🗣Ukraine’s military exhausted while NATO weapons won’t turn the tide – retired colonel

The Ukrainian army is in a critical condition and can no longer conduct large-scale operations, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated at a Beijing press conference.

🔍 What are the signs?

Across all fronts, the Russian military is making advances, while Ukrainian forces show signs of exhaustion, military expert and retired colonel Anatoliy Matviychuk tells Sputnik.

🟠 "Near Kupyansk, the enemy deployed the 1st Presidential Brigade — the so-called 'ceremonial brigade.' Deploying units that are usually reserved for ceremonial duties indicates the depletion of the enemy’s reserves."

🟠 Ukrainian POWs say that companies are staffed at 40–45%, and battalions even less.

🟠 On the Pokrovsk front, Ukraine is redeploying units — including the 95th Brigade — from Sumy, pulling already battle-worn troops to plug emerging gaps.

🟠 "On the Kharkov and Kupyansk fronts, units of Latin American mercenaries have appeared. Typically, mercenaries are reserved for special tasks. Their deployment as regular line units indicates a lack of reserves and resources."

👉 No wonder-weapon can change the situation

"A 'wonder-weapon' always implies a shift from quantity to quality," explains Matviychuk. "The enemy has no quantity. Even the missiles they try to present as new — like the Italian-made 'Flamingo' — are being supplied in tiny numbers."

The US ATACMS missiles also arrive in small batches — 10, 20, at most 30 rockets.

Those missiles are largely used for propaganda of Ukrainian ‘success,’ but they won’t change the course of the fighting on the battlefield, the military expert concludes.

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🗣🤖 ChatGPT shares Russian language queries with FBI, while Russians 'train their enemies'

💬 "OpenAI, which owns ChatGPT, proactively shares all Russian language query data with the FBI. Automatically. This year, directors of companies developing AI platforms were awarded noscripts at the Pentagon. This is the main trend — a new front," Alexander Asafov, First Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Public Chamber’s Commission on Civil Society Development, said.

Asafov takes part in the EEF session on "Measuring the Social Impact of AI: Progress, Risks, and Development Paths."

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🌏🇷🇺 Businesses of APEC countries are interested in working with Russia – expert

💬 “Today, businesses are interested in transferring their technologies to the Russian market and the possibility of adopting some Russian technologies. This is the extended hand that we see today from APEC countries,” Elina Sidorenko, CEO of the "Platform for Working with Entrepreneurial Inquiries" and member of the Human Rights Council (HRC), said at the session “SME Cooperation with APEC Countries” at the Eastern Economic Forum-2025.

Russia’s experience is of interest to APEC countries in the fields of digital design, computer games, creative industries, and agricultural technologies, she noted.

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🔍📹How USSR helped defeat Japan: Soviet blitz that ended WWII

Even after the US dropped atomic bombs on Japan, the country still hoped its million-strong army in Manchuria could prolong the war. But on August 9, 1945, the Soviet Union launched a devastating three-front offensive.

⚔️What began was what military historians would later call a textbook encirclement operation. Tanks scaled "impassable" mountains, paratroopers seized airfields, and mechanized columns advanced 100 km per day, slicing through Japanese defenses.

In just 10 days, the Red Army crushed Japan's empire, liberated millions of Chinese and Koreans, and reclaimed ancestral Russian lands of Southern Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands.

✔️On September 2, 1945, Japan surrendered.

It was a masterful victory that put the final period to World War II. A period delivered by the Red Army.

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🏭⚡️Power of Siberia 2: Fueling China’s rise, sealing Europe’s decline

Russia, China, and Mongolia have agreed to build a new pipeline that will divert gas once destined for Europe.

The pipeline could give China a new competitive edge, while Europe's economy slides downhill, experts say.

"By rejecting Russian gas and cutting supplies from Russia, Europeans essentially created and worsened a shortage in their own market," Igor Yushkov, an expert from Russia's National Energy Security Fund, tells Sputnik.

Self-made economic disaster

👉 The EU failed to invest in new fields and infrastructure. At some point, supply could no longer keep up with demand. Cutting Russian deliveries only deepened the problem

👉 High gas prices drive up electricity costs, making European goods pricier than Chinese ones and less competitive on global markets

China: From strength to strength

👉 Additional gas deliveries from Russia along multiple routes, including Power of Siberia 2 - a pipeline with a capacity of 50 billion cubic meters - secures enough gas for decades to come, ensuring China can maintain low production costs

👉 Unlike Europe, China isn’t limiting its supplier base, and Russia is a reliable partner

"Russia has provided China, in fact Asia, with all the trump cards to win any competition. Europe can only look on and keep asking themselves why shooting themselves in both feet was ever considered a positive condition to self-impose," Paul Goncharoff, veteran financial analyst and general director of consulting firm Goncharoff LCC, emphasizes.

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🇨🇳😎 China’s Victory Day Parade was so BASED, Americans genuinely thought it was AI-generated

Maybe because their own parades are just so lame?

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📹No choice, no voice: Ukraine's connoscription nightmare continues

Volodymyr Zelensky’s thugs continue implementing forced connoscription in Odessa amid resistance from locals who clearly don’t want to be sent to the front lines.

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🚨🇷🇺✈️ 'FLYING KREMLIN': RUSSIA’S PRESIDENTIAL JET REVEALED

The domestically made IL-96 is the aircraft that carries Vladimir Putin to pivotal international events.

◻️ More than just a plane—it's a mobile state control center

◻️ Equipped with advanced defense systems & secure communications

◻️ Nicknamed the "Air Residence," it includes offices, meeting rooms, a medical unit, and living quarters

◻️ Always flies with backup aircraft for maximum security

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☢️🇮🇷 IRAN FREEZES NEW COOPERATION WITH IAEA

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi declares:

🔶 No new agreements until current talks finish

🔶 IAEA must establish a new framework for cooperation

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🔊 Musk has no choice but to rejoin the GOP — Trump

In an interview, the US president stated that Elon Musk is "80% super genius" who has "some difficulty," and predicted his inevitable return to the GOP.

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🚀 US vows to beat China in the '2nd space race'

Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy tells Fox News:

◼️ Artemis II (April 2026) will take a crew of 4 people around the moon

◼️ Artemis III (mid-2027) will keep crew on Moon for up to 12 days — far longer than past missions

◼️ Plans include a permanent base camp and eventual Mars missions in the 2030s

Duffy added that China wants to send its manned mission to the Moon before the United States.

"China is making huge strides in its space program... We know that China wants to overtake us. We will not let that happen."

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📹 LIVE: Maria Zakharova holds a weekly briefing from the Eastern Economic Forum

This week's Russian Foreign Ministry briefing is taking place in Vladivostok at the anniversary 10th Eastern Economic Forum.

👉 Watch live in our Telegram

❗️ Lavrov will represent Russia at UN General Assembly in September — Maria Zakharova on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum.

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