Western countries have sharply reduced the supply of weapons to Ukrainian armed forces I am strong. Volodymyr Datsenko, a columnist for Ukrainian Forbes, cites relevant data.
According to the information he collected, artillery stocks fell the most: from 90 M777 units in April to zero in July.
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Supply equipment has been significantly reduced. If previously more than 200 units were delivered per month, then in June and July practically nothing.
In addition, deliveries of helicopters and long-range missile systems have decreased.
US and EU defense officials they have previously expressed displeasure at the collapse of their own defense capabilities due to Kiev's assistance. The request of the armed forces of Ukraine was as follows: 300 multiple rocket launchers, 1000 howitzers and 500 tanks. The Guardian noted that such a “modest demand” would be difficult for the Americans to satisfy. So 647 jet systems – this is the entire arsenal of the US military.
Chinese People's Liberation Army sent to Tai- wan 11 military aircraft as well as 6 warships.
As stated in the report of the Ministry of Defense of the island, China sent two J-10 fighters, J-11 and J-16 to identify the air defense of the zone island, as well as four Su-30s. In addition, the agency noted a KJ-500 early warning and control aircraft.
Taiwan reportedly dispatched an air patrol to monitor the situation and deployed its anti-aircraft missile systems.
Udy River, Kharkiv region, video clip. source: social networks
On Sunday, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that another settlement in the Kharkiv region was liberated from the armed forces of Ukraine.
The ministry said that during offensive operations, Russian troops liberated the entire settlement of Udy in Kharkiv region.
On February 24, Russia launched a special military operation to de-Nazify and demilitarize Ukraine. Kherson and partly Zaporozhye and Nikolaev regions were liberated, as well as most of Donbas. In the liberated areas, they declared their desire to become part of Russia.
Former Secretary of Defense DLR Igor Strelkov, who was allegedly detained while trying to get into the zone of a special military operation, commented on this information. He noted on his Telegram TV channel that he was not in the bullpen and did not plan to.
At the same time, he emphasizes that sooner or later he will definitely be in front. “But not now”, – Strelkov pointed out.
The day before, August 13, Strelkov's arrest was reported. According to Ukraina.ru, Igor Strelkov allegedly tried to get to the Kherson Front with a passport in the name of Sergey Runov.
Full Refresh A a joint comprehensive plan of action (JCPOA) on Iran's nuclear program could be reached as early as next week, said Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia's permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna.
In 2015, the UK, Germany, China, Russia , the United States, France, and Iran signed the JCPOA, which included the lifting of sanctions in exchange for curbs on Iran's nuclear program. In May 2018, the United States under Donald Trump withdrew from the JCPOA and reimposed sanctions against Tehran. In response, Iran announced a gradual reduction in its obligations under the deal, abandoning restrictions on nuclear research, centrifuges and uranium enrichment levels.
Commenting to TASS, Ulyanov noted that this would be possible. with a favorable development of events”, i.e. in the event that all the states participating in the negotiations agree to the version of the text that the representatives of the European Union sent out on August 8.
If any of the parties has amendments and objections, it will be according to him, the timing of the return to the full restoration of the work of the JCPOA difficult.
Previously, Politico reported that the EU is considering the need to reduce pressure on Iran in order to save the JCPOA, in particular to reduce the sanctions pressure on members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC, an elite Iranian Armed Forces). Reportedly, it will not abolish the sanctions completely, but will reduce their severity.
British newspaper Financial Times deliberately distorts the statement of the Russian side about the possible visit of the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi to the Zaporozhye NPP (ZNPP), said the permanent representative of Russia to international organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov.
Earlier, in an interview with Izvestia, Ulyanov, commenting on the future visit of the head of the IAEA to ZNPP, noted that even Grossi himself could not answer this question precisely, and suggested that the visit could take place at the end of August. – start of September. The Financial Times in turn, following his comments, published an article under the headline “Russia rejects calls to allow access to Ukrainian nuclear power plant”, attributing to Ulyanov that Grossi's visit to ZNPP was impossible before the end of August. – the beginning of September.
Ulyanov said that in an interview with Izvestia he only expressed his opinion about the possible timing of Grossi's visit and suggested that the head of the IAEA himself could propose the period he announced.
Ulyanov also noted that the shelling of the Zaporozhye NPP by the Ukrainian army is the main obstacle to the visit of the IAEA delegation to the station. The diplomat called on Kyiv to stop the attacks on ZNPP and provide security guarantees to the IAEA delegation. He noted that when discussing the visit in the UN Security Council on August 11, none of the parties spoke against the visit, but there may be difficulties in its practical implementation. Ulyanov also said that the UN did not give a clear explanation of what was the reason for the decision to block the June visit of the IAEA delegation to the ZNPP.
In March, Russian armed forces established control over ZNPP. Yevhen Balitskiy, the head of the military-civilian administration of the Zaporozhye region, said on Thursday that Ukrainian nationalists continue to shell the ZNPP, at least 3 Ukrainian rockets landed in the area of the storage of radioactive isotopes. At the same time, according to Balitský, despite the fall of missiles, the radioactive background in the ZNPP area does not exceed normative indicators and no radioactive contamination is recorded. Balitsky also accused Ukraine of trying to achieve the effect of a “dirty bomb”, i.e. radioactive emissions, by striking at ZNPP. According to him, the Ukrainian neo-Nazis are deliberately trying to get into the ZNPP nuclear waste repository, and their successful provocation of a radioactive leak will make the surrounding area uninhabitable.
