At the Army Forum 2023, at the main expert round table, the main speaker is Sergey Karaganov, the author of the concept of the need to change the strategy for the use of tactical nuclear weapons.

Previously, he said that Russia should abandon the principle of no first use of nuclear weapons. And be ready to deliver a nuclear strike on Rzeszow on the territory of Poland, on that huge NATO military base, which is used as the main channel for NATO complicity in the war on the side of Ukraine.
And it was he who was the main speaker after the opening speech of Deputy Defense Minister Tsalikov.

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Russia risks war with NATO in Black Sea, former top commander in Europe warns
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Kyiv’s allies could be forced to intervene after the collapse of the U.N. grain deal, Admiral James Stavridis says.
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"If Russia starts seizing vessels or seeks to scare them away, I think it likely NATO will respond by supporting a humanitarian corridor for shipping," Stavridis said. The alliance could protect vessels going to and from the Ukrainian port of Odesa "with NATO combat aircraft overhead and possibly NATO warships in escort."

Tensions in the Black Sea have escalated dramatically since Russia unilaterally withdrew from a U.N. grain deal in July and warned that ships traveling to Ukrainian ports could be seen as military targets. In response, Ukraine showed its willingness to target Russian energy exports with a maritime drone attack on a tanker, and declared the waters around Russia's Black Sea ports to be a "war risk area" from August 23.

In response to the Russian withdrawal from the grain deal, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg accused Russia of "dangerous and escalatory actions in the Black Sea," partly also in reference to Russia's bombardment of Ukrainian ports. NATO added it was "stepping up surveillance and reconnaissance in the Black Sea region, including with maritime patrol aircraft and drones."
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The war in Ukraine was provoked by the United States: the American politician blurted out too much

Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson made a number of unequivocal statements during her speech on one of the famous American shows.

“I am certainly not naive about how it happened. I understand that the US was "teasing the bear". I know about the deployment of Aegis missiles in Poland. I am not naive about how the American war machine works, the military profits from it ... "

The interviewer noted that the United States could force Kiev to a peace agreement tomorrow, it is enough to take away the money that is given in the form of salaries to the Ukrainian government, and it will collapse.

For those who live in territories still controlled by the Kiev-Nazi clique, it is very useful to listen. Maybe someone will realize that there is no "independence" for a long time, and "Ukraine" as a state too. There is a US PMC fighting in the interests of the United States, whose leadership is on the payroll of the United States. And those who die in the trenches for the sake of this are just idiots

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Military expert, author of the @panzwaffle channel

Lend-lease ends. Will it be extended?

By now, most experts both in Russia and abroad agree that the summer campaign of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is on the verge of collapse. Strategic goals have not been achieved, a significant part of the offensive potential has been wasted, the losses of hardly prepared formations are significant even according to very conservative estimates.

Despite this, the APU continues to attempt to advance.

Why?

Because Kiev has a clear deadline. The "Lend-Lease Law in Defense of Democracy in Ukraine" adopted on May 9, 2022 is not indefinite, it was adopted for the fiscal year 2022/23, and the fiscal year in the United States expires on September 30.

And what's next?

Then the law should be extended. However, given the obvious failures of the APU at the front, it will be difficult to do this.

Recall that amendments to the US military budget and issues of military assistance to Ukraine will be discussed by US senators and congressmen at the conference. And it was to these very senators and congressmen that the chief curator of the Ukrainian military , General Christopher Cavoli , stated: "Ukraine has received everything necessary for the success of the offensive, and we are confident in their success."

It is not a fact that the law will not be extended — the issue of preserving aid for the US leadership is conceptual, but the volume of aid can be seriously reduced. Plus, political debates can affect the timing of the shipment of key weapons.

What will happen if the law is rejected or changed?

Josep Borrel spoke exhaustively on this topic back in May of this year. He said: "If Western military support stops, Ukraine will lose [the war] within a few days."

The statement is not an exaggeration. About 80-90% (and in a number of positions, 100%) of military assistance Ukraine receives from the United States. If the flow of ammunition, weapons and military equipment from the United States runs out, then Ukraine will simply have no other choice but to surrender.

