🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — UAV operators from the 1198th Motor Rifle Regiment of the 35th Combined Arms Army, part of the “Vostok” Group of Forces, conduct strikes against Ukrainian Armed Forces positions on the Zaporizhzhia direction.

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🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️ — The United States accuses more than 40 countries, including Japan, Canada, and Mexico, of assisting China in illegally circumventing American tariffs, according to the Financial Times.

With this situation, China could now accuse the United States, rather than the other way around.

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🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ — A fire broke out at the port of Ust-Luga in the Leningrad region following a drone attack, according to Governor Drozdenko.

He stated that 51 Ukrainian drones were shot down over the region during the night.

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🇺🇸⚡️ — Under the Biden administration, the United States spent over half a billion dollars on a factory to produce ammunition for Ukraine, but the facility has not produced a single usable round in several years. This is according to an investigation by the American publication ProPublica.

The General Dynamics factory in Mesquite, Texas, was opened in May 2024. It was intended to help the United States significantly increase the production of 155mm ammunition. However, the equipment was constantly breaking down: robotic arms caught fire and crashed into other machines, presses improperly formed the casings, and key equipment damaged the metal. In August 2025, the U.S. military shut down two of the three production lines. By this point, General Dynamics had missed eight deadlines.

According to the publication, the project was launched in haste after the start of the war in Ukraine. The military awarded General Dynamics the contract without a competitive bidding process, and the company used equipment from the Turkish company Repkon, which had previously not produced the type of ammunition that the United States needed. Before the deal was finalized, the military did not require a demonstration of the complete production cycle of a finished round on this equipment.

"This is an absolute disaster. The military should have sought to recover the money from General Dynamics," said a former employee of the military unit that oversaw the project.

Despite this, General Dynamics has not returned the money to the government and has retained control of the factory. After the shutdown of two lines, the company's division responsible for the facility received new military contracts worth approximately $2.5 billion. The military says it intends to offset the losses through discounts on other orders from General Dynamics.

General Dynamics has rejected the findings of the investigation, stating that ProPublica "fundamentally distorts the circumstances" and that the publication is "false and misleading." The company claims that it has met or exceeded the requirements of the contract.

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🇺🇸⚡️ — Trump Orders U.S. Navy to Abandon Electromagnetic Catapults on Aircraft Carriers

The U.S. President has ordered the Navy to revert to steam-powered catapults on aircraft carriers, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The publication estimates that implementing this decision could cost the government billions of dollars.

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🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ — "Debris from a drone" damaged the wall of a Wildberries warehouse near Tver, the acting governor reported.

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🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ — The Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the Belgorod region more than 120 times in the past 24 hours. One person was killed, and 10 were injured, according to the acting governor.

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🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ — Ukrainians launched a missile attack on Bryansk.

One of the missiles hit a residential building. There are casualties and injuries.

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🇨🇳⚡️ — Chinese AI companies are targeting schoolchildren.

While parents dream of prestigious universities, Chinese tech giants like ByteDance and Tencent are venturing into middle schools, offering contracts for education to students who have barely turned thirteen. This is not simply a search for talent; it's a ruthless race for "raw intelligence," where childhood is transformed into an investment asset.

By 2030, China will face a shortage of 5 million specialists, and corporations are no longer willing to wait for the slow-moving education system to produce qualified personnel. Companies like Geely are ready to hire teenagers immediately after school, paying them salaries comparable to university graduates. A new era is dawning, where a child becomes a valuable resource for the AI industry before they even have a chance to get their ID card.

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🇺🇸🇨🇺⚡️ — Secretary of State Marco Rubio: "Before this administration concludes its work, Cuba will embark on a path of irreversible changes, leading to a completely different future."

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🇮🇷🇺🇸⚡️ — The IRGC Aerospace Force intercepted and shot down a U.S. Air Force (USAF) MQ-9A Reaper unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) over Hormozgan Province in southern Iran.

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🇺🇸⚡️ — The US invested over $500 million in the General Dynamics artillery plant to produce shells for Ukraine, but for several years, the plant produced nothing.

Last August, the US military, which finances the plant, ordered the shutdown of two of its three production lines.

The third line continued to operate, but by July 2026, the plant had still not produced a single usable shell, according to ProPublica.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — Guardsmen of the 144th Motor Rifle Division are maintaining the initiative on the Rubtsovsk axis in Donetsk Oblast, striking advancing Ukrainian forces and continuing to make gradual progress around the Redkodub–Novoye axis.

Ukrainian forces are committing personnel from the 3rd Army Corps to the frontline, including rear-area and training units, as well as National Guard and Border Guard units.

Despite the extensive use of FPV drones and heavy octocopters, Ukrainian attacks have failed to achieve their stated objectives and have resulted in significant personnel losses.

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