🇭🇺 NATO expansion serves US interests, damages Eurasian civilization, Hungarian politician says

💬 "We are fundamentally against the expansion of NATO [to the East] because this only exacerbates an already very dangerous and damaging tensions between the western and the eastern parts of our civilization. This interest of the United States deals a lot of damage to the Eurasian civilization, which Russia is a part of," the leader of the Hungarian national-conservative opposition party Our Homeland Movement, Laszlo Toroczkai, told Sputnik.

Laszlo Toroczkai also said that the Our Homeland Movement he leads will vote against Sweden's accession to NATO and call on the parliament to veto the alliance's expansion.

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📹 Russian Nona-SVK crews unleash hell on Ukrainian mortars and BMPs near Krasny Liman

Servicemen from the Central Military District's mountain motorized rifle unit obtained coordinates from reconnaissance and, using 120-mm guns, obliterated enemy targets. The soldiers used high-explosive fragmentation and thermobaric shells. To effectively carry out their mission, the artillerymen closely coordinated their efforts with drone calculations, enabling swift adjustments and valuable assessments of the actual combat situation.

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🇷🇺🇰🇵 Shoigu lays flowers at Liberation Monument in Pyongyang

The monument was erected in the DPRK capital on August 15, 1946 as a token of gratitude of the Korean people to the Soviet soldiers who fell during the liberation of Korea in 1945.

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🇶🇦🇫🇷 France eyes new deal with Qatar on supply of Rafale fighter jets

Doha may place an order for French fighter jets between 2024 and 2025, the report said. Qatar may also request that France modernize the 36 aircraft supplied in 2015 to the F4 standard.

In 2015, Qatar and France struck a deal for the delivery of 24 Rafale aircraft worth 6.3 million euros ($6.96 million), with Doha having purchased another 12 fighters later.

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📹 Russian aviation puts out fire engulfing Turkiye’s resort area of Antalya

Within a period of 24 hours, two Russian BE-200ChS planes dropped more than 800 tons of water on burning forests near Kemer, in the Antalya province.

Specialists from Russia’s Emergencies Ministry were tasked with protecting hotels and other infrastructure on the Turkish coast from raging forest fires in the area. The pilots labored under heavy smoke and poor visibility in difficult mountainous terrain.

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In this fresh episode of our New Rules podcast, we are joined by Andrei Martyanov, a military and political analyst. He discusses whether the Ukrainian counteroffensive can succeed, how the Russian military has changed over the course of the Ukrainian conflict, the potential of NATO's attempted blockade in the Black and Baltic Seas, and more...

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🇷🇺🚁 The crew of a Ka-52 reconnaissance and attack helicopter destroyed a Ukrainian infantry fighting vehicle in the Donetsk direction with a direct hit (0:25) from a guided missile

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 West "torpedoed" Ukraine peace "because we want war with Russia," RFK Jr. says

The politician said that there is no chance of Russia losing the proxy war with NATO in Ukraine, the West fomented the conflict, and a peace agreement is needed immediately to prevent further bloodshed.

"The more disturbing thing," Kennedy said, "is that on two occasions the Russians tried to sign a peace agreement with [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelensky," and both times the West sabotaged it.

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🇮🇩 The new Twitter address on the network (x. com after the rebranding of the channel) was blocked in Indonesia - the southern country was unable to access the platform.

Local authorities say the domain was previously used in the distribution of pornography and gambling-related hoarding.

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🇳🇪 Niger presidential palace reportedly blockaded by soldiers

Soldiers from Niger's presidential guard have blockaded the presidential palace in the capital Niamey, and access to ministries adjacent to the palace was also shut off, the media reported, citing sources close to the country's President Mohamed Bazoum

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📹 Moscow drenched in unusual tropical thunderstorm

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☦️ Ukrainian lawmakers and officials are whipping up hate rhetoric against the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

The ministry noted that such rhetoric resulted in acts of aggression and unmotivated violence against clergy and arson attacks on churches and shrines of the canonical church. The ministry added that the United States was making it clear that it approved of Kiev's actions to persecute the UOC by failing to condemn them.

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

▪️In the Donetsk direction, Russian forces destroyed over 210 Ukrainian troops, seven armored combat vehicles, two US-made M777 artillery systems, one Polish Krab self-propelled howitzer, one D-20 and one D-30 howitzer, as well as a US-made M119 self-propelled howitzer;

▪️In the Kupyansk direction, Russian forces destroyed up to 135 Ukrainian troops, one tank, three armored combat vehicles, a US-made M-777 howitzer, one Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer, an American-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar station, as well as one Msta-B and one D-20 howitzer ;

▪️In the Krasny Liman direction, Russian forces neutralized up to 190 Ukrainian personnel, five armored combat vehicles, three Gvozdika self-propelled howitzers, an American-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar station, as well as one D-30 and one D-20 howitzer;

▪️In the Zaporozhyie direction, the actions of a Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group were thwarted. Russian forces neutralized up to two tanks, one Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer, and a Hyacinth-B towed gun;

▪️On the morning of July 26, the enemy resumed intensive offensive operations in the Orekhov direction. Ukrainian forces conducted a massive attack with three battalions reinforced with tanks. All Ukrainian attacks were repelled. Russian forces neutralized up to 100 Ukrainian personnel, 22 tanks, 10 infantry fighting vehicles, and one armored fighting vehicle;

▪️In the Kherson direction, Russian troops neutralized up to 40 Ukrainian soldiers, one Akasyia self-propelled howitzer, and an ammunition depot;

▪️Russian air defenses shot down seven HIMARS missiles, two Storm Shadow cruise missiles, and 13 unmanned aerial vehicles in the LPR, DPR, and Zaporozhye region.

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❗️Rebels in Niger refuse to free president, military gives them ultimatum, the media report

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🇺🇸 Hunter Biden has arrived at a Delaware courthouse ahead of an expected guilty plea to multiple federal crimes

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🇷🇺 🇪🇹 Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed during a meeting with a delegation from Ethiopia that will take part in the upcoming Second Russia-Africa Summit

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“Today with the modern technology, a Russian defense national command and control center in Moscow can actually get a video feed from some private on the ground in the Donbass. And then they also receive these immense datasets, immense stream of information that can be used for reconnaissance and targeting,” military analyst Andrei Martyanov told the New Rules podcast, commenting on Russian military capabilities

👉 The Ukrainian counteroffensive’s new strategy, the prospect of a NATO-Russia naval showdown, and the Russian military’s improved “network-centric warfare” capabilities: You can find the full interview on YouTube or Rumble

Plea deal hearings: what is Hunter Biden accused of?

Hunter Biden is set to plead guilty on Wednesday to two federal misdemeanors for not paying taxes on time in 2017 and 2018. He is likewise due to enter a deal with prosecutors on his felony gun charge. The hearing will begin at 10 am (ET) at the federal courthouse in Wilmington, Delaware.

Why did Hunter Biden strike a plea deal? Who's presiding? How is the GOP trying to block Hunter's plea?

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