Serbian Anti-Mining Protests Gather Up to 27,000 Participants - Preparation Western-backed coup

Up to 27,000 people participated in protests against lithium mining in Serbia on Saturday, there were serious violations of public order, Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said.

Opponents of lithium mining in Serbia rallied on Saturday evening along the blocked central streets of Belgrade, then blocked the bridge on the Budapest-Thessaloniki international highway, and then interrupted the work of the central railway station.

"The Serbian Interior Ministry reports that after the end of the protest on Terazije Square, serious violations of public order and the law occurred," the interior ministry quoted Dacic as saying. The rally itself in the center of Belgrade, which began at 19:00 (20:00 Moscow time), was peaceful, the minister noted.

"According to police estimates, there were between 24,000 and 27,000 people, but after the rally, the organizers acted contrary to what they wrote in the application for holding a mass gathering, violating public order, as well as blocking international transport links, thereby jeopardizing the safety of citizens," he said.

Dacic also noted that the central railway station in Belgrade had been blocked "according to the scenario of color revolutions." The minister emphasized that everyone who committed criminal offenses and misdemeanors during the action would be held accountable.

The Serbian Interior Ministry reported on Friday that four people had been detained on suspicion of preparing riots at a rally on Saturday. Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Ivica Dacic called on citizens to maintain peace and order at the rally and warned that any violation of the law would be stopped.

Protests continue in Serbia, caused by plans to extract and process a lithium-containing mineral in the west of the country. On Saturday, a mass rally was held under the slogan "There will be no mine." The organizers called themselves environmental movements of Serbia.

Earlier, the rallies in various cities of the country were supported by the pro-Western opposition and the media. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday that he had received official information from Russia about a coup being prepared in his country. The head of the Serbian state added that "those who dream of doing something" would not be able to do it and citizens should not worry.

Deposits of the jadarite (sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide) were discovered in the Jadar River area near the city of Loznica in western Serbia in 2004. In 2006, the new mineral was named after the river. According to experts, the deposit may contain up to 10% of the world's explored lithium reserves.

Rio Tinto, whose geologists discovered the deposit, previously announced that it planned to invest $2.4 billion in mining the mineral and producing lithium from it. Vucic said the production would have to meet all "the highest environmental and technological standards." The head of state and the Serbian government announced plans to hold a referendum to approve the project due to protests from environmental activists.

Serbian president says Russia warns of preparations for Western-backed coup

Moscow has warned Belgrade of preparations for mass riots initiated by representatives of Western countries, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told reporters.

Asked about Western preparations for a coup in the country, he said: "Today, we received official information from the Russian Federation."

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic
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"The information was provided through formal channels and we are working to sort it out. The Security and Information Agency (Serbia's intelligence body - TASS) is responsible for that; besides, people in the Serbian government and other agencies who specialize on these things are doing their job," Vucic stressed.

"Those who dream of achieving something by force will fail. Serbia is consistently moving forward and they cannot and will not stop it. They will never be able to stop it again. This is my message to everyone, and our people have nothing to worry about," the head of state concluded.

Earlier, the Vecernje Novosti newspaper reported that members of Serbia’s opposition were ready to take advantage of the pro-Western protests in Belgrade planned for August 10 to seize the presidential palace, eliminate the head of state and launch the same scenario as in Ukraine.

Russia’s assessments and opposition’s calls

According to Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, the assessment of the situation in Serbia indicates that malicious forces have resumed attempts to sow instability.

On July 19, Serbia and the European Union signed a memorandum of understanding on strategic partnership in the field of raw materials, which called for environmentally clean production of lithium in Serbia. The Serbian opposition is strongly opposed to possible lithium mining, saying it could put at risk the lives of people and harm the environment, and calling for nationwide protests.

Explosions Rock US Occupation Base in Syria as Pentagon Ramps Up Illegal Troop Deployments

The US operates about a dozen military bases in strategic energy and food-rich areas of northeastern Syria. Washington has used the occupation in combination with crushing sanctions as part of a strategy aimed at suffocating Damascus economically after failing to oust its internationally-recognized government in a CIA-backed dirty war.

US occupation forces went on high alert early Saturday morning after a kamikaze drone attacked the Kharab al-Jir Air Base in Syria’s Hasakah province.

