[RT] Sixty percent of low-income countries have been economically punished by the US, an in-depth report by the outlet has claimed
A third of the world’s nations are under some form of US sanctions, and bureaucrats in Washington can no longer handle the workload of maintaining such a complex web of economic penalties, the Washington Post has reported.
When the US Treasury Department first started to use economic sanctions against Washington’s adversaries in the 1990s, its Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) worked from a single conference room, and according to a Washington Post feature published on Thursday, was primarily responsible for tasks like “blocking American sales of Cuban cigars.”
The use of sanctions exploded after the 9/11 attacks in 2001, however, and the US now imposes three times more sanctions than any other country or international organization. These penalties target “a third of all nations with some kind of financial penalty on people, properties or organizations,” the newspaper noted, including 60% of the world’s low-income countries.
In the US, this sanctions explosion has created chaos at OFAC’s offices, two anonymous sources told the newspaper. According to the sources, OFAC struggles to process “tens of thousands of requests from the private sector,” as companies seek to avoid criminal charges for sanctions violations, while the White House has reportedly outsourced decisions on what individuals and entities to sanction to nonprofits and think-tanks.
Meanwhile, demands by OFAC staffers to rein in the use of sanctions have been shot down by higher-ups at both the Treasury and State departments, the Post’s sources claimed.
“The abuse of this system is ridiculous, but it’s not Treasury or OFAC’s fault,” Caleb McCarry, a former State Department official, told the newspaper. “They want relief from this relentless, never-ending, you-must-sanction-everybody-and-their-sister, sometimes literally, system,” he continued, adding that “it is way, way overused, and it’s become out of control.”
US Sanctions often fail to achieve their intended goal. George W. Bush’s sanctions on North Korea failed to stop Pyongyang developing nuclear weapons; Barack Obama’s sanctions on Syria failed to remove Bashar Assad from power; Donald Trump’s sanctions on Venezuela failed to incite the overthrow of Nicolas Maduro; and Joe Biden’s sanctions on Russia – numbering more than 6,000 in two years – have failed to bring an end to Russia’s military operation in Ukraine.
While a major power like Russia has weathered these sanctions and continued to grow its economy, other nations have not been so fortunate. Starvation has been an ever-present threat in North Korea since the late 1990s, while Trump’s sanctions on Venezuela caused a major economic contraction and have been blamed for the deaths of up to 40,000 people between 2017 and 2019.
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[Regnum] The Pentagon is alarmed by data on patrols of Russian and Chinese bombers over the Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska. This was stated by US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
“These relations (between Moscow and Beijing – Ed.) are a constant concern for us,” Associated Press quotes him as saying.
He said the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) "detected, tracked and intercepted" two Russian Tu-95s and two Chinese H-6s.
According to Austin, the planes did not enter American airspace, but only approached to a distance of about 320 km from the coast, but were still within the air defense zone.
The article notes that this was the first recorded instance of Chinese bombers flying within the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone. It is also the first time that aircraft from the two countries took off from the same base in northeastern Russia.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, on July 25, the Russian Aerospace Forces and the Chinese Air Force conducted a joint air patrol. As specified by the Defense Ministry, the air group included Tu-95MS strategic missile carriers of the Russian Aerospace Forces and Hong-6K strategic bombers of the PLA Air Force.
The aircraft carried out air patrols over the waters of the Chukchi and Bering Seas and the northern part of the Pacific Ocean. The ministry emphasized that the aircraft did not violate the airspace of foreign states during the patrol; the air group acted strictly in accordance with the provisions of international law. They were accompanied by Su-30SM and Su-35S fighters of the Russian Aerospace Forces.
The duration of the joint flight exceeded five hours. The event was held as part of the implementation of the military cooperation plan for 2024.
NORAD reported on July 24 that two Russian Aerospace Force bombers and two Chinese Air Force aircraft were spotted in international airspace off the coast of Alaska.
In June 2023, the Russian Aerospace Forces' Tu-95MS strategic missile carriers and the Chinese Air Force's Hong-6K strategic bombers conducted a joint air patrol in the Asia-Pacific region. The flight lasted about eight hours, with fighter cover provided by Russian Su-35S, Su-30SM and Chinese Jian-11B.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22:59 Romania cannot shoot down Russian drones over Ukraine because this would require opening fire on Ukrainian territory, said Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu: "In order to shoot them down, we would have to open fire on Ukrainian territory, and I believe that this is not yet allowed. I have not heard of a single decision on this issue." Ciolacu also said that after previous incidents involving the fall of Russian drones, security measures were taken and patrols of Romanian airspace were increased.
