“If I hear another American saying: “Ah, Putin is a dictator and the Russians love autocrats, they are ignorant…” The Russians are deep, they are deeper than we are, they think things through in a deep and brooding fashion. And they are good people, they are kind people, they would take the shirt off their back to help you.”
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation in Ukraine.
?As a result of high-precision strikes of the Russian Aerospace Forces on positions of the 92nd Mechanized Brigade near Kharkov, up to 130 servicemen and 13 armoured vehicles have been destroyed.
?Temporary deployment point of units of the 95th Airborne Assault Brigade near Konstantinovka, Donetsk People's Republic, has been hit. The attacks have resulted in the elimination of up to 400 nationalists and 20 units of military equipment of AFU.
▫️As a result of active offensive by Russian troops and DPR and LPR people's militias near Soledar, Artemovsk and Avdeevka in Donetsk People's Republic, units of 54th Mechanized, 56th and 58th Mechanized Infantry brigades of AFU, having lost their combat efficiency due to heavy losses, abandoned their positions.
?Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery strikes continue against military facilities in Ukraine.
▫️2 command posts, including those of the 95th Airborne Assault Brigade near Konstantinovka in Donetsk People's Republic and nationalist formations near Ternovatoye in Zaporozhye Region, as well as 194 areas of AFU manpower and military equipment concentration have been hit.
▫️2 missile and artillery ammunition depots near Novoivanovka, Zaporozhye Region, and 1 fuel storage facility for Ukrainian military equipment near Zaporozhye-2 railway station have been destroyed.
?As part of the counter-battery warfare 3 platoons of Grad MLRS, 4 platoons of Gvozdika guns and 3 platoons of D-30 howitzers at firing positions near Lastochkino, Petrovskoye and Avdeevka of Donetsk People's Republic have been suppressed.
?Russian air defence means have shot down 4 unmanned aerial vehicles near Andreevka, Druzhnoye in Donetsk People's Republic and Izyum and Dmitrovka in Kharkov Region.
▫️In addition, 5 shells of multiple-launch rocket systems have been intercepted near Druzhnoye, Donetsk People's Republic, and Solnechnoye and Muzykovka, Kherson Region.
?In total, 261 Ukrainian airplanes and 145 helicopters, 1,673 unmanned aerial vehicles, 361 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4,244 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 786 multiple launch rocket systems, 3,251 field artillery and mortars, as well as 4,696 units of special military vehicles were destroyed during the operation.
The FSB is entrusted with the authority to organize and coordinate measures to protect the transport crossing through the Kerch Strait.
Putin signed a decree on strengthening measures to protect the transport crossing through the Kerch Strait, the electric grid energy bridge and the main gas pipeline.
According to the Minister of Emergency Situations, vehicles with a carrying capacity of 3.5 tons are currently passing through the bridge. As renovations progress, this number will increase.
Cars are now passed in portions - now 60 pieces at a time. Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow they will let 100 passes.
Tourists are also asked not to use the Crimean Bridge unnecessarily, so as not to create unnecessary congestion and traffic jams during repair work and restructuring the bridge for the duration of the repair.
Already ordered metal and gathered builders to restore the second span of the Crimean bridge — Khusnullin.
As part of the international stage of the Engineering Formula competition, qualifying tests for engineering vehicle crews have started at the Volzhskoye training ground in Volgograd region.
The second day of the Tank Biathlon 2022 international competition concluded at Alabino near Moscow
◽️The first crews of the first subgroup from Russia, Belarus, China and Kyrgyzstan competed at Alabino training ground.
⏱ As a result of the race the first crew of the Russian national team came to the finish with the result of 20 min. 12 seconds,
⏱The second place went to the tank crew from Belarus, who showed a final time of 23 min. 18 seconds.
⏱ Third were servicemen from China, who finished the track in 24 min. 23 seconds.
⏱ The crew from Kyrgyzstan finished fourth with a final time of 33 min, 50 seconds.
◽️ The second race of the first crews of the second subgroup featured the teams of Iran, Mali, Zimbabwe and South Ossetia.
⏱ South Ossetian team came out on top, with a final time of 33 minutes, 06 seconds,
⏱followed by Iran who crossed the finish line in 35 minutes and 50 seconds.
Mali finished in 41 minutes and 29 seconds.
⏱Republic of Zimbabwe finished the race in 57 min. 51 seconds.
◽️ Also on the day there was another race of the first crews of the second subgroup, in which tankers from Abkhazia, Tajikistan and Sudan competed.
⏱ The first, with a result of 34 minutes and 32 seconds, the team of Tajikistan finished first.
⏱ Republic of Abkhazia finished the individual race with a result of 44 minutes and 11 seconds.
⏱Republic of Sudan finished third with a final time of 54 minutes 38 seconds.
◽️ The second crews of the Individual Race stage of the Tank Biathlon competition will start their heats at Alabino training ground on August 15, with the national teams of Azerbaijan and Mongolia taking part.
A remarkable prediction by Russian politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky about the future of Ukraine was made during a Ukrainian TV show on March 17th, 2006.