of Bakhmut in the zone marked on the map. Nearby is a major Road & Rail Junction...control of this area from the Rus perspective opens up access to the "New York" - Toretsk agglomeration to the west

There is an increase of activity in and around a Ukr held bulge, south of Balakleya (NW of Izum) The Rus are bombing Zaliman area and probing towards Gusarovka. Currently it looks more like a fight of local nature as AFAIK there isn't large Rus forces here for a major push.

A 🇺🇦Su-25 was shot down at Kramatorsk...reportedly the smoke plume from the crash

🇷🇺Lancet kamikaze drone vs a BTR — Kherson-Nikolaev front

🇺🇦Tank shelled — west of Avdeevka

The Power plant and associated dam at Nova Kakhovka was shelled by the Ukr yesterday....acc to reports, the damage was light

🇺🇦"Vasilek" automatic mortar in Bakhmut

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - Salman Rushdie on ventilator, can't speak. Reportedly set to lose one eye. - Agent to NYT

🇺🇦BMP - location not provided GRAPHIC!

🇹🇷Since the beginning of August, the Migration Service of the Turkish Interior Ministry has started issuing long-term residence permits to Crimean Tatars, recognizing their status as compatriots with Turkic roots.

A residence permit for Crimean Tatars is issued on behalf of Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu from June 2022. Currently, only foreigners who have been in the country continuously for eight years can get a long-term residence permit in the country.

However, Ahysk Turks, Uighurs, ethnic Turks from Bulgaria and Greece and-since August — Crimean Tatars are exempt from this condition.

💥Nikolaev

Visiting the EU is a privilige say the politicians from the basket cases aka as the Baltics

And now, Michael Mc Faul has chipped in...

If the majority of Russians support Putins invasion of Ukraine, are they really innocent bystanders in this war? Are they entitled to vacations in Europe? At a minimum, they should pay for Ukrainian reconstruction for that privilege. Add a €100 fee to every visa to Europe.

The average wage in Russia is 300% higher than in Ukraine. But yes, the poor Russians have never seen a pair of shoes before coming to Ukraine! After all, Ukraine is famous throughout Europe for their high tech homes and luxury 🤡

We’re aware that those are paid propaganda posts, but anyone remotely aware of the economy of Ukraine knows this is a sad attempt 💀

🇷🇺Helicopters - Donbas

There are no signs of a Ukrainian offensive on the Kherson front

The Washington Post published a rather interesting article on the prospects of a widely publicized Ukrainian counteroffensive on Kherson. Or rather, it's absence.

So, the authors of the article note that despite the great media buzz and publicity, the situation in the trenches is exactly the opposite: "the Ukr military cannot raise their heads from the trenches because of the powerful artillery onslaught from the Russian Army."

Acc to Ukr servicemen, at night the Russian army conducts reconnaissance, and in the morning it destroys the detected targets.

They describe the work of the Russian artillery along the supply routes in this area. "There is nowhere to hide" — since Russian Orlan-10 drones hang in the sky around the clock.

They also emphasize the reinforcements of the Russian Armed Forces arriving in Kherson and the lack of prospects for an attack on Russian positions: Western aid is arriving, but it is not enough.

Ka-52 firing a Vikrh-1 missile at a vehicle

some info on the missile in link below
en.kalashnikovgroup.ru/catalog/raketn…

Rostec promo video of the operation of a mobile complex for automated fire control of artillery, mortars and multiple launch rocket systems "Planshet-M-IR"

This is a further development of the "Planshet-A" complex, which is currently produced and is in use

🇷🇺Su-25 at Bakhmut

Shoigu visited the Sverdlovsk region, where he checked the progress of the state defense order at the defense industry enterprises.

The head of the Ministry of Defense was shown the latest developments in the field of armored vehicles and weapons, and options for upgrading equipment already in service were reported

Shoigu also held working meetings, at which he paid special attention to compliance with the schedule for the implementation of the state defense order. — Zvezda News

Loading of Caliber Cruise Missiles on a Rus Navy Frigate - Sevastopol

🇺🇦T-64 Tanks before the war...autumn of 2021

Forgot to post yesterday that the commander of the 🇷🇺Black Sea Fleet Admiral Igor Osipov was removed, and replaced with Vice Admiral Viktor Sokolov....most observers believe due to the explosion at Saki Airbase in Crimea

The latest report from the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) talks about the Kremlin's desire to mobilize industry to support long-term military operations in Ukraine.

Acc to US analysts, the Main Directorate of Military Intelligence of Ukr (GUR) reported that the Kremlin initiated a "production mobilization" of defense enterprises in early Aug, forbidding some employees and the entire leadership of the Rus state-owned industrial to take vacati

The GUR added that the Military-Industrial Commission of the Russian Federation, chaired by Russian President Vladimir Putin, is preparing to change the state defense order program by early September in order to increase spending by 600-700 billion rubles (about $ 10 billion).

The Russian edition of "Hurrah" also reported that on August 12, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu probably visited the Uralvagonzavod plant, the largest tank manufacturer in Russia and the manufacturer of T-72 main battle tanks.

Earlier, ISW reported that the Kremlin is mobilizing the Russian economy by proposing an amendment to federal laws on the supply of the Armed Forces to the State Duma on June 30.

The amendment obliges Russian enterprises, regardless of the form of ownership, to fulfill Russian military orders and allows the Kremlin to change the working conditions of employees

Putin signed the amendment on July 14, meaning the Kremlin will continue to take additional measures to expand the Kremlin's direct control over the operations of the Russian military-industrial complex, ISW concludes.

Destroyed Ukr "Husky" vehicle (originally British) and a BMP-2

❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Highlights of Russian Military Operation in Ukraine on August 13, 2022

▪️In the morning, Ukrainian artillery shelled the village of Sverdlikovo in Kursk Region. No casualties.

▪️North of Kharkiv Region, soldiers of Russian Armed Forces' 200th Mechanized Rifle Brigade entered the village of Udy. Before that, Russian sabotage and reconnaissance groups destroyed several positions of AFU's 92nd Mechanized Brigade in the settlement.

▪️Russian missile troops and artillery hit targets in the Kholodnohirskyi and Industrialnyi districts of Kharkiv.

▪️In the morning, Russian Armed Forces struck the concentration of manpower in Kramatorsk. In the afternoon, explosions rocked Slovyansk.

▪️In the evening, a Ukrainian Su-25 flying from the direction of Druzhkivka was shot down near Kramatorsk.

▪️Fighting is taking place on the eastern outskirts of Soledar. Allied Force's units are advancing towards Refractory Plant from the previously liberated KNAUF Gips Plant.

▪️Clashes continue near Yakovlivka.

▪️In Bakhmut, Wagner's PMC units entrenched on the eastern outskirts of the city identify and suppress AFU strongholds for further advancement towards the city center.

▪️Allied Forces continue their advancement in Pisky. Artillery burns out AFU positions on the northwestern outskirts of the settlement.

▪️In Mar'inka, clashes take place along Druzhba Street. Artillery is constantly pounding Ukrainian army firing positions.

▪️Ukrainian artillery shelled Donetsk and Stirol Plant in Horlivka.

▪️Russian Armed Forces struck the positions of Ukrainian formations in Nikopol' and Marhanets’, from where they are shelling Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.

▪️AFU struck Nova Kakhovka once again. Air defence operated in the city.

▪️Russian artillery and missile troops hit targets in Mykolaiv and the settlement of Domanivka, where a strong explosion was reported.

"This certainly explains the reason why so many Ukrainian SAMs fall on their cities.

This 5V55 missile is from 1987.
And they haven't been refurbished since."

@Taurevanime - Twitter

🇺🇦L-119 105mm howitzer

🇺🇦100mm MT-12 Rapira gun mounted on a MT-LB

🇺🇦"Stormer" SAM system (British supplied) ,,,they say they shot down a Orlan-10

🇷🇺9M544 guided 300mm rocket from a Tornado-S MRLS in Zaporozhye region

A Bulgarian volunteer Vasil Zhabanov was killed on the Zaporozhye frontline. He had been serving with the DPR since the start of the conflict in 2014...RIP Vasil

🇺🇦According to the Wall Street Journal, military expenditures account for 60% of Ukr's GDP, taxes cover only 40% of expenses, there is no money for maintenance payments to military personnel, so the option of additional printing of money is being considered

🇷🇺Artillery targeting Ukr Infantry at Izum

AFU fighters opened fire on their "comrades" when the "Somalia" battalion began to evacuate surrendered Ukrainians

Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic have decided to launch a program to expand the production of artillery systems, ammunition and other military equipment for Ukraine.
/Danish Defense Minister Morten Bodskov/

🇸🇰🇺🇦Slovakia is handing over its MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, the state television channel RTV reports, citing the country's Defense Minister Yaroslav Nagy.

The number of aircraft is not specified, but it was previously reported that Slovakia is armed with 11 MiG-29

🇷🇺🇺🇦 There are reports of the capture of the villages of Udy and Odnorobovka in the north of the Kharkov region.

We are waiting for photos or videos from the places.

if taken, then this significantly improves the position of the RF Armed Forces in the Kharkov direction.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Arrival at the APU object in Nikolaev

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Fire after hitting a target in Kharkov

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Another destroyed American M777 howitzer in Ukraine

Despite regular deliveries of weapons from the West, the Russian army is still putting all foreign aid on fire at a high pace.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Over the past day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson direction have lost:
- killed and wounded more than 200 people;
- two UAVs;
- three BMP-1;
- five T-64 tanks;
- during the operation of the air defense system, four shells of the MLRS "HIMARS" were destroyed

As a result of the strike of the Russian Aerospace Forces, two underground warehouses with ammunition for the Grad and Uragan MLRS were destroyed

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian soldiers treating wounded Ukrainian soldiers

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Another Ukrainian Air Force colonel killed in recent missile strikes.

Colonel of the 18th separate helicopter detachment of the Ukrainian Air Force Sholomiy Ivan Ivanovich.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue shelling the area of ​​Zaporizhzhya NPP and Kakhovskaya State District Power Plant.

In the case of ZNPP, already quite openly and without hiding, the Western sponsors of the Zelensky gang are speculating on the threat of a nuclear catastrophe.

shelling of the Kakhovskaya GRES and ZNPP, it is necessary to destroy indicatively 4-5 important thermal power plants on the right bank and openly declare that the shelling of such civilian infrastructure will lead to inevitable consequences

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The work of the tankers of the 11th regiment of the NM DPR on the Ukrainian fortification in Pisky

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Captured T-80UE-1 of the Ukrainian army. Presumably, in the Kherson direction.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 New Ukrainian prisoners.

🇺🇲 Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger worries about world imbalances, problems that America has created - WSJ

According to a well-known American publication, the politician believes that the settlement of the situation in Ukraine will allow Moscow to keep Crimea and certain areas of Donbass.

Kissinger stressed that the US is on the brink of war with Russia and China "because of the issues that we created ourselves, having no idea how it will end or where it should lead.

At the same time, in his opinion, Washington does not have the tools to resolve the situation it has created and will not be able to turn China against Russia

🇷🇺🇺🇦 This will be the radius of radiation contamination if the Armed Forces of Ukraine still manage to blow up the Zaporozhye NPP

🇸🇰🇺🇦Slovakia is handing over its MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, the state television channel RTV reports, citing the country's Defense Minister Yaroslav Nagy.

The number of aircraft is not specified, but it was previously reported that Slovakia is armed with 11 MiG-29

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Two Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopters destroyed in Mykolaiv region - Russian Defense Ministry

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡ Pisky in the DPR is completely liberated, according to the RF Ministry of Defense

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Supplies to Ukraine of Western long-range weapons systems will lead to the expansion of the geographical tasks of the Russian special operation.
This was stated in an interview with TASS by the director of the North America Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry

🇬🇧 London's Aldi Supermarket has imposed a cap on the purchase of bottled water amid a drought announcement: The store put up signs stating that you can only buy five single bottles and three multi-packs per person, writes the Telegraph.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇺🇲 The Russian Foreign Ministry advises the United States to force Zelensky to return to the negotiation process

This position was voiced by the director of the North America Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexander Darchiev:

“Washington, in order to avoid a humiliating defeat, should force Zelensky to return to the negotiating table with Russia, this would be the best solution for the United States.”

According to him, Zelensky must stop the senseless resistance before it is too late. However, Washington prefers not to hear Moscow's arguments, the diplomat said.

🇷🇺 Innovations in the Moscow metro

Current situation at Pesky

There is fighting at the hamlet of Nevolskoye (to the west of Pesky). It's expected that the DPR forces will be pushing towards Pervomaisk, Vodyane and Optinoye.

The fall of Pesky can potentially result in a similar situation as the previous fall of Popasna where the knocking out of a "brick" from a defensive "wall" (Marinka - Pesky - Krasnogorovka - Avdeevka) leads to the collapse of the adjacent territory

Approx 60% of the town is under DPR control including the cutting of a road that leads south to Novo-Mikhailovka where elements of the 66th Mech Bgd have reportedly abandoned some positions. Also, a rear base used by the 🇺🇦66th & 56th Bgds for resupply and rotation of personel

there are reports that an attack has started towards the village of Pobeda through which another road passes that links Novo-Mikhailovka with Marinka and territory beyond under Ukr control

Acc to analysts, they believe the aim is to capture a string of towns and villages in the coming period starting from Novomikhailovka and moving NW in order to isolate Ugedar (the main Ukr stronghold in the area South of Marinka) and surrounding territory

About Ru military strength

Only 5-10 % of actual strength fighting at any time
~35000 = ~ 87 new volunteer battalions  (1-5 each provinces)  are coming , some already deployed like Alga 1
DNR LNR = getting equipped to RU standard and reinforced by new recruits every day

Ukrops getting shot at ~20000-50000 arty shell each day , not counting heavy MLRS and big-  500 kg warhead - missiles .

The Hydro-Electric power plant at Nova Kakhovka was bombed by the Ukr. The local authorities say one of the turbines has been shut down

During the summer, the AFU has been regularly striking strategic infrastructure in the Kherson region. One of them is the bridge near the Kakhovskaya HPP: its dam is the most important thoroughfare providing a link between the right and left banks of the Dnieper.

For this reason, Ukrainian formations are seeking to hit the facility in order to complicate the supply of the Russian grouping in the Kherson and Nikolaev regions. The bridge has repeatedly been hit by US HIMARS missiles.

However, the structure has not been completely disabled and vehicular traffic continues to move across it. Instead the shells have damaged the plant itself, forcing the staff to shut down one of the four turbines that are still running

A reduction in the plant's generation could potentially lead to power outages in the liberated territories, which, with the approaching cold weather, could lead to a humanitarian catastrophe. This is one of the aims of the Kiev authorities

At least 8 ballistic missiles (Iskanders?) were launched over night from the Kherson region towards targets in Nikolaev region

🇷🇺shelling of Nevelskoe which is west of Pesky and probably the next locality that will be attacked (see map in earlier post about Pesky)....it's one of the positions from where Donetsk is shelled

Don't know how accurate the info on the locations is, just passing what local sources are saying...(Artemovsk = Bakhmut)

It is reported that there is a fierce battle in the Zabakhmutka area .

The artillery does not stop firing for a minute !!!There is close quarter street fighting., The locals report movement of equipment on the streets of Artemovsk.!!!

🇷🇺Air Defences firing at Antonovka - Kherson region....I suppose that's where the Antonovsky bridge is....looks like interceptions

The DPR 1st "Slavyansk" Bgd has received T-72B3 tanks which increase it's combat power. Previously they only had older model captured Ukr or Soviet era Rus tanks

This seems to be a trend lately with the L/DPR receiving more equipment and kit in use by Regular Rus Army units

Fo those who might not know.....Ataman = Cossack Chief or Leader

🇺🇦 General Valery Zaluzhny. The first ataman of Ukraine.

Polish newspaper headline

In the European media, there is less and less Zelensky and more and more Zaluzhny...

🇮🇱 An armed man opened fire on a bus full of people in Jerusalem.
6 people were injured, the attacker is being searched.

Day and night, the crews of broadcasting stations perform an important task — they remind the Ukr that their family is waiting for them at home, and at the front - only death.

It's a bit of a surreal sight to see on the frontline

⚠️🏳️‍🌈 Amnesty International is backing down!

The organisation said its report, which alleged violations of humanitarian and military law by Ukrainian troops, would be verified by "independent experts"

Amnesty said the results of the report "were not conveyed with the sensitivity and accuracy" it was expected to have.

It wants to be "directly involved in the processing" and "to understand exactly what went wrong and why, so that lessons can be learned from it".

About the report

▪️ Amnesty International published a report on 4 August saying that the Ukrainian military was placing weapons in schools and hospitals, putting civilians at risk.

▪️ The head of Amnesty's Ukrainian bureau resigned because she "disagreed on values" with the leadership.

▪️ Zelensky, his office and a number of European politicians, particularly those in the Baltics, have strongly condemned the report.

▪️ On 7 August, Amnesty said it regretted the pain and anger the report had caused, but stressed it was not retracting the findings.

About Amnesty International

▪️ Calls its mission "to research and take action to prevent and eradicate gross human rights violations".

▪️ Receives funding from a number of governments and international bodies, including the US State Department, the British authorities and the European Commission.
▪️ According to media reports, it receives substantial funds from US billionaire George Soros through his Open Societ

🇺🇦 According to the information we have, the Ukrainian command urgently deployed about 100 militants of the “right sector” to the area of ​​​​the settlement of Yasnobrodovka.

This is due to the fact that units of the 56th motorized infantry brigade are deserting en masse from positions in the Avdeevka area, as well as the villages of Peski & Pervomayskoye. Over the past 2 days, the remnants of 3 companies of this brigade have fled from their positions

The “Right Sectors” are entrusted with the task of catching and detaining deserters, together with the military law enforcement service

A bunch of 🇺🇦Tanks destroyed during a air or missile strike on a facility

DPR media unit speaking to a artillery crew from 1st Slavyansk Bgd in Avdeevka sector

Presumably Wagner (going by the logo) near Seversk

RuAF fighters over Kherson region

Igor Strelkov denied information about his detention in Crimea while trying to go to the front

Earlier it was reported that Igor Strelkov, who in the past was the commander of the armed forces of the DPR and led the militia in Slavyansk, tried to get into the combat zone on the territory of Ukraine.

"I haven't been to the bullpen and I don't plan to," Girkin wrote. He added that sooner or later he will be at the front, "but not right now."......hmm, why did he shave his moustache and eyebrows(?)

🇺🇦 🏴‍☠️ Summary of the briefing of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine:

▪️ in the Kharkiv direction, reconnaissance by combat in the Pitomnik area from the Russian Armed Forces

▪️ In the Slavic direction, the Russian army continues its assault operations in the Valley area
▪️ in the Kramatorsk direction, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation attempted an assault not far from the Disputed One, moved away

Fighting continues in the area of Ivano-Dariivka.
The Allied forces are advancing in the Zaitseve area, airstrikes on the AFU positions near Soledar and Veselaya Valley.

▪️ Allied troops are conducting assault operations in the directions of Krasnogorovka. Fighting continues in the Pervomaisk area.

▪️ Artillery and tank attacks along the collision line do not stop in the Novopavlovsky and Zaporizhia directions. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are on the offensive in the area of Pavlovka, fighting continues.

🇺🇦 Cemetery of identified and unidentified Armed Forces of Ukraine soldiers in Krasnopolye (Dnipropetrovsk region).

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The Russian VDV is a nightmare for the enemy infantry in the Kherson direction. The wounded were lucky to jump to the bus and rush off into the forest plantation. The rest remained under the bridge.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡The offensive of the 100th brigade of the DPR army on the village of Nevelskoye.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Fights near Yakovlevka

Soldiers of the Lugansk People's Republic firing from an automatic grenade launcher. Their task is to take fire control of all roads in order to cut off the supply lines of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

🇷🇺🇮🇷 The well-known Middle East analyst Elijah Magier (specializes in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Palestine), who is well informed about the activities of the Shiite Axis of Resistance (a conglomerate of pro-Iranian groups in the above countries),

citing his sources in Tehran, reports that Russia has already concluded agreements with Iran on the supply to Russia of 1,000 reconnaissance and strike drones of the Shahed 129 type (also previously reported about Shahed 191),

capable of staying in the air for more than a day and capable of acting both as strike platforms and as effective spotters for artillery and missile systems ).

According to Magier, Iran has already transferred to Russia a special simulator for training operators of these types of drones, as well as several machines. He also states that the first of them are already taking part in hostilities in Ukraine.

The Iranians consider the fact of such a deal as recognition of the progress of their defense industry, which, despite the most severe technological sanctions, was able to achieve significant success in the development and production of drones, ballistic missiles and air defense

Iran also regards such agreements as the actual implementation of the lifting of UN weapons sanctions (cancelled in the fall of 2021 despite US protests), which allows Iran to freely and legally sell and buy modern weapons.

Officially, Russia and Iran did not confirm the sale of drones in any way, nor did American statements that Russia would supply modern Su-35 fighter jets to Iran, which had not previously been delivered to Egypt.

In aviation (unlike drones), Iran lags far behind the world leaders, so the supply of modern aircraft from Russia is seen as an excellent opportunity to seriously strengthen the capabilities of Iranian air defense by supplementing modern air defense systems of its own production.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation confirmed the capture of the village of Udy in the north of the Kharkov region. The fighting on the outskirts of this village went on for several weeks.

In the last week, success was achieved there, which led to the fact that the Armed Forces of Ukraine fled from the village.

This is the most significant advance since the recent liberation of Borshcheva to the northeast of the outskirts of Kharkov.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The crews of the self-propelled guns "MSTA-S" inflict crushing blows on the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

🇺🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡ A US congressional delegation will visit Taiwan on Sunday, according to the US Embassy.

🇺🇲⚡The US Congress believes that Biden will not take part in the next presidential election in 2024 - The New York Times

This was stated in an interview with an American newspaper by the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, Carolyn Maloney.

🇺🇲🇹🇼🇨🇳⚡US delegation arrived in Taiwan

The visit is led by US Senator Ed Markey. During the visit, he and his delegation plan to meet with politicians and leaders of the island and discuss security issues in the region.

☢️ The Armed Forces of Ukraine once again shelled Enerhodar, where the largest Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in Europe is located.

Judging by the debris found at the site, Ukrainian formations used kamikaze drones. Previously, they have already used devices of this type to strike at a nuclear power plant.

During the raid, the dog died: its owner managed to escape from the fragments, but the dog was less fortunate.

Targeted shelling of the city takes place as part of Kyiv's policy of creating panic in the liberated territories and disrupting integration processes with Russia.

Good news from the Soledar direction: Wagner PMC units have established control over the village of Vershina south of Bakhmut (Artemovsk). The fighting in this area continued for several weeks and ended with the capture of the village.

After taking the village, the advancing detachments reached the eastern outskirts of Zaitsevo, where there is a large fortified area of ​​the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the southern approaches to Bakhmut.

Access to the city from the south will allow you to attack simultaneously in several directions, which will greatly facilitate the assault on the city.

The collective West has sharply reduced the supply of weapons for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The corresponding data is provided by the columnist of the Ukrainian Forbes, Vladimir Datsenko.

According to his information:

▪️Artillery supplies fell the most: from 90 M777 units in April to zero in July.

The supply of equipment has significantly decreased — from 200+ units per month to zero in June and July.

Supplies of helicopters and long-range missile systems have decreased.

Since mid-June, the US and EU militaries have been complaining about a drop in their own defense capability due to assistance to Kiev.

Perhaps the answer to the reasons for the decline in supplies is simple — the arsenals are emptying.

Donetsk (Magistralny),AFU Shelled a residential building

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡As part of the already well-known scheme in Mariupol and Severodonetsk, the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Artemovsk hide their armored vehicles among residential buildings, using residents and residential buildings as human shields.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 A new Russian medium-range anti-aircraft missile system of the new generation S-350 Vityaz seen in the NVO zone.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡The allied troops continue to advance in the direction of Artyomovsk: the Vershina settlement is under our full control, in Zaitsevo there is a cleanup. For several weeks there were fierce battles, as a result, the AFU militants suffered heavy losses and retreated.

The control of this settlement allowed the allied forces to reach Zaitsevo and in the future will make it possible to storm the fortifications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the southern outskirts of Artyomovsk.

Information about the progress in Zaitsevo is confirmed by the American Institute for the Study of War. The Armed Forces of Ukraine hastily retreat to Artyomovsk and, what is remarkable, some of them retreat immediately to Konstantinovka.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The first residents of Tokmak in the Zaporozhye region received Russian passports - media

🇨🇳🇺🇲🇹🇼⚡The Chinese People's Liberation Army Command in the Eastern Theater of Operations is likely to conduct a series of major military operations in the waters and airspace around the island of Taiwan in response to today's visit by a US congressional delegation.

🤡 what will 5M people be equipped with? Shovels?

🇺🇲🇺🇦 A column of almost 20 American-made International MaxxPro armored vehicles transferred to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

🤡 Let's not forget that few months ago Zelensky claimed there are 700k Soldiers defending Ukraine

❗So what's gonna happen in coming months?
Here is a list of possible scenarios in economic and military fields:
_let's start with economy in Russia

the first forecasts after the beginning of the SMO predicted a 12% GDP drop this year, latest estimates predict only a - 4%, so three times better than what the Western enemies hoped, why this happened

On one side the dramatic rise in energy prices which led to a record budget surplus and on the other side imports substitution has been less difficult than expected thanks to support from China, India, South America, Asia, Africa;

many western products have been smoothly replaced. So the trend is that in coming months the economy in Russia will further improve due to a mostly successful decouple from West.

Plus the Ruble still is the best performing currency in 2022
_ what about the EU economy? International agencies predicted a +3% growth this year, months passed and the latest estimates are that the bloc will only grow by 1,5% at most

In coming months due to the huge debacle in the quest to replace Russian energy the EU will be forced to dramatically reduce consumption, this means many industries will be shut down and millions of people will be left without heating,

of course this means the latest 1,5% estimate is just a mirage, economic depression is basically granted, situation particularly critical in Germany.

Prices of energy in the EU continue to grow exponentially reaching new historic highs day after day, this means that even if energy will flow, at least partially, large majority of European won't be able to afford it,

so both families and industries will go bankrupt, the European middle class might disappear completely. _ situation in the US won't be as bad as in the EU but the economic depression in the old continent will lead to a big recession there too

_ in the military field the war in Ukraine has been already won by Russia which is currently deciding the pace of the last stage of the special military operation, the most skilled and experienced Ukrainian soldiers have been killed or captured,conscripts are not as good as them

it's just sad a country is forced by foreign powers to fight till the last man with no hopes of achieving anything. The battle of Donbass will be over within few weeks, once Ukrainian heavily fortified areas are taken the Russian Army will roll in without difficulties,

so the Avdeevka, Pesky, Artemovsk, Soledar battles are the last ones before flooding very fast into the territory of the former Ukrainian state.

After or in parallel with the last phase of the battle of Donbass the Russian Army plans to liberate Nikolaev, all of Zaporozhye region and Kharkov, this might be accomplished within November.

Latest advances in Kharkov region and the deployment of VDV troops in Kherson show that the battle of Donbass and the operations in the south might be conducted by Russia simultaneously.

