🇷🇸 🇽🇰 A summary of Aleksandar Vučić's speech on national television:

- We completed the meeting at the General Staff, before that, General Moysilovich spoke with the KFOR commander and this conversation was correct

- The KFOR commander should come to Kosovska Mitrovica and talk to the Kosovo Serb leader Rakic

- I hope that the Albanian “irresponsible” side will be affected by the arguments

- I hope tomorrow we will be able to achieve compromise solutions through dialogue, which will lead to a situation more conducive to maintaining peace

- I thank the Serbs in the North of Kosovo for restraint and, at the same time, courage

- I thank the representatives of the American embassy, ​​Borell and Carl Bildt

🇽🇰 🇷🇸 Alternative video of shooting near the Brnjak checkpoint on the border between Kosovo and Serbia

📎 Dvach

🇺🇸 🇽🇰 The United States called on the authorities of Kosovo to postpone for a month plans to replace citizens' passports and license plates with Kosovo ones.

US Ambassador to Kosovo Jeff Hovenier addressed the head of Kosovo Kurti.

🇮🇶 Counter-Terrorism Service denies the spread of its units on the road to Baghdad Airport and the Green Zone

🇷🇸 🇽🇰 What is happening in Kosovo and Metohija? - @rybar with @balkanossiper
The situation at the end of July 31, 2022

The howling of air sirens in Kosovska Mitrovica, which sounded at 18.30 Moscow time, marked the beginning of another escalation of the long-standing conflict.

▪️ From August 1, in the self-proclaimed Republic of Kosovo, new rules for the entry of Serbs were to start working. All cars had to be re-registered with Kosovo numbers, and instead of Serbian registration certificates, a special “declaration sheet” should be received. Identity cards issued by the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs are now considered invalid.

These requirements also apply to ethnic Serbs living in the region and their relatives from central Serbia. Such measures will significantly complicate the life of the Serbian population of the region and are in fact a violation of the Brussels agreements.

Moreover, this is direct pressure on the Serbian population. Civilians are bureaucratically forced to abandon the truth “Kosovo is Serbia” and admit that Kosovo is a different state. Nothing but irritation and a desire to close the problem of the self-proclaimed republic once and for all, such measures do not cause.

▪️ Since June, the Serbian authorities have been warning about provocations being prepared in the region.

According to President Aleksandar Vučić, Western conductors of the Kosovo Albanians were actually preparing an operation to clean up the Serbian population by autumn. However, the Kosovo authorities decided not to wait for either autumn or the official date for the entry into force of the new rules.

On July 31, the Brnjak and Yarinje border checkpoints were unilaterally blocked, and the passage of cars with Serbian license plates through the Rudnica checkpoint was also suspended. In turn, the Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed Kosovo, Albin Kurti, blames the Serbian authorities for the escalation.

▪️ Fakes about hospitalized Kosovo police officers injured in clashes with the Serbian army multiplied on the Web. However, both the Serbian Ministry of Defense and the Kosovo police denied reports of clashes. Nevertheless, shooting was recorded at the Brnjak and Yarinje border crossings, and one Serb was hospitalized in Kosovska Mitrovica.

▪️ The NATO peacekeeping contingent KFOR and units of the Serbian Armed Forces were put on alert, and the Kosovo special forces ROSU were pulled into the border areas in the north of the region. In the evening, negotiations between the Serbian General Staff and KFOR took place, and the American ambassador to Kosovo said that he had persuaded the Pristina authorities to postpone the application of the scandalous decision on license plates until September 1.

🔻This is not the first time we have seen the pulling together of the Kosovo security forces, as well as bringing the Serbian army to combat readiness and the transfer of its units to the south: last fall, at the same Yarinje checkpoint, the confrontation almost reached an armed clash.

Today, however, one cannot underestimate the general background of the international situation, as well as the support that Britain and Germany have been providing to the Kosovo Albanians in recent months.

Now we are faced with the usual provocation and probing the reaction of both the Serbs and the international community. Despite Aleksandar Vucic's calls to keep the peace, the intervention of peacekeepers and Western partners, there is every reason to believe that an armed clash in the north of Kosovo and Metohija is only a matter of time. And until September 1 and the entry into force of the rules of travel to Kosovo, humiliating for all Serbs, are within easy reach.

