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📹 Vladimir Putin is hearing a report on the readiness to start the Navy parade

📹 Vladimir Putin is greeting the participants of the Navy parade

🇷🇺🗣 Putin at the parade in honor of the Navy Day: Our Fleet has been and remains the indestructible guardian of the borders of our country

📹 More footage from the Navy parade in St. Petersburg

📹 The first captured Swedish CV-90 infantry fighting vehicle in the special operation zone was shown off by the Russian MoD

The armored vehicle was hit by a Russian fighter during the battle from a hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher, its commander was killed, and the survivors from the Ukrainian crew fled.

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The Russian forces have repelled 3 Ukrainian attacks in the Krasny Lyman direction over the past 24 hours, and the Ukrainian military lost up to 140 soldiers and 6 pieces of military equipment

The Russian forces also destroyed the enemy's accumulations of manpower and equipment in several areas of Donetsk People’s Republic and Lugansk People's Republic, the ministry said.

The ministry added that the Ukrainian forces continued to make unsuccessful attempts to attack in Donetsk, South Donetsk and Krasny Liman directions.

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

◾️ In the Zaporozhye region, Russian forces repelled an attack by Ukrainian troops. The Russian Army thwarted the activities of a group of Ukrainian saboteurs in the area of Charivnoye;

◾️ In the Donetsk region, Russian troops repelled seven attacks by Ukrainian forces. Ukrainian losses amounted to 190 servicemen;

◾️Near Krasny Liman, the Russian Army repelled three attacks by Ukrainian troops. Ukrainian losses amounted to 140 servicemen;

◾️Near Kupyansk, Ukrainian losses amounted to 80 servicemen;

◾️In South Donetsk and Zaporozhye region, Ukrainian losses amounted to 250 servicemen;

◾️Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter in the DPR;

◾️ Russian air defense systems shot down 44 Ukrainian drones.

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The German economy is expected to be the worst-performing among the G7 nations this year

Germany is facing further economic decline and deindustrialization, Friedrich Merz, the chairman of the opposition Christian Democratic Union (CDU), has told a German news agency.

He pointed to the country’s grim economic indicators, including a summer rise in unemployment, a contraction in industrial production and a 16% increase in bankruptcies in the first half of 2023.

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📹 Russia’s ‘Alligator’ at work in the zone of the special military zone

A crew of the Ka-52 Alligator reconnaissance and attack helicopter, having detected an enemy IFV advance and struck (0:08) the target with a guided missile.

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Putin: Russian Navy Fleet to receive 30 ships in 2023

The ships put on combat duty include the Mercury missile corvette, on which the St. George naval flag has been hoisted "as a sign of the inviolability of [Russian] naval traditions, a symbol of courage, bravery and firmness of military sailors," the Russian President stated.

"Today, Russia is implementing the tasks of a large-scale maritime policy with confidence, consistently building up the power of its fleet. This year alone, 30 ships of different types will join it," Vladimir Putin said at the parade in honor of the Navy Day.

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🗣️ On the diminishing chances of NATO defeating Russia in the Black Sea:

“[Russia has] the range of the modern Onyx missile, which is a part of the shore based bastion complex… Russia has SU-24 - around 45 to 50 modern strike aircraft such as its fleet of SU-30 Sms, which belong to the Black Sea fleet. The Black Sea Fleet is not just ships. And then, of course, Russia has some excellent submarines. How do you even defend against this, they don't have even the air defense capability to basically mitigate the first salvo,” Andrei Martyanov, a military and political analyst, told Sputnik.

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