Regarding Western military support, it didn't make the difference, it only prolonged the Ukrainian suffering of one month at most without changing the situation on the ground, Russia had the upper hand before the deployment of Himars systems and still has the upper hand today,

the latest successes/advances in Pesky, Artemovsk and Udy (Kharkov outskirts) clearly confirm this.
It's clear that while Western media say Russia is losing the reality is that Russia is winning on all fronts.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Breaking news from the front. The soldiers of the Mining Division of the DPR army, with the support of units of the RF Armed Forces, broke through the defenses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and seriously advanced in the Ugledar direction.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered heavy losses in equipment and manpower. There have been no significant advances on this sector of the front in recent months until today.

Situation in the far north area of Kharkov region where a Russian push is reported which I mentioned yesterday

In the area South of Bakhmut-Artemovsk, Vershina has been secured by the Rus/DPR side. This place was claimed by both sides in the past 2 weeks, meaning it was contested ground . Rus sources say that the DPR has also entered Zaitsevo where a clearing operation is under way...

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Soldiers of the special forces "Akhmat" under the leadership of the acting commander Akhmed "Combat" Saidarkhanov took up another strategically important position near Seversk (DPR).

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The fighters say that these are the usual forest sounds this summer.

Adding to Rybar’s analysis on Serbia and NATO weapon supplies, it is important to point out how the west benefits from the fact that Russian arms industry is now “busy” if you will, which the US sees as an excellent opportunity to swoop in with offers of contracts to countries

that previously showed interest in Russian weapons. Serbia being an excellent example of this. Washington benefits enormously from the special military operation in Ukraine

They get to propagate their weapons systems in Ukraine in real combat situations. This is a huge asset to any arms manufacturer and it’s great for business.

The US has already made billions against the backdrop of the propaganda campaign for the HIMARS system. Baltic countries and likely others yet unmentioned publicly have placed orders worth billions of dollars.

The US also gets to test radars and various other systems directly against their foe, being Russia— in real combat situations. The US studies every move happening in Ukraine and this will reflect the readiness of American forces in the future

At the same time, Russia is playing it smart and does not use some of its best systems due to this particular reason, element of surprise in case of conflict with NATO. Russia will not reveal its most valuable systems because they are very well aware of this.

Let’s not forget that the “military aid” to Ukraine is not aid by any means— this is a land-lease contract. Every single bullet, shell and weapon the Ukrainians fire, they’re all adding up on a bill that will eventually be due.

Some of the worlds biggest economies have only finished their final payments on WW2 land-lease debt to the US in 2020. It is an excellent money-maker for decades to come.

The name of the 🇺🇦Su-25 that was shot down at Kramatorsk I think on Saturday has been published.....Anton Listopad from Ivano Frankovsk

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 PART-1: On the AFU strike on the HQ of the Wagner PMCs in Popasnaya

Around noon on August 14, Ukrainian channels and chat rooms began to massively disperse the news about the defeat of the Wagner PMCS headquarters in Popasnaya as a result of the HIMARS MLRS strike.

The strike was carried out on the night of August 13-14 on the HQ of the PMCs, located on the first and basement floors Mironovskaya Street 12 on the SW outskirts of Popasnaya. 7 rockets were fired. Of these, only one strike the target — but it was enough for a productive hit.

PART-2: The analysis of the rubble continues: the basement was reinforced in advance in case of such incidents, there was an equipped bomb shelter. There are losses. But there could've be many times more.

Alas, the Ukr found out about the location of the HQ simply: the military corespondent of the Federal News Agency, Sergei S, on Aug 8, a photo of himself right in front of the entrance with a sign with the house number.

To assume that the enemy does not know OSINT, and to think that it is impossible to determine the location from the photo, is naive.

The trigger for the strike was the news from August 12 that the owner of the Wagner PMCs, Yevgeny Prigozhin, arrived in Donbass. This is already, at least, the third attempt known to us from the start to cover the command post of the PMCs, where Prigozhin could be.

The appearance of a video from the spot, shot by a pro-Ukr eyewitness, indicates that the strike was planned, and spies on the ground were waiting for a sufficient number of people to gather at the checkpoint.

In the balance, we get a sad result, due to human stupidity and elementary non-compliance with security requirements in the combat zone.

Shelling of Ukr positions in Vodiane — NE of Pesky

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian Military Operation in Ukraine.
#WeeklyHighlights, August 8-14 2022

Our team continues to report on the progress of the Russian military operation in Ukraine in a single bulletin with the most significant events of the week.

So, what has happened in the military operation zone over the past seven days?

▪️ The DPR People’s Militia units has established almost full control over the locality of Pisky. It was one of the strongest Ukrainian strongpoints on the outskirts of Donetsk since 2014.

▪️ On the approaches to Siversk, the Russian Armed Forces are advancing towards Verkhn'okam'yans'ke and have reached the eastern outskirts of the locality. A powerful AFU strongpoint is on their way and its capture will open the way to an advance on the village.

▪️ In Soledar, the LPR People’s Militia 6th Cossack Regiment soldiers have taken control of the KNAUF-Gips factory territory and gained a foothold in the eastern part of the city. Allied Forces are attempting to advance deep into the town.

▪️ Wagner’s PMC units have dislodged Ukrainian units from the village of Vershyny south of Bakhmut (Artemivsk) and reached Zaitseve, where a major AFU strongpoint is located.

▪️ For several days, Ukrainian artillery has been shelling Europe's largest Zaporizhzhia NPP, including a spent nuclear fuel storage facility.

The Russian cruiser Varyag had blocked the Strait of Otranto, blocking the passage of a group of NATO ships, including the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman, from the Mediterranean Sea (via the Ionian) to the Adriatic.

The 🇷🇺allied forces broke through the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and seriously advanced in the Ugledar direction.

The APU suffered heavy losses in equipment and manpower. There have been no significant advances in this sector of the front in recent months until today
//First Deputy Minister of Information of the DPR Daniil Bessonov/

🇷🇺DPR Artillery at Avdeevka

🇺🇦video on the tankers of the 10th Assault-Mountain Bgd

🇷🇺🇺🇦The Great Kherson counteroffensive, widely announced by Ukraine, is canceled

Deputy of the regional Council Sergey Khlan writes that the next two weeks will be decisive for the region. But not because Kiev will advance, but because the AFU will be forced to defend itself.

‼️ 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 "The US warehouses are empty. The Russian defense industry works 24/7, and they know how to produce equipment" — General of the SSO (Spec Forces) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The deputy commander & creator of the SSO of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Krivonos, on the air on the YouTube channel "Politeka", spoke about the deplorable prospects of Ukr on the example of a decrease in arms supplies from the West & the growing production rates in Rus

“They are not only deconserving equipment, but they have just launched production, their Russian defense industry is in 24/7 mode, and they know how to produce equipment. They have production, and they did not sell it, as we use to".

"Let's stop believing in fairy tales & think that somewhere the Americans have something hidden in their vaults. What the Americans had was designed to fulfill the tasks for their armed forces and what they give is not so much," Krivonos commented on the supply of Western weapons

⚡️🇺🇦💣 Travel Warning: Sea mines endanger bathing fun on #Odessa beaches⚡️

Two people were killed and two injured in Zatoka, Odessa region, when another sea mine planted by Ukrainian militants in the Black Sea exploded.

Video of a 🇺🇦HImars

PR video for the 🇷🇺 "Lancet" kamikaze drone

Sprut-SD Tank Destroyer with add-on armour at the Army-2022 exhibition

A few more novelties from "ARMY-2022"

The mobile reconnaissance point PRP-5 (1B1017) on a BMP-3 chassis

The Ural Automobile Plant presented a conceptual successor to the amphibious GAZ-66B, for service with the Airborne Forces.

Tiger general purpose vehicle with new module with quad machine guns guided by AESA radar intended for shooting down light drones

The Ukrainian army is actively restoring the Martynovka military airfield in the Nikolaev region.

The latest satellite images show that the AFU in the past period conducted active repair work at the Martynovka airbase near the city of Voznesensk, Nikolaev region.

This airfield was not chosen by chance, because it has powerful protective hangars from the USSR era which would be difficult to destroy with a conventional cruise missile.

Panic reigns in Ukrainian groups about the imminent final assault on Bakhmut, that, as the defenders and the remaining civilians fear, may start tonight.

Most likely it won’t, but the night is going to be tough on whoever still willing to fight back there, as a massive artillery barrage will probably happen before the Allied infantry moves forward. Thermobaric missile launchers TOS-1A (Solntsepek, “Sunburn”) seen in the vecinity

Wasn't he saying the Russians were shelling the power plant themselves?

Representatives of the Republican Party in the House of Representatives of the US Congress fear the recruitment of former Afghan security forces by the special services of China and Russia.

🇷🇺Iskander-M

Ukrainian 2S7 Pion suffered a catastrophic ammunition detonation within the barrel of the gun, either due to a bent barrel or a squib load. Either way, that shit brokey

As if to confirm our information about the Martynovka airbase, the Ukrainian Air Force recently published a propaganda video with the participation of Ukrainian aviation.

Based on the general features of the video sequence, it can be said with confidence that the shooting takes place at the Martynivka airbase in the Mykolaiv region, which the Ukrainian army is actively restoring.

The fact that this is an airfield near Voznesensk can be understood from the characteristic protective hangar for aviation, the general view of the airfield and the launch of missiles over the Black Sea (the Odessa telegram channels constantly report about these exercises

The video features the MiG-29, Su-25 and Su-27 of the Ukrainian Air Force, which are based at the same airfield in protective hangars

T-72B3 of the DPR 11th Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 1st Corps during the battle for Peski

The Ukr have knocked down a TV antenna across the border in Belgorod region reportedly with a kamikaze drone

A number of the US Marine Corps members are “on the Russian side”, said a journalist and blogger John Mark Doogan, a former US Marine himself, who lives in Donetsk, to RIA Novosti news agency, citing his conversations with ex-colleagues. #context

From Rezident_ua

Western intelligence and media signal to the President's Office that the Russians are preparing new units (t.me/rezident_ua/13… ) for the control and coordination of heavy attacks UAVs.

Our source informs that they will be used in the autumn-winter campaign in the fields and meadows of Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye, Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, Odessa regions.

Perhaps the first cases of the use of shock UAVs in conjunction with aviation, we will see at the end of August-September, but in late autumn the Russians want to massively use them in the offensive.

The source adds that if they succeed, then the Ukrainian defense and rear will face a difficult time.
It is possible to solve the problem only by strengthening the air defense tenfold, but only for this in one direction in Kherson, billions of dollars are needed.

Ukraine will be forced to ask Moscow for a truce or capitulate due to financial problems.

Journalists of the Japanese publication Shūkan Gendai calculated the financial losses of Ukraine, which, according to their conclusions, are not covered even by the help of the collective West, and came to the conclusion that Kiev will soon be forced to ask Moscow for peace.

According to analysts, due to the war, Ukr military expenditures, which amounted to $250 million in February, increased to $3.3 billion by May. And they continue to grow, which is why the government of Ukraine has cut all other items,but it has nowhere to take money.

"President Zelensky does not hide his bellicose attitude, but soon they will not be able to cover the country's expenses for a military conflict with Russia. And then Ukraine is forced to ask for a truce with Moscow or capitulate.

In the event of a capitulation, all of Ukraine's financial problems, especially payments for 12 million pensioners, will fall on the shoulders of Moscow, " the analysts concluded.

New armoured version of the standard Russian Army truck Ural-4320 #Army2022

"Linza" combat ambulance of the 2nd series #Army2022

🇷🇺Airstrike on a temporary deployment point of foreign mercenaries in the area of Zolochev in the Kharkov region

🇷🇺Ka-52 damaged in Donetsk area....Ukr channels are saying it crashed, Rus channels say it flew back to base....if it crashed, it's not on the video

🇺🇦Humvee taken out

Episode from 🇺🇦Ukr side of the frontline

Shelling of 🇺🇦checkpoint in Sumy region

Launch and recovery of Orlan-5 & 10 UAV from the 🇷🇺frigate "Admiral Essen"

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ 61st brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Maryinka - 60% of the personnel were killed and wounded, the rest were demoralized. The commander of one of the "Mongol" battalions was killed.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Artillery of the allied forces strikes at the armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Bakhmutskoe

🇺🇲 Express: The world order is changing rapidly. Can the US maintain its dominance?

This publication says: The United States is rapidly losing power over the world.

The United States still has the world's largest economy and military, but experts believe that as other countries gain strength and prestige, winds of change are blowing in world politics.

There is no doubt that China will become the next superpower and will likely shake the planet with a new bipolarity not seen since the Cold War.

At the same time, the US is losing its influence. This is also evidenced by the fact that Washington failed to solve the problem of Ukraine with Moscow through diplomacy.

In the Middle East, the United States is also losing control, leaving a vacuum for competitors to fill.
In difficult times, prestige is key to staying strong, but White House chief Joe Biden lacks the credibility and reputation of his predecessors to get through the tough times.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The work of the 100th brigade of the People's Militia of the DPR in the village of Peski, which the allied forces took under full control the day before.

🏳️🇷🇺 The Taliban have expressed great interest in buying more than 1,000,000 barrels of oil from Russia for the needs of the economy of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. The Taliban are also interested in the acquisition of Russian gas and other aspects of energy cooperation.

🇺🇲🇦🇫⚡The United States fears the recruitment of Afghan military by Russia and China

A report by Republicans from the House of Representatives notes that former Afghan law enforcement officers are well aware of US operations, Reuters reported.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Kiev's statements about counter-offensives on Kherson are as empty as the promises voiced over the past eight years to allegedly liberate Donbass and Crimea - Deputy Head of the Kherson Regional State Administration Kirill Stremousov

🇺🇲⚡U.S. senators request access to documents seized at Trump's estate - Politico
🇨🇳🇺🇲⚡US congressmen's visit to Taiwan violates China's sovereignty and territorial integrity - Chinese Defense Ministry

🇺🇦🥶 Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko warned residents of the capital about problems with heating in winter and urged to prepare warm clothes and blankets

According to Klitschko, in Kiev in the winter "there may be power outages."

Current situation in the Peski area

The battle for Peski has proven to be insane for both sides. The lack of civilians in the locality allowed 🇺🇦Army to concentrate big number of troops supported with artillery to slow any advance of pro-Rus forces.

However, this lack of civilians has also been an advantage to the attacker, which have not hesitated to use a large number of artillery munitions to destroy the 🇺🇦 defenses built over eight years in the locality

Upcoming battles in Vodyane & Pervomaisk towns, also depopulated, seem to follow the same patterns, especially the second locality, where it's expected 🇷🇺 Army & DPR will advance through urban area under the cover of buildings and artillery.

The battle will also be insane, as 🇺🇦 Army will put up greater resistance to avoid a collapse of its defenses, because an advance in Pervomaisk would seriously compromise the 🇺🇦 Army troops established to the Sth, which could lead to the collapse of this line

As mentioned yesterday, the Rus/DPR made some progress in the Ugledar sector, where the Ukr were on the offensive last month. The new line of contact is the broken white line and zone of combat ops is on the 2nd map

The new line of contact in the North of Kharkov region around the town of Udi

The Ukr moved a Btn of their Foreign Legion to the Udi area to stop the Rus push. Their new temporary base was bombed at Zolochev yesterday (see video in link). Acc to Rus reports, over 100 were killed....they were reportedly mostly Poles and some Germans

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡During the special operation, Anton Listopad, who was called "one of the best pilots" in Ukraine, was eliminated.

Local media write about his death with reference to the authorities of the Ivano-Frankivsk region. The death of the pilot was also confirmed at the Ivano-Frankivsk Physical-Technical Lyceum, where he previously studied.

The circumstances of Listopad's death have not yet been specified.

Shortly before the death of Listopad, Vladimir Zelensky awarded him the Order of Courage, III degree.

🇺🇦⚡Zelensky fired the heads of SBU departments in Kyiv, Lvov and Ternopil regions.

🇨🇳🇺🇲🇹🇼⚡China announced the start of military exercises and patrols around Taiwan "in response to collusion between Taipei and Washington"

1000??...sounds like very exagerated number, unless it's over an extended time frame and includes various models

FromSladkov+
WEST WANTS TO ORGANIZE MINSK TALKS?
Only not about Ukraine and the Donbass, but their own with Moscow. And, apparently, the Belarusian capital can become one of the options for this project.
Winter is coming soon.

It is necessary to organise energy supplies. Gas mirimor. Where to get it? Of course, conditionally, in Belarus.
Alexander Lukashenko may again become a mediator in forced conflicts for the West (a la Minsk-1) negotiations.

But these "civilized people" have already deceived us so many times (too lazy to list them) that we should NOT negotiate. Vladimir Putin outlined all our conditions last year, read Russia's appeal to the United States and NATO.

A Ukr MiG-29 Pilot, Colonel Pogorel has been confirmed killed

🇷🇺Ka-52 & Mi-28 helicopters performing a "carousel" attack in the area south of Artemovsk-Bakhmut

Approximately 50 000 people took part in a protest in Belgrade Serbia against the holding of a week long LGBT event (part of a Europe wide event)

Mini missile for Pantsir-S1M of which reportedly up to 48 can be fired from a single launch vehicle. #ARMY2022

X-69 (Kh-69) air launched missile with 290km range....it has apparently been tested in Ukraine already #ARMY2022

Yugoslav M-80A IFV (suplied by Slovenia) at Ukr training ground

🇺🇦L-39 transported somewhere in Ukr...could be planned for refurbishment for use as a trainer for new pilots or as a light attack aircraft

Damaged 🇷🇺SP Guns at a field repair-maintenance point

Prigozhin (the head of Wagner) on the question of military correspondent Poddubny, whether the photos he posted of the Wagner base in Popasnaya influenced the subsequent attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on it:

"Absolutely not. He does his job well. Don't underestimate your opponent.
If the AFU attacked every arrival of military correspondents, they would not have enough missiles.
Therefore, there are no complaints about Sergey"

France supplies banned mines to Ukraine.

The Ukrainian military mined the approaches to their positions in the area of the locality. Opytne (north-west of Donetsk) with fifty French HPD mod. F2 mines.

This is a very dangerous anti-tank mine with a magnetic target sensor. It is designed to destroy armored vehicles with a cumulative jet when the vehicle passes over a mine. It is installed in the ground and in water to a depth of 1.5 m.

This mine is dangerous because it works on the movement of any metal objects near it. It also explodes when an electromagnetic metal detector approaches it

The HPD mod.F2 mine is an anti-mine detector and its use violates Protocol II of 1996 on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby Traps and Other Devices, which is part of the Geneva Convention of 10 October 1980

Longer video of the damaged Ka-52 showing moment of impact of the Manpad

A 🇺🇦Ammo dump was bombed at Ugledar

🇷🇺Airstrikes at Krasnogorovka (near Marinka)

The Tor-M2 SAM systems of the Western Military District cover allied forces in the Kharkov and Slavyansk directions against air attacks. Since the beginning of air defense, the systems have shot down a huge number of aerial targets from aircraft to drones & rocket-propelled grena

"Tor-M2" has more than once saved Russian Armed Forces ground units from massive missile attacks on headquarters, warehouses and personnel accommodation sites. The system characteristics allow it to detect and track four dozen targets at a distance of more than 30 kilometres

"Tor-M2" also proved its worth in other areas: in particular, during the attempts of the Ukrainian armed forces to seize the island of Snake Island, the machines mounted on board the ships of the Black Sea Fleet destroyed dozens of targets

Units of the allied forces took control of the village of Aleksandrovka in the Kherson region, which opens the road to Nikolaev.

❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Highlights of Russian Military Operation in Ukraine on August 13-15, 2022

▪️Russian Armed Forces hit AFU stronghold near the village of Yunakivka in Sumy Region.

▪️Russian units liberated the villages of Udy and Odnorobivka in the northern Kharkiv Region.

▪️In the evening of August 13th, near Slovyansk, Russian Aerospace Forces' fighter aircraft shot down AFU's Su-25 assault aircraft flying from the direction of Druzhkivka.

▪️On August 14th, Wagner's PMC units liberated the village of Vershyna and reached the outskirts of a major AFU strongpoint in Zaitseve, on the southern approaches to Bakhmut

▪️On the night of August 13-14th, HIMARS MLRS located in Bakhmut struck Wagner's PMC's base during the command meeting in the southwest of Popasna. Russian PMC's command, including oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, survived.

▪️DPR People’s Militia units liberated Pisky, AFU's powerful stronghold. The enemy still controls the positions near a road junction.

▪️Allied Forces continue their advancement in the direction of Mar'inka and Netailove. Russian artillery hit AFU's stronghold in Nevel's'ke. Russian Aerospace Forces bombed targets in Krasnohorivka.

▪️Ukrainian artillery shells and remotely mines the cities of the Donetsk agglomeration on a daily basis. Several civilians were killed.
▪️Near Pavlivka, a Russian Ka-52 helicopter supporting the advancement of RAF & DPR made an emergency landing. The crew is safe and evacuated

▪️Ukrainian formations shelled Energodar and the territory of the Zaporizhzhya NPP, including the area around Unit 6. British-supplied Brimstone missiles were used alongside the other means.

🇷🇺 An explosion occurred at an ammunition depot in Crimea

In the area of the village of Mayskoye (Dzhankoy district, Crimea), a fire broke out on the territory of a temporary ammunition storage facility, as a result of which detonation began, the Ministry of Defense reports.

The place of the incident was visited by the head of the Crimea Sergey Aksenov. According to him, as a result of the detonating ammunition, the railway was damaged.

Two people were reportedly injured in the incident. Local authorities are evacuating the population.

⚡️BREAKING NEWS⚡️

Collective West PURPOSEFULLY destroying European security system, failing to strengthen security in Europe by continuing to push NATO to the East - Putin at Moscow Conference on International Security.

🇷🇺missile strike on Ukrainian brigade HQ in Kherson-Nikolaev front - 20 killed and up to 30 wounded acc to Russian Defense Ministry.

🇷🇺Artillery strikes on Ukr artillery gun and vehicle.....looks like guided rounds

FSB arrest of a "Right Sector" member who was planning an attack on the city admin building in Stavropol - South Russia

Ukro-ISIS now making VBIEDs apparently

The Rus MOD has officially called the explosion in Crimea a diversion (sabotage attack)

Situation at Marinka

The road between Marinka and Ugledar is reported cut just south of Marinka and there's is fighting at Novomikhailovka

It's believed a full assault on Artemovsk won't begin until Soledar and especially the area of the Salt Mines are secured as well as the the town of Opitnoe to the south of Artemovsk is captured. This would allow an assault from several directions as was done previously at Severo

The current direct assault from the east is likely a attempt to pin the Ukr in place & limit their maneuver capability

There is fighting for Yakovlevka (near Soledar) with the Russians reaching the outskirts

PESKI

Clashes taking place at the Seed factory close to M-04 highway. There is video confirmation of withdrawal of Ukr troops to Vodyane

Far North Kharkov region

Apart from Udi, Odnorobovka is confirmed under Rus control...situation is approximately as on the 2nd map

As the Ukr Kherson offensive has either been canceled or postponed, some analysts believe the Ukr might make another attempt to attack towards Izum and further north towards Balakleya.

BTW, at Balakleya there is a very large ammo depot with lots of artillery shells wwhich would solve a lot of the Ukr ammo supply problems if captured intact.

In recent days, additional units have been observed there. There is currently a sizeable force consisting of 3 x Tank Bgds + 1 x Mech Bgd + 1 x Artillery Bgd as well as Special Forces unit in the area

🇷🇺Shelling of command posts of 🇺🇦61st Bgd in Zaporozhye regions and 63rd Bgd in Nikolaev region

🇺🇦AFU Command - "North" reports about an airstrike on the Ozernoye airbase in Zhitomir region (North-Central Ukr)

According to the AFU command, the attack on the airfield was carried by two X-59 missiles from a Su-34 that flew from Belarus. "The runway and automotive equipment are damaged."

Until March 6, 2022, the 39th Tactical Aviation Brigade of the Ukrainian Air Force was based there

Another map of Peski from Rybar with marked locations from various videos

Chinese-made guns Type 56-1(a copy of AKMS)in the hands of Ukrainian servicemen undergoing training in the UK. Earlier, deliveries to Ukr of similar guns intercepted by the US Navy from Iranian naval convoys were already recorded. It is possible that it came to UK in a similarly

DPR fighters with newly delivered LDP-801anti-drone rifle

Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Zaluzhny

Russians continue to advance along the entire front line - using from 40.000 to 60.000 shells per day.

Not true. We ran out of shells in march according to reliable western sources like NEXTA

Ukr have bombed Pervomaisk in the LPR with Himars

🇺🇦⚡The only thing Zelensky did before the start of the SMO was to buy a house in Israel for his parents and take his family out - Ilya Kiva

This was stated by ex-deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Ilya Kiva, commenting on an interview with the main Kyiv clown to the American edition of The Washington Post

In an interview, Zelensky said that he knew in advance that a special operation of the Russian Federation would begin.

“He knew, but did absolutely nothing. All this might not have happened, but the clown had other plans!” Kiva said.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 In the Ugledar direction, the combined Russian forces continue to successfully advance. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are suffering enormous losses in manpower.

🇹🇷🇸🇾⚡Residents of the Turkish regions bordering Syria were announced on the loudspeaker about the start of a "military operation" against Kurdish paramilitaries on the adjacent side. People are urged to stay at home

🇹🇷🇸🇾⚡The residents of the Turkish regions bordering Syria were informed by Mosque loudspeaker about the start of a “military operation” against Kurdish formations

🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡️It is reported this evening that turkish convoys are entering north Syria in Turkish-controlled regions, along with this reports of turkish warplanes and drones are currently flying over the whole border region.

Some Mosques in southern Turkey near the border announce that a "military operation" may commence soon, locals should remain indoors at this time.

🇹🇷 🇸🇾⚡️ Large explosions are reported have taken place in the Mara'anaz and Ain Digna areas of Aleppo.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡The Russian army can congratulate Ukraine on Independence Day with rockets, - representative of the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Ignat

According to the militant, there is certain intelligence data that the Russian troops are building up their forces, including missile weapons on Belarusian territory, and can deliver a massive strike on the facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on August 24.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 There is a certain success in the Ugledar direction.

Russian aircraft delivered strikes against accumulations of enemy equipment and personnel in the Ugledar area.

2 missiles hit Odessa

🇷🇺DPR shelling at Avdeevka

Russian Defense Ministry signs contracts for supply of CUTTING-EDGE S-500 anti-air HYPERSONIC missile systems and latest RS-28 "Sarmat" SUPER-HEAVY intercontinental BALLISTIC MISSILE systems.

Ministry says total of over $800 MILLION of military contracts have been signed and awarded at "ARMY-2022" International Military Forum.

Some news on new orders/contracts signed at ARMY2022

(1)
The General Director of Uralvagonzavod, Alexander Potapov, was awarded state contracts for the supply of T-90M tanks, as well as for the overhaul & upgrade of T-80BV tanks at the Army-2022 forum.

"State contracts are being awarded for the manufacture and supply of T-90M tanks, for major repairs with the modernization of T-80BV tanks," it was announced during the ceremony.

Also, the general director of the joint-stock company "103rd Armored Repair Plant" Vadim Sardanov was awarded a state contract for the overhaul & modernisation of the infantry fighting vehicle BMP-2

🇷🇺LPR Artillery

(2)
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation signed contracts for the supply of upgraded Ka-52M and Mi-28NM attack helicopters at the Army-2022 forum.

The contracts were signed by the Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Alexey Krivoruchko and the first deputy General Director for the production of helicopters of Russian Helicopters Oleg Gulyaev.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation at the Army-2022 forum signed a number of contracts for the supply of Orlan, Pacer and Aileron drones, the ministry reported.