Regional media citing local sources reported “multiple explosions” inside the base, with no information given on the extent of possible damage to the facility or possible casualties. No group or faction has claimed responsibility.

Media reported earlier that a US military cargo aircraft had arrived at the base on Friday, carrying military and logistical equipment and about two dozen troops.

An airbase of the US forces stationed in Syria was purportedly attacked by a drone, local media reported. Several explosions sounded and a fire broke out on the territory of the US base at Kharab al-Jir airfield in Al-Hasakah province, the Al Mayadeen TV channel said.

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Several US, coalition personnel suffer minor injuries in Syria attack, US official says

An anonymous US defense official confirmed to US media that the base had been targeted. “Initial reports do not indicate any injuries, however medical evaluations are ongoing. We are currently conduction a damage assessment,” the official said.

Several U.S. and coalition personnel were wounded in a drone attack on Friday in Syria, a U.S. official told Reuters, in the second major attack in recent days against U.S. forces amid soaring tensions in the Middle East.

The U.S. military initially assessed no casualties in the drone attack, but a more in-depth review found that some personnel had minor injuries including smoke inhalation and moved some to a different location.

The official, speaking on the condition of anonymity on Saturday, said none of the injuries were serious but some personnel were also being examined for traumatic brain injuries.

Several troops were moved to a different location for further evaluation, the official added.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, the official said, but similar attacks in the past have been carried out by Iran-backed groups.

The injuries from the drone attack followed a rocket strike by suspected Iran-backed militia on Monday that wounded five U.S. personnel at Ain al-Asad airbase in western Iraq on Monday.

News of the latest injuries came as the Middle East as the region braces for a possible new wave of attacks by Iran and its allies.

Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of Iran-backed Hamas, was assassinated in the Iranian capital Tehran on July 31, an attack that drew threats of revenge by Iran against Israel, which is fighting the Palestinian Islamist group in Gaza. Iran blamed Israel for the killing. Israel has not claimed responsibility.

The assassination and the killing of the senior military commander of the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah, Fuad Shukr, by Israel in a strike on Beirut, have fueled concern the conflict in Gaza was turning into a wider Middle East war. Iran has said the U.S. bears responsibility in the assassination of Haniyeh because of its support for Israel. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has said the United States would not tolerate attacks on U.S. personnel but Washington was also trying to de-escalate tensions in the region.

Friday's attack took place at Rumalyn Landing Zone, which hosts U.S. troops along with those from the U.S.-led coalition.

The U.S. has 900 troops in Syria and 2,500 in neighboring Iraq, who it says are on a mission to advise and assist local forces trying to prevent a resurgence of Islamic State, which in 2014 seized large swaths of both countries but was later pushed back.

The escalating violence follows efforts by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces militia this week to enforce a blockade targeting the Syrian government-controlled eastern cities of al-Hasakah and Qamishli, including by blocking deliveries of food and fuel, after accusing them of facilitating an attack in Deir ez-Zor region on Wednesday by local nomadic Arab tribesmen restless over the SDF’s ongoing occupation. Syrian media reported Friday that nine members of one family were injured, three of them gravely, in a shelling attack in Deir ez-Zor by SDF fighters targeting their home.

A Syrian military source said last week that the US occupation forces have ramped up their presence in Hasakah province with 15 Apache helicopter gunships amid escalating regional violence.

The US illegally maintains at least 900 troops in Syria, and 2,500 more in neighboring Iraq. An Iraqi militia leader recently vowed to draw up a “timetable” for the US’s expulsion from the country. On Monday, five US personnel and two contractors were injured in a rocket attack at the Al Asad Airbase in western Iraq. The Pentagon blamed “Iran-aligned” groups for the “dangerous escalation.”

US forces in Syria and Iraq have faced a spate of attacks since the start of the Israel-Hamas war last fall, with close to 170 attacks targeting both bases and military sites built on top of the occupied Omar Oil Field and Conoco Gas Plant. Attacks dropped off radically in February in an uneasy truce, but ramped back up again in July.

