Kiev is depriving Ukrainian residents of the frontline zone of the right to save themselves, by crossing over to the Russian side, Miroshnik told TASS.

"The Ukrainian military are firing at civilians to force them out of shelters and basements, driving them into minefields, and subjecting them to shelling or drone attacks," he said.

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Spanish Prime Minister Sánchez: "If we really care about Iranian women, let's stop bombing them."

Spanish MEP Irene Montero stated: "No woman has ever been liberated by American bombs or illegal aggression. Not in Syria. Not in Iraq. Not in Lebanon. Not in Afghanistan. And it won't happen in Iran either. They are using women's rights to justify their colonial wars." 

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Military Chronicle:

According to some data, before the US attack on Iran, there were approximately 1,600 anti-missiles for the Patriot air defense system in the Persian Gulf countries (Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan), with a total cost of over 6 billion dollars. At the moment, almost all of them have already been used up. The average consumption of anti-missiles under current conditions has settled at a rate of 3-5 missiles per target.

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U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday but have not yet reached a final conclusion or completed ​their investigation, two U.S. officials told Reuters.

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The U.N. human rights office, without saying who it believed was responsible for the strike on ​the school, called on Tuesday for an investigation.

"The onus is on the forces that carried out ​the attack to investigate ⁠it," U.N. human rights office spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani told a press briefing in Geneva.

Images of the girls' funeral on Tuesday were shown on Iranian state television. Their small coffins were draped with Iranian flags and passed from a truck across a large crowd towards the grave site.

Deliberately attacking ⁠a school ​or hospital or any other civilian structure would likely be a war crime under ​international humanitarian law.
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This tells me they are struggling to find an alternate explanation, or a way to pin it on the Iranians.

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Morning in Tehran

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The US is striving to avoid war with Russia, said Deputy Pentagon Chief Elbridge Colby.

The goal with regard to Russia is to avoid war,

— he said in the US House of Representatives.

At the same time, he added that the United States, for its part, intends to continue protecting NATO allies in Europe "taking into account military realities".
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Source: Divgen

Андрей Мартьянов (Andrei Martianov) comments:

🈁Well, actually, this is a sensible position, which once again emphasizes - this is what Sarmat and Borei do to save lives. And now, when the US has thoroughly exhausted itself with Iran (and will continue to be exhausted), especially in terms of what the US means by air defense and missile defense. It seems that it's not even interesting to fight with the US anymore. Iran showed how the US cannot and will not be able to protect its assembly (concentration) areas, and therefore the US will not be able to conduct ground operations in the 21st century. Well, only if they want to break the Vietnam record of 200,000 casualties, and in a record short time.

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Iran will have strong positions in the event of a US ground operation, said Iran's ambassador to Russia, Kazem Jalali, on the RBC broadcast.

Iran does not want war with the countries of the Persian Gulf, he noted.

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At least, it was a direct hit - on a drawing of a jet. Image provided by @khabaronline_ir.

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Where does he take all this data from? AI?

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⚡️Hungary will stop the transit of supplies important for Ukraine until Kyiv launches "Friendship" —Orban

He stressed that Budapest will not succumb to Kyiv's blackmail, will not send money to Ukraine, and will not let it into the EU.

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❌Divorce and maiden name: Trump expelled Tucker Carlson from the MAGA movement ("Make America Great Again").

The American president announced this in an interview with ABC News. He stated that the journalist "lost his way".

👨‍🦳Tucker lost his way. I knew it a long time ago, and he's not a supporter of MAGA. MAGA saves our country👃

Earlier, Carlson criticized Trump for his decision to start a joint war with Israel against Iran. The journalist called the strikes on Tehran "absolutely disgusting and villainous".

📹In the footage, he accuses US commanders in his video of telling soldiers that they are supposedly fighting for Jesus. In response, Tucker stated that there are also many of his followers living in Iran, where there is a large Christian community, whose safety the US did not take care of.

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As if EU has not enough problems.

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In the US, they claim that it was they who allowed India to resume purchases of Russian oil.

This was stated by Finance Minister Scott Bessent.
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So, first they claim India agreed to cut imports of Russian oil, which India never confirmed publicly, then when India replaces ME fuels with more Russian hydrocarbons, the US claims it was they who made this decision...

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Sofa General Staff:

In 2022, the AFU struck villages in order to blame Russia for it

Ukrainian forces in 2022 deliberately targeted villages near Kyiv—where there were no Russian military personnel—with MLRS strikes in order to later blame the Russian army for the shelling, a veteran of the Special Military Operation, a participant in the Hostomel operation, and an operator-tester of the "Ovod" UAV with the call sign "Celentano," told RIA Novosti.