Contract was signed with LLC "Special Technology Center" for the "manufacture and supply of complexes with unmanned aerial vehicles "Orlan-10" and "Orlan-30".

A contract was signed with Kronstadt JSC for the manufacture and supply of a "complex with an unmanned aerial vehicles "Pacer" (Orion).

CJSC ENIX signed a contract for the "manufacture and supply of Eleron-3 UAVs."

Alexander Krasovitsky, General Director of Military Industrial Company LLC, was awarded state contracts for the supply of BTR-82A armored personnel carriers and Tiger vehicles at the Army-2022 forum on Tuesday.

Also, the general director of LLC "Armory Workshops" Alexey Muravyov was awarded a state contract for the supply of a Tiger-M with a remote-controlled combat module "Arbalet".

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The fire of Russian artillery destroyed the command of one of the battalions of the 72nd brigade of the enemy.

It is reported that the battalion commander, Colonel Oleg Dyagterev, and his deputy, Denis Khilchenko, were liquidated in the Maryinka area.

Another video from Marinka

Looks like the "Checkmate" (light 5th gen fighter) will go ahead. I was worried they would cancel it due to the war

UAC is preparing the production of the first 2 prototypes (4 in total are planned) with first flight tentatively planned for 2024

aex.ru/news/2022/8/16…

Nice pic of a Mi-10K helicopter taken on Aug 14...Mi-10K is a flying crane helicopter that can lift 15t of weight...2nd pic is archival

UAC (United Aircraft Corp) has proposed to the MOD a 2-seat version of the Su-57. The co-pilot would be a Weapons and Drone operator....in 2020, design work started on a 2 seat version for a foreign customer

🇷🇺 📻 Mobile radio station broadcast radio for soldiers and officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The mobile radio complex based on the Tiger armored car can be heard within a radius of at least 15 kilometers. On the air of radio "Life" ‐ popular music, current news

Signalmen are sure that radio "Life" is heard and listened to - there behind the front line. And those who lead Ukrainian soldiers to slaughter are also afraid. Jamming it, tracking with drones, trying to destroy it

Upon a detailed study of the electronic circuit boards from the missile found at the site of the impact in Energodar, it turned out that this was a missile based on the first generation of American AGM-114 Hellfire missiles (Fig.1), which were discontinued about 30 years ago.

T-90M at ARMY2022....seems to have thicker frontal armour (or maybe it's an optical illusion?) and added side armour (the boxy type armour just under the turret)

DPR 100th Bgd video from Nevelskoe....NW of Peski

🇷🇺Moto-Rifle Infantry from the "O" group in Seversk area

❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Highlights of Russian Military Operation in Ukr on August 16, 2022. Russian missile troops and artillery struck targets in the Shevchenkivskyi, Kyivskyi and Saltivskyi districts in Kharkiv, as well as in Tsyrkuny, Zolochiv, Velyka Danylivka and the outskirts of Bohodukhiv.

▪️The 20th Army's artillery strikes AFU positions in Mazanivka and the nearest forests.

▪️Russian Armed Forces' 3rd Motorized Rifle Division units liberated Bohorodychne.

▪️ Overnight, Russian missile troops and artillery struck targets in the Slovyansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration and hit AFU positions near the quarry in Slovyansk.

▪️ Near Bakhmut, fighting continues on its outskirts. Wagner's PMC units are approaching the city from the north and south to storm it from several directions.

▪️ DPR People’s Militia units advance in the direction of Pervomais'ke and Vodyane. Artillery and missile strikes are launched against AFU strongholds in Nevel's'ke and Netailove.

▪️ Russian Armed Forces and DPR People’s Militia units continue their offensive in Vuhledar. Massive artillery and air strikes are carried out on the front line.

▪️ Russian artillery struck Nikopol' and Marhanets’, from where AFU shell Energodar and Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.

▪️ Sabotage in Crimea caused explosions at an ammunition depot near Dzhankoi and a military airbase in Gvardeyskoye.

▪️ Russian Armed Forces launched a missile strike against facilities on the outskirts of Zhytomyr, with two loud explosions.

Damage caused on residential buildings in the city of Pervomaisk (LPR) by Himars rockets (mentioned in earlier post) ....seems a waste to use them in this way

🇺🇦Soldiers from 1st company, 69th Inf Battalion (at Marinka) are compalining about conditions and their command staff
t.me/ChDambiev/18877

There were 6 x Su-27 at the airbase Ozernoe near Zhitomir that was bombed earlier (see link below) acc to a recent sat pic.

The Su-27s operate in the Kiev area and were often used against cruise missiles

The airbase has been attacked earlier in the war (last 2 pics)

The tank company of the LPR 6th Regiment at Soledar

Krasnopol projectile hit on a 🇺🇦Command Post in the Kharkov region.

🇷🇺vehicle knocked out by a DM-22 mine

🇷🇺🇪🇪⚡Russian hackers from the KILLNET group attacked the Estonian payment system

At the moment, in Estonia, across the country, there are big problems with online payment due to the blocking of the main authorization of the payment aggregator ESTO AS.

🇷🇺AT Missile — Avdeevka area

The Financial Times quotes EU officials who are outraged by the sharp increase in Turkish exports to Rus. They are worried that Turkey will replace the departed European goods on the Russian market. And what is it? They recently told us that a third party has no right to interfer

Two more fresh Ukrainian colonels liquidated in recent days by the RF Armed Forces.

1. Colonel Igor Oleksyuk
2. Colonel Peter Melnyk

🇷🇺Video from the Izum area showing recon troops use of Fara-VR ground radar to aquire targets for the artillery

Some basic info on the radar in link
roe.ru/eng/catalog/la…

Reports came about the establishment of Rus control over the settlements marked with black squares on the map, there is no official confirmation of this information yet. the aim of the Rus is probably the town of Zolochoe (yellow sq in map 2) which is the most important Ukr held

Russian missile troops and artillery launched a series of strikes on targets in different parts of Kharkov.

Video is from North Kharkov region and pic is from Kharkov City

In the evening local time, there are (officially unverified) reports about the advance of units of the 6th Cossack Regiment of the LPR deeper into Soledar and the capture of several positions of the AFU.

Current contact line South of Artemovsk (Bakhmut)

Rus/DPR forces are fighting near the villages of Nikolskoye, Pavlovka and Vladimirovka on the approaches to Ugledar.
There are reports that the Ugledar-Marinka road has been cut in the south as well (2 places)

Not clear who controls the high ground to the NE of Ugledar. If captured by the Russsians, it gives them a position that overlooks Ugledar

videos from the Ugledar area

In the Donetsk direction, the Allied forces continue to attack the strongholds of Ukrainian formations:

Units of the DPR 100th brigade advanced in the direction of Nevelsky and knocked out the APU from a strong point in a forest plantation to the southeast of the village (see video)

The Ukr command acknowledged Rus advance at Opitnoe (just east of Nevelsky)...they probably refer to the defense line marked with yellow square on the map....2nd map is of the wider area

The Russian artillery has again struck targets in Nikopol, from where Ukrainian formations are shelling the territory of the Zaporozhye NPP.

Two employees from the Zaporozhye NPP were arrested on charges of acting as spotters for Ukr artillery shelling Enegodar – the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the region

Russia is increasing it's Airforce units on the borders of Ukraine and has increased the grouping of helicopters. This was announced by the speaker of the command of the Air Forces of the AFU Yuri Ignat. Acc to him, aircraft are being transferred from the interior of Russia

"Currently there are about 430 enemy planes around Ukraine, but the grouping of helicopters has grown. About 360 helicopters," he said.

Video from Kharkov

Croatia has supplied Ukraine with 15 x M-46 130mm Field Guns which they inherited from the Yugoslav Army...no word on ammunition

🇷🇺🇺🇦 As a result of arrival in Kharkov, the hostel building was completely destroyed. The governor of the region announced six dead and sixteen wounded.

The reaction of the Office of the President is suspiciously fast, and usually no one talks about arrivals in this city (and they are daily), but then the topic came up. And tomorrow Zelensky is meeting with Guterres and Erdogan.

By the way, in Ukrainian cities, and especially in Kharkiv, hostels are almost always filled with the militants of Armed Forces of Ukraine, the defense forces or even foreign mercenaries.

🇦🇫⚡Up to 30 people were killed and dozens were injured in a terrorist attack in a mosque in Kabul.

🇺🇲🇷🇸⚡NATO declared its readiness to strengthen its presence in the region if tensions between Kosovo and Serbia continue to grow.

🇺🇲🇷🇺⚡The United States considers the upcoming Vostok exercises in Russia with the participation of China and a number of other countries to be routine, recognizes the sovereign right to conduct them - State Department

🇷🇺🇺🇦 RF Armed Forces hit the Varvarovsky bridge in Nikolaev
As a result of the impact, the roadbed could be damaged, and a traffic jam formed in front of the bridge. The Varvarovsky Bridge is an important strategic facility for crossing the Southern Bug River. Its length is 750 m

🇷🇺🇺🇦 In Energodar, two employees of the Zaporozhye NPP were detained on suspicion of collaborating with the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

According to the local Ministry of Internal Affairs, the detainees directed strikes at the territory of the city and the ZNPP.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 New footage of the result of a powerful missile attack on enemy targets in Zatoka, Odessa region

In the area of ​​​​Nevelskoye, powerful and accurate artillery fire from the 100th brigade of the NM of the DPR forced the militants of the AFU to abandon their positions. As soon as the Nazis left their trenches and began to run away, they were crushed by well-aimed mortar fire.

Abkhazian international volunteer brigade (made by @wargonzo).

In Energodar, law enforcement agencies detained two artillery gunners of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Both worked at the Zaporozhye NPP.

It appears that as serious pressure mounts on southern Donbass, Ukrainian units have been moved from Seversk to plug the gaps from Artemovsk down to Peski area. In doing so Seversk has become increasingly exposed and Russian units appear to be advancing again towards the city.

This is the Russian game plan with this heavily fortified line. Apply pressure and force rotation from an army that is already having serious manoeuvring issues.
Then when an area becomes weekend by that rotation you push until reinforcements are allocated from another area.

So on and so forth until there’s no more ability to move or reinforce, then they destroy what’s left.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 AFU fighters run away from their positions equipped near houses after the accurate work of Russian artillery

🇺🇦Upgrade of Soviet 57-mm anti-aircraft S-60 by installing an operator console from an old Siemens-Nixdorf ATM, as well as a panel with a joystick control.

Lithuania has supplied Ukr with 5 x M-109A5 155mm SP Guns

🇷🇺LPR MSTA-B 152mm howitzers at Soledar

🇷🇺Ka-52 attacking 🇺🇦tanks

The world's largest tanker with 700 thousand barrels of oil worth $70 million has arrived in Cuba. This is a gift from Russia to Cuba, which suffered from fires at the refinery

LMUR (Izd-305) missile mounted on a Mi-28NM helicopter....a modified version that can be fired from a Su-25SM3 aircraft has been mentioned at the ARMY-2022 exhibition

Interesting.....nuclear shells in 152mm and 203mm exhibited at ARMY-2022

The US plans to deploy Israeli "Iron Dome" systems in Hawai and Guam

🇨🇳The PLAAF has begun to blur the identfication numbers on aircraft taking part in the exercises near Taiwan

The SBU building in Lisichansk was bombed by the Ur yesterday and basically leveled....video has been published

Zvezda TV strikes again...

A "Boomerang" (prospective wheeled IFV) prototype fires 2 x Kornet missiles at a tank during a exhibition at Army-2022 and both miss...the commentator thinks otherwise

Modular shelters supplied to the Ukr for their trenches

Roselectronics Holding is presented for the first time at the #Armia2022 forum new satellite communication stations of the "Centaur" family, developed in the interests of law enforcement agencies of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The signal of the complex is automatically aimed at repeater satellites without the use of signals from global navigation satellite systems allowing operation in conditions of jamming.
/Rostec/

🇷🇺Orlan-10 correcting fire of "Nona-S" 120mm SP Gun-Mortars

After being briefed by a rep from the Scientific-Research centre on a new high tech granary designed to minimise loss to mice..Lukashenko advised him to "employ" a couple cats and be done with it.😁.he says he has 3 cats in his household and theres not mouse to be found anywhere

On August 19, Kiev is preparing act of PROVOCATION at Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, South Ukraine, to coincide with UN Secretary General’s visit to Ukraine, act and resulting man-made DISASTER will be BLAMED ON Moscow - Russian Defense Ministry.

Russian high-precision missile strike on Ukrainian base in Kharkov, East Ukraine KILLS over 90 foreign mercenaries, and strikes on Ukrainian forces near Avdeevka, Donbass region DECIMATE Kiev infantry brigade, losing over 60% of its troops - Russian Defense Ministry.

Guided round fired on Ukr tank in Ugledar area

🇷🇺Airstrike showing 2 x Kh-59MK missiles hitting a target

The volume of trading in yuan on the Moscow Exchange for the first time exceeded the volume of the dollar (26.3 billion rubles against 25 billion)

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Launch of high-precision supersonic missile P-800 "Oniks" at the facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Totally normal behaviour

🇺🇦"Bayraktar Mini" UAV (never heard of it before) correcting artillery fire

🇷🇺truck that was attacked yesterday near the border with a small drone..."Switchblade" ?

🇷🇺Su-34 armed with 2 x Kh-29T missiles

a promo video for the BMPT Terminator

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Destruction of a Ukrainian tank in the fields near Vuhledar.

Artillerymen are gaining experience every day and the quality of shooting becomes a sniper level.

“Whoever comes to us with a sword will die by the sword!”

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The results of attacks on Kharkov

The photo is from the Gauleiter of the city, therefore you will not see the corpses of the APU militants in the pictures.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The Russian "Nona-S" destroys the Ukrainian self-propelled guns with a pinpoint strike.

🇺🇦🇪🇺 Europe significantly reduces military aid to Ukr

In July, the six largest EU countries, including Germany and France, made no new promises to Kyiv at all. This is the first time since the beginning of the special operation that such a situation has arisen, writes Politico.

According to data from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, the volume of military aid to Ukraine from European countries has been on a downward trend since April.

Last week in Copenhagen, the Western allies decided to give Kyiv $1.5 billion. But, as the article says, this amount is "minor" compared to what was previously promised to Ukraine.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Destruction of APU facilities with the latest high-precision missiles "Izdeliye-305"

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Footage of the battle in the Avdeevka direction

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Ukrainian military minibus was spotted at the site of the Russian strike in Kharkiv

The network has another proof that yesterday the Russian army covered the location of the Ukrainian military in Kharkov.

A minibus belonging to one of the divisions of the Kyiv regime was seen at the site of the impact.

Earlier, local media said that there were no soldiers at the site of the strike, and the missile allegedly hit a peaceful house.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡The Russian Defense Ministry presented the results of an analysis of a possible provocation at the Zaporozhye NPP

🔻From July 18 - the station is subjected to regular shelling by the Ukrainian army from multiple launch rocket systems;

🔻During the shelling, the auxiliary support systems of the station and the life support facilities of Energodar were damaged;

🔻The Ukr side, together with their handlers from the United States, is trying to cause, in their opinion, a minor accident at a nuclear power plant;

🔻The United States is hushing up data on shelling and the situation at the nuclear power plant, thereby encouraging the impunity of the Kyiv regime and contributing to the possible development of a nuclear catastrophe in Europe";

🔻The Ministry of Defense warned how the emergency situation at the Zaporozhye NPP could develop and presented a map of possible consequences;

🔻If the situation with Ukrainian shelling continues to develop negatively, the issue of putting the 5th and 6th power units into cold reserve may be considered, which will lead to the shutdown of the Zaporizhzhya NPP;

🔻The purpose of the Ukrainian provocation at the Zaporozhye NPP is to create an exclusion zone of up to 30 km, introduce international forces and foreign observers to the station and accuse the Russian military of nuclear terrorism

🇪🇺⚡Inflation in the Eurozone set a new all-time high of 8.9% in July

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Destroyed Ukrainian radar for illumination and guidance 5N63S from the S-300PS air defense system. Izyum front.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡Armed Forces of Ukraine are firing at Svetlodarsk. We already know about three dead, including a child. At least 12 people were injured.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Ukrainian Militants under Russian artillery fire

The German publication reports that despite the low chance of a counteroffensive by Ukrainian Nazis in the southern regions of Ukraine, it is unlikely that it will take place, but a subversive war and terrorist attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine are likely

The publication states that the Armed Forces of Ukraine "lack offensive experience and preparation for larger maneuvers."
After fierce fighting in the Donbass, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lack well-trained units. The Ukrainian military also lacks weapons.

🇺🇦 Every day the number of killed militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is growing, despite the false statements of the Kiev regime

🇷🇺⚡Russian Defense Ministry: Three MiG-31 aircraft with Kinzhal hypersonic missiles have been deployed to the Kaliningrad Region as part of additional strategic deterrence measures.

Their round-the-clock combat duty will be organized.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The administration of the Zaporozhye region promises that tomorrow the drones will broadcast online the situation at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant - RIA Novosti.

According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Ukrainian troops are preparing a provocation tomorrow.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Berdia Jokhadze is another Georgian mercenary who did not survive the meeting with the Russian Army in the Kherson region.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The Russian artillery spotter told RIA Novosti about his work and showed a hit on the positions of the Ukrainian military in the Kharkiv region

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Trilateral meeting of Zelensky, Turkish President Erdogan and UN Secretary General Guterres begins in Lviv

🇺🇦🐷 "There are no losses and no Nazism": Zelensky held a photo session among a pile of military graves in Lviv, on a number of graves flags of the "Right Sector" * and those who fought for Hitler OUN / UPA *.

🇺🇦🇷🇺 UN Secretary General Guterres called for an urgent agreement on the restoration of the civil status of the Zaporozhye NPP and ensuring the security of this zone.

He added that the UN could support the visit of the Zaporizhzhya NPP by IAEA inspectors only if the mission goes there via Kyiv.

Zelensky said that negotiations with Russia are only possible if Russian troops leave the illegally “occupied territory of Ukraine.”

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The Russian military showed RIA Novosti how they neutralize the mines left by Ukrainian nationalists in the Kharkiv region

🇫🇮 Footage has emerged of the Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin drinking, doing drugs, while partying with her Friends and Finnish Celebrities. This is truly reckless behavior and sets a bad example for Finland.

🇷🇺 The first Stars Coffee shop opens in Moscow, which replaced Starbucks in Russia.

The Ukr attacked the dam/bridge at Nova Kakhovka but it seems the missiles were shot down and the bridge is operational

There were also Ukr reports of an attack on the "Belbek" airbase (in Crimea) & an old video was being spread on Telegram and Twitter. The noise heard was from air-defences which shot down a Ukr UAV,video is from outside of the airbase after the reported attack no sign of explosio

The Ukr were succesful in hitting an ammo depot near the village of Timoshino in Belgorod region....residents are being evacuated acc to the regional governor

🇺🇦They've also fired MRLS rockets spreading "buterfly" mines (like the ones used on Donetsk) in the border area of Belgorod region....demining efforts are underway

🇷🇺has deployed MiG-31K which are carriers of the Kinzhal hypersonic missile to Kaliningrad region...apparently on a permanent basis

🇷🇺Su-25s at Soledar

Shoigu visiting the UVZ production line for T-90M tanks....pics are from a few days ago

Missile launches from Kherson region towards Nikolaev where more than 10 explosions are reported

Damaged/Captured 🇺🇦BTR-4

"O" group Artillery (2S3) somwhere in the Donbas

Politico: "US approves Ukraine's strike on Russian-occupied Crimea"

The US authorities allowed the Kiev regime to use weapons received from the West for attacks on the Crimea. This is reported by the publication Politico with reference to a high-ranking representative of the US administration.

He pointed out that Washington does not choose targets, but will approve any actions of Kiev committed for the purpose of "self-defense".

At the same time, the official noted that the United States considers the Crimean Peninsula to be part of Ukraine, which means that the American side will not have any complaints if it strikes it. According to him, this position was brought to the attention of the Ukr authorities

Today there was bad news that the UAF began to remotely mine the border territories of Russia with Petalok anti-personnel mines. I will try to answer why this happened only now & not simultaneously with Donetsk, which has been suffering from this scourge for a long time.

Ukraine is a terrorist state. The goal of terrorism has always been to intimidate the local population and sow panic. They don't care how many children and adults are killed or maimed, the fear effect is important to them.

Donetsk was the first act. They killed and maimed Donetsk residents with "Petals" ostentatiously. So that everyone can see through the media about the danger that these mines carry for the local population.

Now it's time for the second act-other, peaceful territories. After the horrors in Donetsk, now only the fact of mining other territories is enough to cause panic and horror among the local population.

These are common terrorist methods. I wonder if our Western "partners" have ever thought about the fact that sooner or later they will be punished for sponsoring and helping terrorists?

‼️💥The result of a night strike on Kharkov
Photo from inside the destroyed recreation center, which Ukrainian forces and foreign mercenaries used as a temporary deployment point. The central part was completely destroyed, burying the occupants under it.

The hangars in the Osnovyansky district of Kharkov were hit by missile strikes. In such buildings, the Ukrainian army often hides armored vehicles & munitions

Iskander launches from Belgorod area

❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Highlights of Russian Military Operation in Ukraine on August 18, 2022

▪️Russian Armed Forces struck targets in Kharkiv including “Sirko Team” formation's base in Palace of Culture “Zalizhnychnyk”. Several civilians were killed.

▪️AFU shelled Izyum again using butterfly mines and 155-mm western-made shells.

▪️At abandoned Ukrainian positions in the forest area near Izyum, Russian servicemen found a grave of several women executed by AFU.

▪️Russian artillery carried out massive strikes against AFU's 95th Air Assault Brigade near Mazanivka, where fighting continues in the nearest forests.

▪️AFU shelled the area of the hospital in Svitlodars'k. Two civilians were killed, including a 14-year-old boy. Another 12 people were injured.

▪️Russian Aerospace Forces and cannon and rocket artillery hit the concentrations of manpower and equipment in AFU strongholds in Avdiivka and Nevel's'ke.

▪️Having liberated Pisky, Allied Forces are fighting for the strongholds on Donetsk Ring Road and hit Ukrainian formations' positions west of the Donetsk Airport runway

▪️Russian Armed Forces and DPR People’s Militia units continue their attempts to break up AFU defence in Vuhledar direction. Russian Aerospace Forces regularly engage the targets.

▪️In Zaporizhzhia direction, Russian Armed Forces struck Ukrainian positions near Orikhiv, the Vasylivskyi and Shevchenkivskyi districts.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡ Artemovsk direction August 19

The capture of Dacha and Zaitsev near Gorlovka has been confirmed.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡The IAEA mission to the Zaporozhye NPP may take place in the first days of September - Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation in Vienna

🇷🇺⚡All responsibility for a possible catastrophe at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant will be borne by the United States, Britain and their henchmen - Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev

🇷🇺⚡Events in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan this year were the result of attempts by the West to organize "color revolutions" there - Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev

🇺🇲🇷🇺 The State Department has warned the US Congress about the consequences if Russia is recognized as a "state sponsor of terrorism."

Politico writes about this, noting that in this case, the Istanbul agreements on the food issue and the export of grain will also be at risk.

In addition, it will become difficult to support work in the context of nuclear materials, the publication says.

“Multiple sources familiar with the conversations said that agency officials have presented serious problems with the legislative initiative to congressional offices in recent days,” the publication adds.

🇷🇺Artillery at Soledar

🇷🇺DPR 100th Bgd taking prisoners during trench line clearing at Marinka

Destroyed Ukr vehicle at Artemovsk-Bakhmut

🇺🇦video reportedly showing 🇷🇺Recon aircraft flying high over Zaporozhye region. They say it came from the direction of Crimea

Another confirmed loss (KIA) of a Ukr Su-27 pilot, Dmitro Fisher

The Ukr have been sending UAVs towards Crimea again in Sevastopol, Kerch and Yevpatoria....The UAVs were shot down.... looks like probing of the Crimean air defenses

The American edition of Drive, citing its source in the Pentagon, claims that AGM-88 "HARM" anti-radar missiles are integrated on board the Ukrainian MiG-29.

The publication claims this with reference to a telephone conversation with a senior Pentagon official.

Firstly, we are providing additional high-speed anti-radar missiles. These are HARM missiles.Ukr has successfully used these missiles. They have successfully integrated them into Ukr aircraft & this allows Ukr to search for and destroy Rus radars. We will provide additional missi

"The plane that the Ukrainians integrated — and you are right, it is a Western—made missile — the plane with which they integrated it is their MiG aircraft. So they actually successfully integrated it. it would be technically feasible. And based on this definition of feasibility

And based on this definition of feasibility, we have given them this opportunity. So this is actually the second tranche of HARM that we are providing."

UPD In the article, the moment sounds rather unconvincing, according to which the Ukrainian side took and integrated all the necessary systems on the Soviet MiG-29 for the use of HARM

Such work, at a minimum, should be carried out under the supervision of American specialists. There are some doubts about the possibility of carrying out such work directly on the territory of Ukraine.

The version using HARM from ground platforms looks more realistic in the current situation. In this case, the article in Drive may be an informational throw-in.

Footage from the fighting at Marinka

🇷🇺DPR artillery firing on Ukr positions - Donetsk frontline

"Russian Helicopters" at "Army-2022" presented a new version of the modernization of the Mi-28N army combat helicopter.

It provides for the refinement of previously released Mi-28N vehicles by equipping them with dual controls, a new optoelectronic station and an on-board defense complex, as well as expanding the range of guided missile weapons.

The serial Mi-28N in service since 2008, don't have control from the front cockpit: it appeared only in 2015 on the exported Mi-28NE, and then on domestic Mi-28UB,

The upgraded Mi-28N is proposed to be equipped with a gyrostabilized EO system GOES-451 produced by the Ural Optical and Mechanical Plant (until now, the OPS-28 station is used). The GOES-451 system has already earned recognition – it is used on Ka-52 helicopters, since 2010.

The upgraded helicopter's armament will include guided missiles "Vikrh-1 Whirlwind", "Chrysanthemum" and "ATAKA".

🇷🇺MRLS's are reportedly bombing Chasov Yar heavily. By the way, Chasov Yar is the only urban-type settlement on the Toretsk-Artemovsk watershed & is being used by the Ukr as major rear base. The battle for it & Konstantinovka will decide the fate of the Slavic-Kramatorsk agglomer

A Ukr rocket attack on the dam-bridge at Nova kakhovka has been repulsed acc to local authorities

A rocket attack on Melitopol (video) had more success. 1 or 2 rockets made it through

South Artemovsk-Bakhmut Sector

Zaitsevo (south) and Dacha are reported to have come under Rus/DPR control

This also means that the Ukr position at Kodema will become more difficult as they can be attacked from several directions

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The Russian-Ukrainian conflict is about to go into a deep freeze, and this will affect both sides, writes the British newspaper The Telegraph.

On the battlefield, winter tends to favor the defender, while it is harder for the attacker to move forward. This will allow the Ukrainian army to hold on to what it has, but it will prevent it from recapturing anything from the vast territories under Russian control.

Therefore, winter will have a strategic impact on the outcome of the conflict in Europe, and Ukraine will most likely lose there. Europeans are accustomed to cheap Russian energy.

In June, Russia cut gas supplies to Europe by 60%. As winter approaches, countries are scrambling to mitigate the economic damage to their already undermined economies.

The massive outburst of discontent will not go unnoticed by politicians and will force them to reconsider their already faltering support for Ukraine and sanctions against Russia.

