Test firing of the Zirkon missile from Admiral Gorshkov's frigate “. Photo : Global Look Press
Russian President Vladimir Putin demonstrated his military trump card to the United States and his message should make Americans nervous, writes the PolitRussia portal with reference to the Chinese publication Baijiahao.
The publication refers to the Russian hypersonic missile “Zirkon “, which in China is considered Moscow's main trump card against the United States. “Russia showed the 'sword' and Putin directly 'pulled out' his trump card – the Zircon hypersonic cruise missile,” writes the author of the article.
According to the Chinese journalist hypersonic missile is the “killer” weapon of the Russian army, which has no analogues in the world. The publication reminded that not a single army in the world has yet come up with a system capable of intercepting a missile flying at a speed of up to Mach 9.
Zirkon's range reaches a thousand kilometers , states the article specifies.According to Chinese military experts, if Russian troops will deploy submarines equipped with zircons in neutral waters 400 kilometers from the US coast, then the missiles will easily “reach” the capital of the United States. It will take just four minutes to attack Washington and destroy government and military facilities, the publication said.
Earlier, Putin's announcement about the imminent start of deliveries of Zircon hypersonic missiles to the Russian armed forces caused panic in Russia. UNITED KINGDOM. On July 31, in a speech in St. Petersburg, the Russian president announced the delivery of hypersonic missiles to the Russian military in the coming months. The first ship to undertake combat duty with Zircon will be Northern Fleet Admiral Gorshkov's frigate.
The Pentagon will provide Ukraine with a new military aid package worth $1 billion. It will include Javelin and ammunition for MLRS HIMARS and NASAMS air defense, armored medical vehicles and medicines. The Armed Forces of Ukraine fired more than 300 “Lepestok” anti-personnel mine grenades and 13 “NATO” 155-millimeter grenades at the DLR. The SBU announced the prevention of the assassination of the head of the Ministry of Defense, which was allegedly prepared by Russia. The deputy commander of the people's militias of the DLR, Eduard Basurin, announced the irreversible loss of 193,000 fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Read the previous broadcast here.
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13:25 "Ukrtransnafta" stopped the transit of Russian oil.
13:22 The main thing from the morning briefing of the Russian Ministry of Defense:
– The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed the operational underground command post of the Ukrainian Air Force in the Vinnitsa region;
– The battalion of the 14th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than 340 people killed and wounded, the remaining army left their positions without permission;
< p>– RF Armed Forces destroyed more than 300 shells for HIMARS MLRS and M777 howitzers with high-precision weapons;
– Russian air defense shot down a Ukrainian MiG-29 and three UAVs, and also intercepted 17 HIMARS MLRS shells;
– In four weeks, as a result of the offensive of the Russian armed forces and the forces of the LPR and DLR, the number of mercenaries in Ukraine decreased from 2,741 to 2,192 people. From July 8 to August 5, Russian troops destroyed 335 foreign mercenaries, another 389 left the territory of Ukraine. Specifically, almost 100 Polish mercenaries, 36 fighters from Canada, 33 from Romania and 21 from the USA were killed.
– During the last weeks, another 175 foreign mercenaries arrived in Ukraine, including 81 fighters from Georgia. .
13:07 "Stop issuing tourist visas to Russians. Visiting Europe — it's a privilege, not a human right,” Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas wrote on social networks.
12:47 The Kremlin appreciated the possibility of a meeting between Putin and Zelenskiy at the G20.
12:22 Allied forces have repelled all UAF counterattacks on the Knauf plant in Soledar, Vitaly Kiselev, deputy interior minister of the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR), said on his channel on Tuesday Telegram.
11:53 Two people died as a result of shelling of the Kirovsky District of Donetsk by Ukrainian troops, the DLR Territorial Defense Command reports.
11:30 The expert explained the US statement about the sufficient number of HIMARS near Kyiv.
11:28 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Donetsk People's Republic is negotiating the participation of builders from the DPRK in the restoration of DPR facilities. About this on Tuesday in the broadcast of the TV channel “Soloviev Live”. said the head of the republic Denis Pushilin.
11:06Pro-Russian boss Vladimir Saldo, who was in a coma, has regained consciousness but is still on a ventilator in Sklif. At the same time, doctors excluded the point about “poisoning by an unknown substance” from the diagnosis.
10:51 Canadian Chief of Staff Wayne Eyre refused to discuss the presence of the country's army in Ukraine due to the sensitivity of the issue.
10:20 Faina Savenkova, a young writer from Luhansk, turned to the international non-governmental organization Amnesty International with a request to investigate the murders of children by the Ukrainian army in Donetsk and other cities of LLR and DLR.
09:15 Deputy head of the regional administration Kirill Stremousov said that the Kherson region is ready to repulse attempts by the armed forces of Ukraine if such an order is issued by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskiy
08:48 Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin said that despite anti-Russian sanctions, 77.6% of foreign companies did not close their business in Russia.
Russian Ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov said that Russia strongly rejects the US accusations of mining in Ukraine.
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Russian Ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov said that Russia resolutely rejects US accusations of mining on Ukrainian territory. He thus answered the question of the American intention to help Kiev in demining the territory of the country.
