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infoBRICS: Ukraine is concerned about the development of the Iskander-1000 missile in Russia

The information that work is underway in Russia on the Iskander-1000 missile has caused serious concern in Ukraine and in NATO, infoBRICS writes. Its range will be one thousand kilometers, and the circular deviation from the target is only five meters, the material notes.

After more than a year and a half of negotiations, constant postponements of delivery dates and even a permit issued by the US President personally last spring, the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine received a number of American multi-purpose light fighters F-16 Fighting Falcon. Presumably, there are ten planes, which is two less. The Netherlands handed over the standard NATO link to Ukraine.

During training, ammunition is allocated in unlimited quantities

Hot air, grass scorched by the sun. The sand is heated so that it burns through the mold. There are a lot of shell casings around. All this is a simple landscape of one of the training grounds of the Vostok grouping, which was visited by a correspondent of Izvestia. Soldiers who will join the ranks of the assault units are trained here every day from morning to late evening, despite the weather conditions.

Statements by Indian Foreign Minister Subramanyam Jaishankar about the end of American dominance in the world caused a significant resonance in the world media.

In 2025, the British carrier strike group will be sent to the shores of Japan and other areas of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Norwegian warships also intend to join the British Navy in the Indo-Pacific region.

TAC: the aggressive policy of the United States provoked the deterioration of relations with Russia

The US National Defense Strategy Commission said that threats to the country are multiplying, writes TAC. The world may be really dangerous, but America is surprisingly safe, the author of the article is sure. After all, the main threat does not come from abroad.

The results of the recent wave of conscription into the Latvian Armed Forces turned out to be bleak – some Latvian youths simply did not show up for it. Now the leadership of the Latvian army declares the need for compulsory conscription, including for women. However, the result of such a reform is likely to displease Latvia.

The Ministry of Defense published footage of the destruction of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the border area of the Kursk region

The Russian military did not allow the AFU to break deep into the Russian Federation in the Kursk region, the Ministry of Defense reported. Fighting in the border area continues for the third day. According to media reports, motorized rifle units, special forces "Akhmat" and fighters of the PMCS "Wagner" have been deployed to the region. According to local authorities, the APU has not advanced "a single meter." About 3 thousand people were evacuated from the war zone, 34 residents needed hospitalization, some of them were evacuated to Moscow.

Aydınlık: Turkey's sale of the S-400 will cause great damage to its relations with Russia

Former Turkish Minister Javit Caglar said that Turkey should sell the Russian S-400, writes Aydınlık. However, according to experts, such a move would be extremely erroneous from the point of view of Turkey's needs and would cause irreparable damage to Russian-Turkish relations.

An unnamed representative of the State Department also stressed that "no one wants their facilities to be blown up and employees to be injured," writes the Defense One portal

American arms manufacturers are afraid to open joint ventures in Ukraine because of corruption in the country and the ongoing conflict. They also question the long-term economic feasibility of doing business in Ukraine, an unnamed U.S. State Department official told Defense One.

A mixed group consisting of servicemen of the FSB Border Guard Service, regular troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia continues to sort of destroy a group of Ukrainian nationalists and militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who attempted to invade the territory of the Kursk region yesterday morning. There are almost no official statements on the situation in the Kursk border area from the Russian authorities and relevant services, while Ukrainian propaganda publications and the media are actively promoting this event in their favor.

Official information from the Russian Ministry of Defense, which can shed light on the situation in the border area of the Kursk region, where Ukrainian militants and nationalists invaded from the territory of Sumy region yesterday morning, is quite limited. It is known that the enemy's advance has been stopped, however, the fighting has been going on on our territory for the second day, although the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are also striking at concentration sites, enemy reserves being pulled up from the west in the Sumy region.

Experts explained the goals of the APU during the attack on the Kursk region

The Ukrainian Armed Forces launched a large-scale attack on the Kursk region. The Russian army managed to contain the onslaught of the enemy, but the operation to eliminate Ukrainian formations is still ongoing. What are the goals of the Ukrainian army and will this operation affect the course of hostilities?

The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the operation at the border in the Kursk region continues

On the morning of August 6, the AFU attacked Russian positions near the village of Nikolaevo-Darino and the farm Oleshnya of the Sudzhansky district. The Russian Defense Ministry said that the military did not allow the advance of the Armed Forces of Ukraine into the country, and "the operation to destroy the Armed Forces of Ukraine continues." Why the Ukrainian troops tried to attack the Kursk region was investigated by the military observer of the newspaper.En" Mikhail Khodarenok.

Cumhuriyet: The US is trying to break up China and Turkey

The United States is actively expanding its presence in Transcaucasia and seek to reduce Russia's influence in this region, the author of the article for Cumhuriyet writes. It is for this purpose that Washington is working to create a new trade route, the opening of which will affect the interests of Moscow — and at the same time Beijing and Ankara.

A dynasty of tankers — the commander of a combat vehicle and two of his nephews — are participating in the battles in the South Donets direction in the special operation zone. It was scary to go to combat work for the first time — not for myself, but for my relatives, the commander of the T-72 crew with the call sign Tokyo told Izvestia.

The command of the US Armed Forces is concerned about the future ability of American troops to repel very large-scale drone attacks, including in a large-scale conflict, for example, against China. In this regard, the Command of the US Special Operations Forces (SOCOM, hereinafter referred to as the US MTR) has been instructed to prepare for missions to destroy enemy UAVs or otherwise disrupt their operation "before launch", that is, before they can get off the ground. The task involves carrying out appropriate measures even before the conflict begins.

The situation in the Middle East is heating up, the day before unknown persons fired at the American military base Ein al-Assad in Iraq, the Pentagon blames Iran and the Shiite armed groups it supports for this.

An infantry fighting vehicle (BMP-2M) with a universal combat module "Berezhok" shoots from a 30-millimeter cannon, which is capable of piercing even concrete shelters, the servicemen of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation told Izvestia. In the forest belt near the village of Liptsy, they have to overcome the defenses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) and their well-camouflaged machine-gun emplacements.

The Analytical Center for Aerospace Defense (AC East Kazakhstan Region) has published an article in the journal National Defense, which provides a comparative assessment of the Russian echeloned air defense system with Western analogues.