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[Regnum] A mass brawl involving the use of bladed weapons occurred in southwest Moscow, resulting in three people being injured and another dying. This was reported on July 2 by the capital's Department of Health.
The incident took place on the ninth floor of a residential building on Obrucheva Street. One of the participants in the conflict died on the spot before the ambulance arrived.
“There are three known victims: one person is in serious condition, two are in moderate condition,” the department’s Telegram channel said.
Medics provided assistance on the spot, after which the victims were taken to the Pirogov and Yudin hospitals.
The capital's prosecutor's office clarified: the attacker wounded three relatives, after which he committed suicide. According to law enforcement agencies, the deceased was registered with a psychiatrist. The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on attempted murder of two or more persons.
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Russians have been playing this up for several days.
The Brit's problem is that without an admission of what they have been doing by the UK, these British soldiers likely will be tried as criminals by the Russians.
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[LB] In the Pokrovsky direction, the occupiers are conducting reconnaissance of routes for covert movement.
by Ivanna Kapustianska
Russian troops are trying to block the Pokrovsko-Mirnograd agglomeration from the east and south in the Pokrovsko direction.
This is reported by the Khortytsia Municipal Administrative District.
"In the Pokrovskoye direction, the Russian army continues to attempt to block the Pokrovskoye-Mirnograd agglomeration from the east and south. Offensive actions were noted in the areas of Rodynske, Novoekonomichesky, Mirnograd, Lysivka, and Zvirovoye. The Defense Forces also repelled Russian attacks near Udachny, Filia, and Molodetsky," the report says.
Also in the direction of Pokrovska, the invaders are conducting reconnaissance of routes for covert movement. The defense forces are detecting and destroying the Russians.
In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy conducted unsuccessful offensive operations near Novovasylivka, Zagryzove, and Golubivka.
In the Lyman direction, Ukrainian soldiers repelled all Russian attacks near the settlements of Koroviy Yar, Karpivka, Myrne, Shandryholove, Kolodyazi, Torske, and in the Serebryansk forestry.
In the Siversky direction, Ukrainian defenders did not allow the loss of positions in the area of Serebryanka, Hryhorivka, Siversk, and Viyimka.
In the Kramatorsk and Toretsk directions, the assault actions of the Russian invaders were aimed at defensive fortifications near Bila Hora, Shcherbinivka, Oleksandro-Kalynovoye, Oleksandro-Shultynoye, and in the urban area of Toretsk. Ukrainian defenders are holding their ground, destroying the superior enemy forces.
In the Dobropil direction, Russian assault operations were repelled in the area of Zapovedny, Popovoy Yar, Mayak, and Volodymyrivka.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, the Russian army has concentrated its offensive efforts in the areas of Tolstoy, Maliyivka, and Mirny. Heavy fighting continues. The Russian army, regardless of losses, is trying to develop an offensive.
Over the past 24 hours, 172 clashes have occurred on the front. The enemy has increased pressure in the Dnieper direction.
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[NewsFront] 21:17 Across the bridge in Kherson, connecting the Korabelny microdistrict with the main part of the city, hit FAB with UMPK. 20:55 Russian Armed Forces fighters broke through the Ukrainian Armed Forces defense and deployed the Russian flag in the southern part of the village of Torskoye.
20:21 The southern flank of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' defense in the Pokrovsk direction is systematically crumbling.
The logistics of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in this area are effectively paralyzed: the northern and western routes are cut off.
19:58 At the A.A. Vishnevsky hospital, participants of the SVO handed over diplomas of retraining and state awards.
16:40 In the Tetkinsky and Glushkovsky directions, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are increasing reserves, including the number of UAV units;
In the area of the village of Ryzhevka, our intelligence has uncovered and destroyed three combat groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in pickup trucks.
14:51 Russian flag in liberated Aleksandro-Kalinovo, –MAP.
13:53 Artists of the song and dance ensemble of the Central Military District conducted a concert for servicemen of the motorized rifle unit of the Center group of forces in one of the rear areas of the North Military District.
