🇺🇸☢️ US narrative that WWII won thanks to atomic bombs makes more countries want to acquire nukes

The lessons of the US atomic bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been forgotten, while today's tense relations between nuclear powers make arms reductions unlikely, experts told Sputnik.

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📹 Today the Railway Troops of Russia celebrate the 172nd anniversary of their creation

Military railway workers are directly involved in the special military operation. Demonstrating determination and courage, the personnel of the Railway Troops are engaged in demining and restoring destroyed railway infrastructure, ensuring the uninterrupted advancement of military echelons.

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The Russian MoD’s latest statements on the Ukraine crisis:

▪️Last night the Armed Forces of Russia launched a group strike with long-range air- and sea-based precision weapons against Ukrainian air bases in Khmelnitsky and Dubno regions. The goal of the attack has been reached. All the assigned targets have been neutralized.

▪️Eight attacks and counterattacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been successfully repelled in Kharkov region and the LPR.

▪️As a result of actions by Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, as well as artillery, enemy manpower and hardware concentration areas have been hit in Kharkov region and the LPR. The enemy losses included up to 50 Ukrainian servicemen, 3 armored fighting vehicles, 3 motor vehicles, 2 US-manufactured M109 Paladin self-propelled howitzers, 1 Polish-manufactured Krab self-propelled artillery system, and 2 Msta-B howitzers.

▪️As a result of actions by units of the Russian Armed Forces, Operational-Tactical Aviation, artillery, and heavy flamethrower systems, 5 enemy attacks have been repelled in the DPR. The enemy losses included up to 170 Ukrainian servicemen, 3 armored fighting vehicles, 5 motor vehicles, and 1 Polish-manufactured Krab self-propelled howitzer.

▪️As a result of coordinated actions by units of the Russian Armed Forces, Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, as well as artillery, 2 attacks by Ukrainian assault groups have been successfully repelled near Krasny Liman. The enemy losses were up to 110 Ukrainian servicemen, 2 armored fighting vehicles, 3 motor vehicles, 1 U.S.-manufactured M777 artillery system and 1 Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer.

▪️As a result of actions by aviation and artillery 1 enemy attack by an assault group has been repelled in South Donetsk. Enemy losses included up to 150 Ukrainian servicemen, 2 armored fighting vehicles, 4 motor vehicles, 1 Grad MLRS combat vehicle, and 1 US-manufactured M777 artillery system.

▪️As a result of by the actions of units, aviation and artillery of the Russian grouping of forces, 2 enemy attacks have been repelled in Zaporozhye region. Enemy losses included up to 80 Ukrainian servicemen, 3 armored fighting vehicles, 4 motor vehicles, and 1 D-30 howitzer.

▪️Enemy losses included up to 40 Ukrainian servicemen, as well as eight motor vehicles in Kherson region.

▪️Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Armed Forces of Russia have neutralized 136 artillery units at their firing positions, as well as manpower and military hardware in 145 areas.

▪️Air defense facilities have intercepted 11 HIMARS multiple-launch rocket system projectiles and 1 HARM anti-radar missile.

▪️Some 458 airplanes, 245 helicopters, 5,534 unmanned aerial vehicles, 428 air defense missile systems, 11,143 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 1,143 fighting vehicles equipped with MLRS, 5,778 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 12,098 special military motor vehicles have been destroyed during the special military operation.

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🗣️ On the US government’s hidden expectations that Ukraine will never win:

“[The leached documents] reveal the government's own internal deliberations as showing it expects Ukraine to lose – to lose! So, if the Department of Defense expects Ukraine to lose, and the secretary of defense goes before a Senate committee and says under oath ‘Ukraine is going to win,’ who are you going to believe?” Judge Andrew Napolitano, a former New Jersey Superior Court judge, author, and host of the Judging Freedom podcast on YouTube, told Sputnik.

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📹 The crew of a Ka-52 reconnaissance and attack helicopter used a guided missile to strike (0:06) an armored combat object of the Armed Forces of Ukraine which was camouflaged in the forest

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🇷🇺 Details about the Heroes of Russia noscripts awarded to the crew of the Alyosha tank have been revealed:

▪️Tankers under the command of Senior Lieutenant Rasim Baksikov came under massive shelling; the driver was wounded. The crew commander evacuated the wounded officer from the vehicle, gave him first aid, handed him over to the doctors, then took his place.

▪️Lieutenant Alexander Levakov took the place of the tank commander, advancing to support the defenders.

▪️Having found eight Ukrainian armored vehicles, including two tanks, they immediately entered the battle. This came as a complete surprise to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

▪️Baksikov skillfully maneuvered and supervised the work of the crew. Levakov quickly and competently helped the gunner Alexei Neustroev.

▪️In the first minutes of the battle, both T-72B enemy tanks were destroyed; in the next half hour, a M113 armored personnel carrier was destroyed as well as five American MaxxPro vehicles, along with the landing force. Then for another 40 minutes, the crew covered their own and only after that went to reload.

▪️ When the tank that replaced them was damaged, Baksikov and his team towed the car under enemy fire, thanks to which the crew of the damaged tank was saved.

In total, during the battle, the loss of the enemy, in addition to the destroyed equipment, exceeded 100 Ukrainian soldiers killed and wounded.

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🇩🇰🇬🇧 NATO instructors trained neo-nazi Azov battalion soldiers in 2021

A note from the Danish embassy dated May 21, 2021, informed the Ukrainian Defense Ministry of the arrival of six instructors for the 56-th Ukrainian army brigade in Berdyansk and Urzuf, where Azov's main base was located.

"These sites were previously investigated by Russian law enforcement officers, and the materials found there directly point to intensive training of mobilized Ukrainian citizens by Western officers, using criminal methods of warfare, which the Azovs were fluent in," a law enforcement officer told Sputnik.

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📹🚁 The crew of the Ka-52 reconnaissance and attack helicopter destroyed (0:04) the UAF armored personnel carrier with a direct hit from a guided missile in the Zaporozhye region.

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🇳🇪 History of ECOWAS Military Interventions in Light of Expiring Ultimatum to Niger

Following the recent military coup in Niger, where the presidential guard overthrew and detained President Mohamed Bazoum on July 26, leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) proposed a military action plan against the coup organizers in the bloc's member state. ECOWAS gave Niger's military one week to hand over power.

With the ECOWAS ultimatum, the latest in a series of diplomatic and economic pressures the bloc has brought to bear on Niger's coup leaders, set to expire this Sunday, Sputnik Africa has prepared a review of the history of ECOWAS military interventions in its region.

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