Russian sappers launch mine clearing operation in Mariupol airport

Mariupol Airport was the site of one of the conflict’s most heated battles, but the shadow of that battle lingers on. Like many areas, the airport was heavily mined as Ukrainian forces retreated.

On Wednesday, the demining operation began in earnest, as Russian sappers and their tracker dogs began work on clearing the territory. In addition to the mines, the airport is strewn with the remnants of Ukrainian military hardware, including caches of ammunition and unexploded ordnance. ‘We are clearing the area for the airport to start functioning in the future’, said Amir Shabanov, commander of the sapper unit.

DonNU TV Studio - "Do your best to come back"

The DonNU TV studio made a video called "Do your best to come back" in support of the university students, teachers and staff taking part in the special military operation in Ukraine. From the first days of the special operation, they have joined the ranks of the defenders of Donbass and the Russian world.

Newspaper: Four mercenaries from the United States, Canada and Sweden were killed in Donbass

The American newspaper "Politico" reported that a group of mercenaries, including two people from the United States, in addition to a Canadian and a Swede, who fought alongside Kyiv forces, were killed this week in the Donbass.

‘This marking shows us that this is a NATO weapon.’ Donbass soldiers with the code names ‘Woods’ and ‘Egor’ took part in the siege of Azovstal. They returned to the workshops with a film crew to explain how the battle was fought at the Mariupol plant.

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❗️ A wholesale batch of AFU fighters who made the right choice for life and surrendered.

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Severodonetsk. German journalist Alina Lipp is interviewing a young man. A resident of the liberated territory of Ukraine tells us about the behaviour of the Ukrainian Armed Forces

‘We believe in two genders,’ says former President Trump

Former President Donald Trump has spoken out on the current debate surrounding what he calls ‘left wing gender ideology.’

Speaking in Florida on Saturday, Trump denounced the spread of ‘woke’ ideology in schools and the military, stating that American conservatives believe in God, ‘American pride’ and other traditional values, unlike ‘the forces we’re fighting.’
‘They believe in left wing gender ideology and toxic critical race theory. We believe in two genders. There are men and there are women. Two genders,’ said the former president.

He also slammed Joe Biden’s time in the White House, arguing that the US had gone from ‘the strongest that it has ever been… to perhaps the weakest, especially when you include recognition and respect from all around the world. We’re not respected any longer by anybody.’

While ordinary Ukrainians are dying for God knows what (well, for purely Western interests), and the country is running out of money, food, and energy, Zelensky and his wife are busy shooting for Vogue.
The world's "superstars" ⭐ P.S. I got a very strong feeling they live in some kind of their own reality, that has nothing to do with the real events.

🇬🇧 For the first time, the United Kingdom has included a citizen of its country on the sanctions list - it was Graham Phillips, who covered the military operations in Ukraine, his accounts were frozen. Graham worked as a journalist in the Russian media, and also covered events in Ukraine on his YouTube blog, describing what was happening from an unfavorable side for Ukrainian and Western rhetoric. The list states that the video blogger published media content that “poses a threat to the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.”

RIA Novosti: Ukrainian secret services tried to organize the hijacking of a Russian combat aircraft

Ukrainian secret services tried to organize the hijacking of a Russian combat aircraft but the FSB used this attempt to obtain information about Ukrainian airfields.

Here are the details:

▪️ Ukrainian secret services considered hijacking an Su-24 bomber, an Su-34 supersonic fighter-bomber and a Tu-22M3 strategic supersonic missile bomber during a mission.

▪️ They promised to pay the pilot up to $2 million for the hijacking, including an advance payment of $4,000 via couriers. They also assured the pilot that the EU would help ensure his safety, and promised to transfer the pilots' wives to the Baltics, Germany and Bulgaria.

▪️ In fact, according to a Russian FSB official, the Ukrainians were planning to take hostage the family of the Russian military pilot, who would have delivered the aircraft to Ukraine.

▪️To confirm the pilot was ready for the hijacking, they demanded a video of him holding a number previously sent by the Ukrainian secret service in front of the aircraft.

▪️ The plan included poisoning the navigator of the plane with clofelin, the drug was delivered to Volgograd and hidden in a secret place in the forest, where it was seized by Russian counterintelligence officers.