12:34 Units of the Southern group of troops, as a result of decisive actions, successfully released the settlement of Aleksandro-Kalinovo in the Donetsk People's Republic, the Ministry of Defense reports.
12:24 Summary of the Russian Ministry of Defense on the progress of the special military operation as of August 2, 2025
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to conduct a special military operation.
Units of the North group of forces improved their tactical position. The manpower and equipment of two mechanized, a Jaeger, two airborne assault brigades and an assault regiment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Malaya Korchakovka, Okop, Pershe Travnya, Yunakovka and Andreyevka in the Sumy region.
In the Khar'kov direction, units of the mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the territorial defense brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Volchansk and Okhrimovka in the Khar'kov region.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 175 servicemen, a tank, eight vehicles and three artillery pieces. Six ammunition and material depots were destroyed.
Units of the "West" group of forces improved their position along the front line. They defeated formations of two mechanized and an airmobile brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Torskoye, Lozovoye, Novoselovka of the Donetsk People's Republic and Kupyansk of the Khar'kov region.
The enemy's losses amounted to more than 230 servicemen, an armored combat vehicle, 13 vehicles, two field artillery guns. Four ammunition depots, a US-made AN/TPQ-48 counter-battery station, and seven electronic warfare stations were destroyed.
Units of the Southern Group of Forces took decisive action to liberate the settlement of Aleksandro-Kalinovo in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The manpower and equipment of three mechanized, mountain assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a National Guard brigade were damaged in the areas of the settlements of Kleban-Byk, Serebryanka, Pleshcheyevka, Aleksandro-Shultino, Konstantinovka, Zvanovka and Ivanpolye of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy lost up to 150 servicemen, three armored combat vehicles, including a US-made M-113 armored personnel carrier, a pickup truck, three artillery pieces, and an electronic warfare station.
Units of the "Center" group of forces improved their tactical position. Defeats were inflicted on formations of three mechanized, airborne brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a naval infantry brigade and two brigades of the National Guard in the areas of the settlements of Dimitrov, Udachnoye, Petrovskoye, Krasnoarmeysk, Vladimirovka of the Donetsk People's Republic and Dachnoye of the Dnipropetrovsk region.
The losses of the Ukrainian armed forces amounted to more than 410 servicemen, six combat armored vehicles, including a US-made HMMWV armored vehicle and a Turkish-made Kirpi armored vehicle, three cars and four field artillery pieces.
Units of the "East" group of forces continued to advance into the depths of the enemy's defense. They inflicted losses on the manpower and equipment of the mechanized, mountain assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces,a naval infantry brigade, the territorial defense brigade and the national guard brigade in the areas of the settlements of Olgovskoye, Temirovka, Poltavka in the Zaporizhia region, Novopetrovskoye, Yanvarskoye, Voronoe in the Dnipropetrovsk region and Iskra in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 205 servicemen, seven vehicles, an artillery piece and an electronic warfare station.
Units of the Dnepr group of forces defeated formations of two mechanized brigades, three coastal defense brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and three territorial defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Lukyanivske, Pavlovka, Stepnogorsk in the Zaporizhia region, Sadovoe, Antonovka and Tokarevka in the Kherson region.
The enemy lost over 80 servicemen, a vehicle, two field artillery guns and six electronic warfare stations. An Israeli-made RADA radar station and five ammunition and material depots were destroyed.
Operational-tactical aviation, strike unmanned aerial vehicles, missile forces and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces groups have damaged storage sites for unmanned aerial vehicles, temporary deployment points for Ukrainian formations and foreign mercenaries in 132 districts.
Air defense systems shot down a guided aerial bomb and 338 unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed:
664 aircraft,
283 helicopters,
74,186 unmanned aerial vehicles,
624 anti-aircraft missile systems,
24,418 tanks and other armored combat vehicles,
1,584 multiple launch rocket systems,
28,103 field artillery pieces and mortars,
39,015 units of special military vehicles.
