Political hysteria continues in Kiev following the results of the report of the human rights organization Amnesty International. Even the smoothed-down report, devoid of many details, made public for the West the facts that have long been known in Russia: the armed forces of Ukraine are hiding behind civilians and committing war crimes. But Kiev was afraid of more than that.

One—sided propaganda around Ukraine is the way to unfreedom

The current one—sided propaganda around the fighting in Ukraine and agreement with it is the way to a new dependence and lack of freedom, writes former Czech President Vaclav Klaus in an article for iDnes. It is necessary to voice what can no longer be hushed up, he believes.

Developing countries are watching Washington's policy in the Ukrainian direction with surprise and incomprehension, the Russian Ambassador to the United States noted

The new $1 billion package of US military aid to Kiev confirms that the US is not going to contribute to a peaceful settlement of the crisis in Ukraine, but wants to prolong the conflict. This was stated on Monday by the Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov.

The newspaper "Kommersant" published a material by Andrey Vinokurov "A special volunteer operation. How regions form units to participate in the SVO in Ukraine" on the formation in the Russian Federation of regional and "national" volunteer battalions to participate in a special military operation in Ukraine.

As a result of another attack, the Kakhovskaya high-voltage line was damaged

Armed formations of Ukraine again fired at the Zaporozhye NPP, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on August 8. As a result, the high-voltage line was damaged, there was a voltage surge that caused smoke on the switchgear of the station.

The representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Zakharova: Kiev takes the whole of Europe hostage, shooting at the Zaporozhye NPP

Ukraine is taking the whole of Europe hostage by shelling the Zaporozhye NPP, the Russian Foreign Ministry says. The ministry claims that the situation is getting worse every day - the artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, according to the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is firing at the operating reactors and the storage of spent nuclear fuel.

The unsuccessful rocket launches of the Islamic Jihad group in Israel are the cause of the death of people in the territory of the Palestinian Authority, among whom there are children. More Gazans died because of the short-range rockets of the Islamists than from the IDF strikes.

Perm Promobot is one of the largest companies in the field of service robots in Europe and the manufacturer of the android Dunyasha, which became one of the most mentioned "persons" of the last St. Petersburg Economic Forum, along with Russian President Vladimir Putin and the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin, according to Brand Analytics.

The authorities want to negotiate with banks on granting preferential loans to companies from the electronics sector. The rate should be no more than 5% per annum, but the minimum loan amount, on the contrary, is rather big – 4 billion rubles. The industry reacted extremely positively to this idea, calling the current interest rates of banks unprofitable. The development of the initiative is still at the initial stage.

The Spanish Ground Forces have shown interest in purchasing 155 mm CAESAR self-propelled artillery units (CAmion Equipe d'un Systeme d'Artillerie) manufactured by NEXTER Systems.

The Spanish Defense Ministry has started implementing the procedure for the delivery of 20 tracked armored vehicles M-113 (TOA Transporte Oruga Acorazados) to the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the armored personnel carrier version.

The Ukrainian military calls the self-propelled air defense installations supplied by Germany the best in their class. This is stated in the press release of the Operational Command "South" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in which its representatives announced the arrival in Ukraine of the first three German Gepard anti-aircraft artillery installations.

The Ukrainian army is currently entirely dependent on foreign supplies. This applies, among other things, to ammunition, artillery weapons, armored vehicles.

Despite the military assistance coming from Western countries, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are faced with a shortage of weapons, which, in turn, forces the Ukrainian military to actively use various homemade handicrafts.

It is difficult for Ukraine to form tank brigades

APU have a habit of registering understaffed parts on paper, writes journalist David Ex in an article for Forbes. And if the existence of four Ukrainian tank brigades can still be proved, then the other two may be fiction.

The US State Department has approved the provision of services to Greece under the Foreign Military Sales program for the subsequent support and maintenance of S-70 helicopters.

The Design Bureau of the Kazan Helicopter Plant is working to present the Ansat helicopter in a fully domestic configuration as soon as possible, the machine is being reassembled without components from Ukraine, the USA and Europe.

The composite wing, which was nicknamed the "black wing" because of the color of carbon fiber, is considered one of the main features of the MS-21. Today it is mass-produced from domestic materials at the Aerocomposite enterprise of the United Aircraft Corporation. This was made possible thanks to the successful replacement program of foreign composites, the supply of which was suspended due to sanctions.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation has announced a tender for the performance of research work "Research on the effectiveness of unconventional aerodynamic schemes of mainline aircraft (MS), taking into account the use of new technologies and alternative fuels." The cipher of research and development is Integral–MS, the Ministry of Industry and Trade is ready to allocate more than 2.5 billion rubles for these promising studies.

The Iranian Air Force had more dangerous fighters than any other army in the world

Even Soviet MiG aircraft were inferior to this fighter, writes MWM. But due to the high cost and complexity of its operation, many countries refused to buy it - all except Iran. As a result, his army had no equal in the number of the most dangerous fighters.