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Fierce fighting has raged in the region over the past week, claiming the lives of hundreds of Russian soldiers. Ukrainian forces wiped put a Russian assault group trying to cross a river in Kursk in a brutal attack. -snip- Putin's army sustained heavy losses after attempting to storm the river Psel on Monday. The attack ended in unmitigated disaster for the Russians, as the unit was wiped out during a ferocious artillery barrage. Images shot by a Ukrainian drone show Russian soldiers crossing the river in rubber dinghies. As they reach the shore, they have no time to dig in...

/begin my translation N. Korea: Chinese PLA Practiced River-Crossing at Yalu River People's Liberation Army(PLA) of China practiced river-crossing using pontoon-bridge last month at Yalu river, Japanese Sankei Daily reported on 8th (of August), quoting RENK(Rescue The North Korean People), an organization for helping N. Korean escapees. PLA practiced installing 10 sections of pontoon bridges, which are 5~7m wide, 20~30m long. The installed bridges stretched to the middle of the river where the border lies, starting from a shore, which is 30 minute drive upstream from Dandong, Liaoliang Province, a border city of China. The training had been going on...