💢British defense ministry: In recent weeks, Russia has prioritised and refined tactics aimed at slowing Ukrainian armoured counter-offensive operations in southern Ukraine. The core of this approach has been Russia's very heavy use of anti-tank mines. In some areas the density of its minefields indicate that it has likely used many more mines than laid down in its military doctrine. Having slowed the Ukrainian advance, Russia has then attempted to strike Ukrainian armoured vehicles with one-way attack uncrewed aerial vehicles, attack helicopters and artillery. Although Russia has achieved some success with this approach in the early stages of Ukraine's counter-offensive, its forces continue to suffer from key weaknesses, especially overstretched units and a shortage of artillery munitions.

💢Today marks one year since joined with the UK to train Ukrainian armed forces recruits. So far 17,000 Ukrainians have been trained.

💢Terror attack in Tel Aviv by a muslim bastard

💢Belarus will joined Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to 2024

💢Situation Bakhmut front, 4 July

💢Situation Kreminna front, 4 July

💢Situation Velyka Novosilka front, Donetsk oblast, 4 July

💢China communist government canceled the visit of Josep Borrell to China and announced that they don't want to meet with European and American officials !

🚨Ukrainian authorities issued a warning of possible nuclear disaster to residents in the Zaporizhzhia

💢Romania: Permanent base for German forces will be established in this country. German forces will soon be stationed in this country

💢Ukrainian forces destroyed Russian army ammunition depot in Makiivka, Donetsk oblast

💢Russia and Syria forces will holding a military exercise for 6 days in Damascus

💢Russia: There are two ways to end the war in Ukraine, either through negotiations or using atomic bomb

💢British defense ministry: General Sergei Surovikin, Commander-in-Chief Russian Aerospace Forces and deputy commander of Russian forces in Ukraine, has not been seen in public since the 23-24 June 2023 Wagner Group mutiny. Meanwhile, Deputy Defence Minister Colonel General Yunus-bek Yevkurov was notably absent from a televised appearance by the Ministry of Defence's leadership on 3 July 2023. Reports of Surovikin's arrest cannot be confirmed, but authorities will likely be suspicious of his long association with Wagner dating back to his service in Syria from 2017. Similarly, Yevkurov was filmed talking to Wagner owner Yevgeny Prigozhin during the group's uncontested take-over of Rostov-on-Don. Although largely known in the West by his brutal reputation, Surovikin is one of the more respected senior officers within the Russian military; any official sanction against him is likely to be divisive. The suspicion that has potentially fallen on senior serving officers highlights how Prigozhin's abortive insurrection has worsened existing fault lines within Russia's national security community.

💢Ukranian defense intelligence service has information of a planned Russian provocation at the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. Sources indicate that Russian troops have emplaced demolition charges within reactor containment structures.

💢ISW: Ukrainian forces appear to be focusing on creating an asymmetrical attrition gradient that conserves Ukrainian manpower at the cost of a slower rate of territorial gains, while gradually wearing down Russian manpower and equipment

💢The U.S. Navy said it intervened to prevent Iran from seizing two commercial tankers in the Gulf today. An Iranian navy vessel fired shots during the second seizure attempt. Both incidents took place in the Gulf in waters between Iran and Oman.

💢Bakhmut front, Ukrainian soldiers flank Russian positions

💢The US Navy released a photo of oil tanker with traces of shelling by IRGCN during today's attempt to hijack ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

💢Reportedly that Russian forces withdrew from Klishchiivka, south of Bakhmut

💢Israel claims that Elizabeth Tsurkov, Israeli-Russian citizen, has been missing in Iraq for several months, and Israel government recently informed that she's being held hostage by Iraqi Hezbollah.