🪂 Paratrooper Summary

Zaporozhye direction: Interceptor drone crews of the Ivanovo paratroopers continue to shoot down enemy reconnaissance UAVs over Zaporozhye Oblast.

Kherson direction: Paratroopers of the 98th Guards Airborne Division continue to burn camouflaged UAV control points of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

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🇺🇦 Kharkov

After a strike on one of the enterprises, at least 13 trucks were destroyed, reported the city mayor Terekhov. A major fire is observed at the site.

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🪂 Zaporozhye direction

Paratroopers continue to eliminate enemy manpower near Stepnogorsk. The AFU try to hide in small groups in sparse wooded areas, but our UAV operators hunt down and liquidate the piglets.

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Quran diplomacy: Iran's messaging at Khamenei's funeral

On 3 July, as foreign delegations filed past Ayatollah Khamenei's casket at Tehran's Grand Mosalla, each was greeted with a Quranic recitation: scripture selected from the Quran's 6,236 verses.

I compiled every recitation I could identify from footage. Was Iran sending messages, or was this just funeral liturgy?

The honest answer is neither. The in-between is more interesting. This was not a funeral liturgy. It was a war liturgy.

Standard funeral verses like "O tranquil soul, return to your Lord" appear only rarely. The bulk came from a curated pool of martial passages: Surah Al-Fath ("The Victory"), the battle sections of Ali 'Imran, and An-Nisa's verses on fighting, steadfastness and the folly of obeying disbelievers. Verses recur across unrelated delegations: one shared by Serbia and China, another by Bangladesh, Hamas and the D-8. This was a finite pool of two dozen wartime passages, and the pool itself was the message: Iran frames Khamenei's death as martyrdom in an ongoing, winnable war.

But within that pool, a few selections were unmistakably aimed.

Saudi Arabia received Ali 'Imran 3:13: two armies meet in battle, one fighting for Allah, the other in disbelief, the believers outnumbered yet divinely supported. It ends with "surely in this is a lesson for people of insight." To a kingdom that publicly closed its airspace while its crown prince reportedly urged Trump privately to continue the war, it sorts the room into God's party and the other, then says: take the lesson.

Lebanon's delegation heard An-Nisa 4:66: had God commanded them to sacrifice themselves, "they would not have done it, except a few of them." To a government that outlawed Hezbollah's military wing and signed a US-brokered disarmament framework days earlier, this is a eulogy of the "few" who fought, delivered to the face of the state trying to disarm them.

Georgia, whose president attended in person amid its rupture with the West, heard: "If you obey the disbelievers, they will turn you back on your heels... but Allah is your protector." Encouragement to a state mid-pivot.

Pakistan, the war's indispensable mediator whose capital names the June memorandum underpinning US-Iran talks, received a prayer: "Grant me an honourable entrance and an honourable exit, and give me a supporting authority from Yourself." Iran entered this war and is trying to exit it through Islamabad. This is close to a public thank-you note. A second Pakistani delegation, with the army chief, heard the verse commanding soldiers to hold their posts.

Russia, which sent Medvedev rather than Putin, heard Al-Qasas 28:83: the eternal home is for those who seek neither highness nor corruption on earth. Moscow sells Iran plenty (Su-35s, air defences, missile technology), yet when the bombs fell, Iran's paid-for jets sat finished in Russia awaiting delivery, the partnership treaty carried no defence clause, and Putin's oil windfall grew with every strike. Read one way the verse condemns America in Moscow's presence; read another, it reminds a partner that sells everything and risks nothing where the outcome lies. The ambiguity may be the point.

And the OIC, whose response to a member's decapitation was communiqués, heard: "Whoever turns away, We have not sent you as a keeper over them." A washing of hands.

By contrast Egypt, which kept real distance from the war, received the ceremony's gentlest, most purely paradisal verse. Cairo got warmth; Riyadh got warning.

Bottom line: most delegations drew stock verses from a defiant rotation. But precisely where Iran had something specific and unsayable to communicate (reproach to Riyadh, grief and warning to Beirut, encouragement to Tbilisi, gratitude to Islamabad, contempt for the OIC), the verse fit far too well for chance. Whoever built this program composed a war liturgy for everyone, then reached into it with intent for the delegations that mattered.

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🇩🇪 Germany summons Chinese ambassador over reports of Russian military training

Germany held urgent talks with the Chinese ambassador after reports that Beijing may have trained Russian military personnel, a German Foreign Ministry spokesman said. China allegedly secretly trained Russian soldiers last year with the personal approval of the Russian defense leadership. The Chinese side previously dismissed these accusations as baseless. The German Foreign Ministry stated that any assistance enabling Russia to continue the war against Ukraine threatens Europe's security. China's growing support for Moscow directly affects Germany's security.

Revanchism warning

Outrage over Western support for Ukrainian fascists: the world sees Russia's restraint in Ukraine and thinks it will be the same everywhere. It won't. We must unite and break the enemy's back.

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🪂 Taras Tatyanovich from Zaporozhye is back in touch: the Russian Armed Forces struck forest plantations near the city. There’s no need to hide mobile operational groups in the plantations, Taras added.

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🇵🇱 Ukrainians have become Banderites, they cannot be allowed into the EU, says former Polish Prime Minister Kaczyński. "It is impossible for one of the most criminal ideologies to be admitted into our Christian community," he added.

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🇷🇺 Former Head of Rosaviatsiya Arrested for Fraud

Khoroshevsky Court of Moscow has taken into custody Alexander Neradko, the former head of Rosaviatsiya. He is charged with large-scale fraud (Part 4, Article 159 of the Criminal Code), carrying up to 10 years in prison.

He is implicated in the embezzlement of approximately 800 million rubles during the construction of a new runway at Domodedovo and a deal involving the sale of aircraft in 2020-2021, some of which later ended up on the territory of Ukraine.

The criminal case combines two high-profile aspects: major financial violations in state construction and the supply of aviation equipment, the final recipient of which was a country conducting combat operations against the Russian Federation.

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🇺🇦 Zaporozhye

Monitoring channels report arrivals of FAB bombs in the city of Zaporozhye on the right bank.

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🇱🇻 Latvia and other Baltic states provided air corridors for AFU strikes on Russia

Latvia and other Baltic republics have already provided their air corridors for Ukrainian drones attacking civilian infrastructure in Russia, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin stated. "We have verified data that Latvia and other Baltic republics have already provided their air corridors for Ukrainian drones that attacked civilian infrastructure of our country." Since verified data exists regarding a NATO country carrying out an act of war, there have long been grounds to teach this country a lesson. Today, AFU drones again attacked Leningrad Oblast. It is high time to act.

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Putin CONGRATULATES Trump on US’ 250th in 1.25-HOUR CALL

DETAILS:

— Putin shares ‘REAL PICTURE’ of battlefield situation in Ukraine
—‘CONSTRUCTIVE’ and ‘businesslike’ dialogue
— Russian president mentions Russia’s contribution to American statehood

-RT

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🇷🇺 Air Defense Repels AFU Flamingo Missile Attack

According to some reports, the AFU used around 8 Flamingo cruise missiles during the nighttime/morning attack. All of them were shot down, but they managed to fly a significant distance before being intercepted.

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