🇷🇺🇺🇦 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.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1670852910614183952.html

🇨🇳 🇨🇺 🇺🇸 Beijing plans a new training facility in cuba, raising prospect of Chinese troops on america’s doorstep

Discussions for the facility on Cuba’s northern coast are at an advanced stage but not concluded, U.S. intelligence reports suggest. The Biden administration has contacted Cuban officials to try to forestall the deal, seeking to tap in to what it thinks might be Cuban concerns about ceding sovereignty. Beijing’s effort to establish a military training facility in Cuba hasn’t been previously reported.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/beijing-plans-a-new-training-facility-in-cuba-raising-prospect-of-chinese-troops-on-americas-doorstep-e17fd5d1

https://archive.ph/Ozc7g

🇷🇺🇸🇾 Footage of airstrikes of the Russian Aerospace Forces on the underground fortifications of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham militants in the province of Idlib.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Airstrike of the Russian Aerospace Forces on Ukrainian positions in the Orekhov direction.

🇷🇺🇺🇦❗️The Ukrainian army faced difficulties and “frantic resistance” during the counteroffensive – Deputy Head of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Anna Malyar

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Against the background of a slight decrease in the intensity of battles in the Zaporozhye direction, it can be noted that the chosen strategy of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces in the Zaporozhye direction is working quite well and has allowed inflicting a tangible defeat on the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Of course, this applies only to the current stage of the campaign, but the stage from June 4 to June 20 remained with us, which by June 20 was indirectly recognized in the West. However, it is better to save the final conclusions until the end of the summer campaign. There are still 10-11 weeks of active hostilities ahead, and the enemy will probably try to revise his strategy, taking into account the negative results. He still has the resources to change approaches.

⚡️🇺🇸 The United States Armed Forces have tasked several Cyber units to look up "mean & slanderous" posts about current and former American military officers up in the high command.

Unknown if there will be repercussions for active or reserve personnel who share or make such posts.

@mediterraneanman

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Artillerymen of the 85th brigade of the Southern Group of Forces are destroying the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Seversk direction.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Our scouts captured a group of soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Zaporozhye front near the village of Pyatikhatki, for which there are fierce battles

🇺🇸🇺🇦 The United States considers the death of Ukrainians during the counteroffensive a characteristic part of the conflict, which Washington knew about and took into account. (c) Pentagon

🇷🇺🇺🇦 In the Kharkiv region, Russian troops captured a group of Ukrainian servicemen.

🇪🇺 🇺🇸 European Council On Foreign Relations claims: "Europe is becoming an American vassal"

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has revealed Europeans’ profound dependence on the US for their security, despite EU efforts at achieving “strategic autonomy.”

Over the last decade, the EU has grown relatively less powerful than America – economically, technologically, and militarily.

Europeans also still lack agreement on crucial strategic questions for themselves and look to Washington for leadership.

https://ecfr.eu/publication/the-art-of-vassalisation-how-russias-war-on-ukraine-has-transformed-transatlantic-relations/