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🇱🇾A human trafficking network operating in south-west Libya has been dismantled by the country's authorities.
The general prosecutor's office said authorities had arrested one of the network's leaders and 10 people accused of killing, torturing, illegally detaining and raping migrants.
The investigation documented violations affecting 1,300 migrants, including cases of forced detention.
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Top news of the hour:
▪️One of the AFU drones attacking the Kaluga region slightly damaged a mobile phone tower in the Tarusky district. A task force is working at the scene, regional governor Shapsha said;
▪️The AFU attacked two settlements in the Belgorod region with the help of UAVs. One of the kamikaze drones hit a passenger car on the road, the driver suffered a head injury and barotrauma, Gladkov said;
▪️At least two explosions went off in Kharkiv after an air alert was declared in the region, Channel 24 reported.
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🇮🇱Thousands of Israelis have taken part in mass anti-government rallies demanding elections and a deal on Gaza.
The largest demonstration is traditionally held near the government complex in Tel Aviv.
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❗️The main thing from Sergey Lavrov's statements:
▪️Turkey is ready to discuss the order of troop withdrawal from Syria, but so far it hasn't been possible to agree on specific parameters, Lavrov said in an interview;
▪️Israel's line on the total destruction of Hamas is useless, the sides need to negotiate;
▪️The US is not engaged in counter-terrorism in Syria, but is actively moving oil, gas and grain out of there;
▪️Russia, Turkey, Syria and Iran will meet in the foreseeable future to discuss normalisation between Ankara and Damascus.
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🇫🇷A rally demanding Macron's resignation was held in Paris.
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🇳🇱The Netherlands will supply Ukraine with 28 Viking armoured all-terrain vehicles, the country's defence minister has announced.
According to Ruben Brekelmans, the Dutch Marine Corps has already trained the Ukrainians in the use of the vehicles.
The Viking is an amphibious armoured vehicle that can travel at a speed of 5 km/h in water. The vehicles are also used to transport military personnel.
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🇬🇧British soldiers have died in accidents using vehicles that have not been repaired for years, according to the Daily Mail.
Mothers of soldiers have been waiting for a year for the Ministry of Defence to explain why faulty vehicles were being used in the first place. From the article:
Between 2017 and 2022, five military personnel died in accidents involving a Warrior HMS, a Jackal BRDM and Scimitar and Challenger 2 tanks;
Defects in the armoured vehicles were discovered years ago, but not addressed;
Max George, 26, was rear-ended by a Warrior HMS as he exited through the rear door. The alarm system, which could have alerted the mechanic driver that the door was open, had been inoperative for four years due to a broken cable;
Jethro Watson-Pickering, 23, was killed in a Scimitar tank accident when the vehicle hit a tree. The turret swerved and hit the soldier. He was trapped for a long time under the wreckage of the tank;
The tabloid fears that with cuts in defence spending, similar tragedies could happen again.
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🔥As a result of ambushes by the Russian armed forces, an AFU pickup truck with personnel was destroyed in the Kursk region.
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❗️"We are united and that is our strength": a mural dedicated to the inhabitants of the Kursk region was unveiled in Donetsk.
The work by Vladislav Stepnoy is called "Nightingale". The mural depicts a fighter, whose collective image is taken from the military "Wild Division of Donbass", holding a nightingale in his hands. Below, on the background of roses, is the inscription: "Kursk, Donetsk with you". The nightingale symbolises the unity and patriotic spirit of all the peoples of Russia.
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🤣 "I didn't know" — Macron continues to defend himself over Pavel Durov's arrest.
"We are a country where there is a separation of powers. I absolutely didn't know about his arrival. That's normal. It's incorrect to say that I extended the invitation."
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❗️A resident of Shebekino was injured during an attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces—the militants are attacking the city for the third time today.
As a result of the shelling of Shebekino in the Belgorod region by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a civilian woman was injured, according to Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov. The woman sustained a shrapnel wound to her left leg and has been hospitalized.
Additionally, two apartment buildings, commercial properties, and a car in the city were damaged.
