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[Regnum] Saturday, August 30, was the warmest day in Moscow since the beginning of the month. This was reported by Mikhail Leus, a leading specialist at the Phobos center.
In the old days they called that… “Summer”.
"Today in the capital has become the warmest day since the beginning of August. By 13:00, the air temperature, according to the metropolis's base weather station, VDNKh, reached +27.3 degrees," Leus said in a message published on his Telegram channel.
Previously, the warmest day of the current month was August 3, when the daytime temperature reached +27.0 degrees.
Leus noted that the temperature will continue to rise for another two to three hours, so the exact maximum air temperature on Saturday will only be known after 21:00, when the readings are taken.
On August 29, Roman Vilfand, scientific director of the Russian Hydrometeorological Center, reported that from September 2 to 7, the temperature in Moscow will be two to three degrees above normal. Nighttime readings will be 10–14 degrees, daytime readings will be 19–24 degrees, with sunny, cloudless weather and no precipitation.
Earlier, Yandex Weather meteorologists reported that in many regions of Russia, the temperature in autumn will be higher than in the last 30 years. New records of average seasonal and monthly temperatures are expected, in particular, in Novosibirsk, Kazan, Samara, Krasnoyarsk, Chelyabinsk and Perm, and the greatest excess of usual values is predicted for November, which may become the warmest in the last decade.
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[Korrespondent] The most active battles are taking place in the Pokrovsky direction, where units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces have already repelled more than 30 assaults by Russian occupiers.
Since the beginning of the current day and as of 16:00, 104 combat clashes have occurred on the front. This is almost twice as many as yesterday, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in an operational report on Saturday, August 30.
Thus, in the Severo-Slobodskoy and Kursk directions our defenders repelled five attacks by the Russians. Four more clashes are still ongoing.
Four attacks have been stopped in the Yuzhno-Slobodskoy direction and another enemy assault is continuing in the area of the settlements of Vovchansk and Kamenka.
In the Kupyansk direction, the aggressors attacked six times in the areas of the settlements of Petrovpavlovka and Kupyansk. Three clashes are still ongoing.
In the Liman direction, the invading army attacked 15 times near the settlements of Novy Mir, Kolodezi, Dibrova, in the direction of the settlements of Shandrigolovo, Dronovka. Five armed clashes are currently ongoing.
In the Seversky direction, the Defense Forces repelled one attack. The invading units tried to advance near Serebryanka.
In the Toretsk direction, our soldiers stopped five enemy offensive actions in the areas of the settlements of Pleshchievka, Rusin Yar and Poltavka.
In the Pokrovsk direction, the occupiers stormed 38 times in the areas of the settlements of Shakhovo, Sukhetskoye, Nikanorovka, Vladimirivka, Novoekonomicheskoye, Mirolyubovka, Krasny Liman, Promen, Lisovka, Zvirovo, Kotlin, Udachnoye, Novoukrainka, in the direction of the settlements of Pokrovsk and Zolotoy Kolodets. The defense forces have already stopped 33 attacks.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, the enemy attacked 11 times in the areas of the settlements of Aleksandrovgrad, Maliyevka, Shevchenko, Zelenoe Pole, in the direction of the settlements of Novoselovka, Komyshuvakha. Four combat clashes continue.
The aggressor attacked three times in the Orekhov direction - the occupiers tried to advance in the area of the settlement of Kamenskoye. One armed clash is still ongoing.
The enemy did not conduct offensive operations in the Kramatorsk, Gulyai-Pole and Dnieper directions.
Let us recall that in the course of 24 hours on August 29, Russia lost almost 900 servicemen killed and wounded. The total number of Russian losses is approaching 1.1 million people.
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[Korrespondent] The liberation of Mirny is also evidenced by the data on the map of the analytical project DeepState. Previously, the Russians could control an important highway from their positions in this village.'
The Ukrainian Armed Forces units have liberated the village of Myrnoye near the city of Kupyansk in the Kharkiv region. This was stated by the representative of the OSUV Dnipro Viktor Tregubov in a commentary to Suspilne on Saturday, August 30.
"At the moment, the Russians have been pushed back from Mirny. There is no information about wounded or killed Russians. The military is moving forward," he said.