22:47 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Ukraine at the end of August, local TV channel Wion reports. Several sources in Delhi's diplomatic circles confirmed that the visit will most likely take place on August 23.
20:56 Zelensky said in an evening video address that the Pokrovsk direction "was and remains the main direction of Russian attacks." The president said that today he held a meeting with the Minister of Defense regarding new defense packages for Ukraine, as well as with the military command, including Syrsky. "Everything must be done and will be done to strengthen our positions, our Ukrainian ability to inflict tangible losses on the occupier," Zelensky emphasized.
18:29 Ukrenergo CEO Volodymyr Kudritsky said that the most difficult period of the summer is behind us: "We have gone through a very difficult couple of weeks, and now the situation has really improved. This is primarily due to the fact that the abnormal, record-breaking heat has finally subsided, and therefore electricity consumption has decreased. And also, of course, this is due to the fact that certain power-generating capacities have been repaired. Therefore, instead of the difficult mode of 3-4 stages, we have 1-2, which are used depending on the time. And if there are no new large-scale damage to power plants, then the situation will tend to improve. At least in the next few weeks."
Kudritsky also said that the construction of protective structures at power transmission facilities has already demonstrated its effectiveness: at substations where protection has been built, recovery from Russian attacks is much faster.
16:43 Russia is to blame for the death of more than 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war as a result of an explosion in Elenovka in July 2022, the Associated Press agency claims in its investigation, citing an unpublished UN report and eyewitness accounts of prisoners who returned to Ukraine. One of the main versions is the explosion of a planted device. At the same time, shots were fired from Grad rockets to muffle the explosions.
According to surviving prisoners, on the morning of July 27, 2022, a group of Azov soldiers was transferred to a separate room, which was located at a distance from other barracks. They were told that the transfer was due to repairs to their old barracks. Although other prisoners remained there, who later said that there had been no repairs. That same day, the guards dug trenches for themselves.
On July 28, the colony's management ordered the guard posts to be moved away from the new barracks, and the guards put on bulletproof vests and helmets, which they had never done before. In the evening, loud shots were heard from Grad, but this had happened before. And already at night, powerful explosions were heard, as a result of which the prisoners were killed. Then the survivors were placed in a separate room, which, according to UN experts, was done to prevent them from telling about what happened.
Some prisoners described how, after this, men dressed in military uniforms arrived at the scene, bringing boxes of HIMARS missile fragments with them and placing them near the barracks.
15:39 The IAEA reported that it had recorded explosions and gunfire near the Zaporizhia NPP over the past week. The sounds were heard at different distances from the plant. Observers checked scheduled work in the reactor hall and auxiliary building of power unit No. 6. At the same time, the IAEA emphasizes that during the visit to the turbine hall of power unit No. 6, observers did not have access to its western part.
14:57 Five people were injured in Kherson as a result of a Russian drone attack, OVA reported. The enemy dropped explosives from a drone on local residents who were near a store.
14:25 The G7 will conclude a framework agreement on a $50 billion loan for Ukraine by October this year, said European Commissioner for the Economy Paolo Gentiloni. According to him, G7 ministers held a meeting on the issue and managed to achieve significant progress on the technical and legal aspects of the loan. According to Reuters, the $50 billion loan will be serviced by proceeds from about $300 billion in Russian Central Bank assets frozen in the West.
13:38 Peskov said that the "illegal decision of the EU" to transfer 1.5 billion euros from the income from Russian assets to Kiev is "a reason for deliberate actions on the part of Moscow." According to him, such steps "will not go unanswered."
13:20 The General Staff confirmed that tonight, units of the missile forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in cooperation with other components of the Defense Forces, carried out a strike on the Saki airfield in Crimea. This is one of the operational airfields that Russia uses to control airspace, in particular the Black Sea, and to carry out air strikes on Ukrainian territory. Information about the consequences of the strike is being clarified.
13:07 The European Commission announced the allocation of the first tranche of 1.5 billion euros of income from Russian assets, which will be used to purchase weapons for Ukraine , said EC President Ursula von der Leyen. The money will go to the peace fund to compensate EU countries for weapons transferred to Ukraine.
12:19 Hungary faces fuel shortages if Ukraine does not resume transit of Russian oil by September, Orban's administration said.