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🗣 Terrorists use not only Telegram but also cars, yet no one arrests the heads of car manufacturers — Kremlin spokesman Peskov.
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⚡️ Defense of Ukrainian Armed Forces near Pokrovsk broken through, resistance is practically non-existent - TASS
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🇺🇦 A resident of Odessa started his Saturday morning with a workout by running away from a military recruiter.
Local Telegram channels are sharing a video showing a man in military uniform trying to chase down a civilian.
Conscription centers—sponsors of a healthy lifestyle.
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❗️The US has made it clear that Kiev should not expect significant deliveries of ATACMS because the number of missiles in US depots is limited, CNN reported.
Another reason for the decision is that cruise missiles take a long time to produce.
Earlier, Rodion Miroshnik, the Russian Foreign Ministry's ambassador-at-large for the crimes of the Kiev regime, warned that Russia could bring charges against manufacturers of Western weapons used by Ukraine.
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August 3️⃣1️⃣. Key updates:
▪️The losses of Ukrainian troops over the day totalled up to 2,025, according to the Russian Defence Ministry;
▪️The losses of the Ukrainian armed forces in the direction of Kursk during the day amounted to up to 400 soldiers and 18 armoured vehicles, the Russian Defence Ministry said;
▪️Russian forces destroyed a warehouse of rocket-artillery weapons and military equipment of the AFU in the Sumy region with an Iskander strike, the Russian Defence Ministry said;
▪️An MLRS facility with AFU fighters servicing it has been destroyed in the Sumy region of Ukraine;
▪️37 people, including 7 children, are in hospital in Belgorod after the AFU shelling, 11 patients are in serious condition, Russian Deputy Health Minister Alexei Kuznetsov said;
▪️The Russian army has improved its position in Volchansk, said the head of the Russian administration in the Kharkov region, Vitaliy Ganchev;
▪️The Biden administration has abandoned the idea of sending US civilian personnel to Ukraine to maintain the F-16s because of security concerns, the WSJ claims;
▪️It is difficult to judge what goal the West had in mind when it backed Ukraine's invasion of the Kursk region, they have "sophisticated brains", Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said;
▪️Increased arms supplies and money pouring into Ukraine will not help end the conflict, said Tino Krupalla, co-chairman of the right-wing Alternative for Germany party.
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🇲🇩A rally against the reunification of Moldova and Romania was held in the centre of Chisinau, forcing a change in the route of the motorcade of Moldovan President Sandu and Romanian leader Iohannis as they arrived for a visit.
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❗️The only one interested in a major war in the Middle East is Israel, according to Sergei Lavrov.
In the interview he noted that the Israeli government does not hide this very well.
They probably want to use the current crisis to solve the problems with Hamas, Hezbollah, pro-Iranian groups and Iran itself once and for all, Lavrov added:
"Iran categorically does not want to give in to provocations, does not want to be drawn into large-scale hostilities, but they are trying to provoke it".
❗️400,000 Ukrainians could leave the country in 2024 due to power cuts, Bloomberg reports.
Some of them are seriously considering spending the winter abroad. The lack of light is preventing them from making plans, the agency's interlocutors complain.
The situation is aggravated by the increase in electricity tariffs. Ukrainians are beginning to blame the country's authorities for the problems, summarises Bloomberg: "Failure to strengthen the energy sector could accelerate the government's already waning support.
Earlier, emergency power cuts were imposed across Ukraine due to severe shortages.
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❗️The Ukrainian armed forces are shelling the population with cluster munitions, and the West's reaction is zero. Journalist Sonja van den Ende commented on the statement by European and US representatives on militant attacks on Russia.
She noted that civilians in Europe are concerned about attacks by Ukrainian militants on civilians in Russian regions. According to van den Ende, the governments of European countries do not care about the opinion of their citizens. The journalist expressed the hope that soon there will be more politicians in Europe who will be able to stop the conflict.
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❗️The first festival of national martial arts dedicated to the memory of the first head of the DPR, Alexander Zakharchenko, opened in Donetsk. Sambo, boxing, kuresh and Greco-Roman wrestling competitions were held.
