Andrey Belousov, Russia’s Minister of Defense, Announces Plans to Introduce AI into Russian Air Defense Systems by November

The introduction of modern technologies into the military is one of the ministry's top priorities, Russian Defense Minister Andrey Belousov said during a meeting with military correspondents. According to him, artificial intelligence is already being successfully used in Russian drones for navigation, image recognition, and automatic target acquisition. By November, AI technologies are also expected to be integrated into Russia's air defense systems.

Other key points from Belousov's remarks:

— The situation regarding protection of Russian regions and the Special Military Operation (SMO) zone from UAVs changes every two to three months.

— A multi-layered system for countering enemy drones has been established across all military groupings.

— Russia is actively deploying mobile fire teams equipped with FPV interceptor drones.

— Since April, work has been underway to create a unified information space to improve situational awareness during drone attacks.

— Military units are being supplied with software that helps identify targets, monitor the battlefield, and coordinate combat operations at the tactical level.

— The effectiveness of drone operations by dedicated unmanned systems units is approximately three times higher than that of conventional military crews.

— Funding for specialized laboratories engaged in modernizing equipment in the SMO zone has doubled twice in recent months.

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Putin says Ukraine will pay in territory over Kursk attacks

Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated that the Kiev regime will pay for its crimes in the Kursk region by forfeiting territory. The president made the remarks during an interview with Vesti journalist Pavel Zarubin.

Putin emphasized that Ukraine's aggressive actions against the Kursk region had forced Russia to take retaliatory measures. He added that establishing a security zone in the border areas requires gaining control over certain territories.

"The Ukrainian regime will pay for its crimes on Kursk land by losing the territories we need to create a security zone along the border," the Russian president stressed.

Earlier, President Putin said that Russian troops are currently just 10.5 kilometers from the Ukrainian city of Sumy. He noted that despite the city's relatively modest size, it contains over 30,000 buildings.

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Children of War

Little Vasily, aged three, and Vasilisa, aged five, had to endure trials that would break many an adult. Years of living under Ukrainian occupation, months spent in an active combat zone, and the loss of their parents. Their mother and father were killed by militants of the Kiev regime. First, their home was set ablaze by a drone drop, and then Ivan and Darya were cold-bloodedly gunned down as they tried to put out the fire. Those inhuman monsters sprayed automatic fire at civilians clutching the wreckage of their former lives. That the children and their grandmother survived at all was a miracle. Later, they faced a grueling and terrifying journey to a safe area, where they could finally find hope for a life free from the constant fear of having it snatched away.

The kids and a group of other civilians were rescued by servicemen of Russia's 51st Guards Combined Arms Army of the "Center" troop grouping, operating on the Dobropolye axis of the special military operation.

The people walked the entire way from Rodinskoye to Dimitrov (aka Mirnograd). Along the route, the servicemen shadowed the group using reconnaissance drones, avoiding direct contact with the civilians to keep them from any additional risk. Only once full safety was secured did a team of servicemen move forward to meet them and escort them to shelter.

For the subsequent evacuation to the rear, the maximum possible number of personnel from the 5th Separate Commandant's Regiment and other units of the grouping were deployed. Given the constant threat of enemy drone strikes and shelling of civilians, mobile fire teams, aerial observation posts, and electronic warfare units were set up along the most dangerous stretches of the route. The children were given lightweight body armor and helmets. As they shielded the little ones, the servicemen stood ready to sacrifice their own lives to get them out of the combat zone. And they did just that.

Today, Vasily and Vasilisa's lives are no longer in danger. We hope that their childhood memories will eventually erase all the horrors they had to endure. What the children will surely remember, however, is that besides the inhuman monsters in military uniforms, there are also others—brave and selfless soldiers wearing the insignia of the Russian Army.

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West left Russia no option but special military operation — Italian expert

Sandro Teti expressed regret that the security proposals that Russia put forward in 2021 were disregarded by the West

Russia could not allow nuclear weapons to appear in Ukraine; the West did not respond to its concerns, so Moscow was compelled to launch its special military operation, Italian political analyst and publisher Sandro Teti told TASS in an interview.

