Like yesterday's raid on Sevastopol, the today's attack on the Crimean bridge — both events are directly related to the "grain deal", which ends today.

The use of unmanned boats on Russian strategic facilities is a way of putting pressure on the leadership of the Russian Federation to extend the agreement. By this, they seem to demonstrate what they will do if Russia withdraws from the "Grain Deal".

And Ukraine is not afraid of a retaliatory strike. This was facilitated by regular threats about colored lines without real action.

And now such a situation has arisen that if the deal is extended once again, it turns out that the West forced the Russian Federation to do it by force. And if they don’t extend it and don’t respond in the same way as they respond to a terrorist attack, then there will be more sabotage.

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The railway track of the Crimean bridge was not damaged, Crimea is connected with mainland Russia by a land corridor in the north, the peninsula is not isolated — Crimean authorities

The Simferopol-Moscow train departed from the Kerch station across the Crimean bridge, the carrier reports.

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On July 17, the term of the Grain Deal ends. Russia announced its withdrawal from it, because the West does not do its part and does not allow grain and mineral fertilizers from Russia to enter the world market. Blocks Russian banks, ports, ships.

Russia will therefore stop its participation.

But the plan of Washington and Zelensky is this — let Russia withdraw from the Grain Deal but Ukraine will continue carry on. And Russia will not dare to strike either at granaries, or at ports, or at ships. And then everyone should see the weakness and cowardice of Russia. And everyone should see that the interests and demands of Russia can and should be neglected.

And if Russia dares to use force against the Ukrainian transit of grain, then we will accuse it of piracy and quarrel with the countries of the Global South and connect these countries to the sanctions war against Russia and strangle Russia.

Such is the disposition. What will Russia do?

Translated from Markov's logic
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Footage of the damaged bridge span from the train car.

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Commander of Wagner PMC Anton Elizarov (Lotus) on the slowdown in the counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine:

▪️Firstly, the main question is that they need to understand why the Wagner PMC was transferred to Belarus, whether the Wagner PMC will attack Kiev from Belarus or the Wagner PMC will launch an attack on Sumy, or maybe the Wagner PMC will go to Warsaw. In a word, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine needs to understand the goals and objectives of the Wagner PMC, whose units are now located in the underbelly of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In the meantime, they are looking for an answer to this question, they were forced to remove part of the combat-ready units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine intended for the offensive from other sectors of the front and close the border with Belarus.
▪️Secondly, in view of the transfer of combat-ready units to the border with Belarus, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine needs to form new units to continue offensive operations in various sectors of the front. This takes time, so the Armed Forces of Ukraine solve the problem of creating gray zones on the line of contact and thereby create conditions for the subsequent transition to the offensive.
▪️Thirdly, in some sectors of the front, where units of the Russian Defense Ministry are successful, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are forced to stabilize the front. Without a stable front, the success of the counteroffensive can be forgotten. This was shown by Artemovsk, where units of the PMC "Wagner" pulled over all the reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as the Ukrainian command tried to stabilize the front and localize the breakthrough area in order to be able, in turn, to go on the offensive. These are the rules of war: for a counteroffensive, conditions must be created on a separate sector of the front, and for a large-scale offensive, the entire front must be stabilized.

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The Russian Embassy in Belarus on the morning of July 17 handed over to the Ukrainian side a note outlining Moscow's position on the grain deal, Russian Ambassador to Minsk Boris Gryzlov said.

In the note sent to Kiev, Moscow objects to the extension of the grain deal, its implementation should be terminated from July 18, he noted.

Gryzlov stressed that the termination of the grain deal is entirely on the conscience of the West.

Stopping the grain deal will have a positive impact on the Russian grain market, President of the Russian Grain Union Arkady Zlochevsky told us.

"The termination of the grain deal is not critical for Russia, it only harmed and did not bring anything good. The Russian grain market will receive only a positive from stopping the grain transaction, there will be no negative," Zlochevsky said.

