Boris Johnson announces he has decided to step down as British Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party.
However, he still will carry out his duties until a new leader is appointed.

Sic transit gloria mundi!💤👍🤦

When people in Europe (and not only) are preoccupied by the questions like:
-"Who is going to be a new Prime Minister in the UK?" and
-"Why India and China are ignoring Western sanctions on trade with Russia?"
somewhere in Ukraine work continues...💤

Erdogan has put his hand on him. (At the recent NATO summit) Was it a sign of Karma?🕉

Somewhere in Ukraine. Russian helicopter in a hurry...

There Is No ‘Magic Bullet’ That Can Turn The Tide For Ukraine

The military victory or defeat in the Russian-Ukraine War is likely to be determined by the side that has the highest quality of manpower and less on the platforms of war. For all its major missteps in the opening round, Russia began the war with a total active force of 900,000 whereas Ukraine had approximately 250,000.

Both sides have suffered egregious casualties since February – but Russia has hundreds of thousands more active troops from which to pull to replace its losses, whereas Ukraine has none. The impact on the battlefields of the Ukrainian disadvantages in weaponry and personnel is stark and unambiguous.

In a recent New York Times expose, Megan Specia wrote that a Ukrainian colonel admitted that most of the replacements being sent to his unit at the front have “never served in the army. The notion that people could simply spring to action when the war crept closer is wrong, he said. By then, it is too late.” As units like the one Specia described fall back from one city to the next, there is no military foundation upon which to base the hope that the Russian offensive will be stopped.

Moscow can replenish its personnel losses from an existing pool of relatively trained personnel. They have tens of thousands of additional tanks, armored personnel carriers, and artillery pieces to replace combat losses. Russia has a decisive advantage in air power. Putin’s military-industrial capacity to continue making missiles, rockets, and artillery shells has been diminished because of sanctions, but still functions – whereas most of Ukraine’s manufacturing capacity has been methodically destroyed.

In short, there is no valid military path through which Ukraine can hope that trading space for time will result in stopping Russia’s methodical progress through Ukraine – much less reverse it. To continue contesting every town and city is to ensure the Ukrainian casualties continue to mount and its urban areas destroyed. In the end, Russia is still likely to achieve a tactical victory.

It is necessary, in light of these physical realities, for U.S. and Western policies to change. Continuing to give verbal support to Ukraine and claiming that eventually, Kyiv’s side will win the war is not likely to change the outcome and is likely to result in a policy failure for Washington.

No one wants to negotiate from a position of weakness with an invading power, but the harsh truth is that the longer Zelensky and his Western supporters continue pursuing unrealistic objectives, the more likely Ukraine eventually suffers an outright military defeat.

Putin: "We haven't started anything serious yet."...
"The longer it takes (to start negotiation) the harder it will be to get to an agreement with us."
July 7, 2022. State Duma (Parliament) of Russian Federation.

Adviser to the head of Zelensky's Office, Podolyak, commented on Putin's speech today:

"Putin's mantra about war to the last Ukrainian is another proof of a deliberate Russian genocide".

What? Does he understand, what he has said?🤯
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Servicemen of the People's Militia of the LPR demonstrated captured weapons and equipment seized from the forces of the Kyiv regime.

Among the trophies: tanks, self-propelled and towed artillery, grenade launchers and anti-tank missiles manufactured by NATO countries, drones and even a Maxim machine gun

For our Indian friends:
Mr. Alipov, Russian ambassador in India, thanked Indian Government for its assessment of the crisis in Ukraine and said, “Clearly they understand the background of the present geopolitical and geo-economic situation and the forced nature of Russia’s actions in Ukraine”. He said that India had not succumbed to western pressure regarding its links with Russia as the Delhi-Moscow relation “rests on a deep strategic foundation, drawing its strengths not only from deep historical roots, but also from a shared vision of how the world order should develop”.

Mr. Alipov conveyed Russia’s assessment that India wishes to remain free of the “paradigm of block confrontation” and said, “National interests and the need for a country to preserve its strategic autonomy guide how the Indians act, rejecting the very idea of dividing lines”.

Highly Mobile Unit of Ukrainian Army.💤

Lavrov and Blinken came to the meeting of the G20 foreign ministers. The Russian minister was the first to arrive, after him the US Secretary of State arrived at the meeting venue. He boycotted a number of protocol events with the participation of Lavrov.

An unidentified person attacked former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during his speech in the city of Nara, the politician was injured, NHK reports. Abe is hospitalized unconscious, he shows no signs of life, media reports. A video from the scene of the attack on Abe is published on social networks, also in the frame, presumably, the detained criminal.

