Ukrainian Defence Minister Reznikov:

Chinese Special Representative Li Hui did not believe that Ukrainian Patriot air defence system was able to intercept Russian Kinzhal hypersonic missile.

Chinese diplomat, who visited Kyiv in May, left without "seeing the evidence."

Ukrainian Defense Minister Reznikov:

Russian EW systems effectively suppress Western GPS-guided missiles.

Allies immediately received information about this from Ukraine & come up with countermeasures for Russian countermeasures.

This is a technology war.

Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning:

The burning of the Holy Quran in Sweden constitutes "Islamophobia".

Freedom of expression should not be an excuse to provoke clashes between civilizations and create antagonism between civilizations.

#BREAKING Russian military sources report Russian forces withdrew from Klishchiivka, Donetsk.

Bakhmut is now under fire control of Ukrainian Army.

UK Armed Forces chief Admiral Tony Radakin:

Russian Army has lost half of its combat capability.

Russia has lost 2,500 tanks and at best can produce 200 tanks a year.

Oleksandr Syrskyi, commander of the Ground Forces of Ukraine:

The counteroffensive is going according to plan. The command assures that Bakhmut will be liberated, and the losses of the Russians are 8-10 times higher than the Ukrainian ones.

Ukrainian made 2S22 Bohdana (Bohdana 2.0) Self-Propelled Howitzer firing somewhere at the front.

Ukraine can fire American-supplied M982 Excalibur 155mm precision-guided shell from the howitzer.

German-supplied Ukrainian Gepard is in a hurry.

FSB poster was placed outside the U.S. Embassy in Moscow:

“Welcome to our peaceful country. With best wishes, FSB"

Swedish police received three more requests to burn Holy Books in Stockholm.

One for Quran, one for Torah & one for Bible.

Russian Telegram channel asks:

WHERE is Surovikin?

Taliban says it wants to participate in the next Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit.

Medvedev:

If the U.S. and its vassals stopped supplying weapons to Kyiv, the SVO would end in a few months, if they stop now - in a few days.

Any war can be ended quickly: either by a peace treaty, or by doing what the U.S. did in 1945, by using nuclear weapons.

Russian T-90 tank reportedly gets hit with 155mm high-precision cluster munition BONUS of joint Swedish-French production (Bofors/Nexter Group).

The crew may not have survived.

Russian Su-34 fighter jet launches a pair of Russian FAB-500 M-62 bombs with УМПК - unified planning and correction module; Russian version of JDAM aka JDAMski).