Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi thought well and excluded Taiwan from the visiting program.

🇷🇺 The Russian Federation has officially invited experts from the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross to conduct an investigation of the attack on the detention centre in Elenovka, which resulted in the death of a large number of Ukrainian POWs.

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Iron people of Donetsk - a smoking shank sticks out of the asphalt, cars continue to move.

Tupolev 7b, Mirny microdistrict of the Kirovsky district, right now.

🇷🇺 With the breeze on the Raptor boat, onboard No. 001.

Video from the main parade on the Day of the Russian Navy.

Russia does not impose sanctions, but only try to ensure the safety of the gas pipeline. The reduction in gas supplies is just a side effect.

By the way, there also is a Nord Stream 2 pipe. It does not require repair and is ready to go. However, until the decision is made, Germany will receive gas in the amount of 20% of the usual.

Gazprom decided to interact with European partners in the style of an Italian strike. There is no gas embargo against the European Union, but fuel supplies are being reduced due to the uncompromising and formally completely legal desire of Gazprom to strictly comply with all technical regulations for turbine maintenance.

Roads in the central part of Donetsk are being demined with the help of tanks. Ukraine was using cassette ammunition to spread over the city anti-personnel mines called "petals".

Another way of dealing with "petals". Don't do this... Call a professional.

Cats from Donetsk.

President Vladimir Putin on Sunday signed a new naval doctrine which cast the United States as Russia's main rival and set out Russia's global maritime ambitions for crucial areas such as the Arctic and in the Black Sea.

The president also said the "Zircon" hypersonic cruise missiles would be deployed in the upcoming months and said it would allow the Russian Navy to quickly engage with threats.

What is happening in Kosovo and Metohija?
The situation at the end of July 31, 2022

The howling of air sirens in Kosovska Mitrovica, which sounded at 18.30 Moscow time, marked the beginning of another escalation of the long-standing conflict.

From August 1, in the self-proclaimed Republic of Kosovo, new rules for the entry of Serbs were to start working. All cars had to be re-registered with Kosovo numbers, and instead of Serbian registration certificates, a special “declaration sheet” should be received. Identity cards issued by the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs are now considered invalid.

These requirements also apply to ethnic Serbs living in the region and their relatives from central Serbia. Such measures will significantly complicate the life of the Serbian population of the region and are in fact a violation of the Brussels agreements.

Moreover, this is direct pressure on the Serbian population. Civilians are bureaucratically forced to abandon the truth “Kosovo is Serbia” and admit that Kosovo is a different state. Nothing but irritation and a desire to close the problem of the self-proclaimed republic once and for all, such measures do not cause.

Since June, the Serbian authorities have been warning about provocations being prepared in the region.

According to President Aleksandar Vučić, Western conductors of the Kosovo Albanians were actually preparing an operation to clean up the Serbian population by autumn. However, the Kosovo authorities decided not to wait for either autumn or the official date for the entry into force of the new rules.

On July 31, the Brnjak and Yarinje border checkpoints were unilaterally blocked, and the passage of cars with Serbian license plates through the Rudnica checkpoint was also suspended. In turn, the Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed Kosovo, Albin Kurti, blames the Serbian authorities for the escalation.

Fakes about hospitalized Kosovo police officers injured in clashes with the Serbian army multiplied on the Web. However, both the Serbian Ministry of Defense and the Kosovo police denied reports of clashes. Nevertheless, shooting was recorded at the Brnjak and Yarinje border crossings, and one Serb was hospitalized in Kosovska Mitrovica.

The NATO peacekeeping contingent KFOR and units of the Serbian Armed Forces were put on alert, and the Kosovo special forces ROSU were pulled into the border areas in the north of the region. In the evening, negotiations between the Serbian General Staff and KFOR took place, and the American ambassador to Kosovo said that he had persuaded the Pristina authorities to postpone the application of the scandalous decision on license plates until September 1.

This is not the first time we have seen the pulling together of the Kosovo security forces, as well as bringing the Serbian army to combat readiness and the transfer of its units to the south: last fall, at the same Yarinje checkpoint, the confrontation almost reached an armed clash.

Today, however, one cannot underestimate the general background of the international situation, as well as the support that Britain and Germany have been providing to the Kosovo Albanians in recent months.

