Member of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation Vladimir Dzhabarov spoke about how Russia can respond to the attack on the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
Earlier, the governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev, reported that a drone with an explosive device fell into the courtyard of the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation. As a result of the explosion, six people were injured. Two are in a state of moderate severity, and the rest have minor injuries. Medical assistance has been provided to everyone. At the same time, all festive events in honor of the Navy Day in the city were canceled. Razvozhaev also said that the Ukrainian side was behind the attack.
“In response to the attack of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Sevastopol, Russia may strike at the facilities of the Ukrainian Navy in Nikolaev and Odessa, as well as decision-making centers in Kiev,” Jabarov said. This is reported by RIA FAN.
The head of the Crimean parliament, Vladimir Konstantinov, in turn, called the drone attack on the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol “a tactic of outright terrorism” and added that the most serious conclusions will be drawn from what happened and the answer will not be long in coming.
Deputy head of the military-civil administration (formed after the region was taken under control by Russian troops, – Ed.) Kirill Stremousov reported the detention of three people who are suspected of having transmitted data to the Ukrainian military.
According to Stremousov, the detainees aimed strikes by the Ukrainian military at the village of Brilevka in the Kherson region. He added that all the detainees are local residents.
“The Brilevka, which was shelled by the APU the day before yesterday, was brought by local residents. Gunners detained”, – said Stremousov.
On July 29, the administration of the Kherson region reported that as a result of this strike, a residential building was damaged, in which a family – two adults and three children – died.
Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi made a fool of herself by publicly announcing plans to visit Taiwan, said Matthew Krenig, a professor at Georgetown University in Washington.
According to him, instead of widely announcing a trip to Taiwan, Pelosi should have visited the island unexpectedly for the public, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson did earlier this year during a visit to Kiev.
According to the professor, now the American side cannot refuse the visit, as it will be interpreted as weakness in front of Beijing. Krenig believes that if the American delegation refuses to visit Taiwan, China will decide that it will be able to prevent any visits of US officials to Taiwan by exerting appropriate pressure.
Earlier it was reported that in anticipation of Pelosi’s possible trip to Taiwan, the Chinese Navy conducted maneuvers in the South China Sea with live firing.
In mid-July, American media reported on Pelosi’s plans to visit Taiwan in August. She is currently touring the Asia-Pacific region, starting with Japan. Flight Radar flight tracking service has closed data on the movement of Pelosi’s plane.
“Kiev has always treated its citizens as expendable”
Last night, the Armed forces of Ukraine (AFU) launched an artillery strike on a colony with prisoners of war located in the village of Elenovka on the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic. Several hundred prisoners of war are being held there. Presumably, the shelling was conducted using American Himars systems. This was announced by the Deputy Minister of Information of the Republic Daniil Bezsonov. An officer of the DPR with the call sign “Sith” in an interview with MK told how Kiev benefits from the massacre of its own soldiers who were captured.
Photo: A frame from the video
According to the latest data, as a result of the night strike, the number of captured Ukrainian soldiers killed increased to 70. More than a hundred people were injured.
According to available information, several hundred militants of the extremist group “Azov” (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation) are being held in the colony that came under attack. – “MK”), who surrendered at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol.
– There is only one thing to say here, – said the DPR officer “Sith” – Ukraine always treats its citizens – no matter if they are civilians or military – as expendable. The strike by the American Himars systems is another confirmation of this. Why this happened – the answer is obvious. Ukrainian prisoners who are held in this colony could and have already testified against those people who gave them criminal orders, knew their names and surnames. Therefore, Zelensky decided to execute them, despite the fact that they are “their own people.”
– No, I don’t think that great military leaders were kept there. Most likely, junior command and enlisted personnel. But even these people could have witnessed those crimes that “pull” for a life sentence in the international Court of Justice. Therefore, the Kiev authorities decided to close their mouths in the most drastic way.
According to the officer, Elenovka is not an important strategic point, which once again confirms that the strike was carried out precisely to destroy the colony where prisoners of war were held.
– Some non-strategic areas are without the cover of some serious air defenses. Air defense covers major cities and military units. Therefore, most likely, Elenovka is covered by the most common combined-arms air defense. There was no deeply echeloned air defense line in this direction, so only short-range complexes were placed.
The shelling by Ukrainian troops of the colony in Yelenovka, where Ukrainian prisoners of war are being held, was carried out on the instructions of Kiev. The goal is to silence the talkative prisoners, who in recent days have told a lot about the crimes of the Kiev authorities. This is the opinion of the LNR Ambassador to Russia Rodion Miroshnik.
