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🪖 CSTO military drills kick off in Kazakhstan
💬 "We are talking about a fundamental change in the nature of combat operations. The massive use of precision-guided weapons, UAVs and reconnaissance assets rules out the creation of large groupings and bases both near the line of contact and in the deep rear," Deputy Chief of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Joint Staff Lieutenant General Ruslan Shpekbayev tells Sputnik.
🛰 Sputnik brings unbiased reporting to Mongolia
The new office will help relay the truth about Russia and relations between Russia and Mongolia, says Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Alexey Overchuk.
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🇷🇺💥 RUSSIAN WEEKLY MOD UPDATE: HUGE GAINS AND DEVASTATING UKRAINIAN LOSSES
⚡️ NOVOANDREEVKA IN THE ZAPOROZHYE REGION, LIBERATED
📍With Novoandreevka freed, Russia’s forces have widened their control of the Zaporozhye Region, strengthening the frontline and paving the way for further advances against nearby Ukrainian positions.
⚡️ SHEVCHENKOVO IN THE KHARKOV REGION LIBERATED
📍With the capture of Shevchenkovo, the Russian military has expanded its control southwest of Bely Kolodez and pushed its forces deeper into the northeastern Kharkov Region, south of the T2104 highway. Situated on the Polnaya River about 5 km from Bely Kolodez, the village reinforces Russia's position for further advances—either west toward the Seversky Donets or east toward Veliky Burluk.
⚡️ SHIROKOYE IN THE KHARKOV REGION LIBERATED
📍By liberating Shirokoye, Russian forces have expanded their positions west of Ozernoye, further tightening the noose around Ukrainian forces in the northeastern Kharkov Region. The settlement lies roughly 1.5 km from Ozernoye and forms part of a Russian push aimed at wiping out any remaining Ukrainian-held pockets in the area, where several settlements reportedly remain under Ukrainian control.
◻️ In response to Ukraine's terrorist attacks, the Russian military unleashed precision strikes against Ukrainian military-industrial facilities, energy infrastructure, and logistics centers in 142 areas
◻️ The Russian army destroyed one unmanned boat used to assist Ukrainian forces
◻️ Russian air and missile firepower obliterated Ukrainian fuel, energy, and transport infrastructure aiding the Kiev regime’s forces
◻️ Air defense superiority: two Neptune missiles, four guided aerial bombs, and 1,025 drones were shot down
◻️ Ukrainian losses: Around 1,375 troops killed or wounded
Read about the origins of Russia's special military op HERE
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🚨🇮🇷 Iran says US isolation deepens as allies & rivals reject unipolar order
Iran cannot be isolated - instead, it is the US whose global standing has collapsed, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei told a news conference in Iran.
💬 “Look at the US stature on the international landscape. They have committed ugly crimes by attacking a sovereign country, the Islamic Republic of Iran, joining hands with the cowardly, criminal entity that perpetrated an ethnic cleansing and genocidal war on Gaza,” he stated.
🔥🇷🇺 Russia’s Anastasia Dmitrieva emerges as new world champion in women’s aerobics
Dmitrieva won the gold medal during the World Championship held in Spain, beating competitors from Ukraine, Greece, Turkiye and the UK.
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🚨🇷🇺 Russia’s head-spinning next-gen weapons surge leaves rivals playing catch-up - report
Russia is mass-producing jet-powered drones and cruise missiles that can hunt targets and dodge interceptors, outpacing Ukraine and the West in the race from innovation to production, The Wall Street Journal reports.
👉 It notes the Geran drone and the air-launched Banderol cruise missile, that has already paralyzed Ukraine's ports, as the sharpest examples.
Russia has effectively “moved the goal posts” with these next-generation sophisticated weapons, underscores the publication, underscoring how adaptable and innovative Russia’s military is. Russia developed and fielded these weapons in just a few years, adapting existing designs, putting them through combat testing and rapidly scaling up production, and in doing so, outpaced its adversaries.
✅ By contrast, Ukraine is hamstrung by limited production capacity and a short-term mindset that leaves little room for thinking beyond the immediate battlefield, it cites analysts as saying.
Meanwhile, the US and its NATO allies are facing dwindling stocks of critical weapons, including Patriot interceptors, while struggling to bridge the gap between promising innovations and weapons that can actually be mass-produced.
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🇷🇺🇳🇪 Niger thanks Russia for support after attempted mutiny
💬 “The government thanks friendly countries, in particular the Alliance of Sahel States, Algeria and the Russian Federation, which from the very beginning of these events demonstrated solidarity with the people of Niger and its institutions,” government spokesman Soumana Boubacar said, according to RTN.