US defense chief Lloyd Austin told reporters this week that the Pentagon has put measures in place “to protect our troops and also make sure we’re in a good position to aid in the defense of Israel if called upon to do that.” “So you’ve seen us do a number of things to strengthen our force posture,” Austin said. The Intercept reported this week that the US maintains some 63 bases, garrisons and shared facilities in countries across the Middle East, and that at least 145 US military personnel and contractors have been killed or wounded in the region since October. “The indefinite US military presences in Iraq, Syria, and around the region have near-zero genuine strategic value for the American people, but DC national security elites still think the risk is well worth it. Those concerned with the well-being of our service members – such as their families – are likely less comfortable with these soldiers being sitting ducks for local militias,” Just Foreign Policy executive director Erik Sperling told the outlet. The fate of US forces in Iraq and Syria has been under debate since the US assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad in January 2020. Donald Trump, who had admitted repeatedly in 2018 and 2019 that the US had troops in Syria “only for the oil,” vowed in 2020 to wind down the US presence in Syria and Iraq before the end of his first term, but was met with stalling and obfuscation by his subordinates, who stonewalled a potential Syrian withdrawal until Trump was out of office. Trump’s plans to draw down forces in Iraq were similarly scuppered, with his successors in the Biden administration formally ending the US ‘combat mission’ in Iraq in late 2021, but keeping the troops stationed there in a ‘training and advisory’ role, despite demands by the Iraqi parliament that the forces be completely withdrawn.

Russian missile destroys Ukrainian command post at Kursk – Video

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A missile strike has destroyed a Ukrainian command-and-control center in Russia’s Kursk Region, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said, releasing video of the strike. Ukrainian forces launched a large-scale incursion into the border region earlier this week.

In a statement on Saturday, the ministry said that an Iskander-M short-range ballistic missile system had carried out a strike on a previously reconnoitered command post of Ukraine’s 22nd Separate Mechanized Brigade not far from the border between the two nations.

“As a result, the command staff of the… brigade, 15 people in total, was eliminated,” the statement said, adding that “there will be no mercy.”

Drone footage released by the ministry shows what appears to be a cluster of several buildings in the middle of a heavily wooded area, with at least one Ukrainian armored vehicle also present in the area. One of the buildings is then hit by a powerful explosion, sending a plume of smoke into the air.

Source: Russia's Ministry of Defense

Iskander missiles can carry a payload of up to 700kg of explosives up to 500km and travel at hypersonic speeds. Russia has been using this weapon in recent weeks to strike staging areas used by Ukrainian forces, command and control centers, airfields, defense industrial facilities, and other military targets.

Kiev planned Kursk incursion long in advance – ex-defense ministerREAD MORE Kiev planned Kursk incursion long in advance – ex-defense minister The Ukrainian incursion into Kursk Region is Kiev’s largest assault on Russian territory since the outbreak of the conflict. While the Russian Defense Ministry initially said that the Ukrainian spearhead consisted of around 1,000 servicemen and dozens of armored vehicles, including some provided by the West, subsequent media reports suggested that the total force was at least several times larger and that some of Kiev’s elite units had been thrown into the thick of the fighting.

Moscow has denounced the raid as a provocation and has accused Kiev of targeting civilians. Ukrainian officials, meanwhile, have said that the purpose of the incursion is to instill fear in the Russian population and achieve a more advantageous position for eventual talks with Moscow.

According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the Ukrainian advance has been halted and that reserves had been redeployed to the region. It claims that Kiev has so far lost up to 1,100 troops and 140 armored vehicles in the area.

Kiev planned Kursk incursion long in advance – ex-defense minister

Taking control of Russian territory and holding on to it is not the aim of Kiev’s cross-border incursion into Kursk Region, former Ukrainian Defense Minister Andrey Zagorodnyuk, who now advises the government, has told the Financial Times.

Kiev planned the ongoing attack, which it launched earlier this week, long in advance, the British newspaper cited him as saying on Friday

The purpose of the Ukrainian offensive is not to control Russian territory “for long,” Zagorodnyuk said. “We do not need Russian land. We want them to fail on ours.”

It is also aimed at exposing Russia’s “weaknesses” and seizing the initiative in the conflict after months of Russian gains in Donbass and other areas, he stated.