11:28 In Nizhyn, Chernihiv Oblast, the number of people injured in a night attack has risen to 15, Mayor Oleksandr Kodola reported. A dormitory in the city was seriously damaged as a result of the attack - 24 apartments were occupied by pensioners.
11:03 As a result of night strikes on the Saki airfield in Crimea, a radar was destroyed and two soldiers were wounded, the Russian opposition publication Astra reports, citing sources in emergency services. The ammunition was also hit, and a fire occurred. An ATACMS missile hit a Russian air defense deployment site 5 km from the village of Shelkovichnoye in the Saki district. In total, according to sources, the Ukrainian Armed Forces struck Crimea with four ATACMS missiles, two of which were shot down.
10:41 The Romanian Foreign Ministry summoned the Chargé d'Affaires of the Russian Embassy, Elena Kopnina, and expressed "strong protest" to her over the wreckage of the "shahids" found on the country's territory. The Romanian department stated that "the irresponsible nature of the military strikes" by Russia is a threat to Romania's national security.
09:58 There is currently no urgent need to lower the mobilization age, Defense Ministry spokesman Dmitry Lazutkin said in an interview with NV. According to him, the number of those who have updated their military registration data currently significantly exceeds the needs of the troops. "But the situation in the war depends on many factors, and this can change. So far, we do not see such a need," Lazutkin added.
09:29 On the evening of July 25, Russians shelled the village of Kirillovka in the Chuguevsky district of the Kharkiv region, one person was wounded, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. Another person was injured as a result of shelling in the village of Volokhovskoye in the Chuguevsky district and one in the village of Kurilovka in the Kupyansky district. In total, eight people were wounded in the region over the past 24 hours.
08:24 In Donetsk Oblast, two people were killed as a result of Russian shelling on July 25 - in Toretsk and Ilyinka. Another four people in the oblast were injured in the past 24 hours, reported OVA head Vadim Filashkin.
08:16 In the Kherson region, over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was killed and seven were injured, reported the head of the OVA, Oleksandr Prokudin.
07:59 Explosions were heard in Crimea at night, the Crimean Wind Telegram channel writes about strikes on the Saki airfield in Novofedorovka. According to sources, an ammunition depot was hit, and ambulances were also on their way to the airfield. One of the Russian military publics wrote that "the morning is not good" and added: "Eternal memory..."
07:46 At night, Russian UAVs struck Ukrenergo energy facilities in the Zhytomyr and Chernihiv regions, the company reported. Household and industrial consumers in certain areas of the Zhytomyr region were de-energized. As of this morning, power supply to most consumers has been restored.
07:38 Air defense destroyed 20 of 22 Shahed-type attack UAVs at night, the Air Force reported. The drones were shot down in the Kherson, Sumy, Zhytomyr and Chernihiv regions. In addition, the Russians struck the Donetsk region with an Iskander-M ballistic missile.
07:27 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of July 26:
personnel - about 572,300 (+950) people,
tanks - 8320 (+7),
combat armored vehicles - 16,050 (+11),
artillery systems - 15,840 (+36),
MLRS - 1125 (+0),
air defense systems - 904 (+0),
aircraft - 363 (+0),
helicopters - 326 (+0),
Operational-tactical level UAVs - 12,683 (+73),
cruise missiles - 2402 (+0),
ships/boats - 28 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 21,414 (+56),
special equipment - 2668 (+7).
05:48 The US Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that the Ukrainian Defense Forces repelled one of the largest Russian mechanized attacks since October 2023 in the western Donetsk region on July 24. According to analysts, the Ukrainian Armed Forces stopped a battalion-sized Russian mechanized attack near Kostyantynivka after Russian troops advanced to the southeastern outskirts of the town.
The last time Russian forces carried out a battalion-sized mechanized attack in the Donetsk region was in March 2024. The Russians have not carried out a larger mechanized offensive since the first days of the four-month operation to capture Avdiivka in October 2023, ISW recalls. Experts suggest that the Russian army intends to advance further into Konstantinovka as part of its efforts to capture the town and cut the T-0524 Vuhledar-Konstantinovka highway.