He also noted that it is not necessary to extend the grain deal, since it had a negative impact on Russian supplies from the very beginning. "Due to the implementation of this transaction, we are trading today at a discount that ranges between $10-$20, historically reaching up to $70. This is money that we are losing, which our grain supplies are losing," Zlochevsky explained.

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🚢Russia withdraws guarantees for the safety of navigation, curtails the maritime humanitarian corridor in the north-western waters of the Black Sea — the Russian Foreign Ministry.

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This is supposed to be a fallen Ukrainian soldier, born on August 7th, 2006. You do the math as to how old he would be now.

I do hope it's not true and that this boy died a different death because otherwise, it would mean that they literally send children to battle against a professional army.

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“Ukraine is empty. Many do not return, it is a disaster.” The Italian Corriere della Sera published an article about the demographic devastation of Ukraine. The authors believe that the population has fallen to 28-31 million.
“There are no children, middle-class women with a good education have left. And most importantly, more than half of them are not going to return to Ukraine.
The policy of European hospitality at first seemed to us a miracle of generosity, and now it turns out to be a curse, ”the newspaper quotes a Ukrainian demographer.
Here is another quote. Says the owner of an IT company: “Most of my employees quickly found work in Poland and France. Our factories are closed, there is no market. None of them will return."
And here is the story of a 40-year-old Ukrainian officer, who is now in positions near Bakhmut: “My wife and two children, 5 and 7 years old, left for Germany in the first days of the war. Since then, we've talked less and less. And now I discovered that she had already found a new companion there".

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Russians do not abandon their own! Dramatic footage from near Shcherbakov, Orekhovskoe direction

The first "beha" (infantry fighting vehicle) takes two seriously wounded from the positions, but loses one caterpillar track. In order not to fall under the fire of enemy artillery, the driver moves the machine on rollers across an open field. (It can not be properly directed.) Shells are exploding all around.

— I have shot all ammo, I can't support you with anything, — the voice of the artilleryman is heard behind the scenes. And these are perhaps the most poignant words of the radio exchange.

Another “beha” flies up to rescue, but, having got under artillery fire, leaves for the other end of the field. Then it returns, the vehicles meet in the center of the field and immediately come under massive fire. To the UAV operator watching this drama, it even seems that it is all over...

But suddenly observers see movement. Ignoring close explosions, the heroes move the wounded.

“Hurry, guys, why is it taking so long... It's been two minutes already... Even three, — the gunner is worried behind the scenes.

He has his own calculation of time — for reloading, adjusting, introducing amendments ... He counts for the enemy. And at this moment, "beha" gives gas. Behind her is a hit from a mortar.

“Fuh, fuck, gone,” they exhale behind the scenes. — Well done boys!

Heroes of the 429th regiment of the 19th division are the best!

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Strike from heaven: Lightning strikes two transformers in Lviv, power outages begin

The mayor of the city Andrey Sadovoy informed about the lightning strike and possible consequences.
Local publications also write about the lack of electricity in certain microdistricts.

Translated from RVvoenkor

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We always believed that God protects Russia.
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"We are in some kind of impasse": Chief of Staff of the US Defense Intelligence Agency John Kirchhofer spoke about Western arms supplies to Ukraine

"We see that Ukraine is making more and more progress during the counteroffensive this summer, but we have not seen anything that would really help it break through, for example, into Crimea," Kirchhofer said.

Dead end! He sees that the Ukrainians are winning..they're coming..But they stand still. So they also decrease in number.
And yes! Precisely! Neither Himars nor cluster bombs will help them.

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Over the past three days, Ukrainian formations have been attempting to attack objects on the territory of the Crimean peninsula.

Tonight, the enemy used 28 drones to strike targets in the east of the republic. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, air defense systems intercepted 17 drones, and another 11 were suppressed by electronic warfare equipment.

As a result of the successful reflection of the raid, there were no casualties and no damage.

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