Russian missile destroys Ukrainian command post at Kursk – Video

Source: Russia's Ministry of Defense

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.

‘Bodies ripped to pieces’ Over 100 killed in Israel attack on Gaza school

Shrouded bodies are laid down at the al-Maamadani hospital, following an Israeli strike that killed more than 100 people on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza City (AFP via Getty Images)

More than 100 Palestinians have been killed and dozens wounded in an Israeli Terrorists airstrike while praying at a school, Hamas has claimed.

Local doctors are “struggling to cope” as victims of the attack on al-Tabin School, many “in pieces”, are brought in, reports our correspondent in the besieged and bombarded territory.

Hamas said the strike on the Al-Tabeen school, central Gaza, wounded 47 people. Israel Terrorists said it was targeting a Hamas command centre and 20 militants were killed.

But at a news conference in Gaza City, Palestinian Civil Defence spokesperson Mahmoud Bassal said that the strike hit “the upper and ground floors of the school. The upper floor included women and children and the ground floor included people who were praying. They were directly hit.”

Israel Terrorists says Palestinian militant groups embed among Gaza’s civilians, operating from within schools, hospitals and designated humanitarian zones - but Hamas and its allies deny.

People check the damage inside a school used as a temporary shelter for displaced Palestinians in Gaza City, following an Israeli strike (AFP via Getty Images)

Hamas said the strike was a horrific crime and a serious escalation. Izzat El-Reshiq, a member of Hamas’ political office, said in a statement that the dead did not include a “single combatant.”

Al Jazeera is reporting from outside Israel terorrists because it has been banned by the Israeli government

There has been no evidence to back up the claims made by the Israeli terrorists military over the last 10 months when targeting civilian infrastructure and densely populated areas that are filled with displaced Palestinians.

Right after the Gaza City school was struck with three air strikes by the Israeli terrorists army, the military released a statement saying that they were targeting Hamas operatives inside both the school and the mosque.

Right after the Gaza City school was struck with three air strikes by the Israeli army, the military released a statement saying that they were targeting Hamas operatives inside both the school and the mosque.

They say that they use precise munitions in order to minimise the civilian damage and death, that this was an intelligence-based attack carried out in coordination with the Shin Bet, the internal security agency.

But pictures show a different story. The sources on the ground, the medics and the Civil Defense workers who are picking up body parts of Palestinians that have been blown to pieces tell a different story.

People react as they transport the body of a family member from the al-Maamadani hospital for burial, following an Israeli strike that killed more than 90 people on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians (AFP via Getty Images)

We also heard from an Israeli army spokesperson in English who said that the military is denying the fact that more than 100 Palestinians were killed, based on Israeli military intelligence, which again was not provided.

Save the Children: Israel commits ‘worst attack on school’ since Gaza war began

Tamer Kirolos, a regional director for Save the Children, calls Israel’s attack on al-Tabin school in Gaza City, which killed more than 100 people, the “deadliest attack on a school since last October”.

“It is devastating to see the toll this has taken, including so many children and people at the school for dawn prayers,” Kirolos said.

Many children were reported killed and injured in this morning’s attack on Gaza City, and Kirolos said “children make up around 40 percent of the population and of people killed and injured since October” in the Strip.

“Civilians, children, must be protected. An immediate definitive ceasefire is the only foreseeable way that will happen,” he added.

UN special rapporteur: Israel committing ‘genocide one school at a time’

The UN’s special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories has accused Israel of committing genocide “one school at a time”.

Francesca Albanese condemned the “world’s indifference” to the bloodshed in Gaza following Israel’s strike on al-Tabin school.

Relatives of Palestinians, who lost their lives following the Israeli attack on Nuseirat refugee camp, mourn as the bodies are brought to al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah (Anadolu via Getty Images)

She tweeted: “Israel is genociding the Palestinians one neighborhood at the time, one hospital at the time, one school at the time, one refugee camp at the time, one ‘safe zone’ at the time.

“May the Palestinians forgive us for our collective inability to protect them, honouring the most basic meaning of international law.”

Salma Ouaguira10 August 2024 10:46 Palestinian health authorities confirm death toll rises to 80

The death toll from an Israeli airstrike on a Gaza City school early today has risen to 80, Palestinian health authorities said.

The Israeli military acknowledged the strike on the Tabeen school, claiming it hit a Hamas command center within the school. Hamas denied that.

Fadel Naeem, director of the al-Ahli hospital in Gaza City, told The Associated Press that the facility received the bodies of 80 people killed in the strike.

A man mourns over the shrouded body of a family member at the al-Maamadani hospital (AFP via Getty Images)

The school, like almost all those in Gaza, has been used as a shelter for people forced to flee their homes by the war.

Hamas: Israel‘s attack on Gaza school part of ‘extermination campaign’

Hamas has released a statement condemning Israel’s killing of more than 100 Palestinians in a school in Gaza City.

The group has accused Israel of carrying out an “extermination campaign” on al-Tabin school.

Relatives of Palestinians, who lost their lives following the Israeli attack on Nuseirat refugee camp, mourn as the bodies are brought to al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah (Anadolu via Getty Images)

In a statement, the militant group said: “The massacre perpetrated in the Gaza Strip by the hands of the Neo-Nazis in the center of Gaza City constitutes a horrific crime and represents a grave escalation in the unprecedented series of crimes and massacres in the history of wars.

In response to Israel’s claims that the school was being used as a Hamas command centre, the group said that these justifications are false and “excuses to target civilians, schools, hospitals, and refugee tents, all of which are false pretexts and exposed lies to justify its crimes”.

The statement added: “We call on our Arab and Islamic countries and the international community to fulfill their responsibilities and take urgent action to stop these massacres and halt the escalating Zionist aggression against our people and defenseless citizens.”

Israel has claimed the targeted school, which was turned into a shelter, was as an “active Hamas and Islamic Jihad military facility”.

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