10:54 The Russian army advanced near Shandrigolovo in the Krasnolimansk direction, –MAP.
09:50 Near Vovchansk, special forces of the 6th Army of the Leningrad Military District burned a 152mm 2S3 Akatsiya self-propelled gun of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, –video.
07:37 During the past night from 20:00 Moscow time on August 1 to 04:40 Moscow time on August 2, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed112 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the fixed-wing type:
34 over the territory of the Rostov region,
31 over the territory of the Krasnodar region,
12 over the territory of the Voronezh region,
11 over the territory of the Ryazan region,
11 UAVs were shot down over the waters of the Azov and Black Seas.
Five UAVs were shot down over the territory of the Samara region,
Four over the territory of the Penza region,
Two over the territory of the Belgorod region,
One UAV each over the territories of the Republic of Crimea and Lipetsk region
05:00 Artillerymen of the "Center" group of forces destroyed stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Krasnoarmeysk direction.
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[REGNUM] The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry has demanded an apology from the Russian state news agency TASS. Baku was outraged that the agency used the name "Stepanakert" in the headline of the publication. Azerbaijan insists that the city in Nagorno-Karabakh should be called by the official name in the republic - Khankendi. " If such actions continue, in accordance with the principle of reciprocity, Azerbaijan has the right to call various toponyms in Russia by their historical names," the Foreign Ministry threatened. And Baku has moved from threats to actions.
The Azerbaijani publication Minval Politika began using the name Königsberg instead of Kaliningrad, exactly as the Foreign Ministry warned. One of the articles was published under the headline “Bundeswehr General: NATO will destroy Königsberg.”
In addition, in one of the reports, Orenburg is mentioned under the Kazakh name Orynbor (in Turkic-language publications it is often recalled that the “ancient city of the Kazakh steppe ” Orenburg was the capital of the Kazakh ASSR in 1920-25).
And the Volga is named after the Turkic toponym Itil, known since the times of the Khazar Khaganate.
Two circumstances related to the statement of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry regarding Stepanakert-Khankendi are indicative.
Firstly, such a strong reaction was caused by the TASS news that on July 30, the Azerbaijani authorities demolished a monument to the Russian artist of Armenian origin Ivan Aivazovsky in Khankendi. The monument was installed as part of the "Alley of Russian Glory" project in 2023. But from Baku's point of view, the monument is subject to destruction, like everything connected with the liquidated regime of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.
Secondly, the indignation was expressed only in Azerbaijani and English. Characteristically, there is no Russian version on the MFA website. You need to use the translation to read, for example, the phrase: “ The name of the city of Khankendi “Stepanakert” is considered by TASS, the official state news agency of the Russian Federation, as an act of disrespect and an insult to the territorial integrity of our country.”
Translating the text, one can understand that the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry accuses not only TASS, but also the Russian Federation as a whole of disrespecting itself. The statement reads:
“We remind the Russian side that the renaming of the city of Khankendi to Stepanakert in 1923 in the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region, illegally created on the historical lands of Azerbaijan, was a manifestation of disrespect for Azerbaijan, since the city was named after the Bolshevik Stepan Shaumyan, who, together with the Dashnak Armenians, committed mass murders of the Azerbaijani people.”
This accusation from the Azerbaijani authorities is worth examining in more detail, as it is full of the kind of stretches that are so characteristic of adherents of the Turkic ideological myth.
THREE DELIBERATE MISTAKES
Firstly, the accusation of “disrespect for Azerbaijan” is strange, which was allegedly made in 1923, when Khankendi was renamed Stepanakert. At that time, Azerbaijan did not exist as an independent state. There was the Socialist Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan, which was part of the USSR as part of the ZSFSR (Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic).
Secondly, was the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region “illegally” created? In the same year of 1923, by decree of the Central Executive Committee of the Azerbaijan SSR, the Autonomous Region of Nagorno-Karabakh was formed from the part of Karabakh populated predominantly by Armenians “with its center in the town of Khankendi.” The decree was signed by the deputy head of the Central Executive Committee of the Azerbaijan SSR, Mir-Bashir Kasumov. Everything is completely legal.