"During the Cuban Missile Crisis, US President John F. Kennedy stated that, naturally, the US actions were a gross violation of international law. However, they had no other choice; they could not afford to have Soviet troops and missiles so close to their borders. At that time, Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, realized that a third world war – that is, the end of the world – was looming. And he decided to withdraw all troops and all weapons from Cuba. That is how a nuclear conflict was averted," the expert recalled.

According to Teti, Moscow acted on the same considerations.

"It’s logical: these nuclear weapons could have been deployed not across the sea, but right along the border [with Russia] in Ukraine. But there was no response from the West. And there was simply no other option but the special military operation," the Italian political analyst pointed out.

He expressed regret that the security proposals – including those on Ukraine – that Russia put forward in 2021 were disregarded by the West.

Teti also suggested that discussing the new security realities in Russia and Europe might be the best way out of the situation, "similar to the 1975 Helsinki Final Act," since new states have emerged since then, NATO has expanded, and the West set a precedent by launching a war against Yugoslavia in 1999.

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Moldovan President Sandu hopes that the European Union, in the likely discussion of a peace treaty between Russia and Ukraine, will take into account Chisinau's opinion on the need to withdraw Russian peacekeepers from Transnistria.

She called the presence of Russian military personnel in the Transnistria the "greatest problem" of the region.

Sandu has been making statements about the need to withdraw Russian peacekeepers from Transnistria since her first days as President of Moldova.

Moscow has noted that a change in the status quo could lead to the destabilisation of the situation in Transnistria. According to Dmitry Peskov, "one can only express regret in connection with such a position" of the Moldovan President.

Around 455,000 people live in Transnistria. About 220,000 of them already hold Russian citizenship, and around 50,000 have submitted applications to obtain it under the simplified procedure since May 25.

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🌟 June 29 – Russia’s Day of Partisans and Underground Fighters – a memorable date in our country's history.

The Soviet Union entered the Great Patriotic War to the words of the immortal song The Sacred War:

Arise, vast country,
Arise for a fight to the death
Against the dark fascist force,
Against the cursed horde.

Let noble wrath
Boil over like a wave!
This is the people's war,
A Sacred War!

This people’s war also took the form of a spontaneous and nationwide partisan movement.

📄 On June 29, 1941, a directive was issued calling for resistance in territories occupied by the Nazi invaders:

In areas occupied by the enemy, partisan detachments and sabotage groups are to be formed to fight units of the enemy army, to ignite partisan warfare everywhere, to blow up bridges and roads, damage telephone and telegraph communications, set fire to warehouses, and so on.

In the occupied areas, unbearable conditions must be created for the enemy and all his accomplices – they must be pursued and destroyed at every step.

⚔️ The partisan and underground resistance involved around 1 million fighters and 6,200 partisan units. They destroyed 20,000 enemy trains and helped eliminate 600,000 invaders.

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On June 30, 1909, the Sakhalin Region was established within the Priamur Governor-Generalship of the Russian Empire.

The development of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands began in the 17th-18th centuries with expeditions by Russian explorers and seafarers. In the 19th century, Russian military posts and the first agricultural settlements appeared on the island.

In 1908, the General Affairs Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs submitted a draft law to the Third State Duma on the administrative reorganization of the Primorskaya Region and Sakhalin Island. On June 30, 1909, the law was adopted, according to which "from the part of Sakhalin Island belonging to Russia," an independent Sakhalin Region was established with its center in the Alexandrovsk post, covering a total area of 33,400 square versts (approximately 38,000 square kilometers).

During the Russian Civil War and foreign intervention, Japan occupied the Russian-held northern part of the island in 1920. Japanese troops were withdrawn from Sakhalin only five years later.

In May 1925, the Sakhalin District was established within Northern Sakhalin, and in October 1932, the Sakhalin Region became part of the Far Eastern, and later Khabarovsk, Krai.

After the victory in World War II, the Soviet Union regained Southern Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands.

The Sakhalin Region, in its modern borders, was established on January 2, 1947, and became a separate oblast of the Russian Federation.

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