🇷🇺 Russian state-owned arms manufacturer Almaz-Antey, thanks to import substitution, will start testing and supplying the first domestic equipment for gas production on the Russian continental shelf this year, Artem Shatrakov, Director of Civil Products Development Department at Almaz-Antey, told Sputnik.

Speaking on the sidelines of the Russia-Africa summit, Shatrakov said that such import substitution work has been ongoing for several years and will continue.

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🇬🇧🇳🇪 The United Kingdom has once again condemned the military coup in Niger, saying that it is suspending long-term assistance to the country, with the exception of critical humanitarian aid.

On Sunday, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) suspended all financial aid to Niger and froze Niger's assets in the community's central and commercial banks.

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Russian forces thwart attempts by Ukrainian troops to conduct reconnaissance-in-force

In the past 24 hours, units of the Russian "Vostok" group of forces destroyed a Leopard tank, several infantry fighting vehicles, an M777 howitzer and an electronic warfare station of Ukrainian troops in the Zaporozhye direction, the defense ministry spokesperson told Sputnik.

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📹 Russian Su-25 aircraft crews' work in special military op zone

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Ukraine rejects all ideas of mediation since it is fixed on ultimatums to Russia "packed" in Zelensky's peace formula, Aleksey Polishchuk, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry's second department for the Commonwealth of Independent States' countries, told Sputnik.

Moscow will continue dialogue on prospects for peace settlement in the Ukraine conflict with partners from China, Brazil, Africa that have "constructive and substantive proposals," the diplomat also said.

Earlier, the head of Zelensky's office Yermak has confirmed a meeting of advisers of state leaders in Saudi Arabia to discuss the Ukrainian "peace formula". The key points are said to be discussed with representatives of more than 50 countries.

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🇷🇺🇧🇾 Russian nuclear weapons to stay in Belarus unless US, NATO quit hostile policy, diplomat says

💬 The hypothetical withdrawal can be possible "only if the US and NATO abandon their destructive course of purposefully undermining the security of Russia and Belarus. This stipulates the complete withdrawal of all American nuclear weapons to the territory of the US with the elimination of the corresponding infrastructure in Europe," Aleksey Polishchuk, a senior Russian diplomat, told Sputnik.

The deployment of the tactical nuclear weapons is a forced containment measure, designed to ensure the security of Belarus, which has a common defense space with Russia, Polishchuk said.

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🇺🇸🇦🇺 Blinken assures Australia will get its subs amid GOP threats to block transfer

The Secretary of State “fully expects” the US to move forward with the delivery of Virginia-class nuclear submarines to Australia, notwithstanding growing resistance from some US lawmakers.

Blinken also dismissed concerns by his interviewer that the AUKUS deal, which promises promising to provide Canberra with nuclear submarine technology in exchange for basing rights, comes “too late” amid growing tensions between the US and China over Taiwan.

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❗️Ukrainian forces shell central Donetsk

One person was killed, three wounded as a result of the shelling, a shuttle bus and 2 cars are burning, local authorities said.

Earlier in the day, Ukrainian troops fired 18 shells at Donetsk, Makeyevka and Gorlovka, the DPR representation in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to Ukrainian War Crimes said.

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📹 Footage captured by a Sputnik correspondent in the center of Donetsk after a Ukrainian attack

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Exclusive: Ukraine-Bound Arms 'End Up on Our Continent' & in Terrorists' Hands, Burkinabe President Says

Western weapons shipped to Ukraine do not all end up on the Eastern Front. Some of that ammo ends up in Africa, where they are bought up by terrorists, as the President of the Transition, Ibrahim Traore, told Sputnik Africa.

These parallel circuits, fed by arms traffickers, further worsen the security dilemma in Africa, the head of state pointed out, and in particular, it aggravates the detrimental situation for Burkina Faso, which is waging its own war against terrorism.

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🇨🇳🇫🇷 France says EU can survive influx of budget Chinese EVs as Russia sanctions take toll

“I think with our new legislative decisions, we pave the way in Europe for a less naïve approach, taking into account the level of emissions of the industry,” French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said, speaking to European business media, pointing to “green” subsidies announced in May for manufacturers who bake lower emissions levels into their production process.

The subsidies, expected to be worth between five and seven thousand euros per new vehicle sold, won’t be available for cars built using polluting plants, and are thus expected to limit the attractiveness of Chinese-made EVs. Le Maire said that Paris is “determined to support the European car industry and the French car industry.”

