🇺🇸 Trump claims Biden 'petrified of China' because Beijing pays him 'millions of dollars'

💬 "I believe we have a compromised president. I believe he's so petrified of China because they know how much money has been given to him, and they know where it is ... As of today, I think 32 million [US] dollars that went into his accounts, the various accounts of the family," Trump said in an interview with Eric Bolling on Newsmax, adding that he believes China paid the Bidens "a lot more than that."

The ex-president said all signs point to China paying Biden "a fortune" as he has not seen "anyone so weak on China before," referring to Beijing's increasing influence in Cuba and South America over the last three years.

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📹 Russian forces strike Ukrainian stronghold in Avdeevka region

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🇰🇵 North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has signed a written order to further step up the army preparations after summarizing and analyzing the situation on the Korean peninsula, state-run news agency reported

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📹 Russian forces destroy Ukrainian Kozak armored vehicle using Lancet drone

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🇺🇸 Ukraine hands Pentagon first report on use of deadly US-gifted cluster bombs

The Pentagon was purportedly offered information on both the number of rounds that had since been fired, and the number of Russian targets destroyed in the course of the ongoing, albeit widely described as “stuttering” counteroffensive. The cited unnamed Ukrainian official by US media declined to provide any specific figures.

The US defense department had ostensibly demanded such an account from Kiev as part of the original agreement to send the cluster munitions or dual-purpose improved conventional munitions (DPICMs) to Ukraine.

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🇷🇺 Russia fine-tuning missile interception capabilities, says top Zaporozhye official

Russia’s air defenses in the Zaporozhye Region are able to intercept almost all HIMARS rockets, while only one in four Storm Shadow missiles make it through, Yevgeny Balitsky, the region’s leader told Sputnik.

▪️At the start of the Russia’s military op, Ukrainian forces primarily used Tochka-U missiles, which were easy to intercept.

▪️Later on, however, the HIMARS arrived on the scene, which initially were tough to shoot down. Presently, Russian air defense have learned how to deal with them too, so now the HIMARS have been rendered almost entirely ineffective.

▪️The UK’s Storm Shadow missiles are still managing to get through the defenses, but thanks to captured trophy “samples,” Russian specialists are able to hammer out measures to counter them. So, any shortcomings on intercepting these Storm Shadows will be fixed.

▪️That being said, Russian air defense systems have tip-top efficiency.

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🇪🇨 What’s known about Ecuador presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio’s assassination

▪️Fernando Villavicencio, a candidate in Ecuador’s upcoming presidential election, was assassinated at a campaign event in the Ecuador’s capital, Quito

▪️The main suspect has died of gunshot wounds received during his arrest, a total of six people have been detained in connection with the crime.

▪️The number of those injured at Villavicencio's campaign rally has risen to nine people, the Ecuadorian Prosecutor General's Office said.

▪️Several offices of the slain candidate were also attacked in Quito

▪️Police conducted a controlled explosive detonation near the assassination site

▪️A friend of the assassinated politician mentioned he had received threats before the attack

▪️Five out of seven Ecuador's seven presidential candidates reacted to the assassination by announcing the suspension of their campaigns

▪️Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso has announced a state of emergency across the country for 60 days and declared 3 days of national mourning in honor of Villavicencio

▪️The date of the presidential election set for August 20 will not change, the National Electoral Council said.

▪️According to the latest polls, Villavicencio did not garner enough votes to win the election.

The video shows the moment of the attack on Fernando Villavicencio

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Before and after scenes from Hawaii’s Lahaina resort

At least 36 people dead and dozens injured as fast-moving wildfires tear through and decimate entire communities.

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🇷🇺📹 ‘Sniper strikes where enemy least suspects it’: Russian snipers hunt Ukrainian militants near Artemovsk (Bakhmut)

How do you avoid falling easy prey to the enemy when you’re a sniper?

Watch this video to find out!

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🥴 President Biden strikes again with another doozy: "The problem was too many people are working. Or working people are working, making too much money. That's not the problem."

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🇷🇺🇨🇳 Russian and Chinese Navy ships repelled a mock air raid by during joint drills in the Pacific Ocean

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⚡️🇮🇳 🇷🇺 Russia has sent a proposal to India launching a visa-free group exchange, diplomatic channels are currently being explored, according to the Minister of Economic Development Maxim Reshetnikov.

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🇷🇺 Why Russia has potential of world’s agricultural powerhouse? US-born farmer living out his dream in Russia's Altai explains

💬 “We in Russia have one of the largest reserves of topsoil in the world. We have one of the largest reserves of fresh water in the world. We have temperate climates along the southern border, and there are huge expanses of land that aren't being properly used, or used at all. So we have this giant resource, agrarian resource that just is still even yet untapped. And I think that for me those are the conditions," Justus Walker, lovingly dubbed the Merry Milkman by his Russian compatriots for his sparkling sense of humor and kindness, said.

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

▪️ The Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) lost up to 60 soldiers around Krasny Liman.

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces repelled the attack of the 46th airmobile brigade of the UAF in the Zaporozhye region.

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces successfully repelled 17 attacks by UAF assault groups around Donetsk.

▪️ The UAF lost up to 125 troops, a tank, two armored vehicles, three Msta-B howitzers, D-20 and D-30 guns around Zaporozhye.

▪️ The UAF lost over 290 troops killed and wounded in Donetsk direction.

▪️ The UAF lost more than 55 soldiers around Kupyansk.

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces destroyed an ammunition depot in the DPR and hit the control points of two UAF brigades;

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces repelled two UAF attacks in South Donetsk direction;

▪️ The UAF lost more than 130 troops in the South Donetsk direction, a Hyacinth-S self-propelled gun, a Msta-B and a D-20 howitzer;

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces destroyed up to 30 UAF military personnel and the US-made AN/TPQ-36 counter-battery radar station in Kherson.

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🇷🇺 The Russian Strategic Missile Forces will wrap up rearmament with Yars ICBMs in 2023, said Colonel-General Sergei Karakayev, commander of the unit.

The Yars ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) is a modern nuclear missile that is designed to be launched from a mobile platform. Developed by Russia, it is equipped with multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs) that can deliver several nuclear warheads to different targets with pinpoint accuracy.

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