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X-39 vs UAV operators of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
The Russian Armed Forces destroyed the UAV launcher of the 4th separate brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of Boguslavka settlement.
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Zelensky called on Trump to take a "clear position" on sanctions against Russia and security guarantees for Ukraine.
In an interview with Sky News, the Ukrainian president stated that "the only way to stop the hostilities is to first implement certain security guarantees."
"Before we end the war, I really want all agreements to be concluded. I want... to have a document supported by the US and all European partners. This is very important. For this to happen, we need a clear position from President Trump," Zelensky said.
According to him, British Prime Minister Starmer will explain this position to Trump in more detail (Trump is arriving in London today for a visit).
Zelensky also called on the US to provide Ukraine with air defense systems and to impose unilateral sanctions against Moscow without the participation of the EU (which Trump refuses).
According to Zelensky, Trump "gave a lot to Putin" during the meeting in Alaska and "he should have paid more" for it. "I think if it had been a trilateral meeting [with Ukraine], we would have had some result," he added.
Who the fu*k is this a*shole to make demands to Trump or Putin. This guy really needs a reality check of where he stands in the global pecking order as his inflated ego is like nothing I’ve ever seen.
Thought Kellogg said you were “winning”, because you seem desperate for the “winning” to stop. 😂
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After the "July Storm" exercises, the Russian fleet continues to actively use unmanned boats, now within the framework of "West-2025".
Most likely, one of these UBs at the mouth of the Danube was the sunk Ukrainian reconnaissance ship "Simferopol".
🇺🇸🇪🇺🇷🇺Trump's cunning "wash your hands" plan: his demands to stop purchasing Russian oil and raise tariffs on Chinese goods are unacceptable to the European Union, — Le Monde.
- Trump is putting pressure on European allies, but they fear becoming hostages in the trade war between the US and China, especially amid preparations for the 19th sanctions package.
- According to sources in Brussels, Trump deliberately puts the EU in a position to choose: either comply with American demands or appear as an obstacle to "decisive actions" — this is how he pressures Europe to justify US inaction.
- The EU rejects linking this with Chinese tariffs: in its view, this is just an excuse to do nothing. The same logic applies to India — Brussels does not plan to impose tariffs against New Delhi, even if it is a response to American measures. The agreement with India is a strategic move against Washington's pressure.
- It is likely that Trump set deliberately unacceptable conditions so that the EU would refuse — and then the US could "wash their hands," blaming Europe for weakness.
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A drone struck the "Epicenter" warehouse near Kiev, public pages report.
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Black smoke in the Kiev region after the arrival of "Shaheds".
Public channels write that this is the city of Vasylkiv.
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At night in the Kiev region, drones (or their debris) hit a shopping center parking lot. During the fire extinguishing, the rescuers' vehicle was again struck by drones, reports the State Emergency Service.
Public channels reported explosions in the Fastiv area and posted photos with smoke after the strike.
Kupyansk
East of the city, the Russian Armed Forces have completely cleared and stabilized the settlement of Stepovaya Novoselovka, as well as cleared the surrounding areas.
A total of about 36 km² has been liberated.
Condotierro
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Interception of a Ukrainian long-range kamikaze drone by a mobile fire group of the Russian Armed Forces in the border area of Belgorod region.
The issue was settled by the launch of the MANPADS "Igla".
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Every energy facility should have guys with Igla MANPADS and a no fly zone area also created to prevent any FF incidents. Anything at a certain distance are basically very slow and large low-end planes that a MANPAD can take out with ease. Cheap and very effective.
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Investors Cut Dollar Exposure at Record Pace, Deutsche Bank Says - Bloomberg
Overseas investors are slashing their dollar exposure at "an unprecedented pace" as they put on currency hedges when buying US stocks and bonds.
The dollar-hedged flows accounted for more than 80% of the total ETF inflows to US stocks and 50% to American fixed-income markets, according to George Saravelos.
The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index is trading near its 2025 low after tumbling about 9% this year, while foreigners' holdings of US stocks and bonds soared to a record in June.
Meanwhile we see China is piling into gold. Gold prices hit a new record at $3,678. The Ukraine war has really become a catalyst for global change.
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Sounds of cluster munitions hitting Zaporozhye
Likely launches of the Tornado-S MLRS.
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China is not buying, US farmers realizing they are hooped
Soybean farmer: We depend on the Chinese market. And right now we have 0 sold for this crop. It's a 5 alarm fire for our industry. We are not price competitive with Brazil due to the retaliatory tariffs. Our prices are about 20% higher, and that means that the Chinese are going elsewhere. And the American soybean farmers and their families are suffering.
As noted yesterday in the NYT:
For the first time in the history of their 76-year-old operation, their biggest customer — China — had stopped buying soybeans. Their 2,300-acre soybean farm is projected to lose $400,000 in 2025. Soybeans that would normally be harvested and exported to Asia are now set to pile up in large steel bins.