Moscow knows how to escalate the pressure until the European countries give in, up to and including a complete blackout. Threatened with this extreme measure, President Putin will beckon the world community with a ceasefire on favorable terms at the G20 summit in November.

Leaders will be tempted to accept Putin's peace proposal and withdraw their support for Zelensky. For President Biden, this proposal will sound no less tempting than for his European counterparts, because America, too, is suffering serious economic damage.

🇷🇺🇪🇺⚡Gazprom to shut down Nord Stream for 3 days

We are waiting for new peak gas prices.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed to the Russian authorities with a request not to disconnect the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant from the Ukrainian power grid.

"Obviously, the electricity from the Zaporozhye NPP is Ukrainian. The Ukrainian people need it, especially during the winter period," Guterres said.

ZNPP and its electricity is now Russian. It does not belong to Ukraine. The sooner Ukraine is turned off, the better. And clearly convey that this is retribution for the terrorism of the Zelensky gang.

🇺🇲🇺🇦⚡US new $775 million military aid package for Ukraine. It includes:
- Rockets for HIMARS;
- 16 105-mm howitzers and 36k shells for them; 15 Scan Eagle drones- 40 MRAP machines;- Anti-radar missiles;- TOW missile systems;- 1K Javelin anti-tank systems; 2,000 armor-piercing

The Rus/LPR forces have pushed beyond the industrial zone and are reported to be on the edge of the central district

Also in this area, it's notworthy that the positions of the Aidar Btn as well the new "Azov" Btn (at Mikhailovka) were under air-missie attacks

There are Rus offensive actions in this area where previously the Ukr had some success at Mazanovka. Acc to the Ukr command, the Rus have counter attacked on a wider front and the area marked out with the black line is currently being fought over

The DPR Army spokesman Basurin during his latest briefing said the aim of the DPR forces on the Donetsk frontline is to reach/capture the towns of Krasnogorovka and Tonenke.

That basically outlines a plan to encircle Avdeevka as can be seen on the map

The supply of American HARM anti-radar missiles to Ukrainians opened the way for aviation weapons, and here it is interesting to assess the prospects for how and how the United States can still support the "independent" Air Force

We do not take direct deliveries of aircraft into account: if it is planned, it is clearly in a more distant future - such deliveries must be large-scale for the desired effect, at least dozens of aircraft, which requires preparation, firstly, and is fraught with escalation

Most likely, these may be satellite-guided JDAM-type bombs. Their use does not require serious intervention in the avionics of the aircraft, the main scope of work will be to adapt the hardpoints for attaching Western ammunition

Everything a bomb needs to hit its target is either on the bomb itself or on a GPS satellite in orbit.

Taking into account the density of our air defense and the presence of fighters in the air,

the appearance of JDAM among Ukrainians, which allow attacking targets from 30, and in the JDAM-ER 1 version from almost 100 km, will greatly facilitate the actions of Ukrainian aircraft

that have survived and what they managed to get from -abroad from former users of the MiG-29.

Moreover, if the HARM missiles mentioned above have already been transferred to Ukraine, this means that the United States does not have any psychological obstacles to transferring guided bombs to Kiev.

In the Kherson region, spotters for the AFU, involved in the death of five people were detained

According to TASS, the detainees helped Ukrainian military, by providing data for HIMARS MLRS missiles at the settlement of Brilevka in the Kherson region.

t.me/RVvoenkor/23444

💥 A drone flew into the roof of the Black Sea Fleet headquarters, the governor of Sevastopol said

"Unfortunately, he was not shot down, although AA artillery did open fire while the drone was flying low over the bay. There are no casualties," Razvozhaev said.

Another video from Sevastopol. It was apparently a Chinese built drone (that can be bought commercially)

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦🎥 One of the AFU units in #Zaitsevo voluntarily laid down arms⚡️

Unprepared and poorly armed mobilized AFU units sent by Ukrainian generals to die in #Zaitsevo chose life and took advantage of the DPR's offer to voluntarily surrender their weapons.

Before this, artillery from the 3rd Brigade of the People's Militia struck crushing blows on their fortifications, and then an offer to surrender was sent via Telegram messenger.

As a result, an entire AFU unit laid down its arms and surrendered, and its positions were taken over by the DPR People's Militia.

Germany together with the EU purchased 225 x 155 mm "Vulcano" artillery shells for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

These munitions are compatible with NATO artillery systems, in particular the PzH 2000/Krab/CAESAR self-propelled guns, which the APU already has.

High accuracy of hitting targets (at a distance of up to 70 km) is achieved thanks to a combination of satellite navigation with laser or infrared sensors for guidance.

Distribution of humanitarian aid in the Kharkov region

🇷🇺Sniper team ....I think the rifle is a SV-98

🇺🇦Air-Defences firing at Dnepropetrovsk

🇷🇺air defenses shot down targets in Bakhchisarai and the Saki area (Crimea)

In Bakhchisarai, all 3 explosions were in the sky, air defenses shot down the drones.

A photo circulating on social media with supposedly smoke in the airfield area is a 🇺🇦 fake.

Attacks by small UAVs continued after the strike on the BSF HQ

Interestingly, the explosive charge on the latest UAVs seems to be small and not able to cause any serious damage...

❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Highlights of Russian Military Operation in Ukraine on August 19, 2022

▪️Near an old airfield in Tomarovka, Belgorod Region, a Ukrainian drone was shot down by Russian air defence systems

▪️ An ammunition detonation occurred at a munitions depot in the village of Timonovo.

▪️The Russian Armed Forces continue their advance on the AFU positions at the Udy — Odnorobivka line.

▪️Reportedly, the Russian Armed Forces’ offensive is intensifying in Barvenkovo along the line Karnaukhivka — Nova Dmytrivka — Dibrovne.

▪️Russian troops hit AFU concentrations at the College of Technology and Design in Kramatorsk.

▪️ The LPR People’s Militia HQ reports that Allied Forces have entered Soledar residential areas, with several streets already under control.

▪️ The 6th Cossack regiment of the LPR People’s Militia advances to Bakhmuts'ke, with fighting near the village council.

▪️ It is reported in the DPR that the control has been established over the village of Dacha and the village of Zaitseve north of Horlivka.

▪️Near Piski, the destruction of AFU strongholds on the Donetsk Ring Road along its entire length from Nevel's'ke to Opytne is underway.

▪️The fighting near Vuhledar has taken on a positional character. The AFU managed to stabilize the front by redeploying significant reserves.

▪️Russian missile forces and artillery hit targets in Mykolaiv. The buildings of the Black Sea State University were hit again.

🇷🇺Cruise missile filmed near Dnepropetrovsk from where reports speak of 5 explosions

🇺🇦S-300 with kill marks for Cruise Missiles (KP) and UAVs (BPLA)

A missile strike was carried out on Voznesensk in the Nikolaev region.

Reportedly a Ukr-AF airfield was the target

I would like to add something for you Adam, we already fertilised the ground with your precious “nato” people in donbass, what are you going to do about it?

🇷🇺aircraft flying over Ukr trench

🇷🇺Su-25s flying along the Dnieper river in the Krivoy Rog direction

There are no major updates on the frontline positions since my last update

The last day is notable for numerous in air / missile strikes on Ukr units resulting in heavy manpower & significant equipment losses acc to the Rus MOD.

- 110th Territorial Defence Brigade near Velikomikhailovka

- 328th Mechanized Brigade near Kiselevka

- 212th Rifle Battalion near Apostolovo

- 127th Territorial Defence Brigade near Kharkov

- military assets of the AFU near Soledar

- Russian air defense systems shot down 6 Ukrainian drones near Vrubovka in the LPR, Novomikhailovka, Staromlynovka in the DPR, Bogoroditskoye in the Nikolaev region, Novozlatopol’ in the Zaporozhye region and Fedorovka in the Kharkov region;

- Russian air defense systems shot down 13 rockets near Kakhovskaya hydroelectric PP in Kherson region and Melitopol’ in Zaporozhye region;

- Rus air defenses shot down a UAV over the HQ of the BSF in Sevastopol.

The jeep of the daughter of public figure and philosopher Alexander Dugin exploded near the village of Bolshye Vyazemy in the Moscow region. The driver died on the spot.

From the scene 👆👆👆

Daria Dugina RIP....

It's believed that Aleksandar Dugin was also suppose to be in the car

"Mr. Dugin himself was supposed to be in the exploded car with his daughter, too, according to yet unconfirmed reports by Petr Lundrstroem, a notable Donbass resistance activist Oleg Tsarev says

The first seconds after the explosion of the Land Cruiser on Mozhaisk highway.
A. Dugin is an ideologist of Eurasianism and a famous patriotic figure in Russia.

Violinist Peter Lundstrom said that Daria was returning from the festival "Tradition" in the car in which her father Alexander Dugin was supposed to go.

There was also some sort of attempted attack on the mayor of Mariupol...don't have details atm

AA fire at Sevastopol....reportedly a Pantsir firing it's cannons at a drone

Likely the type of drone used during yesterdays attack on the BSF HQ

Aleksander Dugin arrived at the scene

Ms. Dugina was closely investigating the links of Khristo Grozev, a figure of Bellingcat group, and said to have discovered “a lot of interesting material”, Russian political channel “The voice of Mordor” reports

To the anonymous authors of the channel, it is not fully clear whether Mr. Dugin was supposed be with her in the car, they rather imply that she herself might be the target. #BREAKING

It is expected that Ukraine go for so called "soft targets". They are at the point where they have nothing to lose anymore. Assassination of Daria Dugina is maybe just the indication of what is yet to come.

Kharkov

The head of the regional directorate of SBU for Kirovograd oblast Alexander Nakonechni shot himself, both Russian and Ukrainian sources report. The SBU is Ukraine’s intelligence and counterintelligence service.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces launched an artillery strike on the territory of the Zaporizhia NPP. Shells exploded in the immediate vicinity of one of the administrative buildings of the station, critical objects were not damaged, according to the regional admin

Wagner BMP-2 and T-72 in Bakhmut-Artemovsk area

🇷🇺wounded being transported in a medic Il-76 transport plane

Zelensky aide Yermak: "Ukraine will not allow what happened in Afghanistan and Iraq - where the US sent military equipment worth hundreds of billions of dollars, that ended up with the enemy"

Couple of new model "Cherubashka" MRLS handed over to a DPR unit...these are of local DPR production.

the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported that Belarusian specialists were repairing Russian combat aircraft removed from storage

🇷🇺Serial production of hypersonic missiles "Zircon" has begun and the production of missiles "Kinzhal" - "Dagger" continues.
/ Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu/

First clear pics of the "Kinzhal" pylon/attachment

Destroyed 🇺🇦"Husky" vehicle (from UK)

🇷🇺Artillery at Avdeevka

🇵🇱🇷🇺⚡Polish Deputy Defense Minister Wojciech Skurkiewicz threatened NATO with a response to the deployment of Kinzhal hypersonic missiles in the Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation.

"Our actions - in consultation with our allies and NATO headquarters - are and will continue to be adequate to the threats and actions taken by the Russian Federation," Skurkevich said.

https://twitter.com/PrateekRoutray/status/1561122157836455936?t=H5aTJ6qhQxxWrOAOQD4CVw&s=19

🇺🇦MT-LB APC hit by artillery at Vladimirovka - Donetsk front

Shot down 🇷🇺Caliber Cruise Missile at Dnepropetrovsk

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian special forces effectively destroy the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction

The FSVNG servicemen carry out reconnaissance and search activities in the liberated territories of the Kharkov region.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The attack on Seversk

"🅾️" captured a checkpoint on the outskirts of Ivano-Daryevka.

In addition to ammunition and anti-tank missiles, Ukrainian militants even left behind their women's underwear.

🇺🇦 The Grayzone: Weapons and humanitarian aid that the West provides to the Ukrainian military is stolen along the way and does not reach the soldiers

The publication writes that last month Ukrainian parliamentarians increased their salaries by 70%, noting that, apparently, billions of dollars and euros from the US and Europe will go to this, coming to Ukraine as military / humanitarian aid.

At the same time, the Ukrainian military complains that they "have nothing": "Everything we receive comes directly from volunteers.
Nothing from government assistance ever reaches us.

According to the documents, the government built a bunker for us here. But, as you see, overhead we have only wooden poles a few centimeters thick - as if this will protect us from tank and artillery fire.

And the Russians fire at us for hours. And we dug these trenches with our own hands. We have two AK-74s for five, and they constantly jammed from all this dust, "The Grayzone quotes the words of one of the soldiers.

The attitude of the command towards the soldiers also leaves much to be desired: “I went to the commander and explained the situation. He said that it was too difficult to hold this position

He said that I understand: now is a strategically important moment, but our detachment is defeated, and reinforcements are not expected. fifteen soldiers died here, and all from shelling and shrapnel.

I asked the commander if they would bring heavy equipment to dig in better, and he replied that no, because it would still fail due to Russian shelling. He doesn’t give a damn that 15 of our soldiers have already died?", - the Ukrainian soldier complains.

According to him, "if we try to explain our situation to the Americans, they will probably decide that we are crazy."

"Imagine what it's like to explain to an American soldier that not only did we bring our personal cars, but we also repair them ourselves and buy fuel.

Bulletproof vests and helmets are also our own. We have no surveillance devices or cameras. Soldiers have to stick out from the trench to assess the situation, which means that at any moment he will tear off his head with a tank or a rocket," thegrayzone.com/2022/08/18/ukr…

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The work of the artillery of the NM LPR on the positions of the Ukrainian Militants in the Kharkov direction

A truck plowed into a crowd in Turkey killing 16 and injuring over 30 others...😳

Head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin:

"Vile villains!
The terrorists of the Ukrainian regime, trying to eliminate Alexander Dugin, blew up his daughter... In a car.
Blessed memory of Daria, she is a real Russian girl!"

This guy is one big piece of shit, and his bellingcat CIA sub group is responsible for doxxing a lot of innocent people and giving out information to the SBU.

⚡️🇮🇹🇺🇦⚔️ Without Comment 😹⚡️

The time for grieving is done. After all the comments we’ve seen from those we are crusading against, this is why such an exorcism is necessary.

“Russia is not at war with Ukraine, it is driving the devil out of Ukraine, this is a geopolitical exorcism.”

- Alexander Dugin

Projected electricity prices in Germany & France and bill comparison between 2021 - 2022 in Italy

🏴 New footage from the scene of the explosion and fire of the car in which Daria Dugina died

The investigative committee reported on the initiation of a criminal case of murder.

t.me/RVvoenkor

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that Ukrainian troops under pressure from our troops, are forced to withdraw in Blagodatnoe (near Nikolaev) and New York. Fights go on the territory of settlements. Part of Blagodatny is already occupied by our troops

Security forces arrested a former Ukr officer on charge of espionage & sabotage In Melitopol, Zaporozhye region. According to investigators, among other things, the man monitored the flights of Russian military aircraft at the local airfield.

Soledar

Ukrainians began to flee from hunger in EU

The newspaper L'Indépendant reported that many Ukr refugees who arrived in Spain are now returning to their homeland due to difficult economic conditions. According to Ukrainians, salaries in Spain are too low and life is very expensive

The newspaper also cites the testimony of 42-year-old Ukrainian Yuri Blazhenets, who is now forced to "flee from inflation and poverty in Spain." “I can’t live here, I only work to pay for housing and food,” the man complained.

⚡️⚡️Shoigu confirmed the info that a "Himars" system has been captured in a interview for Rossiya—1 TV channel. He said it's being tested by defence industry specialists just like other previously captured weapons supplied to Ukraine from abroad

Precise artillery strike on a 🇺🇦Artillery piece at Ugledar

🇺🇦⚡Ukrainian authorities are preparing their citizens for a possible terrorist attack on the Zaporozhye NPP

Thus, the Ukrainian Ministry of Health published a memo on iodine prophylaxis in the event of a radiation accident.

Earlier, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has repeatedly stated that Ukrainian terrorists are preparing sabotage at the ZNPP

🇺🇦😁 In Kirovograd, the head of the SBU department for the Kirovograd region, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Nakonechny, committed suicide. A career counterintelligence officer late last night, according to Ukrainian media, blew his brains out of his service weapon.

🇷🇺 Russian officers hoisted a tricolor in Kherson.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡The RF Armed Forces used the Kinzhal hypersonic missile three times during a special operation in Ukraine, and all three times it showed brilliant performance - Sergey Shoigu

⚡🇺🇦🇷🇺 Russian Forces pushed local Ukrainian forces out of the small town of Blagodatnoye. The Varvarskiy Bridge connecting the city of Nikolayev with the West had been shelled

It's possible that the Russians want to drop this bridge entirely and then advance up north in order to completely cut off Nikolayev from supplies and reinforcements where then it would succum to the same fate as Mariupol.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation: taking into account the data received, the investigation believes that the crime in which Daria Dugina died was pre-planned and is man made

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that if the version of the Ukrainian trace in the murder of Daria Dugina is confirmed by the competent authorities, then we should talk about the policy of state terrorism in Kiev

🇷🇸⚡Serbian authorities will protect their citizens in Kosovo and Metohija from pogroms if NATO contingent does not do this - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Soldiers of the "O" group demonstrate weapons and ammunition seized from the Ukrainian Nazis. This time, these are German DM-51 hand grenades, American M-67 and propellant charges from the M-777 howitzer.

🇺🇦❗ From August 22 to 26, all employees of the Government Quarter of Kiev were recommended to work from home - media

🇷🇺Air-defences were active again in Crimea....there is info on some channels that some of the drones are launched from within Crimea

Footage of counter-battery fire by VDV artillery at Blagodatnoe (Nikolaev region) which was reported captured yesterday...they report the destruction of several 🇺🇦SP guns which allowed the advance to take place

An Ukr wannabe Nazi caught red handed launching a small drone

Shot down Ukr Mi-8

Krasnopol guided round strike on top of a building where a Ukr Manpad crew was positioned

Ukr soldiers firing a "Commando" 60mm mortar

🇷🇺Wagner Artillery at Artemovsk-Bakhmut

🇺🇦Ukr is clearly preparing some kind of large-scale anti-Russian provocation: employees of institutions located in the government quarter of Kiev (President’s Office, Verkhovna Rada, Cabinet of Ministers, National Bank) are recommended to work remotely from home from Aug 22 to 26

Kiev media say the authorities are preparing for Russian strikes on Independence Day.

At the same time, Ukraine introduced new alarms for chemical, radiation hazards and evacuation from the city.

🇷🇺⚡During the Army2022 forum, the Russian Ministry of Defense signed 36 government contracts worth more than 525 billion rubles.

As a result of the fulfillment of these contracts, the RF Armed Forces will receive more than 3,700 new types of equipment.

🇵🇰⚡Pakistani authorities plan to arrest former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan today.

Supporters of the ex-head of government promise to capture capital Islamabad.

Surrender and live.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡TOS-1A Heavy flamethrower burning khokhols

🇺🇦 Huge traffic jam on the exit from Kiev.

Many are simply afraid of what could happen from August 22 to 26.

🇨🇳 5 new Type 052D destroyers under construction at the same time in Dalian shipyard, Chinese navy expansion continues.

Alexander Dugin spoke about the threats from Ukraine that he and his daughter received before her murder

The investigators managed to talk to Alexander Dugin, who is now in the hospital.

Alexander's car was driving almost behind his daughter. An explosion at the turn from the Zvenigorod highway to Mozhayskoye occurred just before his eyes ...

According to Alexander Dugin, he and his daughter have recently received a lot of threats from Ukrainian nationalists through social networks, but did not attach any importance to them.

🇺🇦Soldier who defected to the Russians....he is 27 years old and calls himself "First Patriot" ...his real name is not revealed

There are reports, confirmed by the Ukrainians of a Russian push from the Izum brisgehead towards Barvenkovo. Some Russian analysts believe the aim might be to cut the railway line that leads to Slavyansk

Situation at Blagodatnoe (Nikolaev area)

Currently it's not clear where the Russian positions end in this area. There've been attacks on the Ukr Bgds positioned in the wider area causing significant damage in manpower

and there's been a bombing of the main bridge in Nikolaev. The bridge is damaged but is still operational currently.

If the bridge is put out of action, supplies from Odessa via the direct route will be cut and a long round about way will have to be used. It's possiblle, that the Rus push at Blagodatnoe could be the initial move to cut those roads as well

Former battalion commander of the "Peacemaker" was destroyed in the Zaitsevo area

It became known that Andrey Bakhtov, the former commander of the Ukrainian volunteer battalion "Peacemaker", was liquidated in the Zaitsevo area. In the Gorlovka direction, he commanded a company in the Svoboda neo-Nazi btn, which is part of the 4th brigade of the National Guard

Let’s talk about the daily attacks on Crimea.

The Ukrainian military attempts to “strike” Crimea multiple times a day using various drones, usually rigged with explosives, sometimes not rigged with anything.

All of them are unsurprisingly shot down. Crimea is a fortress. Crimea’s Air Defence umbrella is extremely good, you can go as far as calling it the best in the world.

At the moment, there’s no other place on earth as heavily defended from air attacks (other than Russian mainland) as Crimea. However, it is extremely easy to get cocky and forget that no air defense system is perfect & every air defence system can be penetrated.

This is a mistake many analysts make, they assume Crimea is untouchable. - it is not, it never will be.

These “meaningless, desperate” drone “attacks” by Ukr are not actually meant to cause damage, they’re meant to find holes in Russia’s air defences — under strict NATO watch.

Americans and Brits observe every interception by Russian Air Defence systems in Crimea. They are clueless about Russian Air Defences in a combat setting. Russia’s domestic systems are only showing their true capabilities now.

Every interception gives them more data and more information on how to break it. Ukraine is doing this for 2 reasons:

1. Domestic propaganda

As Ukraine fails to gain any success on the front lines, launching drones at the “occupiers” make headlines every single time in Ukraine. The regime supporters rejoice, Zelensky looks strong and determined.

2. NATO orders

Let’s not forget that the US, EU & UK are not providing “help” to Ukraine. They are lending them money, with interest. Every bullet and weapon has its tab. This will take decades to pay back. — in turn, the Americans want data.

They want a lot of data. They want every piece of data they can get. Data on Russian missiles, air defence systems, operational structure, Russian gear and especially, russian radars and their capabilities.

This shows that NATO is simply clueless about Rus’s Air Defence capabilities,even when we’re talking about Pantsir S1 and Buk M1, as well as the S300. The domestic versions of these systems differ drastically from the export versions we saw in action in the Syrian war & elsewhere

There’s no doubt in our minds that they will figure out a way to break the Crimean AD umbrella, but it will be short lived. While these systems can be overwhelmed, they cannot be overwhelmed to a large extent unless they are destroyed.

Russia is not using any of its newest systems to intercept these drones, they are using the domestic variants of systems we already saw working in Syria and in other conflicts — but those were all the export variants.

Russian domestic systems are clearly much, much more capable than their export variants. When Ukraine and NATO figures out how to effectively overwhelm the current umbrella, Russia has another 3 generations of systems that NATO has never seen in action before.

The systems fielded by NATO are still behind the S1, M1 & S300 in every aspect. 3 generations behind.

Air Defence is Russia’s strong suit and always has been, but don’t assume that Crimea cannot be hit, that is simply stupidity. It will be hit, it is just a matter of time.

Former Russian State Duma member Ilya Ponomarev, who fled Russia in 2014 due to criminal investigations (first to the US, then to Ukraine), claims on a Ukrainian propaganda channel aimed at Russians that "anti-Putin partisans" he's in contact with murdered Darya Dugina.

He says that a group called "National Republican Army" approached him and that he & his team provided them with financial & technical support from Kiev as well as helped evacuate some members after they got made by the FSB. He claims they told him yesterday to "follow the news"

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian Military Operation in Ukraine.
#WeeklyHighlights, August 15-21 2022

Our team continues to report on the progress of the Russian military operation in Ukraine in a single bulletin with the most significant events of the week.

▪️In Soledar, soldiers of LPR People’s Militia's 6th Cossack regiment are exploiting an offensive from the KNAUF-Gips factory territory deep into urban area. Allied Forces' artillery hit the AFU's fortified areas and reinforcements. Fighting is underway in Bakhmuts'ke

▪️DPR People’s Militia's units dislodge the enemy from the small village of Dacha northward Horlivka. During the offensive, Allied Forces also managed to establish full control over Zaitseve, a group of Ukrainian fighters surrendered.

▪️After the loss of Pisky, the AFU withdrew to the defence line along the Ring Road. Artillery preparations are underway to storm the next line: DPR People’s Militia's artillery destroys enemy strongholds.

▪️ During the week AFU tried to attack objects in Crimea: they managed to sabotage an ammunition depot near Dzhankoi and drop an explosive device on the Black Sea Fleet's HQ in Sevastopol. However, the rest of the drones launched towards the peninsula were successfully shot down

▪️Near Vuhledar, the Ukrainian command was forced to transfer reserves in order to restrain an Allied Forces' offensive. Allied Forces advance pace decrease, but the AFU were ejected from part of the positions near Pavlivka and Mykil's'ke and went to the next defence line.

▪️Russian Airborne Troops gained a foothold at Blahodatne in Mykolaiv direction and dislodged AFU's forces. The liberation of the village will make it possible to develop an offensive in the western direction along the highway from Snihurivka to Mykolaiv.

The AFU Shelled the Auchan warehouses in Donetsk. Eyewitness footage shows how a fire started on the territory of the hypermarket.

At the moment there is no information about casualties and the scale of the destruction

TENSION SOARING: Pakistan's former PM Imran Khan CHARGED for TERRORISM, according to authorities because Khan, during a fiery rally accused the police and judiciary of detaining and torturing his close aide, who is himself being detained under sedition charges

and then proceeded to say "You should also get ready as we will take action against you," which authorities found a threat big enough to put under the "anti-terror" act, making an escalating situation even more TENSE, as Khan accuses current government of BLOCKING Youtube to CENS

CSIS scenarios in the event the Taiwan crisis goes hot

⚡️BREAKING NEWS⚡️

Preparations for first stage of war crimes tribunal in Donetsk People's Republic almost complete, details on 80 events of Azov Nazi battalion crimes are prepared, Ukrainian war criminals will be punished regardless of Kiev's statements - DPR Chief Pushilin.

🇷🇺Airstrike

There was also an airstrike on the Zatoka Bridge in Odessa region

🇷🇸⚡️Serbian authorities will protect their citizens in Kosovo and Metohija from pogroms if NATO contingent does not do this - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic

Photo slide of a Serbian exercise near Kosovo

🇷🇺video from fighting in Soledar area

🇷🇺Airdefences busy in Kherson region. At least 10 launches reported by local sources. The Ukr reportedly trying to attack the Antonovsky bridge for 3 days in a row now

It seems the airdefences have either been beefed up or they're getting better at intercepting Himars rockets

Pic of smoke rising from the Zatoka bridge in Odessa region (mentioned in earlier post)

⚡️🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ The media publish a photo allegedly of Natalia Vovk, who is accused of murdering Daria Dugina, as well as the car she was travelling in⚡️

According to Novoe Edition, the Mini Cooper car on Auto Ria was sold by a man with the name Danil Shaban. The same surname used to be that of Natalya Vovk, who, according to the FSB, was involved in the murder of Daria Dugina. The advertisement for the sale has now been removed.

volunteer project "NemeZida", Natalya Shaban (Vovk) herself and her ID card. According to preliminary information, the suspect in Daria Dugina's murder was previously a member of the Nazi Azov regiment

FSB video of the movements of Natalia Vovk

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ General Reshetnikov about those who ordered the murder of Dugina⚡️

FSB acted immediately.

