🇹🇷 Turkey to Lead Naval Security Guarantees for Ukraine

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan stated that Ankara has agreed to lead the naval component of future security guarantees for Ukraine, following discussions with partners on a post-conflict security architecture.

Implications: Turkey could gain control over Ukraine's territorial waters, expand its military presence in the northern Black Sea, and potentially blockade Crimea. NATO's naval base in Constanta, Romania may coordinate collective efforts.

Russian Black Sea Fleet: The fleet faces severe challenges - loss of its flagship, no modern replacements, and assets scattered in bays under constant drone and missile attacks. This marks one of the fleet's weakest points in Russian history.

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🇺🇸 AP: Ukraine buries its unidentified soldiers. Identification will take years

The Associated Press briefly reports on the consequences of the Kursk operation and other defeats of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

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🇬🇧 Starmer continues to dream of defeating Russia with Ukrainian hands.

‘We are going to do everything necessary to ensure Ukraine has the best possible opportunity to end the war with its victory. A change of prime minister does not mean my resolve will change. I will continue to fight for a lasting and just peace for Ukraine.’

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🪂 Zaporozhye direction

Near Primorskoe, the enemy sent two assault groups of two men each toward our positions. As a result of successful night work, the enemy was destroyed by artillery and mortar crews.

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🇮🇷 Iran attacked the Crown Plaza hotel in Duqm, Oman

According to Iranian sources, American military personnel were stationed there, both those evacuated from military bases and those in Oman on "special" missions. Whether they were linked to Operation "Epic Fury" is unknown, but the US Navy's logistics hub is located in the port of Duqm. A Military Chronicle subscriber previously recorded the US Navy destroyer Arleigh Burke-class DDG-121 Frank Petersen Jr. and the supply ship USNS Carl Brashear (T-AKE-7) there. It is also noteworthy that tracking activity at the hotel was not particularly difficult, as the complex is essentially a single building on the Arabian Sea coast. For many kilometers along the coastline from the hotel, aside from a couple of other hotels, there is virtually nothing.

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🇷🇺 IOC will not change its position on Russian athletes and reinstatement of the Russian Olympic Committee

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) stated it will not alter its stance after nine European countries demanded the IOC be stripped of financing. The countries are Estonia, Netherlands, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Sweden, Romania, Finland, and Denmark, with Estonia initiating the appeal. They called for excluding the IOC and federations that allow Russians and Belarusians to compete from EU funding programs.

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🇺🇸 Senator Shaheen accuses Trump

Senator Shaheen accuses Trump of amassing billions while Americans struggle to make ends meet. 'The President has raked in billions since stepping into the Oval Office - a staggering haul, symbolic of dictators like Vladimir Putin. While you struggle to afford groceries, the President is focused on growing his fortune even more.'

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🇲🇪 Montenegro

Montenegro has not yet made an official decision on a visa regime with Russia. There are also no exact timelines on this issue, Vice-Speaker of the country's parliament Nikolla Kamaj told Izvestia.

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🇧🇪 Euroclear files lawsuit against Russian Central Bank in Belgium

Euroclear has filed a lawsuit in Belgium against the Central Bank of Russia to prevent the recovery of 18.2 trillion rubles for the blocking of Russian assets, Echo reports.

The court has been considering Euroclear's motion to suspend enforcement of the Central Bank's claim for 6 hours, a source close to the proceedings told TASS.

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📰 In November 1993, George Soros published an article titled "Towards a New World Order: The Future of NATO," in which he foresaw our current situation:

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Iran has declared Donald Trump's properties in the UAE and Saudi Arabia as legitimate targets for strikes, according to a statement from the IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps).

These include: Trump International Hotel & Tower (Dubai), Trump Plaza (Jeddah), and Trump Tower (Riyadh).

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇧🇭/🇸🇦 BREAKING: Iran targeted the King Fahd Bridge connecting Bahrain and Saudi Arabia

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🇺🇦 Kiev

Residents of Kiev are actively sharing footage of combat operations by the Russian Armed Forces targeting the Ukrainian capital on the night of July 16. It is clearly visible that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have missiles for their air defense systems and are actively expending them to repel the strikes. Whether this is related to previous strikes being allowed through to conserve ammunition remains unclear. However, the increased expenditure of missiles did not help, and targets in Kiev were hit.

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🇷🇺 Russian Armed Forces struck a Ukrainian UAV control point with an X-39 LMUR missile and a stronghold with a FAB-500 bomb, the Russian Defence Ministry reported.

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🇷🇺 Dnepropetrovsk Region

Russian forces struck two railway locomotives used to deliver military cargo for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Dnepropetrovsk region, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense.

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🇮🇶 Iraq

An air defense system, claimed to be a Patriot, was destroyed at Erbil Airport in northern Iraq. Local sources report the complex was hit in an attack by Iranian UAVs.

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