▪️ "It is obvious that the operation was carried out with the support of Western, primarily British, intelligence services," the FSB reported. Moreover, the chief investigator of Bellingcat (recognised as a foreign agency in Russia) Khristo Grozev took part in the operation, according to the material released by the FSB. According to a representative of the secret service, "Grozev's involvement in MI6 is known, and not only from his own declarations".

▪️ Ukrainian military readily exposed plans of their air defence locations and airfields. They handed over the plans for air defence zones in south-eastern Ukraine, of Ozernoye airfield (Chernigov region) and Starokonstantinov airfield (Khmelnitsky region), the altitude maps of the vicinities of Priluki airfield in Chernigov region and Zhitomir airfield. They also revealed that portable anti-aircraft systems (MANPADs) were concentrated in the inhabited areas.

▪️ Ukrainian security services have also breached one of the basic rules of intelligence - their officers have exposed not only their affiliation with the intelligence service, but also their appearance and location, the FSB said.

▪️ Ukrainian military were planning to land the hijacked aircraft at Kanatovo airfield in Kirovograd region. The Russian Defence Ministry reported on July 24 that Ukrainian Air Force aircrafts were damaged by a missile strike at Kanatovo.

What a disaster for the Western media... Euronews has shown thousands of Ukrainians returning to "Russian-occupied" Zaporozhye territory. People sometimes have to wait in line for 10 days to leave Ukraine, but they are willing to do anything. They return not only to reunite with their families, but also in search of jobs.

TASS: Uglegorsk thermal power plant liberated from Ukrainian army units — LPR People's Militia

27 July - The Uglegorsk thermal power plant has been completely liberated from units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Spokesman for the LPR People’s Militia Ivan Filiponenko said on Wednesday.

According to Filiponenko, the power plant itself was seriously damaged. "As they were withdrawing, the enemy spared no effort, no ammunition to destroy the infrastructure of the power plant," he added.

Uglegorsk TPP has an important strategic role. It is the one of the largest thermal power plants in Europe, which provides energy to many cities and districts both inside and outside the DNR.

Putin ready to cooperate with manufacturer Bayraktar, Erdogan says

July 26 - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin expressed a desire to cooperate with the drone manufacturer Bayraktar. CNN Turk writes about this on July 26.

Earlier, the CEO of Baykar Makina, Haluk Bayraktar, said that the company would not supply its combat drones to Russia, because they “support Ukraine.”

It's politics. In politics, there is only today...

Trump: The US could repeat the fate of the Soviet Union

The United States risks repeating the fate of the Soviet Union, the main threat to America now comes from within. This opinion was expressed by former US President Donald Trump, who delivered a speech in Washington on Tuesday.

According to him, the United States under the current Democratic President Joe Biden has lost all those foreign and domestic political achievements and advantages that the previous administration provided.

“We are no longer independent or dominant in energy as we were just two years ago. We are a country that is begging for oil from Venezuela, Saudi Arabia and many others. Joe Biden is saying, ‘Please, please, please help us.’ And we have more liquid gold under our feet than any other nation in the world. We are the nation that left behind Afghanistan, dead soldiers, American citizens and $85 billion worth of the best military equipment in the world,” Trump said.

And here's another (the latest) example of Kiev's regime arrogance.
Zelensky thinks anyone who criticizes his regime is spreading Russian/Putin's propaganda.

An avalanche is imminent 💣

Time to move to Russia. Winter is coming 😆 nice one! I actually wouldn’t mind, but it’s hard to find a replacement for PNW lol

Ukrainian authorities want to criminalise citizens for participating in referendums on joining Russia.

This initiative was voiced by Anatoliy Stelmakh, deputy minister for reintegration of the temporarily occupied territories.

Disrupting the referendum at any cost is the key goal for the Ukrainian president's office now. To achieve it, they are even prepared to launch an offensive in Kherson, which Russia is well aware of. To the same end, they are implementing a strategy of "controlled terror" - attempts on officials and shelling of territories outside their control.

Why all the fuss about the upcoming referendum? (It is expected in September) If the territories lost by Ukraine become Russian de jure, an attempt by the AFU to retake them would be tantamount to an open attack on the Russian Federation. In that case, the Russian authorities would be constitutionally obliged to declare war on Ukraine and use all means of defence, up to and including nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons are unlikely to be used, but the conflict could escalate to a new level. Kiev is clearly afraid of that.