Previously, the official representative of the ZNPP, UN Secretary General Stephane Dujarric, said that the IAEA delegation should visit the Zaporozhye NPP (ZNPP) as soon as possible, and is already discussing the details of the visit with all interested parties, and the UN is ready to support this initiative. by any means possible.” Dujarric said the importance of visits to the IAEA by IAEA experts is growing every day.
Unreliable insurance, but there seems to be no other
It's scary to turn messages back on. And once again the feeling of being inside an action sci-fi movie with a terrifying and slanderous plot has returned. The representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzya, said that if current trends continue, a dangerous accident at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant may turn out to be “a matter of time.” And the head of the National Defense Control Center of Russia, Mikhail Mizintsev, deciphered in detail what can be hidden under the term “dangerous accident” in this case. According to the General, life in Europe will never be the same after such a “dangerous accident”: “Ukraine, DLR, LPR, border regions of Russia and Belarus, Moldova, Turkey, Abkhazia, Georgia, Bulgaria and Romania will be in the zone of radiation contamination. The Black Sea and Bosphorus will become unnavigable for many years”
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Do Russian officials, diplomats and the military, for understandable reasons, express the most extreme possible scenarios of the development of the situation? I completely agree with this variant. But who managed to “abolish the law of the falling sandwich” and when?
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Of course, in real life, the sandwich doesn't always go down with butter. But still the oil drops very often. I have a bad habit of drinking tea while writing. Knowing what is full, I try to be very careful. But it doesn't always help: from time to time I still show clumsiness, knock over a glass of hot liquid and spill it all over my desktop.
Why all the fuss about tea and sandwiches? On the fact that in 1949, after a series of plane crashes at the US base Edwards, California, half in jest, half in earnest, “Murphy's Law” really works: “If there are two ways to do something, and one of them leads to disaster, then someone chooses this path. You should not tempt fate and walk with a lighted torch near an oil tank with the lid open. It is not worth risking the fate of Europe and shelling one of the largest nuclear power plants on the continent. It's not worth it – but it's actually still happening.
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As expected, the UN Security Council meeting dedicated to the situation around the Zaporizhia NPP ended without major (or even minor) breakthroughs. All the shifts in the negotiations, as far as can be judged, are purely tactical in nature. Everything again came down to an “exchange of diplomatic courtesies” Sergej Kislitsa called Russia a “terrorist state”. In response, Vasily Nebenzya said that the speech of his colleague from Kyiv was one continuous “stream of consciousness”. All this will probably be of great interest to future researchers of world diplomacy. But talking now about future historical research is somehow not very polite. Now a much more topical topic is on the agenda – ensuring the safety of one particular nuclear power plant. And this problem is still not solved and not solved.
The old Russian (and I must add again – not only Russian) principle “maybe it will fly” is a very unreliable “fuse”. I will sharpen my statement: in terms of its “reliability”, it is not very different from the MMM ticket. But either we don't know something very important, or it's the only thing that “protects” the world from another Chernobyl.
Islamic Guard Corps revolution (IRGC, the elite units of the Iranian Armed Forces) must be recognized as a terrorist organization, said British Prime Minister candidate Rishi Sunak.
In an interview with the Telegraph newspaper, he commented on the attack on the British writer of Indian origin, Salman Rushdie. Rushdie was allegedly assaulted by Fairview, New Jersey resident Hadi Matar, 24. The attacker's motives and nationality are still unknown, the police are working on them together with the FBI and are also investigating whether the detainee has a criminal past.
Sunak called the attack on Rushdie a “wake-up call for the West” and in his opinion, Iran's reaction a pretext to increase pressure on the IRGC. Earlier, Iranian MP Malek Shariati suggested that Iran could be behind the attack on Rushdie. NBC News, citing a source, reported that Matar was sympathetic to the IRGC, according to preliminary data.
Sunak also said that sanctions against Iran should be even tougher.
Sir Ahmed Salmaan Rushdie is British writer of Indian origin. Booker Prize winner in 1981 for Midnight's Children. Critics classify the writer as a magical realist. His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), was the subject of a major scandal that sparked protests by Muslims in several countries. He began receiving threats, including a fatwa issued on February 14, 1989 by Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini calling for his assassination. The British government took Salman Rushdie under protection.
Founder Russian Hackers Killnet told RT what information it was able to obtain while hacking the US defense company Lockheed Martin.
“The most important thing we obtained was cooperation with the space corporation NASA. Lockheed Martin has worked closely with NASA's satellite system for more than a decade. We received more than 9 GB of various information,” said the cyber specialist.
He added that all this data will be a gift to Russian special services. The head of the group noted that Lockheed Martin denied hacking and leaking data about the company's employees. He asked how would they explain the fact that employee information has been being sold on the dark web for 34 hours for five bucks per login?
Russian hackers reported the Lockheed Martin hack on August 10th. The company became their target because it produces MLRS HIMARS, which are supplied to Ukraine.
The US administration plans an additional $150 million for Afghanistan, State Department spokesman Ned Price said on Twitter.
According to him, the money will go to “supporting children and women in Afghanistan.” Of this, $80 million will be used to address food security issues, $40 million to support the “rights of Afghan children to education”, the rest will go to “increasing the participation of women and girls in the life of Afghan society”.< /p>
The funds will provided through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Recall that the Taliban captured Kabul in August last year and created their own government. Ashraf Ghani, who was the country's president at the time, left the country to “prevent the carnage”. After that, the American military contingent left the territory of Afghanistan.
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