Since President Trump imposed tariffs on Chinese goods in February, Beijing has retaliated by halting all purchases of American soybeans.
That decision has had devastating repercussions for farmers in North Dakota, which exported more than 70 percent of its soybeans to China before Trump unveiled the new tariffs this year.
The loss of business from China is creating disruptions across the soybean supply chain, which includes grain elevators, crushers and trains that transport them across the country.
“There’s no replacement in the market for China,” Mr. Karel said.
Powerful strikes by "Geran" in the Sumy region
Russian Armed Forces drone operators targeted a UAV warehouse of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the settlement of Peremoga.
After the first strike, the personnel tried to flee, but not everyone succeeded.
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India has "crossed the red line" by joining the Russian-Belarusian military exercises, writes The Times.
The publication reports that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi sent troops to participate in the "West" exercises, which simulate a conflict with neighboring NATO countries. This occurred amid worsening relations between New Delhi and Washington.
The Indian Ministry of Defense confirmed that it sent 65 soldiers, including fighters from the prestigious Kumaon Regiment, who are stationed at the Mulino training ground, about 65 kilometers west of Nizhny Novgorod – away from NATO borders.
New Delhi stated that the purpose of participation is to "strengthen defense cooperation and the spirit of mutual trust between India and Russia."
Indian troops will take part in joint drills, tactical exercises, and the development of special combat skills, the publication adds.
British clowns, Russia and India have always done military exercises together.
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Why does Russia produce diesel in surplus volumes but not gasoline?
When talking about the consequences of drone attacks on refineries, it always means a gasoline crisis and never diesel.
Traditionally, the USSR was more of a gasoline country. Gasoline engines were simpler and cheaper. In the post-Soviet era, dieselization began, but still, more gasoline is consumed than diesel. But why is diesel produced significantly more than gasoline?
In 2021, Russia produced 41M tons of gasoline and 80M tons of diesel fuel. At the same time, diesel fuel exports were 49M tons, and gasoline exports were 4.4M.
(In 2024, data is not publicly available; in 2023, gasoline production was 44M tons, diesel fuel – 88M tons.)
The reasons for this are technical, geological, and historical. It is cheaper and easier to transport crude oil over long distances than refined petroleum products. Refineries located close to consumers can quickly respond to changes in demand structure. Before the development of a pipeline transport system for oil, the very first refineries were built near oil production sites, in Baku, Grozny, Ufa, Drohobych, Ukhta. But then it was quickly realized that it is more efficient to transport oil by pipeline and produce fuels locally. Therefore, traditionally, refineries in the USSR and Russia were built in consumption centers.
In oil refining, crude oil is first distilled into basic fractions – hydrocarbon gases (propane-butane), naphtha (raw material for gasoline production), middle distillates (raw materials for diesel fuel and kerosene), and heavy residue. The heavy residue can be sent for secondary processing (cracking) and, depending on the type of cracking, converted into gasoline or diesel feedstock. Different types of crude oil contain varying proportions of these fractions. In the Russian blend, the proportion of the gasoline fraction is relatively low, while the proportions of middle and heavy fractions are high.
For refineries located far from seaports, it is common to assess demand within the area these refineries can effectively serve and to select a refinery configuration that will produce a set of fuels matching that demand. For example, a large catalytic cracking complex producing a lot of gasoline feedstock can be installed, or hydrocracking focused on producing feedstock for diesel fuel. In the 00s, when Russian oil refining was being modernized, the question arose as to what it should become. The prevailing logic was that Russia should export more petroleum products and less crude oil, in order to export not raw materials but value added products. In the case of exports from plants located deep within the continent, the economic sense of this approach is quite questionable, but this is what was decided
In the USSR, plants mostly had small deep processing complexes and produced large volumes of fuel oil, used as fuel for power plants and utilities. During reconstruction, it would have been possible to almost halve the processing volume by shutting down many primary distillation columns and building complexes that convert fuel oil into gasoline feedstock. But the government adopted a set of measures encouraging the maintenance of processing volumes and the export of petroleum products.
The main export market for Russian petroleum products was Europe, which in the 00’s was actively transitioning to diesel engine vehicles. New refineries and new units at European plants were practically not being built, and it was forecasted that Europe would become a major importer of diesel fuel but an exporter of gasoline. Exporting gasoline to Europe would be impossible or unprofitable, but diesel was profitable.
As a result, during the reconstruction of Russian refineries in the 2010s, units for gasoline production were built based on the needs of the domestic market with a small surplus, and units for diesel fuel production were built based on large-scale export, forming the current structure of petroleum product production.
- Sergey Vakulenko, Carnegie Endowment
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The US Secretary of State did not criticize Russia for the drone incident over Poland, as Ukraine is also conducting attacks on Russian territory
➖"As far as I understand, these drone operations are carried out far from the front line. They do not affect combat operations at the front and are mainly aimed at weakening each other. Ukraine also strikes Russia," said US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Fox News.