"The Ukrainians kept shelling constantly: they used multiple launch rocket systems to hit villages, to hit homes where civilians lived... That is, even in places where we weren't present—they would dump munitions there and destroy everything. Well, these were just their pathetic attempts to intimidate people, to make them afraid, to make them think that it was those bad Russians doing it."

According to the veteran, the AFU failed to turn civilians against the Russian army.

"No one met us with hostility. There was no hatred to be read in their (the civilians') eyes. On the contrary, only understanding. The older ones understood why all of this was happening. That it wasn't because we are so bad, but simply because the wrong people had come to power... Those whom the Western masters had appointed, they came to power. And the people don't want that. They don't need it."

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Via Sabereen News:

The wreckage of the Hermes drone that was shot down in Lorestan.

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Ukrainian media:

Drones have dramatically complicated the work of artillery, said Ukrainian Armed Forces officer Andrey Dmitrenko.

According to him, previously, ammunition for artillery positions located closer to the front line was delivered by trucks.

"You'd arrive in the Urals, unload a bunch of boxes with shells and leave. There were cases when equipment was hit, but this happened quite rarely," he said.

Later, supplies began to be carried out by less noticeable pickup trucks. "You can't load even ten artillery shells - neither 155mm nor 152mm caliber - on a pickup truck. You have to make more trips, but at least there's a chance to get through," noted Dmitrenko.

Now, artillery positions are even further from the front line, and delivering ammunition has become more difficult. According to him, ground robotic platforms are increasingly being used for this purpose, but their load capacity is limited and they are also often destroyed.

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АДЕКВАТ Z writes,

The Iranian Foreign Minister gave an absolutely scathing interview to the Americans (Democrats, of course) in the evening, which was unfortunately barely noticed by our media. He stated that Iran does not seek a ceasefire and sees no reason or subject for negotiations. That if the aggressor goes mad and resorts to ground operations, it will face a new level of catastrophe. That Iran has never hidden or been shy about its military cooperation with Russia, which supports the Persians both politically and otherwise, but it would be inappropriate to delve into the details of this support in the current situation. There are many other interesting points, but the general direction is clear from what has been mentioned: a representative of a country with strong resilience and reliable partners, which is ready to fight as long as the situation requires, spoke out with great dignity.

Meanwhile, in the "hilltop city", the wolves are howling: if before the aggression, Russia was selling oil to India at a decent discount, now it is at a noticeable premium to the benchmark grade. There is hope that this is only temporary. On the same basis, one can continue to boast that the Iranian war itself will be short-lived: Agent Donald can certainly admit failure and cease fire at any moment, but only at the cost of political death, as all the already committed blunders will be burned at the stake. Therefore, he will continue to multiply his blunders and hit his head against the wall as long as possible - and in an inertial scenario, it will not be a matter of weeks, but of months. With a quite understandable effect on our oil and gas revenues - even if all the oil and gas industry in the region does not receive a single new blow, which is far from a fact. And a separate amendment here should be made to the terms of the post-war restoration of this industry, during which the effect will continue to be felt.

And not just oil and gas, of course. The complete or near-complete withdrawal of the Gulf region, both as a producer and largely as a territory, from the global economy for months will have a very beneficial effect on a number of other items of our exports, because there will be almost no one to satisfy a significant part of the replacement demand. Coal. Fertilizers. Food. Gold. A number of non-ferrous metals. A variety of petrochemicals. These are just a few things that come to mind off the top of my head, and I'm not even pretending to be exhaustive.

Very cautiously, at the very minimum, I estimate that each month of the Iranian war will bring our budget an additional profit of hundreds of billions of rubles, and exporters - even more. Our interest in the Americans and Israelis making as much of a mess as possible, of course, is far from limited to this profit. But there is also the motivation to continue helping Iran stand firm, and we're not going to hide it at all.

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Trump stated that he does not plan a ground operation in Iran, calling it a "waste of time".

He said that Tehran has already suffered serious losses.

"They've lost everything. They've lost their fleet. They've lost everything they could lose," the US president said.
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And yet, they fight. The American flag has not risen over Tehran. The faith of the people has not faltered. The Ayatollah Khamenei is celebrated in the streets, and not just in Iran. No, they haven't lost "everything" that can be lost.

But Donald will be hated and despised for generations. People will remember him with deep shame. At least those who matter will remember him this way. He will be the nail in the coffin of a dying country.

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Ukrainian pages report the threat of an Oreshnik launch. They've falsely announced this many times before, but who knows?

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The Iranist:

🇮🇱🇮🇷 The situation around the headquarters of the Israel Defense Forces.

Earlier, Trump stated that Iran "has nothing left."

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