The terrorist murderers have been identified. The material has been handed over to the Investigative Committee. The investigation will clarify all circumstances, routes, channels, accomplices, slackers, etc. The murderers must be eliminated without a doubt. Through us!

However, such an operation could not have been carried out by the Ukrainian security services alone. Rather, these whores were the perpetrators, and the developers and handlers were the Western intelligence services.

It looks like the British, but maybe also the Americans. Of course, Estonians were also involved. At least they were involved in securing the withdrawal

It will not be Estonia or Ukraine that will hide these creatures. But the task of eliminating them will be set, and there will be searches for them all over the world

The investigation should reveal the whole problem of accounting and control of the employees and agents of the Ukrainian security services.
t.me/stimme_aus_rus…

DPR tanks attacking Ukr trenches at Kamenka which is on the NE approaches to Avdeevka

Tanks and infantry of the DPR 100th Bgd assaulting a Ukr fortified position at Nevelskoe which is W - NW of Peski

TOS-1A 'Sunburn' in action during the fighting in Blagodatnoe - Nikolaev region

🇷🇺Artillery at Dibrovnoye, the forested area North of Slavyansk

🏴‍☠️ There are no prospects for an AFU strike on the Crimean Bridge, we should forget about it, - Arestovich. "Someday, maybe, it will come (to this), but ... the attacks on the Antonovsky bridge shows the difficulties of strikes on the Crimean Bridge.

The Crimean Bridge requires a tactical nuclear weapon to damage it effectively. But we don't have it. And even if we did, we would hardly use it. So forget about the Crimean Bridge," Zelensky's representative said.
t.me/RVvoenkor

DPR Artillery at Zelenka

"One of the shells in the video landed straight into the enemy's dugout. In addition to the fortifications in Zelenka, the masked equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was also destroyed" - the 'Izvestiya' correspondent Daniel Levin said.

Putin awarded Daria Dugina the Order of Courage posthumously. Russia’s FSB has identified the murder suspect less than 24h later and tracked her via video footage to Estonia; where the FSB claims she escaped to through the Pskov region. Russia claims Ukrainian Security Serice

🇺🇦drone was shot down over Crimea

🇺🇦Command Post blown up ...location not specified

Turkish made “Bayraktar Mini” drone has been shot down by Russian Air Defence crews somewhere in Donbass.

T.me/asbmil

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russia has launched 3,500 missiles at Ukraine, - Zelensky
"The total number of various cruise missiles that Russia has used against us is approaching 3,500. The blows of the Russian artillery are simply impossible to count – they are so intense.
" t.me/RVvoenkor

First images of the updated multipurpose armored vehicle AMN-590951 in service with the Russian Army...the vehicle was updated based on experience from the fighting in Ukraine

@@sentinel_1

🇷🇺T-72B3 in the Donbas

🇺🇦Ukr video from one of their positions after a MRLS strike

Video of the DPR 9th Regiment firing AT missiles at Krasnogorovka - Avdeevka area

🇷🇺RuAF Su-34s carried out a series of strikes on militant positions in Idlib area (SYRIA)

LIBYA

The LNA air-defences have shot down an American MQ-9 Reaper drone near the Benin airbase in Benghazi

🇷🇺Missile launches towards targets in Nikolaev region...apparently the video was taken by Kiev regime accomplcises in Kherson region

🇷🇺Radar destroyed....claimed by "Harm" missile but looks like Artillery to me

❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Highlights of Russian Military Operation in Ukraine on August 22, 2022

▪️ Russian troops hit concentrations of enemy personnel in border villages in Chernihiv region and Sumy region.

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces launched several missile strikes on AFU facilities in Kharkiv. One of the incoming strikes hit an ammunition depot in the northeast of the city

▪️The sides are engaged in artillery duels on the line of contact near Slatyne, Svitlychne, Pytomnyk and Petrivka

▪️The LPR People’s Militia dislodged the AFU from the territory of the gypsum quarry of the Knauf-Gips factory in Soledar

Fighting continues in the area around Zalevskoho Street and the refractory materials plant. South-west, clashes for the centre of Bakhmutsk’e village are underway on the outskirts of Soledar.

▪️Having occupied most of the Zaitseve locality near Horlivka, Allied Forces advance near the Maiors’ka station.

▪️Ukrainian units shelled towns in the Donetsk agglomeration again: several civilians were killed in Horlivka and a fire broke out in Donetsk in the east of the city.

▪️The DPR People's Militia forces advance from Staromykhailivka towards Nevel’s’ke.

▪️After prolonged artillery training, the DPR People’s Militia 100th brigade begins to occupy the AFU's strongholds on the Donetsk Ring Road.

▪️The AFU shelled storage facilities near Kakhovka in Kherson region.

▪️Ukrainian units shelled the Antonivs’kyy bridge in Kherson and the Kakhovka HPP dam with HIMARS MLRS. The facilities suffered repairable damage.

▪️In the morning, the Russian Armed Forces launched a missile strike on an AFU location near the Zatoka bridge in Odessa Region.

▪️Over Sevastopol, air defence operated several times during the day and engaged aerial targets near Cape Fiolent. A Ukrainian UAV was shot down

💥 In Kharkov, a strong fire at the Shevchenko instrument-making plant

Local sources report a strong fire on the roof of the Shevchenko plant. Locals complain about the acrid smell in the air

The causes of the fire are being clarified. At the same time, an air alert and the operation of air defense systems can be heard in the city.

Group of 🇷🇺Su-25s flying low...location not specified

🇷🇺OSA-AKM SAM covering artillery from Ukr drones during counter-battery fire

🇷🇺S-300V somewhere on the frontline

There are rumors in Washington that the United States has provided Kiev with more weapons than the White House reported.

So, a high-ranking Pentagon representative at a briefing admitted that the United States had been transferring HARM anti-radar missiles to Ukraine for some time, without advertising it.

It is also assumed that the United States has transferred ATACMS guided tactical missiles to Ukraine for the HIMARS MLRS.

It is also reported that the new package of military assistance to Kiev, which was announced at the end of last week, also included Excalibur guided artillery shells. They also did not appear separately in the official statement of the Pentago

It is also interesting that the official notification sent by the US administration to Congress in connection with the allocation of a new package of military assistance states that the supplied weapons are not limited to the official list.
/TASS with reference to Politico/

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Explosions are reported in the Dnieper. Smoke rises from the city.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The Ministry of Defense showed footage of night firing from the Uragan MLRS at the fortified areas of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

🇺🇦Another Nazi says that all the equipment, uniforms & even a car were bought by him with his own money. Apparently, the level of theft from the Zelensky team is so high that, despite the multimillion-dollar military assistance to Ukr from US & EU countries, nothing reaches them

Large amounts of long range anti-aircraft systems as well as full umbrellas of SHORAD systems are being amassed in Belarus, all in range to cover Ukraine. Belarusian airfields are showing high RAF activity. This suggests Rus is preparing for a large scale air attack on Ukraine

The United States also suggested that Russia is preparing for something big, a “big attack” on Ukraine.

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ Apparently, the perpetrator of Dasha Dugina's murder, Ukrainian member of the Azov National Militia Natalya Vovk, has already left Estonia and moved on to Austria

As of last night, a woman who resembled Dasha Dugina's killer is staying at the Ibis Hauptbahnhof Hotel in Vienna, as reported by concerned locals. The reservation was for one night - it is likely that the perpetrator of the terrorist attack will travel even further.

The Order of Courage of Daria Dugina was handed over to her family during the farewell ceremony.

Alexander Vucic and Albin Kurti held talks in Brussels last week. The Serbian leadership and the Pristina authorities could not come to an agreement: The Kosovo side put forward impossible demands and actually refused to comply with previously concluded agreements.

At a meeting with political representatives of Kosovo Serbs, Aleksandar Vucic promised to protect the Serbian people from exile if NATO peacekeepers could not do it.

For several days, the Serbs have been moving columns of military equipment to the administrative line, army units are stationed in the south of the country.

According to Alexander Vucic, the Serbian leadership does not plan a military operation in Kosovo and Metohija. However, if the provocations expected in the province get out of control, it will be forced to react.

Another extrajudicial law enforcement in Ukraine, this time in Dnepropetrovsk. Woman allegedly refused to speak Ukrainian in public places.

Donetsk this morning

🇷🇺DPR 2S7M 'Malka' SP gun in Artemovsk-Soledar area

Pic of a Pantsir missile moments before impact from the Ukr drone

🇷🇺T-80BV footage from the Donbas

NERVES OF STEEL: Russian soldiers staying COOL UNDER FIRE as they help SURRENDERING Ukrainian soldiers during VICIOUS firefight, moving to SAVE wounded Ukrainian fighter even as bullets SNAP right above them in PERILOUS combat operation.

🇷🇺⚡Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov called the murder of Daria Dugina a barbaric crime

According to the diplomat, there is no forgiveness for such atrocity, and there should be no mercy for the organizers, customers and perpetrators of the murder.

Another drone shot down at Sevastopol

1. To the south of Nikolaev, the Rus say they've reached the border of Nikolaev region and forced the Ukr to retreat to the town of Lopare after their units there were damaged heavily by bombing in the previous few days.

A lot of analysts believe the southern approach will be the main one in any potential move on Nikolaev

2. Further North there is fighting in 2 areas centred on 2 towns with similar names which makes it confusing to follow.

One is Blagodatnoe (mentioned in reports in the past few days) and another is Blagodarovka to the East of the mentioned Blagodatnoe, where the Rus say the Ukr lost the foothold they had in this area and retreated across the Ingulets river.

Both these operations started apparently as Recon in Force ops but resulted in the capture of territory due to weaker than expected resistance. The Rus say due to the degradation of the combat power of Ukr units due to their bombing

MARINKA (Donetsk Frontline)

DPR say they control about 75% of the town and clearing operations have started

As mentioned in earlier post, yesterday the Ukr shelled the central district of Donetsk including the government quarter.

What's interesting is that some Russian State Duma deputies are in Donetsk for important talks with DPR authorities. Almost certainly the shelling was an attempt to kill the deputies.....IMO this will result in some important developments

🇷🇺⚡️⚡️A bill on the recognition of Ukraine as a terrorist state has been submitted to the State Duma of the Russian Federation by the 'Fair Russia" party.

"We believe that the property belonging to its citizens should be confiscated and applied to the income of the Russian Federation to compensate the victims of the terrorist state," the authors of the bill from the Fair Russia party said

If this becomes law, the consequences will be big!

It means the governemnt of Ukraine will be considered terrorists and legal targets acc to Russian law.

And countries that support Ukraine will become sponsors of terrorism

So some of you guys who have been calling for harder reaction might get your wishes granted soon

There's been multiple 🇷🇺strikes (reportedly over 30) carried out in various locations on and around the conflict line it seems. Apart from the usual Iskanders and Calibers, Tu-22M3 bombers were used

No breaks allowed

A gun and a shovel. The combination is like kryptonite to Russians.

🇷🇺Airstrike using Kh-59MK missile on a Ukr hangar

🇺🇦An attempt was made on the deputy head of the Department of Internal Policy of the Kherson region Igor Telegin by detonating an IED. Telegin is alive.

Video from the Ukr shelling of Tokmak (Zaporozhye region) mentioned in the forwarded message earlier

Destroyed 🇺🇦M-777 howitzer

🇷🇺DPR MRLS fire from Donetsk area...said to be the recently mentioned "Cheburashka" MRLS

🇷🇺Grad - somewhere on the frontline

🇺🇦BUK-M1 firing on aerial target...presumably a drone

🇺🇦Defence Minister Reznikov says Ukr man power losses are around 9000 KIA....sounds like he raided Zelensky's cocain stash 😁

The Cossacks of the 6th regiment honored the memory of Daria Dugina, and all night long they will congratulate the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Independence Day of Ukraine.

🇰🇵🇷🇺 Friendship between North Korea and Russia will last for centuries - DPRK Foreign Ministry

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Russian troops reached the administrative border of the Nikolaev region, units of the 28th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson-Nikolaev direction were destroyed - Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

🇬🇧 About 1,300 illegal migrants entered the UK on Monday by boat across the English Channel, a record since the start of statistics in 2018 — Sky News

🇩🇪🇨🇦⚡Scholz said that Canada and Germany have agreed on a new package of "military assistance" to Kiev, including air defense systems, missile systems, "tons" of ammunition

🇩🇪🇺🇦⚡German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced a new 500 million euro military aid package for Ukraine.

It will include three Iris-T air defense systems, armored recovery vehicles, MLRS, precision-guided munitions and other military equipment.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡ Zaporozhye and the Dnieper, the Tu-22M3 has already been working, sending X-22 and X-32 missiles to Khokhols

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Explosions reported in Dnepropetrovsk and Odessa regions.

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 ⚡️Air Raid Alerts issued for Southern, Central and Eastern Ukrainian Oblasts.

⚡️Reports that the Motor Sich premises have been targeted in Zaporoizhye city

The Motor Sich company is one of the largest engine manufacturers for airplanes, helicopters, marine gas turbines in the world. Recently, Turkey started importing engines for it's drones from them

Regarding the following post below...IMO, larger scale attacks on Kiev probably won't happen until the terrorist state legislation isn't enacted

👻🇷🇺 bear network frequencies are activated , dozen's of Kh 101 soon impact Kiev and other military targets .
Iskanders and Kalibr launches from sea also expected from other locations

Party is on

DPR will confiscate the lands granted by the former Ukrainian administration to the Ukrainian servicemen and their families as a reward for participation in what the Kiev regime called “An anti-terrorist operation” against Donbass. This is stipulated in the executive order,

As per the order, the Republic will honor the land and property rights on the territories recently liberated by the DPR, with that notable exception. Holders of the land rights who aquired them during the Ukrainian occupation, are requested to submit the deeds & proofs of owner

lease, usufruct and so on so these rights can be duly inscribed into the DPR land registry, unless these rights were granted as a reward for participating in the Kiev’s war against Donbass. #liberated

A bill that may lead to proclamation of Ukraine a terrorist state is presented to the Duma, the lower house of the Russian Federal Assembly, Sergei Mironov, the leader of “Fair Russia” (Spravedlivaya Rossiya) party's faction in the Duma, written in his Telegram Channel

Mr. Mironov also said he considers desireable to confiscate the assets of Ukrainian citizens in Russia to compensate the losses of those affected by its actions, and a “similar actions” against the “terrorist accomplice countries”.

Actual Russian legislation permits only organizations, not the states to be recognized as a terrorist entity. So Mr. Mironov’s party proposes to modify that norm and introduce notions of a “terrorist state” and “a state sponsor of terrorism”.

It is not clear whether the bill contains the confiscation measures, as hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian citizens legally reside and work in Russia to this day. #breaking

Zelensky promised Russia will be punished by heaven and Rus cities bombed, if provocations suddenly occur on Independence Day of Ukraine.

the US embassy urged its citizens to leave Ukr, and huge traffic jams are observed from the country's capital. Mass hysteria is being artificially created with Rus being accused of aggression in advance and they are laying the groundwork for a retaliatory strike.

Our sources in Kiev report that the few Tochka-U, who have almost no ammunition left, are preparing to strike at wastelands in the capital of Ukraine in order to accuse Russia and Belarus of a provocation.

Everything points to the preparation of a large-scale provocation, which is designed to once again slow down the Russian bear trampling through the Donbass. If this happens, it could theoretically cause a real desire to hit Kiev with something. Perhaps. Maybe.

And yes, we believe that the Russian military bear is slowly unfolding, but it is extremely difficult to stop it.... "Road to Kiev"

Rybar

❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Highlights of Russian Military Operation in Ukraine on August 23, 2022

▪️Russian troops hit AFU positions in the villages of Zaliznyi Mist and Mykolaivka in Chernihiv Region.

▪️In Kharkiv, a massive fire was reported at Shevchenko Instrument-Making Plant. At the beginning of Special Military Operation, Russian Aerospace Forces launched strikes on its territory.

▪️In Soledar, LPR People’s Militia's 6th Cossak Regiment is fighting on the outskirts of Belokamenskiy Refractory Plant and Zalevskoho Street.

▪️Wagner's PMC units confirm their control over the eastern part of Patrice Lumumba Street in Bakhmut (Artemivsk). South of Bakhmut, Allied Forces came close to Zaitseve, an important defence node of the city.

▪️Ukrainian units struck the buildings of DPR's Head Administration, Ministry of Internal Affairs and civilian facilities at central Donetsk, with injuries and casualties reported among civilians.

▪️DPR People’s Militia is storming AFU positions along Donetsk Ring Road. DPR People’s Militia's 100th Brigade dislodged the enemy from the farm buildings south of Pisky.

▪️Russian Armed Forces managed to gain a foothold in Oleksandrivka in Mykolaiv direction establishing contr

▪️Having liberated Blahodatne west of Snihurivka, Russian soldiers continue their advancement deep into AFU's defence lines along the road to Mykolaiv.

▪️In the course of fighting near Andriivka and Blahodativka, Russian Armed Forces dislodged the servicemen of AFU's 35th Marine Infantry Brigade and 46th Airmobile Brigade from the villages.

▪️In Kryvyi Rih area of the front, AFU units once again failed to storm the positions of Russian Armed Forces in Vysokopillya, suffered losses and retreated.

▪️During the day, Russian Air Defence shot down a Ukrainian UAV near Sevastopol.

Successful hit

In the Zaporozhye region, as a result of a deliberate car bombing, the head of the Mikhailovka administration, Ivan Sushko, was killed, said the representative of the Zaporozhye region, Rogov.

A permanent pontoon bridge is being built under the Kherson bridge for protection from strikes.

⚡️🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ Ivan Sushko, head of #Mikhaylovka municipality, murdered⚡️

Ivan Sushko, the head of Mikhaylovka municipality in Zaporozhye region, was killed today by a targeted car bomb attack.

placed under the commune head's car.

As a result of the explosion, Ivan Sushko was injured and taken to hospital in critical condition, where he died shortly afterwards.

I extend my deepest condolences to the family and friends of the deceased.

The kingdom of heaven be with the murdered John!

The terrorist entity UGIL (Ukrainian State of Ivano-Frankivsk and Lviv) must be destroyed!

Text by Vladimir Rogov

DPR Infantry from the 100th Bgd assaulting a Ukr position at Nevelskoe area (NW of Peski)

Footage of 🇷🇺Army aviation from the western military district in Ukr

⚡️Losses of the AFU since the beginning of the special operation — Over 76 000 killed

This was reported to the Secretary of the Security Council of Ukraine Alexey Danilov personally by the C-in-C of the AFU - Zaluzhny in his answer for ex. No. 220/1085 dated August 16, 2022.

In addition to 76,640 dead, we are talking about more than 42,000 wounded, 7,244 captured, 2,816 missing, and 1,610 dead of non-combat reasons.

Knowing about the maniacal commitment of the Ukrainian military to embellish reality and the lack of accounting of personnel in units, it should be borne in mind that the figures are significantly underestimated.

Zaluzhny also said that he had no info on the dead from other serv

This means that thousands of killed soldiers of the Territorial Defense, National Guard, Border Service, SBU and other law enforcement agencies should be added to the 76 thousand killed servicemen of the AFU. The total number of KIA is estimated at about 150K people in uniform.

The AFU marines tried to cross the Ingulets River in the Kherson region - they were defeated, 80 people and 6 vehicles were destroyed.

As a result of the offensive actions of the Allied forces in the Donetsk direction, the losses of Ukrainian forces exceeded 600 people.

🇷🇺video from the Kherson-Nikolaev frontline

The head of the 🇺🇦Poltava military administration Dmtriy Lunin confirmed 4 missile strikes on a "infrastructure facility".

Most likely, the target of the strikes was the Mirgorod airbase, home base of the 831st Tactical Aviation Brigade of the Ukrainian Air Force

💥Update

Mirgorod airbase was attacked with air-to—surface missiles, the number of casualties and destruction is being investigated,"

Statement of the 831 brigade of tactical aviation of the Ukrainian Air Force says.

💥Few more details on the Mirogrod airbase attack....the 🇺🇦press release talks about a "group" attack of air-surface missiles which they believe were Kh-22/32 (they are launched by Tu-22M3 bombers) which caused a big fire

🇷🇺MSTA-S SP Guns at Dolina (North Slavyansk area)

🇺🇦Air-Defences active in Sumy region

‼️ 🇳🇴 🇬🇧 The Norwegian Ministry of Defense has agreed with the UK to supply Ukraine with Black Hornet micro-drones worth over $9 million.

PD-100 Black Hornet "Black Hornet" is a tiny helicopter-type unmanned aerial vehicles for reconnaissance and fire correction

In the latest press release the 🇺🇦831st Tactical Aviation Bgd say they will renew the destroyed infrastructure and equipment at Mirgorod airbase, indirectly suggesting the attack on the airbase was succesful. They operate Su-27 fighters and L-39 training-light attack aircraft

2 of their Su-27s were recently destroyed at another airbase that were meant to escort defecting Russian aircraft as part of the intel op that I mentioned not long ago

⚡️UNVERIFIED⚡️

Unconfirmed reports of Kalibr launches from the Black Sea, powerful explosion in Kiev

There's been a 🇷🇺missile strike on Dnepropetrovsk with the railway station reportedly the main target. Some reports say Ukr troop and foreign weapons transport was hit....Zelensky on the other hand says 15 civilians were killed and 50 wounded

🇷🇺Missile strikes at Khmelitsky (video) and other locations such as Bela Cerkva, Kharkov, Nikolaev reported

The Ukr have bombed the dam-bridge at Kakhovka....some of the rockets were intercepted but not all

Video of the blown up car in which one of the officials of the pro-Russian administration of Zaporozhye region, Ivan Sushko was killed (reported yesterday)

A New Zealand soldier has been confirmed killed in Ukraine by the country's MOD....they say he was on "holiday" 😊 and wasn't on official duty

Looks like the Antonovsky bridge in Kherson region has been repaired

🇷🇺Spetznas firing missile reportedly on the car of a Ukr commander...don't know location

A tank and BMP-2 from the DPR 100th Bgd firing on Ukr lines presumably in Nevelskoe area where they're currently fighting

🇺🇦Maxim machine gun

🇺🇸Biden has annonced a new military aid package for Ukraine worth $3 Billion which among other things will include 6 x NASAMS SAM systems. However, the Pentagon announced that this package will be delivered in batches and could take up to 3 years to complete

The pic below is what's planned to be delivered in the previously announced package worth (if I remember correctly) $750 million

'I THOUGHT THEY WOULD TORTURE AND KILL ME': Unlike other FIGHTERS and MERCENARIES, Vladimir Kozlovsky, an Israeli citizen seemed to GET OFF EASY when he surrendered after being allegedly TAKEN in to fight AGAINST his will, and easily packed up and took the next flight to Tel Aviv

Video from the DPR "Sparta" Btn showing grenades being dropped from drones

Rumors that the United States is putting pressure on Egypt to transfer MiG-29M/M2 fighters received from Russia to the Ukrainian Air Force. The Egyptian authorities are refusing

🇨🇳Taiwanese border guards throwing rocks at a PLA drone that was filming them

Video of LPR armour on the frontline, incl some of the T-62Ms

Kiev oblast received no air raid warning before Russian missiles hit their targets. The missiles were either launched from a very high altitude, or alternatively, Russian EW is working overtime from Belarus. Krasukha-4 is capable of this range.

t.me/asbmil

Kiev apparently...

Meanwhile in my neck of the woods...

Zelensky strikes again...

Russia is deliberately trying to cause energy poverty — Zelensky

...

Isn't this the same guy who for months has been hysterically screeching for countries to stop buying Russian energy?

Isn't Russia offering to launch "NS-2" and "NS-1"?

RT crew with Rosgvardia at Pokrovsk (East of Bakhmut) which controls a section of the Bakhmut - Lisichansk road which has been cleared but is still sporadically under Ukr artilery fire

Pics of Snipers and AT missie crew from a 🇷🇺Spetznas unit in Ukr

Pics of Snipers and AT missie crew from a 🇷🇺Spetznas unit in Ukr

🇷🇺Troops in Takijistan, near the border with Afghanistan

🇷🇺Troops in Takijistan, near the border with Afghanistan

🇷🇺🇺🇦 On the Nikolaev direction, an assault is underway on the fortified area in Partizansky and Lyubino. Artillery preparations have been confirmed since the night in several sectors of the front. All night long and right now in the entire Nikolaev region there is an air raid

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡The FSB announced the prevention of a terrorist attack in the Kaliningrad region: a Russian citizen, a supporter of the banned terrorist organization Azov, was detained.

According to the FSB, he planned attacks on the objects of the Baltic Fleet and at the Khrabrovo airport. At the detainee's home, they found a bomb with a capacity of about 5 kg of TNT, propaganda literature and symbols of Azov.

🇷🇺2S7M Malka video

First video of a German "Gepard" in Ukr service

Pics from the Su-57 production line at the Komsomolsk Aviation Plant in Far East Russia

🇫🇷 EMMANUEL MACRON: «WE ARE LIVING THE END OF ABUNDANCE»

👉🏻 The President of the Republic spoke this Wednesday at the start of the Council of Ministers at the Élysée, and gave a broad depiction of the ongoing situation.

Explosions in Kiev

Explosions reported in Zaporozhye. No air alert has been declared in the region......they're explaining the Kiev ones as controlled destruction of unexploded ordnance
via
UA Insider

🇷🇺Tornado-S rocket in Krivoy Rog....Tornado-S is loosely an analog to the Himars

🇨🇳Chinese commandoes practicing assaulting the Taiwanese Presidential Palace on a life size model of the building in a training ground in Outer Mongolia

Rail workers find ATTEMPTED SABOTAGE of railway line In Kursk region, West Russia, spotting DAMAGE made to tracks.

🇷🇺TOS-1A — Donbas

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation commented on Zelensky's whining yesterday about the "peaceful train" that was hit by a missile strike.

The echelon with reservists who were being taken to the front was struck. Estimate more than 200 killed of the enemy.
10 pieces of equipment were also destroyed. Attack carried out by an Iskander....

There are only one and a half scenarios for the end of the conflict in Ukraine acc to Medvedev

The first is the achievement of all the goals of the special operation,
the second is the overthrow of Zelensky by the military with the recognition of the results of the SVO.

AFU shelled the area of ​​Zaporozhye NPP and Energodar - a fire broke out

Local residents also reported problems with electricity as a result of the shelling. Emergency services have already begun to extinguish the fire.

Melitopol also reports blackout.

The prime minister of the self-proclaimed Kosovo announced that he would no longer delay the entry into force of the ban on cars with Serbian numbers entering the region(dangerous statament)

The Kosovo KFOR police and NATO forces will put an end to any Serbian outrage if they protest against the ban on cars with Serbian license plates entering the region. The Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed republic stressed that this measure will be introduced on Sep 1

Recall that in early August, when Kosovo imposed these restrictions, mass protests and clashes with security forces began. Then it was decided to postpone the introduction of this measure

Donetsk

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦💥 On yesterday's attack on the #Chaplino railway station⚡️

Rus forces attacked the Chaplino railway station in the #Dnipropetrovsk region yesterday. The Ukr authorities blamed Russia for the attack on a passenger train and claimed that several dozen civilians were killed.