The operation in Kursk Region also proves the ability of the Ukrainian military to conduct “new tactics of combined arms operation” which it learned from Western instructors, Zagorodnyuk, who was in charge of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry from August 2019 to March 2020, said.

On Tuesday, Ukraine launched its largest attack on Russian territory since the outbreak of the conflict between the neighboring states in February 2022. The Russian military said on Wednesday that the advance was halted, but Ukrainian troops remain in some areas of Kursk Region and continue attempting to advance.

The Kremlin has denounced the attack as a provocation and accused Ukrainian troops of indiscriminate attacks on civilians. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has called the incursion a “massed terrorist attack” aimed at demonstrating “at least some semblance of activity, amid the constant failures of the Ukrainian armed forces in the conflict.”

The Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Saturday that over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian mobile groups were prevented from advancing deeper into Russian territory near the settlements of Ivashkovskoye, Malaya Loknya, and Olgovka.

Russian warplanes and artillery also hit Ukrainian troops in the areas of Nikolayevo-Daryino, Guevo, Lyubimovka, Zeleny Shlyakh, and Sverdlikovo, it added.

At least 15 foreign mercenaries fighting for Kiev were killed after their temporary deployment point was struck by a missile with a thermometric warhead, the statement read.

According to the ministry, Ukraine has already lost up to 1,120 servicemen and 140 armored vehicles, including 22 tanks, since the start of the incursion.

inside One of The Last Functioning Hospitals in GAZA

‘They Are Burned Alive’: A Doctor Captures the Toll of War on Gaza’s Children

‘They Are Burned Alive’: A Doctor Captures the Toll of War on Gaza’s Children

Dr. Ahmad Yousaf is an American pediatrician who recently returned from a medical mission with MedGlobal in Gaza. He shared rare footage from inside Al Aqsa Hospital, where he captured harrowing conditions for staff and patients, particularly children.

Dr. Ahmad Yousaf, an American pediatrician and the director of an intensive care unit in Arkansas, embarked on a medical mission to Gaza, believing his expertise could help patients receive the advanced health care he was accustomed to providing. But what he encountered far exceeded his worst expectations, compelling him to document the devastation.

“The primary thing that I did there was triaging and mass casualty,” Dr. Yousaf said. “This was not advanced I.C.U. care. We often never got there. Patients died.”

Dr. Yousaf volunteered with MedGlobal, a nonprofit based in the United States that provides humanitarian relief worldwide. After spending three weeks in one of Gaza’s last functioning hospitals, he described the severe toll of the war on medical workers and civilians, particularly children. He shared a record of what he witnessed, including rare footage from inside Al Aqsa Hospital in Deir al Balah, with The New York Times.

During his stay at the hospital, medical teams worked tirelessly to manage the trauma casualties flooding in as the Israeli military continued bombing neighboring areas, including humanitarian zones.

Operating at three times the hospital’s capacity, staff members often had to treat patients, many of them children, on pieces of cardboard on the floor. They lacked critical supplies, including blood, gauze and anesthesia. Many patients died from their wounds.

“Decisions were made second to second, and we tried our best,” Dr. Yousaf said. “The longer I stayed there, I realized my role wasn’t being a physician, it was being a witness.”

Dr. Yousaf began sharing daily reflections with his friends and family on WhatsApp. One entry from June 30 describes a teenage boy whose first words after being extubated were: “Please let me call my dad. I just want to make sure he’s OK and knows I’m OK.”

Officials in Gaza have reported that at least 10,000 Palestinian children have been killed since the war began, with many more facing lifelong physical and mental injuries. More than 500 health care workers have been killed in the past nine months, according to international aid organizations.

Dr. Yousaf’s entries reflect the increasingly dire reality of life in Gaza. On July 9, he wrote: “Every time I think it can’t get worse, it does.”

An Israeli Terrorists airstrike early Saturday hit a school compound in northern Gaza where displaced Palestinians were sheltering, killing dozens of people, according to Gazan officials.

The Gaza Civil Defense emergency service said more than 90 were killed, but that number could not be confirmed, and two doctors at one hospital in the area gave slightly lower totals.

Many of those wounded in the Israeli Terrorists strike, including children, were arriving with severe burns covering much of their bodies, said Tayseer al-Tanna, a surgeon at Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, who called the scene “very difficult to watch.”