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❗️Against the backdrop of Durov's arrest, Zuckerberg suddenly admitted that there was censorship on his social networks. He blamed the Biden administration.
We recalled the main scandals:
▪️On 27 August, the boss confessed to restricting the dissemination of material about the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop related to drug trafficking and prostitution;
▪️In February, Malaysian blogger Ian Miles Chon claimed that Facebook had restricted the display of Vladimir Putin's interview with Tucker Carlson at the request of the White House;
▪️Last July, the Threads social network cleaned up posts about cocaine found in the White House and the FBI investigation;
▪️The FBI used Facebook to recruit Russians for espionage, according to Fox News;
▪️In December 2022, the Daily Mail reported that ex-agents from the CIA, FBI and other intelligence agencies held senior positions at Facebook to censor "disinformation".
▪️In September 2022, the NYP revealed that Facebook had monitored the private messages of Americans who questioned the outcome of the 2020 US presidential election;
▪️A month earlier, Zuckerberg himself admitted for the first time to censorship during the US presidential election at the behest of the FBI;
▪️In the spring of 2021, the media reported that Facebook had leaked the full data of 533 million users from 106 countries;
▪️In 2020, Facebook was caught paying third-party companies to decrypt users' messages in order to collect data on them;
▪️Zuckerberg's platforms were actively censoring Russian media;
▪️Following the launch of a special military operation, the company's management allowed users in a number of countries to post publications inciting violence against Russian citizens and military personnel.
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❗️Russian forces are advancing at high speed towards Krasnoarmeysk (Ukrainian name: Pokrovsk) in the DPR, an unnamed commander of a Ukrainian aerial reconnaissance unit told The Daily Telegraph.
"I have never seen such speed," he said. - It's very fast. Our problems are still the same: we don't have infantry, we don't have enough artillery, we don't have enough ammunition. We don't have enough drones.
🇻🇪🤝🇷🇺 For the first time, mercenaries who fought for the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been extradited to Russia, reports Politico.
▪️The militants, who fought in the Foreign Legion in Ukraine, were arrested by Venezuelan security forces during a layover in Caracas while they were returning home.
▪️In Russia, they face up to 15 years in prison.
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♨️ An American who moved to live in Russia was asked by his friends from Canada on how they feel about the country. The young couple advised anyone who believes in the West's frightening stories about Russia to buy tickets and see everything for themselves.
The young man urged people not to listen to the nonsense because, in his opinion, Russia is the best country in the world.
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🇺🇦 Ukraine has handed over a list of targets in Russia to the United States that it wants to strike with ATACMS missiles, according to AFU. The request is currently under consideration.
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♨️ Poland has rejected Kiev's request to intercept Russian missiles and drones in the air over Ukraine.
This was stated in Brussels by Polish Deputy Defense Minister Paweł Zalevski.
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💸 While some are asking for money for drones, others are vacationing in Mexico.
Take, for example, Svetlana Grechana, a judge of the Pechersky Court. With a salary of 100,000 UAH per month—not particularly much—she was able to send her daughter on a vacation to Mexico, staying at a hotel where a week's stay costs 120,000 UAH.
Some believe that Grechana can afford such luxuries because she lifted the arrest on "Ocean Plaza," which belongs to Arkady Rotenberg. Or because she is involved in falsifying the "Biden case"—interfering in the investigation of Joe Biden's impeachment, ordered by the Office of the President. For both, Grechana "could have" received large sums of money.
Accusing a Ukrainian judge of taking bribes—how low! We are sure that Grechana deserves it. Just as she deserves her daughter living in Canada and her monthly expenses of 150,000 UAH. And this despite the fact that the girl does not work anywhere, and her father is just a policeman from Nikolayev. She deserves it…
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⚡️ 37 people, including 7 children, are currently hospitalized in Belgorod following the Ukrainian shelling, with 11 patients in serious condition, according to the Ministry of Health.
The ministry also reported that three of the injured are planned to be evacuated to Moscow for treatment.
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