On September 18, 1923, at a meeting of the Karabakh Regional Party Committee, the issue of "Renaming the City of Khankendi" was discussed. After a short discussion, a decision was made: "In commemoration of the memory of Stepan Shaumyan and 26 (Baku) commissars, the city of Khankendi will be renamed Stepanakert." On the same day, the resolution was approved by the decision of the Azerbaijan Central Executive Committee.
The Azerbaijani leadership was initially in favor of renaming the city in honor of Shaumyan. They only insisted on the name "Stepan-kend" ("kend" from Azerbaijani means "district" or "village"), which was used in official documents for some time. However, in the end, the Armenian side achieved official approval of the version "Stepanakert" ("kert" from Armenian means "yard").
Thirdly, to portray the head of the Baku Council of People's Commissars (Baku Commune) Stepan Shaumyan as an Armenian national chauvinist and an enemy of the Azerbaijani people is clearly a stretch. You can have different attitudes towards the period of the Baku Commune, but this government was not nationalistic. It included Russians, Armenians, Georgians, Jews, and Azerbaijani Turks - commissars Nariman Narimanov and Mir Hasan Vezirov. The office work was conducted in two languages, Russian and Turkic, that is, Azerbaijani.
From the party point of view, the Commune consisted of Bolsheviks and left Socialist Revolutionaries. The Armenian left nationalists - Dashnaks (with whom Shaumyan is now accused of complicity) were not included in the government. The Commune was accused of weakness - which became the reason for its overthrow - but not of organizing ethnic cleansing. Which indeed accompanied the civil war in Transcaucasia.
It is enough to recall the mass murder of Turks in Baku, organized by the Dashnaks in March 1918, and the massacre of Armenians in the same Baku in September of the same 1918 - after Turkish troops and the army of Musavatists - Azerbaijani nationalists - entered the city.
Nagorno-Karabakh was also the scene of bloody interethnic clashes during the civil war. Strictly speaking, the first Karabakh war should not be called the conflict of 1991-1994, but the Armenian-Azerbaijani war of 1918-1920. The mutual extermination was stopped only by the arrival of the Red Army in 1920, after which both Armenia and Azerbaijan were Sovietized. Peace was established here until the end of the 1980s.
IS KHANKENDI ACCURATE?
In 1991, the Azerbaijani government (declaring its continuity with the Musavatist Azerbaijan Democratic Republic) renamed Stepanakert Khankendi. The Baku authorities did not control the city at the time. It was the declared capital of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, with which Azerbaijan was at war.
The NKR controlled the city until the destruction of the republic as a result of the Third Karabakh War on September 19–20, 2023, which was followed by a total exodus of the Armenian population from the region. Until that moment, the city was effectively Stepanakert, as it was called by local residents, 99.7% Armenian (2005 census).
When the Baku authorities de jure renamed Stepanakert to Khankendi in 1991, they assumed that the original, historical name was being returned. Strictly speaking, this is not the case.
Vasily Vereshchagin “View of Shushi”. Nagorno-Karabakh, XIX century.
Settlements on the site of the modern city on the right bank of the Karkar River have been recorded since the end of the 5th century. Medieval Armenian chronicles mention a village called Vararakn in Armenian. The territory was then subject to the state of Caucasian Albania. This early medieval Christian kingdom was mainly inhabited by tribes related to modern Lezgins and other peoples of Southern Dagestan.
From the 10th to the 16th century, the territory around Vararakn was part of the Armenian principality of Khachen, and from the 16th century, it was part of the feudal possession of Varanda, which belonged to the melik (princely) family of Shakhnazars.
Since the 18th century, these lands have been part of the Muslim Karabakh Khanate, a vassal of Persia. According to one version, the village was then named Khankendi - "Khan's village", since the estate of the ruler Ibrahim Khalil Khan was located here. According to another version, the name Khankendi began to be used constantly only in the mid-1840s.