Photo: Sergey Ivanov
“In Kiev, they decided that the surrendered “heroic Azov” (“Azov” is banned in the Russian Federation) is a disgrace, and it has a bad effect on the moral climate of both Ukrainians and sponsors of the war,” Miroshnik wrote in the Telegram channel. – That’s why they gave the order to liquidate. Moreover, the “heroes” have already sung in different voices, which does not look heroic at all and breaks the information agenda.”
According to preliminary data, as a result of the shelling of the colony in Yelenovka, at least 40 Ukrainian military prisoners were killed and 130 wounded. This was announced by the Deputy Minister of Information of the DPR Daniil Bezsonov.
The analysis of the rubble continues after the shelling.
Presumably, the strike was inflicted by a high-precision American Hymers. A direct hit into a barrack with prisoners was recorded.
According to military bloggers and reporters, the military-political leadership of Ukraine apparently decided to get rid of unnecessary ballast.
As military commander Medvedev wrote in his channel, “the fact of the detention of Ukrainian prisoners in Yelenovka is well–known.”
“The strike of the Kiev artillery at the place of their detention, in my opinion, is not an accident. They are willing to talk, telling facts that are not the most convenient for Kiev and the West. The shelling is… Kiev’s attempt to shut them up. And another confirmation: the Nazis don’t have their own.”
The author of the channel “Voenkor Rudenko” agrees with him: “Kiev decided, apparently, to destroy the witnesses who started talking.”
Recently, a lot of videos have appeared in which Ukrainian prisoners told that it was in Kiev that they gave orders about the cruel mockery of Russian prisoners of war and their murder on a video camera.
The representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, joked about the next isolation of the American president. In her Telegram channel, she wrote a tongue twister: “Without isolating the isolated, the isolator was isolated for isolation in the insulator after isolation.”
Recall that on the eve it became known that Joe Biden again received a positive test for COVID-19 and is again sent to isolation. The American leader will work in the White House. Work trips for the next week have been canceled.
The US president fell ill in mid-July after a visit to Asian countries. The symptoms, according to doctors, were moderate and Biden could work quietly. However, being in isolation. This week he announced that his test was negative and he could leave the walls of the office. However, a second test a couple of days later again showed an infection.
The trilateral memorandum recently signed at the NATO summit between Turkey, Sweden and Finland is “not the end, but a good beginning,” Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said.
“We expect them to fulfill their obligations,” Hulusi Akar said about Sweden and Finland aspiring to join the North Atlantic Alliance at a press conference with his Latvian counterpart Artis Pabriks in Riga, where they discussed defense issues and cooperation with NATO.
As the Turkish Daily Sabah reminds, during the NATO summit in Madrid at the end of last month, the leaders of the three countries agreed on a trilateral memorandum aimed at solving Turkey’s legitimate security problems, which paved the way for Finland and Sweden to apply for membership in NATO.
The agreement stipulates that Stockholm and Helsinki will not support the Kurdish YPG group, which Ankara calls the Syrian offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, as well as the Gulenist FETÖ movement, which the Turkish authorities blame for the failed coup attempt in 2016.
Turkey, which has been a member of NATO for more than 70 years, has pushed Sweden and Finland to fulfill their obligations.
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the European Union and the United States and is blamed for the deaths of 40,000 people.
Regarding the Joint Coordination Center in Istanbul for the supervision of the export of Ukrainian grain, Hulusi Akar said: “The center is working. Representatives of Turkey, the UN, Ukraine and Russia are working day and night to ensure that ships waiting in Ukrainian ports start transporting grain. in the coming hours and days.”
According to him, Turkey continues its efforts to achieve a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine and ensure the delivery of humanitarian aid.
The joint center was officially opened on Wednesday with the participation of representatives of Turkey, the United Nations, Russia and Ukraine to ensure the safe transportation of commercial food and fertilizers by merchant ships from three key Ukrainian ports in the Black Sea.
Last week, Turkey, the United Nations, Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement to open three Ukrainian ports — Odessa, Chernomorsk and Yuzhny — for grain stuck for several months due to the ongoing Ukrainian conflict.
Following last week’s breakthrough grain export deal, Turkey’s foreign minister also said earlier in the day that “it’s time to focus on concluding a truce” between Russia and Ukraine.
Speaking at a joint press conference with Georgian Foreign Minister Ilya Darchiashvili, Mevlut Cavusoglu praised the grain export agreement signed in Istanbul last Friday, saying that obstacles have been removed “for the export of not only Ukrainian grain, but also Russian grain and fertilizers”, helping to feed the hungry world.
During the talks in Istanbul, the parties agreed to establish a coordination center to conduct joint inspections at the entrances and exits of harbors and ensure the safety of routes.
