🔄 UPDATE – ⚡ The situation on the Kyrgyz-Tajik border is tense, but under control - the State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan

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Explosions heard in occupied Kherson city

Russian air defence was seen to be active

🔗 WarMonitor🇺🇦 (@WarMonitor3)

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BREAKING – Occupied Ukraine: At least five explosions thundered in Melitopol

Power lines were blown up here this morning.

There are also reports of damage to the railroad tracks.

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Russia’s Use of Iranian Kamikaze Drones Creates New Dangers for Ukrainian Troops

Shahed-136 drones supplied to Russia carried out several devastating strikes in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region over past week, Ukrainian commanders say.

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BREAKING – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said that his country's goal is membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

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⚠️❗URGENT – Belarusian dictator Lukashenko believes that humanity is on the verge of a nuclear conflict.

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POLITICS – France will no longer supply electricity to Italy due to the energy crisis. French imports account for 5% of Italy's needs, but electricity supplies from Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia are also at risk.

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JUST IN – The Spanish Ministry of Defense announced the fifth aircraft with artillery ammunition on board, which today has been sent to Poland for further transfer of cargo to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

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UPDATE – First Deputy Foreign Minister of Kyrgyzstan Nuran Niyazaliev said that Tajikistan during the current conflict used not only armed forces, but also irregular paramilitary formations.

🔥 The Tajik military blew up a 36-meter road bridge in the Batken region of Kyrgyzstan.

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At least 24 people are killed in clashes along Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan border

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UA delivers powerful strikes from NATO guns in the center of Donetsk
Today, 5 people have already been killed and 8 wounded in the city...

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Hezbollah is having a very bad day. A million Captagon pills hidden in a shipment of grapes at Beirut port have been seized by Lebanese authorities.

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Ukraine Situation Report: Biden Warns Russia On Nuclear Weapons Use

Citing claimed Ukrainian attacks, Putin threatens more severe strikes as Biden warns of U.S. response to nuclear, chemical weapons use.

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A rare look at the shadowy Mk 1 Sealy in operation. No photo has ever been taken this close!

🔗 Tyler Rogoway (@Aviation\_Intel)

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The Syrian regime and Russia launched air strikes, artillery shelling and cluster bombs in the north western Syrian provinces of Idlib and Aleppo on Saturday.

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GERMANY – The head of the Union of Bundeswehr military personnel, Andre Wüstner, called on the authorities to stop supplying weapons to Ukraine from the presence of its own army.

The transfer of weapons and ammunition has already led to a colossal depletion of the German Armed Forces, which threatens not only the ability of the troops to ensure the security of the FRG, but also to conduct exercises.

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China and Russia will hold the 17th round of strategic security consultation & 7th meeting of the China-Russia law-enforcement and security cooperation mechanism from Sep 18 to 19. Nikolai Patrushev of the Russian Federation Security Council will attend the meeting in China.

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At night, Russian troops shelled the center of #Kramatorsk, #Donetsk region. The strike struck a hotel.

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WATCH: US Navy cruiser USS Antietam (CG-54) fires standard missiles during a live-fire exercise in Philippine Sea on June 8.

🔗 Ryan Chan 陳家翹 (@ryankakiuchan)

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JUST IN – Ukraine is conducting non-public negotiations with the United States on the supply of F-16, Patriot air defense systems, MQ-1C Gray Eagle UAV - Politico

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NEW – None of Germany's partners sent Western-style battle tanks to Ukraine, and Berlin, for its part, does not want to take individual steps - German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht

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