The population was then defined not so much ethnically (the concept of "nationality" appeared only in Europe in the 19th century), but by religion. And both adherents of the Armenian Church and Muslims - Shiites and Sunnis - lived here.
HEADQUARTERS OF RUSSIAN SOLDIERS
Since 1813, according to the Treaty of Gulistan, which ended the Russo-Persian War, the territory became part of the Russian Empire. Neither Azerbaijan nor Armenia existed there by definition, noted Semyon Bagdasarov, an expert on Middle East and Central Asian issues, in a commentary to Regnum News Agency.
As for the ethnic composition, in the mid-19th century the village of Khankendi was rather Russian. At the suggestion of the "chief civil commander in the Caucasus", General Alexei Yermolov, "headquarters" were organized in Transcaucasia - military units with families "planted" on the land. Khankendi was one of the headquarters.
“The village of Khan-Kendi (or rather, a tract) was formed from retired soldiers, as well as members of their families who did not wish to return to their homeland after serving their term of service,” wrote the author of the description of the Elizavetpol province, Joseph Segal.
Semyon Bagdasarov recalls that during its stay in the Russian Empire and then in the Soviet Union, Nagorno-Karabakh gave the common country many outstanding people. In particular, a galaxy of great Russian generals, as well as 27 heroes of the Soviet Union.
“The name of Valerian Grigorievich Madatov alone is worth something, whose portrait, as one of the heroes of the Patriotic War of 1812, hangs in the military gallery of the Winter Palace,” the agency’s source noted.
The interlocutor listed the names of other outstanding commanders from Nagorno-Karabakh, including Marshals Ivan Bagramyan, Amazasp Babajanyan, Sergei Khudyakov and Admiral of the Fleet Ivan Isakov.
In the context of all-Russian history, the nationality of the artist Aivazovsky or the hero of the First World War Huseyn Khan Nakhichevansky, the Baku architect Gasim bey Khadzhibabekov or the conqueror of the North Caucasus General Moisei Argutinsky (Argutyan) did not matter.
The question of “blood” is important only for modern Azerbaijan and Armenia, which are building ethnocracies with an eye on the Dashnaks and Musavatists, respectively.
ETHNIC DIVERSITY
This ethno-nationalist approach appears all the more dangerous given the complexity and intricacy of the ethnic issue in the Caucasus.
"There was no such people as Azerbaijanis at that time, before the revolution. There were Transcaucasian Tatars. This can be seen in the population census. And we should not forget about it," Semyon Bagdasarov believes. Indeed, Transcaucasian Tatars was an established name in the Russian Empire for the Turkic-speaking Shiite population of the current Republic of Azerbaijan.
According to historians, the Turks began to penetrate into Transcaucasia in the 10th–11th centuries. Since the 16th century, groups have settled here that can be identified with the modern titular nation of Azerbaijan. They were called “Transcaucasian Tatars” in the documents of the Russian imperial authorities for simplicity.
According to the "Caucasian Calendar for 1904" (Tiflis, 1903), the ethnic composition of Transcaucasia did not include "Azerbaijanis". Peoples who arrived "to the Caucasus from the south and north" are distinguished, among whom were the Turks, Turkmens, Karapakhs, and also the Aderbeyjan Tatars - named after the Persian province of Aderbeyjan (this is Southern Azerbaijan in modern Iran)
It is believed that the Azerbaijani Tatars, "enjoying the support of the Persian shahs", migrated from the south and established themselves in the south-eastern part of Transcaucasia. Later they reached Southern Dagestan, where they met the Turkic-speaking Kumyks who came from the north. Of course, the state entity of "Azerbaijan" did not exist then.
"ONE STATE - ONE NATION"
But such complexities and subtleties only hinder national construction on the model of Europe (and in the case of Azerbaijan - on the model of the Turkish Republic of Kemal Ataturk ). "National building" implies the principle of "one nation - one language - one state".
