US, #SouthKorea begin biggest joint military drills since Trump-Kim summit

The drills known as Ulchi Freedom Shield are expected to involve thousands of military personnel, the biggest such exercises in about five years

U.S Deploys Nuke-Capable B-52 Bombers To #UK For Four Days Of Exercises

US Air Force B-52 bombers return to Fairchild

The U.S. Air Force has announced that its B-52 Stratofortress returned to Fairchild Air Force Base after 10+ years.

According to a press release from the 92d Air Refueling Wing Public Affairs, four B-52H Stratofortresses from Barksdale AFB, Louisiana, will land at Fairchild AFB, August 16-19 to participate in an Agile Combat Employment (ACE) exercise.

This will be the first time a B-52H has conducted operations at Fairchild since its runways were refurbished 12 years ago

🇺🇦🇩🇪#Germany will hand over Vulcano shells to Ukraine

This information was published on the website of the German government.

🔹It is indicated that these shells were purchased by Germany for Ukraine together with other EU countries.

🔹In total, 255 Vulcano ammunition should be supplied to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The Vulcano Ballistic Extended Range is a high-precision German-Italian 155mm projectile capable of hitting targets at ranges up to 50 kilometers.

🔸An improved version of the Vulcano GLR can hit targets at a distance of up to 70 kilometers, including moving ones.

#Russia details use of hypersonic missiles in Ukraine



Russian forces have successfully fired three Kinzhal hypersonic missiles during the conflict in Ukraine, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has said.

The missile “has been used by us on three occasions during the special military operation [in Ukraine]. And it showed its outstanding qualities on three occasions, qualities that no other similar missile in the world possesses,” Shoigu told Russia 1 TV on Sunday.

The Kinzhal (Dagger) is a Russian hypersonic air-to-surface missile that entered service in 2017. It can travel at a speed of Mach 12 (around 14,800kph), while constantly performing evasive maneuvers, which is believed to allow it to penetrate any currently existing air defenses. The nuclear-capable munition can be launched by the country’s Tu-22M3 bombers or MiG-31 interceptor aircraft.

The Defense Ministry reported the firing of a Kinzhal missile in mid-March, saying it destroyed an arms depot near the city of Ivano-Frankovsk deep in western Ukraine. This is apparently the first time ever that a hypersonic weapon has been used in combat.

The missile is one of several hypersonic systems developed for the Russian military in recent years, along with the Avangard glider, which is fitted on silo-based ICBMs, and Zircon missiles, to be used by the Navy.

Shoigu also expanded on the deployment of Russia’s Su-57 fifth-generation stealth fighter jets in the conflict in Ukraine, saying the plane, which entered into service in the Air Force in 2020, “has a very high degree of protection against various air defense systems; it has protection against missiles. There are a lot of things... most importantly, it also has very powerful weapons.”

“We’ve also tested these weapons, tried them out – they work perfectly,” he noted.
Russia sent troops into Ukraine on February 24, citing Kiev’s failure to implement the Minsk agreements, designed to give the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk special status within the Ukrainian state. The protocols, brokered by Germany and France, were first signed in 2014. Former Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko has since admitted that Kiev’s main goal was to use the ceasefire to buy time and “create powerful armed forces.”

In February 2022, the Kremlin recognized the Donbass republics as independent states and demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country that will never join any Western military bloc. Kiev insists the Russian offensive was completely unprovoked.

The Royal Armed Force head of recruitment refused to follow an order to prioritise women and ethnic minority candidates over white men because she believed it was "unlawful", defence sources have claimed and a leaked email has revealed.

Security and Defence editor Deborah Haynes revealed last week that the head of recruitment had resigned over what sources described as an "effective pause" on offering jobs to white men https://youtu.be/4kmiOOp06nU

Ukrainian soldiers neutralized after the 11th Regiment of the Donetsk People's Republic repelled their last counterattack in the Pesok area. DPR forces recorded the results of the failed counterattack from a drone.

A high-ranking Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Ground Force officer, Brigadier General Abolfazal Alijani, was killed in #Aleppo Governorate ( #Syria), under unknown circumstances.

In #Bethlehem denounce the arrest of 20 Palestinians by Israel

In Bethlehem, four parents and their teenage children were arrested after Israeli soldiers stormed their homes.

The Venezuelan government on Monday "categorically" rejected the decision of a Washington State Court judge forcing #Venezuela to pay the US oil company ConocoPhillips about $8,700,000,000 as compensation for the expropriation of of the company's projects in the Latin American country

Wagner Kornet ATGM team in Dolomitne near Kodema.

Ukrainian Ambassador to Kazakhstan Petr Vrublevsky was summoned to the country's Foreign Ministry in connection with his call to kill Russians.

A collection of signatures for the expulsion of the ambassador from Kazakhstan was also initiated.
#Kazakhstan

Celebrating the successful development of FADS wind tunnel test model for a certain aircraft"

Rocket attack was launched on Kharkov, the target was the Shevchenko Instrument-Making Plant. At the industrial facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,

Alexander Dugin remembers the last day of his daughter's life

"Dad, I feel like a warrior, I feel like a hero. I want to be on the side of the forces of light - that's the most important thing," these are the last words of Daria Dugina, which she said at the festival.

"She died for the people! For Russia! The biggest price to pay can only be justified by victory. Our victory": with these words, Alexander Dugin concluded his speech during his farewell to his daughter

Another Ukrainian soldier says that all the equipment, uniforms and even a car were bought by him with his own money.

The Libyan National Army, an armed force controlled by Khalifa Hafter, claims to have shot down "an armed drone" over Benghazi.

Rain falls on Zionist military vehicles in Silwad Town north-east of #Ramallah

Nearly 300 classified documents have been found at Donald Trump's Florida residence.

150 of them were transferred to the archive in January, the rest were discovered during a recent search in Mar-a-Lago.

The bulk of the documents are materials from the CIA, the National Security Agency and the FBI.

Bureau agents in Mar-a-Lago seized 11 boxes of documents marked "secret" and one "top secret".
#USA

Air show on Crimean beach with Mi-8MTV-5 helicopters

WELLINGTON: About 2,000 anti-government demonstrators gathered outside New Zealand’s parliament on Tuesday (Aug 23) to vent their frustration on a range of issues nearly six months after protesters were forcibly removed from the grounds of the legislature.
The protesters, organised by the Freedom and Rights Coalition, arrived from around New Zealand and assembled on the lawns outside parliament in the capital, Wellington, as politicians worked inside.

Underground passage in the center of #Donetsk when Ukraine starts to bomb