📋🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ #Summary Overview for the Morn of 14 Jul 2024; 07:56 (GMT+3)📍

🇺🇸The intense reaction to foreign political events ended with an assassination attempt on Trump. #US law enforcement officials stated that no foreign country was involved. Trump is now confidently outflanking Biden, and conspiracy theorists are ramping up the pace of publications. In our opinion, to hit a bullet from a distance of 130 m exactly in the top of the ear, kill and wound civilians, and then go to the other side of the world yourself is top flight. Choosing between conspiracy and mess, we are always on the side of mess, to which the #US is confidently rolling.

🇺🇸 The results of the #NATO summit showed the #West's intentions to continue the conflict, despite endless words about negotiations. #Russia was called an enemy, #China an accomplice, and tens of dollar billions were allocated. Except that promises to deliver "several hundred antiaircraft guided missiles" to Kiev next year and the deployment of factories point to some lack of production capacity in the Alliance countries. #Germany has gone further and calculated that it expects a direct confrontation with #Russia in 2029, for which it is preparing the return of compulsory military service and increasing the efficiency of the military-industrial complex. The #West needs time for final preparations.

📉Our peace proposals, 4 new regions move to #Russia without a fight and #Ukraine gets non-aligned status, have an extremely negative effect on the frontline soldiers who storming enemy positions, and once again SMO goal changes, stated earlier as complete demilitarisation and denazification.

🇧🇾Lukashenko joined the peace case, declaring the elimination of tensions on the Ukrainian border and ordering the withdrawal from the border.

⚔️ On the front, the RFAF retain the initiative. In the #Kharkov direction, our troops have pulled the enemy's reserves from other directions. In the #Svatovo - #Kupyansk section, the bulge near #Berestovoye and #Makeyevka (#LPR) is expanding. In the #Seversk sector, our troops pressing south of #Spornoye. At #ChasovYar, ours lining up all along the Canal, moving westwards. For the #Toretsk area, we predict a gradual AFU defence breakthrough. West of #Avdeyevka, the RFAF have advanced on a wide front. On the #Zaporozhye front, the RFAF advanced several hundred m in some areas. In the #Kherson direction, the 18th Army is destroying the enemy on its #Dnieper bank, 🎬👇while our supply on the islands is difficult. The boats promised a year ago remain promises. The AFU have more tactical drones throughout, which levels out our heavy weapons.

💥In the #Belgorod region, the number of civilian enemy shelling has not been reduced, and social tension is growing amid the deaths of civilians, many of whom refuse to leave because of the poor provision for evacuation.
💥In the #Kursk direction, the AFU remotely knocked out many petrol stations in frontline areas, which also caused problems. In addition, #Russia continues to lose refineries to enemy drone strikes.

🇺🇦In #Ukraine, forced mobilisation does not stop, which predictably for Kyiv causes the burning of TCC cars - they act as a lightning rod from the true culprits of the war - Zelensky and the authorities. However, more and more TCC cars are burning.

🇵🇱In #Poland, the formation of a "legion" of Ukrainian citizens has begun, who will allegedly return to #Warsaw after being sent to the front.

🇩🇪In #Germany, major political leaders promise to expel Ukrainians if they win the elections.

📌Thus, when neither side is able to get advantage, #Russia is being pushed into a ceasefire that the #West can increase military production and mobilise. They want to cheat: #Russia already decisively outnumbers #Ukraine in heavy weaponry, and is generally crippling Kiev's military machine. For the #US election period, experts predict a suicidal rush, the TCC's is tasked to "catch" several full-blooded brigades for meat assaults.

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🔎🇨🇳🇺🇸 Through the Lens: China relations with NATO

NATO has recently held its three-day summit. Besides heavily criticizing Russia member countries jointly issued the Washington Summit Declaration, which lambasted China for being “a decisive enabler of Russia’s war against Ukraine”, and declared that China would pay the price for this.

▪️From the perspective of Western media, although NATO and China do not share a close relationship, there is not much disagreement between the two. But in fact, China has held a grudge against NATO for more than 20 years.

In 1999, NATO’s US-guided bombs hit China’s embassy in Belgrade, killing three Chinese journalists. The incident ignited a strong wave of patriotism in China. When China-US relations are harmonious, this historical episode is not mentioned; in recent years, with tensions in China-US relations, this longstanding grievance has resurfaced.

🔻The strong language by NATO in the new declaration has largely caught observers by surprise, leading them to believe that this is a major shift in NATO’s attitude towards China.

As Germany and other European countries view China as an important market, NATO has always held back in its criticism of China. This is the first time it is joining Washington in censuring China, which is not only a sign of US diplomatic victory.

China’s strong response to the new document showed that it was “not at all daunted”, reflecting how China did not hold much hope in improving relations with the US and Europe.

▪️However, while leaders of Asian countries South Korea, Japan and New Zealand have attended the NATO summit for three consecutive years, Australia only sent its deputy prime minister — Asia-Pacific countries clearly still have their reservations about NATO’s eastward expansion.

The US is currently making another attempt to draw the support of a unified Europe, while the concept of a “China-Russia-Belarus axis” has surfaced in Europe. But it is hard to say how long the US-Europe unity would last.

Regardless, from a macro view, China and NATO are already in an openly contentious relationship, and China is drifting further and further away from Europe. This state of affairs is expected to persist.

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Han Yong Hong is an Associate Editor in the Chinese daily Lianhe Zaobao

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