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🇮🇶🔥⚠️ — 🇸🇦🇦🇪 Al-Arabiya correspondent: Intense security deployment of Iraqi army forces is seen in the streets of the capital, Baghdad

🇮🇶🔥⚠️ — 🇸🇦🇦🇪 Al-Arabiya: The Chief of Staff of the Iraqi Army orders the suspension of all vacations and the admission of the licensed to service

🇮🇶🔥⚠️ — 🇸🇦🇦🇪 Al-Arabiya: The Iraqi Prime Minister directs the security forces to exercise restraint and humane treatment with the demonstrators

🇮🇶🔥⚠️ — 🇸🇦🇦🇪 Al-Arabiya: The Iraqi Prime Minister directs the Armed Forces to protect government headquarters and infrastructure

🇮🇶🔥⚠️ — 🇸🇦🇦🇪 Al-Arabiya: The Office of the Iraqi Prime Minister: The security services must secure the demonstration grounds not to carry weapons

🇮🇶 Military vehicles seen in many areas of Baghdad. As tension mounts between Shia powers.

📎 Barzan Sadiq

🇮🇷 🇮🇶 Prominent Iranian diplomat says; important Iraqi personalities arrived to Khomeini airport /Tehran and HashimiNajad airport/Mashhad.

🇮🇶 A leaked recording of Sheikh Hamid Al-Hayes mentioning the arrest of Al-Kazemi, many advisors and the closure of the Baghdad airport road tomorrow at five. "After 5o clock in the morning, everything thats Iraq will end".

🇮🇶 Director of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense Major General Ibrahim announces his joining of the reform revolution led by Muqtada al-Sadr

— With it, we can assume that Iraqi Armed Forces are officially divided
https://news.1rj.ru/str/BellumActaNews/80202

🇮🇶🇮🇷 Pro-PMF Media, Sabereen News on Telegram
— "A number of personalities have now escaped from Baghdad airport to Saudi Arabia!"

https://news.1rj.ru/str/sabreenS1/53300

🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🇰🇷 South Korea, US and Japan announce joint military exercises near Hawaii

On Sunday (31st), South Korea, the United States and Japan announced joint military exercises focused on anti-aircraft defence off the coast of Hawaii. The exercises will take place between August 1st-14th.

As published by the South Korean news agency Yonhap, citing sources, the biennial exercise Pacific Dragon this year will involve eight warships and two aircraft. The aim of the exercise is to strengthen interoperability between the countries in detecting and tracking enemy ballistic missiles. Australia and Canada will also join the exercises.

🇺🇸🇹🇼❌🇨🇳 — 🇯🇵 Nikkei Asia: U.S. deploys ships and planes near Taiwan as Pelosi eyes visit
— "The U.S. military is moving assets, including aircraft carriers and large planes, closer to Taiwan ahead of an anticipated but unconfirmed visit to the island by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

The military was initially opposed to the speaker's visit but now looks to be creating a buffer zone for Pelosi's plane, in the case that she decides to go ahead with the controversial stop.

But with China threatening to take "actions" to counter the visit, tensions in East Asia have quickly escalated, perhaps against the will of both U.S. President Joe Biden, who was seeking to remove some tariffs on Chinese goods to counter inflation, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, who faces a sensitive political season at home with his rule extension on the line."

Link
https://archive.is/jIFUL

🇺🇸🤝🇹🇼❗️ — 🇺🇸 CNN (August 1, 2022): Pelosi expected to visit Taiwan, Taiwanese and US officials say
— "US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to visit Taiwan as part of her tour of Asia, according to a senior Taiwanese government official and a US official, despite warnings from Biden administration officials, who are worried about China's response to such a high-profile visit.

The stop -- the first for a US House speaker in 25 years -- is not currently on Pelosi's public itinerary and comes at a time when US-China relations are already at a low point.

The Taiwanese official added that she is expected to stay in Taiwan overnight. It is unclear when exactly Pelosi will land in Taipei."

Link
https://archive.is/bK5uP

🇨🇳❌🇹🇼 — Mr. Chen Weihua, from PRC State Media China Daily, over Pelosi visit to ROC/Taiwan at night:

https://archive.is/aXZTY

🇺🇸 🇹🇼 According to Taiwanese media, Pelosi will fly tomorrow around 10:30 am US Eastern time (22:30 local) to Songshan Airport in Taipei, spend the night at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, and in the morning visit the Taiwan Legislative Council, where she will meet with the leadership of the island, including its head Tsai Ing-wen