🇰🇵🇺🇸 North Korea, in response to the US-South Korea drills, has carried out a tactical nuclear strike drill simulating nuclear strikes at the territory of South Korea, the General Staff of the Korean People's Army (KPA) said Wednesday.

"On August 30 the US imperialists let a formation of B-1B nuclear strategic bombers conduct a joint attack formation drill against the DPRK together with fighters of the military gangsters of the 'Republic of Korea' in the sky above the East and West Seas of Korea," North Korean state media quoted the general staff as saying.

"To cope with this, the KPA staged a tactical nuclear strike drill simulating scorched earth strikes at major command centers and operational airfields of the "ROK" [the Republic of Korea, South Korea] military gangsters on Wednesday night."

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❗️ Air defense forces destroyed a drone flying towards Moscow over Russia's Moscow Region, preliminary, there were no casualties and no damage, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said

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Pskov airport has resumed operation without restrictions, according to Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency

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📹 The combat work of Russia's T-72B3 tank crews

Tankers advanced to firing positions and hit the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, camouflaged in the forest, with direct fire (0:05).

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🇺🇸🇹🇼 US House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul applauded the Biden administration announcing aid for Taiwan that for the first time ever will come through Foreign Military Financing (FMF), a program usually reserved for sovereign states or international organizations

McCaul also said the move will ensure US national security against China.

According to the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency, the FMF is offered to eligible "partner nations" to buy defense articles and services.

'One China' policy is the diplomatic acknowledgement of China's position that there is only one Chinese government. Under the policy, the US recognises and has formal ties with China rather than the island of Taiwan.

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🇨🇳🇺🇸 “How much trouble do you have with your computer? Would you trust your computer to make life and death decisions for you?”

Giving AI the power to both trigger and escalate military conflicts “poses a great danger to all of humanity” Michael Wong, the national vice president of Veterans for Peace, said, commenting on US AI drone program designed to close the gap with the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA).

Called “Replicator,” the program aims to introduce thousands of cheap and disposable - “atrittable” in Pentagon parlance - autonomous drones over the next two years.

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❗️ Russia’s Federal Security Service, together with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Russian Guard, defeated a group of Ukrainian saboteurs

The saboteurs penetrated the territory of Russia and planned terrorist attacks on military and energy infrastructure facilities.

During the battle in Russia’s Bryansk region, two combatants were eliminated and five were detained.

Each saboteur had with him "an impressive baggage of various means of destruction", including machine guns, explosive devices and grenades, the FSB noted.

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📹 Russia’s Federal Security Service revealed the arsenal confiscated from Ukrainian saboteurs

Ukrainian saboteurs were equipped with US-made automatic rifles with silencers, night-vision devices, explosives and grenades. Authorities are currently opening a criminal case.

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❗️ British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace has resigned after four years in office

Ben Wallace was an ardent supporter of arms supplies to Ukraine. Wallace said in July that the UK had handed over 15 times more artillery shells (more than 200,000) to Ukraine than it had planned a year ago.

Britain also delivered at least five million anti-personnel weapons to Ukrainian forces, including mortars and grenades, as well as 1,500 anti-aircraft weapons and 100 launchers for them.

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⚡ Britain's energy chief Grant Shapps is reportedly expected to become the new defense secretary after Wallace's resignation

Grant Shapps played a key role in Rishi Sunak’s leadership campaign last summer and was removed as transport secretary when Liz Truss took office in September 2022.

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🗣 Let's say goodbye to the character responsible for the contamination of Ukrainian lands with radiation through the supply of shells with depleted uranium to Kiev. Agent 006 has ingloriously left the battlefield, Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said, commenting on the recently announced resignation of British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace.

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📹 Airborne Troops artillery eliminates enemy units on approaches to Artemovsk (Bakhmut)

D-30 122mm howitzer crews strike (0:11) (0:16) (0:21) Ukrainian units attempting to take positions in the woodlands west of Artemovsk.

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Mobile shelter bunker on "skis" designed to protect military personnel developed in Russia

Now even a quad bike is enough to transport bunkers, no crane or additional tools are needed. Russia's Dorgeotech company says that its shelter on "skis" can be easily moved for hundreds of meters any time of the year, despite its weight of 1.8 tons.

The bunker is designed to protect against high-explosive fragmentation shells: up to 18 people can be covered up inside.

