US senators approve ratification of Finland's accession day protocols and Sweden to NATO.
In accordance with the established procedure, the protocols will then be sent to the US President Joe Biden for final acceptance.
More than 20 member countries of the North Atlantic Alliance have already spoken to appeal for the admission of new countries to NATO .
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The bill prepared in the State Duma of the Russian Federation , the ban on civil servants and parliamentarians from owning real estate in NATO countries is in the interest of the country's national security. This was stated by Olga Kovitidi, a member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.
According to the senator, such a bill is understandable for citizens. Kovitidi called it current and logical. It contributes to the systemic sovereignty of power in the country, emphasized a member of the Council of the Federation.
Earlier it was revealed that deputies of the State Duma from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation have prepared for consideration a bill that prohibits many people from owning real estate in NATO countries and countries that are candidates for joining the alliance. This list includes the President of Russia, members of the State Duma, members of the Federation Council, ministers of the country's government.
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Refugees from Ukraine they call working conditions in European countries hell. The newspaper Strana writes about it.
One of the interviewees said that she moved from Ukraine to Italy. Here she was provided with free housing and an allowance of 300 euros per adult and 150 euros per child for the first three months. But now the payments have stopped.
The Ukrainian refugee noted that she had to find a job picking cherries. He pays 6 euros per hour for such work. You must work 10 hours a day and 1 day off per month. The conditions, which the woman described as “hellish”, forced her to resign shortly afterwards.
Another refugee complained about gray employment schemes developed in Italy. The employee may be deceived by not paying him money. You have to pay an intermediary up to 500 euros for employment in good vacancies. Even qualified professionals, such as doctors, who are paid between 2 and 2.5 thousand euros in Italy, cannot find work.
Vladimir Zelensky, video frame. source: social networks
Retired US Army Lt. Col. Daniel Davis said in an article for 19Fortyfive that the Ukrainian army will suffer a heavy defeat if it tries to advance to the south of the country.
< p>Davis explained the danger to armed forces of Ukraine. According to him, “if Ukraine wants to organize an offensive in the hope of a miraculous result, it risks suffering even greater losses.” And besides, the Ukrainian army will lose “irreplaceable equipment” and could potentially “lose even more territory than it controlled at the beginning of the battle”.
The officer said he had participated in tank training battles in Europe for many years. And he knows that “it is extremely difficult to conduct large-scale offensive operations without experienced soldiers.” And the lion's share of rank-and-file Ukrainian soldiers, Davis croons, have already died in combat. Unfired recruits are arriving en masse to replace the dead.
Davis also noted that the Ukrainian armed forces will have to deal with an enemy that has absolute superiority in manpower, artillery and aviation.
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Speaking of the offensive, Davis stressed that “these are not actions that can be carried out by soldiers with little or no training at the platoon, company and battalion level.”
Ukraine's Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov earlier in an interview with The Times reported that carrying out Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's order to “liberate” the southern coastal regions, which are “vital” to the country's economy, amounts to “millions of military forces equipped with Western weapons.”
State Duma deputy from Crimea's Mikhail Sheremet noted that Zelensky, who is losing on all fronts, continues to push his country toward collapse. In his opinion, such orders speak of the political agony of the Kyiv regime.
Destruction of Armenian military vehicle by Azerbaijan Photo: Frame from video < p>The Armed Forces of Azerbaijan launched an anti-terrorist operation in Nagorno-Karabakh. Baku took this step after the death of an Azerbaijani soldier as a result of early morning shelling on August 3 by Armenian soldiers. The portal Day.az informs about it.
Allegedly, the Azerbaijani Armed Forces have already destroyed an artillery battalion and also one post of Armenian military personnel in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Meanwhile, it has become clear that the Nagorno-Karabakh authorities of Karabakh partial military mobilization in the unrecognized republic was announced on August 3. The decree was signed by President Arayik Harutyunyan.
Previously, Stepanakert announced that seven Azerbaijanis violated the ceasefire. The shelling of Armenian positions has been going on since 9 a.m. on Wednesday. As a result, 1 Armenian soldier was killed and 15 wounded.
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Military The Taiwanese government said 27 Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) aircraft entered the island's air defense identification zone today. Before that, the island's authorities hosted the speaker of one of the houses of the US Congress, Nancy Pelosi, against Beijing's wishes.
