Nigeria cuts electricity to Niger after coup.

Multiple Mali sources tell France 24 that General Salifou Mody, the deputy leader of the junta that seized power in a coup in Niger last week, is in Mali to request a rapid deployment of Russian Wagner forces to help their coup regime in Niger.

Schoolchildren will be taught a new discipline called "Defense of Ukraine"

It will include knowledge of first aid, mine safety, UAV control and terrain orientation.

The pilot of the project is planned to be launched in September in schools of various regions in Ukraine.

Turns out that the soldier in this photo was Polish & it was faked by Wagner sources with their patch & Russian flag.

Politico:

The U.S. government is making preparations to potentially evacuate most U.S. embassy personnel from Niger.

#BREAKING Ukraine's Zelenskiy says he hopes peace summit can be held this autumn.

Russian MoD:

Movement in the Kerch Strait has been limited for ships and aircraft.

Zelensky:

Ukrainian pilots will start training on F-16s this month.

Military chiefs from ECOWAS are meeting at the Defence Headquarters in Nigeria's capital Abuja following coup in Niger.

Footage of Iranian IRGC Navy exercises on the defense of the island of Abu Musa and other islands located at the entrance to the Persian Gulf from the Strait of Hormuz.

These Iranian islands (claimed by the UAE) are of great strategic importance, being one of the cornerstones of Iran's defensive strategy in the region.

Detachments of small missile boats are based on these small islands, various missile systems, cannon and rocket artillery are located there, airfields, etc. are built.

NYT:

Ukrainian military set aside US tactics during counteroffensive.

The bottom line is that the American way of waging war differs from the Russian one by decentralizing the management of various units in battle.

But on the battlefield, Ukrainian Army faced significant mining and massive shelling.

Ukrainian commanders changed their tactics: They began to wear down the enemy's forces with artillery and rockets.

Russian Su-34, after dropping unguided bombs, passes at low altitude over the positions of Ukrainian soldiers.

This is how the lack of mass guided weapons turns a fighter jet into literally a suicide machine.

Only Ukrainian’s lack of anti-aircraft weapons does not make this passage the last.

Ukrainian Army’s French-made 155mm CAESAR self-propelled howitzer reportedly firing US-made 155mm M864 cluster munition.

155mm M864 artillery shells with extended range (29km), each carrying 72 dual-purpose submunitions.

Ukrainian volunteers have developed people's cruise missile: Trembita

It was developed in two versions: a regular rocket and a decoy rocket.

The fake target will be very cheap, which will make it extremely unprofitable to destroy it & will deplete enemy air defenses.

Trembita will have a thermobaric warhead & combined HE fragmentation warhead weighing 20 kg.

Wreckage of Russian Shahed-136 (Geran) kamikaze UAV used in Izmail on the Danube River in Odesa.

The UAV has a tail number of “Y089” which indicates the ongoing localization of the production of Shahed-136s.

Russification of Iran’s Shaheds continues.