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Key statements made by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov:

▪️ Russia continues to trade in grain and is a responsible, very serious supplier, despite the significant difficulties that the countries of the EU and the US impose on it, and the difficulties associated with the illegitimate restrictions that apply to Russia’s suppliers;

▪️ There are no specific results of the discussion on the grain deal; Moscow is ready to return to it after all the conditions relating to Russia are met;

▪️ Ukraine blaming Russia for famine in Africa is unfounded, wrong, and a deliberate alteration of truth.

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⚡ Another Ukrainian drone was destroyed by air defenses over Russia’s Bryansk region at around noon, the Russian MoD says

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Two squadrons of US-made F-35A jets capable of carrying out nuclear strikes will soon arrive at the US-rented Lakenheath base in the UК to replace F-15s already deployed there

The new fighters are designed to carry out tactical nuclear bombing but also capable of air-to-air combat and intelligence gathering, news outlet reported, citing a defense source.

The deployment comes after the US Air Force announced that it has secured funding for a new nuclear storage facility in the UK, providing for the return of US nuclear capabilities to the country after their removal in 2008.

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🛫 Moscow's Domodedovo and Vnukovo airports told Sputnik they are operating normally and have lifted all restrictions that were imposed on Thursday morning due to drone attacks which resulted in over 150 flights delayed or canceled

Restrictions at Vnukovo Airport were also lifted at 9:02 a.m. local time, the airport authorities told Sputnik, adding that it was operating normally.

As of 06:58 GMT, over 150 flights were delayed or canceled at four Moscow airports amid the drone attacks across Russia. Around five of them were delayed at Sheremetyevo Airport, 49 more were delayed and three canceled at Vnukovo. Two flights were canceled at Zhukovsky Airport, while 81 flights were delayed and 11 canceled at Domodedovo.

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🇫🇷 Students will not be allowed to attend classes in Muslim clothing in France from September 1

The decision was made by a new education minister appointed in July, a move that has already drawn criticism from leftists and Muslims.

According to the minister, schoolchildren who come in Muslim clothes will have educational conversations, they will explain to them why they are not permitted to attend school wearing such clothes.

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Two Ukrainian assault groups that attempted to break through Russian defense lines on the outskirts of the Verbovoe village have been destroyed, head of the Zaporozhye Region said

Ukraine launched its long-announced counteroffensive in June and promised that it will lead to a major turn on the battlefield.

However, Ukrainian troops ran into stalwart Russian defenses and minefields. According to Russia’s Ministry of Defense, as of August 4, Kiev lost over 43000 militants and over 1800 tanks, including 25 German Leopard tanks, once considered a weapon that can turn the tide.

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

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces in the course of offensive actions improved the situation along the front line near Kupyansk. The enemy has lost up to 50 Ukrainian troops, two motor vehicles, one Polish-made Krab self-propelled howitzer, as well as two D-20 howitzers.

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces repelled six attacks by Ukrainian assault detachments in the DPR. Up to 365 Ukrainian troops, three US-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, two armored personnel carriers, 32 motor vehicles, one Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery howitzer, as well as D-20 and D-30 howitzers, have been neutralized.

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces repelled five enemy attacks in the Zaporozhye region. Up to 85 Ukrainian troops, two motor vehicles, one US-made M777 artillery howitzer, one Czech-made Vampire MLRS combat vehicle, as well as three D-30 howitzers, have been destroyed.

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces repelled two enemy attacks in the LPR. During the day, the enemy's losses in this direction have amounted to 55 Ukrainian troops, three armored fighting vehicles, as well as Msta-B and D-30 howitzers.

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces delivered strikes at Ukrainian manpower and hardware clusters in South Donetsk. Up to 100 Ukrainian troops, four motor vehicles, two Msta-B howitzers, as well as one US-made M119 howitzer have been neutralized during the day.

▪️ Up to 20 Ukrainian troops, two motor vehicles, as well as two D-30 howitzers, have been neutralized in the Kherson region.

▪️ One Ukrainian S-200 surface-to-air missile system has been neutralized in the DPR.

▪️ Air defense forces shot down two HIMARS MLRS shells, two JDAM-guided bombs, and two HARM anti-radiation missiles during the day.

▪️ Some 466 airplanes and 247 helicopters, 6,266 unmanned aerial vehicles, 434 air defense missile systems, 11,578 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,147 combat vehicles equipped with MRLS, 6,145 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 12,570 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.

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🇷🇺 🇹🇷 Talks begin between Russian FM Lavrov & his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan

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