Now we are faced with the usual provocation and probing the reaction of both the Serbs and the international community. Despite Aleksandar Vucic's calls to keep the peace, the intervention of peacekeepers and Western partners, there is every reason to believe that an armed clash in the north of Kosovo and Metohija is only a matter of time. September 1 and the new rules of travel to Kosovo, humiliating for all Serbs, are coming soon.

It worth mentioning, that Russia and many other countries have never recognised Kosovo, though EU and USA have. More over, Moscow many times stressed out, that the very fact of creating an independent state at the expense of another state has opened "Pandora box" and is a very dangerous precedent - first forced change of state boundaries since WW2.
That precedent was consequently used by Russia, when part of Georgia was recognised as independent Osetia and Abhasia, which was not in its turn recognised by majority of the Western countries. Here we have the same "double standard" approach, when something is good enough for EU and USA, but is "not allowed" to Russia.
You may have already noticed, that Donetsk and Luhansk republic's independence, recently recognised by Russia, is following the same legal template or precedent.

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So, eventually she has made her mind and is going there...
BEIJING, August 1 - RIA Novosti. Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi will arrive in Taiwan on August 2 in the evening and meet with the island's leadership the next day, Taiwanese information portal ETtoday reports.
According to the publication, the official at the head of a delegation of about 20 people should land at about 22:30 local time (17:30 Moscow time) at Songshan Airport in Taipei. She will spend the night at the Grand Hyatt before visiting the Legislative Yuan (Taiwan's parliament) on the morning of August 3 and meeting with the leadership, including Chief of Staff Tsai Ing-wen.

Pelosi will reportedly leave the island by plane around noon on the same day.
As part of the Asian tour, the Speaker of the House of Representatives planned to visit Japan, Korea, Malaysia and Singapore. However, she declined to comment on media reports about her possible arrival in Taiwan, citing security concerns.
Pelosi could have come to the island in April, but then the trip had to be canceled due to her sudden infection with the coronavirus.
As the media wrote, Chinese diplomats actively tried to convey to US congressmen that the visit of US representatives to Taiwan was undesirable in the interests of both sides.

Chinese Ministry of Defense spokesman Tan Kefei stressed that the speaker of the House of Representatives is the third most important person in the American system of power, her visit to the island would violate the principle of "one China", harm relations in the military sphere and lead to an aggravation of the situation. According to him, "the Chinese army will not watch this with folded hands and will definitely take all measures to stop external interference and attempts by the separatists to separate Taiwan."
China considers Taiwan its province and opposes any contact between its representatives and the authorities of countries with which Beijing has established diplomatic relations.

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Moscow, right now, TV tower. Slogan projected on the tower: "China, Russia is with you!"
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Brief history of Taiwan - to help you better understand, what is going on.

Taiwan, which has long been inhabited by indigenous peoples, became part of the Chinese empire in the 17th century. It was then ceded to Japan in 1895 after Imperial China lost the First Sino-Japanese War.
The island remained a Japanese colony for half a century until the end of World War II. Following the allied defeat of Japan, China's ruling Nationalist government, led by the Kuomintang (KMT), took control of Taiwan.
Not long after, the Nationalists -- which ruled the mainland under the Republic of China (ROC) banner following the fall of Imperial China -- came under renewed attack from an insurgent Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
The two sides entered into a bloody civil war that resulted in the eventual defeat of the Nationalists who fled to Taiwan, moving the seat of the ROC government from Nanjing to Taipei. Across the strait, the CCP took power and established the People's Republic of China (PRC) in Beijing.
Both proclaimed themselves the sole rightful government of the entire Chinese territory.
In Taipei, the Nationalist leader, Chiang Kai-shek, dreamed of one day retaking the mainland; In Beijing, CCP Chairman Mao Zedong deemed Taiwan the last piece to a united "new China" -- a "problem" that needed to be solved sooner or later.
In recent years, Taiwan has downplayed its territorial claims over mainland China, and is today a vibrant democracy, with its own military, currency, constitution and elected government.
But it is not recognized as an independent country by most governments in the world, and has become increasingly isolated diplomatically.
Over the years, an increasing number of governments have switched their diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing, leaving Taiwan with only 15 diplomatic allies at the end of 2021.

Also, more detailed outline of the historical development.
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🇨🇳 🇺🇸 🇹🇼On the eve of Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, the Chinese army published an impressive video with a demonstration of force.