However, Kiev was in no particular hurry to provide evidence of the "bloody crime". There was only one photo from the station, in which observers recognised a military truck (t.me/voenacher/27781)on the platform of a supposed passenger train, which was captured in the picture

Today, the doubts have finally been dispelled: a video (t.me/Slavyangrad/63…) of the scene immediately after the attack has appeared on the net, clearly showing platforms with cargo and equipment covered with tarpaulins. This confirms that it was a military train

Judging from the video, the troop cars were literally crushed and flattened by the explosion. The cameraman was only filming from one point, so it is difficult to determine the exact epicentre of the impact on the tracks and to assess the damage to the rest of the load.

🔻Could the missile have hit a civilian train that happened to be passing nearby? No!

▪️ Before the hostilities, only two long-distance trains passed through Chaplino: Krasnoarmeysk-Lvov and Krasnoarmeysk-Kirovograd.

But they too passed through the station without stopping, and the probability that they were affected by yesterday's attack is practically nil.

▪️ Commuter trains from Dnipropetrovsk also go to Chaplino - up to 4 pairs of trains per day. The only thing you can see in the photo is that normal passenger coaches are affected, not the typical ER-2 trains.

Another important point is that the damaged train in the video is not on the main line, but on the outermost siding. Passenger trains simply do not run there, but it may well be that freight platforms or empty wagons are stationary or waiting to be reshaped.

🔻 Were there any civilian victims at all?

▪️ Unfortunately, yes: it is known that an 11-year-old boy died, and there is also information about the death of people in a car parked at the station

But they were accidental victims of a military target: for example, a child died from the explosion of the second landing that hit near a nearby village.

Moreover, the Ukrainian media are in no hurry at all to release the names and details of the deaths of the other 22 officially killed. This strange selectivity can only be explained by the fact that they were all soldiers

: according to reports from the field, the number of AFU casualties during the attack is much higher than the reported number.

🔻 And what was the result?

Analysis of data from open sources suggests with certainty that the target of the Rus forces' attack was a military railway train. An unknown number of AFU fighters & several civilians who were in the vicinity of the explosions and happened to be victims of the attack were killed

No matter how the Kiev authorities and resources try to portray the incident as a targeted attack on a passenger train, objective evidence suggests otherwise.

Map with pics of the Chaplino train station attack

Putin signed a decree increasing the Russian Army by 137 000 soldiers

Situation at Peski - Nevelsoe area - map by Syriak

Cyprus, after the purchase of the Israeli Iron Dome missile defense systems, is asked to transfer its Buk-M1-2 and TOR-M1 air defense systems to Kiev.
/Forbes/

Video from Peski area

🇺🇦OSA air-defence system hit by artillery at Soledar

This is an employee in the US Embassy in Moscow lol

The US "cannot now clarify who exactly is shelling the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant," said Deputy Secretary of State Bonnie Jenkins.

Energy revenues from oil and gas are GROWING, all DESPITE problems certain ILL-WISHERS are trying to create for Russia - Putin.

A US member of the Ukr Foreign Legion claimed to have been killed in the Donbas

All US efforts in the field of military assistance to Ukraine will be combined into a single mission and a head will be appointed to lead the American program for training the Ukrainian military and providing assistance to the Armed Forces.

What does this mean for Ukraine:
▪️ Washington's recognition of the fact that the American army is taking part in specific combat operations;

After that, Congress can begin to allocate long-term targeted funding, as well as provide deferrals in the payment of military orders;
The choice of the commander indicates the Pentagon's intention to create a permanent team of assistance to Ukraine.

The Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed the patrol boat Slavyansk and the minesweeper Genichesk

This is stated in a message on the website of the Zelensky administration.

According to the director of "Turn in the coffin alive" Taras Chmut, the cruise missiles that sank the ships were fired by aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces from Novofedorovka (Crimea)

Situation to the East of Nikolaev acc to Military Maps

There are no videos from the area and only sporadic reports so it's dificult to know the exact positions.

Acc to what's known, the Rus are attacking several small towns along the Snigerovka-Nikolaev road (black circles

The main obstacles towards Nikolaev will be the towns of Belozerka and Pervomaisk.

The Rus also bombed Krivoy Rog and a Ukr base and Novi Bug, which is connected to the fighting along the previously mentioned road

Regarding the attack on the Mirgorod airbase, the Rus MOD says 5 aircraft were destroyed or critically damaged (Su-27s and Su-24s). A further 3 aircraft claimed destroyed at an airfield just outside Dnepropetrovsk (aka Dnipro)

NEW - FBI interferes with Facebook over content posted by media companies on the platform, Zuckerberg suggests in an interview with Joe Rogan.

@disclosetv

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Out of 120 people, 55 survived” - the commander of an unnamed Ukrainian unit under the call sign “Berlin” in an interview with The New York Times. Location - Bakhmut.

"Berlin" has been in command relatively recently, since the previous commander of this unit had his arm torn off as a result of an artillery strike by the RF Armed Forces.

According to "Berlin", the division suffers losses in a large number of wounded from amputations and the consequences of the arrivals of mines, rockets and shells. “The rest are dead,” he summed up the interview.

🇺🇲 Russian Foreign Ministry: "We urge the State Department to pay extra to the employees of the American embassy in Moscow for unbearable working conditions.

Footage of a drunken US Embassy employee in Moscow surfaced.

Navarro Nicholas Stormy. Born in California on November 3, 1995, a career Marine who underwent special training in Quantico (Virginia). Since 2021 - security officer of the US Embassy (security of the outer perimeter of the embassy).

The Marine tried to enter the embassy while being watched by Russian security but was unable to enter due to the doors being closed. He then headed to a different entrance and was allowed in.

🇫🇷 Macron and the "End of the Age of Abundance" in France.

As usual, ordinary Frenchmen, who are not going to ride on yachts, are offered to tighten their belts for the sake of Ukrainian terrorist regime.

Abundance for Macron is not going anywhere.

🇪🇺⚡The cost of a thousand cubic meters of gas in the European market exceeded $3,300

🇷🇺⚡Two power units of the Zaporizhzhya NPP were switched off as a result of emergency protection operation on Thursday - authorities

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Units of the Cossack brigade "DON", acting on the left flank of the Southern Group of Allied Forces, continue to inflict significant blows on units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

During an artillery strike, a dugout was smashed with a direct hit, in which the forward command post of one of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was located.

Reconnaissance was carried out on one of the strongholds of the Ukrainian troops, which was subsequently destroyed.

Over the past few hours, an enemy machine-gun crew and infantry fighting vehicles, as well as several people of the Armed Forces of Ukraine personnel, have also been destroyed.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The paratroopers in the Kherson direction tracked the movement of the enemy group along the forest belt and demilitarized it (the group) with artillery.

Local reporters connected with the DPR military are reporting that the Ukr have changed tactics on the wider Donetsk frontline (from Ugledar in the South to Avdeevka in the North) to an "active" defence,

meaning they attempt counter-attacks in sections of the frontline where the DPR is not attacking. The downside is they have to come out in the open and expose themselves to artillery fire....which has already happened on a couple of occasions

✊🇬🇧 🔌 📈UK faces mass riots over electricity bills

Rising electricity prices could lead to massive civil unrest in the UK . This was warned by the heads of energy companies.

Energy company bosses have warned ministers that they fear civil unrest if nothing is done to soften the blow of rising bills," The Telegraph reported.

Estimates of power engineers are close to the opinion of the participants of the "Do not pay" movement, who advocate the refusal to pay electricity bills.

"If the government does not take much more effective actions to help people, mass civil unrest will begin," says Tom Scott, a member of the movement.

According to experts, by the beginning of 2023, electricity bills for most British families may exceed 6,500 thousand pounds (450 thousand rubles), which will plunge millions of Britons into poverty.

At the same time, Boris Johnson's government, despite the worsening cost-of-living crisis, continues to allocate money to support Ukraine.

The European strategic impasse.

The complete absence of sane strategic forecasts from European think tanks suggests that European analytics is at a strategic impasse.

This is partly due to the reactionary policy, in which, due to the loss of the subjectivity of the EU, no plan

The EU countries are busy plugging holes "for today" in order to solve the issue at any cost in the short term. In the afternoon, we described a vivid example of how Germany lost a long-term intermediary contract that provided a good profit from scratch,

for the sake of a 3-month stabilization of the energy market and filling storage facilities. That is why the EU has no forecasts: their actions are short-term and reactionary. In such conditions, it makes no sense to predict.

& what's the point of creating something, investing somewhere, if there are no forecasts? What does Europe want to be in 5 years? No one has been trying to give a sane answer to this question for a long time.

The maximum planning period available to the EU now is until spring. Everything that is being done is designed to solve the main task - to survive the winter.

Gas is taken anywhere, including in Ukraine. Colleagues described (t.me/rezident_ua/13… ) today, the scheme by which gas is withdrawn to the EU. In fact, the gas in exchange for weapons scheme is being implemented

However, judging by the rhetoric of Macron and Scholz, Europe is ready to continue raising the stakes. Yesterday's statements by both leaders were optimistic for Ukraine.

Shot down (the nay sayers say crashed) AGM-88 Harm missile that was reportedly aimed at the 🇷🇺BUK-M2

Shot down (the nay sayers say crashed) AGM-88 Harm missile that was reportedly aimed at the 🇷🇺BUK-M2

🇷🇺video showing bombs being dropped from drones on Ukr positions

🇺🇦Soldier with a Serbu BFG-50 12.7mm rifle

Sat pics showing smoke rising from the Zaporozhye NPP

🇺🇦Soldiers filming Rus helicopters somewhere on the frontlines

T-62MV (with K-1ERA) some of which are in service with DPR & volunteer units in Ukr...an article I read says it gives about 600 - 650mm of protection vs cumulative rounds compared to 400 -450mm on the more common T-62M (B&W photo)

while being a few tons lighter. Apparently, they're used in the role of an assault gun to support infantry...the last pic is proposal/offer from a company to put K-5 ERA on the turret which would increase protection vs Armour piercing rounds

When German FM Annalena Berbock complains, that the Bundesreich has run out of weapons to help 🇺🇦, she is not lying. Germany in the 1990s-2000s disposed of & sold Cold War stocks, not seeing the point in their content.

The countries of Eastern Europe were then appointed the role of combat hamsters by NATO,

Germany is now in a very interesting situation. Own reserves are almost exhausted & production volumes are still "peacetime" & not adjusted for a conflict, where in a day a BTN can be lost.

What the Germans will do with this situation is the problem of the Germans, but they will have to decide. Either they will be forced to stop supporting 🇺🇦 in the coming months, financing orders in 3rd countries at most,

or sharply increase the production of weapons & military equipment both for supplies to 🇺🇦 and to replenish own stocks. Taking into account the spikes in gas & energy prices & the degradation of industrial chains that has begun, the 2nd option looks ... difficult to implement

Command post or a barrack was hit in Slavyansk. Locals report multiple dead and wounded among the Ukrainian forces positioned there.

Russia has some spotters in Slavyansk.

🇹🇷 Representatives of the US CIA began to show interest in real estate, which Russians are actively acquiring in Turkey, and threaten local business circles with the negative consequences of cooperation with Russia - Yeni Şafak.

❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Highlights of Russian Military Operation in Ukraine on August 25, 2022

▪️In Kursk Region, an attempt to undermine the railway track was made on the line Klyukva-Kursk.

▪️In the northern Kharkiv Region, Russian Armed Forces struck a concentration of enemy manpower and equipment in Bohodukhiv, Merefa, Tsyrkuny and other settlements.

▪️In Soledar, LPR People’s Militia's 6th Cossak Regiment is fighting on the outskirts of Belokamenskiy Refractory Plant and Zalevskoho Street.

▪️Ukrainian units failed the attempts to counterattack in several areas near Bakhmut (Artemivsk), suffered losses and retreated.

▪️In the eastern part of Bakhmut (Artemivsk), Wagner's PMC units are fighting in urban areas.

▪️Ukrainian formations launched massive strikes on towns in the Donetsk agglomeration. Civilians including children injured and killed.

▪️Russian Aerospace Forces continue strikes against identified AFU firing points and fortifications near Mar'inka, Krasnohorivka and Nevel's'ke.

▪️Near Vuhledar, Allied Forces repelled another unsuccessful counterattack by Ukrainian forces resulting in enemy losses and their retreat to previous positions.

▪️Near Zaporizhzhia NPP, another strike by AFU provoked a strong fire. The plant was disconnected from the power grid. The power supply of the liberated areas in Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions was disrupted.

▪️In Kryvyi Rih area of the front, AFU units once again failed to storm the positions of Russian Armed Forces in Vysokopillya, suffered losses and retreated.

▪️Russian Aerospace Forces launched a strike with high-precision weapons against Mirhorod military airfield in Poltava Region and hit, as preliminary reported, five AFU combat aircrafts.

▪️Missile strikes also targeted AFU military infrastructure in the Vyshhorod district

A blogger from Dnepropetrovsk Lisa Koshlyak recorded an emotional video where she accused Ukrainian nationalists of provoking war.

"I live in the city of Dnipro, where everyone speaks Russian. There are some d* who say that "here, because of people like you, we suffer." No, it's because of people like you - we suffer!" she said.

Liza Koshlyak is the daughter of Mikhail Koshlyak, the head of the Judo Federation of Ukraine and an associate of the Mayor of Dnepropetrovsk Boris Filatov. Therefore, Lisa was not beaten, taken to the basements of the SBU and not killed. And "just" was hounded for her statements

⚡️🇺🇦Energoatom informs that all units of the Zaporizhia NPP are disconnected from the power system of Ukraine.

The Zaporozhye authorities denied such statements yesterday.

Looks like a whole 🇷🇺Tank Btn lined up somewhere in the Donbas

🇺🇦"We are confused that the spiritual homeland of Ukraine is the West. She has always belonged to Kievan Rus...

I, [working in the Office of the President], can no longer speak against the European Union, it will contradict the team in which I work…

I am a supporter of the Turkish way… I am sure that we will bitterly regret the path we have chosen… As the European Union is a circumcision of its own historical destiny"

An interview in which Arestovich criticizes the idea of rapprochement between the European Union and Ukraine and the republic's desire to join the EU

The FSB reported on the detention of a Ukrainian intelligence agent: this is a citizen of Ukraine who lived in Kursk. He is suspected of involvement in collecting and transmitting information about objects of the Russian Defense Ministry.

At the detainee's home, they found special equipment handed over by Ukrainian intelligence, literature on sniper training and guerrilla warfare. A case of espionage has been initiated.

IKEA has announced a return to Russia. The loss of a huge market and common sense is stronger than tantrums

🇷🇺Su-25s in Kherson-Nikolaev front

Zala-Aero drone in Kharkov region

Remains of a M-31 rocket (Himars) at Stakhanov where 2 people are reported killed

⚡️BREAKING NEWS⚡️

Belarusian military aircraft have been successfully RE-EQUIPPED in order to carry NUCLEAR PAYLOADS - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.

UPDATE: Lukashenko says Belarus PREPARED to respond to THREATS from West, stating no amount of military might will SAVE Western countries if they ESCALATE tensions.

⚡️ Russia is "restarting" the production of the Tu-160 "White Swan" bomber.

Russia intends to triple its forces by launching mass production of this mighty aircraft in the near future.

The production rate is at least three aircraft per year, so that in the period from 2023 to 2027, at least 10 aircraft will appear, writes 19FortyFive.

The Tu-160 is a multi-purpose strategic bomber capable of flying at subsonic and low altitudes to speeds over Mach 2 at high altitude. Its 2 arsenals contain a wide range of specific weapons, including strategic cruise missiles, short-range guided missiles, nuclear & conventional

Video of the train that was destroyed during the Iskander strike on Chaplino train station before the attack with "civilians" about to board it

The Ukr are basically potraying that attack as another mini "Bucha"

Spiegel: The German security service found out that Putin's agents were following the Ukrainian military training to use Western weapons

Spiegel magazine writes that Russian agents probably used scanners to spy on Ukrainians' mobile phones. Minidrones with cameras were also seen above the training grounds.

🇷🇺AA fire on Ukr drone at Evpatoria (Crimea)

The deputy commander of the AFU Operational Command "North", Colonel Yaroslav Pistun has been killed...he was burried in Bucha near Kiev

Footage from the fighting in the Kharkov area

The Ukr bombed the Antonovsky bridge again (on Friday)....not long after it was opened for traffic again

Sat pics of the bridge under repairs before the latest attack....

Video of a car bomb exploding in the LPR that killed some civilians. The target was some "collaborator" acc to the Ukr ....video is from Aug 11

💥Concentrated strikes on combat positions of units of 25th Airborne Brigade of AFU near Seversk and 101st Territorial Defence Brigade near Yakovlevka in Donetsk People's Republic, have destroyed over 50 nationalists and 9 units of armoured vehicles and motor vehicles.

▫️Due to heavy losses and loss of combat effectiveness, servicemen of units of 53rd Mechanized Brigade of AFU in Novomikhailovka, Donetsk People's Republic, and 93rd Mechanized Brigade of AFU in Dibrovnoye, Kharkov Region, left their positions and withdrew from the battle areas.

▫️Representatives of the Committee of the Heads of Personnel Management Bodies of the CIS defence ministries discussed the development of cooperation between the armed forces on politico-military work.

❗️ Zaporozhye nuclear power plant has been shelled twice by Ukrainian troops with large-calibre artillery guns in the past 24 hours.

⚠️ Russian Federation's Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response continues to record numerous facts of criminal actions by Kiev regime against civilians, as well as the use of civilian infrastructure for military purposes by Ukrainian armed formations.

⚠️Ukrainian armed formations continue to strike at social infrastructure facilities, including medical facilities.

Footage of combat operation of combat operation of Central MD’s military traffic police,Western MD's Grad multiple rocket launcher crews during the special military operation,as well as awarding ceremony of soldiers of 2nd Army Corps of Lugansk People's Militia has been published

🌐 International Army Games 2022 are nearing completion. According to preliminary results, Russia is currently in the lead in the overall standings, with Uzbekistan in second place and Belarus in third.

🇺🇦The Ukr have bombed the town of Kuybishevo in Zaporozhye region with Himars

🇷🇺shelling of a school that was used by the Ukr Army in Nikolaev region

🇷🇺TOR-M2 shooting down a drone

🇺🇦Brimstone being fired in the background

Videos and pics from ongoing Iranian exercise during which some novelties were shown, incl the "Karrar" drone armed with a forward firing machine gun (against enemy drones?) and a sub launched drone

🇷🇺Tank and Infantry in what looks like BMP-3s attacking a Ukr trench line

⚡️Mandatory evacuation may be announced in Nikolaev, Zaporozhye and Kharkov regions

This was stated by 🇺🇦Deputy PM Irina Vereshchuk, noting that we are talking about individual areas.

"I'm not talking about the entire region, but parts will need mandatory evacuation.

The multi-functional low-visibility high-precision aviation cruise missile of the new generation X-69 (aka Kh-69) was created at the Design Bureau "Raduga"

Designed to fit into the internal weapons bay of the Su-57 but can be carried by 4th gen aircraft externally.

The missile is equipped with a combined navigation and automatic control system (SNAU) based on a strapdown inertial system, combined with GLONASS and GPS satellite navigation systems,

The dual-circuit turbojet engine accelerates the X-69 to 700-1000 km/h. The maxi range is 290 km, and the altitude above the earth's surface is 50-300 m, depending on the terrain. The height of the terrain covered by the missile is up to 4 km.

The X-69 can be equipped with a penetrating or cluster warhead weighing 310 or 300 kg, respectively.CEP is 5-7 m.

The X-69 can be launched from a carrier aircraft when it is flying at altitudes from 200 meters to 11 km and at a speed of 0.5-0.9 M.

Kh-MD-E - SR multi-purpose missile of modular construction developed at the parent company of the Tactical Missile Armament Corporation.

X-MD-E can be used at any time of the day incl in difficult weather conditions.

There are 3 versions with different homing heads:

active radar - X-MD-E2
passive radar - X-MD-E3
semi-active laser - X-MD-E1.

head is supplemented by an inertial and noise-proof satellite guidance system, and the X-MD-E2 and X-MD-E3 also have thermal imaging finishing channels.

Engine is a dual-mode solid fuel.

The range of rocket launch heights is from 0 - 9000 m.

The range from a max altitude = 40 km.

At zero altitude the missile can hit targets at a range of up to 20 km.

In other words, the X-MD-E rocket can also be launched from a stationary ground platform or a carrier moving at a low speed, for example a boat. No pics of the missile are available but some sources say it's a development of the Izd-85 first shown in 2020

Pentagon signs $182 mln contract with Raytheon for 3 NASAMS systems for Ukraine
Estimated completion date for the production of complexes is scheduled for August 2024.

❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Highlights of Russian Military Operation in Ukraine on August 26, 2022

▪️Russian Armed Forces struck the concentrations of enemy manpower and military equipment in Sumy and Chernihiv regions.

▪️In the northern Kharkiv Region, positional fighting takes place near Peremoha; and west of Udy and Vesele.

▪️Ukrainian Command transferred armored vehicles to Pytomnyk in an attempt to strengthen the defence in this area of the front.

▪️AFU launched a missile strike on Kadiivka and destroyed Donbass Hotel hosting a field hospital for servicemen and civilians in one of the floors.
In Soledar, LPR People’s Militia forces continue fighting on the southern outskirts of the city near Belokamenskiy Refractory Plant.

▪️Wagner's PMC assault units, supported by aviation and artillery, gained a foothold in the eastern part of Bakhmut (Artemivsk).

▪️AFU massively shelled towns in Donbass once again. As a result, several civilians were injured and killed in Donetsk, Horlivka, and Yasynuvata.

▪️ Ukrainian strikes on Kam'yanka (Kuybyshevo) destroyed several multi-story apartment buildings, with casualties including a child.

▪️Another terrorist attack took place in Berdyans'k. As a result of a blast, Deputy Chief of Berdyans'k's Traffic Police was killed

▪️Artillery strikes on Zaporizhzhia NPP continue. Several shells were fired at the radioactive isotope storage facility.

▪️RAF retaliate against identified Ukrainian artillery positions on the other bank of Dnipro River and hit M777 howitzer positions west of Marhanets’.

▪️AFU continue to attack civilian infrastructure in Kherson Region and struck Antonivs’kyy bridge again. Some of missiles were shot down by Russian Air Defence means.

🇷🇺TV crew visited Blagodatnoe (Nikolaev region) & spoke to the paratroopers who captured it.They say there were 2 Ukr counter attacks that were repulsed and they have spread "butterly" mines via MRLS which complictes movement.the current frontlne is several km West of Blagodatnoe

🇷🇺VDV firing RPO Schmel Thermobaric launchers somewhere in Ukraine

🇷🇺video of the 'Nobius' radar on the frontline...this is the version of the Nebo radar family used by the PVO-SV (Army Air Defence)

First death notices have appeared from the passengers on the train that was bombed at Chaplino station

M-80A IFV (from Slovenia) in service with the 🇺🇦24th Mech Bgd

Truck mounted 2B9 'Vasilek' 82mm Auto Mortar in use by the 🇷🇺LPR

🇷🇺VDV on the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction via RT

Donetsk this morning local time — RT

Temporary departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions have been incorporated in the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia

Special reports on various incidents, from serious war crimes to thefts and extortion, are now sent to the Central Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs

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M-240 Machine Gun with night sights captured by paratroopers from the 76th Airborne Division...these are relatively rare on the frontlines apparently

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡Ukrainian troops launched 20 artillery strikes on Energodar on Saturday morning, five of them on the territory of the nuclear power plant, city officials report

Serbian Army armour being moved towards Kosovo as Sep 1 is getting closer when clashes could break out....T-72B1MS & M-84 tanks + 'Lazar' APCs can be seen

The recent fires near the Zaporozhye NPP were organized and paid for by the former mayor of Energodar, he also demanded photo and video reports, said Vladimir Rogov, a member of the administration of the Zaporozhye region.

⚡️BREAKING NEWS⚡️

Donetsk People's Republic military ELIMINATED an American mercenary fighting for Ukraine, DPR authorities notified US representatives and UN monitoring mission about his death, his body is ready to be handed over to his family - DPR authorities.

🇷🇸Will the West and Pristina prepare tactical incidents: how to convince " Serbia to recognize a false Kosovo

The activities of Miroslav Lajcak (EU) and Gabriel Escobar (US) are not yielding results, because they cannot overcome the most important thing – Serbia's consent to the independence of Kosovo & Metohija.

Therefore, it is quite possible that the West and Pristina will provoke tactical controlled incidents in order to "convince" Serbia to change positions. The West will not use strong pressure on Serbia, and this is Belgrade's chance.

This is how the former head of Yugoslav diplomacy Vladislav Jovanovic comments on the results of the multi-day activities of the EU and US Special Envoys Miroslav Lajcak and Gabriel Escobar.

🇬🇧🇺🇦 Britain to give Ukraine underwater drones - UK Ministry of Defense

🇷🇺Train loaded with heavy equipment filmed in Crimea near the Crimean bridge

T-72 and T-80 tanks;
▪️ 152-mm and 122-mm 2S19 Msta-S and Gvozdika;
▪️ infantry fighting vehicles, trucks, fuel tanks;
▪️ engineering and sapper machines.

☢️ what is happening at the Zaporozhye NPP - information of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:

💥 4 projectiles hit the roof of special corps No. 1, where 168 assemblies with American nuclear fuel of the Westinghouse company are stored;

💥 10 shells exploded 30 meters from the dry storage of spent nuclear fuel;

💥 3 shells exploded in the area of special corps No. 2, where the TVEL company's fresh nuclear fuel storage unit and the solid radioactive waste storage facility are located;

❗️ the radiation situation at the Zaporozhye NPP remains normal;

▪️ Russian military specialists are guarding the outer perimeter of the station. There are no heavy weapons in the area of the nuclear power plant.

🇷🇺Su-25s

Russia's conditions for talks with Ukraine spelled out by a Russian official (Leonid Slutsky)

⚡️HAPPENING NOW⚡️

Footage shows explosions LIGHTING UP night sky amid reports of Ukrainian army STRIKES on Russian-held Kherson, South Ukraine.

As mentioned in the comments section, there are reports that Kodema (SE of Artemovsk-Bakhmut) has fallen to the Russians. So far only local reports from people who live there reporting the Russian flag is flying there...lets see if more info is published

Pics of the 🇷🇺3rd Army Corps which is staffed mainly with volunteers and is gathering at the Mulino training ground in Russia before deployment to Ukraine.

They seem to be equipped with T-90M & T-80BVM tanks, BMP-3 (model 2015), Typhoon Armoured trucks and AK-12 rifles

It's numerical strength is not clear. Reports vary from 20 000 up to 50 000

It's also not known whether they will be deployed in the east of Ukr or the south

Another 🇷🇺train with equipment....BUK SAM systems and support vehicles...don't have the location

The Ukr attacked the Nova Kakhovka PP and dam....so far no reports of the damage...the local authorities say most of the rockets were shot down

Video of a Ukr attack on positions of 🇷🇺Marines from the Pacific Fleet at Ugledar

Missile strikes on a Ukr warehouse in Nikolaev....as usual, it contained "humanitarian aid" acc to the mayor

Clearing of Ukr trench at Krasnogorovka - Graphic!

Couple of videos from Marinka (Donetsk frontline)

🇷🇺Video from Seversk area

Reportedly fragments from a shot down Himars rocket at Donetsk

Destroyed 🇺🇦BUK-M1 Sam system

🇺🇦L-119 105mm Howitzer

Reports are beginning to appear that Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid al-Qubeiba has fled Tripoli, Libya

Abdul Hamid is considered close to the authorities of Canada and Britain.

