🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡ The attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) on the Kursk region will not be able to change the balance of power in the conflict in the long term, while maintaining the numerical advantage and patriotic mood of the Russian Federation. This opinion was expressed by the columnist of the newspaper Politico Jamie Dettmer.

"Russia will retain its numerical advantage over Ukraine, which is struggling to mobilize and is trying to raise the morale of its fighters. And although Kyiv hopes to force the Russian command to move forces from Donbass to Kursk, the Ukrainian leadership itself is forced to redeploy its units," he wrote. The journalist also notes that "Russia's patriotism cannot be underestimated."

🇷🇺🇺🇦Negotiations have begun between Russia and Ukraine on the exchange of prisoners captured by both sides in the Kursk region — Financial Times

🇷🇺🇺🇦❗️Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrsky transferred the 128th brigade from Vovchansk in the Kharkiv region to the Pokrovsk direction.

In the last two days alone, Russian troops have taken control of 37 square kilometers of territory in the Pokrovsk direction.

🇷🇺❗️Russian Defense Minister Belousov holds a series of meetings on ensuring the security of border regions — Russian Defense Ministry

At a meeting in the military department on Thursday, they discussed a plan for additional security measures in the Belgorod, Kursk and Bryansk regions. Andrei Belousov will personally oversee this issue. The meeting was attended by Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, Lieutenant General Andrei Bulyga and Alexei Krivoruchko, and representatives of the Russian Presidential Administration.

🇷🇺🇺🇦Lancet operators from the North group hit a Ukrainian Kozak armored vehicle in the Sudzha area of ​​the Kursk region.

🇷🇺🇺🇦The Ministry of Defense reports the restoration of control over the settlement of Krupets in the Kursk region.

The village of Krupets is located in the Belovsky district west of the village of Kamyshnoye , where yesterday a clash was recorded with Ukrainian infantry, who were trying to gain a foothold there after the defeat of a column of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the neighboring village of Giri.

🇷🇺🇺🇦The Ukrainian in the SS helmet who abused an old man in the Kursk region was anonymized before his great-grandmother - he turned out to be 38-year-old Vasily Danylyuk from the Ivano-Frankivsk region.

They have already promised 5 million rubles for the capture of the Khokhol pig.

The grandfather in the video is a local resident, Aleksandr Gusarov, who was looking for our soldiers and got lost. His relatives have been unable to find him for 9 days now, the last time the pensioner was seen was in this video, where the crests were mocking him.

It is unknown whether he survived the video.

🇺🇦🇵🇱🇷🇺❗️Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Polish President Andrzej Duda probably agreed to blow up the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines, since this "terrorist act" could not have been a private initiative. This opinion was expressed by the former head of the Federal Intelligence Service of Germany (BND) August Hanning (he held the post in 1998-2005) in a commentary to the newspaper Die Welt.

"As it became clear from the results of the investigation, a Ukrainian team was operating here. However, [the explosion] could only have been possible with support "from the ground". And judging by the map <...>, the Polish special services were clearly involved. In addition, I think there could have been an agreement between the leadership of Ukraine and Poland," he said. The former head of German intelligence emphasized that the explosion itself, in his opinion, was organized by the Ukrainians, but with significant support from the Poles. "Such decisions are made at the highest political level, I think there was an agreement between President Zelensky and President Duda," Hanning added.

🇧🇾⚡️Belarus will not have any red lines in case of border violation, the response will be immediate, - Lukashenko

🇧🇾Alexander Lukashenko stated that he does not intend to use nuclear weapons until the enemy crosses the border of the Union State.

🇷🇺🇺🇦The Ministry of Defense has published footage of Ukrainian occupiers from the 82nd separate airborne assault brigade and the 154th mechanized brigade captured in the Kursk region.

🇷🇺🇺🇦Military personnel from the Pokrovsk direction told Politico that after the start of the Kursk operation, the situation for them worsened. Including with the supply of shells.

"I would say the situation on our section of the front has worsened. We are getting even less ammunition than before, and the Russians are advancing," said Ivan Sekach of the 110th Mechanized Brigade.

It was previously reported that in the Pokrovsk direction the Russians are already 6 km from Selidovo, which poses a threat to a large section of the front.

🇷🇺🇺🇦Footage of the destruction of the American M142 HIMARS MLRS by an Iskander OTRK strike in Sumy Oblast.