❗️ Alexander Moiseyev was introduced as the Acting Commander-in-Chief of the Navy at a ceremony in Kronstadt, a Sputnik correspondent reports.

Over many years of officer service, 61-year-old Admiral Alexander Moiseyev served on several nuclear submarines of the Russian Northern Fleet. By decree of the President of Russia on May 3, 2019, he was appointed commander of the Northern Fleet.

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Kremlin on Stoltenberg's Caucasus tour

NATO's attempts to expand its influence are unlikely to increase stability in the North Caucasus region, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday, commenting on Stoltenberg's tour, which visited Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia.

"We are well aware of NATO's desire to consolidate its presence in the North Caucasus... There is also an understanding that NATO's attempts to expand its influence are unlikely to add stability to the North Caucasus and predictability of the situation,” Peskov told reporters. “These contacts are the sovereign right of the Caucasian states. We are closely monitoring and mainly intend to focus on our bilateral relations and the instruments of cooperation that our side has."

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🇮🇷🇷🇺 Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi congratulated Vladimir Putin on his re-election by phone. The leaders also discussed bilateral cooperation and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the Kremlin said.

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🇷🇺 The Russian armed forces launched a preemptive strike against Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups in the forest in the border area with the Russian Belgorod region, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

"With a high-precision pre-emptive strike, the enemy manpower and equipment were destroyed in a timely manner," the statement said.

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❗️ The village of Orlovka in the Donetsk People's Republic of Russia has been liberated near Avdeyevka, the Russian Defense Ministry said

❗️All attempts of the Ukrainian sabotage groups to cross the Russian border have failed, Putin said at the FSB board

🇰🇵🚀North Korean leader Kim Jong-un watched artillery units in the western region practice firing several "new super-sized" rocket launchers, state media reported.

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❗️Putin called on the FSB not to forget about the traitors participating in the Ukrainian sabotage groups, to look for them by name and punish them without a statute of limitations

"Saboteurs planned a terrorist raid on the Russian border but suffered losses," Putin said.

"The owners are abandoning the traitors of Russia like meat; well, it serves them right," he added.

The neo-Nazi Ukrainian regime, with the support of the West, switched to terrorist methods, Putin stated.

❗️The FSB faces responsible tasks to protect the constitutional system; attempts to sow confusion must be strictly suppressed, Putin said.

Biden forgets he has five grandchildren

"I see a future for all Americans. A future for my daughters and my four granddaughters."

The American president also forgot to mention his beloved son Hunter Biden

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Vladimir Putin's main statements at the The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) board:

▪️ FSB officers acted competently and clearly in 2023, confirming the status and authority of the service

▪️The most responsible part of the FSB's job is related to the conduct of the special military operation

▪️ They also acted competently in repelling attempts to interfere in elections

▪️ All attempts by sabotage groups to break through the Russian border have failed. Their masters are throwing traitors at Russia as cannon fodder.

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📹 Behind manifestations of terrorism and extremism there are the fingerprints of Western intelligence services, Vladimir Putin pointed out

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📹 All attempts to brake into Russian territory by saboteurs, foreign mercenaries and "all sorts of scum" have failed, Putin said

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Breeding camels is more important to Ukrainian regime than the economy

Oleksiy Honcharenko, a member of Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada parliament has said that breeding camels and making TV series are more important for the Ukrainian regime than the economy and war.

"Now the government is determining strategically important enterprises, where they plan to reserve workers [from being drafted],” Goncharenko wrote on his Telegram channel.

“The Cabinet wants to give reservation to camel breeding enterprises, but not to exporters and industry. This does not look funny, but completely absurd,” he added. “Camel breeding or production of TV series is now economically more important than those that provide our GDP and ability to wage war?"

Goncharenko noted that there were no defense or industrial enterprises on the list of those deemed strategically important for the country. According to him, the list includes camel breeders, plasterers and painters, catalog and computer game publishers and producers of movies and TV programs.

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Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova labeled as boorish the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) call for athletes not to participate in the Friendship Games in Russia

Earlier, the IOC published a declaration against the politicization of sport in which it called on athletes and governments not to participate in the Friendship Games, which will be held in Russia from September 15 to 29, 2024.

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Who is Alexander Moiseyev, Acting Commander-in-Chief of Russia’s Navy?

Alexander Moiseyev was introduced as the acting commander-in-chief of the Navy at a ceremony dedicated to Submariner’s Day in Russia.
Here’s what we know about him.

Northern Fleet experience:

▪️ served on a Delfin-class (NATO: Delta-IV) nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine

▪️ was part of a combat unit on a cruise missile submarine (computing group engineer, radio technical commander)

▪️ was a crew member on the K-117 Bryansk (nuclear-powered submarine)

▪️ worked on the K-407 Novomoskovsk ballistic missile submarine

▪️ commander of the Northern Fleet’s submarine forces (2012)

▪️ commander of the Northern Fleet (2019)

▪️ admiral of the Russian Navy

Career highlights:

▪️ participated in an Arctic campaign, his crew installed the Andreevsky and Russian Flags at the North Pole

▪️ commanded the K-407 submarine that conducted the first successful launch of the Shtil-1 shipborne medium-range air defense missile system (ADMS);

▪️ ensured the successful testing of a reserve system for Russia’s nuclear forces’ combat control on the K-114 Tula ballistic missile submarine;

▪️ participated in 13 long-distance campaigns and combat patrols (including under the North Pole’s ice). His missions have successfully tested advanced weapons and fired ballistic missiles.

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🇫🇷⚔️🇷🇺 France is preparing a military contingent to be sent to Ukraine; at the first stage it will amount to about 2 thousand military personnel, said the director of Russian foreign intelligence Naryshkin.

At the same time, the French army is noticeably concerned about the increased number of French people killed in Ukraine, Naryshkin noted.

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