📹 Retired Brig. Gen. Dr. Meir Elran on Israeli intelligence failure

🗣 "I would say that there has been a major failure in the field of intelligence and then the intelligence services in Israel," Dr. Meir Elran told Sputnik.

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📹 Retired Brig. Gen. Dr. Meir Elran on how did the Israelis react to the Palestinian attack this morning

🗣 "As we do not have a shelter in our apartment, what we do usually in these cases, is they would go out to the staircase, we go down the stairs, and then we stay with all the neighbors, waiting for these incidents to stop," Dr. Meir Elran told Sputnik.

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⚡️ The Israeli Air Force carried out an airstrike on the 14-story "Palestine" building in the center of Gaza City, where the offices of major media channels and companies were located.

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Did Hamas acquire Ukrainian weapons through the black market?

A video on social media appears to show Hamas fighters firing a Soviet-era Igla surface-to-air missile at Israeli aviation.

🗣 "In the 90s and 00s, Ukraine was one of the leading states that sold weapons to everyone. Mostly weapons went to the countries of Asia, Africa, Central Asia, North Africa and the Middle East. It is precisely this that a very large part of Ukrainian weapons from Ukrainian warehouses ended up in the hands of Arab countries. And they, in turn, sold it to terrorist organizations," Dr. Simon Tsipis, expert on national security, political science, and international relations said.

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❗️Key points of Russian MoD briefing on progress of special military op in Ukraine:

◾️In the Zaporozhye direction, the Russian Armed Forces hit a Msta-B howitzer, a D-20 gun, and a M-46 cannon. Russian air defense systems shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 attack aircraft near Preobrazhenka;

◾️In the Kupyansk region, the Russian Army repelled five counterattacks by Ukrainian troops near Makeyevka and Liman Perviy, defeating the enemy’s trooos and equipment;

◾️In the Donetsk area, Russian forces repelled three attacks by assault groups by Ukrainian forces. Ukrainian losses amounted to 190 soldiers;

◾️ In the Odessa region, the Russian Army destroyed a warehouse with Ukrainian military equipment;

◾️ In the DPR, Russian forces hit the control center of the 95th Airborne Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of the Pobeda settlement;

◾️Near South Donetsk, Russian forces repelled three attacks by Ukrainian assault groups. Ukrainian losses amounted to 225 soldiers. The assault aviation of the Russian Armed Forces defeated the trooos and equipment of two brigades of Ukrainian forces;

◾️Near Krasny Liman, Ukrainian losses amounted to 65 soldiers;

◾️Russian air defense and electronic warfare systems destroyed and suppressed 38 Ukrainian drones in the DPR, LPR and Zaporozhye regions;

◾️Russian air defense intercepted seven HIMARS missiles and four US-made HARM anti-radar missiles.

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📹 Sputnik's correspondent filmed the moment high-rise buildings in the Gaza Strip were destroyed by Israel

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🗣 "I have never seen more incompetent work. If the level of training of the rest of the Israeli Army is comparable to what we see in the video, Israel will have a difficult task ahead. The times of the Six-Day War are too long ago - they will have to learn how to fight again. And yes: it’s better to weld the grilles onto the tanks," said Alexander Khodakovsky, commander of Russia’s legendary Vostok Battalion, commenting on the work of the Israeli special forces in the video above.

The Vostok Battalion played a leading role in the Battle for Mariupol, one of the most intense urban battles of the 21st century.

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📹 Dozens of rockets launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel

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📹 Footage of the destruction of Ukrainian armored vehicles in the Zaporozhye region

The crew of the Ka-52 reconnaissance and attack helicopter destroyed an armored vehicle of the Ukrainian Armed Forces hiding in a forest belt with a precise strike from a guided missile.

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🇪🇸 Spain's private space company PLD Space said on Saturday it had successfully launched the country's first suborbital reusable rocket, Miura 1.

🗣 "The Spanish company PLD Space has made history after successfully completing the launch of the first private European rocket, MIURA 1. The maiden flight of its suborbital launcher showcases the advanced level of technology and know-how that has been developed by the company since 2011," the company said in a statement.

The flight lasted 306 seconds, during which the rocket reached an altitude of 46 kilometers (28.5 miles), according to the statement. The rocket landed in the Atlantic Ocean and will be recovered by the company.

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⚡️ The Israel Defense Forces say they have reclaimed most of settlements neighboring the Gaza Strip

❗️"No Spitting at Bondi Beach!" YES Voters accuse NO Voters of being "brainwashed gronks" as tensions run high 5 days out from the Australian Voice to Parliament Referendum.

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❗️ At around 22.00 Moscow time, the Kiev regime tried to attack Crimea with an anti-aircraft missile of the S-200 air defense system, converted into a strike version, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

Russian air defense forces detected and destroyed the missile in the air, the ministry added.

#SputnikInfographic📊 Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared war on Hamas after the Gaza-based militant group’s surprise attack against the state on Saturday.

In the early hours of Saturday, air raid sirens were heard in southern and central Israel in response to missile strikes by the militant group Hamas.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF), in turn, said that they had retaliated by hitting targets in the Gaza Strip. According to the IDF, Israelis across the country "woke up to sirens sounding and Hamas firing rockets at them from Gaza."

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❗️ IDF has confirmed that the commander of Israel's Nahal Brigade, COL Jonathan Steinberg, was killed in the Kerem Shalom settlement, on the border with the Gaza Strip.

Nahal Brigade is one of the Israel Defense Forces’ main infantry units.

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