For example, the Lezgins, a people who have lived on both sides of the modern Russian-Azerbaijani border since ancient times, do not fit into this process that has been going on since the early 1990s. Therefore, the Lezgin national movement, which was formed in 1989, is suppressed by the Azerbaijani authorities - both under the government of the "People's Front" and under Heydar and Ilham Aliyev.
The Lezgin movement "Sadval", created in Derbent, was officially recognized as terrorist in Azerbaijan; the activists of the movement, Azad Azayev, Afgan Kerimov, and Rakhib Makhsumov, were sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of committing a terrorist attack in Baku in 1994 "with money from the Armenian special services."
Based on the same demands for building a national state, the public movements of the Talysh people, a Persian-speaking people living in the southeast of Azerbaijan, are also suppressed. In 2020, Talysh scholar and journalist Fakhraddin Aboszoda died in Gobustan prison near Baku. He, like a number of other public figures, was accused of attempting to proclaim the Talysh-Mugan Republic in the summer of 1993 - note, an autonomous republic, and not a state separate from Azerbaijan.
For the same reason, the territory of Karabakh, according to the Azerbaijani authorities, must be nationally homogeneous (the Armenian population fled in 2023, fearing ethnic cleansing), and the main city of the region can only have an Azerbaijani name. These are the requirements of the local "national building". But since when did they begin to apply to Russia?
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[Regnum] The strategic missile submarine cruiser Knyaz Pozharsky has arrived at its permanent deployment site in the Northern Fleet — the closed city of Gadzhiyevo in the Murmansk region. This was reported on August 2 by the fleet's press service.
At the pier, the submariners were met by representatives of the command of the Red Banner Submarine Forces of the Northern Fleet, the local administration, as well as the sailors’ relatives and friends.
The cruiser's commander, Captain 2nd Rank Andrei Shleikher, reported that the transition was completed successfully, the equipment was in good working order, and the crew was ready to carry out their missions.
The commander of the Northern Fleet's submarine forces, Vice-Admiral Anatoly Kovalenko, stated that the Knyaz Pozharsky will become part of the group of strategic submarine cruisers.
On July 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin took part in a flag-raising ceremony on the nuclear cruiser Knyaz Pozharsky in Severodvinsk. The head of state recalled that this is already the fifth submarine of the Borey-A project to enter service with the Russian Navy in the last six years.
The strategic nuclear submarine " Prince Pozharsky " is a fourth-generation submarine and the eighth ship of the Project 955 "Borey". The cruisers of this project are capable of carrying 16 solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missiles "Bulava".
Commentary by Russian military journalist is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] Opinion on the liberation of Chasov Yara from immediate participants in the fighting in the city.
To the conversation about the capture of Chasov Yar. Our pirate gang also took part in this crazy regatta.
Now it is possible to talk about it, the event was almost a year ago. How fast time flies! And then, in the hot summer of 2024, everything just started. Brave guys from [Russian] 98th Airborne Division jumped into the "Novy" district, which is located (or was located? - there are only stumps left of the district, thanks to the fighting) east of the Seversky Donets canal.
At that time, the canal was already quite dry and did not cause any particular difficulties in crossing it on foot, but there were problems for the equipment. So at that moment, a classic position happened, when neither side could really do anything with the enemy.
Attempts by the paratroopers to jump over the unfortunate water-shit-sludge barrier
…war is also icky…
on a vehicle ended in nothing. We must pay our respects, the enemy, in the person of the Ukrainian 24th Mechanized Brigade named after King Danyla created an insurmountable wall of fire thanks to his calculations of soulless air.
According to our estimates, at that time, more than 150 (!!!) enemy FPV drones were operating in the area against us. However, we also drank a lot of their blood then.
At that time, in our then still company, there were already very well prepared and motivated groups of drone operators who agreed to an adventurous, essentially, operation.
Their audacity and recklessness went off the scale: a small group of us had to jump into Novy on foot and on quad bikes, leaving our base positions in Bakhmut. The adventure consisted in the fact that the route ran through Berkhovka, Bohdanovka and "Pydorles", over which the enemy's drones were incessantly controlling around the clock.
