North Korea launched several cruise missiles toward the Sea of Japan early Saturday, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff confirmed

Reports have detailed that the intelligence agencies of South Korea and the United States were analyzing the launches, which occurred around 4:00 a.m. local time (19:00 GMT on Friday), to determine the type of missiles and other details.

The latest launch came three days after Pyongyang launched two short-range ballistic missiles toward the Sea of Japan.

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Over 60% of French citizens are dissatisfied with the results of the recent cabinet reshuffle and the actions of French PM, media reported

It was also reported that 62% of the respondents said they wanted a new prime minister, while 74% believed that a fresh cabinet would pursue the same policy as the previous one.

On Wednesday, Macron reshuffled the government, keeping key ministers in their posts and replacing the heads of the education and health ministries as well as the minister for labor, social relations and solidarity.

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The South Korean police have received nearly 1,000 reports of suspicious international parcels nationwide amid concerns these might contain an unspecified hazardous material

No hazardous material has been so far found in parcels, but police said it would decide whether to launch an investigation after substance analysis.

Local media cited South Korea's Postal Service as saying that it has temporarily suspended the delivery of suspicious packages amid growing concerns.

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📹 Sailors of the Russian Navy and the Chinese Navy perform joint artillery firing at the "North/Interaction - 2023" naval exercise

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📹 Russian Msta-S self-propelled howitzer crews shoot (0:15) (0:25) (0:31) at enemy positions and destroy (0:33) them in the zone of the special military op

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Ukraine’s armed forces have attempted to strike infrastructure facilities in the Krasnogvardeysky district of Crimea using an UAV, the Republic’s head Sergey Aksyonov said

Emergency services are working at the scene, he added.

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The West may be ready to deliver F-16 fighter jets to Kiev because most Western countries are currently switching to more sophisticated F-35 warplanes, Tom Burbage, a former Lockheed Martin general manager, told a US magazine

He argued that with powerhouse militaries across the globe moving towards the fifth-generation F-35s, "that does free up the F-16" for air forces such as Ukraine's.

The beginning of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine prodded “many nations to turn to the F-35 in a rapidly-changing security environment.” At the same time, he warned that it would take years to phase in the F-35s for countries now opting for the US fifth generation fighters, according to Burbage.

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A detonation at the ammunition depot occurred due to a Ukraine drone attack on Crimea; there were no casualties, Crimea Head Sergey Aksyonov said

A decision was made to evacuate the population within a radius of 5 km of the emergency site to temporary accommodation centers, Sergey Aksyonov added.

Traffic on the Crimean railway has been suspended for safety reasons.

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📹🇨🇳🇺🇸 Kissinger's “two hundred”

100-year-old former US secretary of state and his 100 trips to China

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⚡️ A large number of Polish and German mercenaries were eliminated on the territory of the Academy of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Lvov on July 6, as a result of a group strike with sea-based long-range precision weapons, the Russian MoD said

In total, about 4,990 foreign fighters have been eliminated during the special military operation. Another 4,910 mercenaries have fled the areas of hostilities, leaving the territory of Ukraine.

The Russian Armed Forces will continue the targeted destruction of foreign mercenaries on the territory of Ukraine, the ministry added.

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Sputnik war correspondent Rostislav Zhuravlev died during Ukrainian shelling in the zone of the special military op, the agency reports

📹 Russia’s anti-tank missile system crews on motorbikes improve combat skills

Airborne Troops servicemen improve their professional skills on vehicles and launch anti-tank missiles at specified targets during training. The training is taking place in the zone of the special military operation.

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Konstantin Mikhalchevsky, a Sputnik photojournalist, was injured in the special operation zone

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The Russian MoD’s latest statements on Ukrainian attack on Russian journos:

▪️ The Armed Forces of Ukraine launched an artillery strike on a group of Sputnik journalists on July 22;

▪️ Four journalists were injured, with varying degrees of severity, as a result of a Ukrainian strike with cluster munitions on a group of correspondents;

▪️ Sputnik journalists who were hit in a Ukrainian attack were gathering evidence on the use of cluster munitions in the shelling of the Zaporozhye region by the Armed Forces of Ukraine;

▪️ The journalists were promptly evacuated to the field medical facilities of the Russian MoD, where they receive qualified medical care;

▪️ The state of health of the injured journalists is moderate, stable, there is no threat to life; all the necessary medical care is being provided.

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Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of Sputnik's parent company Rossiya Segodnya international media group and RT, comments on the death of Sputnik war correspondent Rostislav Zhuravlev during a Ukrainian shelling

💬 "Our war correspondent, Rostislav Zhuravlev, died. Other guys were wounded. [A strike with] cluster munitions. We remember everyone and will remember everything."

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❗️Russian MoD briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️ Near Krasny Liman, the actions of a Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group were suppressed. The Russian Army repelled seven attacks of the Ukrainian troops. Ukrainian losses amounted to 170 servicemen;

▪️ In the Donetsk direction, 14 attacks of the Ukrainian troops were successfully repelled, more than 280 Ukrainian servicemen were eliminated;

▪️ In the Kupyansk direction, Ukrainian losses amounted to 110 servicemen;

▪️ In the South Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, Ukrainian losses amounted to 190 servicemen;

▪️ As a result of a Russian group strike using sea-based weapons on the Academy of the Ukrainian Forces in Lvov, a large number of Polish and German mercenaries were eliminated;

▪️ Russian troops repelled three attacks by Ukrainian troops in the area of Urozhainoye and Priyutnoye in the DPR;

▪️ Russian air defenses shot down 15 HIMARS rockets, 3 HARM missiles, 1 Storm Shadow missile and 15 UAVs.

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The use of cluster munitions is inhumane, the responsibility for the death of journalists during the shelling with these munitions falls not only on Ukraine, but also on the United States, the vice speaker of the upper house of the Russian Parliament said

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The USS Canberra littoral combat ship was officially commissioned in Australia, becoming the first US vessel in the country's fleet

The commissioning gives an opportunity to reflect on cooperation between Canberra and Washington, Australian Deputy Prime Minister stressed.

Australia is known to be one of the United States' key partners in the Asia-Pacific, with both countries, plus the United Kingdom, participating in the AUKUS security alliance under which Canberra is set to acquire nuclear-powered submarines.

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Poland received a proper response to its grievances over the comments Russian President Vladimir Putin made on Friday, Russian Ambassador to Warsaw Sergey Andreev told Sputnik

Andreev said that he spoke to Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Pawel Jablonski, who "laid out the grievances of the Polish side about what our president said yesterday at a meeting with members of the Security Council."

On Saturday, Andreev was summoned to the Polish Foreign Ministry after Putin told a meeting of the Security Council that Poland's Western allies in 1939 left the country at the mercy of Germany. At the time, Poland practically lost its independence and statehood, which it regained to a great extent thanks to the Soviet Union. Putin noted that thanks to the Soviet Union, thanks to Stalin's position, Poland gained significant lands in the West, which once belonged to Germany.

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📹 Footage showing our deceased colleague, Rostislav Zhuravlev

In March he delivered letters from children from a boarding school to fighters at positions in the Zaporozhye Region.

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“Crossing all moral red lines”: Russia's deputy representative to the UN has condemned Kiev for killing Sputnik correspondent Rostislav Zhuravlev

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