#Russia's current account balance hit record highs in June 2022

A Peruvian ship participating in the biennial Rim of the Pacific naval exercise #RIMPAC2022 in #Hawaii suffered a fire in its engine room, and two sailors were flown ashore for medical treatment, an exercise spokesman said. #Peru

Nova Khakovka, #Kherson 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Nov. 2019 repatriation of two #NorthKorean sailors via Panmunjom.

Flight That Crashed in #Greece Had Ammunition for #Bangladesh
Serbian official says plane was transporting mortar ammo
Ukrainian charter aircraft went down with eight crew aboard Ukrainian foreign ministry officials on Sunday traveled to inspect the site where a Ukrainian cargo plane crashed overnight in northern Greece, en route from Serbia to Jordan and on to Bangladesh.

The envoys will help local authorities and emergency services investigate the accident, ministry spokesman Oleh Nikolenko said on Facebook. No dangerous elements have been detected by Greek authorities, an official from Greek Fire Service said Sunday afternoon. Two dead bodies have been recovered so far, he added. Eight crew, all Ukrainian, were on board.

Greece’s state-run ERT television reported that the Antonov AN-12 cargo aircraft went down late Saturday near Kavala. The flight was operated by Ukrainian cargo carrier Meridian.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-16/cargo-aircraft-crashes-in-northern-greece-state-run-tv-says

8 towns have been evacuated in #Spain

🔸Sesnández de Tabara
🔸Olmillos de Castro
🔸Tabara
🔸Escober de Tábara
🔸 Ferreruela of Tábara
🔸San Martin de Tábara
🔸 Abejera
🔸Riofrío de Aliste

#USA Marine Corps successfully tested Iron Dome based air defense prototype during a live fire test at the White Sands Missile Range in #NewMexico.

Egypt's President al-Sisi and the Egyptian Strategic Command Chief meet with the CEO and owner of Lürssen German ship-building group in #Berlin discuss joint cooperation in developing the domestic maritime industries, including shipyards

The Venezuelan minister, Tareck El Aissami, denounced this Sunday an attack against the gas system in the east of the country.

This was indicated on his Twitter account where he stated: “We raise our complaint to the country, and the peoples of the world, about a new attack on the gas system in eastern Venezuela. These are the same terrorist groups as always, which have acted against the national interest to affect the lives of our people.”

He pointed out that: “this vile attack against the gas pipeline system in Venezuela is part of the script of sabotage perpetrated by the enemies of peace. Right now we are suffocating the fire caused by this criminal action, to regularize the service of this infrastructure”.

⚡️#Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation in #Ukraine 07/18/2022

💥High-precision air-based missiles in Kostantinovka, Donetsk People's Republic, have neutralized temporary deployment point of mercenaries of so-called Ukrainian "Foreign Legion". The attacks have resulted in the elimination of more than 250 military personnel and 12 special vehicles.

💥As a result of high-precision long-range air-based weaponry strike on temporary deployment point of battalion of 118th Territorial Defence Brigade of AFU in Vitovo, Cherkasskaya Region, up to 60 nationalists, 2 multiple rocket launchers and 4 artillery mounts have been destroyed.

▫️More than 10 Ukrainian Grad multiple rocket launchers and 8 armoured vehicles have been destroyed near Udachnoye railway station in Donetsk People's Republic.

▫️Also, 2 Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopters have been destroyed and 2 more helicopters suffered significant damage as a result of rocket artillery strike on AFU field airfield near Novyi Donbass, Donetsk People's Republic.

💥As part of counter-battery warfare, 2 batteries of Uragan multiple-launch rocket systems near Predtechino, 3 platoons of Grad MLRS, 14 artillery platoons of Hyacinth-B howitzers and D-30 guns near Seversk, Verkhnekamenskoye, Serebryanka, Dronovka and Zvanovka, Donetsk People's Republic have been neutralized.

💥Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery have hit 14 command posts, including 28th Mechanized Brigade near Nikolaev, 60th Infantry Brigade near Novoaleksandrovka in Zaporozhye Region and 15th Battalion of 58th AFU Motorized Infantry Brigade in Pokrovskoye in Donetsk People's Republic, as well as 286 areas of AFU manpower and military equipment concentration.

▫️1 Buk-M1 self-propelled launcher near Kramatorsk in Donetsk People's Republic, 3 depots with missile and artillery weapons and 1 fuel depot near Novoaleksandrovka in Zaporozhye Region have been destroyed.

💥Russian air defence means have shot down 6 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles near Peschanoye, Chervonyi Oskol, Liptsy in Kharkov Region, Korsun' in Donetsk People's Republic and Novokamenka in Kherson Region.

▫️2 shells of Uragan multiple rocket launcher have been also intercepted near Stakhanov in Lugansk People's Republic.

