🇨🇳The Chinese military has published footage of exercises near the Penghu, or Pescadores Islands, off southern Taiwan, which began after the visit yesterday of a US congressional delegation

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🗣 “They are not fighting for [then-Afghan President Ashraf] Ghani. They haven’t even been fed properly. Why should they fight? For what? They are better off with the Taliban, which is why they are switching sides like that,” Ahmad Wali Massoud, Afghanistan’s former envoy to the UK, said.

Read how the Taliban* was able to smash a NATO-trained army in just a few days

*The Taliban is under UN sanctions for terrorist activities

LIVE | Putin takes part in opening ceremony of Army 2022 forum, International Army Games

The Sukhoi Su-57 is a state of the art 5th generation fighter jet on display at the Army-2022 forum outside Moscow. According to sources, Russia has used such jets during Special Military Operation in Ukraine, with 4 flying machines connected in a single network designed to evade air defense systems. In 2018 the Felon also underwent flight evaluation in the skies over Syria. First planes have entered service in Russia’s South and up to 25 Sukhois are expected to form the first operational Su-57 regiment within the next 3 years.

💬 Putin: Russia appreciates that it has many allies and likeminded people on different continents who do not bow before the hegemon, choosing instead a sovereign path

Besides subsonic target systems, the Kazan-based Enics produces surveillance drones. This is the Eleron-T7, one of the company's newest products. According to the manufacturer, Enics managed to substitute most imported components with domestically-produced ones, which seems to be an advantage at the age of Western sanctions

More than 120 foreign military delegations have arrived in Moscow on Sunday as per Army-2022 Forum’s organizers. Although most of them inspected the exhibition on Monday, their program is mostly closed for the media. According to schedule published by Russia’s Defence Ministry, on Monday foreign guests have had an official dinner on behalf of the Minister of Defense.

❗An update from Russia’s MoD:

▪Russian Air Forces performed a high-precision strike on a location in the Kharkov region where foreign mercenaries were temporarily deployed, eliminating more than 100 and injuring more than 50 militants from Poland and Germany;

▪Russian Forces destroyed two traction power substations in the Dnepropetrovsk region;

▪More than 160 of the Ukrainian neo-Nazis were eliminated as a result of the Russian air strikes in the Kherson region;

▪Russian artillery destroyed more than 70 percent of the military personnel of the 3rd battalion of the 66th mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Forces in the DPR;

▪More than 260 Ukrainian neo-Nazis were eliminated as a result of Russian air strikes in the DPR;

▪More than 50 percent of the military personnel of the 15th battalion of the 58th motorized infantry brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were eliminated as a result of Russian advancing combat action in the Soledar direction;

▪One Ukrainian depot of rocket and artillery ammunition in the Nikolaev region was destroyed as well as three Ukrainian ammunition depots in the DPR and two Ukrainian fuel depots in the Kharkov region by Russian Forces during the day;

▪Russian anti-aircraft weaponry destroyed three Ukrainian UAVs in the DPR, Kherson and Kharkov regions as well as intercepting two shells from Ukrainian rocket launchers in the territory of the DPR.

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⚡️⚡️ A terrorist attack on a oil pipeline was prevented in the Volgograd region; it was being prepared under the control of Ukrainian Security Services, Russian Federal Security Service says

‘A Year With Taliban’: Kabul Residents Tell Sputnik About Their Struggles (Part 2).

Kabul citizens say people no longer face security threats and can safely return home without being in fear of their lives. However, there are far fewer opportunities for work, prices for everything are on the rise and the national economy is deteriorating every day. Journalism is also problematic as many forums are closed to the press

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📹 The Russian Ministry of Defense has released footage showing how the Russian Air Force destroyed Ukrainian combat positions, eliminating more than 160 nationalists near Belogorka and Lozovoye in the Kherson region

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❗Chinese ambassador to UN: World sees clearly who provoking who on Taiwan

🔫 The right to keep and bear arms is a sensitive topic in American society, as some consider the Second Amendment necessary for people to protect themselves, while others think gun laws should be changed.

What do the statistics say?

▪For example, data provided by the US Transportation Security Administration show that more Americans are trying to bring weapons aboard planes: in 2021, airport security discovered upwards of 6,000 firearms, while in 2008, the number was nearly 1,800;

▪Sometimes the choice of weapon can be surprising: in 2019, Baltimore-Washington Airport security found a rocket launcher in the luggage of a Texan man flying home from Kuwait

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🐶A robot dog (the M-81 robotic complex) with a grenade launcher was presented at the Army-2022 expo in Russia. It is able to fire and transport weapons, and for civilian purposes it can be used in emergency areas.

🤫What's great about a robot dog is that it can't catch monkeypox

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