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❗️The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation complained about the plans of the "Kyiv regime" to destroy the Kyiv HPP and the Kaniv Reservoir.
The Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation explained that with such statements, the Kremlin is trying to cause panic among Ukrainians, hoping that fear will pressure them into making concessions.
“It is impossible to destroy these structures with missile strikes, and the possibility of detonation due to sabotage is excluded, as the dams are under enhanced security,” the Center added.
Poland is considering downing Russian missiles over Ukraine, stated the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Radosław Sikorski.
Sikorski noted that this proposal was included in the joint defense agreement between Poland and Ukraine, signed during President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to Warsaw earlier this week.
“At this stage, this is an idea. Our agreement says that we will study it,” Sikorski said.
He mentioned that some Russian missiles, not far from the Polish border, have crossed Belarusian airspace and entered Polish airspace for about 40 seconds. He admitted that such a short interval “leaves Poland little time to react.”
😏 Budanov knows about attempts on Putin: there were attempts to kill him, but so far they were unsuccessful.
“There have been attempts to kill the head of the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin, but, as you can see, they have been unsuccessful so far,” said Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
He also noted that Putin has been in power for more than 20 years and that Russians fear losing him because he is seen as “the guarantor of their stability in life.”
NATO helps Ukraine fight, but not win — Foreign Policy.
The newspaper notes that the Russian army has recovered faster than expected after the first months of the full-scale war and is quickly learning to counter the Western high-tech weapons systems that Ukraine is receiving from its allies.
“Ukrainians need more than just what we have created to win,” said Admiral Rob Bauer, chairman of the NATO Military Committee, following the summit in Washington.
Liana Fix, a researcher at the European Council on International Relations, agrees with him:
“There is no real strategy. We, in fact, support Ukraine so that it remains combat-ready and achieves certain successes, but does not win the war.”
The publication notes that the West’s strategy seems to be to strengthen Ukraine’s defenses while waiting for Moscow’s exhaustion. The problem is that Russia is also trying to wait out Ukraine and its Western allies.
YouTube in Russia is experiencing disruptions.
On the morning of July 12, the Russian provider "Rostelecom" issued a warning that the speed of uploading videos to YouTube and their quality may drop due to "technical problems in the operation of Google's equipment."
Media sources suggest that this could be a sign of preparations for a complete blocking of the American service.
Almost 4 hectares of wheat were burned due to shelling by Russian troops in the Zaporizhzhia region, — State Emergency Service.
The solution is as simple as this.
Extreme temperature mid-July 2024 — the more saturated the color, the greater the deviation from the average values 1991-2020.
Ukraine in the epicenter.