04:53 The US government has published a report reporting errors in calculating the cost of weapons sent to Ukraine. This will allow the Pentagon to provide Kiev with additional aid in the amount of $2 billion, Reuters writes. As the government explained, such errors arise because the law adopted by Congress on providing aid to Ukraine in the amount of $61 billion does not contain clear instructions on how to evaluate the transferred weapons. It is also not always clear how to count the equipment received by Kiev under the US president's program, which allows it to use stockpiles from warehouses. The Pentagon wants to ask legislators to regulate this issue in the documents.
04:05 Russians attacked Nizhyn in the Chernihiv region with attack drones - an infrastructure facility and a dormitory were hit, one person was injured, reported the head of the OVA Vyacheslav Chaus.
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[EngMilRu] From 20 to 26 July, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have carried out 33 group strikes with precision-guided weapons and strike drones, as a result of which the following have been hit: facilities of the Ukrainian military industrial enterprises for the manufacture of gunpowder, the production and repair of armoured vehicles, and the energy infrastructure that supplied them.
In addition, UAV assembly facilities, ammunition and missile artillery weapon depots, military echelons with AFU hardware and military personnel as well as temporary deployment areas for foreign mercenaries have been hit.
Over the past week, the units of the Sever Group of Forces have improved the tactical situation and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of two AFU mechanised, motorised, and assault brigades, two marine brigades, three territorial defence brigades, and formations of the Ukrainian National Guard.
In addition, 21 enemy counter-attacks have been repelled.
The AFU losses were up to 1,385 Ukrainian troops, five U.S.-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, and 24 motor vehicles.
In addition, two Croatian-made RAK-SA-12 MLRS launchers, 23 field artillery guns, including five U.S.-made M777 howitzers as well as three field ammunition depots have been eliminated.
As a result of successful actions, the units of the Zapad Group of Forces have liberated Rozovka (Lugansk People's Republic), Peschanoye (Lugansk People's Republic), and Nizhneye (Kharkov region), and have taken more advantageous lines and positions.
Russian troops have defeated units of six brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as three territorial defence formations.
Nine counter-attacks of enemy assault detachments have been repelled.
The AFU losses were up to 3,640 Ukrainian troops, four tanks, including one German-made Leopard tank, 10 armoured fighting vehicles, including four U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carriers, and 68 motor vehicles.
In the course of counterbattery warfare, 36 field artillery guns, including nine Western-made self-propelled artillery systems, and 155mm howitzers have been hit.
Eight electronic and counter-battery warfare stations and 21 field ammunition depots have been eliminated.
As a result of active operations, the units of the Yug Group of Forces have liberated Ivano-Daryevka (Donetsk People's Republic) and improved positions along the front line.
Russian troops have launched strikes on manpower and hardware of five mechanised, two airmobile, and four assault brigades of the AFU.
Six enemy counter-attacks have been repelled.
The AFU losses were up to 4,640 Ukrainian troops, six tanks, 23 armoured fighting vehicles, including two U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carriers, and 44 motor vehicles.
In the course of counterbattery warfare, 64 field artillery pieces have been hit, 37 of them were Western-made, 12 electronic and counter-battery warfare stations as well as 13 field ammunition depots.
The units of the Tsentr Group of Forces have improved its tactical position.
Russian troops have launched strikes on eight formations of the AFU, two territorial defence brigades, and two Lut assault brigades of the National Police of Ukraine.
Forty-two counter-attacks of AFU assault detachments have been repelled.
Over the past week, the enemy losses were up to 2,525 troops, five tanks, including two U.S.-made Abrams tanks, 10 armoured fighting vehicles, 24 motor vehicles, 30 field artillery guns, and nine field ammunition depots.
The units of the Vostok Group of Forces have taken more advantageous lines and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of two AFU brigades, two territorial defence formations, and two Ukrainian National Guard brigades.
The AFU losses were up to 835 Ukrainian troops, two tanks, 30 motor vehicles, 23 field artillery guns, including 12 howitzers and 155mm self-propelled artillery systems manufactured in NATO countries as well as six electronic warfare stations.
The units of the Dnepr Group of Forces have inflicted fire damage on mechanised, infantry, mountain assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, one naval infantry brigade, three territorial defence brigades and National Guard brigades.
The AFU losses were up to 100 Ukrainian troops, one tank, three armoured fighting vehicles, and four motor vehicles.
In addition, during counter-battery warfare, 18 field artillery guns, including five U.S.-made M777 howitzers, six electronic warfare stations, and six field ammunition depots have been hit.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have eliminated two U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS launchers, seven 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS launchers, two launchers with the AN/MPQ-65 radar station of the U.S.-made Patriot SAM system, two S-300 SAM system launchers, and two ST-68 and P-18 mobile radar stations for detecting and tracking air targets.
