❗️The Russian Armed Forces destroyed a storage facility for Ukraine's unmanned boats.

🇷🇺🪖More statements from the Russian MoD daily briefing on the special military operation's progress:    

◻️ Ukraine lost up to 100 militants in the Russian Vostok Battlegroup's combat zone.

◻️ Russian air defence systems shot down three HIMARS rockets and 56 Ukrainian drones in the special operation zone.

◻️ The Russian Yug Battlegroup repelled seven Ukrainian counterattacks, with the enemy losing up to 710 militants.

◻️ Ukrainian losses in the Russian Tsentr Battlegroup's combat zone amounted to up to 465 militants and two armoured vehicles.

◻️ Ukraine lost over 430 militants and one tank in the Russian Zapad Battlegroup's combat zone.

◻️ The Russian Armed Forces successfully targeted Ukrainian Neptune coastal anti-ship missile systems and an S-200 surface-to-air missile system.

◻️ Russian troops struck the infrastructure of a Ukrainian military airfield, two facilities for producing explosives, and an oil refinery, according to the Russian Ministry of Defence.

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Jewish state was created by a UN decision - Macron sends a kind reminder to Netanyahu

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should not forget that the Jewish state was created by a UN decision, Emmanuel Macron said on the closed Council of Ministers meeting, French media reported.

"Mr. Netanyahu must not forget that his country was created by a UN decision," Macron said, referring to the resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly in November 1947 on the plan to partition Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state.

Remarkably, "this statement was not meant to be made public," French media added. However, Israeli Prime Minister's office has already responded.

💬 "A reminder to the French President: It was not a UN decision that established the State of Israel but the victory that was achieved in the War of Independence with the blood of our heroic fighters, many of whom were Holocaust survivors, including from the Vichy regime in France."

Tensions between the two countries rose after Emmanuel Macron called for an end to the supply of weapons used in the fighting in Gaza. Israel's prime minister called the call a disgrace.

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❗️🇷🇺 Latest updates from Russia’s Defense Ministry on combat operations in the Kursk region:

🔸 Units of Russia’s Battlegroup Sever destroyed formations from 10 Ukrainian Armed Forces territorial defense brigades and repelled nine Ukrainian counterattacks.

🔸 Ukraine lost up to 70 militants, with a tank, an infantry fighting vehicle, seven armored vehicles, and two cars destroyed. Six Ukrainian troops surrendered due to the actions of Russian Battlegroup Sever.

🔸 Russian aviation and artillery strikes hit concentrations of personnel and equipment from eight Ukrainian brigades.

🔸 In total, Ukrainian losses over the day amounted to more than 350 militants, with 21 armored vehicles destroyed, including two tanks, three infantry fighting vehicles, 16 armored vehicles, five mortars, and seven cars. Six Ukrainian militants also surrendered.

🔸 Since the beginning of combat operations in the Kursk region, Ukraine has lost more than 23,550 troops.

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Lebanese children sing for peace as their parents stand by their home

People in Rmeish, a village in southern Lebanon located only 1 km from Israel, risk their lives every day because of the Israeli incursion, but they will not abandon their homes.

"We, despite everything, are still remaining in Rmeish. So that we can live in peace, so that our village may be preserved. Our steadfastness will be for the prosperity of Rmeish," Marinette Jarjour, a teacher and administrator at a kindergarten in Rmeish, told Sputnik.

Children from the local primary school and kindergarten also recorded a message for Sputnik, singing the song "Give us back our childhood, give us back our peace," which was originally performed in 1984 by Lebanese four-year-old Remi Bandali and became the anthem of children affected by the Lebanon conflict.

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🇷🇺🇨🇳 Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin met with Chinese Premier of the State Council Li Qiang.

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Steppe Road: What is the economic corridor from Russia to China going to be?

During his visit to Islamabad for the SCO Summit, Russian PM Mishustin brought up the importance of Mongolia’s ‘Steppe Road’ initiative, citing regional cooperation between Russia, China and Mongolia as vital part of a new multipolar architecture.

Here’s what to know about the ambitious project:

1️⃣ The Steppe Road (‘Taliin zam’ in Mongolian) initiative was conceived in 2014, with Mongolia envisioning ‘Five Great Passages’ requiring $50 bln in investment, including:

◻️ a 997 km-long transnational expressway linking Russia and China
◻️ 1,100 km of electrified railway infrastructure
◻️ an expansion of the existing Trans-Mongolian Railway from Sukhbaatar in the north to Zamyn-Uud in the south
◻️ construction of oil and gas pipelines from Altanbulag in the north to Zamyn-Uud.

Mongolian PM Oyun-Erdene Luvsannamsrai has announced today that Mongolia finalized a list of 33 projects of the Steppe Road.

2️⃣ The Steppe Road isn’t just about transport infrastructure, but part of a development strategy which also seeks to invigorate Mongolia’s telecom and tourism sectors, and boost its mining and energy potential.

3️⃣ The project aligns with Russia’s Trans-Eurasian Corridor Initiative. In July, President Putin and his Mongolian counterpart Khurelsukh discussed the subject of international logistics and transit.

In China, the Steppe Road is seen as “highly consistent” with Beijing’s trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative, with Chinese officials and media saying the project can “guide…win-win cooperation between the two countries.”

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NATO proxy war strips Ukraine of its future, as thousands of schoolchildren flee country

Some 300,000 schoolchildren left Ukraine before the current school year began, Ukrainian MP Nina Yuzhanina stated, referring to Ukraine’s Education Minister Oksen Lisovyi revealing an increase in the outflow of senior school students from Ukraine, most of whom are boys.

Since a majority of those children would soon have to register for military service, many experts link the trend with parents’ fears that their kids might be swept into the “meat grinder” of NATO’s proxy war.

Amid rampant draft dodging and desertion, Ukraine earlier adopted a controversial law designed to strengthen mobilization, obliging all men aged 18-60 to carry military ID with them at all times.

Furthermore, Volodymyr Zelensky lowered the recruitment age from 27 to 25, unleashing a violent wave of resistance among Ukrainian citizens, many of whom fear the draft border will be lowered to 18 and under amid Ukraine’s forces failures on the frontlines.

No less than 6.168 million Ukrainian refugees were registered across Europe by the end of July 2024, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), with another 571,000 Ukrainians dodging the ongoing NATO proxy war outside of Europe.

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Zakharova: Zelensky's so-called ‘victory plan’ is bloody foam on the lips of a Nazi

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the Ukrainian 'victory plan' unveiled by Volodymyr Zelensky was nothing but slogans and “bloody foam” on the lips of a Nazi.

“This, of course, is not a plan, it is a set of incoherent slogans, it is bloody foam on the lips of a murderous neo-Nazi,” she told reporters.

Zakharova noted that the plan’s five points included “further hysteria about inviting Ukraine to NATO,” which Zelensky claimes would be “a sign of determination and will show how partners see Ukraine in the security architecture.”

The spokeswoman warned Zelensky that “the partners of the Kiev regime have already shown how they see Ukraine in the security architecture: they see Ukraine in the coffin and Ukrainian citizens also in the grave."

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