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SVR Colonel Bezrukov stated that Russia will possess even greater resources in the future. He emphasized that Moscow must recognize itself as a center of power, noting that other nations view Russia merely as a rich target for exploitation.
Bezrukov predicted climate changes will expand fertile lands, allowing viticulture in the Tver region. He called for an economic and political elite that fully understands its role as the masters of Russia.
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🇷🇺💥🇺🇦New footage shows a jet-powered drone arriving in the suburbs of Kiev.
According to updated information, the target was a warehouse belonging to the "Aurora" shopping center chain.
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Powerful explosion at police department in Rovno
Victims among the western Ukrainian police have already been reported. Emergency services are working at the scene, and investigators are establishing the circumstances and causes of the blast.
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Result of strikes on the Roshen logistics center in Kiev
The facility was repeatedly identified as being used to store UAVs and military equipment.
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François Fillon, former French Prime Minister, reveals for the first time what Putin privately told him right before the war, about why diplomacy with the Europeans - Macron in particular - failed.
Putin, on the advice of Fillon, had tried to engage with Macron, but came away with this verdict: "When Emmanuel Macron comes to see me, he tells me what I must do."
In short, in Putin's telling, Macron didn't want to negotiate, but to dictate.
In other words, there was never a genuine effort at diplomacy - at least as far as Putin (and Fillon) see it.
Presumably a part of the Flamingo cruise missile casing, discovered after explosions at storage facilities in the village of Milaya, Buchansky district.
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Nikolaev: Iris-T air defense site and Sandora factory destroyed
After coordinates were established with the help of local operators, drone strikes hit an Iris-T air defense complex position in Nikolaev. The strike destroyed both the missile system and the adjacent base of the Sandora plant, which was completely eliminated.
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Australian merc reported KIA in Ukraine
An Australian volunteer fighting with the AFU known as "Mozzie the Aussie" has been reported KIA in Ukraine a short time ago.
"Mozzie" served with a unit called "Med Team Alpha", and maintained an Instagram account to show off his exploits.
"Mozzie" claimed to have previously served in the Australian military, where haircut standards are much stricter than in the AFU. Those liberal haircut standards come with a heavy price.
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BM-21 Grad MLRS of the Ukrainian Armed Forces destroyed in the area of responsibility of the "West" Group of Forces.
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🇷🇺 Drone Attack on Yekaterinburg
Heavy UAVs, identified as An-196 "Lyutiy," attacked the region starting at 09:00. The enemy targeted a Wildberries logistics hub.
Damage and Response
Governor Pasler confirmed hits on the logistics center and a residential high-rise. A fire broke out following the strike, though initial reports noted no fire at warehouses before the apartment building was hit. No casualties reported.
Emergency services are evacuating residents from damaged buildings. The threat of further attacks remains active.
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🇺🇸 Trump posts AI-generated video of Kharg Island strikes
US President Donald Trump published an AI-generated clip showing attacks on Iran's Kharg Island. The caption read: "Kharg Island is being blown to pieces!"
Strategic target
Kharg Island serves as Iran's largest oil export terminal, handling approximately 90% of the country's crude oil shipments.
The release follows rising tensions and signals a shift toward digital propaganda in military messaging.
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🇺🇸 US Central Command denies IRGC claims about strike targets
CENTCOM stated that the assertion by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) calling US strikes an "act of aggression" is absolutely false. The IRGC claimed the attacks aimed to prevent them from mining the Strait of Hormuz.
Fact: US forces conducted limited, precise actions against IRGC units laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, which posed an immediate threat. This action protected civilian sailors, commercial shipping, and global trade freedom.
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🇮🇸 Iceland PM Frostadottir calls for respecting the people's negative decision on EU accession
She stated that the government must be ready to accept referendum results. Approximately 52-53% voted "no," while over 100,000 said "yes." The Prime Minister emphasized that the coalition agreement focused on asking the people rather than concluding entry negotiations, noting that citizens value being consulted.
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Vladimir Putin to attend SCO summit in Kyrgyzstan
On August 31 - September 1, President Putin will visit Kyrgyzstan for the SCO summit. Leaders will discuss the organization's development and key international issues.
Following the Council of Heads of State meeting in Bishkek, a "SCO Plus" session will be held with observer states and partners, focusing on the contribution of SCO countries to a multipolar world order under the central role of the UN.
