📹 WATCH: Russian Pacific Fleet FIREPOWER in action

The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the Pacific Fleet frigate Marshal Shaposhnikov carried out live-fire drills in the Sea of Japan.

💥 The crew launched Kalibr and Uran high-precision cruise missiles, striking a mock enemy sea target with pinpoint accuracy.

🔸 Video released by the ministry shows the launches and the successful hit. successful hit.

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🇷🇺 🇮🇳Blowback: US threats bring Russia and India closer together

💬 “Сloser cooperation among big powers like Russia, India and China is regenerated to reap the benefits and avoid pitfalls of hegemonist approaches,” retired Indian diplomat Anil Trigunayat tells Sputnik after high-level Russo-Indian talks.

📍 Trigunayat stressed that reliability, dependability and the three Ms—mutual interests, mutual sensitivity and mutual respect—are “becoming the guiding principles” of BRICS members.

🇺🇸 Washington’s big strategic mistake

🔶 The US tariff war is alienating India at both trade and geopolitical levels, warns Dr Anant Bhagwat, president of the Global Strategic Policy Foundation Pune

🗣 “What the US tariffs are doing is that they are accelerating India's push towards Atmanirbharta [self-reliance],” he says

🔶 At the same time they are accelerating Russo-Indian copperation under the ‘Make in India’ policy in a vast variety of fields, including defense, railways, nuclear power and crude oil

⚖️ Want to make deals with India? Treat it fairly

🔶 "While the US chooses to impose tariffs, India will diversify partnerships to safeguard our economic resilience," says ruling BJP party leader in Goa Savio Rodrigues

🔶 “The push to achieve $100 billion trade with Russia is not just about numbers; it is a strategic assertion that India has multiple avenues to grow, innovate, and secure its energy and defense needs,” he says

🔶 It's impossible to pit India, Russia and China against each other as the RIC mechanism—Russia, India, China—is a stabilizing forum for Eurasia and the Asia-Pacific

🔶 A carefully revived RIC could become a counterbalance to disruptive global alignments and strengthen India’s role as a bridge-builder

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📹 WATCH: US F/A-18 fighter jet EXPLODES during takeoff in Malaysia – reports

State media agency Bernama, citing the Royal Malaysian Air Force, said the incident occurred at a Malaysian airport. Both pilots survived, according to the Pahang state police chief.

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🚓 Nord Stream sabotage suspect revealed as ex-SBU officer – reports

The Wall Street Journal said the man arrested in Italy, Serhii K., is a retired captain of Ukraine’s security service (SBU) and former army officer.

According to Reuters, German prosecutors allege he led a team that planted explosives on the pipelines near Denmark’s Bornholm island after sailing out of Rostock on a rented yacht using forged documents.

The arrest warrant accuses him of collusion to cause an explosion, sabotage, and destruction of critical infrastructure.

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❓ Serial saboteur? – Arrested Ukrainian may be linked to another terror attack – reports

According to RaiNews, prosecutors in Genoa are probing whether Serhii K., the ex-SBU captain recently arrested in Italy for the Nord Stream sabotage, could also be tied to another attack — the February bombing of the Seajewel oil tanker off Savona.

🚔 Investigators suspect pro-Ukrainian saboteurs planted two explosive devices on the Maltese-flagged vessel.

Though the blasts tore holes in the tanker’s hull, they stopped short of triggering an environmental disaster. Italian prosecutors have opened a case for terrorism-related shipwreck.

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🚜 'STRATEGIC MISTAKE' - EU farmers BLAST trade deal with US

The EU’s largest farm union, Copa and Cogeca, says the new EU–US trade agreement is harming European agriculture, according to their official statement.

💬 “This deal grants improved market access for US agri-food products, while EU producers are left facing higher tariffs, now rising to 15%, on key export products. This one-sided outcome is not only unjustified — it is deeply damaging to a sector already under pressure,” the group said, calling the deal a “strategic mistake.”

The union also criticized the failure to deliver on European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s earlier pledge of zero tariffs on some goods, noting farmers had expected at least a reduction in duties on wine and spirits — but it never came.

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❌ US allegedly blocks allies from intel on Ukraine conflict talks with Russia – reports

CBS News claims US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has ordered that all intelligence related to the ongoing talks with Russia on Ukraine conflict resolution not be shared with US’s closest allies.