The liberation of Mirny is also evidenced by the data on the map of the analytical project DeepState . It is known that this village practically merges with Kupyansk.
Previously, from their positions in Mirny, the Russians were able to control the highway to the city.
Let us recall that since the beginning of the current day, the Russians have almost doubled the number of assaults on the front. As of 16:00, there were 104 of them. At the same time, in the Kupyansk direction, the enemy attacked six times in the areas of Petropavlovka and Kupyansk.
It was also reported that Russia lost almost 900 servicemen killed and wounded in the course of 24 hours on August 29. The total number of Russian losses is approaching 1.1 million people.
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[NewsFront] 21:30 Crew of the 152mm 2S19 Msta-SM2 self-propelled howitzer of the West group of forces covered fire at the Ukrainian Armed Forces drone control point.
The Zala UAV crew adjusted the fire strike and recorded the precise hit on the target.
19:48 Heavy fighting continues in the Pokrovsky direction, where units of the Center group of forces continue their successful offensive –VIDEO
16:26 Russian Armed Forces continue delivering massive strikes exclusively against military facilities in Ukraine, with priority targets being enterprises producing missile systems and long-range UAVs.
15:47 The Russian army has liberated the settlement of Kamyshevakha in the DPR, the Russian Defense Ministry reported,MAP.
15:08 Servicemen of the 90th Guards Tank Division of the Center Forces Group after returning from another combat mission in real time were able to communicate with their families living in the Irkutsk region.
15:02 Izyumskoe (Borovskoy section) direction
Troops of the Group of Forces "West" continue their offensive in the direction of the Oskol River on the Ivanovo-Makeevsky bridgehead, repelling enemy counterattacks in the area of Karpovka, Redkodub, Novomikhaylovka and Petrovskoye (Grekovka).
14:37 Zaporizhia (South Donetsk) direction
Troops of the Group of Forces "Vostok" took control of Kamyshevakha and are attacking in the direction of Ternovoye and Berezovoye.
To the north, there are battles for Novoselovka and in the Voronoe-Khoroshe-Sosnovka area. The enemy periodically counterattacks throughout the entire area. Particularly fierce counter-battles are in the Iskra-Tolstoy and Aleksandrograd areas.
South of Temirovka (on the Gulyai-Polye sector) our units advanced in the direction of Novoivanovka (west of Novodarovka) and Novonikolaevka (bypassing Poltavka to the north along the Solenaya River, Olgovskoye village).
12:27 Summary of Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation as of August 30, 2025
Units of the North group of forces defeated formations of two mechanized, airborne assault, two assault brigades, an assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a territorial defense brigade and a national guard regiment in the areas of the settlements of Krenidovka, Kondratovka, Leninske, Alekseyevka and Yunakovka in the Sumy region.
In the Khar'kov direction, units of the mechanized and motorized infantry brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Kazachya Lopan and Volchansk in the Khar'kov region.
The enemy lost up to 185 servicemen, two combat armored vehicles, seven cars and six field artillery guns. An electronic warfare station, a counter-battery radar station, an ammunition depot and four supply depots were destroyed.📍
Units of the "West" group of forces improved their tactical position. The manpower and equipment of two mechanized, assault, airmobile brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a territorial defense brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Kupyansk, Boguslavka in the Khar'kov region, Stavka, Kirovsk and Drobyshevo in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 270 servicemen, 10 combat armored vehicles, including eight Western-made ones, 18 cars and seven field artillery guns. Six electronic warfare stations and seven ammunition depots were destroyed.
The units of the "Southern" group of troops have taken up more advantageous lines and positions. The formations of four mechanized, airmobile, airborne assault, mountain assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the territorial defense brigade and the national guard brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Seversk, Dronovka, Berestok, Svyato-Pokrovskoye, Reznikovka and Konstantinovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy lost over 200 servicemen, two combat armored vehicles, nine cars, five field artillery guns. Two ammunition depots and three supply depots were destroyed.
