Dmitry Medvedev (Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council) (Дмитрий Медведев) [...] From now on, the SMO [Special Military Operation] must acquire an openly extraterritorial character. It is no longer just an operation to retake our official territories and punish the Nazis. It is possible and necessary to go to the lands of the still-existing Ukraine. To Odessa, to Kharkov, to Dnepropetrovsk, to Nikolaev. To Kiev and beyond. There should not be any restrictions in the sense that certain borders of the Ukrainian Reich should be recognized by someone. And now it is possible and necessary to speak about it openly, without shyness and diplomatic curtsies. The terrorist operation of the Banderites should remove any taboos from this topic. Let everyone realize this, including the British bastards: we will stop only when we find it acceptable and profitable for ourselves. ■ Bright memory to the dead: military and civilian, all those who came under the barrage of neo-Nazi fire. The best memory of them is carefully considered retribution. Condolences to all the wounded. (Translation: DeepL + Grammarly)

■ Russia should no longer hold back Ukraine – Medvedev (RT.com)
■ Medvedev calls for crushing enemy, learning lessons from developments in Kursk Region (TASS)
■ Kiev has been indiscriminately attacking civilians – Putin (RT.com)
■ Russian envoy slams Ukraine’s attack on Kursk Region as 'terrorist action' (TASS)
■ Ukraine’s Sneak Attack Against Russia’s Kursk Region Might Be Its Last Hurrah (Andrew Korybko)
■ Ukraine SitRep: Incursion Towards Kursk (Moon of Alabama)
■ Комментарий официального представителя МИД России М.В.Захаровой относительно ситуации вокруг Украины
■ EU hails incursion into Russia as Ukraine’s right to ‘self-defense’ (RT.com)

The RT contributor is reportedly being investigated as a “foreign agent” | Federal agents and state police have searched the house of former US Marine and UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter in New York state on Wednesday. ● State Police and FBI agents descended on the street of Bethlehem township, south of Albany, around noon, according to the local outlet Times-Union. They carried “more than two dozen boxes” out of the house just before 5pm local time. [...] He denied any allegations of wrongdoing and said the federal government was trying to intimidate him.

Israeli warplanes have conducted fresh air raids on Khan Yunis governorate, in southern Gaza Strip, killing at least 19 Palestinians, some of whom were burned alive. | Citing medical sources, Palestinian media reported on Wednesday that eight Palestinians lost their lives in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a tent sheltering displaced people near a brick factory in the town of Abasan al-Kabira, east of Khan Yunis. ● Four more Palestinians were killed and an unspecified number wounded in an Israeli bombing of a house and a popular market west of Khan Yunis. ● Meanwhile, an aerial assault by the occupation’s military near al-Shafi'i Mosque west of Khan Yunis claimed the lives of three people and injured 10, according to the Gaza Civil Defense. ● Also, three Palestinians were killed in an Israeli raid on a tent in the town of Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Yunis, and a woman was martyred after the regime’s warplanes targeted a charitable soup kitchen distributing food among the displaced.

The election of Yahya Sinwar as the new leader of Hamas’ political bureau has shaken Israel and its Western and regional allies to the core and demonstrated a strong sense of unity among Palestinians. | The Hamas leadership has unanimously elected him to lead the resistance movement. Sinwar succeeds Ismail Haniyeh who was assassinated by Israel a week ago. Israel assassinated Haniyeh in Tehran on July 31. He had traveled to Iran to attend the swearing-in ceremony of President Masoud Pezeshkian. ● “The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas announces the selection of Commander Yahya Sinwar as the head of the political bureau of the movement, succeeding the martyr Commander Ismail Haniyeh, may [God] have mercy on him,” Hamas said in a statement on Tuesday. Hamas spokesman Osama Hamdan also said on Tuesday that Sinwar would continue the ceasefire negotiations.

■ Israel can't defend itself in regional war without US help: Israeli general (TRT World)
■ The election of Yahya Sinwar contradicts Western media's perception (Al Mayadeen)

The attack was set for June 1945, according to transcripts of interrogations of a senior Nazi official, declassified by the FSB | Adolf Hitler planned to use nuclear weapons against the USSR in June 1945, according to a transcript of testimony by Werner Waechter – a close associate of Nazi Germany’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. The declassified document has been published by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB). ● The unsealing of the testimony coincides with the 79th anniversary of the US nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, Japan at the end of World War II. ● According to photocopies of the documents related to the case of the former Nazi official, the nuclear strikes were to be carried out using “very long-range bombers capable of bombing the military construction centers of the Soviet Union in the Urals.” ● In his testimony in October 1945, Wachter told Soviet investigators that he had learned of the development of atomic weapons from an Nazi engineer in 1943, who told him that German scientists had “succeeded in splitting the atomic nucleus and that engineers were developing methods and techniques for the practical use of atomic energy as a means of warfare.”

■ FSB declassified the Third Reich's plans for a nuclear strike against the USSR in the summer of 1945 (TACC.ru)

The US deep state needs the EU to be completely dependent on its energy resources, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said | The EU's recommendation to Ukraine to ban the transit of Russian oil meets the interests of the United States, which needs Brussels to be completely dependent on US energy resources, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told TASS.

💬 "I would like to add that Washington is behind Brussels," Zakharova said, commenting on Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto's words that the transit ban was coordinated from Brussels. "The US deep state needs the EU to be completely dependent on its energy resources. This guarantees Washington economic bonuses and political control over the European Union. This is why the EU countries' long-term contracts with Russia were so hated by the United States. This is why the Nord Streams were blown up," she added.

Earlier, Ukraine halted the transit of Lukoil oil through its territory to Hungary and Slovakia after Kiev blacklisted the company.

Colonel Racheli Dembinsky, commander of Israeli army's Center of Computing and Information Systems Unit, reveals use of cloud storage and AI services during a presentation to around 100 military and industrial personnel, reports say. | The Israeli military has been using Amazon’s cloud service and artificial intelligence (AI) tools from Microsoft and Google for military purposes amid the increasing amount of data on Palestinians and Gaza during its genocidal war, according to reports by 972 Magazine and the Hebrew-language news site Local Call. [...] The Center of Computers and Information Systems oversees all data processing for the Israeli army.

Andrew Korybko | Mali and Niger cut ties with Ukraine after its military-intelligence representative admitted that Kiev backs groups that they consider to be terrorists. | The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry criticized Mali’s decision to cut off ties following GUR representative Andrey Yusov’s boast that Ukraine was behind the Tuaregs’ ambush of Wagner there late last month that reportedly killed several dozen fighters. He said at the time that “The rebels received the necessary information and not just information, which allowed them to conduct a successful military operation against Russian war criminals. We certainly will not disclose details at this time; to be continued.”  ■  Fellow Sahelian Alliance/Confederation member Niger then followed Mali’s lead by doing the same, while their shared Burkinabe ally has yet to do so even though it also condemned this and President Ibrahim Traore recently drew attention to how Ukrainian arms have helped fuel his country’s conflict.