Chairman of the Ukrainian delegation to the NATO PA, Yehor Cherniev:

My friends from the Bundestag have just informed me that the key parliamentary factions have reached a consensus on the transfer of long-range Taurus missiles to Ukraine.

Around 30,000 people took to the squares in the capital Niamey in support of the National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland, which took over the government in Niger.

Some demonstrators marched against colonialism with Turkish flags.

Ukrainian artillery destroys Russian 2S19 Msta-S 152mm Self-Propelled Howitzer along with a truck while loading ammunition.

Massive explosion reported in one of the silos of the Turkish Grain Board (TMO) at the port in Türkiye’s Kocaeli/Derince.

According to initial reports, 4 people were injured.

Kocaeli Governor Seddar Yavuz:

We assess that there was an explosion caused by wheat dust compaction during the transfer of wheat from ships.

10 people were injured, 2 of them seriously. No one is under the rubble.

Putin, during a meeting with the head of Rostec, instructed to increase the production of KUB-BLA and Lancet kamikaze UAVs.

Putin noted that these UAVs proved to be very effective

Reuters:

North Korean hackers hacked the leading Russian manufacturer of ballistic, cruise and hypersonic missiles; NPO Mashinostroyeniya.

Hackers had access to the corporation's networks from late 2021 to May 2022, when the breach was discovered.

Exactly what data they received is not known.

But in the months since, Pyongyang has announced a number of advances in its ballistic missile program.

China’s People's Liberation Army (PLA) is testing AR glasses (virtual reality glasses) for the ground forces.

Zelensky:

Russia will be left without ships until the end of the war if it continues to attack Ukrainian ports.

Ukrainian defence industry will expand the production of 155mm artillery shells of the NATO standard by the end of 2023.

In July 2023, Ukraine produced more than twice as much mortar and artillery ammunition than in the whole of 2022.

Ukrainian Army’s 47th Brigade shot downed Russian Ka-52 helicopter with MANPADS in Robotyne, Zaporizhia region.

The information has been confirmed by Russian military sources as well.

The U.S. officially approved the transfer of the first batch of M1A1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine today.

The tanks will arrive in Ukraine at the beginning of autumn.

The total number will be 31 units.

Training of Ukrainian forces in the UK with Challenger 2 tanks.

Ukrainian soldiers are trained in battle tactics in cities with the support of Challenger 2.

US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland visited Niger, where she held " extremely frank and at times quite difficult" talks with the leaders of the rebels who seized power in the country.

Nuland noted that Niger "risks losing hundreds of millions of dollars of military and economic assistance."

Leaders in Niger refused to allow Nuland to meet with both Bazoum, the country's ex-president, and the current leader, General Abdourahmane Tiani.

94 French senators sent an open letter to President Macron about the failure of cooperation with Africa.

94 senators asked themselves the question:

“After French Africa, are we doomed to destroy France in Africa?”

From the letter: "Today Niger, yesterday Mali, the CAR, Burkina Faso - rejected France, French forces, French enterprises.

Ivory Coast, Senegal, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco among those who have become problematic for Paris.

After the failure of the French military intervention in 2014, the Wagner group came to Africa - to those countries whose leaders unite the population of their countries against the former colonial power.

Yesterday's French Africa is being replaced by military Russian Africa, economic Chinese Africa, as well as diplomatic American Africa... Africa, a friendly continent, no longer understands France and increasingly disputes its role and its presence."

India bans the use of Chinese spare parts in military UAVs.

India is concerned that the special services of China can use intelligence from the parts that provide the UAV with communications, cameras, radio transmissions and operational software.

Medvedev:

The entire NATO system is practically openly fighting against the Russian Federation, but Russia has enough forces to solve all the tasks of a special military operation.

As in August 2008, our enemies will be crushed and Russia will achieve peace on its own terms.