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Russia allegedly shot down Ukrainian drones focused goods on the Moscow and the Black Sea Fleet. This was reported by the French news agency ‘Agence France Presse’ based on Russian reports.

Friday night Around 4 am local time The Russian Ministry of Defense said (3 am Belgium time), that the Air Force managed to shoot down a drone over the capital. And with that, the remnants of the drone went down.”Non-residential building” In the west of the citycan be read on Telegram.

According to the mayor of the Russian capital no injuries. There will be tooNo major damage to the buildingThe state news agency Tass reported that one of the walls had partially collapsed, and the emergency services told Tass: “The area where the collapse occurred is about 30 square metres.”

look. Pictures show Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow

Belarus would be ready to use nuclear weapons – which it acquired from Russia – if it faced external “aggression”. The boss has Alexander Lukashenko repeated it again on Thursday during an interview with State news agency “Belta”.

Tensions around Belarus’ borders with NATO countries are on the rise. But, according to the country’s president, they will “Never get involved in this war” unless Ukraine crosses its borders. “We will continue to help Russia, which is our ally,” he added.

Moreover warned he is too On the consequences of provocations by neighboring NATO countries Like Poland, Lithuania and Latvia. may possess. Lukashenko said he was ready to “respond immediately with everything we have,” including nuclear weapons. “Yes, nuclear weapons have a strong deterrent factor. But they are tactical, not strategic, nuclear weapons, so we will use them immediately after an aggression occurs against us.”

In June, Belarus received its first Russian tactical weapons. But what exactly is the difference with “normal” nuclear weapons? And how much damage can it do? Read there here More about (+).

According to US intelligence agencies, Ukraine will not achieve the main goal of the current counterattackThe Washington Post writes based on anonymous intelligence sources. They see that Ukrainian forces have captured the southeastern city of Melitopol, a vital Russian transit hub, It can arrive before the onset of winter. The newspaper also spoke to other Ukrainian and Western intelligence sources. They expressed the same expectation.

Melitopol is crucial To counterattack Ukraine, as it is considered The entry gate to Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014. The city is located at the intersection of two major highways and a railway. Russia uses it to transport military personnel and equipment from Crimea to other occupied areas in southern Ukraine. Ukrainian Armed Forcesadvancing from the city of Robotyne to Melitopol, more than 80 kilometers away, You will remain several kilometers outside the city.

He. She “dark judgment” Those interviewed by the newspaper relied on the evidence The tenacity with which the Russians defend their occupied lands in UkraineRelying on minefields, trenches and heavy artillery.

The United States has agreed to send F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine from the Netherlands and Denmark once the training of Ukrainian pilots is completed. According to a US government official, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken notified the two countries by letter. The Netherlands and Denmark provide training for Ukrainian pilots.

It could be another year before the F-16s are actually shipped. It was announced on Friday that the training of the first Ukrainian pilots will most likely not be completed until the summer of next year.

Ukraine has received more than two IRIS-T air defense systems from Germany. President Volodymyr Zelensky announced this in his daily video message on Thursday evening.

“Two new IRIS-T bombers have arrived. These are powerful systems that we badly need to defend our airspace,” said Zelensky, who warmly thanked Berlin for the delivery of the weapons.

Russia is mass-producing Iranian attack drones that can travel more than 1,000 miles and attack Ukrainian cities. This was reported by the agency ‘Reuters’ based on what was reported by the ‘Washington Post’ American daily. Leaked documents About the production plan.

Moscow is working on its own version of Iranian drone ‘Shahid-136’The documents said, despite the delays and penalties that complicate the production process. Includes papers dating from Winter 2022 to Spring 2023 Factory diagrams and technical diagrams. The newspaper obtained the documents through a source linked to the plan.

Russia previously denied that its forces were using Iranian drones in Ukraine, despite its president Vladimir Putin has called for an increase in the domestic production of drones. In April, he said that the Russian drone industry could be worth more than $20 billion very soon.

The Financial Times reported this week that Washington is pressuring Iran to stop selling drones to Moscow. However, today’s Washington Post article highlights the efforts Russia will build its own UAV factory In the Tatarstan region, 800 km east of Moscow. Russia aims to produce 6,000 drones by the summer of 2025.

Documents studied by the non-governmental Institute for Science and International Security in Washington, at the request of the newspaper, show that: The Russian facility is about a month behind schedule.

engineers There they try Its own version of the Iranian drone build on a larger scale and with higher quality, and also try to add capabilities to the drones, So they can launch a coordinated “swarm attack” on a targetThe newspaper reported.