Air defence facilities have shot down one Mi-8 helicopter of the Ukrainian Air Force, ten U.S.-made ATACMS operational-tactical missiles, two Tochka-U tactical missiles, nine French-made Hammer aerial bombs, 36 U.S.-made HIMARS projectiles, and 623 unmanned aerial vehicles.
Over the past week, 63 Ukrainian servicemen have surrendered on the line of contact, 27 of them in the area of responsibility of the Dnepr Group of Forces.
In total, 630 airplanes and 278 helicopters, 28,464 unmanned aerial vehicles, 556 air defence missile systems, 16,684 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,390 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 12,416 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 24,086 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
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[NewsFront] 23:05 The Ukrainian Armed Forces shelled the village of Bochkovka in the Belgorod Region. A woman was wounded in the attack, the region's governor Vyacheslav Gladkov reported. 21:12 Arrival of FAB-1500 aerial bombs with UMPK on buildings housing the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the village of Malye Prokhody in the Khar'kov region.
21:09 Hit on a forest plantation in the area of the village of Verkhnekamenskoye in the east of Seversk, where the Ukrainian Armed Forces are located.
20:22 Crews of the 152mm 2S3 self-propelled howitzer "Akatsiya" of the "North" group of forces performing fire missions destroyed strongholds, ammunition depots and Ukrainian Armed Forces manpower in the area where the special military operation is being conducted.
19:31 Employees of the military-civil administration (MCA) of the Khar'kov region and volunteers came under mortar fire from the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the village of Stantsiya Topoli, the head of the Russian administration of the region, Vitaly Ganchev, told journalists.
18:17 Crews of Mi-28NM helicopters are destroying strongholds and manpower of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of responsibility of the North group of forces.
17:04 Artillery attack from the Ukrainian Armed Forces was recorded in the direction of Ilyinka – Donetsk (Petrovsky district): three 155mm rounds.
17:03 The crew of the Ka-52M VKS helicopter successfully struck units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the SVO.
16:22 RF Armed Forces struck a Ukrainian T-64 tank near the village of Konstantinovka in the South Donetsk direction.
16:21 The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 13,825 servicemen in all areas of the special operation over the past week.
16:17 The main points from the new briefing of the Russian Ministry of Defense:
– Russian air defense forces shot down a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter and 623 drones in a week.
– In a week, the Southern Group liberated Ivano-Daryevka in the DPR and improved the situation along the front line.
– The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 800 soldiers in a week as a result of the actions of the Dnepr group of forces.
– Over the course of a week, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 4,640 servicemen in the area of responsibility of the Southern Group of Forces.
– Over the course of a week, the “North” group defeated nine enemy units, repelled 21 counterattacks, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 1,385 soldiers.
– Units of the “Center” group improved their tactical position over the course of a week and defeated the “Lyut” assault brigade.
– The “East” group took more advantageous positions in a week, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 835 soldiers and 2 tanks.
– A total of 63 Ukrainian soldiers surrendered within a week, 27 of them in the area of responsibility of the Dnepr group.
– Over the course of a week, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 2,525 soldiers and five tanks, including 2 Abrams, in the area of responsibility of the Center group.
– The “West” group of the Russian Armed Forces liberated the settlements of Rozovka in the LPR and Peschanoye Nizhneye in the Khar'kov region and occupied more advantageous positions.
– The Russian Armed Forces destroyed two HIMARS MLRS launchers, seven Grad MLRS, two Patriot SAM systems, and two S-300 SAM launchers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in one week.
– The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 3,640 servicemen and 4 tanks, including Leopards, in the area of responsibility of the Russian group “West” in a week.
15:20 Around 12:00 Moscow time, an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using an aircraft-type UAV against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation was thwarted.
Two Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed over the territory of the Belgorod region by air defense systems on duty.
15:19 Over the past week, the Russian Armed Forces have carried out 33 strikes with high-precision weapons and UAVs on Ukrainian military-industrial complex enterprises and the energy facilities that supply them.
14:15 Explosions were heard in Zaporozhye.
14:14 Msta-B howitzer crews of the West troop group perform fire missions destroyed a concentration of manpower and a machine gun nest of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of a special military operation.
