A Ukrainian Air Force 35mm Skynex anti-aircraft gun in action, including the interception of a pair of Russian Shahed drones and a cruise missile, either a Kalibr or Iskander-K.
KASPAROV: Why can't NATO shoot down Russian missiles over Ukrainian territory? When Iran attacked Israel, the Americans, French, British shot down Iranian missiles. Why can one shoot down Iranian missiles flying at Israel but cannot shoot down Russian missiles flying at Ukraine?
This is Big 🔥
🇺🇸Trump: "Look, We're not involved. I don't care that Russia stepped up attacks on civilians. There's an ocean between us."
🇺🇸Biden: "Look, It's not just that he's breaking NATO and siding with Putin over our allies. It's that he's made America look worse abroad than any president.
Dude's acting like Putin wrote his script." 🔥
He indirectly proved he's Moscow's asset. 🔥💪
“This is a damn important thing.” Senator Blumenthal became emotional while presenting the sanctions bill against Russia
Democratic U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal, one of the co-authors of the “sanctions from hell” bill, recalled during his speech just how important the legislation had been to the late Lindsey Graham.
“I would like to end with some brilliant rhetorical flourish, but I would prefer simply to recall the last words Senator Graham said to me: ‘This is a damn important thing. We did a good job.’”
Looking across the chamber at Graham’s former seat, Blumenthal added that he was with them today and would be proud of what they were doing.
Es gibt nur einen Akteur, der eine Fluchtbewegung von Mali aus über Algerien über Marokko in Richtung Ceuta und Melilla in Bewegung setzen kann, und gleichzeitig eine Mehr-Staaten Social Media Kampagne für den nächsten Ansturm auf den 15. August koordiniert verbreiten und koordinieren kann. In Rumänien schlagen Drohnen ein, in Polen ein Marschflugkörper, um die Entschlossenheit der Flugabwehr der NATO zu testen, in Deutschland wird ein Flughafen mit einer Drohne mit Semtex angegriffen und Anschläge auf einen Drohnen-Startup CEO vorbereitet, weil unsere Geheimdienst-Befugnisse einer der schwächsten in Europa sind. Spanien wird mit einem Ansturm von illegalen Migranten an seinen Außengrenzen angegriffen, weil sie hier in Europa die Schwächsten beim Grenz-Schutz sind. Das ist in der Gesamtbetrachtung nichts anderes als das nächste Level der hybriden Kriegsführung Russlands gegen Europa, und wir sollten mal aufhören diese Geschehnisse als Einzelereignisse zu betrachten, denn das sind sie nicht, und das ist vor allem erst der Anfang. Jetzt ist strategisches Denken und Handeln in größeren Zusammenhängen gefragt.
‼️NEU — WSJ bestätigt unabhängig die Meldung von CNN:
Die mit Sprengstoff beladene Drohne, die am Flughafen Leipzig in DE 🇩🇪 entdeckt wurde, gehört wohl zur RU 🇷🇺 Regierung, so 🇺🇸 US-Beamte, die mit Geheimdienstberichten über den Vorfall vertraut sind.
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JUST IN: The Senate overwhelmingly passed the late Sen. Lindsey Graham’s bipartisan Russian sanctions bill in an 86 to 11 vote.
The legislation would punish countries that keep buying Russian oil, gas, and other exports, cutting off a major source of funding for Putin’s war in Ukraine.
Lindsey Graham’s sister, Sen. Darline Graham, presided over the vote and announced its final passage.
🇩🇪 Photos have emerged of the drone with explosives from Leipzig Airport in Germany
As can be seen in the photos, the drone is located right next to an aircraft belonging to the Ukrainian company Antonov Airlines, which handles cargo air transport.
After the UAV was discovered, a nitrate test was conducted that returned a positive result, indicating the presence of explosives.
X-ray images in turn showed that the package contained a detonator. It later turned out that the detonator was defective, so no explosion occurred. The detonator was removed using a bomb-disposal robot.
Airport operations were restricted for several hours. The newspaper also reported that another cargo aircraft, 6 kilometers from the airport, collided with an unknown object at an altitude of 400 meters; minor damage was found on the front of the plane.
Leipzig/Halle Airport is considered a major transit hub for the delivery of Western weapons to Ukraine.