According to the Taiwanese military, sixteen SU-30 multi-role fighters, six J-11 fighters, five multi-role fighters participated in the PLA J-16 operation.
Taiwanese military command reportedly alerted air defense systems and sent an air patrol to monitor the situation.
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As a result of the shelling of Gorlovka, NM DPR colonel Olga Kachura under the call sign Korsa was killed, Mayor Ivan Prikhodko said on his Telegram channel.
“Today is a black day for Gorlovka and the republic. A brave and wise woman, who stood at the birth of NM DPR, died tragically,” reads the mayor's publication.
The mayor expressed his condolences to the family and relatives of Korsa, who was also the commander. rocket artillery division.
On February 24, the Russian Federation launched a special military operation in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin identified the demilitarization and denazification of the republic as its goal, as well as the protection of the people of Donbass. For this, according to the Russian leader, he plans to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for “bloody crimes against civilians” in the region.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Russian army intervenes only in the military infrastructure and parts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). .
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Kyiv authorities do not trust the United States and fear the escape of Vladimir Zelensky from the Ukrainian political scene. This opinion was expressed on Wednesday in his Telegram channel by the head of the commission of the Federation Council for the protection of state sovereignty of the Russian Federation, Andrey Klimov.
“Washington has never trusted anyone,” the senator said. – Especially to some Ukrainian actor.
According to Klimov, “the only thing that Mr. Zelenskiy was hired to do” in Washington was “to betray the interests of Ukraine and its people for the sake of the US victory over Russia.”
< p>The lawmaker said that Zelensky first betrayed the interests of his voters, the people of Ukraine, and did the exact opposite in terms of their own election promises.
The former comedian then studied pessimistic comedy in his country's internal politics. Finally, after the election of US President Joe Biden, he surrendered the “square” to Washington, refused to renew a key cooperation agreement with Russia, tore up the Minsk agreements, severed diplomatic relations with Moscow, and also helped the North Atlantic Alliance to launch an all-out hybrid war with the Russian Federation.
< p>“Zelensky has betrayed the real national interests of his country more than all his predecessors in the presidency combined,” Klimov said.
He also said that the president of Ukraine “is now personally overseeing the massacres of Ukrainian citizens and the scandalous burial of the Ukrainian statehood.”
According to the deputy, Zelensky does not have confidence in the White House and the Capitol because he is a traitor. nature, which was specially selected there.
Zelensky's guard in Kiev, as well as the “Anglo-Saxon special services”, according to Klimov, “not so much protect the comedian who played the president” from the Russians”, but from that, that this showman is not veiled from the Ukrainian political scene.”
However, as the Russian politician noted, Zelensky has nowhere to run – “perhaps except in captivity.”
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Russian Defense Ministry reports that the Radekhiv settlement area, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine, was destroyed by a cache of foreign-made weapons and ammunition that the Kyiv regime received from Poland. Russian troops attacked with high-precision long-range air missiles.
Also, as emphasized by Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, four depots of rocket and artillery weapons and ammunition were destroyed. A fuel warehouse for military equipment was liquidated.
In addition, Russian troops managed to hit three command posts, including the battalion of the 72nd Mechanized Brigade and the 65th Mechanized Brigade. The manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were liquidated in 133 districts.
The day before, on August 2, it was reported that the Russian Air and Space Forces attacked the bases of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the settlements of Merefa and Chuguev in Kharkiv areas with high precision weapons. As a result of the strikes, up to 500 soldiers of the Ukrainian army were eliminated.
In addition, a significant amount of military equipment was destroyed during the strike, Konashenkov gave details.
Destructive actions of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Taiwan, as well as attempts under the guise of foreign forces to isolate the island from mainland China, will hasten the collapse of the government of Chief of Staff Tsai Ing-wen and plunge Taiwan into a state of serious crisis. Ma Xiaoguang, spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, made this statement.
“We warn Cai Ing-wen and the ruling DPP that provocations supported by foreign powers to ensure Taiwan's so-called independence will hasten the collapse of the current leadership,” said the statement, which also warned of an imminent “state of great disaster.”
Ma Xiaoguang emphasized that Cai Ing-wen, along with his entourage, are “dealing with the interests of their people, following narrow personal and selfish party considerations”. The official said that “these attempts are doomed to failure.”
No one should underestimate China's determination to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity, Ma Xiaoguang added.