13:11 More than 2,500 people in the Kursk region were left without electricity due to damage to power lines by Ukrainian drones, acting governor of the region Alexey Smirnov reported inTelegram channel.
"Today, explosive devices were dropped from Ukrainian copters in Belovsky District, and power lines were damaged. Several settlements with a total of over 2,500 residents were left without power," Smirnov wrote.
12:31 Crews of Su-34 fighter-bombers inflicted an attack on a temporary deployment point of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of responsibility of the West group of forces.
11:46 Artillery attack from the Ukrainian Armed Forces was recorded in the direction of: 11:40 – Ilyinka settlement – Donetsk city (Petrovsky district): three 155mm rounds.
10:39 By the Iskander-M OTRK crew of the Russian Armed Forces struck a missile and artillery weapons depot of the 56th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the hidden storage site of artillery weapons and armored vehicles in the industrial zone of the settlement of Kramatorsk
As a result of the missile strike, a Khimars MLRS launcher, five 122mm BM-27 Grad multiple launch rocket systems, five tanks and up to 10 armored combat vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed.
09:55 A Ukrainian UAV struck an inactive enterprise in the Gorshechensky district of the Kursk region. The explosion damaged fences and knocked out windows in several households, but there were no casualties, acting governor Alexey Smirnov said.
09:43 Over the past 24 hours, military investigators from the Russian Investigative Committee recorded crimes committed by armed formations of Ukraine against the civilian population of the DPR.
As a result of artillery attack using 155mm caliber barrel artillery in the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka, five people were injured; in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, one person was killed and another was injured; in addition, as a result of the detonation of an explosive device in the settlement of Mariupol, a teenager born in 2016 was injured.
At the same time, the armed formations of Ukraine carried out artillery attack of the Central City, Nikitovsky and Kalininsky districts of Gorlovka and the Petrovsky and Kirovsky districts of Donetsk over the course of 24 hours, using 155mm artillery.
In total, five residential buildings and 4 civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged by DPR shelling.
09:40 The Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to shell civilian targets in Donbass.videothe moment of “arrival” at the “Sofia” store in Gorlovka (DPR).
09:34 The criminal Kiev regime continues to shell the civilian infrastructure of the settlements of the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Armed Forces of Ukraine released:
– Three rounds to the settlement of Dnepryany;
– Six rounds in the village of Kakhovka;
– Five rounds to the settlement of Staraya Zburyevka;
– seven rounds to the settlement of Aleshki;
- n.p. Korsunka four rounds;
– Four rounds in the village of Kazachiy Lagerya.
As a result of the attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces UAV on the settlement of Novaya Kakhovka, unused warehouses and a recyclable materials warehouse of one of the enterprises were damaged.
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the villages of Peschanivka, Golaya Pristan, Kardashinka, and Maslovka, firing a total of 14 rounds from cannon artillery.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being clarified.
08:18 The Russian Armed Forces struck a warehouse in the Ukrainian-controlled Kramatorsk, where long-range missiles were stored, said Sergei Lebedev, coordinator of the Mykolaiv underground. The underground also reported a strike on a Ukrainian Armed Forces deployment point in the city of Nizhyn in the Chernihiv region, with about a dozen foreign mercenaries among the casualties.
08:07 Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen shot a family returning home from Kyiv-controlled Donetsk New York, said Yuriy Mukhin, who was evacuated from the village of Novgorodskoye in the suburbs of Toretsk –video.
08:00 Over the night, air defense systems destroyed and intercepted four Ukrainian UAVs over the Rostov region and two over the Kursk region, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.
Just from where do the US and Euro thieves expect the Russians to recover their stolen funds?
[Regnum] The United States of America expects that the G7 countries will be able to agree by October to provide Ukraine with a $50 billion loan using frozen Russian sovereign assets. This was stated by US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. A loan? Where will Ukraine get the income to pay it back? A "loan"
"We had constructive talks. We are working closely to try to move this forward (the $50 billion loan to Ukraine from frozen Russian assets. - Ed.). I think we can complete this by October," she said in a conversation with Reuters on the sidelines of a meeting of G20 finance ministers in Brazil.
According to her, the negotiations included discussions of demands from the US to provide guarantees that the assets would remain frozen for a longer period.
Earlier, Bloomberg reported on the United States' concerns about the long-term ability to provide Ukraine with financial resources at the expense of profits received from Russian assets, since the extension of the sanctions regime requires a unanimous decision by all 27 EU member states every six months. In this regard, the European Union proposed two options: an indefinite freeze on assets and an extension of anti-Russian sanctions on assets every 18, 24 or 36 months.
