🇷🇺🇺🇦 Footage of the strike was filmed by spotters from the ground, judging by the huge column of fire, stones and dust - it can be assumed that they hit the ammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, located in urban areas turned into fortresses by Ukrainian militants.

🇺🇸 🇲🇽 Mexico sent its entire national security cabinet to Washington to talk fentanyl yesterday. Yet at the White House there was just one US principal to meet with them. AG Garland later offered them lunch.

Where were US principals as their Mexican counterparts arrived in White House grounds:

•Blinken: in Ireland w/President Biden
•Austin: at the Pentagon receiving Latvia’s Defense Min. •Mayorkas: coming back fr/Panama
•Becerra: unclear

🇲🇽 🇷🇺 Mexico is open to negotiations with Russia on the introduction of Russian Mir ("world/peace") payment system cards in the country - Mexican Ambassador to Moscow Mejias.

https://tass.com/economy/1604033

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Near Artyomovsk (Bakhmut), our Wagners sent Vitaly Kursov, an intelligence officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, to Bandera.

🇷🇺 The Tula region actively supports our fighters. And these are not only workers of weapons factories, but also farmers, builders, doctors, cultural workers, volunteers, and the government of the region.

“There is absolutely no doubt that the goals and objectives will be achieved, the victory will be ours,” said Alexei Dyumin, Governor of the Tula Region.

🇯🇵⚡The sound of an explosion was heard near the speech of the Japanese Prime Minister in the city of Wakayama, he was evacuated and was not injured.

Failed AFU attack and what looks like a M113 destroyed

🇺🇲🇷🇺🇺🇦 A new batch of leaked Pentagon documents claims that Russia is suppressing American guided bombs.

🇨🇦🇺🇦 Canada handed over to Ukraine the promised 8 Leopard 2 tanks. They have already been delivered to Poland. This was announced by the head of the Ministry of Defense of Canada Anita Anand.

🇺🇲 US President Joe Biden has decided to run for a second term. He promised to announce the start of the campaign "relatively soon."

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Artillery of the DPR destroys Ukrainian nationalists in the Avdiivka direction

🇺🇲🇺🇦 US State Department: States will send Ukraine 4.9 billion dollars of budget support

“The United States has provided the government of Ukraine with $18 billion in budgetary support through the mechanisms of the World Bank. An additional $4.9 billion will be available in September,” the agency said in a release.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 SU-34 destroying Ukrainian positions

🇺🇦🇺🇲🇷🇺❗️Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal, during his speech at a press conference in Washington, said that the counteroffensive of Ukrainian troops would begin "in the near future."

🇺🇦 Ukraine's allies in the West no longer expect a breakthrough from a possible UAF counteroffensive — Bloomberg
▪️Many in the Western elites are increasingly skeptical that the Ukrainian Armed Forces will be able to make a decisive breakthrough this year, because the Russian defense has managed to dig in before the upcoming offensive.
▪️Now a more realistic goal is to advance 30 km, which will allow long-range artillery to be within the reach of Russian supply lines and create the conditions for a deeper offensive in 2024, Bloomberg quoted one of the Western officials.