❗Afghan Foreign Ministry hopes that the terrorist attack at the Russian Embassy in Kabul will not negatively affect relations with Moscow.

❗Russia’s MoD briefing:

▪️Russian Air Forces and artillery performed high precision strikes at the units and reserve forces of Ukrainian Army, as a result a total of 11 Ukrainian tanks, 7 infantry combat vehicles and 8 armored vehicles of other types, 9 pick-ups with large-caliber machine guns and over 220 Ukrainian servicemen have been eliminated;

▪️Russian Forces hit provisional bases of the Ukrainian 57th Mechanized Infantry Brigade in the Nikolayev region;

▪️Russian Air Forces have shot down one Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter in the Kherson region;

▪️Russian Forces destroyed two Ukrainian missile depots, artillery armament and munitions in the that held over 1,500 rocket-propelled projectiles for MRLSs, including over 200 projectiles for US-manufactured HIMARS multiple rocket launchers in the Nikolayev region;

▪️Russian Air Forces performed a high precision strike on a provisional base of the Kraken paramilitary group near Kharkov, eliminating over 30 Ukrainian neo-Nazis and 10 Ukrainian motor vehicles;

▪️Russian Forces performed concentrated strikes on the combat positions of the Ukrainian 81st Air Assault Brigade in the DPR, eliminating up to 20 and wounding over 50 Ukrainian servicemen;

▪️Russian Forces hit 6 Ukrainian command posts in the Kharkov region, in the DPR, in the Zaporozhye region and in the Dnepropetrovsk region, as well as hit 48 Ukrainian artillery units and 152 areas where Ukrainian Army manpower and military equipment are concentrated;

▪️Russian Forces destroyed five Ukrainian depots for missiles, artillery armament and munitions in the Kharkov region, in the DPR and in the Kherson region;

▪️Russian Forces destroyed one Ukrainian launching ramp of US-manufactured HIMARS multiple rocket-launching system in the Kharkov region;

▪️Russian air defense weaponry destroyed five Ukrainian UAVs, including 1 Bayraktar-TB2 in the Kharkov region and in the DPR;

▪️Russian Forces have shot down 4 US-manufactured HARM anti-radar missiles, as well as intercepted 34 Ukrainian MLRS rockets in the Kherson region.

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Protestors from Animal Rebellion have blocked the road outside Queen Elizabeth II Centre in London, where the result of the Tory leadership contest are expected to be announced

📸 UK PM hopeful Liz Truss arrives for Tory leadership results

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⚡🇬🇧 Liz Truss wins Tory leadership race to become next UK Prime Minister

Liz Truss' statement on Twitter: "I will take bold action to get all of us through these tough times, grow our economy, and unleash the United Kingdom’s potential"

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❗Russia has put 25 US citizens on the "stop list" as a response to Washington's sanctions, the Russian Foreign Ministry says.

❗US actors Sean Penn and Ben Stiller are included on Russia's new "black list", the Russian Foreign Ministry says.

📹 The Russian Pacific Fleet destroyer Marshal Shaposhnikov was able to outperform a submarine in the Peter the Great Gulf at the Vostok-2022 exercises

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💬 Outgoing UK PM Boris Johnson calls for party to unite behind successor Liz Truss

🥴 The awkward moments of the new British leader Liz Truss:

▪️During a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Liz Truss said that she would never recognize Russia's sovereignty over the Voronezh and Rostov regions (which have both been part of Russia for centuries): “the UK will never recognize Russian sovereignty over these regions”;

▪️Said that Britain provides support to “Baltic allies through the Black Sea”;

▪️Declared “absolute” support for Britons who go to Ukraine to participate in the conflict, but then changed her mind and decided that she does not support "direct involvement of our (UK) troops in Ukraine";

▪️During one of her speeches, she made an about face, saying that she would "fight for" Putin, but then immediately corrected herself;

▪️She expressed her readiness to use nuclear weapons if necessary: “I think it’s an important duty of the prime minister and I’m ready to do it"

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❗Israel army says "high possibility" Israeli soldier killed Shireen Abu Akleh

🇬🇧 A long list of the election promises Liz Truss has given:

▪️called "the defeat of Russia" in Ukraine one of her main goals, promised to send more weapons to Kiev

▪️announced that she intends to "call out" Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the G20 summit

▪️plans to declassify more intelligence data on "Russia's activity in the world"

▪️vowed to prevent another referendum on Scottish independence

And more...

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“All our hope, everything was destroyed in a single moment”

An LPR school director described how her school was destroyed by an attack from the Ukrainian Army. Now, she has nothing else but to hope for the restoration of the school and for “peaceful days” to come.

“What are they doing here — let them have the same”

A woman from the DPR complains of Ukrainian Army’s constant shelling, saying that DPR residents’ “health is rather weak because of these attacks”

📹Russia’s Su-25SM2 planes during the Vostok 2022 exercises: The pilots headed to the assigned area and launched an attack with missiles and bombs at the mock enemy's air defense systems at their launching positions (video by Russian MoD).

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