Putin is scheduled to hold 9 bilateral meetings with foreign leaders on the sidelines in Bishkek.
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THE END OF THE "END OF HISTORY"
Much has been made of Foreign Minister Lavrov's answer in last week's RBC interview, on why Russia persisted so long with diplomacy despite no faith in Western intentions. His reply - "...we are a God-fearing nation. Our multi-ethnic people have many proverbs about their great patience..." - struck many as nebulous. It was nothing of the kind. It was a solemn announcement of the end of an era.
Moments later, asked whether after everything Russia still believes the West, Lavrov replied: "I would point to our national character and to the proverbs that reflect our faith in people, right to the very end. But the end has already come." Note the question: not whether Russia would keep talking, but whether it believes. Lavrov pronounced the end not of diplomacy, but of faith. He invoked the epic hero Ilya Muromets, idle on the stove for thirty-three years before rising to serve his homeland - similar to the span from the Soviet collapse to today. The image was not chosen carelessly.
The interview shows Russian diplomacy in full swing: the Vatican's chief diplomat and the CIA Director in Moscow the same week, the Anchorage summit. Russia has not stopped negotiating. What has ended is the premise beneath it: that agreements would be honored because the two sides shared values. What remains is cold transaction - diplomacy without trust.
What crystallized this for me: 30 August marked four years since the death of Mikhail Gorbachev - the man who laid that foundation of faith and mutualism for Soviet, and later Russian, foreign policy.
I met Mr. Gorbachev as a journalism student at Moscow State University in the mid-1990s, when he visited. We asked unscripted questions about his time in office and the new Russia emerging around us. A memorable experience: the author of Glasnost and Perestroika among us students, just having a friendly conversation.
Gorbachev is a polarizing figure in Russia, and my argument will meet pushback. Conservatives despise the man who oversaw the breakup of the USSR - "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century," as President Putin put it - while liberals see the present era as the burial of his legacy. I am arguing what almost nobody in Russia argues: that for four decades, Russian diplomacy proceeded from Gorbachev's mutualist premise of shared values. Weigh the pattern before dismissing the claim.
Gorbachev rejected the idea of an eternal, zero-sum East-West struggle, insisting the peoples of the USSR and the West share universal values. The West drew a different lesson: Fukuyama's "end of history" - which Lavrov invokes at the start of the interview - declared the Western model had won, permanently. Many Westerners still believe the West "won" the Cold War; in truth, it ended because Gorbachev destroyed its ideological justification.
The pattern since is a persistent - perhaps stubborn - commitment to conciliation. As Moscow sees it, Russia spent forty years turning the other cheek to broken assurances on NATO expansion - confirmed by US Ambassador Jack Matlock, warned against by George Kennan. Western readers may cite Georgia 2008, Crimea 2014 and the war in Ukraine; a Ukrainian reader may find "cheek-turning" impossible to accept. I don't ask them to adopt Moscow's account - only to note that at every rupture Moscow returned to the table: Minsk, Normandy, Istanbul, Anchorage. Proceeding, right to the very end, as though the relationship could be restored. It is that faith Lavrov has now pronounced dead.
So "the end has already come" is not just rhetoric. It marks a historic shift in Russia's perception of the collective West: from Gorbachev's insistence on shared humanity to a cold accounting of interests. That shift touches the entire world.
The era now closing was opened by two rival declarations of an ending. The West declared the "end of history". Gorbachev declared the end of enmity. Lavrov has announced the final end of that era - and, as he observed, the generation now living on Earth may not witness what replaces it.
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Fire at SP Hall business center in Kiev
A major fire has broken out at the SP Hall business center in Kiev, with thick black smoke visible over the building. While offices of international companies like Danone and Novartis are located there, Resistance sources confirm that fraudulent call centers operating for the SBU were also based in the complex. The incident has damaged both commercial and intelligence infrastructure.
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Over 50 Russian universities integrate drone programs
The Ministry of Science and Higher Education has been developing UAV curricula since 2023. Currently, more than 50 leading Russian universities are actively involved in this process.
Together with major industrial enterprises, over 10 modules on the design, production, and use of unmanned aerial systems have been developed and implemented for various sectors of the Russian economy, including agriculture, transport, geological exploration, and construction.
