Isolation of Glushkovsky district in Kursk region, UAVs flew to Murmansk, evacuation from Pokrovsk. What happened on the front this week

In today’s summary:

  • In Kursk region, Ukrainian troops are trying to occupy the regional center of Korenevo and completely isolate the Glushkovsky district
  • The Russian command has not yet transferred units from Donbass to the Kursk direction
  • The Russian Armed Forces have increased the pace of their advance toward Pokrovsk; a mass evacuation has been organized in the city itself
  • Ukrainian drones hit the Marinovka military airfield in the Volgograd region and almost reached Murmansk
  • The names of over a hundred conscripts who went missing and were captured in the Kursk region have been established
  • The US administration has not responded to a request for permission to use Storm Shadow on Russian territory for over a month
  • Germany plans to cut military aid to Ukraine from the budget, replacing it with loans secured by frozen Russian assets
  • Kamikaze drones from a sewer pipe and the first tank with a fully rubberized “king-barbecue” have been spotted on the front lines
  • The situation at the front
  • The offensive operation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region has been going on for more than two weeks. In recent days, no large-scale changes in the LBS have been observed , but actions to expand the combat zone have not ceased. The presence of Ukrainian troops was reported in Olgovka , Vishnevka and Snagost on the approaches to Korenevo – another regional center, which is apparently planned to be taken after Sudzha .

Le projet d’un «Patriot Act» allemand vient d’être révélé

Entrées clandestines dans les maisons, piratage, logiciels espions : l’Allemagne veut étendre les pouvoirs de la police.

Actuellement, les perquisitions ne sont autorisées en Allemagne que si les forces de l’ordre informent explicitement la personne concernée des soupçons concrets pesant sur elle, et du but de la perquisition. Selon des révélations exclusives du journal Spiegel, cela s’apprête à changer.

Perquisitions secrètes

Khaled Qaddoumi (Qaddoumi)

Terror organization: Hamas

Status: Khaled Qaddoumi is Hamas’s representative in Tehran, Iran.

Role: Khaled Qaddoumi is Hamas’s representative in Tehran, Iran. He is responsible for raising Hamas’s interests with Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and members of the Iranian government. He also acts as a public mouthpiece for Hamas to Iranian and international media.

Qassim Abdullah Ali Ahmed

Terror organization: Al Ashtar Brigades. (AAB)

Status: Leader.

Role: Al-Muamen has recruited terrorists in Bahrain, facilitated training on weapons and explosives for AAB members, and supplied AAB members with funding, weapons, and explosives to carry out attacks. In November 2017, Bahraini authorities identified al-Muamen as being involved in an AAB plot to assassinate prominent figures in Bahrain and target three oil pipelines.

Gaza: 100,000 Palestinians displaced from Deir al-Balah in two days

Successive Israeli evacuation orders have displaced around 100,000 Palestinians in the space of two days in the central Gaza Strip city of Deir al-Balah

Successive Israeli evacuation orders have displaced around 100,000 Palestinians from Gaza’s Deir al-Balah in the space of two days, municipal authorities in the central Gaza Strip city announced on Saturday.

Iranian Politics and Strategy Complicate Response to Haniyeh Killing

The July election of reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian and historic fears of conflict with the U.S. military have delayed or derailed an Iranian retaliatory attack on Israel.

Iranian leaders appear willing to trade a military response to the killing in Tehran of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh for an indirect seat at the table in Gaza ceasefire talks.

The Taliban’s Afghan Drug Ban Hasn’t Slowed Europe’s Heroin Trade

In April 2022, less than a year after it took power in Kabul, the Taliban announced it would prohibit the cultivation, production, trafficking, trade and consumption of all narcotics in Afghanistan. At the time, many observers were skeptical of both the group’s sincerity, due to the revenues it had long generated from the drugs industry, and its ability to enforce the ban.

What the Houthi government reshuffle means for Yemen

Analysis: There are concerns that the new government in Sanaa could be part of Houthi preparations for a resumption of fighting in Yemen.

After eight years in power, the Houthi-led government in Sanaa, which is not recognised by the United Nations, was reshuffled last week, marking a new phase in priorities.

Spotlight on theIsrael-Palestinian ConflictAugust 13 – 20 , 2024

The southern arena: IDF forces continued their activity in the Rafah area in the southern Gaza
Strip and the Netzarim Corridor in the central Gaza Strip, expanding their activities in Khan Yunis
and Deir al-Balah. The Palestinian organizations continued firing rockets into Israeli territory,
including targeting the center of the country. Three IDF soldiers were killed in combat.