Fadel Naim, a medical official at Al-Ahli Hospital who served for years as dean of the medical college at the Islamic University of Gaza, widely seen as a Hamas stronghold, said the hospital had received at least 70 bodies since Saturday morning. The strike was followed by a flood of people searching for loved ones missing in the wake of the explosion, he said.

Khamis Elessi, a doctor at the same hospital, in Gaza City, said more than 73 identified bodies were brought to the hospital morgue, as were another 10 who have yet to be identified because they were disfigured in the explosion

The Gaza Health Ministry’s numbers are believed to be broadly reliable, though there is often uncertainty in the immediate aftermath of specific strikes, and the destruction of the territory’s health system has made tolls harder to track.

Many of its offensives in recent days have targeted school grounds — a large number of which have been converted into makeshift shelters. The U.N. has said that strikes were escalating and that it was “horrified by the unfolding pattern.”

Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, called the deadly attack “another day of horror” in Gaza. He called on all sides not to harm civilians or use schools for military purposes.

“It’s time for these horrors unfolding under our watch to end,” he said on social media. “We cannot let the unbearable become a new norm.”

The U.N. and other rights organizations have repeatedly said that there is no safe place in Gaza as areas people are ordered to evacuate to are subsequently targeted by Israeli airstrikes. Almost the entire population of Gaza — more than two million Palestinians — has been displaced, many people multiple times.

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Cisco to lay off thousands more in second job cut this year

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Cisco will cut thousands of jobs in a second round of layoffs this year as the U.S. networking equipment maker shifts focus to higher-growth areas, including cybersecurity and AI, people familiar with the matter said.

The number of people affected could be similar to or slightly higher than the 4,000 employees Cisco laid off in February, and will likely be announced as early as Wednesday with the company's fourth-quarter results, said the sources, who were not authorized to speak publicly.

Reuters exclusively reported the job cut that San Jose, California-based Cisco announced in February, prior to the company announcing it.

The company employed around 84,900 people as of July 2023, according to its annual filing. That number does not account for the February layoffs.

Cisco did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Its shares fell nearly 1% after Reuters first reported the cuts. The stock was down over 9% this year as of Thursday's close.

Cisco, the largest maker of the routers and switches that direct internet traffic, has been grappling with sluggish demand and supply-chain constraints in its mainstay business.

That has pushed the company to diversify with moves such as its $28-billion buyout of cybersecurity firm Splunk, which it completed in March. The acquisition will reduce its reliance on one-time equipment sales by boosting its subscription business.

The company has been trying to incorporate AI products in its offerings and in May reiterated its target of $1 billion worth of AI product orders in 2025. In June, it launched a $1-billion fund to make investments in AI startups such as Cohere, Mistral AI and Scale AI. The company said at the time it had made 20 AI-focused acquisitions and investments in the last several years.

The layoffs are the latest in the tech industry, which has been cutting costs this year to offset big investments in AI.

Over 126,000 people have been laid off across 393 tech companies since the start of the year, according to data from tracking website Layoffs.fyi.

Earlier in August, chipmaker Intel cut over 15% of its workforce, or some 17,500 people, as it tried to turn around its money-losing manufacturing business.

Watch Su-30SM and Su-35S Jets Strike Ukrainian Armed Forces in Border Area of Russia's Kursk Region

On August 6, Ukrainian forces attempted to infiltrate the Sudzha district in the Kursk region. Russian forces halted the advance and will conclude the operation by defeating the enemy, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense.

Russia’s Defense Ministry has released footage showing Russian Su-30SM and Su-35S fighter jets carrying air bombs with universal planning and correction modules striking a group of Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel and military equipment in the border area of the Kursk region.

"The crews of the multipurpose super-maneuverable fighters with controlled thrust vector Su-30SM and Su-35S of the Aerospace Forces carried out a night strike on a concentration of personnel and military equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the border area of the Kursk region," the report said.

Video - Russian tanks take up positions in Kursk Region

The Defense Ministry in Moscow has published footage of Russian tanks taking up positions in Kursk Region amid an incursion into the border area by Ukrainian forces.

