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“The Russian Army do not appear to have an answer to what the Ukrainians are doing to them,” tweeted Mick Ryan, a defense analyst and retired Australian general, referring to an offensive by Ukraine’s army that has forced Russia to retreat from several positions in the Kherson region. The counteroffensive began in early September and has gained momentum in recent days. The recent successes follow Kyiv swiftly recapturing swathes of territory in the northeastern Kharkiv region this month....

Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba on Friday called for an investigation following reports that Russia launched an attack on a kindergarten and an orphanage in Okhtyrka, a small city in Ukraine’s Sumy province. “Today’s Russian attacks on a kindergarten and an orphanage are war crimes and violations of the Rome Statute,” he said in a statement on Twitter. “Together with the General Prosecutor’s Office we are collecting this and other facts, which we will immediately send to the Hague....

The Sun reported that the fast-food fan, Luka Safronov, was filmed at the Moscow restaurant just hours before all the McDonald’s diners were due to close in Russia on Monday. In a video of Sunday’s protest on social media, Safronov is heard shouting in Russian “Closing down is an act of hostility against me and my fellow citizens!” During his protest, other customers make the most of their last day at McDonald’s for the foreseeable future, walking past him and going inside to order food....

Paris Saint-Germain want to make Alexis Sanchez and Julian Weigl two of their next marquee signings, according to Canal Supporters. The report claims PSG hope to prevent the Chilean from signing a new contract with the Gunners in order to pressure the Premier League club into a sale ahead of the expiry of his current deal in 2018. Borussia Dortmund star Weigl, meanwhile, has been earmarked as the ideal replacement for current defensive midfielder Thiago Motta, who is a free agent in the summer....

Human Head Studios Project Director Chris Rhinehart offered the following prepared statement about bringing Rune back after such a long time: The original Rune game launched in the year 2000 to a positive reception and decent sales. Its limited success was especially impressive considering the game’s development was started by two guys at Raven Software working in their off hours and then finished by a small team struggling after its Daikatana sequel was canceled....

RELATED: Most Immersive MMORPGs Abilities can be set up on an action bar, with players able to use keyboard shortcuts to unleash different and deadly combat abilities that heavily influence how a fight goes. While the player base has been split on this update, those that like to play with the Revolution combat need to know the best melee abilities around. RuneScape 3 is a very well-done game, and despite its age, even competes with the MMOs released in 2021....

The game has never been known for its graphics. Instead, RuneScape 3’s iconic quests and sense of exploration have allowed the game to become one of the most recognizable MMORPGs of all time. Despite this, years of gradual visual updates has led to the game having an uneven art style. In some cases, models from the late 2000s and early 2010s stand side-by-side with models from the last few years, and it shows....

Kochi produced another strong all-round performance against the Ahmedabad Defenders to pick up their second win in a row. David Lee was the top points scorer for the side with a haul of 10 points as they edged out the Defenders with a 3-2 scoreline in a five-set thrilling contest. Match Overview The Black Hawks Hyderabad began the league campaign on a strong note, thwarting off the challenge from Ahmedabad Defenders on the third matchday, winning a close match with a 3-2 score....

Limbaugh’s conversation with the President already aired, but that doesn’t mean you can’t catch up on everything Trump had to say. You can rewatch the radio rally on Rush Limbaugh’s website, but you’ll have to subscribe to his radio show to listen. In order to access any of Limbaugh’s direct content, you’ll need a username and password to access Rush 24/7. There is a list of subscription tiers, which start at $6....

The Lakers and Pistons Sunday-night tussle led to a LeBron James ejection, a bloodied and ejected Isaiah Stewart and a technical foul on Russell Westbrook. Westbrook, though, had no idea he had been assessed a technical foul until he was informed of it after the game by reporters. MORE: The hit, the photo, the legend — The story of LeBron’s last high school football game While Westbrook didn’t seem to have done much during the incident, he clearly drew the ire of Stewart in the aftermath of the punch....