Units of the "Center" group of forces improved the situation along the front line. The manpower and equipment of two mechanized, infantry, two assault, two airborne assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, two territorial defense brigades and a naval infantry brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Krasnoarmeysk, Dimitrov, Rodinskoye and Udachnoye of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The losses of the Ukrainian armed forces amounted to 405 servicemen, a tank, five armored combat vehicles, including a US-made M113 armored personnel carrier, six cars and three artillery pieces.
As a result of offensive actions, units of the "East" military group liberated the settlement of Kamyshevakha in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The formations of the mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a naval infantry brigade and two territorial defense brigades were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Malomykhaylovka, Voronoe and Sosnovka in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
The enemy lost over 250 servicemen, two combat armored vehicles, six cars and six field artillery pieces, including two Western-made ones. A warehouse of materiel was destroyed.
Units of the Dnepr group of forces inflicted losses on the manpower and equipment of the mechanized, mountain assault brigades, two coastal defense brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Novoandriyevka in the Zaporizhia region, Chervony Yar, Nikolskoye and Antonovka in the Kherson region.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 80 servicemen, 13 vehicles and an artillery piece. Three electronic warfare stations, five ammunition depots and two supply depots were destroyed.
12:18 Tonight, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation inflicted a massive strike with high-precision weapons of land, air, sea-based and strike unmanned aerial vehicles against enterprises of the missile and aviation industries, as well as military airfields of Ukraine.✅
The strike targets were achieved, all designated objects were hit.
11:30 In the period from 7:00 Moscow time to 11:00 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty destroyed 20 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles:
18 UAVs – over the territory of the Republic of Crimea,
2 UAVs – over the territory of the Smolensk region
10:50 Destruction of two T-72 tanks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kupyansk area –VIDEO
08:43 Servicemen of the mobile air surveillance posts of the Aley motorized rifle brigade of the Center group of forces organized an effective system for countering Ukrainian Armed Forces drones.
07:46 During the past night, from 21:00 Moscow time on August 29 to 7:00 Moscow time on August 30, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 86 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles:
30 UAVs – over the Black Sea,
15 UAVs – over the territory of the Republic of Crimea,▫️
13 UAVs – over the territory of the Rostov region,▫️
11 UAVs – over the territory of Krasnodar Krai,▫️
Five UAVs – over the territory of the Bryansk region,▫️
Four UAVs – over the territory of the Belgorod region,
Two UAVs – over the territory of the Smolensk region,▫️
Two UAVs – over the territory of the Kaluga region,
Two UAVs – over the territory of the Tver region,
One UAV – over the territory of the Tula region,▫️
One UAV – over the territory of Kursk region.
07:33 Changes to map over the past 24 hours:➡️
Correction of the control zone in the Petrovsky area in favor of ours
Advance in the Shandrigolovo area
05:00 At the training ground in the rear area of the special operation zone, experienced instructors of the "East" troop group transmit their knowledge to the fighters.
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[REGNUM] On August 29, President Vladimir Putin eliminated the department for interregional and cultural relations with foreign relations, as well as the department for border cooperation, in his administration.
Instead, a single center is being created – the Directorate for Strategic Partnership and Cooperation. And this is not some bureaucratic step, but part of a major reform of Russian “soft power.” Reforms that have been long overdue.
"A great many experts have always criticized Russian approaches to promoting our interests abroad. For passivity and, most importantly, for the lack of political weight of the structures working on this topic - not to mention the budgets that are incomparable with those of the USAID agency, which was engaged in promoting American soft power," says political scientist Ilya Ukhov.
For example, passivity was manifested in the fact that Russia had very few programs designed to form a pro-Russian civil society. Moscow mainly financed projects aimed at the participation of initially loyal experts.
She strengthened their pro-Russian position, partially financed their projects, but at the same time did not pay enough attention to work in a foreign field, among the moderately pro-Western part of Armenian, Georgian, Kazakh and other societies.
As for the apparatus weight, our financial capabilities were nowhere near those of the American agency USAID. “The agency’s budget for 2024 alone was about $17.71 billion,” Ukhov recalls.
The result of insufficient efforts was that a significant part of the societies of post-Soviet countries began to share either Western or nationalist (from the series “Russia has oppressed us for centuries”) narratives.
