🇷🇺 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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🇺🇸☢️ The Pentagon will upgrade the bomb, which is currently the main nuclear weapon of the US strategic forces; the number of nuclear weapons will not change.

The US will pursue a modern variant of the B61 nuclear gravity bomb, pending congressional authorization and appropriation, the Pentagon added.

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❗️ Explosions have been heard at a US base at the Omar oil field in Syria's Deir ez-Zor province, a local source told Sputnik

🇮🇱🇵🇸 IDF expands ground maneuvers in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Defense Forces said

The main takeaways on the latest development include:

▪️Television reported artillery strikes and tank shelling near the border of Israel and the Gaza Strip.

▪️Internet and communications are disabled in the Gaza Strip.

▪️Israel is ready to defend the security of the country on all fronts, IDF speaker said.

▪️The military wing of Islamic Jihad announced the launch of rockets in the direction of Sderot, Ashkelon and Ashdod in southern Israel.

▪️Hamas' military wing said it was repelling an Israeli ground invasion in the eastern part of the Al-Bureij camp in the Gaza Strip.

▪️The United States is trying to convince Israel to abandon a full-scale ground operation in Gaza in favor of more “targeted” air strikes and use of special forces, US media reports.

▪️The US hopes for the release of all hostages taken by Hamas, but considers this option unlikely, the White House said. It was added the US would not evaluate the current actions of the Israeli army.

▪️A Hamas representative said the movement will release captured foreigners in exchange for a 5-day ceasefire, while Israeli soldiers will not be released - they will be held for exchange.

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❗️ An IDF spokesman said the expansion of operations is not the official start of a ground operation in the Gaza Strip, media reports