🇺🇦 ‘We will continue’ - Budanov extended Zelensky’s 40-day terrorist operation.

‘Do not cling to all these arguments: 40 days, 100 days, 15 days. The main thing is the result. It is not so important how to enter this process. It is much more important how we will exit it. To exit it, we must be strong.’

Looks like their 40 day scheme was an epic failure

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Discussions continue on the balance between drones and classic weapons. UAVs have fundamentally changed warfare, but heavy arms remain essential for full-scale combat.

Future assault success may rely on massed swarm drones with machine vision and auto-targeting. This distributed strike concept was partially tested in the Southern direction, where Ukrainian Hornet drones disrupted logistics. They created small-radius no-go zones by patrolling key junctions autonomously, complicating uncamouflaged vehicle movement.

A unified drone ecosystem is needed: long-range operational drones isolate logistics, while tactical UAVs handle counter-drone and frontline clearing as the first wave. The AI drone must be autonomous, advanced, and cheap to sustain the war economy.

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🇺🇸🇺🇦 Ukraine will definitely not receive a license to produce Patriot interceptors before winter, says US Permanent Representative to NATO

▪️ Earlier, Trump completely ruled out the transfer of production technologies, citing that they "could be used against the US."

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🇮🇷 Tanker attacked again in the Strait of Hormuz

A cargo vessel located 20 nautical miles northeast of Al Khasab, Oman, was struck, according to the British Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO).

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🇺🇦 Ukraine

Ukrainian petrol stations may run out of fuel by August, according to Ukrainian fuel expert Dmitry Leushkin. Shortages are already being felt at filling stations, with some having already imposed limits.

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🇩🇰 Denmark - to spite Russia and Trump - has increased military service from 4 to 11 months. Reuters reports the new rules will affect 1,600 recruits.

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🇷🇺 SITUATION REPORT - 3 AUGUST

Kherson Direction: Positional battles continue with massive drone use. Russian artillery destroys enemy positions on Karantinny Island. A UAV crew eliminated an enemy shelter in Ponyatovka.

Zaporozhye Direction: An enemy DRG was destroyed. The enemy acknowledges Vostok Group's successes on the Gulyaypole sector.

Kharkov Region/DNR: Russian Aerospace Forces struck Ukrainian UAV command posts. Foreign mercenaries were eliminated in Kharkov Region.

Slavyansk: Airstrike hit the road bridge over the Kazenny Torets River. Local administration already laid new asphalt ahead of Russian advance.

Other: Terror attack prevented at Pyatigorsk prosecutor's office. Zelensky proposes air truce and conflict freeze. Russian forces shot down a Ukrainian drone and studied its flight videos. In Gelendzhik, 6 dead (3 children), 47 injured.

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🪂 Zaporozhye direction

During aerial reconnaissance, a sabotage group of 3 enemy servicemen was detected attempting to infiltrate and entrench near our positions. The group tried to hide in a destroyed house for cover, but a Russian FPV drone operator struck the location, after which the entire group attempted to shelter in an adjacent building, where they were also hit by our drone fire. As a result, the entire enemy group was eliminated.

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European spending on support for Kiev has increased 1.5 times over the past year or so, according to Izvestia calculations based on data from Eurostat and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.

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🇺🇦 Ukraine will never join NATO, Zaluzhny

Former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and current Ambassador to London, Valery Zaluzhny, stated that Ukraine will never join NATO. He noted that for about 12 years he personally worked on adopting NATO standards and heard promises of imminent membership, but now believes it will not happen.

Zaluzhny criticized NATO's capabilities, saying the alliance will likely remain in its current format and that it will take another 12 years for Ukraine to reach standards that would bring it to even half the level of the Russian Federation.

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In the Moscow region today, five people were killed by drones launched by Ukrainian forces.

The main attack was in the Chekhov district, where there was significant damage in residential areas and industrial zones.

This is the new reality after five years of war.

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