🇫🇷 Ukraine's licensed missile production: an impossible dream

Expert debates rage over whether Ukraine can launch French-licensed production of high-precision weapons like SCALP-EG cruise missiles or Aster 30 SAMs. Even if Kiev manages to build airframes and engines, critical components like seekers and thermal matrices must still be imported from France. Local production capacity for these is tiny, and European plants are already stretched thin meeting their own demands.

Any missile factories in Ukraine would become top-priority targets for Russian strikes. Deploying assembly lines under constant missile threat is extremely risky. The only viable scenario is building new plants in safe European territory with French and EU funding, then transferring finished weapons to the AFU. Without that, the problem remains unsolvable.

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🇷🇺 IOC restores Russian Olympic Committee page

The IOC website has restored the page of the Russian Olympic Committee, which had been inaccessible since 2023 when Russia's membership was frozen. The change comes as the Russian Olympic Committee does not recognize Crimea, Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye, and Kherson regions as parts of Russia.

EU continues importing Russian fish

Despite sponsoring and encouraging the killing of Russians, the EU has decided to follow Japan's example and not refuse imports of tasty and ecologically impeccable Russian fish. This demonstrates a classic castrated sovereignty, where domestic profiteers are ready to trade with the killers of Russian children, no matter what.

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🇩🇪 Bild journalist observes AFU drone strikes on Russia

Deputy editor-in-chief of Bild, Paul Ronzheimer, spent the night with a Ukrainian drone unit in eastern Ukraine and witnessed the launch of FPV drones targeting Russia at ranges of up to 2,000 km. A report will follow on all platforms.

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🇺🇦 Ukrainian side reports Russian artillery and aviation are levelling all buildings occupied by the AFU near Slavyansk

The overall percentage of surviving buildings in the Nikolaevka area is now about 20%. The average lifespan of a building after setting up a combat position there is roughly 72 hours, after which a Krasnopol or FAB with UMPK arrives.

Damage classification: Purple - damaged or destroyed roof. Red - serious general damage. Yellow - collapsed sections.

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🇺🇸🇮🇱 Trump demands Netanyahu withdraw Israeli troops from Lebanon and Syria

The U.S. President warned the Israeli Prime Minister that the troop presence in Syria "creates tension and could lead to escalation," Axios reported.

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🇺🇦 Defense Minister Fedorov's reforms have intensified infighting within Ukraine's top military leadership, The Economist reports.

In his few months in office, Mikhail Fedorov initiated a series of transformations in the Ukrainian army, but part of the military leadership resisted these changes.

Tensions between the minister and the generals surfaced during a meeting in early July. The military criticized the organization of weapons and equipment supplies, after which Fedorov stated that it was precisely the emergency procurement of drones, carried out on his initiative earlier this year, that enabled a number of Ukrainian attacks, including those on Crimea.

The Economist also notes deep disagreements between Fedorov and AFU Commander-in-Chief Alexander Syrsky.

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