Recall that the conflict in Libya broke out between two governments - Bashagi, agreed by the deputies of the country, and Dbeiba. The latter refused to transfer power until the presidential election. The clashes began in the evening of Aug 25 in the south of Tripoli.We wait & see

Video from Tripoli - Libya

🇺🇦 Mobilization in Ukraine proceeds according to plan

🇫🇷🇩🇪⚡France and Germany intend in a joint statement to urge the EU countries to continue issuing visas to Russians not associated with the authorities

Bloomberg has the text of a document prepared for a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Prague next week.

🇷🇸🇽🇰⚡Serbia and Kosovo agreed on entry

Belgrade will cancel entry/exit documents for Kosovo ID card holders, and Pristina has agreed not to introduce them for Serbian ID card holders.

🇳🇴⚡The world’s largest fertilizer company Yara, based in Norway, had announced a 50 percent cut to its ammonia-based urea and nitrogen fertilizer production in Europe, citing “record high prices.”

On Aug 21, after a military clash with the DPR servicemen, in which the 56th brigade of the AFU lost more than 20 people (of which about 10 were irretrievable), a real riot arose in several units of the brigade. More than 1 & 1/2 hundred people refused to obey the orders

The situation is aggravated by the fact that the brigade itself is now understaffed with recently mobilized citizens who do not have the proper level of training and are not motivated to fight.

Earlier it was reported that their relatives launched a flash mob on the Internet demanding to save their relatives from imminent death at the forefront due to problems with the supply of weapons and protective equipment.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇦🇿 In the Nikolaev direction, as a result of Russian shelling, an Azerbaijani Huseynov Said Vasif oglu was destroyed.

This was announced by the representative of the Azerbaijani diaspora in Ukraine, journalist Anar Natigoglu.

https://twitter.com/PrateekRoutray/status/1563669699463749632?t=ugz7afHdy6TFDh5Im3sgng&s=19

I am not sure of this video. Ukr accounts are telling that it's Rus getting attacked and Rus accounts are telling that Ukranian counter offensive in Ugledar direction ends just like the counter offensive in Kherson. Have no idea who is saying the truth

🇷🇺🇺🇦 "Wagner" fighters successfully use the TOS-1A heavy flamethrower system against the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who have settled in their holes near Artyomovsk

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡The main thing from the new briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:

▪️More than 200 military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed as a result of the successful actions of the allied forces in the Kharkiv direction;

▪️The Ukrainian Armed Forces fired at the Zaporozhye NPP three times over the past day;

▪️Four shells of the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit the roof of the ZNPP special building No. 1, where elements with American nuclear fuel are stored;

▪️The radiation situation at the Zaporozhye NPP remains normal;

▪️Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Ukrainian MiG-29 near Malinovka in the DPR;

▪️Ukrainian Armed Forces are shelling ZNPP from the Marganets region in the Dnipropetrovsk region, where an American M777 howitzer was identified and destroyed

▪️Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed more than 40% of the personnel of one of the battalions of the 63rd Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Nikolaev region

▪️Russian air defense shot down seven Ukrainian UAVs, intercepted a Tochka-U missile and eighteen US-made MLRS HIMARS shells;

▪️More than 130 militants were killed while trying to cross the Ingulets River in the Lozovoye area in the Kherson region.

🇷🇺⚡Vladimir Putin signed a decree on temporary measures to regulate the legal status of citizens of the DPR, LPR and Ukraine in Russia

According to the decree of the President, refugees from the DPR, LPR and Ukraine were assigned a monthly pension in the amount of 10,000 rubles, payment to veterans of the Great Patriotic War - 5,000 rubles.

❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦Putin signed a decree on the right of citizens of the DPR, LPR and Ukraine to stay in the Russian Federation without time limits, subject to fingerprinting, photography and medical examination.

🇷🇺🇺🇦Citizens of the LPR, DPR and Ukraine have the right to work in the Russian Federation without a work permit or patent - presidential decree.

🇷🇺 Russia builds new houses in Mariupol for those who lost their homes- it will be free

Situation at Blagodatnoe on Aug 27. The Ukr defence line marked on the map is the last main obstacle before Nikolaev in this section of the front and not much behind it

🇷🇺Shelling of a Ukr strong point in Nikolaev region

Ukr artillery is suppressed by the "Grads" of the second brigade of the LPR. There is a battle going on in a nearby forest belt. An asault group from the 2nd brigade was assigned the task of occupying the forest belt. Recently, the Ukr were forced to withdraw from there

The battles near Yakovlevka are difficult. At the same time, the People's Militia of the LPR and Russian troops are moving forward carefully. A few kilometers remain to one of the key fortified areas of the Ukrainian troops. — ZvezdaNews

🇷🇺Soldier with a Mossin-Nagant rifle with scope in Izum area....

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Zaporozhye after missile strikes

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The Ukr command is reporting problems with navigation equipment in the Slavyansk area . They believe an EW system is operating from the settlement of Novaya Dmitrovka in the Slavyansk direction. This village is located just a few kilometers from the key defence hub - Barvenkovo.

Also in the summary of the General Staff of the Ukrainian armed forces, attention is drawn to the statement that Russian troops attempted to conduct reconnaissance operations in the area of the village of Potemkino.

This locality is located in the north of the Kherson region near the border with Dnepropetrovsk region. The very fact that the Russian forces have become more active in this area may indicate that our troops are trying to reach the right (northern) bank of the Kakhovsky reservoir

The goal is clear – to push the Ukrainian troops back from the Marganets-Nikopol line, so that they can minimize the possibility of shelling the Zaporizhia NPP. - (TopWar.Ru)

Video of a 🇷🇺Kornet missile from the O group

Donetsk

Videos from Tripoli Libya. Second video shows Turkish Bayraktar in Tripoli. They deny they're involved in the fighting

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡The Russian army continues its offensive and delivers massive strikes - the main thing from the summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine:

▪️In the Kharkiv direction, the RF Armed Forces continue their offensive in the direction of Dementievka.
▪️ In the Kramatorsk direction, Russian troops are conducting assault operations in the Grigorievka area.

▪️ In the Artyomovsk direction, fighting continues in the areas of the settlements of Soledar, Zaitsevo and Mayorsk.

🇺🇲🇺🇦 The Pentagon signed a contract with Raytheon for the purchase of NASAMS air defense systems for Ukr for $182 million
Payment will be made from funds previously allocated to the initiative to promote the security of Ukr

It is specified that the contract can last until 2024.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Captured Ukrainian soldiers

🇷🇺 Flight of the Valkyries. Army aviation group Brave.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡Ukrainian troops launched 20 artillery strikes on Energodar on Saturday morning, five of them on the territory of the nuclear power plant, city officials report

🇺🇸🇹🇼🇨🇳Two US Navy warships (Chancellorsville and Antietam) are passing through international waters in the Taiwan Strait, in what is the first such naval operation since US-China tensions escalated after US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, Reuters reports citing US

🇷🇺🇺🇦 According to a number of reports from the field, Kodema completely came under the control of the Russian army.

🇪🇺🇷🇺 Cost of 1 MW/h in Europe and Russia

Russian Army Buddhists in Ukraine

Satellite images of the results of an Israeli strike in Syrian Masyaf a few days ago have been published.
#Syria

Scary if true, although not unexpected

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08/28/2022
Nikolaev region

Servicemen of the 18th Separate Marine Battalion of the 35th Specialized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine refuses to fight.

The commander of a AFU unit, Vladimir Rekhesha, with the call sign "Santa", said on his Facebook page that during the battles for Peski, the Ukrainian army lost about "five hundred fighters" killed.

In addition, Rehesha spoke about the problems of low accuracy of the AFU arti

Kodema is confirmed under Russian control.

🇷🇺VDV patrol in Nikolaev region. They say they sometimes have encounters with small Ukr Recon-Sabotage groups but they haven't detected any large scale movements in this area

Energodar has been shelled by the Ukrainians. This is the town where the Zaporozhye NPP is located, although this time the residential areas were the target

A Ukr drone was shot down over the sea at Sevastopol. Video of cannon fire from a Pantsir-S1

🇷🇺Missile strikes in Rovno region (NW Ukraine). Earlier Belorussian opposition channels reported Russian aircraft launching missiles from Belorus

The Kakhovka hydropower plant and the city of Novaya Kakhovka in the Kherson region were shelled by Ukrainian troops three times during the day, causing fire at the Sokol plant, Vladimir Leontyev, head of the regional military-civilian administration, said.

"There were three rocket attacks today. The targets were: the hydropower plant and the city. Fragments of rockets hit the city’s center, damaging civilian facilities. Apart from that, a strike was delivered at the Sokol plant in the center of the city. Fire," he said

There are also reports that Ukr drone was shot down over the Zaporozhye NPP. The Rus say it was targeting the storage of spent nuclera fuel at the PP. The drone was strapped with explosives & exploded in the sky. The remains of the drone caused a small fire on the ground

First Video from Udi, (North Kharkov area)

From Sep 1 to Sep 7, the large scale exercise "Vostok 2022" will be held in the east of Russia. Units from the Eastern Military District and VDV will be taking part.

As part of the coalition groups of troops, joint actions will be practiced by operational groups, military contingents and observers from the countries of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and other partner states, including:

Azerbaijan, Algeria, Armenia, Belarus, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, People's Republic of China, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Mongolia, Nicaragua, The Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan.

Combat employment "Kornet" missile system by soldiers of the western Military district ....AFU firing points, vehicles and engineering structures were targeted — MOD RF

TOS-1A

Despite the bravura statements of a number of DNR channels, the village is still not fully occupied. The advance of the assault detachments of the Wagner PMCs is complicated by the numerical superiority of the enemy, as well as heavy fire from a commanding height.

To the west, a hill adjoins the village, where a fortified area is established. From a height, the whole village is in the palm of your hand.

However, the PMC assault detachments have already managed to occupy half of the Kodema, & most likely, the settlement will fall in soon

The capture of Kodema is important for the further cleaning of the southern approaches to Bakhmut: despite the fact that the PMCs units went to Patrice Lumumba Street, the assault on the city has not yet begun.

It will be possible to talk about this only after the former Artemovsk will be taken into a semi-circle, and the entire southern flank will be ours.

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦💥 Opinion: "Older than Edda" about HIMARS⚡️

A few days ago I wrote that the AFU is using HIMARS much more frequently and firing at every barn.

On the one hand, this is certainly bad, because the number of missiles used for such salvos and the selection of targets suggest that the AFU has no problems with ammunition.

On the other hand, the American MLRS has turned from a highly accurate and frightening weapon into a routine to which not much attention is paid, but this "wonder weapon" is regarded as a necessary evil of war that cannot be avoided, and this fact is simply accepted.

Yesterday and today there were massive salvos in Izyum and Svatove (in Svatove a farm was hit, destroying combine harvesters). These salvos have a psychological effect and are aimed at civilians and those new to the front. Soldiers who have been in the war for a longer time view

By the way, half of the missiles fired at Izyum were shot down by our truly heroic air defence forces.

Sofa experts can cry: Why so few? Where is the Death Star that shoots down everything! Where are the air defences!?

I will simply answer them that in the first attacks the anti-aircraft soldiers of Izyum only shot down the first missile of a salvo (6 shells). Now they have already managed to shoot down 4 out of 8.

Nataliya Vovk the suspected killer of Darija Dugina was earlier reported killed but the Austrian Police cannot confirm the info see link
sputniknews.com/20220828/austr…

The Russian Aerospace Forces and Air Defense have actually eliminated the qualified flight personnel of the Ukrainian Air Force, a military-diplomatic source said.

According to him, Kiev used former cadets for combat missions, who did not have time to finish their training, and they are shot down, if not on the first, then already on the second sortie.

The source noted that the Westerners' attempts to recruit pilots of Soviet aircraft under contract in Poland and other Eastern European countries also failed: those who agreed "already in graves and hospitals."

The Pentagon is recruiting for Kiev former Afghan combat trainer pilots who fled to the United States a year ago, their training began in California, the source said.

☢️ The IAEA mission is being sent to the Zaporozhye NPP

It will arrive there this week, It's mission will be to make sure the nuclear object is safe IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi said.

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦💥 Renewed shelling of Energodar⚡️

Ukrainian forces shelled #Energodar again at 22:00 on 28 August. So far, the number of casualties has risen to nine, with two civilians in critical condition.

This is irrefutable evidence of shelling from the opposite bank of the Kakhovka reservoir. It is most likely that the shelling was from the southern bank of #Nikopol.

Russian forces regularly suppress AFU fire on the opposite bank of the reservoir. However as the territory of the Dnipropetrovsk region is completely under AFU control, the threat to the #Zaporozhye NPP & #Energodar cannot be eliminated until the areas to the north are controlled

Footage from the fighting at Blagodatnoe (Nikolaev region) from a few days ago has been published

Foreign contingents have begun to arrive in Russia for the Vostok-2022 exercise. The Chinese and Mongolians shown in the video

@Rybar team continues to report on the progress of the Russian military operation in Ukraine in a single bulletin with the most significant events of the week.

So, what has happened in the military operation zone over the past seven days?

▪️Russian Armed Forces continue to expand the security zone along the Russian border in Kharkiv Region. Active fighting is taking place near Udy and Sosnivka: Ukrainian sabotage-reconnaissance groups have made repeated attempts to retake the liberated villages.

▪️At the beginning of August, AFU occupied dominant heights to the south of the Brazhkivka-Sulyhivka-Dovhen'ke line. Russian Armed Forces were forced to switch to manoeuvring defence on the front.

The Russian Armed Forces launched simultaneous offensives in two areas, attempting to retake heights and expand their zone of control around Mala Komyshuvakha.

▪️Wagner's PMC assault groups continue to methodically destroy the enemy's firing points in Bakhmut (Artemivsk).

Part of PMC's forces is engaged in mopping up Kodema and Zaitseve from Vesela Dolyna. At the same time, units of LPR People's Militia are trying to advance deeper into Soledar from the Knauf Gips Donbass Factory.

▪️ Russian troops were able to knock AFU out from their strongholds on the outskirts of Pavlivka near Vuhledar.

▪️AFU continue intensive shelling of Europe's largest nuclear power plant and Energodar city. Zaporizhzhya NPP is hit from the opposite bank of Kakhovka Reservoir from Nikopol', Marhanets' and Mar'yevka.

▪️Following the liberation of Blahodatne (Komsomol'ske), Russian units are within five kilometres of a major fortification along the western bank of Bilozerka River near Mykolaiv.

The Russian-Indian company Brahmos is ready to supply supersonic missiles to the Russian military, they "will be very useful," one of the directors of the company told Sputnik

Footage of a 🇷🇺Mortar crew.

This is hilarious, UK media used to laugh about the Admiral Kuznetzov...

news.sky.com/story/uks-bigg…

Destroyed Ukrainian armor in the Nikolaevsky direction

LOL

Austria's largest energy company Wien Energie said it needed 1.7 billion euros to maintain liquidity

Tripoli - Libya overnight

The Greek S-300 locked onto a group of F-16 fighters of the Turkish Air Force during their flight over the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas.

CNN Turk reports that the Greek S-300 air defense system stationed on the island of Crete fired a missile at a Turkish F-16 fighter, which was conducting reconnaissance.

The Greek side denies opening fire

A few days ago, Ankara also reported that Greek fighter jets carried out a radar lock on of Turkish F-16s without launching missiles, real or electronic.

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I guess this means the Greek S-300 isn't in Ukraine

Alexey Kovalev, Deputy Chairman for Agriculture of the Kherson region, was killed by a shotgun blast. There was also an attack on his 38-year-old partner Kovaleva who was wounded in the neck with a knife

It is reported that his body with a gunshot wound to the head was found in his house in the city of Naked Pier in the Kherson region.

Nearby was a Mossberg pump-action shotgun, which was officially registered to Alexey Kovalev himself.....not clear at this stage whether this was one of the SBU assasinations or a dispute of some sort

Video of LPR Artillery at one of the frontlines

One of the captured Ukr positions-trenches in the Peski-Nevelskoe area — GRAPHIC!

Another video of a DPR drone dropping a bomb on Ukr positions

Temporary base of the Ukr Foreign Legion at Moldava (North Kharkov) which was discovered by aerial recon was bombed

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Peskov: Russia guarantees the safety of IAEA experts when moving around the territory under its control near the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.

According to him, IAEA experts will arrive at the station through the territory controlled by Ukraine. The presidential press secretary also stressed that Russia is interested in the IAEA mission.

Ukr channels have announced the start of the big offensive on Kherson. They say they've broken through a defence line and that DPR (?) units have withdrawn. Also military targets in the town of Berislav have been bombed

In the Ukrainian Telegram channels, news is spreading about the beginning of the offensive on Kherson and the "breakthrough of the first defensive lines."As proof, they cite such a video, which fits perfectly into the framework of the information & theatrical production of AFU

If you look at the objective data, then yes, the AFU began massive artillery shelling from the side of Posad-Pokrovsky in the direction of Chernobayevka. MLRS HIMARS are trying to hit targets in the rear

At the moment, there is no objective data confirming the loss of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation of any positions.

🇷🇺Su-25s - Kherson-Nikolaev front

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Assault by units of the Airborne Forces of the Russian Federation of the settlement of Blagodatnoye, Nikolaev region.

🇺🇦🇷🇺 If the IAEA does not conclude that Russia is violating nuclear protocols, Russia will put the world at risk of a nuclear catastrophe - Ukrainian Foreign Minister

🇺🇦🇷🇺 New footage of a downed Ukrainian kamikaze drone that tried to attack the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant

As previously reported, the downed drone fell on the roof of the special building of the nuclear power plant. After the impact, the wearable charge detonated, but sources in the city administration report that there are no infrastructure damage and no human casualties.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Heavy battles are reported in the Nikolaev direction. Enemy tanks are operating in the Posad-Pokrovsky area. Aggravation along the entire front line.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Two Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft were shot down in the Zaporozhye region and the DPR yesterday: Russian Defense Ministry

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian special forces are working behind enemy lines: one of the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was blown up by a booby trap set by Russian soldiers in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction

🇬🇧 ⚡️Britain announced a 80% hike in electricity and gas bills, with the worsening economic situation and unprecedented hike in cost of living in the UK. It looks like the island nation will have a dark winter this year.

🇺🇦⚡The head of the Ukrainian Naftogaz, Vitrenko, advised Ukrainians to stock up on blankets and warm clothes in anticipation of winter.

He noted that the heating season in Ukraine will start later and end earlier. Also, according to him, without the help of the West, the country will lack gas, which creates the risk of failure of the energy system.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Mission of IAEA specialists to Zaporozhye NPP will last from August 31 to September 3 - The Wall Street Journal, citing internal Ukrainian documents

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian troops caught enemy artillery on the march

A video appeared on the network showing an armored M1083 truck of the Kiev regime forces, which received shrapnel damage.

Similar trucks are used to transport 155mm M777 howitzers.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 So far, Matsulevich, who announced that the battles for Kherson have officially begun, has officially deleted his status 🤡

🇷🇺🇺🇦Ramzan Kadyrov published footage of the defeat of positions and fortifications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Seversk direction. Russian troops unleash a hail of fire and steel on the enemy, forcing the surviving AFU soldiers to leave their positions in a hurry.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡ A tank battalion and two infantry battalions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were thrown in the direction of Velikaya Kostromka - Dutchany, journalist Anatoly Shariy reports.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Head of Crimea Aksyonov denies reports of the beginning of the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the southern direction

This is the same information stuffing, like all the previous ones, like the virtual“attacks ”of the Crimean bridge, which the couch troops of the Kiev regime have carried out more than once. Ukr formations are suffering severe losses both in the south and in all other directions

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Due to the shelling of Novaya Kakhovka, an evacuation was announced in the city. Residents of the city are asked to proceed to bomb shelters due to the shelling of the city from the MLRS. The work of air defense systems also continues.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Ka-52 and Mi-28 are actively destroying khokhols in Kherson region

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡The RF Armed Forces strike at Nikolaev.

There were unconfirmed reports of the destruction of the headquarters of one of the Ukrainian brigades.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Air raid sirens in Nikolaev after attacks on AFU facilities in the city.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 It is hard not to notice that the Ukrainian attempts to attack began exactly at the moment when the Third Army Corps began to drive south.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡When the Khokhol is not cut for a very long time, he himself rushes to the knife.

Brief description of today's Ukrainian counteroffensive.

Ukraine has suffered major casualties today

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡In general, on the counterattack on Kherson.

1. In the area of ​​Blagodatny, the enemy attacked, suffered losses, retreated to the starting points.
2. In the area of ​​​​Snigirevka, they attacked, suffered losses, retreated to the starting points.

3. In the area of ​​​​Andreevka, the situation is not completely clear, there are reports that the enemy advanced several kilometers to the village of Sukhoi Stavok and even took it. So far, without photo / video evidence, the fighting continues there.

4. In the Davydov Brod area, the front remains stable.
5. In the area of ​​Vysokopolye, Olgovka and Potemkino, the attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were unsuccessful

Accordingly, if the enemy fails to achieve some success and consolidate them in the area of ​​​​the village of Sukhoi Stavok, the "offensive" will turn out to be completely rotten.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 One thing can be said about today's offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the southern front. The general flow of informational noise absolutely drowns out real information.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine finally decided on a counteroffensive, threw significant forces there, now it is necessary to understand what losses the attacking side will suffer and whether they will eventually be able to move forward and hold the captured positions

In my opinion, everything will end as before, that is, nothing with significant losses in personnel and equipment.

The AFU attempted a limited "counterattack" today on the Kherson front. The troops and equipment involved were immediately savaged by Russian artillery and airstrikes.

The AFU has no meaningful offensive capacity. Leaving their defensive positions only hastens their destruction.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the south, the area - north of Posad-Pokrovsky:

▪️Two Su-25 attack aircraft of the Armed Forces of the Ukraine were shot down

▪️7-8 infantry fighting vehicles, 4-5 tanks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed in the same area

▪️Infantry worked - large losses of personnel in the Armed Forces of Ukraine

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡The IAEA mission headed by Grossi left Vienna for the Zaporozhye NPP.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Ukrainian troops launched an offensive in Mykolaiv and Kherson regions in three directions, suffered heavy losses — Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡During the Ukrainian offensive, 26 Ukrainian tanks, 23 BMPs were destroyed, two Su-25 attack aircraft were shot down — Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡The enemy lost more than 560 servicemen: Russian Defense Ministry

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡It is reported that all doctors were urgently called in Nikolaev - a huge number of wounded Khokhols from the front come to the city.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡The Nikolaev hospital is full house!

Khokhols that are attacking in Kherson direction are turned into minced meat

🇷🇺🇺🇦 A successful arrival of a Russian artillery shell on a Ukrainian BMP-1 with infantry in the Kherson direction.

📌 Situation on the Nikolaevsko-Krivorozhskoye direction
as of 21.00 on 29 August 2022

During the night of 28 to 29 August, the AFU inflicted a massive fire attack on Russian Armed Forces reserves and military facilities in Nova Kakhovka and Berislav

In the morning, the AFU launched a counteroffensive along the entire front, engaging the remaining armored reserves in the Nikolaevsko-Kryvyi Rih direction. Up to a company of the enemy and half a dozen armored vehicles were advancing in certain areas.

In total, the offensive was conducted at five sites.

🔻 Aleksandrovsko-Kherson section - fighting continues, disruption of the AFU offensive in 2 of 3 directions.

▪️The offensive developed in three directions: from Luparevo to Aleksandrovka and from Posad-Pokrovsky to Pravdino and Kherson.

▪️ The offensive from Luparevo was repulsed: the Ukrainian armed forces withdrew to the starting line after losing three tanks.

▪️After an attempted offensive along the Mykolaiv-Kherson highway, the temporary occupation, and the subsequent loss of Kiselevka, the Ukrainian Armed Forces concentrated on shelling Russian Armed Forces positions in Pravdino

The total number of Ukrainian formations involved in the assault is about a hundred men and about 20 armored vehicles.The UAF managed to temporarily occupy the village, but then it was back under the control of the Russian Armed Forces. Fighting for Pravdino continues to this day

▪️Support for the AFU in this section of the front was provided by Su-25 Grach attack aircraft: in the middle of the day, the Ukrainian Air Force lost them.

🔻 Snigyrev sector - disruption of the AFU offensive.

▪️ The AFU attempted to counterattack in the direction of Blagodatnoye from the Nikolayev - Snigirevka highway and the fortified area in Pervomayskoye. After losing two BMPs and ten personnel, the AFU retreated.

▪️A Ukrainian Air Force Mi-8 military transport helicopter was shot down over Kiselevka, south of Pervomayskoye: Ukrainian formations attempted to fire machine guns mounted inside the Mi-8 at the positions of Russian troops.

🔻 The Andreevsky section is a successful offensive by the AFU.

▪️ The AFU managed to break through the defense of the DNR reservists and occupy the village of Sukhoy Stavok, located 4km to the southeast. Up to 20 pieces of equipment have been moved to the seized bridgehead

▪️ At the same time, the Ukrainian armed forces launched an offensive towards Lozovoye (2 km to the northeast): over 10 units of armored vehicles have been deployed there.

The RAF are attempting to destroy the AFU equipment with aviation and artillery fire. Given that Sukhoi Stavok is in the bare steppe, without anchoring in Lozovoye & transferring a significant part of the reserves to the south, the BTGr that entered Stavok will be an easy target

🔻 Davydovo-Brodsky section - disruption of the AFU offensive.

▪️Dense artillery and aviation fire disrupted the AFU's attempt to cross to the southern bank of the Ingulets River.

🔻 The Vysokopolsky section is the continuation of the offensive by the Ukrainian armed forces.

▪️ By midday, the AFU blocked with fire a grouping of Russian Armed Forces troops deployed near the southern outskirts of Olhyno and Vysokopolye. The enemy moved more than 10 armored vehicles in this direction. Fighting is still going on.

▪️ The Russian Armed Force's retaliatory artillery fire continues to destroy the enemy's accumulated reserves and also unsuccessfully attempted to extend their area of control towards Potemkin

▪️ From the east at the Lubimovka-Miroliubovka-Dobryanka line, the AFU failed to advance.

🔻Intermediate results🔻

The AFU is now activating the very reserves that were accumulated for the battle for Kherson. More precisely, the remnants of the reserves (in July-August, a significant part of the force was transferred to Soledar, Avdeevka, and Ugledar).

🇺🇦Ukr Kherson Offensive

The black line is the frontline along which fighting is going on.

I've divided the territory in 2 sections to make it easier to try and get an understanding what is happening.

Section 1: Area targeted by Ukr forces from Nikolaev area

Section 2: Area targeted by Ukr forces from Krivoy Rog area (Seems to be the area where the main push is planned)

The 1st Ukr attacks began from Luparevo towards the town of Aleksandrovka

And from the Possad-Pokrovsky area towards Kiselevka.

Acc to the latest reports these attacks were repulsed and the Ukr retruned to their starting positions

Further to the North, there was an Ukr attempt to recapture Blagodatnoe by an attack from 2 directions. These attacks were repulsed with some losses and a Ukr HQ was destroyed in Partizansko. 2 x Ukr Su-25s were reported shot down in this area.

The AFU managed to break through the defense of the DNR reservists and occupy the village of Sukhoy Stavok, located 4km to the southeast. Up to 20 pieces of equipment have been moved to the seized bridgehead and are already deployed in Sukhoy Stavok.

▪️ At the same time, the Ukrainian armed forces launched an offensive towards Lozovoye (2 km to the northeast): over 10 units of armored vehicles have been deployed there.