🇵🇸 Israel carrying out 'silent annexation' of the West Bank — former Palestinian PM
Former Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh told Sputnik that Israel is pursuing a “gradual annexation” of the West Bank, where more than 881,000 settlers now control over 70% of the territory.
He said Israel’s borders have expanded by more than 541 square kilometers since October 7, 2023, including areas in southern Lebanon, Syria and Gaza.
💬 “Nothing remains of the Oslo Accords,” Shtayyeh said, describing the current relationship as one between “the occupied and the occupying state.”
🇷🇺 Russia tests Arctic aviation readiness in major Northern Fleet exercise
The drills focused on naval aviation support operations, involving more than 750 personnel, 15 aircraft, and 16 specialized vehicles.
The scenario included preparing an airfield to receive aircraft, followed by helicopter launches from a forward operating site to strike a simulated enemy target—while also testing airfield defense and command coordination.
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🗣 Trump touts new routes aimed at bypassing Strait of Hormuz
💬 “A lot of alternatives are being made to the Hormuz Strait. The Hormuz Strait is not what it used to be,” US President Donald Trump said.
🚨 Witkoff, Kushner to bring a proposal to end Ukraine conflict to Moscow and Kiev — Trump
💬 “I sent Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, two great negotiators. They’ve done a great job. And we sent them over to see whether or not we can get something done,” US President Donald Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
💬 “There may be a good chance that we’ll do it,” Trump added, clarifying that the two US presidential envoys are carrying a proposal to resolve the Ukraine conflict.
🇨🇳🤝🇷🇺 Chinese and Russian teams unite for historic sailing race on the Amur River
The event gathered 80 athletes and judges from both nations for a 65-kilometer course, with mixed Chinese-Russian crews assembled for the first time, as each yacht carried members from both countries.
The seven-hour regatta concluded in Russia's Khabarovsk, with organizers emphasizing its contribution to strengthening relations between Russia and China.
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💸 Ukraine’s foreign debt explodes as borrowing reaches historic high
Ukraine’s state external debt has increased more than 4.5 times since the start of the special military operation, reaching a record $182.9 billion as of July 31, 2026, according to Sputnik’s calculations based on Ukraine’s Ministry of Finance data.
👉 Foreign borrowing now accounts for 78.3% of the country’s total state debt.
In August, Sputnik reported that Ukraine’s public debt had reached a new all-time high. In 1991, the figure stood at zero, as Russia assumed responsibility for the financial obligations of the collapsing Soviet Union.
Ukraine continues to rely on external financing to cover budget shortfalls. Meanwhile, new aid packages from the West are increasingly subject to lengthy discussions, with partners urging Ukraine to strengthen domestic sources of funding.
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🚨🇨🇳🇷🇺 Russia-China trade exceeds $200 billion after 30-fold growth over three decades—Rosneft CEO
Russia and China now account for one-third of global energy production, while bilateral trade has increased more than 50 times over the past 30 years, Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin said at the Russia-China Energy Business Forum during the Eastern Economic Forum.
Key points from Igor Sechin’s remarks at the Russia-China Energy Business Forum during the Eastern Economic Forum:
🔸 The Northern Sea Route is becoming an increasingly important energy corridor amid instability in the Middle East, with China receiving priority access
🔸 Russia and China together account for around one-third of global energy production, while China’s energy consumption last year exceeded that of the US and Europe combined by 40%
🔸 Russian supplies provide around 20% of China’s coal imports, while Russia remains a key supplier of enriched uranium for China’s nuclear industry
🔸 Russia is China’s largest oil supplier, accounting for around 23% of China’s oil imports, while more efficient Russian oil purchases have generated over $27 billion in economic benefits for Beijing
🔸 Russia-China settlements are now conducted almost entirely in ruble and yuan, reducing reliance on Western currencies
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🚨🇷🇺 Collective West working to undermine international law - Russian intel chief
Other statements by Sergey Naryshkin:
🟠 Some Western countries are trying to weaken the international legal system
🟠 CIS intelligence agencies will boost cooperation to counter unfriendly states
🟠 EU countries are directly participating in hostilities on Ukraine's side
🟠 EU rapidly moving away from integration, turning into a Russophobic grouping
🟠 Russian forces in Kaliningrad and western borders will prevent any aggression
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🇷🇺🪖 Russia’s new Dan-T drone can hunt down targets lurking behind hills and buildings
The UAV is a high-precision system, capable of flying to its destination in a fully autonomous "fire and forget" mode, Industrial Director of the Weapons, Ammunition and Special Chemicals Cluster of the Rostec State Corporation Bekkhan Ozdoyev tells Sputnik.