On Sunday, Justin Bieber met up with Russell Wilson in Seattle to attend church and to do some bowling. It was a busy weekend for both of them. On Saturday Wilson was in Washington, D.C. for the White House Correspondents Dinner, while Bieber was in Las Vegas for Floyd Mayweather's title fight against Marcos Maidana. (H/T TMZ.com)

The squads competed for the title of the “Best Road Paver” team, the “Best Engineering and Assault Squad” and the “Best Heavy Mechanized Bridge” team at the event hosted at a training ground in Korla, the second largest city in the province of Xinjiang in China. Individuals were required to pass through an obstacle course and solve engineering problems, according to local media reports from Wednesday, August 24. The results of the races will be announced by a panel of judges after the relay stage of the “Safe Route” competition, following a statement obtained by Zenger News from the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation....

At a foreign policy webinar on Friday morning, Lavrov levelled multiple accusations at Russia’s Western adversaries, both American and European. Lavrov’s remarks come amid a period of frosty relations between Washington, D.C. and Moscow, as President Joe Biden vows to punish the Kremlin for its extensive cyber operations against U.S. companies, allies and federal institutions, as well as its covert operations against dissidents and rival nations. “They are attempting to build a belt of instability around us, forcing our nearest neighbors and our fraternal populations to make a choice—either you’re with the West or you’re with the Russian Federation,” said Lavrov on Friday, according to the state-run Tass news agency....

Following a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency suggesting that Iran’s enriched uranium stocks had exceeded the nuclear agreement’s limits, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang expressed “regret” at Tehran’s decision during a press conference Tuesday, but ultimately concluded “that the U.S.’ extreme pressure is the root cause of the current Iranian nuclear tension.” He also noted that the “Iranian side has repeatedly stressed that it is willing to stay in a comprehensive agreement, and the measures it has taken are reversible....

The operation comes amid increased tensions over arms control between Moscow and Washington. Earlier this month, the United States withdrew from the Reagan-era Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, a landmark nuclear missile pact with Russia. The Trump administration said Moscow had violated that treaty. “Russia is solely responsible for the treaty’s demise,” U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement on August 2. He accused Russia of failing to destroy its SSC-8 or 9M729 ground-launched, intermediate-range cruise missile systems, which the United States says are noncompliant....

Since October 2022, Russia has been carrying out waves of attacks against Ukraine, targeting civilian areas and critical infrastructure like energy facilities. The strikes began after the Kerch Strait Bridge, which connects Russia to the occupied Crimean peninsula, and is also a key supply route for Putin’s troops, was hit with an explosion in October. Ukraine did not formally claim responsibility for the explosion, but Putin blamed it on Ukraine, calling it an act of “terrorism,” and vowed to respond....

As NATO’s 30 members signed off on the accession protocols for Sweden and Finland, Peskov told reporters that Russia’s Ministry of Defense is taking action. “Such options are being worked out not in the Kremlin, but in the Ministry of Defense. We have already said many times that there are relevant plans there, and work is being done to ensure our security,” Peskov told a news conference when pressed on Russia’s possible response....

Kherson has become the latest focal point of the Russia-Ukraine war as Ukraine has amped up pressure to reclaim the southern city with a counteroffensive that has included gunfire, shelling and explosions. Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych described his country’s efforts as a “slow operation to grind the enemy.” CNN has reported that Ukrainians have successfully seized four villages near Kherson that Russia had occupied since the war’s inception. Ukraine’s Operational Command South said Monday that armed forces launched an offensive “in many directions in the south of Ukraine” that has focused on supply chains, successfully hitting multiple Russian targets....

The U.K’s Ministry of Defense (MOD) said on Saturday that Russia had probably used up a large number of its own SS-26 Iskander short-range ballistic missiles, which are able to carry a 1,100-pound warhead up to 300 miles. So, Russia is likely to be offering Iran “an unprecedented level of military and technical support,” which is " transforming their defense relationship," the defense officials said. In its daily assessment, the MOD said that if Russia managed to bring Iranian ballistic missiles into service, “it will likely use them to continue and expand its campaign of strikes against Ukraine’s critical national infrastructure....