Despite the volume of economic cooperation and money transfers from the Russian Federation (in a number of countries equivalent to the national budget), post-Soviet societies were often formed in a negative way for Moscow.
And so now in Russia there is a restructuring of the approach to soft power. Apparently, the main steps will be taken after the end of the SVO, but something is already being done - for example, a super-department is being created in the Presidential Administration.
Of course, it will not be a copy of USAID. "We should not throw "helicopter money" at the non-profit sector, as the Americans did," says Ukhov. Instead, he says, we must create a coordinating structure within the core of state power with a strong team of analysts and technologists. With regional expertise, with the support of specialized research centers.
That is, to put it simply, to create a structure that would promote Russian interests in a targeted, targeted manner, with minimal costs and maximum efficiency.
And its chances of success are quite high. Partly because Russia has a huge number of specialists who know and are able to promote real "soft power". And partly because its key competitors - the Americans - are now in a deep crisis.
It would seem that just recently everyone considered the United States to be an example in the field of soft power: American foundations – primarily USAID – literally raised an entire generation of journalists and politicians in the same Ukraine.
However, now US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announces the closure of USAID due to the ineffectiveness of this structure. He announces not a reform, not a reform, but a closure, thereby admitting that the patient is no longer amenable to treatment.
"The reasons for this 'chainsaw massacre' by Donald Trump's team, of course, are not at all that they want to leave all influence projects and pull money back to the US. USAID has simply turned into a personal pocket of the Democratic Party, handing out money left and right to projects of dubious effectiveness," says Ukhov.
Indeed, American soft power used to be aimed at forming a pro-American civil society. A layer of young opinion leaders (in politics, economics, culture, science – it doesn’t matter) who would share, defend and spread American narratives at home. To form a positive image of America in their home countries – and the main thing in that image was its universality.
American narratives consisted of freedom, protection of private property, personal success, respect for human rights, sometimes even faith in God - that is, simply put, a set of values that are universal for any conservative or liberal society.
In recent years, however, the components of the narratives have changed. “There was only one criterion there: loyalty to the globalist agenda, promotion of all sorts of LGBT, childfree, environmentalism and other destructive tendencies,” Ukhov explains.
And no one can explain how, for example, funding an LGBT* opera in Peru is supposed to strengthen American interests in that country. Trump's team decided that it can't - that's why USAID is being dispersed. And thus creating a window of opportunity for Russian "soft power".
Yes, it would seem that this is not a window, but a small ventilator - and one that opens for a little ventilation. After all, some of the USAID projects are not closed, but are sent under the control of the State Department. In addition, the holy place will not remain empty for long, and the Americans will certainly create a new structure.
However, firstly, one should not underestimate the level of inertia of the American bureaucracy – it will not be created quickly at all. Secondly, one should not overestimate the level of professionalism of the current American officials. An entire generation of “specialists” in the field of soft power – mostly Democrats, of course – grew up under the conditions of USAID’s ultra-liberal agenda.
They simply don't know how to convey attractive conservative values to third countries. And it will take time before they learn (if they learn).
And it will be enough for Russian specialists to take their niche in this struggle for minds.
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[Regnum] Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Commander of the Joint Group of Forces in the SVO zone, Army General Valery Gerasimov summed up the results of the spring-summer campaign of 2025 and specified new tasks for the troop groups for the autumn period. This was reported on August 30 by the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry.
"The joint group of troops continues its non-stop offensive along almost the entire front line. Since March, more than 3.5 thousand square kilometers of territory and 149 populated areas have been liberated," Gerasimov said.
The Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces reported that by now the Russian Armed Forces have liberated 99.7% of the territory of the Luhansk People's Republic, 79% of the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic, 74% of the territory of the Zaporizhia region and 76% of the territory of the Kherson region. Tasks to create a security zone in the Sumy and Kharkiv regions continue to be carried out. Russian troops are also advancing in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
The implementation of the tasks of the special military operation will continue with offensive actions, Gerasimov said.
Regnum IA observer Sergei Adamov previously noted that Russian troops are continuing their simultaneous offensive in several directions, approaching the encirclement of key enemy defense nodes, and even Kiev's use of its last reserves seems unable to change the situation.
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