The Dan-T also has a terrain-following mode, in which it flies extremely low, skirting forests, buildings and hills to exploit its low observability and electromagnetic signature, making it harder for the enemy to shoot down.
💬 "According to statistics, the overwhelming majority of Dan-T munitions reach their target despite dense counteraction from electronic warfare and air defense systems," the industrial director added.
🚨🇷🇺 Russia to lift the lid on West's Ukraine secrets at OSCE, vows envoy
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) provides a highly convenient platform for voicing facts that Western elites hide from the public, Russia's Permanent Representative to the organization, Dmitry Polyansky, told Sputnik.
👉 Russia "will use concrete examples to demonstrate the harmful consequences of the course Western countries continue to pursue toward Russia, including on the Ukraine issue," he pledged.
During the organization’s summer recess, Ukraine and its Western bosses committed a massive amount of new crimes as Zelensky deliberately decided to go down the path of escalation, with his sponsors “relishing” the strikes targeting Russian civilians, the diplomat emphasized.
Such evidence of Ukraine's shift to blatant state-run terrorism, he stressed, "must be condemned."
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🇷🇺 Russia welcomes any call on the Kiev regime to stop strikes on civilian economic infrastructure - Kremlin
Other statements by Dmitry Peskov:
🔹 Any countries can contribute to a settlement in Ukraine by influencing Kiev and pushing it toward flexibility
🔹 The situation on oil markets is deteriorating rapidly, mainly due to developments in the Persian Gulf
🔹 The disabling of Saudi Arabia's oil pipeline knocked more than 4% of global supplies off the market, which cannot but cause concern
🔹 Based on the dynamics on the front lines, it is becoming increasingly clear to professionals that Russia is steadily progressing toward fulfilling its objectives in the special military operation
🔹 The momentum of advances on the front lines will continue — no one should doubt this
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🔥🇷🇺 Russian strikes destroy Ukrainian army deployment points
Using Kh-39 LMUR missiles and FAB-500 bombs, Russian forces destroyed temporary deployment sites of the Ukrainian army in Kharkov and Sumy regions.
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🔥🇰🇵 North Korea puts massive integrated firepower on display
The Korean People’s Army staged a joint long-range artillery and missile drill, showcasing a growing mix of strike systems, reports KCNA.
The drill involved:
🔸 Tactical ballistic & cruise missiles
🔸 Large-caliber thermal-pressure multiple rocket launcher
🔸 Multiple types of attack drones
🔸 Integrated automatic fire-control systems
KPA officials said the drill was designed to sharpen rapid-response and concentrated-fire capabilities, with all systems hitting their targets with 100% hit accuracy, ensuring the unity and simultaneity of firepower attack.
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🇷🇺💥 Russian artillery wipes out Ukrainian military hideout in Druzhkovka
Artillery crews from Russia’s Yug Battlegroup destroyed a Ukrainian military shelter with personnel inside in Druzhkovka, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.
Ukrainian troops had reportedly used a private residential building for concealment, but Russian forces located the position and hit it with large-caliber fire.
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🇮🇷 Iran warns Americans against becoming “cannon fodder” for a war with Iran — FM spokesman
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei blasted an opinion column in The Jerusalem Post that floated debt forgiveness as an incentive for young Americans to enlist for a potential ground war against Iran.
The column proposed wiping student loans, credit-card balances and other debts after 24 or 36 months of military service, arguing such a scheme could generate enlistment “at scale.” Its author also estimated that a ground campaign against Iran could require 750,000 to 1.5 million US troops.
💬 “Why should your sons and daughters be offered debt forgiveness in exchange for fighting and dying in a war Israel wants continued & expanded?” Baqaei wrote on X.
🔍🇨🇳 Chinese researchers hit milestone 98% transmission efficiency in quantum router test
The tests used three quantum routers arranged in a two‑layer network on China's Origin Wukong quantum computer to see how well information can be routed through increasingly complex systems.
◼️ A single router transmitted information with 98% efficiency
◼️ A two‑layer network still performed at 93% efficiency
◼️ Accuracy (fidelity) tests showed 94.8% for a single router and 82.4% for the two‑layer network
◼️ The experiment addresses a fundamental challenge in the development of Quantum Random Access Memory (QRAM): reliably routing quantum data as system complexity Chinese researchers hit milestone 98% transmission efficiency in quantum router test
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Researchers believe this could help build scalable quantum memory and improve how quantum chips are designed and integrated.