The Ukr also attempted to attack Blagodatovka. Although the town is under Rus control, their supply road from the south is under threat

The village of Sukhoy Stavok which is where the Ukr had a succesful advance up close

The Ukr bombed a factory which they say was used as a ammo depot in Berisav and also the Kakhovka dam as wel as the town of Kakhovka itself....the icons on the map give an idea where the strikes happened

The Russ bombed a bridge in Nikolaev which connects the North and South section of the city

There is an ongoing effort by the Ukr to surround Visokopilia by an attack on Olgino and from the east. Fighting here has been going on on and off for the past 2 months and this a continuation of it as part of the larger operation

Acc to some analysts, the main Ukr axis of attack is from Novovorontsovka down South along the river. The other directions of attack are viewed as supporting to the main effort.

If succesful, it would create a barrier between the Kherson region from the Zaporozhye region and create conditions for further moves.

As this is only the 1st day we'll have to wait for developments in the next few days to see just how serious this offensive is.

In the area of Blagodatnoye, Snigirevka, Vysokopolya and Davydov Ford, the enemy failed to achieve significant success, despite the losses incurred. It was not possible to break through to Kiselevka, as well as to provide fire control over the road to Vysokopol.

In the area of the village of Sukhoi Stavka, the enemy was able to advance from the bridgehead at Andreevka and is now trying to gain a foothold in the village to try to cover the positions of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation at Davydov Ford. The enemy was knocked out

The enemy continues to actively strike at Berislav, Novaya Kakhovka, in the area of Kherson. At least 1 ammunition depot was destroyed and a barge used for crossing the Dnieper was damaged.

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are striking in the Krivoy Rog and Nikopol directions.

According to the Ministry of Defense of the Rus, the enemy lost about 50 units of heavy & light armored vehicles, 2 attack aircraft, more than 560 v/s killed during today's battles.

Against the background of the shelling of Berislav and the crossing of the Dnieper, the enemy is trying to increase pressure on the Ingulets River to advance to Berislav.

Despite the fact that the APU offensive ended unsuccessfully in most areas, until the next crisis on Ingulets was resolved, it is too early to say that the offensive completely failed.

In 3 hours, the situation (we gave the previous summary at 21.00 ) in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction, managed to change.

The AFU pulls together reserves for Davydov Ford, Blagodatnoye and Vysokopolye. Another breakthrough attempt is expected at night.

The Rus Army managed to partially destroy the armored vehicles of the Armed Forces transferred to Sukhoi Stavka. The enemy was forced to withdraw to a wooded area to regroup. Confident control of the AFU is maintained in Andreevka and Lozove

Sukhoi Stavka is now in the gray zone. The Rus Army continues to inflict fire damage to the enemy by artillery & aviation.

The information on the Nikolaev — Kherson highway became clear: the AFU managed to reach Kiselevka, but they were immediately thrown back to Soldatskoye. The defense is holding on to this line, the AFU is rushing forward.

Near Olgino and Vysokopol, Russian units are holding the defense, but are still cut off by fire. The AFU cannot advance further, the Rus Army cannot completely destroy the advancing enemy grouping.

🇷🇺Strikes carried out on Krivoy Rog, Nikopol and Novomoskovsk

🇷🇺Strikes carried out on Krivoy Rog, Nikopol and Novomoskovsk

🇷🇺Strikes carried out on Krivoy Rog, Nikopol and Novomoskovsk

🇺🇦strike on the Antonovsky bridge

🇺🇦Ukr BMP-1 hit by artillery - Kherson-Nikolaev front

YPR-765 (Dutch upgrade of M-113) used during the Ukr offensive

Destroyed 🇺🇦M1083A1P2 truck towing a M777 howitzer

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Ka-52, Mi-28 and Mi-8 are flying from the Crimea to Kherson right now

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️There are reports of a massive missile launch from Crimea

Hospitals in Nikolaev have issued a call to locals to donate blood. This suggests there are high numbers of wounded

The RF MOD is already calling the Kherson Offensive a "miserable" failure...

"During the fighting, 26 Ukrainian tanks, 23 infantry fighting vehicles, nine other armored combat vehicles were destroyed, two Su-25 attack aircraft were shot down.

The enemy's losses in manpower amounted to more than 560 servicemen."

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IMO it's a bit early to declare it over only after 1 day of fighting

🇷🇺Giantsint-B 152mm Howitzer conducting counter battery fire

🇷🇺Ka-52

US instructors training Ukr soldiers on L-119A3 howitzers in Germany. The A3 is the latest version and 16 will be supplied to Ukr

The logistics troops of the Central Military District have built a road bridge across the Seversky Donets in the vicinity of Lisichansk. The old one was blown up by the AFU during their retreat from Lisichansk

🗺️Unconfirmed for now: According to CNN and Ukrainska Pravda, Ukrainian Army liberated following settlements in #Kherson Oblast today.
CNN: Novodmytrivka, Arkhanhelske, Tomyna Balka, Pravdyne
Pravda UA: Arkhanhelske, Petrivka, Zolota Balka, Sukha Balka

Pics from a 🇷🇺D-30 122mm Howitzer unit on the Southern front. During yesterdays battles, they fired over 200 shells and reportedly knocked out 2 tanks and stopped an assault by 2 infantry companies. The barrel of the gun was apparently red hot from firing

🇺🇦video from yesterdays fighting showing a near miss on a T-64BV tank by a 🇷🇺AT missile

Somewhere in the Donbas

⚠️ GRAPHIC

There's a firefight in the outer suburbs of Kherson. No official explanation at the moment but it's assumed a fight with a saboteur group

Igor Strelkov on the Kherson Offensive

Directly on the Kherson direction (from the Ochakov Estuary to Snegirevka)

Today, the enemy is on a broad front (in three directions:1. Kirovo-Alexandrovka, 2. Stepovaya Dolina-Pravdino, 3. Red Banner - Thorn Pods) went on the offensive.

On each direction up to 1 x BTGr.

Advanced in classic style :in front the tanks in a battle line, followed by infantry fighting vehicles and infantry on foot.

Before that, he inflicted fire damage on PU, reserves and artillery all night.

A massive fire defeat was inflicted on the attacking enemy by rus artillery. As a result, the enemy had no success in the first direction-he lost 4 units of equipment, the infantry, which did not have time to jump on the tanks during the withdrawal, was ground down during the wit

In the second direction, the enemy captured a strong point and entered Pravdino (on a farm, on the eastern outskirts), but after a fire defeat, he pulled back to his original positions. They lost three tanks and an IFV.

In the third direction, where there was less artillery, he captured the Ternovi (Thorn) Pods, at the moment our people are trying to knock him out of there. There is a fight going on.

🇷🇺Missile strike at Chuguev (Kharkov region)....spoiled someones fishing trip😊

Clashes erupted in Iraq which went on all night and continue in the morning.

• Fighting in the Green Zone of Baghdad continues, mortars and RPG-7 are used. The appearance of a column of pickups with DShK machine guns was noticed in the city.

• * The C-RAM air defense system intercepted two missiles launched at the American embassy, the third missile hit a house near the embassy.

• Fighting began in Basra. Special forces, including ISOF, have been deployed into the city.

• * The headquarters of the Badr militia in Sadr City was shelled and burned, the headquarters in Ufa was also shelled.

• At the moment, 27 people are reported dead, more than 200 injured.

Kherson authorities confirm destruction of enemy saboteur group

Large explosion reported in Odessa

Clip of the 🇷🇺37th Moto-Rifle Bgd...could be the South front but I'm not sure

The roads at Severodonetsk are being cleared from Ukr wrecks

❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Highlights of Russian Military Operation in Ukraine on August 29, 2022

▪️The Russian Armed Forces launched several missile strikes on the location of the Kraken nationalist battalion in the vicinity of the Kharkiv regional council building.

▪️Artillery duels continue in Zaporizhzhia Region: Russian forces hit enemy emplacements in Nikopol, Marhanets’ and Chervonohryhorivka in response to shelling of Zaporizhzhia NPP and Energodar.

▪️In the Kryvyi Rih-Mykolaiv direction, Ukrainian units attempted a massive offensive in several sections of the front.

▪️In the Vysokopillya sector, the AFU attacked Ol’hyne and Vysokopillya, attempting to block the Russian Armed Forces in the populated areas, but Russian heavy artillery fire disrupted the Ukrainian troops’ plans.

▪️In the Andriivka sector, the AFU managed to break through the DPR People’s Militia defences, advance several kilometres towards the village of Sukhyi Stavok and occupy the locality. At the same time, the AFU advanced towards Lozove with at least 10 military vehicles.

▪️In the Snihurivka direction the enemy attempted to counterattack in the direction of Blahodatne but retreated after suffering losses in personnel and equipment.

▪️The AFU launched an offensive from the Posad-Pokrovs'ke direction, but the Russian Armed Forces managed to discern the Ukrainian troops' plan and covered them with artillery. The AFU lost several Su-25 attack aircraft, more than five IFVs, and about five tanks.

▪️After a massive artillery barrage, the AFU, with at least 100 personnel and 20 armoured vehicles, temporarily occupied Pravdyne, but later the village was liberated by Russian forces

▪️The AFU made an attempt to advance to Oleksandrivka from Lupareve. Having lost three pieces of heavy equipment, Ukrainian units retreated to the starting line.

Soldiers of the assault battalion of the 11th regiment of the DPR filmed conducting recon in combat just to the north of Peski several days ago...pretty crazy close combat

Quote:

"The enemy uses elaborate fox holes. It is difficult to knock them out with artillery. According to these frames, it becomes clear why the Nazis manage to hold positions for a long time

"It should be noted that they quite competently make "fox holes" by the road and burrow under the canvas, and this is asphalt, crushed stone — a good shelter turns out. They are well buried here."

Both Soviet and Western weapons remained in abandoned positions

The U.S. received formal notification Monday that the Solomon Islands government has placed a moratorium on all naval visits while it updates its procedures, a U.S. State Department spokesperson told VOA.

The development comes six days after Solomon Island authorities denied a U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) cutter diplomatic clearance for refueling and provisions in the capital city of Honiara. A State Department spokesperson called the incident "regrettable."

the Solomon Islands recently signed a cooperation agreement with China which has a military component

Wagner Tanks at Artemovsk-Bakhmut

Green Zone in Baghdad...apparently US diplomatic staff have been given evacuation instructions in case the situation deteriorates

⚡️ yesterday, an attempt was made on the head of the traffic police department of the Kherson region, Sneshin, by a car bomb. There were no casualties.

Map of the area where the Ukr had success during yesterdays fighting. ....the settlements marked with dark blue squares. Sukhoi Stavok is contested acc to the updates from this morning. This info is confirmed by Russian analysts who follow the war

At Visokopilliya, the Ukr claims differ significantly from the info from Rus sources....the Ukr claim all the settlements marked with white squares which is denied by Rus sources obviously as seen on the first map...the 2nd map is for reference to show Ukr claims

THere are a few more contradictory claims in other sections of the frontline, but maybe more on that tomorrow 😊

There are no major changes on the Kherson Nikolaev front since my last updates.

The heaviest clashes still seem to be going on in the Visokopilye - Olgino sector

The Battle for Kherson: the situation at the Olginsky site
as of 22.00 on August 30, 2022

For the second day in the Krivoy Rog direction, fierce fighting continues in Olgino and Vysokopolye: the advanced units of the 331 regiment and 45 brigade of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are holding back the AFU offensive under heavy artillery fire

The enemy continues to transfer armored vehicles from the north — T-72 tanks supplied from Poland are being used.

At the moment, the Olginsky sector has the fiercest fighting on the entire Kherson front, but Russian units do not allow the AFU to advance further south.
1st map is from yesterday since the situation is approx the same.the 2nd map is of the overall frontline with the Visokopolye

🇷🇺Grad in action at Velika Novosilka (Donetsk region), west of Ugledar

The RF MOD has updated their estimate of Ukr losses during the offensive. If true, these would be the heaviest losses of the Ukr to date in a single battle. The largest losses up to now were during the battle of Ilovaisk in 2014 when around 1000 soldiers were killed

I don't think the offensive is over as there are reports that the Ukr are moving reinforcements from Odessa and Krivoy Rog.

There is an oppinion from some analysts that the Ukr will keep trying in the Kherson direction to force the Russians to commit reinforcements there while the Ukr might try an offensive in another location, for example at Zaporozhye or in the Kharkov-Izum frontline

Few videos and pics from the South Front showing Ukr losses

Few videos and pics from the South Front showing Ukr losses

Few videos and pics from the South Front showing Ukr losses

Coule of videos of the Ukr as they were deploying for the attack on the 29th of Aug

Ukr 2S1 Gvozdika under fire on Aug 29

Said to be remains of Rus trucks that got caught in the shelling of Kakhovka

🇷🇺Su-25s at Possad-Pokrovsky - Nikolaev region (one of the sectors in the offensive)

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev dead at 92.Russia is still solving problems left by him...He couldn't stand the horrible Kherson AFU ''counteroffensive'' probably...

Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the penal colony n.90 in Kherson

Ritual Cannibalism as a party treat. A restaurant in Ukraine offered a party snack set presented as a body of a Russian soldier for its clients to engage in an act of ritual cannibalism.

It offers to deliver snacks conveniently served in a set of Russian military uniform with snacks symbolizing body parts and organs. The restaurant affirms that the uniform is genuine.

Earlier, in another example of a Satanic obsession with cannibalism, a cake shop in Ukraine, offered cakes with the pictures of the Russian servicemen who died in Ukraine conflict.

🇸🇧🇺🇲🇨🇳 The Solomon Islands have officially banned American warships from entering local ports. This is reported by the US Embassy.

A couple of years ago, the Solomon Islands passed into the sphere of influence of China, having concluded a cooperation agreement with the PRC (in various areas - part of the local economy was actually bought by the Chinese), and also withdrew recognition of Taiwan.

Also, the security agreement gives China the right to deploy troops in the Solomon Islands "to ensure law and order."In addition, the issue of establishing a Chinese naval base in the Solomon Islands is being discussed with might and main, although the local government denies

The U.S. rightfully fears that if China establishes a full-fledged Djibouti-style base there, it will change the balance of power in the region and directly challenge U.S. control. The Pentagon sees this as a critical blow to the strategy of blocking China with the "island lines"

In addition, the Solomon Islands potentially provide opportunities for China to strike at US bases in Aus
The Australian government has already labeled a potential PRC base in the Solomon Islands as a hostile power base,"comparing it to Imperial Japanese bases during World War 2

Last year in November, the US and Australia tried to outplay the Chinese by organizing mass unrest in the country's capital with an attack by rioters on Chinatown (3 killed).On the sly, they tried to push through the entry of Australian troops into the Solomon Islands.

This method has already been used in Iraq to combat Iranian influence. But the occupation of the Solomon Islands by Australia did not work out (peacekeepers from Fiji were sent to the capital), and China does not forget anything. Now the American warships have asked to leave.

At the same time, China now has the right of free entry of its warships to ports on the Solomon Islands. I bet that the United States will soon find problems with democracy in the islands.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ The 126th Troop Brigade (Odessa) reported on the first losses of yesterday's counteroffensive.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Important! There are messages from local residents from the Kharkiv region. The Armed Forces of Ukraine have been accumulating equipment and manpower in the Balakliya direction for the sixth day.

Perhaps they are preparing a counteroffensive in the area. Perhaps in the direction of Izyum. And perhaps yesterday, the Ukrainian command sacrificed many hundreds of its warriors in the Kherson direction in order to distract from other directions. Yes, stupid

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Artillery strikes on a stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Kharkov.

Sat pics of Rus column at Antonovsky bridge crossing from Aug 25

Pics and video from Visokopolye - Olgino section (mentioned in my earlier post)

Pics and video from Visokopolye - Olgino section (mentioned in my earlier post)

Videos from the 11th Regiment of the DPR at Pervomaisk (next major settlement north of Peski) They say they've captured the first of two bridges leading to the town

Videos from the 11th Regiment of the DPR at Pervomaisk (next major settlement north of Peski) They say they've captured the first of two bridges leading to the town

Destroyed Ukr vehicles at Belogorovka (near Seversk)

Ukr M-113G3-DK (from Denmark) in the Donbas

Ukr video of their MiG-29s....one of them is armed with a AGM-88 Harm

Colombian member Jamie Baraveta of the 🇺🇦foreign legion reported killed in Kharkov region on Aug 27

AFU command requesting Social media channels and bloggers not to comment on combat operations

Lots of ambulances on the streets of Odessa. Some of the wounded from the Ukr offensive are said to have been taken there

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡The convoy of the IAEA mission left Kyiv and headed towards the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, Reuters reported.

I'm sure they use decoys but pretty sure the Russians don't fire Caliber missiles at a Himars truck
bulgarianmilitary.com/2022/08/30/woo…

From the same source: bulgarianmilitary.com/2022/08/29/60-…

"UVZ" ahead of schedule delivered to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation a batch of self-propelled artillery "Msta-S", which underwent major repairs and modernization, the press service of UVZ reported.

The modernized self-propelled guns were equipped with an automated guidance and fire control system, and they also carried out a major overhaul of all units, said Dmitry Semizorov, general director of Uraltransmash

The White House said that recent arms supplies to Kiev were purposefully transferred to conduct military operations in the southern direction.
#Ukraine

At about 23:00 (local time) on August 29, the forces of the 5th Fleet of the US Navy in the waters of the Persian Gulf recorded the support ship of the Iranian IRGC IRGCN Shahid Baziar, which was towing an American unmanned surface vessel (USV) Saildrone Explorer.

The patrol ship USS Thunderbolt (PC 12) of the US Navy and the helicopter MH-60S Sea Hawk were involved to prevent the hijacking of the newest device.

After the appearance of the Americans, the Iranian ship unhooked the cable with the drone and left the area.

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ Situation on the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction at the end of 30 August 2022⚡️

By the end of the second day of the AFU offensive on #Kherson, the RF Armed Forces managed to stabilize the front and stop further advances of the enemy.

▪️ In the Posad-Pokrovskoye section, the RF Armed Forces had to withdraw from the vicinity of #Lyubomirovka (Krasnoye Znamya) and Ternovye Pody.

The front runs along the line east of Lyubomirovka - Zelyony Gay - Petrovskoye (Blagodatnoye) - south of #Soldatskoye - #Pravdino - the Melioration Canal north of Aleksandrovka - #Aleksandrovka.

More than 10 enemy vehicles penetrated the Russian lines at Krasnoye Znamya and Ternovye Pody. The Russian Armed Forces prevented the AFU from gaining a foothold in the Russian positions with artillery fire.

On the #Pokrovskoye side, the RF Armed Forces tried to advance under #Mirnoye and Posad-Pokrovskoye, but failed to capture the AFU stronghold.

On the #Snigirovka front section, the RF Forces repulsed all enemy offensive attempts at #Blagodatnoye (#Komsomolskoye) & attempts to expand the area of control south of #Kiselevka. The enemy strongholds are suppressed by counterfire & there is no counter-offensive by the Russia

▪️ No change in the vicinity of #Andreevka: the Russian Armed Forces continue their artillery strikes on the equipment relocated by the AFU to the southern bank of #Ingulets River. #Lozovoye and Sukhoy Stavok are under enemy control.

▪️ Near #Olgino and #Vysokoye, Russian units are holding their positions but continue to be cut off by fire. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are unable to advance further & Russian Forces are unable to completely destroy the advancing enemy grouping. The AFU continues to shift its equ

Eventually, the AFU managed to capture Krasnoye Znamya, Ternovye Pody, consolidate in Lozovoye, drove reservists out of Sukhoy Stavka and block the Russian Armed Forces in Olgino and Vysokopolye by fire.

The positional battles have begun. The AFU is not succeeding in gaining a foothold in the lines abandoned by the RF forces; the Russian forces have partially recaptured lost positions (Pravdino, Kiselevka and Blagodatnoye near Posad-Pokrovskoye).

Russian Forces continue to mow down Ukrainian T-64s and Polish T-72s. Tomorrow, the fate of the Olginskoye and Posad-Pokrovskoye sections should be finally clarified.

For a long time, the very fact of existence of PMC Wagner was denied at all levels: news about the activities of the irregular formation was followed by phrase "they are not there", denying the non-standard military unit the fame it deserves.

Everything has changed since the start of the special military operation: recruitment notices for PMCs hang on the billboards in all major cities, one can easily find vacancies on the Internet & interviews with the Wagner's members can be found in the major media outlets of the

❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Highlights of Russian Military Operation in Ukraine on August 30, 2022

▪️Ukrainian forces shelled the Glushkovsky district of Kursk Region causing a fire in Alekseevka. No casualties or significant damage are reported.

▪️Russian Armed Forces managed to expand their zone of control south of Sulyhivka and liberated the forests north of Dibrovne. Positions were occupied by AFU in the tenth of August.

▪️Fighting for the strongholds on Donetsk Ring Road continues. DPR People’s Militia's 11th Regiment managed to take the junction on the road south of Pisky. Fighting for the road bridge between Pisky and Pervomais'ke is underway.

▪️AFU attempted to counterattack on Novomaiors’ke-Yehorivka line in Vuhledar direction. Russian Armed Forces were able to figure out the enemy's plan and fired artillery at the enemy, after which Ukrainian servicemen retreated.

▪️In Kryvyi Rih-Mykolaiv direction, AFU continue their counteroffensive. Russian Armed Forces are engaged in fierce fighting in several areas of the front.

▪️For the second day in a row, AFU attempt to storm the Russian strongholds in Ol'hyne and Vysokopillya. Despite heavy fire from Russian artillery and aviation, Russian Armed Forces units are still blockaded.

▪️In Andriivka sector, Ukrainian forces concentrated a large number of personnel and military equipment near Lozova and Sukhyi Stavok.

▪️Ukr formations attempted another offensive on Blahodatne in Snihurivka sector. Artillery retaliatory fire destroyed strongholds in Pervomais'

▪️Overnight, Russian Armed Forces pushed the enemy back to Blahodatne -Pravdyne line near Posad-Pokrovs'ke. North-east, AFU reached Lyubomyrivka and occupied Ternovi Pody, but failed to advance further.

▪️AFU attempted to attack Oleksandrivka from Tavriis'ke in the north, and along the dam across Lake Solonets' from the west, but failed.

The battle for Kherson: the situation on the Andreevsky site
as of 12:00 31 August 2022

▪️Throughout the night and morning, the RF Armed Forces continued to strike at the Ukrainian reserves deployed through the pontoon crossing in Andreevka.

A mass fire defeat was inflicted on the armored group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine accumulated near Sukhoi Headquarters: part of the equipment remained in the destroyed village, the personnel - some on foot, some on lined vehicles - fled back to Andreevka.

▪️Similarly, the Armed Forces of Ukraine were not allowed to develop success from Lozovoy towards Belogorka, partially destroying the transferred equipment.

▪️Another attempt to establish a crossing and take Davydov Brod was also unsuccessful.

On Inhulets axis Russian Army managed to recapture the village of Sukhyi Stavok & is advancing towards Ukrainian Army positions in Andreevka & Lozove.

This is the area where the Ukr are on the other side of the Ingulets river. There was fighting here on and off in the past 2 or more months

Vysokopillya & Olgino sector.
Heavy clashes continue on the entire frontline between Arkhanhelsko & Potomkino

Chechens ("Ichkerians" anti-Rus exiles) from the "Separate Special Purpose Battalion" (OBON) which is part of the "International Legion" of Ukraine, filmed at a safe distance from the front in the village of Ivanovka, which is located north of Arkhangelsk (see map in previous pos

Take this report with a pinch of salt

"Combat aircraft of Russian Aerospace Forces armed with hypersonic missiles are flying towards Ukraine, missile launches possible" - Ukrainian media.

A "cocky" report from the 🇷🇺RF MOD

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Ukr troops suffered significant losses and were driven back during unsuccessful attacks on Arkhangelsk, Olgino and Ternovye Pody.

An attempt by the Zelensky regime to resume offensive operations in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog and other directions failed.

A Btn of the 57th Moto-Infantry Bgd of the AFU was defeated in the area of Sukhoi Stavok. Currently, the destruction of its remains is being completed.

In 2 days of unsuccessful attacks, Ukr troops lost 4 combat aircraft (2 Su-25, Su-24 and MiG-29) and 3 Mi-8 helicopters, 63 Ukrainian tanks, 59 infantry fighting vehicles, 48 other combat armored vehicles, 14 pickups were destroyed and more than 1700 Ukr soldiers

Some of the missiles for the HIMARS MLRS with a range of up to 300 km have already been delivered to Ukraine, the allied forces are trying to destroy them, - the head of the DPR - Pushilin

Our opinion (RVvoenkor):

With all due respect, we still doubt and think that intelligence is wrong. Ukrainian propaganda for 1.5 months distorted the statements of US officials who allegedly claimed to have sent long-range missiles for HIMARS, which was always refuted.

And so far, the use of these missiles has not been recorded, which calls into question the reliability of their delivery to the Kiev regime.

Reportedly a hit on a Ukr T-72M1 (one of the Polish ones) causing the ammo to go off on the Kherson-Nikolaev front

🇷🇺Tanks (T-90A) and BTR-82 in the Kharkov region

Medical institutions of Odessa and Krivoy Rog announced a mass collection of donor blood.

According to local reports, hospitals in these regions were overflowing with wounded Ukrainian soldiers.

Hospitals in Nikolaev are also packed with wounded soldiers. They are already being taken as far as Kremenchug (Poltava region)

Smoke seen as Ukrainian forces target Tavriysk, Kherson region, South Ukraine.

🇷🇺Security forces raided a hideout of Kiev gov agents in Energodar who reportedly were planning an attack on the Zaporozhye NPP

🇪🇺⚡The EU countries could not agree on a ban on issuing visas to Russians, because many opposed - Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡The enemy resumed intensive attacks during the day in the area of ​​the village of Sukhoi Stavok and in the direction of Bruskovka. Fierce battles also continue in the Vysokopolye region, where the enemy is trying to increase pressure on Olginka.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi, upon arrival in the city of Zaporozhye, expressed confidence that the mission could be carried out safely, NBC News reports.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Another video with a convoy of ambulances in Odessa. Apparently, the results of the attack on Kherson are coming😁

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Destroying two abandoned enemy infantry fighting vehicles using a quadrocopter.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡The mayor of Berdyansk said that a referendum on the reunification of the Zaporozhye region with Russia will be held in September. The exact date has not yet been determined.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Fierce fighting continues in the area of ​​Arkhangelsk, Davydov Brod and Kostromka. As of the evening of August 31, the enemy did not give up active operations in these areas and continues to try to achieve some significant results

which can later be converted into operational-tactical benefits. Activity in other areas, where the offensive attempts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine bogged down on August 29-30, is now more of a chilling character.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 It is evening in the yard, we can sum up some preliminary results of the “grand advance” of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

At the moment, Kiev has a lot of dead and wounded, few territorial acquisitions.

Those places where the Armed Forces of Ukraine achieved temporary success during the day, again returned under the control of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

During the attack of the AFU in the area of ​​​​Davydov Brod, several tanks were destroyed on the other side of the river (working in the village), as well as several rubber boats on which the soldiers of the 35th Separate Marine Brigade of the AFU tried to force the Ingulets.

🇪🇬 🌍⚡️ Ship has run aground in the Suez Canal. Navigation stops in Egypt's suez canal after ship runs aground in the middle of it, the Ship Affinity V, a 252-meter (826~feet) long oil tanker, is currently stranded in the Suez Canal. Maritime traffic halted, local media confirms