🇷🇺🇺🇦An FPV drone on fiber optics arrives at the full troop compartment of a BMC Kirpi armored vehicle in Konstantinovka.

🇹🇷🇮🇱❗️Turkish skies closed to Israeli flights, no exception for Netanyahu's flight to Azerbaijan — Turkish Center for Combating Disinformation

🇮🇳🇷🇺Indian Defense Minister Cancels Victory Parade Visit in Moscow Following Prime Minister

This was reported by India Today, citing sources among Russian officials. According to the publication, the decision was made against the backdrop of growing tensions between India and Pakistan .

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh was supposed to attend the parade to mark the 80th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War instead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who also cancelled a visit to Moscow in late April .

India will now be represented at the parade by Deputy Defence Minister Sanjay Seth.

Earlier it became known that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico cancelled work events due to illness.

Against this background, it is unknown whether they will come to Moscow. Earlier, the Kremlin confirmed their participation in the parade.

🇺🇸🇸🇾A historical event, of course.

The US-led international coalition has completely withdrawn its troops from the Syrian Al-Omar oil field in Deir ez-Zor.

American troops are no longer present, coalition troops have moved to Iraq.

🇧🇷🇺🇦Zelensky failed to get a meeting with the Brazilian president six times, Metropoles reports, citing an unnamed Ukrainian diplomat.

The publication writes that Volodymyr Zelensky sent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva proposals for a meeting for a year and eight months. In total, at least six letters were sent, but all remained unanswered.

🇷🇺🇺🇦The Russian Ministry of Defense reports a drone attack on the Murmansk region.

Three drones were reported to have been shot down.

🇷🇺🇺🇦The Akhmat special forces prevented an attempt by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to penetrate into Russian territory in the Kursk region, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, reported.

🇷🇺🇺🇦Russian anti-drone corridor somewhere in Donbass.

🇺🇸🇲🇽 President Donald Trump pressures Mexico to allow the U.S. Military to launch deeper operations against the cartels *in* Mexico - WSJ

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🇺🇸The Pentagon has begun developing a new national defense strategy for the United States.

The basis is the 2025 Interim Strategic Guidance for National Defense.

Priority will be given to protecting US territory, including American airspace and borders, as well as containing China in the Indo-Pacific region.

The final draft of the strategy will be submitted to the Minister of Defense no later than August 31.

🇷🇺🇺🇦The fiber-optic FPV drone "KVN" destroys a pickup truck of the Ukrainian Armed Forces together with its personnel in the area of ​​the settlement Predtechino.

🇵🇰🇮🇳Pakistan has violated the ceasefire on the Line of Control for the tenth night in a row, India's News18 claims.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇪🇺European countries that advocate deploying a so-called "deterrent force" to Ukraine will be unable to muster 25,000 troops for the purpose due to a shortage of personnel and money, the Times reports, citing sources.

🇮🇱🇵🇸❗️The Israeli army may step up its military offensive in Gaza in the coming days and will begin calling up tens of thousands of reservists for this purpose, Bloomberg reports.

🇨🇳🇷🇺The Chinese leader confirmed to the Kremlin that he will come to Russia for three days, where he will also attend the parade.

🇸🇰🇷🇺Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico said he would visit Moscow on Victory Day and called Zelensky's threats unacceptable.