Glimpse of truth among ocean of lies. Washington Post published an article about Stepan Bandera.

Stepan Bandera (1909-59) was a Ukrainian ultranationalist and quasi-Fascist. He was born in Galicia, which was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, turned into the short-lived West Ukrainian People’s Republic, then became part of Poland, later the Soviet Union and eventually today’s Ukraine.

In the 1930s, when the region was Polish, Bandera became a leader of the radical wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. In effect, he was a partisan fighting for national independence and arranging things like the assassination of the Polish interior minister.

When Adolf Hitler invaded Poland, Bandera spotted an opportunity to push his cause. Collaborating with the Nazis, his OUN massacred their perceived national enemies — Jews, Poles and Russians — in a quest to ethnically cleanse Ukraine and prepare it for fascist statehood. Bandera was to lead this new nation, and Hitler was to be his ally. Bandera didn’t personally partake in the mass killings perpetrated in Ukraine by the Germans and their local helpers. But his underlings — presumably with his blessing — did.

On June 30, 1941, the partisans declared an independent Ukrainian state. But to their surprise, their putative patron, Hitler, decided that he didn’t want a separate country in what he viewed as the German people’s future Lebensraum. The Fuehrer had Bandera arrested and locked up in a concentration camp — albeit as a privileged prisoner in comfortable surroundings. In 1944, Bandera was released.

After the war, he made a home in Munich, where the Soviet Union’s KGB found and murdered him in 1959. This was the height of the Cold War, so the Ukrainian diaspora in the West built a hero cult around Bandera, painting him as a freedom fighter against, and victim of, the Soviets — which he was, but only in part.

After the Soviet Union collapsed and Ukraine became independent, the mythology around Bandera was revived, especially in western Ukraine, where Melnyk comes from. Statues and monuments went up in Bandera’s name. People marched under his banners. In recent years, however, the government has wisely distanced itself from the man and his complicated legacy.

Russian MOD:

High-precision sea-based weapons near Liman, Odessa Region have destroyed 2 Harpoon coastal missile systems delivered from the UK.

Translated from a highly respected source:

At the very beginning of the Military Operation, the Internet was choking on fakes, threats and a wave of total burning hatred, panic, misunderstanding of what was happening.

Videos of the torture of Russian soldiers were a separate pain, and people at the front also knew about such cases that, due to their savagery, could not be covered, so as not to provoke retaliatory aggression against prisoners from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Emphasized humane attitude towards them has caused many questions.

The essential difference between the opposing sides is that the Ukrainian elite is accustoming the inhabitants of the territories under their control to see us as enemies, an evil Horde to be destroyed, and on this they are trying to build a national identity.

We, on the other hand, feel that Ukrainians are our own, brotherly people, part of a large family, deceived and exploited in the interests of Western capital and the local oligarchy. Hence the humane treatment of prisoners and a huge number of volunteers helping the inhabitants of the liberated territories not at the behest or in pursuit of a money, but at the call of duty.

Therefore, especially for those who still live in the territory controlled by the Kyiv junta and are worried about family members who served in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who are missing, the website http://WarTears.org was created

No fakes, extortion of money and other dirt; only reliable information about relatives, if it is in the databases. To those with whom you plan to live tomorrow in a common house, you should show nobility, not cruelty, and we can afford it.

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"Putin must lose," Johnson said and resigned the next day.

In continuation of the story about the addresses of UK and US embassies in Moscow.
A sign with a new address was fixed at the British Embassy in Moscow - Luhansk People's Republic Square.

According to a recent Gallup poll, Americans' trust in newspapers and television news has fallen to historic lows (16% and 11% of respondents said they trust these types of media).

Another video from the TG channel Fighter-Bomber.
Refuelling in the air - one of the most complicated operations for any Air Force. Beautifully done, beautifully filmed.

In continuation of a topic about POW:

‘Here, everything is not as our commanders brought us; in general, everything is not as they told us.’ The wife of a Ukrainian serviceman said the Ukrainian Armed Forces prevented her from travelling to the territory controlled by the Russian Federation, where her husband is in captivity. According to her, in Ukraine, they talk about terrible conditions for Ukrainian prisoners. But she saw the reality was different.

Children from Mariupol are undergoing rehabilitation in the Moscow region.

The program is designed for 30 days. Mariupol residents receive the help of doctors and a psychologist. There is also a large gym and a swimming pool for them. Children are taken on excursions and river trips.

And most importantly, the children are resting from the shelling that the Ukrainian army subjected them to at home.

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