🇺🇸🇨🇳🇹🇼 US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken: The United States opposes any unilateral effort to change the status quo in Taiwan, especially by force, and its policy on Taiwan has not changed.

🇿🇲🇨🇳 Zambian Socialist Party President Fred Mmembe: Taiwan is an integral part of China's territory.

🇹🇼🇨🇳 Due to PLA exercises around Taiwan on August 4, only 74 passenger flights and 35 ships used alternative routes to arrive and depart from the island.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡A unit of PMC Wagner, with the support of the special forces of the Special Operations Forces of the Russian Federation, entered the outskirts of the city of Artyomovsk (Bakhmut), where it conducts street battles, a RT source in the NM DPR said.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Attack on Artyomovsk 5th of August

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🇲🇰🇺🇦 North Macedonia secretly handed over to Ukraine 4 Su-25 attack aircraft, which have been mothballed since 2004, the local MKD portal reports.

Earlier, the Macedonian Ministry of Defense confirmed the transfer of T-72 tanks to Ukraine.

🇹🇼 Taiwan has denied rumors that China is evacuating its citizens from the country as tensions escalate across the strait.

🇷🇺🇸🇾⚡In Syria, an attack helicopter of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed the lair of pro-American terrorists

During air patrols, the crews of the Russian Aerospace Forces identified and destroyed another group of militants from the Liwa Shuhada El-Karyatein terrorist group trained by US SOF instructors

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Changes at the front: The activity of combined arms artillery and EW systems of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Donbass has noticeably decreased, - brigade commander of Vostok

Alexander Khodakovsky: “There is a decrease in the intensity of the work of the enemy’s combined-arms artillery in the Donbass. The activity of electronic warfare systems has also noticeably decreased - we fly (drones) more freely than a week ago. One of the assumptions is the transfer of resources to another (other) directions.

This is due to the preparation of their own counteroffensive, or to the preparation to repel our offensive - time will tell. Now it is logical to increase the pressure on the Donetsk land and proceed to its liberation."

🇺🇦⚡The main thing from the summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine:

▪️ in the Donetsk direction, the Russian army is conducting an offensive operation on Artemovsk and Avdeevka. Russia is trying to create favorable conditions for the capture of Soledar and Artemovsk, to expand the controlled territory on the western outskirts of Donetsk;
▪️There are shooting battles in the Kramatorsk direction;
▪️ The Russian army launched a missile attack on an infrastructure facility near the settlement of Nikolaevka, Odessa region.

The Russian Armed Forces continue shelling almost along the entire line of hostilities.

🇨🇳🇺🇸 China claims the US is violating the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) by transferring them to third countries. Which countries are in question is unknown. Beijing also believes that Washington's nuclear arsenal threatens international security.