On July 26, the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced the allocation of the first tranche of €1.5 billion in revenues from frozen Russian assets for weapons purchases for Kiev. It was noted that the funds would be sent to the so-called European Peace Fund to compensate Western countries that provide weapons to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov said on Friday that Moscow will not leave the transfer of income from frozen sovereign assets of the Russian Federation for the purchase of weapons for Ukraine unanswered. According to him, the actions of the Russian side will be thought out.
The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova also warned of a harsh response, stating that decisions will be made within the framework of the national interests of the Russian Federation.
Text taken from the an unidentified RIA Novosti article.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] The detained former Deputy Minister of Defense Bulgakov lobbied for the interests of JSC Gryazinsky Food Plant, using his official position.
A case has been opened against the management of this JSC under the article on misappropriation of property, the agency's interlocutor said.
A system was created for supplying low-quality food to the troops at inflated prices, even in the conditions of the Second Military District. Check the expiration dates on frozen foods from your local BX/PX.
The former deputy minister received kickbacks from commercial entities whose interests he lobbied for when concluding contracts with the Defense Ministry, the agency's interlocutor noted.
According to the latest open declaration of 2018, the former Deputy Minister of Defense Dmitry Bulgakov, detained in a corruption case, earned 15.2 million rubles in a year.
During Bulgakov's service as deputy minister, his wife acquired a land plot of 23 acres and a house with an area of more than 620 square meters.
A premium Lexus RX350 crossover was also registered in the name of the general's wife. At the same time, her income in 2018 was only 226,000, similar amounts were in previous years, with the exception of 2010, when she sold the house and earned about 10 million.
P.S. Surely among the readers of the channel there are people who have tried the products of the Gryazinsky Food Plant, for interest, write how you thought this product was of high quality/low quality, was it noticeable that they were messing with the composition? The contents of the Russian MRE looks good to me. Beats soup, black bread and tea, the most common food served to Russian/Soviet troops back in the day.
[Regnum] Former Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia Dmitry Bulgakov was detained on suspicion of corruption, the FSB reported on July 26.
The official representative of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Svetlana Petrenko, stated that the court chose a preventive measure for Bulgakov in the form of detention.
Now the security forces are conducting the necessary investigative actions with him. The criminal case is being investigated by the Main Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.
Bulgakov held the post of Deputy Minister of Defense from 2008 to 2022. In September 2022, he was relieved of his post due to a transfer to another job.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, at the end of April and in May it became known that four high-ranking officials of the Ministry of Defense had been detained.
Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia Timur Ivanov was detained on April 23. He was accused of accepting a bribe on an especially large scale and taken into custody.
On May 14, Petrenko reported the arrest of the head of the Defense Ministry's personnel department, Yuri Kuznetsov. He was accused of accepting a bribe on an especially large scale. He is in pretrial detention by a court decision.
Former commander of the 58th Army Ivan Popov was accused of fraud in the construction of defensive fortifications and theft of 1,700 tons of metal structures, the value of which is estimated at 130 million rubles. He is under house arrest.
The head of the Main Communications Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Vadim Shamarin, was accused of accepting a bribe on an especially large scale; the court arrested him until October 21. The general was removed from his post. Shamarin partially admitted his guilt.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] In Kiev, Ukrainian comedian Sergey Chirkov was forcibly removed from the stage of the Atlas Weekend festival in Kiev for reading the election promises of the country's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, voiced by him during the debates in 2019. This was reported by the publication Politika Strany.
In particular, the election promises spoke of the end of the era of poverty, the end of nepotism and a quick end to the war.
Eyewitnesses said that Chirkov read out quotes without giving them an assessment or joking. The microphone was taken away from the stand-up comedian by a security guard, who removed him from the stage.
The festival's page called the incident an "unfortunate misunderstanding" between Chirkov and one of the team's employees, "who exceeded his official authority and behaved in an unacceptable manner due to a false interpretation of what was happening on stage."
"For our part, on behalf of the organizers, we publicly apologize to Sergey and his manager Daria for their unprofessional and unethical behavior and violation of physical boundaries," the organizers write.
Read it out unenthusiastically. They should take it to the TCC, not apologize.