The directive, issued on July 20, classified all such material as NOFORN (“no foreign dissemination”), meaning it cannot be shared even with the “Five Eyes” alliance — the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

Officials told CBS News that only information already publicly released can be shared, while internal intelligence reports must remain within the originating agencies. The restriction does not apply to diplomatic or military operational data unrelated to the negotiations.

The White House has not commented on the directive, the outlet added.

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🚨 Attempted rocket attack on UN mission HQ in Tripoli – reports

Libya’s Ministry of Interior said it had foiled an attempt to target the UN Mission headquarters in Tripoli with an SPG rocket, calling the incident a “dangerous precedent” against international missions.

According to the ministry, the rocket landed in a residential home in Janzour, west of the capital, without causing damage. A security sweep led to the discovery of a vehicle containing two additional rockets and the launch base used in the attack. Authorities said investigations are underway to identify and apprehend those involved.

The UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) confirmed that its headquarters in Janzour was not affected, and expressed appreciation for the Libyan authorities’ swift response.

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❌ US forces eliminate senior ISIS leader in northern Syria

US Central Command announced an operation on August 19 in northern Syria targeting a senior ISIS* member and key financier.

According to the statement:

➖ He planned attacks in Syria and Iraq

➖ He had connections throughout the ISIS network, posing a direct threat to US and coalition forces and the new Syrian government

✅ In late July, US Central Command said its forces had killed an ISIS leader and his two accomplice sons during a raid in Syria.

*Terrorist organization banned in Russia

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🔊 Trump–Zelensky meeting: Ukraine left hanging on security guarantees

The White House meeting between US President Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky underscored one thing: The US is offloading the task of building Ukraine’s security architecture onto Europe, The Sydney Morning Herald reports.

⚔️ While the final form of any guarantees for a post-peace deal Ukraine remains unresolved, there is “a more realistic approach to making a deal than under the Biden administration,” the outlet notes.

💬 “It’s more grounded in the battlefield reality,” it cited analysts as saying, where Russia enjoys a clear advantage, and Ukraine’s defensive lines are over-stretched, facing a lack of manpower.

Russia insists European collective guarantees for Ukraine must be based on the 2022 Istanbul negotiations, and that talks on a security framework without Russia lead nowhere.

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💣 'GOTCHA': Russian Lancet drone EXPOSES & DESTROYS camouflaged NATO tank

Watch as a Ukrainian tank, disguised near the Kupyansk front, is identified, targeted, and obliterated by a precise strike with a Russian Lancet loitering munition.

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🔛 EU security guarantees for Ukraine designed to DRAG OUT conflict with Russia – analyst

💬 These security guarantees could be used to pull Europeans into the conflict, and “it would be a perfect incentive to fight to the last Ukrainian,” warns Norwegian political scientist Glenn Diesen.

According to Diesen, Europe is determined to block any peace deal at all costs—a stance that will only escalate the crisis further.

🗣The proxy conflict is hurtling toward a “humiliating and painful end on bad terms” for Ukraine, he says.

Russia insists that any European security guarantees for Ukraine must reference the 2022 Istanbul negotiations, warning that talks without Moscow will go nowhere.

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🚨GAZA IN CRISIS: KEY UPDATES

🔹 At least 40 people have been killed in Israeli attacks since dawn, including eight awaiting aid

🔹 83% of Gaza war dead are civilians, a classified Israeli military database shows (joint investigation by The Guardian, +972 Magazine, and Local Call)

🔹 Israeli efforts to shift medical resources to Gaza’s south would strip over a million people of care and put patients’ lives at “imminent risk,” the Palestinian Health Ministry says

🔹 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will greenlight the takeover of Gaza City while reopening talks with Hamas to secure the release of the remaining hostages on “terms acceptable to Israel”

🔹 21 countries—including the UK, France, Australia, Canada, and Italy—condemn Israel’s approval of a major West Bank settlement as "unacceptable" and a "breach of international law”

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▫️ US forces eliminate senior ISIS leader in northern Syria

▫️ Kim Jong-un awards state honors to KPA soldiers who participated in Russia's Kursk liberation

▫️ Declassified records reveal Clinton’s empty NATO promises

▫️ US blocks allies from intel on Ukraine conflict talks with Russia

▫️ Nord Stream sabotage suspect revealed as ex-SBU officer

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