❗️The main statements from the Russian Defense Ministry on the situation in the Kursk region:

▪️Ukrainian losses amounted to 360 soldiers and 23 armored vehicles in Russia's Kursk region in one day.

▪️With the support of army aviation and artillery fire, four attacks by Ukrainian assault groups were repelled.

▪️Over the course of the last day, Ukrainian forces lost four tanks, an infantry fighting vehicle, two armored personnel carriers, and 16 armored combat vehicles, as well as six artillery pieces and two Polish-made Krab self-propelled guns.

▪️In total, during the fighting in the Kursk area, Kiev has lost more than 8,500 soldiers and 80 tanks.

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🔥 Russian military drone operators leave no chance for the enemy

The crews work in pairs. The first prepares the attack drone for launch. The second conducts reconnaissance and finds the target. The assistant skillfully adjusts the operator's work on the target approach and records the drone's hit on the control point.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the parents of a Russian killed in Gaza and apologized for not being able to rescue him alive from captivity, the Israeli prime minister's office reported.

Earlier, Hamas held Israel responsible for the deaths of hostages in the Gaza Strip, Izzat al-Risheq, a member of the Palestinian movement's Political Bureau, said.

"The one who bears responsibility for the deaths of the hostages held by the resistance is the occupation [Israel], which insists on continuing the war of genocide," al-Risheq said in a statement.

The Israeli military has released the names of six hostages whose bodies were found in the Rafah area of the Gaza Strip.

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😄 Britain's King Charles III was left in an awkward situation after struggling to cut the ribbon at the opening of the Royal Horticultural Society's bicentennial Scottish Flower Show in Aberdeen.

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‘Retaliation already underway’: Check out the latest developments in Russia’s Kursk region

Russia is already responding to the Ukrainian Armed Forces' incursion in the Kursk region, said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

"Why do you think that this is a one-time event? It is already happening," Peskov told Russian journalist Pavel Zarubin.

▪️The Kiev regime is wasting "scarce resources" while "the Kursk debacle leaves thousands dead", Irish journalist Chay Bowes tweeted on Sunday. Earlier, the Washington Post, the Economist, and the Wall Street Journal questioned Kiev's rationale behind the Kursk incursion: "Ukraine could lose many well-trained soldiers and much of the foreign equipment it has deployed to Kursk, as well as land in its own east," the WaPo wrote.

▪️The Ukrainian military continues to commit atrocities in the Kursk region. Ukrainian fighters fired at a car with women and children and injured a girl near Malaya Loknya in the Sudzha district.

▪️The Kursk Nuclear Power Plant is operating normally, the plant's press service reports.

▪️The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 360 soldiers and 23 armored vehicles in the Kursk area in one day, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense. Since the beginning of the incursion, it has lost over 8,500 soldiers and 80 tanks.

▪️The Russian government has approved financial support for the deployment and maintenance of temporary accommodation and food facilities for citizens evacuated from the region.

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'It was hard to believe'

Reflecting on the results of US President Joe Biden's presidency, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov recalled how Vladimir Putin reacted to Joe Biden's interview at the beginning of his presidency, when Biden suddenly called the Russian president a "murderer".

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❗️The main cause of the crash of the Raisi helicopter was difficult climatic conditions, according to the final report of the Iranian Armed Forces.

The helicopter of late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi crashed on May 19 in the province of East Azerbaijan in the north of the country after colliding with a hill in spring fog, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic reported.

According to the report, the main cause of the crash of Raisi's helicopter was the difficult climatic conditions in the spring, the sudden appearance of thick fog and a collision with a mountain. According to the investigation, the helicopter did not deviate from the assigned route. Signs of sabotage or the impact of electronic warfare, electromagnetic or laser weapons were also not found.

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❗️The number of civilians injured in the Russian city of Belgorod and the Belgorod region as a result of the Ukrainian attack has grown to 11, the region's Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said.

Two wounded children are in an extremely serious condition, they are already in operating rooms, they may be sent to Moscow for treatment, Gladkov added.

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Mass vaccination of children under 11 against polio begins in the city of Nuseirat in the Gaza Strip

The decision was made after the first case of the disease was officially registered in the Palestinian enclave. About 1.2 million doses of the vaccine were delivered to the central part of Gaza.

"Today is the first day of the polio vaccination campaign. The campaign is necessary for children as young as one day old and is absolutely harmless," a campaign organizer told Sputnik.

Poliovirus is highly contagious and is typically transmitted through sewage and contaminated water, a growing issue in Gaza due to the significant destruction of the territory's infrastructure by Israel during its conflict with Hamas. The virus primarily impacts children under five years old, leading to deformities, paralysis, and in some cases, it can be fatal.

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Blowback: Antibiotic-resistant bacteria come from Ukraine to haunt Europe

European doctors treating Ukrainian soldiers on multiple occasions have had to deal with mutated antibiotic-resistant bacteria, or superbugs, the Times reported on Sunday.

▪️The newspaper describes one case which occurred at St George’s Hospital in south London in November 2022: doctors amputated a Ukrainian soldier's leg having realized that almost a dozen antibiotics failed to kill a bacterial infection in the wound.

▪️Similar cases were reported in Norway, the Netherlands and Germany, where hospitals also treated Ukrainian soldiers evacuated from the front lines.

▪️Samples from 141 patients being treated in Ukrainian hospitals were tested last year at the Lund University in Sweden indicating highly resistant strains of bacteria. Some bugs were resistant to "every single antibiotic available."

▪️According to the newspaper, not only Ukrainian soldiers but also newborn babies are affected by superbugs in the country.

▪️Western experts blamed the phenomenon on overcrowded Ukrainian hospitals, where patients with many infections are concentrated and a lack of infection control procedures. They warned that the spread of resistant superbugs is highly dangerous.

▪️Documents obtained by Russia’s Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defense (RCBD) Troops shed light on the apparent source of the phenomenon: Ukrainian soldiers and residents were subjects to bio-experiments at labs overseen by the Pentagon.

▪️Russian healthcare experts found antibodies against multiple pathogens in Ukrainian prisoners of war (PoW), including hepatitis A, a fever with renal syndrome, and West Nile fever. These pathogens were studied by the Pentagon as part of its Ukrainian projects, as per the documents.

▪️At least 46 biolabs in Ukraine were engaged in research of deadly pathogens.

▪️The problem of drug-resistant infections emanating from Ukraine now rings the alarm bells for the US' European allies.

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Macron to consult his presidential predecessors to help decide whom to make prime minister

France’s President Emmanuel Macron is expected to meet several French politicians on September 2 as part of consultations on the candidacy of France’s new prime minister.

He is expected to receive former French presidents Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande, as well as ex-prime minister Bernard Cazeneuve, according to local media reports.

Nearly two months since the French legislative election, Macron is yet to appoint a new prime minister amid the standoff in the French parliament where none of the major factions – Macron’s centrists or the left-wing and right-wing opposition – control an absolute majority.

On August 26, Macron rejected the candidacy of Lucie Castets put forth by the left-wing New Popular Front coalition.

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