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).

New Russian pickup truck just dropped.

Newsweek:

CIA controls significant amounts of US military aid to Ukraine that are kept secret.

CIA employees are constantly in Ukraine, but their activities are strictly regulated, and their numbers are limited.

Their tasks include working with weapons, communication with the Ukrainian special services, control over the fact that "the situation does not go beyond certain limits."

CIA seeks to distance itself from everything that involves a direct attack on the Russian Federation — this restriction was personally established by U.S. President Biden.

CIA works not only to help Ukraine, mostly by passing on intelligence, but also tries to find out the real plans of Zelensky and Putin.

#BREAKING British MoD says it will begin training Ukrainian fighter pilots in August, up to 20 Ukrainian pilots will participate in the classes.

Russian MoD goes nuts on UK Armed Forces chief Admiral Tony Radakin’s latest statement:

They are discouraging lie.

The purpose of the admiral's statements is to knock out money for the purchase of new weapons for the army instead of the rubbish sent to Ukraine.

The over-hyped Storm Shadow missiles are increasingly falling flat without bursting, and all the British scrap metal delivered to Kyiv, after being melted down, will serve as raw materials for new regions for restoration work.

And microchips plucked out of rockets can probably be inserted into Russian “washing machines”.

Israel reveals Elizabeth Tsurkov, Israeli & Russian academic who has been missing for several months in Iraq, is being held as a hostage by Hezbollah.

Tsurkov is still alive.

Tsurkov disappeared in Iraq in late March.

US Navy:

Iran tried to seize two oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz & fired shots.

#BREAKING Ukraine says it’s waiting for deliveries of Turkish Fırtına T-155 155mm tracked self-propelled howitzer.

Ukrainian Brigadier General Oleksiy Gromov:

It was thanks to Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 UCAV that our military had the opportunity to effectively conduct aerial reconnaissance, timely expose the actions of the enemy and simultaneously hit its objects.

At the beginning of the war, this was especially important under the conditions of the rapid advance of the Russian occupying forces through the territory of Ukraine.