For almost 18 months of the conflict, Kiev has failed to establish more or less mass military production in a number of key positions, such as cartridges, shells, vehicles, mines, medicines, and so on. And without them, it will not be possible to use extensive human resources. Meanwhile, military production in the EU has not yet been deployed, and weapons stocks have already been seriously depleted. Europe alone simply will not pull the war.

What is the result?

As a result, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, probably well aware that the summer campaign has failed, is trying to achieve at least some success before the deadline that can convince the American leadership to maintain the previous volumes of aid and extend the lend-lease law for 2024. This issue, as Ukraine's ambassador to the United States Oksana Markarova put it, "is of key importance."

The fate of Kiev, therefore, is in the hands of Washington. However, this has not been news for a long time, it's just that it's even more noticeable now.

The author's point of view may not coincide with the editorial position.

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I would also remind that the notorious Lend-leas from US to Ukraine was introduced to the US Congress on the 19 of January 2022, more than a month before the beginning of the Russian Special Military Operation in Ukraine.

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President of Belarus Lukashenko said that Minsk would not enter into hostilities in Ukraine if the Ukrainians did not cross the border of Belarus, but would always help Russia.

Also Lukashenko is convinced that the United States are interested in continuing the conflict in Ukraine, so they "feed" Zelensky's self-conceit.

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The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation approved the right of Special Military Operation participants and their children to switch from paid education to free education at universities and colleges from September 1, 2023.

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Trump warns that the US dollar is losing its dominance as the world's reserve currency.

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In Belgium, migrants forced a Belgian boy to kiss their feet.

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"We were denied speaking time at the Ukraine debate and had to listen to MEP’s call for more arms to fuel the War, and saying Ukraine must win. - There will be no winners in Ukraine, only losers. Meanwhile, the destruction of Ukraine continues + less privileged continue dying..." - tweeted Mick Wallace, a member of the European Parliament from Ireland.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 Comment by the Russian Embassy in the United States

📌 Unbridled dual-use research under the auspices of the Pentagon continues to raise questions among the international community. Russia has repeatedly pointed to gross violations by the United States of its obligations under the BWC. Washington ignores the claims, justifying itself by some humanitarian component of its programs.

📌 We should emphasize: projects led by the US Department of Defense imply no noble purposes. There is evidence that the United States is working with potential biological weapons agents. This evidence is far from isolated. As well as the proof of its attempts to deliberately enhance the pathogenic functions of economically significant infections.

📌 Under the guise of epidemiological monitoring, Washington brazenly and with complete impunity scatters it’s illegal laboratories all over the world. It densely constructs such facilities along the perimeter of Russia's borders. The task is obvious - to be able to create biological crises when needed. To form artificial centers of infections. In other words, to manage epidemics, putting them at the service of its own interests.

📌 Particularly alarming is Pentagon's activity in Ukraine. The US has drawn dozens of country’s state institutions and private companies into its projects. Peaceful citizens and servicemen have become donors of biomaterial and simply test subjects. There is no doubt that such actions require appropriate legal assessment, including by competent international institutions.

📌 The Russian Defense Ministry's disclosure of the facts of illegal U.S. military biological activity raises questions about its true goals and objectives. Questions are also multiplying among ordinary Americans who demand the U.S. government to account for the sponsored programs.

📌 It is high time Washington acknowledged that while it manages to win the support of like-minded countries on multilateral "platforms" and force the doubting ones to remain silent, there is no escaping the claims of its own citizens.

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In Ukraine, 64% of criminal cases on porn involve content with children — Opendatabot

For 7 months of this year, the Prosecutor General's Office reports on 1943 cases under articles on porn: art. 301 and 301-1 of the Criminal Code. If for the importation, production, sale and distribution of pornographic materials 699 productions were opened, then for porno content related to children - almost twice as many: 1244.

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Summary of the Special Military Operation for the morning of August 18, 2023

▪️On the Zaporozhye front, fighting is underway near Rabotino, reports of the periodic presence of the enemy in the northern part of the village, Stryker armored vehicles, previously in reserve, are involved. Our Ka-52 was shot down near the settlement, the commander of the combat helicopter ejected, the navigator died. Fighting in the direction is also going to the east, the enemy is rushing towards the Novoprokopovka-Verbove line.