According to the German aviation safety service, in the first half of the year there were already 145 cases of air traffic restrictions due to the appearance of unidentified UAVs in the skies over the country’s airports.
🔴 EXCLUSIVE: An interview with the human safari survivor.
Yuri, 52, was sorting out garlic at his farmers market stand when a Russian drone started to chase him. It pursued Yuri around in circles and then struck him.
Yuri and his doctor spoke to me at a hospital in Kherson🧵
🇺🇦🇪🇺 Selenskyj kündigt "Freyja" an: eine ukrainisch-europäische Antwort auf Russlands ballistische Raketen, mit zehn Staaten und zwölf Herstellern im Rücken.
Wie bereits berichtet wurde, war Trump kurz zuvor von seiner Zusage abgerückt, der Ukraine eine Lizenz zur eigenen Patriot-Produktion zu erteilen. Nun stellte Selenskyj bei einem Treffen mit Botschaftern das Projekt "Freyja" vor, Kernstück der neu gegründeten Koalition zur Abwehr ballistischer Raketen. "Die Ukraine ist in der Lage, sowohl die Rakete selbst als auch die Startvorrichtung herzustellen", so Selenskyj laut European Pravda. Entscheidend sei die Zusammenarbeit mit europäischen Staaten und Unternehmen, die über Radare und Sensoren verfügen.
Der Koalition gehören laut Selenskyj zehn Länder an: die Ukraine, Dänemark, Frankreich, Deutschland, Italien, die Niederlande, Norwegen, Spanien, Schweden und Großbritannien, dazu zwölf Herstellerunternehmen.
Das Projekt sei offen für weitere Teilnehmer, auch für Staaten ohne eigene Fertigungskapazität, die stattdessen vorhandene Patriot-Interceptoren beisteuern könnten.
Wo westliche Zusagen stocken, entsteht parallel eine europäisch-ukrainische Eigenlösung – diesmal nicht als Ankündigung allein, sondern mit einer konkreten Ländergruppe und Industriepartnern im Rücken.
Schreibt gerne einen Kommentar drunter, und sei es nur ein Wort.
Quellen: https://t.co/SlvdVmVmYn Pravda, Berliner Zeitung
As someone living in Kyiv, I’m begging you:
Please help us stop this.
Almost every night, russia strikes Kyiv with ballistic missiles, hitting civilians, homes, and warehouses.
We can’t stop these missiles because we don’t have enough Patriot systems.
People are dying.
Please don’t look away. Share what’s happening in Ukraine. Help us save lives.
Once again we wake up to the news of horrible atrocities by Russia through its aerial attacks on Ukraine.
Russia must pay for the destruction it has caused.
And we are using the proceeds from the immobilised Russian assets to make sure it does.
We are making a further €1.4 billion of them available to Ukraine.
This will support Ukraine's continued resistance against Russia's illegal war.
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🇩🇪 Russia planned a terrorist attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport in Germany
A drone carrying a package with a detonator and explosives was discovered near a parked Ukrainian Antonov Airlines cargo aircraft.
State and federal police deployed an explosives-disposal robot to isolate and secure the dangerous payload.
NATO and local intelligence investigators are treating the incident as a highly targeted state security crime, looking into possible Russian hybrid warfare or sabotage networks.
❗️ Ukrainian forces will destroy Russia’s ballistic missile launchers
Zelensky said Ukraine is preparing measures to target the systems used to launch ballistic missiles at Ukrainian cities.
The goal is not only to intercept the missiles in the air, but also to destroy their launchers inside Russia.
Last night, Ukraine was unable to shoot down any of the 28 missiles launched by Russia: 24 ballistic missiles and 4 hypersonic "Tsircon" missiles. Since last Saturday alone, over 50 ballistic missiles have been launched at Kyiv and nearby.
Reports that the United States spent the bulk of its interceptor missile stocks in Iran appear to be accurate; the US is experiencing shortages and is now unable to supply them in the quantities Kyiv needs. It must be understood: there are no Patriot interceptor missiles available in the necessary quantities, and there will not be, given the scale of Russian and allied missile production and the intensity of the attacks.
This raises monumental questions about how Ukraine will navigate through the winter season - if Ukrainian energy infrastructure remains defenseless and is destroyed, it will lead to a humanitarian catastrophe and a massive wave of migration into the EU.
