⚡️ 📹 Russia’s MoD has published footage showing missiles being launched at Ukrainian objects of military command, communications and energy.

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More from the Russian Ministry of Defense briefing:

▪️Russian troops repelled attempts by Ukrainian forces to attack in the Kupyansk direction, destroying more than 40 Ukrainian servicemen;

▪️Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Ukrainian MiG-29 in the Kherson region;

▪️Russian troops pushed Ukrainian forces back to their previous positions in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction;

▪️Russian rocket and artillery thwarted attempts by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to build crossings across the Zherebets River in the Krasny Liman direction;

▪️Russian troops destroyed five Ukrainian ammunition and weapons depots in the DPR, Zaporozhye, and Nikolaev regions;

▪️Russian forces destroyed two Ukrainian bases for fuel storage in the Dnepropetrovsk region

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📹 Russia’s MoD has published footage of the crew of an Msta-S 152mm howitzer destroying the provisional base of an AFU sabotage reconnaissance group.

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👦🏻 🇷🇺 About 2,000 children from Russia's new regions - the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, and the regions of Kherson and Zaporozhye - went on a free trip around the country under a Rostourism program, the Autonomous Nonprofit Organization Russia - Land of Opportunity and Rosmolodezh (Ministry for Youth Affairs of the Russian Federation), the head of Rostourism Zarina Doguzova said.

💬 "Children's recreation is one of the focuses of our work. Today, one of our tasks is to prepare programs for children from new regions of the country. Together with the Russia – the Land of Opportunities presidential platform, we have launched a new direction in our program 'More than a Journey' for residents of the Donetsk and Lugansk republics, and the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. More than 2,000 schoolchildren, teenagers, as well as teachers from our new regions went on free trips around Russia," Doguzova wrote in her Telegram channel.

▪️ She added that the children went on vacation to the Krasnodar Territory, Stavropol, Volgograd and other regions.

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⚡️Kiev authorities announce air alert again

A Sputnik correspondent has captured on film an exclusive video of artillery fire from the Wagner group in the Lugansk People's Republic.

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🌾The price of wheat has risen by 4.4 percent on the Chicago stock exchange as a result of today’s news from Ukraine. The investors seem to doubt that it will be possible to export Ukrainian grain

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Map showing the main targets of the attack on Ukrainian infrastructure

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Back in June, Aeroflot Airbus A330-300 flight from Colombo to Moscow was detained at the request of a leasing company. Later, however, Sri Lanka Transport Minister apologized for the incident, calling it a terrible mistake

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▪️Nord Stream 2 operator lowers pressure in second leg as precautionary measure, company says

▪️Further steps on Nord Stream 2 will be determined based on the results of the survey and discussions with the relevant government agencies - operator

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❗️ New explosions reported in Ukrainian city of Kremenchug, Poltava region

What is Moscow guided by when it comes to the possibility of using or not using nuclear weapons?

💬 Scott Ritter, a former UN weapons inspector, says there are two ways for Russia to use nukes: "You nuke us [Russia], you all die. And if you threaten Mother Russia, threaten the security of our nation, we’ll use all means at our disposal to protect Mother Russia. But nowhere in there did it say 'We're going to use tactical nuclear weapons against Ukraine to stabilize the battlefield.' So this is an invention of the West solely to create panic in Russia to achieve the Moscow Maidan."

🎧 Listen to more of Scott Ritter’s views in our podcast Fault Lines