🔺Another step to escalation: Ukraine commits terror attack on Crimean Bridge
🔺China accuses Washington and its allies of militarizing East Asia and sowing “seeds of a new Cold War”
🔺Russia suspends its participation in Black Sea Grain Deal

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Millions of Pentagon emails sent to Malian server due to '.mil' domain typo

Millions of internal US military email messages have ended up on a Malian internet server over the past 10 years thanks to a small error in typing addresses.

Personnel mistakenly typed '.ml' — the top-level internet domain for the central African nation — instead of the and Department of Defense (DoD) '.mil' suffix.

Dutch internet entrepreneur Johannes Zuurbier, whose Mali Dili company's contract to run the Malian internet country domain is about to end, has warned the Pentagon of the problem repeated.

One email contained the full itinerary for US Army Chief of Staff General James McConville's delegation to Indonesia in May this year — including hotel room numbers.

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‼️Vehicle Traffic on Crimean Bridge Restored in Reverse Mode - Russian Gov’t

The movement of vehicles on the Crimean Bridge has been restored and operates in reverse mode, which means the lane of the road is used for alternate traffic in the oncoming and passing direction, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin said on Tuesday.

"Vehicle traffic on the Crimean bridge has been restored in reverse mode along the rightmost lane of the Taman-Kerch direction," Khusnullin said on Telegram, adding that authorities carried out a preliminary examination of the bridge spans that "confirmed that their condition allows to start the vehicular traffic."

🎥 Russian TOS-1A Solntsepyok heavy flamethrower system destroys the enemy near Krasny Liman In cooperation with drone operators, the Solntsepek heavy flamethrower system hits a Ukrainian ammunition depot.

The video courtesy from Russian MoD

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🇮🇷 🇷🇺 Iran and #Russia to Exchange Electricity via Azerbaijan, Leveraging Seasonal Consumption

Iran's Energy Minister, Ali-Akbar Mehrabian, announced plans for electricity exchange between Iran and Russia through Azerbaijan, as reported by the Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA). The final negotiations for initiating these projects are currently underway.

💡By leveraging their seasonal electricity consumption patterns, Iran and Russia can establish a mutually beneficial arrangement, with Russia exporting surplus electricity during winter and Iran doing the same during summer.

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🇷🇺 Russia’s air defenses downed nine Ukrainian drones, while another 19 were disabled using electronic warfare in Crimea’s east, a top local official reports

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⚡️ Russia thwarted an attempted Ukrainian terrorist attack involving 28 drones targeting Crimea, MoD says

▪️17 Ukrainian UAVs were destroyed, another 11 obliterated after being suppressed by electronic warfare

▪️There were no casualties or damage from the attack

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📹 Russian barrage munition obliterates Ukrainian armored combat vehicle while advancing on Kupyansk

The strike was recorded by a reconnaissance UAV.

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Ukraine’s top diplomat spills the beans exclusively to pranksters

Dmytro Kuleba ducked a reporter’s question on whether the Kiev regime was involved in the Crimean Bridge terrorist attack.

💬 "I was not asked who carried out the attack. I was asked to describe the bridge. I'm in the middle of a trip right now, I don't have access to classified information while I'm in New York. All I know about the bridge is what I learned from the headlines," Kuleba stated.

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'Most hideous weapons ever devised': Ukraine civilians, children will die for years from US cluster bombs, peace activist says

💬 "Cluster bombs are, apart from DU [depleted uranium] weapons which cause cancer, genetic defects and birth deformities for the rest of time in the exposed population," Dr. Helen Caldicott, founder of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Physicians for Social Responsibility, told Sputnik.

The weapons were expressly designed to cause indiscriminate loss of human life and hideous injuries over a wide area, regardless of who or what was being targeted, Caldicott explained. The bomblets, she added, are colored yellow and shaped like a can of soft drink and are therefore attractive to children, she added.

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🇹🇷 Ankara handed appeal from Kiev pressing for the resumption of the Black Sea grain deal without Russia : Source tells Sputnik

Turkiye is arranging prospects of resuming the grain deal with the UN, but no decisions have been made yet.

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🇷🇺🇬🇧 Russian tanks giving Brits nightmares as UK brass seeks out secret to Moscow’s superior weapons

Russian tanks captured in the special military op zone are being picked apart at Porton Down, British Chief of Defence Staff Tony Radakin revealed. UK experts hope to figure out on a “really forensic level” how to better defend themselves from Russian military workmanship.

Providing his perspective, outgoing UK defense chief Ben Wallace described the crisis in Ukraine as a “battle laboratory” for the British military.

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🇷🇺🇨🇳 Pacific Fleet departs Vladivostok for Russian-Chinese military drills

The Russian Armed Forces will participate in the "North. Interaction-2023" military exercises organized by China in the Sea of Japan.

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⚡️ Russia unleashes retaliatory strikes against Ukrainian facilities used for plotting terror attacks, MoD says

Russian forces have unleashed multiple high-precision retaliatory strikes against facilities where terrorist attacks against Russia were in the works involving the use of unmanned boats, and against sites where the said vehicles were produced in the Odessa Region.

In addition, near Odessa and Nikolayev, storage facilities containing roughly 70,000 tons of fuel used to supply Ukrainian forces were destroyed.

All targeted sites were eliminated. Blazes and blasts were recorded at the neutralized facilities.

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❗️Key points from Kremlin's statement on Black sea grain deal:

▪️Ukraine used the grain deal for military purposes;

▪️The position of European states that have not fulfilled their obligations under the grain deal is unconscionable;

▪️The prospect of a grain deal without Russia: there are security risks, this should be taken into account, we do not know who and which countries are ready to take them on;

▪️Poorest states got the least from grain deal, Russia in contact with partners from Africa on matter, will continue talks in St. Petersburg.

▪️The termination of the grain deal is not the fault of the UN secretary-general, we highly appreciate his efforts.

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