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[Regnum] Data on more than 3.2 thousand foreign mercenaries participating in the conflict in Ukraine on the side of the Kiev regime has appeared online. They were published on July 26 by the hacker group RaHDit (“Evil Russian Hackers”).
Among them is the assistant commander in the personnel unit of the first battalion of the international legion of territorial defense of Ukraine Evelin Ashenbrenner, born in 1981, who lives in the United States. Also on the list is a participant in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi Maurins Kristaps, who lives in Latvia. Then he took 21st place in the luge competition.
Hackers also published information about Pablo Garrido Mancedo from Spain, who fought for Kurdish militants in Syria, Juris Alberts Ulmanis, a Latvian author of the book When War Becomes Personal, and Pierce Tanner Reed, a former Oakland police officer born in 1993. In July 2023, Reed was arrested in Indiana for child molestation and assisting in the commission of crimes with minors.
“On the opening day of the Olympics in France, we want to remind the world community that their compatriots are involved in the crimes of the [head of the Kiev] regime [Volodymyr] Zelensky,” the hackers said in a message on the Telegram channel.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, on June 18, hackers from RaHDit published information about more than 1,200 Ukrainian drone operators, including the entire staff of the 383rd separate regiment of remotely controlled aircraft of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Among them were those previously convicted of violence against minors.
According to the Investigative Committee of Russia, it was the 383rd separate regiment that was involved in the attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the Shaikovka airfield in the Kaluga region, Dyagilevo in the Ryazan region, and Engels in the Saratov region.
On May 9, hackers broke into Ukrainian TV channels and showed the Victory Parade in Moscow. Russian hackers also broke into a hundred Ukrainian websites, mainly universities, lyceums, schools and other educational institutions, posting Victory Day greetings and a quote from Russian President Vladimir Putin about the brotherhood of the two nations.
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[Regnum] In the last few days, Polish and Ukrainian politicians have once again argued about the Volyn massacre of 1943, which is a stumbling block in relations between Warsaw and Kiev.
Thus, the head of the Polish Ministry of Defense, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, stated on July 26 on the air of the radio station TOK. FM that the Ukrainian authorities, due to political obstacles and security issues, refuse to allow the Polish side to exhume the remains of the victims of the Volyn massacre. He also called this only a pretext and called on Kiev to agree to the exhumation as a gesture of goodwill.
At the same time, on July 23, Kosinyak-Kamysh threatened Kiev on the air of the Polsat TV channel that Ukraine would not be accepted into the European Union until the issue of the Volyn massacre was resolved. According to him, in relations between Warsaw and Kiev "not everything is ideal" due to unresolved historical issues.
In turn, the Minister-Coordinator of the Polish special services, Tomasz Siemoniak, noted on July 26 on the air of the radio station Polskie Radio that the Polish authorities expect Kiev to take a clearer and more decisive position on this issue.
In response to this, on July 24, in a conversation with the Ukrainian publication Telegraf, member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Humanitarian and Information Policy Mykola Knyazhytsky called the issue of the Volyn tragedy “fiction” and “verbal PR.”
Another member of the Verkhovna Rada, Volodymyr Vyatrovych, who previously headed the Institute of National Remembrance of Ukraine, wrote on social networks that there are still people in Warsaw who are trying to link the current relations between the two countries to assessments of the past, actualizing only the topic of the conflict.
Polish judge Tomasz Szmidt, who was forced to flee Poland to Belarus and seek protection because of his political position, noted in an interview with the editor-in-chief of the Regnum news agency Marina Akhmedova on July 24 that the Kiev regime does not give permission for the reburial of the victims of the Volyn massacre because it is not beneficial for Ukraine. He added that if the remains were to be moved, the whole world would see what Ukrainian nationalists did to the civilian population during World War II.
Schmidt clarified that Warsaw believes that this should be forgotten and Kiev should be helped, since it hates Russia more, but ordinary Polish citizens have no illusions about this.
"A monument to the victims of the Volyn massacre was recently officially erected, it was erected with people's money, not with state money. Moreover, this monument could not be erected since 2014, it was a problem. But the Poles got their way," he said.
In February 1943, Ukrainian nationalists began an operation to exterminate the Polish population of Volyn in Western Ukraine, culminating in the events of July 11, 1943, when units of the OUN and UPA attacked about 100 Polish settlements. These events were called the Volyn massacre, the victims of which were 100,000 civilians. Warsaw considers these events to be genocide of the Polish population.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