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❗️Four people dead, 10 injured in a Ukrainian attack on Donetsk, one civilian killed in Ukrainian attack on the city of Gorlovka, local authorities said

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🇷🇺 The Kiev regime is in very difficult situation: the counteroffensive is failing and multi-billion dollar resources from NATO are being spent ineffectively and aimlessly, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says

US policy on Ukraine contradicts an important principle in international law and will lead to a deterioration of security in Europe in the long term, Peskov added.

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Exclusive: Burkina Faso's President Vows to Do 'Everything So That People Know These Grains Come From Russia'

In an interview with Sputnik Africa, interim president of Burkina Faso Ibrahim Traore advocated his country’s food independence, while appreciating Moscow’s free supply of cereals to African countries.

While "appreciating" Vladimir Putin's "generous" gesture of providing free cereals to African countries, Burkinabe President of the Transition Ibrahim Traore deemed it "desirable that we could produce ourselves".

According to Traore, Mr. Putin, "is aware that we are at war, that we have internally displaced persons". While others "do nothing", Vladimir Putin, "acts", the African leader emphasized.

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❗️Ukrainian losses in July amounted to 20,824 servicemen and 2,227 pieces of military equipment, including 10 Leopard tanks, Shoigu says

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📹 The crew of a portable anti-tank complex unleashed a guided missile strike on a camouflaged Ukrainian military observation post. The enemy object was obliterated along with its personnel.

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📹 Mission accomplished: Airborne infantry wipes out enemy in Kherson, Zaporozhye Regions

In the area of the Antonovsky bridge, paratroopers uncovered an observation post of Ukrainian formations in a rundown house, from where they were adjusting fire along the left bank of the Dnepr. A mobile group of Novorossiysk paratroopers riding a buggy vehicle equipped with a Kornet anti-tank missile system quickly advanced to the specified area to destroy the target. Thanks to a guided missile strike, the observation post of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed.

Meanwhile, in the direction of Zaporozhye, paratroopers from Stavropol are carrying out tasks on ATVs equipped with Russia’s AGS-17 Plamya (Flame) automatic grenade launcher, providing fire support for Moscow’s assault groups.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 The US and its satellites, realizing that it is impossible to defeat Russia through military actions, resolved to terrorist methods, Russian security chief Patrushev says:

▪️The West supervises numerous drone attacks, which the Ukrainian special services direct at Moscow, Crimea, and other regions of Russia;

▪️There are reports that the Kiev regime is using its wounded military personnel as biomaterial, secretly harvesting their organs for transplantation.

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🇭🇺 Hungary fails to vote on Sweden's entry into NATO due to boycott by governing parties, local media reports

An extraordinary meeting of the Hungarian parliament on Sweden's accession to NATO was initiated by the opposition, but since the governing party Fidesz announced that it would not participate, there could be no vote.

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❗️Main points of statements by Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu in conference call with leadership of Russian Armed Forces:

▪️The Russian Armed Forces are continuing active operations in all directions, focusing on weakening the combat capabilities of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF);

▪️The UAF are throwing new forces to attack the positions of the Russian Armed Forces, and thanks to the professional actions of Russian troops, the enemy’s advance has not been successful;

▪️The heads of 108 military departments have been invited to the international Army-2023 military-technical forum;

▪️Russian military-technical developments that have been tested in real combat situations will be presented at the Army-2023 forum;

▪️The Russian Armed Forces in the Rabotino area on July 26 and 27 destroyed more than 400 UAF soldiers and 63 armored vehicles, including 31 tanks, of which three were Leopard tanks;

▪️UAF losses over the past month amounted to more than 20,800 troops;

▪️The UAF lost more than 2,200 weapons over the past month, including 10 Leopard tanks;

▪️The Russian Armed Forces liberated Kovalevka and Sergeevka in the Krasny Liman region from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as the Molchanovka railway station in the Kupyansk region;

▪️Western weapons supplied to Kiev do not lead to success on the battlefield, but only prolong the military conflict;

▪️Kiev has focused on terrorist attacks on the civilian infrastructure of the Russian Federation against the backdrop of the unsuccessful UAF "counteroffensive";

▪️In connection with the terrorist attacks by Kiev on objects in the Russian Federation, additional measures have been taken to increase protection against attacks from air and sea;

▪️The Russian Armed Forces have increased the intensity of attacks on Ukrainian military facilities by multiple times, including on those supporting terrorist attacks on Russian territory;

▪️Three ships of the Karakurt-class are planned to be accepted into the Russian Navy by the end of the year;

▪️15,000 people are enrolled in Russian military universities, of which 1,500 are participants in the special operation.

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