📊In total, 257 Ukrainian airplanes and 142 helicopters, 1,564 unmanned aerial vehicles, 356 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4,099 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 759 multiple launch rocket systems, 3,157 field artillery and mortars, as well as 4,392 units of special military vehicles were destroyed during the operation.

#MoD #Russia #Ukraine #report

Royal Canadian #Navy RHMCS Winnipeg fired two Harpoon missiles as part of SINKEX (a sinking exercise) #Canada

#India, #China talks to de-escalate border tensions ends in deadlock
The seventh round of India and China military talks to resolve border disputes in Eastern Ladakh have ended in a deadlock

Read more at: https://www.southasiamonitor.org/china-watch/india-china-talks-de-escalate-border-tensions-ends-deadlock

There were leaks in biological laboratories supervised by the Pentagon on the territory of Ukraine.

This was stated by Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Irina Yarovaya. She did not rule out that this explains the growth of epidemics in Ukraine.

"But most likely, those who created these laboratories were interested in ensuring that these laboratories were not adequately protected, not only in corruption, but also in order to carry out a live experiment in this way - to monitor what the reaction from the population would be, what the mortality rate would be, what the consequences would be."- reported Yarovaya

#EU Council agrees on new 500 million euro military assistance package to Ukraine - European Council President Charles Michel.

🇬🇧 The one that is coming…

Germany fills deposits and calls for savings to face the winter without Russian gas. Meanwhile, Borrell desperately maintains that the sanctions against Russia are not a mistake. Excusatio non petita, accusatio manifesta. They know for a fact that the sanctions against Russia were an absolute failure. And a tremendous mistake, of course. But the worst thing is not that they failed to sanction: the worst thing is that they continue to sanction, failing and dragging us into the abyss.

I have said it a thousand and one times and no one seemed to get anything out of my words that was not a “pro-Putin reasoning”: it is not a question of supporting or not supporting Russia, it is a matter of common sense.

Unleashing the madness of hatred against everything Russian, Putin the first, had its effect: the population of almost all European countries bowed to the decision of the bureaucrats of the European Parliament. A decision made, today we already know it, without any type of analysis or prior approach beyond “we hate Putin and something will have to be done”.

What did they think was going to happen? Well, the same thing that would happen if we suddenly went on strike against all the Muslim countries that stone women or hang homosexuals. That we would be left without their resources. It would be necessary to see if it would be viable to obtain them from another side before sanctioning anyone. Because they probable won’t stop stoning women, while we would run out of electricity and gas for sure. To all this, what a pitiful spectacle is throwing stones at Russia, while we remain silent when the same stones fly at the women of Saudi Arabia. Total embarrassment. Hypocrisy at the European Parliament level.

This is not about Russia yes or no, it is about OUR INTERESTS. We are going to freeze to death, we are going to “stay with two candles” (in many ways) and we will end up going to hell as the European Union that we are. And all this because we are governed by a bunch of bureaucrats who are moved by passions and impulsive decisions more typical of a small group of fifteen-year-olds in the middle of the spring-summer season.

Now we are on vacation and it seems that there is no problem. We better talk in October. And in October we better forget about colors and ideologies. Because one of two things: either we remove the useless from politics, or they will remove us from social welfare.

✍️ #Russian FM Sergey Lavrov’s article «Staged incidents as the Western approach to doing politics», published in Izvestia newspaper



🔹 All the good relations talk, the West’s proclaimed readiness to take into account the rights and interests of Russians who ended up in independent Ukraine or other post-Soviet countries after the collapse of the USSR turned out to be mere pretence.

🔹 Ukraine, Moldova and other countries being courted by the EU today are destined to be extras in the games of the West.

🔹 The collective West should come back to Earth from the world of illusions. The staged incidents, no matter how long they go on, will not work. It is time for fair play based on the international law rather than cheating.

🔹 The sooner everyone realises that there are no alternatives to objective historical processes where a multipolar world is formed based on respect for the principle of sovereign equality of states, fundamental for the UN Charter and the entire world order, the better.

Syrian Arab Army units reinforced their positions in the cities of Ain Issa and Ain al-Arab in the north of #Aleppo province, and this step was taken in the context of the measures adopted by the State to consolidate security and stability in all syrian geography

Ilham Aliyev President of #Azerbaijan accused the Russian Defense Ministry of breaking the agreements on Nagorno-Karabakh

#California National Guard soldiers and Polish military personnel conducted joint training exercises as part of #NATO

The perpetrators of rocket attacks from Afghanistan to Tajikistan and Uzbekistan were arrested

According to the Taliban, this operation was carried out in the Qanjagheh area of Imam Sahib city in Kunduz province and 3 people were killed and 5 others were arrested in this operation.
In this operation, several 107 mm rockets were also discovered and seized