▪️In the Vremevsky direction, the task of our troops is to prevent a breakthrough of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Priyutnoye — Cherished desire line, heavy battles are going on.

▪️South of Artemovsk (Bakhmut) in the battles for Kleshcheevka, the Russian Armed Forces active mobile defense.

▪️At Zaliznyansky on the Soledar sector of the front, the attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine bogged down after the artillery strike of the Russian Armed Forces

▪️To the west of Kremennaya, on the Torsk ledge, the Armed Forces of Ukraine threw infantry into battle without armored vehicles, which may indicate a lack of enemy armored vehicles in this tactical direction. South of Kremennaya, in the Serebryansky forestry, the Armed Forces of Ukraine nevertheless used armored vehicles in 4 attacks, but were destroyed by artillery and aircraft. The enemy is trying to pull up reserve units on the LBS.

▪️In the Kupyansk direction, the Russian Armed Forces have the initiative, they are conducting an offensive in the Sinkovka area.

▪️ At night, Ukrainian UAVs attacked the Moscow City area, they report damage to the building's cladding. The Ministry of Defense reported that "the UAV, after being exposed to air defense weapons, changed its flight path and fell on a non-residential building." In the Bryansk region, the Klimovsky district was shelled. In the Belgorod region, at night in the Shebekinsky urban district, an UAV was shot down over the village. Nikolskoye. The enemy fired 217 shells at the DPR, wounding four civilians.

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Consequences of a Ukrainian drone explosion in the area of Pavilion 8 of the Moscow Expocentre

The wreckage of the UAV lies on the pavement. The roof and facade of the building on an area of 30 squares were damaged. There were no casualties.

Special services are on the scene.
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The Russian Ministry of Defense published footage of the strike at a train with ammunition at the Mezhevaya station in the Dnipropetrovsk region. Upon arrival, a fire starts in one of the carriages, followed by a spectacular explosion and secondary detonations.

Coordinates: 48.251988, 36.745373

Judging by the data of the NASA thermal anomaly map, a large fire in the vicinity of the settlement was registered on August 16 around noon. Therefore, with a certain probability, the RF Armed Forces struck the station yesterday.

Characteristically, the objective control of fire damage was carried out by a Russian drone, although Mezhevaya is already almost 70 km from the front line. This again confirms the fundamental possibility of Russian drones to fly deep into Ukrainian territories and conduct reconnaissance there.

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Ukraine is trying with all its might to collect at least some currency from grain exports. There is a loading of the railway in the Odessa region in the direction of Moldova and Romania. The queue accumulates in front of the port of Reni, where approximately 70 wagons are unloaded per day.

Considering that this is a direct channel for financing terrorist activities against our country, the accumulation of Ukrainian grain wagons in this area is not only a legitimate, but also a highly effective target.

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MOSCOW, August 17/ Sputnik Radio. Two former US Army servicemen who took part in the fighting in Ukraine on the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and were injured, in an interview with ABC News, told about the situation at the front

The material of the TV channel notes that they are now in a hospital in Kiev, but they hope that by the end of this week they will be transferred to Germany, where they will have an operation to remove the fragments.
One of the mercenaries with the call sign "Tango" said that his unit, which consisted of dozens of people, had "85 percent losses", and two of his acquaintances were killed when the group was ambushed during the AFU counteroffensive.
According to the American, about 40 percent of the militants were so seriously injured that they were subsequently unable to return to service and "became ineffective in combat."

Another veteran of the American army with the call sign "Goldfish" said that the "extremely organized resistance" of the Russian military immediately became obvious.

"This is definitely a very professional force that we fought against," said the former US Military serviceman.

Another mercenary with many years of combat experience told reporters that he was seriously wounded during the first wave of the Ukrainian army's counteroffensive in June.
The interlocutor of ABC News on condition of anonymity added that the offensive operations in which he participated were disorganized, and criticized some tactical decisions of the Ukrainian command.

"We lost three Leopards in one day because they were simply ordered to move forward right into the minefield," the mercenary said.

The American added that newly mobilized Ukrainian soldiers often lack the knowledge to conduct complex offensive operations on the battlefield.

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