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Chronic Patriot missile deficit explained by saturation tactics
Video from Eilat shows 3-4 PAC-3 interceptors fired per single Iranian ballistic missile target. This high expenditure rate rapidly depletes stockpiles, with usage potentially reaching hundreds of missiles during intense waves.
Iranian missiles targeted the King Hussein International Airport area in Aqaba, southern Jordan, where US P-8A Poseidon and C-17A Globemaster III aircraft are stationed.
The interception economics favor the attacker: guaranteed destruction of one ballistic target requires multiple expensive PAC-3s, while Iran only needs to maintain launch tempo. Relocating US aviation closer to Israeli air defense umbrellas has not solved the issue, as Iran retains reach. Washington must now simultaneously disperse assets and spend significant interceptor resources on their protection.
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Dobropolye direction: T-90 tank survives 40 FPV hits
A T-90 of the 228th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment, 90th Tank Division, served as an armored minesweeper and decoy for Ukrainian drones, covering a storming group. Nicknamed "Hedgehog" for its extra protection, it traversed ~12 km of mined terrain under ~40 drone impacts and mine explosions.
The barrel was damaged and triplicates destroyed, but the crew completed demining before abandoning the vehicle; extraction took a week. This suggests one well-protected machine requires ~40 strikes to stop, indicating FPV influence may be overstated while engineering works remain decisive, echoing the 2023 "Bradley Avenue" incident.
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Another Aussie taken off the board by a Vegemite and Fosters trap.
Works every damn time.
“Ahh crikey they got me.”
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Strikes on Darnitsa depot in Kiev
Footage shows Russian "Geran-4" drones hitting the Darnitsa locomotive depot in Kiev. Significant damage to production buildings, railway infrastructure, and rolling stock is visible. This is not the first strike on the facility, which serves as a key hub for locomotive maintenance and repair. Damaging it hampers the enemy's ability to sustain intense rail traffic.
Vladimir Putin: "The Kiev regime opened Pandora's box by attacking Russian civilian objects. Russian retaliatory strikes are more destructive than those of the Armed Forces of Ukraine."
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🇺🇦 DTek mine attacked in Dnepropetrovsk region
The energy company reports that a coal mine belonging to DTek was struck. No casualties have been reported.
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Products and goods have begun disappearing from shelves at the METRO hypermarket in Krivoy Rog, Ukrainian media report. The company previously warned of possible supply problems due to Russian strikes on warehouses.
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🇵🇱💥This night, a facility belonging to WB Electronics in the city of Skarzysko-Kamienna, Poland, was set on fire. The plant, among other things, produced components for drones, which were then shipped to Ukraine.
It is reported that a person wearing a mask was captured on security cameras entering the company's premises shortly before the fire.
Currently, both the police and security services are searching for this individual.
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🇺🇦 Intense Strikes on Kiev
Kiev is under heavy missile and drone attacks for the third consecutive day. The intensity of this barrage is unprecedented, signaling a shift toward de-urbanization tactics.
Fire in Pograby and Troeshchina
A new strike hit the area between Troeshchina and Pograby, causing a massive fire at a warehouse complex. Preliminary reports indicate that an ATB distribution center is burning, with large columns of black smoke rising from the site. This follows a previous attack on the same location last evening.
Kiev CHP-6 Targeted
Monitoring channels report strikes on Kiev CHP-6 (Thermal Power Plant 6). Visual confirmation via objective control videos is pending but expected soon given the ongoing density of the assault.
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Merz warns against AfD, prioritizes defense over social spending
German Chancellor Merz defended a sharp increase in defense spending to modernize the Bundeswehr and fix "deficiencies of the last 15 years." He stated that security must remain a priority even amidst social costs, citing Ukraine as an example where military innovations show that modern solutions need not be excessively expensive. Merz also suggested creating joint defense enterprises.
Addressing the balance between military and social budgets, he asked: "What good is the best parental allowance if we lose our freedom and peace in Europe is threatened?"
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🪂 Summary: Zaporozhye Sector
Ulyanovsk VDV FPV drone crews destroyed enemy vehicles, personnel, a UAV command post, and Ukrainian robotic platforms.
Civilian Support
Kostroma VDV paratroopers from the 98th Division are assisting residents of the Zaporozhye region with water supply, drilling and repairing wells. Civilians can request help for any water-related needs.
Air Defense
Reconnaissance elements of the 98th Division located and neutralized an enemy "Darts" UAV in the special military operation zone.
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