The amount of burnt equipment on the route was simply unthinkable and I really didn't want to join this pile. Not without complications, but in general the operation was successful: the group was established in full and began to work.
Thanks to the fact that we were right under the nose of the enemy, the result was immediate: I am sure that the enemy did not expect such an impudent attitude of our pilots right into their own belly.
The landing time of our FPV drones was not even minutes, but tens of seconds. Naturally, this had a positive effect on the conduct of reconnaissance: when the Mavik can continuously detect the enemy's positions for half an hour (the priority was precisely the calculations of the Khokhlov drone carriers) - the result will be!
Literally, in a few days of work, we managed to significantly reduce the number of enemy operators of flying filth in the direction. And the discovery and disruption of the plans of the enemy DRG by the forces of our infantry reconnaissance group put a fat point in this adventure. Even after that, we continued to work with drones in the Chasov Yarskyi direction, although the detachment was transferred in its entirety a little further north, beyond Soledar.
PS, by the way, the photo shows one of the houses where we had to work. During the two days that our group was there, 23 155-mm shells flew into it. However, kudos to the Soviet builders: the basement of the house survived, although the house itself lost 2 entrances almost entirely.
Air control and elimination of enemy formations of FPV-drones and quadrocopters of seeders plays a huge role in ensuring the success of offensive actions.
PS. It is remembered that the enemy did not hesitate to throw Haimars and JDAMs at such houses in Chasov Yar.
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[Regnum] Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that peace in Ukraine is possible if both the West and the Kiev regime recognize the impossibility of NATO membership, and the presidents of Russia and the United States conclude a comprehensive agreement on key international issues. He expressed this opinion while speaking in Esztergom at a youth festival.
Orban stressed that the conflict began because of Ukraine's desire to join NATO, which upset the balance of power. In his opinion, only a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump can lead to peace.
Hungary advocates for Ukraine's non-aligned status and a return to discussing the causes of the conflict. Orban said the country will not participate in the conflict and does not want to be responsible for people's lives.
"We need to understand that peace will come when the Americans, the Europeans and the Ukrainians recognize the fact that the Russians will never allow NATO to be in Ukraine on Russia's western border," Orban emphasized.
He added that the European Union, with the exception of Hungary and possibly Slovakia, is in a state of war with Russia.
"This is not an open war, but a war with the hands of others. I do not want and will not take responsibility for the death of even one young man in Ukraine," the Prime Minister concluded.
Orban previously stated that the threat of a third world war is constantly growing, although it is not yet possible to clearly predict whether a conflict of such a scale will begin.
The Hungarian Prime Minister also said that with the coming to power of US President Donald Trump, the likelihood of a new world war has decreased, but the threat of its outbreak remains.
[KhaamaPress] India’s state refineries halted Russian oil purchases as U.S. tariff threats and shrinking discounts pressured Moscow, marking a major shift in global energy trade dynamics.
As trade negotiations between New Delhi and Washington intensify, Rooters reported Thursday that India’s state-run refineries have halted purchases of Russian oil over the past week.
Sources said Russia has cut discounts on its oil, while U.S. President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... has warned India and other nations against buying crude from Moscow.
India, the world’s third-largest oil importer, is also the biggest buyer of seaborne Russian crude — a lifeline for Moscow’s revenue in the fourth year of its war in Ukraine.
Rooters reported that all four state-owned Indian refineries refrained from placing new orders for Russian oil last week, reflecting growing caution over pricing and sanctions pressure.
Trump recently warned oil buyers they could face 100 percent tariffs if Moscow fails to make peace with Ukraine, while Russia continues heavy air and dronezaps.
Sources added that shrinking discounts — at their lowest since Western sanctions began in 2022 — have made Russian oil less attractive, while looming EU sanctions threaten refinery investments.
India, on the verge of a landmark trade deal with the world’s largest economy, appears ready to sacrifice cheaper Russian crude to safeguard broader economic and diplomatic interests.
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dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
