🇷🇺🚀 Russia launches Soyuz-2.1b space rocket with satellites for Defense Ministry

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🇷🇺 Russian 'Siberia' special forces detachment which destroyed Ukrainian dugout near Kleshcheyevka interviewed by Sputnik correspondent

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🇮🇱 Israel's ground operation may multiply the bloodshed and jeopardize the safety of hostages, some of whom have reportedly been killed during the IDF air raids, Egyptian journalist Mohammed Gomaa told Sputnik.

💬"When the ground invasion will start, I think even the hostages would be in the middle of this ground invasion. So they will not be safe. I think it will be hard to save them also. And this is the problem now. And also, we know that the administration here in the US is keen to return them safe instead of being killed. You know, maybe more than 15 hostages or more have been killed by the Israeli raids during the 20 days since October 7," Gomaa said.

Despite a number of Arab states signing normalization treaties with Israel, a growing trend for condemnation of Tel Aviv's brutality is gaining momentum in the Arab world, per the journalist. At least nine Arab nations on Thursday demanded that the UN Security Council impose an immediate cease-fire in the Gaza Strip.

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🇮🇱🇵🇸 Fact or fiction? IDF animation shows alleged Hamas HQ underneath Gaza's main hospital

The graphic, said to be based on unspecified “intelligence,” provides a visual representation of an incredibly deep and intricate network of tunnels, conference rooms, arms and fuel catches and even a makeshift weapons production facility underneath Al-Shifa Hospital – the largest medical complex in the Gaza Strip.

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🇷🇺 Defense Ministry’s official website gets page on new commander of Russian Aerospace Forces

The updated site now features the photo and biographical details of Colonel General Viktor Afzalov, the career air defense officer recently appointed Aerospace Forces chief by President Putin, in its ‘Leadership’ section. The prestigious post was previously held by General Sergei Surovikin, the Hero of Russia medal recipient who gained international recognition last year when he was tasked with commanding all Russian forces in Ukraine, and for his efforts building up the static defenses which helped foil the Ukrainian Army’s summer offensive.

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😉 Could Ukraine blackmail the CIA?

"Ukraine is an extremely corrupt country, and in corrupt countries, whoever is in charge, that's who everybody runs to."

Garland Nixon, host of our podcast The Critical Hour, slams the unreliability of Ukraine to keep CIA secrets

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 The Hamas military wing says it is targeting Tel Aviv.

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🇮🇱💥🇵🇸 Artillery fire is going into the Gaza Strip from Israel, and tank fire is heard as well, US media reported.

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☦️ In Ukraine, an entire Christian denomination that has existed for hundreds of years is being destroyed. Bob Amsterdam, an attorney representing that denomination, sheds light on what is kept silent in the USA.

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⚡️ IDF expands ground maneuvers in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Defense Forces spokesman said.

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🇮🇱 Israel remains committed to its goal of returning all captives, the IDF spokesman stated.

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🇮🇱 Israel is ready to defend the security of the country on all fronts — IDF spokesman.

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🇺🇸🇷🇺 Geopolitical and security analyst Mark Sleboda warned the US against threatening Russian military bases in the Middle East with its naval forces.

"What are you doing with two aircraft carrier groups in the region? That is far more than a deterrent. And if you even so much as look at our military bases sidewise, then understand that your aircraft carriers become very big floating targets that cannot stop a hypersonic missile."

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🇮🇱🇵🇸 What weapons could Israeli forces deploy during its Gaza ground offensive?

According to media reports, IDF's potential weaponry for the ground operation could include the following assets:

▪️ The ROOK Multi-Purpose Robotic unmanned ground vehicle (UGV)
▪️ The Eitan Armored Personnel Carrier
▪️ Battle tanks Merkava III Baz, Merkava IV, and the advanced Merkava V Barak, touted for its modern tech capabilities
▪️ Fire Weaver, a digitally connected battlefield tool employing AI for quick combat assessments
▪️ The Namer, an infantry vehicle modeled after the Merkava 4 tank

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🇵🇸⚔️🇮🇱 The military wing of Hamas says it is repelling Israeli ground incursions in the eastern part of Bureij Camp in the Gaza Strip.

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 Latest updates on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict:

▪️Israel commits war crimes in Gaza Strip, UN human rights commission says

▪️IDF expands ground maneuvers in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Defense Forces spokesman said.

▪️Israel remains committed to its goal of returning all captives, the IDF spokesman stated.

▪️Israel is ready to defend the security of the country on all fronts — IDF spokesman.

▪️ Israel’s ground operation will have “grave and bloody consequences,” Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev warned

▪️Palestinian movement Hamas is ready to release all captured civilians, but Israeli strikes prevent this from happening, Abu Marzook, Politburo member of Palestine's Hamas movement, told Sputnik

▪️"If the Americans deploy air strike groups up into the Middle East and start bombing some countries and especially Iran, Iran will respond," Belarusian President Lukashenko says

▪️ Hamas discusses future of region different from one 'depicted by US' in Moscow

▪️The Druze community in Israel present themselves as Israeli citizens loyal to their duties and protecting their state, Israeli Druze politician and Knesset Member Akram Hasson told Sputnik.

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