📹 The ARMY-2023 military expo shows off the Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile system. The S-400 is designed to destroy all modern and promising means of aerospace attack (including cargo ones).

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📹 Biden smiled and declined to comment on the rise in the death toll from the fires in Hawaii.

Fox News broadcast on air how the US president, returning from a vacation on the beach, stopped for a second to listen to the request of journalists, and refused them with a smile and a wave of his hand.

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📹 A Russian T-90M tank with additional protection against Javelins and drones in the upper part was shown off at the Army-2023 military expo.

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

▪️ In the Zaporozhye area, Russian forces repelled two attacks by Ukrainian forces and destroyed the enemy’s reconnaissance group. Ukrainian losses amounted to 50 soldiers, a tank, an M777 artillery system, a Caesar self-propelled howitzer and a Krab gun mount;

▪️ In the Donetsk region, the Russian Army repelled six attacks by Ukrainian troops. Ukrainian losses amounted to 150 soldiers and two tanks;

▪️ In the Kupyansk area, Russian forces repelled six attacks by Ukrainian forces. Ukrainian losses amounted to 65 soldiers;

▪️ In the Krasny Liman area, the Russian Army repelled two attacks by Ukrainian troops. Ukrainian losses amounted to 90 soldiers;

▪️ In South Donetsk, Ukrainian losses amounted to 240 soldiers;

▪️ Russian forces delivered a sea-based high-precision long-range weapon strike at the places of production and storage of Ukrainian naval drones;

▪️ The goal of the high-precision strike has been achieved, all designated targets have been hit;

▪️ For the first time, a Spanish-made Alakran mortar was destroyed in the special operation zone;

▪️ The Russian Army hit a battery of the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system in the Zeleniy Guy area;

▪️ Russian air defenses intercepted two HIMARS rockets, destroying 28 Ukrainian drones.

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🗣️ On a pretext the US uses to escalate tensions with China:

“All of these cases where they use the term national security, they're really just saying 'We want to suppress China's economic development.' The national security thing is a pretext. It's just a very threadbare excuse for the US to do whatever it wants to: intimidate, bully and undermine China any way it can,” KJ Noh, a journalist, author and geopolitical analyst, told Sputnik.

🎧 Listen to more of Noh’s analysis in our podcast The Final Countdown

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🗣️ On the leverage Ukraine has over the US:

“Ukraine is following the Biden playbook, which is just prolong this conflict as long as they possibly can. And they also feel that they are in a position to just make all kinds of demands from US leaders and to complain about them if they don't get them met immediately...'We want you to train F-16 fighters. We want to train right now.' I mean, this is this is showing that Ukraine basically feels it's been written a blank check and it can ask for whatever it wants,” Caleb Maupin, journalist and political analyst, told Sputnik.

🎧 Listen to more of Maupin’s analysis in our podcast The Critical Hour

🇷🇺 State-of-the-art Russian weapons on display during first day of Army-2023 expo

Russia's Army-2023 international military forum event kicked off at Patriot Park in Kubinka, Moscow Oblast, bringing together thousands of people from all over the world and at least 28,000 military and dual-use goods.

Some of these military items have been developed on the basis of new battleground experience gained by the Russian Armed Forces during the special military operation in Ukraine.

Sputnik sums up the inaugural day of the 9th International military-technical forum Army-2023 expo

Check out the most impressive developments at the event

📹 Russian servicemen destroyed a Ukrainian S-300 surface-to-air missile system battery in Nikolayev region

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❗An explosion at a car service center in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, Russia, has killed five people and injured 10 more, Sergei Melikov, the head of Russia’s Republic of Dagestan, has confirmed.

🇵🇰 #Pakistan Independence Day: The Birth of Nation

Pakistan came into existence as a result of the Pakistan Movement, which aimed to create an independent Muslim state in the north-western regions of British India via partition. The independence of the country was declared on 14 August 1947.

🌐 This partition revived feelings of alienation among Muslims, giving rise to the spirit of nationalism and laying the foundation for Pakistan's birth. This nationhood was forged in the crucible of sacrifice and struggle as millions of Muslims across the Indian subcontinent rallied together, and braving countless hardships.

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