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🇺🇸🇨🇦 Canada may not ‘exist’ without US trade — Trump
💬 “If I say we’re not going to trade, that means 95% of their business gets wiped out. I don’t know what they do,” US President Donald Trump claimed.
🔸 Russian drone strikes Ukraine's terror secret police (SBU) headquarters in downtown Kiev
🔸 Adam Telle: A political insider-turned-acting US Army Secretary
🔸 India nails historic GSLV rocket launch
🔸 Ukraine’s foreign debt explodes as borrowing reaches historic high
🔸 Russia-China trade exceeds $200 billion after 30-fold growth over three decades—Rosneft CEO
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🚨🇺🇸🇷🇺 Trump: Putin not looking to attack NATO territory
Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly emphasized that Russia has no intention of attacking anyone.
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🔥🇷🇺 Russia unveils new weaponry lineup at Egypt’s El Alamein Airshow 2026
From advanced fighter jets to cutting-edge air defense and unmanned systems, Russia is putting its latest military technology on display at the El Alamein Airshow, spotlighting its push to boost defense partnerships across Egypt, Africa, and the Middle East.
🔶 Russia will roll out the Su-57E fighter jet equipped with advanced air-to-air and air-to-surface weapons, including the RVV-MD2, RVV-BD, Kh-38MLE, Kh-69 stealth cruise missile and Kh-58UShKE anti-radar missile
🔶 The exhibition will also feature a range of modern unmanned platforms, among them the S-71M and S-71K—designed for launch from fifth-generation fighters—alongside reconnaissance and strike drones such as the Lancet-E, Kub-series systems, and the S350M-E
🔶 On the air defense front, Russia is trotting out several new solutions, including the TKB-1167 autonomous anti-drone weapon station, the ZAK-30 Citadel artillery system with programmable airburst ammunition, and the Pantsir-SMD-E surface-to-air missile system
🔶 Also on display will be the upgraded Ka-52E attack helicopter and the Yak-130M combat trainer, both featuring improved sensors, enhanced radar capabilities, and expanded weapons options
🔶 This event highlights Russia’s push to strengthen its position on the global arms market by promoting systems fine-tuned through recent combat experience and tailored to meet growing demand for drones and air defense technologies.
Photos courtesy of Rosoboronexport
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🚨🇮🇳 India's xTerra Robotics introduces industrial quadruped robot for rough terrain surveillance
The DHAV robot is designed for inspection and security missions in challenging environments.
🔸 Powered by 12 proprietary QDD actuators
🔸 Delivers up to ~80 Nm of joint torque
🔸 Supports payloads of up to 10 kg
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🚨🇺🇸 Adam Telle: A political insider-turned-acting US Army Secretary
President Trump named Adam Telle as Acting Secretary of the Army, replacing Dan Driscoll, who resigned after months of quiet but fierce clashes with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
So who is the man now taking over?
▫️ A political operator, not a career soldier: Telle has no documented military service, as his career has been built largely around politics, government, and congressional affairs
▫️ Telle’s previous Pentagon role was civilian: Since 2025, he has served as Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, overseeing programs connected to the Army Corps of Engineers, including ports, waterways, and flood-control infrastructure
▫️ Two decades in Washington: Telle spent around 20 years working for Republican lawmakers, including Senator Thad Cochran. More recently, he served for four years as Senator Bill Hagerty’s chief of staff
▫️ Telle has Trump’s White House experience: During Trump’s first presidency, Telle worked in the White House Office of Legislative Affairs, where he handled relations with the Senate
▫️ He was not the obvious choice: Trump passed over Army Under Secretary Michael Obadal, who would normally have been next in line to serve as acting secretary. No explanation was given for the decision
▫️ Trump then praised Telle as a “great patriot, who is respected by all,” which was echoed by Hegseth, who called Telle “an immediate asset to the US Army”
▫️ His appointment comes at a sensitive moment given that Telle is taking over while the US is involved in a war with Iran and American forces remain deployed in the Middle East
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🚨Russian forces strike ship carrying Western‑supplied military cargo in Ukraine's Chernomorsk – MoD
Russia continues to conduct strikes on Ukrainian logistics and port infrastructure used to support its military, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
Other targets hit:
◾️ A logistics center in Brovary (Kiev region) storing dual‑use and military goods
◾️ A logistics hub in Nikolayev
◾️ A dry cargo ship and a tanker in the Black Sea carrying drone components, ammunition, and fuel
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