Currently, not only Ukraine but also Europe remains unprotected. Will Russia wait several years for the realization of the joint Ukrainian-European ballistic missile interceptor project "Freyja" without attacking Europe? It is best not to wait for an answer to this question, but to act preemptively.
There are currently two obvious ways to eliminate the ballistic threat.
1. Strikes on enterprises involved in the supply chain of critical components - primarily solid-fuel rocket motors. A massive strike using drones and "Flamingo" missiles must be carried out against them to induce fires. This also includes continuing strikes against the assembly plant in Votkinsk, Udmurtia. One successful strike with a "Flamingo" missile was already carried out there in February of this year. This effort must be sustained with a coordinated barrage of both "Flamingo" missiles and drones.
2. Destruction of Russian launchers. This requires thorough daytime reconnaissance of storage sites for "Iskander" launchers in the Bryansk and Kursk regions, as well as their nighttime movement routes toward launch pads, the list of which is limited. To achieve this, close coordination with partner intelligence services regarding launch site data is essential. The US possesses reconnaissance satellites capable of tracking the nighttime movement of "Iskanders" to launch locations using infrared and radar sensors. If such information were provided and shared with Ukraine, it would be possible to attempt strikes on "Iskander" columns using Fire Point drones equipped with mesh networking, capable of maintaining stable communications at a depth of 150–200 km.
The Russian ballistic threat poses a danger to all of Europe. Failing to counter it now, before winter arrives, could lead to irreversible consequences.
📷: Russian attacks last night
Today, many were shocked by yet another video of the drone “safari” Russians are carrying out against civilians in Kherson. A Russian drone deliberately hunted down a man selling vegetables and detonated right next to him. The Russians even admitted to the crime, showing zero regret and openly boasting about tormenting people. The man was wounded in the blast. Every single day, ordinary people in Kherson face these Russian "safaris."
The world must see this. It must see every piece of evidence that Russia has gone mad and that its soldiers take pleasure in killing and abusing civilians. Without pressure on Russia, the dismantling of its capacity for aggression, and real security guarantees, it is simply impossible to imagine the world being able to coexist with this evil. We must remain resolute in defending life. We must act and support life in ways that force Russia to seriously think about peace rather than expanding the range of its drones.
This is not just about Ukraine. Russia’s campaign against human life must be stopped here in Ukraine before it spreads further. Finland and Kazakhstan, the Baltic states and Poland, the countries of the South Caucasus, Romania, and Moldova—all should work together to ensure real security guarantees and bring Russia’s war to an end. Peace is needed, which requires cooperation among everyone in the world who truly values peace. Thank you to everyone standing with Ukraine!
NEU — Trump werde die Verabschiedung des parteiübergreifenden Sanktionspakets gegen Russland 🇷🇺 unterstützen, das vom verstorbenen Senator Lindsey Graham vorangetrieben wurde, teilte ein Vertreter des Weißen Hauses CNN mit. Graham wird im US Senat bis zu den Midterms von seiner Schwester vertreten, gab gestern des Gouverneur von South Carolina in ihrem Beisein bekannt. Sie versprach auf der gemeinsamen Pressekonferenz das politische Erbe ihres verstorbenen Bruders fortzusetzen.
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Russian opposition figure Igor Eidman claimed that Lindsey Graham may have been killed by Kremlin intelligence services
According to sociologist Eidman, two factors point in this direction — the timing and the location.
Moscow had a motive: Graham actively advocated for increased pressure on Russia and support for Ukraine. He had also recently said that Trump supported his bill introducing new “hellish sanctions” against the Russian Federation.
He was considered the most pro-Ukrainian politician in the U.S. president’s circle. He promoted military assistance for Kyiv, including Tomahawk missiles, and lobbied for security guarantees for Ukraine.
Eidman claims that the Kremlin may have viewed the senator as one of the people influencing Trump’s shift in position and his departure from his previous approach toward Russia.
As a second argument, he pointed to Graham’s trip to Ukraine. According to the sociologist’s theory, a possible poisoning could have occurred during the visit, for example, through the use of a slow-acting substance.
He suggested that Russian intelligence services could have used remaining agent networks in Ukraine to carry out such an operation.