🇺🇦 Ukraine has started full-scale production of its kamikaze UAVs AQ-400, according to Defence Blog.

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☢️🇰🇵🇰🇷🇺🇸North Korea nuclear attack on US would spell end of Kim regime: White House

Washington on Saturday reiterated its warning to North Korea that any nuclear attack on the United States would result “in the end of the Kim regime.”

A joint statement by the US-South Korean Nuclear Consultative Group also reaffirmed that any nuclear attack by Pyongyang on South Korea “will be met with a swift, overwhelming, and decisive response.”

“The United States reaffirmed its unwavering commitment to provide extended deterrence to the ROK (Republic of Korea) backed by the full range of US capabilities including nuclear,” said the statement published by the White House.

US President Joe Biden had issued a similar, strongly worded warning in April, saying that any nuclear attack by North Korea would “result in the end” of the Pyongyang government.

And five months earlier, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned that any nuclear attack by the North against the US or its allies would mean the “end of the Kim regime.”

North Korea last year declared itself an “irreversible” nuclear power and has repeatedly said it will never give up its nuclear program, which the regime views as essential for its survival.

And last month Pyongyang successfully put a military spy satellite into orbit. It has since claimed its eye in the sky was already providing images of major US and South Korean military sites.

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A postcard. Guess the country...

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🇷🇺💥🇺🇦 Fighters of the 58th Special Forces Battalion, 1st Donetsk Army Corps deliver an ATGM to a squad of AFU soldiers on the Artyomovsk front.

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Two Russian soldiers capture 5 Ukrainians near Klescheevka.

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 GoPro footage found during the clearing of one of the Ukrainian positions near Spornoye, featuring an AFU stuntman.

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Evading a Ukrainian FPV drone.

Apparently the driver was informed via radio that a drone was chasing him, ordered all the passengers to be quiet and open all the windows.

When he heard the drone begin to dive he hit the brakes and the drone overshot the vehicle.

Via: @WarGonzo

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🇵🇸⚔️🇮🇱☠️Reuters:

Hamas has turned the streets of Gaza into a deadly maze for Israeli forces

The number of Israeli army deaths in Gaza has already reached double what it was during the ground attack in 2014, which reflects the extent to which Hamas has expanded its arsenal and its tactics.

Hamas has weapons at its disposal ranging from grenade-laden drones to powerful dual-charged anti-tank weapons.

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🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺Details about the mobilization bill, which were written by MP Maryana Bezuglaya.

The conscription age for mobilization will be reduced from 27 to 25 years.

Women will be required to register with the military on an equal basis with men, undergo military training, and will be recruited to serve during martial law (for combat positions - voluntarily).

The following will be subject to deferment or dismissal from service:

⁃ All persons with disabilities.
⁃ Those who have three or more children.
⁃ If two military personnel have a child, then one of them has a deferment and the right to dismissal (male or female). That is, if a woman decides to go to military service, then a man can thus receive a deferment.
⁃ If a person in the family is a minor with a disability.
⁃ If an adult incapacitated child with a disability / wife or husband / parents of the wife or husband of 1-2 groups (in this case, the person with a disability chooses who gets the deferment).
⁃ Trustees of a person with a disability of 1-3 groups, recognized by the court as incompetent.
⁃ Pregnant women and women on maternity leave.
⁃ Only current people's deputies (all former ones were removed), election as a deputy is grounds for dismissal.
- Women and men whose close relatives died or went missing during the war.

The following will receive a deferment from mobilization:
⁃ Applicants for consecutive (i.e. first) higher education who are less than 30 years old.
⁃ All scientists with the title of scientist.
⁃ All full-time teachers.

An important innovation: the police, the Bureau of Economic Security and the penitentiary service will lose the right to deferment.

The project abolishes conscript service in the army (those who were conscripts at the time martial law was introduced will be demobilized) and instead introduces basic combined arms training of up to 3 months for all citizens aged 18 to 25 years.

The mobilization powers of local authorities have been significantly expanded.

During martial law, the rights of those evading mobilization will be limited (Bezuglaya did not decipher exactly what rights they intend to deprive, but earlier she asked how people feel about the deprivation of citizenship of those liable for military service who have gone abroad and the seizure of assets). Bezuglaya also said that the National Police will be involved in mobilizing citizens and issuing summonses to them.

Citizens liable for military service will be required to:

⁃ Provide information about your place of residence to the employer.
⁃ Undergo a medical examination during mobilization.
⁃ Appear independently at the CNAP/TCC SP to clarify the data.
⁃ Carry a military registration document with you at all times during martial law.

The places where subpoenas will be served are still being discussed:

- at TCC SP by representatives of TCC SP
- at the place of residence by representatives of TCC SP, police
- at the place of work by representatives of TCC SP, police officers
- in public places by representatives of TCC SP, police.

The draft also obliges the military command to:

- carry out mandatory rotation: a fighter must be on the front line (“at zero”) for no more than 3 months;
- procedure for dismissal of conscripts;
- rotation to TCC (not all) after 3 years;
- appointment of persons with engineering higher education qualifications only to engineering positions.

A separate block in the bill will be devoted to the demobilization procedure. The main innovation: the right to dismissal can be obtained after 36 months (that is, after 3 years) of service during martial law. At the same time, upon reaching 24 months, of which 12 months in a combat zone, it will be possible to take 90 days of leave without division into parts, but this will extend the period for obtaining the right to dismissal. Or don't take a vacation and quit after 36 months.

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🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺Bezuglaya explained that this formula is being introduced in order to prevent the simultaneous dismissal of military personnel. “If several tens of thousands quit at the same time, the Russians will break through the front,” she wrote.

In this case, dismissal can be obtained early on the grounds already mentioned above - disability, three children, maternity leave, etc.

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