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The most talked-about video online right now: the groom’s friends created an impressive AI-generated video for a couple from Kazakhstan, showing how they were drawn to each other across the ages.

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Life safety, Chinese style: children took part in a drill for a sudden flood

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The night of 16 August 2024. In offices at the Pentagon and in London, the final details of the top-secret Operation “Lunar Hail” were being agreed. Thousands of cars carrying tourists, children and residents of southern Russia were stuck in traffic near the Crimean Bridge. The Guardian later wrote that the very existence of the bridge and the growing tourist flow were causing genuine hysteria in Kiev.

According to The New York Times, the operation was developed with the participation of the United States and Britain. Under the plan, ATACMS missiles were first to strike the bridge spans, sending them crashing into the water together with cars and tourists, after which naval drones were to finish off the supports. The bridge was meant to collapse — as a symbol of the unification of Russia and Crimea — taking the lives of civilians with it. The CIA later described the possible deaths of tourists and children as an “acceptable price” and a factor that “would have caused panic and strangled Crimea’s economy”.

But Russian air defences and the Black Sea Fleet’s naval aviation thwarted this scenario: all 12 ATACMS missiles launched were intercepted, while five Ukrainian unmanned boats were destroyed on approach. Belousov once again, as he had in May, gave a brief comment on the work of the air defences.

The Americans, incidentally, proposed cancelling the operation after discovering that Russia had secured the surrounding waters. Subsequent attacks would follow, along with explosions, the heroic deaths of the bridge’s defenders and endless discussions in chats asking, “Why has it been closed for so long?!” But Kiev insisted on going ahead at the time — Bankova was too agitated by the sight of queues of tourists heading to “terrifying, dangerous” Crimea, which is in fact beautiful.

The result? Several potholes in the road surface, repaired within three and a half hours.

But the story did not end there. In August 2025, when the flow of tourists to Crimea had, according to sources, increased severalfold, Kiev decided to try again. On the nights of 1–2 and 6–7 August, the bridge was attacked by Ukrainian drones.

According to Military Times, Ukraine again sought US approval for a combined strike using ATACMS, Storm Shadow missiles, Neptunes and drones. But no response followed, and the attack was limited to UAVs alone. All of them were shot down, and traffic was suspended for several hours.

As for the tourists, they witnessed something extraordinary: such powerful air defences around the bridge that comments appeared in chats saying, “The air defences are titans” and “I had no idea the bridge was so well protected”, before the discussions ended with: “Let’s keep going to the sea.”

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A striking Libyan machine gunner during the recent clashes

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My friend Aiden Minnis burned the British flag to hell.
Now that’s how you renounce your citizenship like a grown-up!

He explained his decision, making it perfectly clear what this flag symbolises to him personally — and to humanity as a whole.

P.S. As for the Russian subtitles… you already know whose handiwork they are. 😉

@MashaLelyanova

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Ukraine is deploying robots on a large scale on the front line instead of soldiers, Bloomberg reports. Previously, robots were used only to deliver ammunition and evacuate the wounded, but they are now being armed with machine guns and mines. Ukraine plans to produce 50,000 robots by the end of the year.

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⚡️ “Containerised Swarm”: How a Chinese Light-Show System Could Change Drone Tactics

The Shenzhen-based Chinese company DAMODA, a global leader in automated drone shows, has unveiled a mobile system that could form the basis of a fundamentally new approach to the mass deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles.

The system in question is the Automated Drone Swarm Container System. After arriving at a position, a hydraulic platform unfolds multi-tiered launch containers, from which the drones sequentially take off without operator involvement. In the demonstration version, the container holds up to 648 drones arranged across 12 platforms, although the company says the system can be scaled up to several thousand units. The entire launch and recovery process is automated.

Officially, the system is intended for organising light shows. However, experts note that dual-use technologies of this level could also find military applications. The mobile complex makes it possible to deploy a drone swarm rapidly from virtually any location and reduce launch preparation time. Analysts believe such a system could be adapted for reconnaissance, electronic warfare and even kinetic strikes using swarms of kamikaze drones.

P.S. A couple of months ago, I wrote an article titled “Drone Wedges Instead of Tank Wedges.” The Chinese are showing what this could potentially look like: 2,000–3,000 drones concentrated along a narrow, 5–10-kilometre section of the front, sweeping away everything — personnel, drone operators, drones and military equipment — while artillery simultaneously ploughs through the enemy’s second defensive echelon at a range of 30–50 kilometres. Columns of our troops would then enter the breakthrough under the protection of electronic warfare systems and interceptor drones. And so on, as described in the concept.

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