On Tuesday, Kiev launched its largest attack on Russian territory since the outbreak of the conflict between the neighboring states. The Russian military said on Wednesday that the advance was halted, but Ukrainian troops remain in some areas of Kursk Region and continue their attempts to move forward.

The Russian tank crews will “carry out combat missions to inflict fire damage on the equipment and manpower of the Ukrainian military in the border area of Kursk Region,” the ministry said in a post on Telegram on Saturday.

They have been deployed to “tank-hazardous” locations to take on mobile groups of Kiev’s forces, the post read. The crews are “fully prepared for combat operations and for attacking the enemy both with direct fire and from closed firing positions,” it added.

The Defense Ministry also published footage of Russian drone operators destroying a US-made MaxxPro armored fighting vehicle operated by the Ukrainian military in Kursk Region.

Another video titled ‘The Night Hunt’ shows Russian Su-24 jets striking Ukrainian troops with glide bombs.

Ukraine has lost up to 1,120 servicemen and 140 armored vehicles since the start of the incursion, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has described the cross-border attack as a “massive provocation” by Kiev, accusing Ukrainian troops of “indiscriminately firing various types of weapons, including missiles, at civilian facilities, residential buildings, and ambulances.”

Russia’s Battlegroup North strikes ‘Foreign Legion’ in Kharkov Region

Russia’s Battlegroup North has delivered a strike on mercenaries from the "Foreign Legion" in the Volchansk and Liptsy area, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

According to the military agency, the enemy lost up to 95 troops, four pickup trucks, two howitzers and a self-propelled artillery system.

Ukraine loses up to 125 troops in 24 hours in responsibility zone of Battlegroup East

The Ukrainian armed forces have lost up to 125 personnel over the past 24 hours in the responsibility zone of Russia’s Battlegroup East, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

According to the military agency, the adversary has also lost seven motor vehicles and a howitzer.

Russian forces deliver strike on Ukrainian drone manufacturing facility

Russian forces have delivered a strike on a workshop producing unmanned aerial vehicles for the Ukrainian army, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

The military agency added that Russian aviation, drones, missile and artillery delivered hits on Ukrainian personnel and military hardware in 152 districts.

Ukraine loses up to 495 troops over day in responsibility zone of Battlegroup West

Russia’s Battlegroup West has repelled four attacks by Ukrainian assault groups, delivering strikes on five enemy brigades, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

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According to the military agency, the enemy lost up to 495 troops, a tank, an armored personnel carrier, five motor vehicles, a howitzer, a self-propelled artillery system and a field gun. Five field ammo depots have also been eliminated.

Russian air defense takes down 16 HIMARS rockets, 153 Ukrainian drones over day

Russian air defense systems have shot down 16 US-made HIMARS rockets over the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

According to the military agency, the air defenses also took down two French-made Hammer guided aerial bombs, four US-made Patriot missiles, as well as 153 unmanned aerial vehicles, including 97 drones outside of the special operation zone.

Overall, since the beginning of the special military operation, 637 aircraft, 278 helicopters, 29,660 drones, 563 anti-aircraft weapons systems, 17,011 tanks and other armored vehicles, 1,399 multiple launch rocket system vehicles, 13,090 field artillery guns and mortars as well as 24,591 units of specialized automotive equipment have been eliminated, the military agency said.

Ukraine loses up to 680 troops in responsibility zone of Battlegroup South

Ukrainian forces have lost up to 680 personnel in the responsibility zone of Russia’s Battlegroup South in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), the Russian Defense Ministry said.

According to the military agency, the adversary has also lost four motor vehicles, four howitzers, a self-propelled artillery system and a field gun.

Ukrainian army loses up to 110 personnel in responsibility zone of Battlegroup Dnepr

The Ukrainian armed forces have lost up to 110 troops in the responsibility zone of Russia’s Battlegroup Dnepr in the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

It added that the adversary has also lost two units of armored hardware, six motor vehicles and two howitzers.

Ukraine loses up to 350 troops, tank in responsibility zone of Battlegroup Center Russia’s Battlegroup Center has delivered a strike on Ukrainian units near Toretsk, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

According to the military agency, the enemy lost up to 350 personnel, a tank, an armored personnel carrier, an armored fighting vehicle, three motor vehicles, three howitzers and a field gun.