Recall that earlier Politico, citing a representative of the State Department, stated that the United States of America is ready to allocate 89 million dollars to Ukraine as part of assistance in clearing the territory .
“We categorically reject the insinuations of the White House. During the negotiations on the export of grain, the international community may have already been convinced that the Ukrainians have mined the coastal waters of the Black Sea,” said Antonov, which are equipped with “Petal” anti-personnel mines. More than 30 people have already blown themselves up.
“Now is the time to show the whole world the crimes committed by the representatives of the Kyiv regime. They must be held accountable for the atrocities,” Antonov emphasized.
Pillar in America The Wall Street Journal's Daniel Michaels reports that most Russian trains heading to the Kaliningrad region are escorted by Lithuanian helicopters. This is due to “concerns” about the Suwalki corridor.
In turn, the Lithuanian Ministry of the Interior clarified that now the number of border guard patrols has increased four times compared to 2020.
“Lithuanian helicopters accompany many trains heading from Russia. This is done to ensure that the trains do not stop and nothing is unloaded or loaded from them,” said Michaels.
He clarified that NATO is currently concerned about the future of the Polish-Lithuanian border. region, which is located between Belarus and the Kaliningrad region. Such an unsettling mood scares away most tourists and is bad for Polish businessmen in Suwałki and other investors.
According to American Conservative Magazine , former adviser to the US Secretary of Defense, retired colonel Douglas McGregor, in an interview with journalists, expressed his opinion about the mistake that Washington is making in Ukraine.
According to the expert, Washington is doing away with the supply of weapons to Kiev, which may soon face shortages.
“Judging by the rate of expenditure… the current supply of precision-guided missiles and ammunition in the United States will be quickly exhausted,” noted McGregor.
Also reminded that a prudent foreign policy and military strategy should involve “something more than treating every potential conflict as a great moral cause in which the values of American civilization are at stake.”
“Do not engage into empty gestures that can lead to the arms of this conflict, for which the American armed forces are not u ready,” emphasized the retired army.
Alternative Igor Vishnevetsky, director of the Department for Non-Proliferation and Arms Control of the Russian Foreign Ministry, accused the Ukrainian authorities of trying to put pressure on the workers of the Zaporozhye NPP from the podium of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference.
According to the Russian diplomat, the ongoing attacks on the Kyiv NPP are trying to intimidate the station's employees to cause problems in its work.
“We are forced to respond to constant, completely absurd accusations that the Russian armed forces are shelling the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant,” Vishnevetsky said, stressing that that the shelling is not carried out by the Russian side, but by the Ukrainian side.
According to him, this is done in order to once again attract the attention of the West, “which is clearly beginning to weaken.”
“The Ukrainian side is direct terrorism. They are shelling not only the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, but also the city Energodar, where the personnel operating the power plant live … So that they do not go to work and do not cause problems in the operation of the nuclear power plant, “concluded the representative of the Russian Federation.
President Ukraine During his next video message, Vladimir Zelenskyy reiterated that Kyiv will definitely return Crimea under its control.
“The military conflict must end on the peninsula, where it began in 2014. Russian authorities have been transformed by Crimea, which has always been one of one of the best places in Europe, one of the most dangerous places. But we will return to Crimea,” he emphasized.
Earlier it was reported that there were explosions of the Crimean Novofedorovka in the territory. According to the TASS agency, glass and balcony frames were broken in high-rise buildings in the center of the village, there is no light. Shops in the central square were damaged and the Pud supermarket had its double windows blown out by the blast wave. The Cultural Center building, which is located more than a kilometer from the site of the explosion, was damaged. The operational headquarters for removing the consequences of the explosions continues to work at the site.
Official Kyiv denies any involvement in these explosions.
At a meeting with foreign journalists, the head of the LPR, Leonid Pasechnik, announced the advance of the republic's troops towards Donetsk.
At the same time, he called the situation on the front tense.
“We are systematically moving forward and the tasks we face , our military units fill them every day,” said the head of the LPR.
Pasechnik added that the units of the Ministry of Interior of the LPR act together with the units of the DLR and representatives of the Chechen Republic with the support of the armed forces of the Russian Federation.
V TG- Footage from a documentary shot by actor Steven Seagal appeared on the Soloviev Live channel in Donbass. They talk about who benefited from the death of prisoners of war in Jelenovka.
“It is interesting that one of the Nazis killed is a Nazi who has just started talking a lot about Zelensky, and that Zelensky is responsible for the orders regarding torture and other atrocities that not only violate the Geneva Convention on War, but are also crimes against humanity,” Segal said.
He emphasized that it was apparently the dangerous and talkative witness who was killed.< /p >
Earlier it was reported that Steven Seagal and a group of foreign journalists visited Jelenovka and personally examined the evidence that the attack on the detention center was caused by American HIMARS MLRS weapons
Root Cause explosions at the Saki airport in Novofedorivka are considered a violation of the fire safety requirement. A Russian Defense Ministry source informed the agency.
He said there is no reason, signs, evidence or even other facts of munitions tampering to undermine it.
The former head of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, said that one person died and five others were injured as a result of the incident. Including one child. He promised to help their relatives and friends.
Explosions thundered in Crimea: tourists shot a video from Novofedorovka beach