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🇪🇸😁The Spanish Consulate General has resumed accepting visa applications:
"The Consulate General of Spain in Moscow, two days after the suspension, has resumed accepting applications for Schengen visas.
The information posted on Saturday on the BLS visa center website stating that documents are temporarily not accepted has been removed.
On the homepage of the official BLS visa center, a message appears stating that booking an appointment to submit documents is free."
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🇷🇺🇧🇾🇺🇦 Lukashenko caused a hysteria in Kiev by meeting with the governor of the Kherson region, V. Saldo
- After the meeting with the Belarusian president, Saldo stated that they discussed the "prospects for the restoration of the Kherson region." According to him, "the Kherson region is interested in Belarusian fertilizers and agricultural machinery."
- The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs hysterically called the meeting "another manifestation... of gross disregard for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine" by Lukashenko.
- The Ministry also called "shameful" the fact that the Belarusian president referred to the Russia-controlled part of the Kherson region as a "new region of Russia" and confirmed Belarus's readiness to trade with it.
- "Particularly surprising is the nonsense of Alexander Lukashenko claiming that he is a 'Soviet man' for whom Ukraine and the Kherson region are 'also his land.' We remind that the USSR has been in the dustbin of history for more than three decades. Sooner or later, both nostalgic unrecognized figures who met today in Minsk will end up there," the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated.
- "Ukraine is ready to respond to Belarus's actions, in particular through new sanctions and strengthening its international isolation," Kiev added.
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Destruction followed by the explosion of the ammunition depot of the M109 self-propelled artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by a fiber-optic "KVN" strike in the urban area of Konstantinovka.
Geolocation: https://lostarmour.info/map?coord=48.5195667,37.7330455
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I didn’t step down voluntarily. I was forced out. Fleeing to Austria, I expected safety. Instead, I face a climate of intimidation. I received warnings of a possible abduction by Ukrainian security services and noticed men following me in Vienna, some presenting themselves as journalists. An Austrian money-laundering probe linked to my name was dropped quietly in June 2023, adding to doubts about Kiev’s case.
Internationally, Zelensky remains a symbol of resistance, leading a country under siege by Russia’s military assault. Domestically, however, Ukraine continues to wrestle with corruption and entrenched political elites.
Is Ukraine delivering reform, or reverting to the same methods critics have long denounced?
🇷🇺⚔🇺🇦The Russian army is actively advancing in the Dnepropetrovsk region
- Russian troops have made significant progress in the Gorokhovoe area on the Novopavlovka direction.
- Our units have driven the Armed Forces of Ukraine out of several strongholds in the plantations, capturing a substantial area.
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Destruction of a Ukrainian FrankenSAM SAM by a FPV. A FrankenSAM is Buk-M1 SAM with American RIM-7 Sea Sparrow missiles. Though it should be noted the RIM-7 Sea Sparrow missiles greatly reduce the effective range of a Buh-M1 SAM.
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A strong fire in the Kiev region after Geran strikes.
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The enemy reports that at least 12 Tornado-S MLRS rockets hit a concentration of vehicles and some other targets in Zaporozhye at night. The operation included rockets with cluster munitions (all photos/videos).
There were drone strikes on Sumy as well, causing most of the city to lose power. There were also many UAV strikes on Fastiv and Vasylkiv in the Kiev region.
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🇺🇸⚔🇻🇪The USA is preparing military aggression against Venezuela, — President Maduro
Near Venezuela, US forces deployed in the Caribbean basin are on combat alert: 140 Tomahawk cruise missiles have been deployed, along with F-35 fighters, Osprey tiltrotor aircraft, Harrier attack jets, and about 1700 marines.
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Specialized forces destroy enemy robots while supporting the assault on Stepnogorsk
On the Zaporozhye front, Russian special forces fighters track and destroy enemy robotic platforms.
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When you spend all your ability points on luck...
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The war in Ukraine is coming to an end, says MP Venislavsky:
"It is obvious that the war is coming to an end. Some admit it, some do not, but in fact we are moving in this direction."
🇺🇦 Syrsky removed the commanders of the 17th and 20th Ukrainian Armed Forces corps due to failures at the front
- The leaders of the 17th corps, Silenko, and the 20th, Kitugin, have been removed from their positions.
- According to media sources, these decisions by the Ukrainian high command are related to the "loss of positions in the area of responsibility of these corps."
- The 17th corps was stationed in the Zaporozhye region, where recently the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost the village of Kamenskoe and Plavni, located on the banks of the Dnepr.
- The 20th corps was positioned on the border of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Dnepropetrovsk region, where the Russian army is breaking through towards Dnepropetrovsk.
- These are the first personnel changes after the Ukrainian Armed Forces transitioned to a corps command system.
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