🇷🇺 Recruitment in PMC "Wagner" continues.

The Orchestra will return to the front on August 5.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 In the evening, it is reported about the advance of our troops in the Krasnoliman and Kupyansk directions. Reports of an entry to the outskirts of Kupyansk are still somewhat ahead of events. To get to the outskirts of Kupyansk, you must at least take Sinkovka and the adjacent forest.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Destruction of Ukrainian ammunition depot in Zaporozhye direction

🇺🇸🇲🇽 “A fringe idea to take on the Mexican cartels with the U.S. military is gaining traction among Republicans, even as critics warn that any unilateral action would endanger relations with Mexico and fail to alleviate the flow of drugs across the border.”

- The Hill

🇺🇸🇲🇽 “Americans are showing a surprising appetite for direct military intervention in Mexico to wage war against the smuggling cartels that are pumping drugs and illegal immigrants into the U.S.”

- Washington Examiner

🇺🇸🇲🇽 Analysis: What’s going on in Mexico?

Over the last 24 hours, there’s been much excitement across many channels of an imminent action by the U.S. military against the Mexican Cartels. For those expecting (hoping?) such an eventuality, allow me to burst your expectations by saying there’s no signs of such occurring soon. With that said though, this is a case of there being some element of truth in the general idea.

As this channel and our partners have been covering since January, relations between the United States and Mexico have steadily been deteriorating and becoming more hostile. Famously, the Mexican National Security team came to Washington only to be snubbed while several American politicians called for military action at about the same time earlier this year. That latter trend has since continued, as the image attached to this post shows.

For now, it remains just something to note and you can rest easy that there is no imminent war afoot. Storm clouds are brewing, however.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡Threat of Putin using tactical nuclear weapons is "real" - Biden

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Four destroyed armored vehicles and one T-64BV of Ukrainian forces.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Tour of the captured Ukrainian armored vehicles in the Avdiivka direction.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 A "unmanned" MT-LB filled with explosives hits the positions of Ukrainian soldiers near Maryinka

🇷🇺⚡Serviceman Andrey Kravtsov, who destroyed the Leopard tank, was awarded a cash prize of 1 million rubles - the Russian Ministry of Defense.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The position of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye direction was destroyed along with their ammunition.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 TOS-1A "Solntsepyok" burns out the positions of the Khokhols in the Avdeevka direction.

🇨🇳 🇲🇽 🇺🇸 1'488 municipalities attacked by criminal groups in Mexico according to Chinese state media CGTN.

See how Mexico has become a hotbed of cartel criminal activity:

Organized crime casts a shadow over Mexico, affecting 81% of the nation’s territory where 108 million people live, according to a report by AC Consultores.

Criminal groups engage in executions, massacres, drug trafficking, extortion, kidnappings, and attacks on officials across 1,488 of Mexico's 2,471 municipalities, the report says.

The Jalisco Nueva Generación and Sinaloa Cartels are the dominant criminal organizations, operating in 28 and 24 states, respectively. Other cartels, such as the Gulf Cartel, Northeast Cartel, and others, have significant presences, with 175 criminal organizations identified.

A recent study revealed the sheer scale of violence, with 971 homicides recorded in just 12 days of June. This adds to the over 158,000 violent deaths during President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's term. The report points to an unprecedented crime crisis gripping the country.

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