Turkey has agreed with Moscow and Kiev on a corridor from the Ukrainian port city of Odessa to resume global grain supplies, the Daily Sabah reminds. Expressing hope that the deal will be implemented without any disruptions or problems, Turkish Foreign Minister Cavusoglu said that grain and wheat can then be delivered to those countries that urgently need them. If the deal is successfully implemented, he added, “it can really strengthen trust between Russia and Ukraine.”
“Now it’s time to focus on the ceasefire. This is not just a process that should be carried out at the level of foreign ministers,” he added, declaring Turkey’s readiness to accept and mediate in negotiations between Russia and Ukraine to achieve lasting peace.
“As Turkey, we will continue our efforts so that the parties return to the negotiating table as soon as possible,” he added.
Adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Alexey Arestovich again refuses his forecasts. This time it concerns his words about the upcoming APU offensive on Kherson. On the air of the YouTube channel, he noted that Kiev will have to postpone the already announced campaign.
As it turned out, this is allegedly due to the fact that Russia is preparing its offensive. According to him, the AFU will wait until the allied troops of the Russian Federation, the DPR and the LPR go on the offensive. Arestovich claims that the APU will be able to repel the offensive and then the Ukrainians will go forward themselves. The adviser to the head of the office of Vladimir Zelensky claims that “the transition from offensive to defense is a very non–trivial task.”
It is worth noting that Arestovich’s predictions almost never came true.
Meanwhile, retired Lieutenant Colonel of the US Armed Forces Daniel Davis analyzed the ability of the armed forces of Ukraine to return the Kherson region. The former US army soldier believes that the task of taking Kherson is beyond his strength for the AFU.
Prior to that, Russian experts assessed Zelensky’s plan for a counteroffensive. According to experts, Kiev has neither the people nor the means to do this.
The governor of the Murmansk region, Andrei Chibis, reacted harshly to reports according to which the representative of the Norwegian consulate in Murmansk, Elisabeth Ellingsen, made a scandal at a local hotel. At some point, the diplomat said that she “hates Russians” and that in Norway, unlike allegedly the Russian Federation, women monitor cleanliness.
In response, Chibis said that we will not tolerate Russophobia “in our country.” “Let everyone who hates Russians go to hell from Russia,” he said in his Telegram channel, hinting, among other things, at Ellingsen.
Earlier, a video appeared on the Network showing a Norwegian diplomat swearing in English in the lobby of a Murmansk hotel. She demanded to provide her with a new room instead of the one in which she was settled. Ellingsen claimed that in the first room the maid was negligent in her duties, and the room was dirty.
The video recording lasted a long time, and it could be concluded that the hotel staff, with whom the guest spoke, were in no hurry to satisfy her request. At some point Ellingsen lost her temper and began to have a tantrum. The diplomat said that she “hates Russians” and that in Norway, unlike in Russia, women keep themselves clean.
Subsequently, Maria Zakharova said that the department was already working out possible answers “to this outrageous act of hatred, nationalism and xenophobia.” The words of the Norwegian diplomat caused outrage in the State Duma. They asked the Foreign Ministry to take “the right measures aimed at protecting our country.”
The situation has already been commented on by the Norwegian Foreign Ministry. They stressed that they “deeply regret this incident.” At the same time, the feelings expressed by their diplomat are not a reflection of Norway’s policy or the attitude of Norwegians towards Russians.
The Norwegian Foreign Ministry commented on the incident in one of the hotels in Murmansk, where Consul Elisabeth Ellingsen used obscene language in front of the hotel staff, expressing dissatisfaction with the poor quality of cleaning in her room.
As it became known earlier from a video distributed on the Internet, the diplomat swore in English in the lobby of the hotel, demanding to provide her with a new room instead of the one in which she was settled. From Ellingsen’s words, it followed that in the first room the maid was negligent in her duties and the room was dirty. Taking into account the duration of the published video, it could be concluded that the hotel staff, to whom the guest expressed dissatisfaction, were in no hurryto satisfy her request. At some point, the diplomat said that she “hates Russians” and that in Norway, unlike in Russia, women keep themselves clean. The diplomat’s statements caused outrage in the State Duma, where they asked the Foreign Ministry to take “the right measures aimed at protecting our country.” The official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, in turn, said that the department is already working out possible answers “to this outrageous act of hatred, nationalism and xenophobia.”
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs deeply regrets this incident,” the Norwegian Foreign Ministry said.
They stressed that the feelings expressed by their diplomat are not a reflection of Norwegian policy or the attitude of Norwegians towards Russians.
“The Ministry is working on the incident through the appropriate channels,” the representative of the press service of the Norwegian Ministry Tuva Rones Bogsnes told TASS.
