💬 "We cannot maintain Japan's security with our current capabilities"

🇯🇵 The Japanese Self-Defense Forces cannot ensure the country's security in the face of regional and global challenges, Chief of Staff of the Japanese Joint Staff Gen. Yoshihide Yoshida said

He noted that in order to boost the country’s armed forces, the Japanese government approved three defense documents, confirming its plans to increase military spending to 2% of GDP by 2027, among other things.

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📹 Artillerymen of the Russian special forces detachment "Viking" eliminated Armed Forces of Ukraine troops who were trying to counterattack in the zone of the special military op near Artemovsk (Bakhmut)

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🗣 NATO is going to collapse

📹 Tucker Carlson reveals who is behind the Nord Stream piplelines’ sabotage

Popular American TV political commentator Tucker Carlson blames the US for the attack on Germany and highlights the Germans' unwillingness to respond to it adequately.

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💬 “In fact, these people are required to not only take language tests, but also reveal their political views and give documented condemnation of Russia’s actions”

Russian human rights activists have condemned Latvia’s decision to expel about 6,000 Russian residents, who had lived in Latvia with a residence permit and did not pass the Latvian language exam

The Russian rights activists stressed that “especially cynical in relation to these people is Latvian authorities’ requirement to not only pass the language exam, but also fill out questionnaires indicating their attitude to Russia’s foreign policy.”

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Destruction of Ukrainian armoured vehicles in the zone of the special military op

📹 Russia’s Ka-52 reconnaissance and attack helicopter crews destroyed (0:06) (0:18) two enemy armoured vehicles with militants, using guided missiles.

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🗣 "The representatives of the Kiev regime want to believe that West supports destruction of ‘everything Russian’, and, of course, they want to do everything possible and impossible in order to drag Western countries into this conflict as deeply as possible," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, commenting on Mikhail Podolyak’s recent statement

Earlier, Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Zelensky, said that the strikes on Crimea were coordinated with Western partners; they support Kiev's drive to “destroy everything Russian” on the peninsula.

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The number of victims in the Donetsk People's Republic has increased manifold due to cluster shells used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, DPR acting head Denis Pushilin said

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The Russian MoD reported the first-ever interception of a "Neptune" Ukrainian anti-ship missile by air defense systems

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A Russian fighter jet has destroyed a Ukrainian drone over the Black Sea that tried to attack objects on the Russian territory, the Russian MoD says

With the much-touted Ukrainian counteroffensive proving to be largely unsuccessful, the Kiev regime increasingly employs the terrorist strategy of intimidation of the population by attacking peaceful cities with no other purpose than killing civilians and ruining the lives of innocent people, the ministry added.

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📹 Members of the crew of the legendary tank "Alyosha", Heroes of Russia Alexei Neustroev and Filipp Evseev, on vacation in Russia’s Yakutia

The Russian tank crew stopped a whole column of Ukrainian armored vehicles in the Zaporozhye region in July, hitting seven armored vehicles with the support of artillery and returning from the battle without significant damage.

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🥴 British transgender MP has proposed sending condoms to the Ukrainian Armed Forces

Delivering sex toys to gays in the Ukrainian Army would be a problem, but condoms and lubricants aren't at all, British MP Jamie Wallis said during a prank call by Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus who spoke to the British official on behalf of “Harry Gasparov”

The Conservative parliamentarian rose to prominence after a high-profile accident. The official got behind the wheel in a miniskirt and high heels before getting in an automobile accident and then fled the scene. Wallis believes that the scandal was inflated by his neighbors, who do not like LGBT people.

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📹 152mm D-20 towed howitzers of Russian Airborne Forces units in action

Artillerymen of the Tula Guards Airborne Troops continue to carry out firing tasks north of Soledar.

Location data of the targets was detected by the UAV operators are promptly transmitted to the artillery crews. On this occasion, the howitzer hit a dugout together with a group of Ukrainian infantry.

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

▪️ A Ukrainian military train, loaded with artillery ammunition, has been destroyed during a missile strike on an uploading station in the DPR. Enemy losses included more than 340 Ukrainian troops killed and wounded, six armoured fighting vehicles, 13 motor vehicles, as well as two howitzers (D-20 and Msta-B).

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces have repelled two attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye region. Over the past 24 hours, up to 90 Ukrainian servicemen have been neutralised, as well as two armoured fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, three M777 artillery systems, two US-manufactured M119 howitzers, as well as one UK-manufactured FH-70 howitzer have been destroyed.

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces have repelled six enemy attacks near Kupyansk. Enemy losses included up to 50 Ukrainian personnel. Two armoured fighting vehicles and three motor vehicles have been eliminated.

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces have repelled three enemy attacks near Krasny Liman. Up to 80 personnel, two infantry fighting vehicles, three armoured fighting vehicles, and two pickups have been eliminated.

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces have neutralised up to 100 Ukrainian servicemen, two armoured fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, and two howitzers: Akatsiya and Giatsint-B in South Donetsk.

▪️ As many as 20 Ukrainian servicemen, three motor vehicles, and two D-30 howitzers have been eliminated in Kherson Region.

▪️ The operational-tactical and Army aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Armed Forces of Russia have neutralised manpower and military hardware in 132 areas.

▪️ Air defence systems have intercepted two HIMARS MLRS, one Neptune anti-ship missile and two HARM anti-radiation missiles.

▪️ Some 466 airplanes, 247 helicopters, 6,206 unmanned aerial vehicles, 433 air defence missile systems, 11,555 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,146 fighting vehicles equipped with MLRS, 6,107 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 12,508 special military motor vehicles have been destroyed during the special military operation.

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