RT News - July 25 2022 (09:00 MSK)

RT gets access to a number of files from a Security Service sting operation showing the plans of Ukrainian military intelligence to bribe Russian pilots to defect. ‘In the interests of their own people’: those were the words of Egypt's foreign minister after talks with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, who's on a tour of Africa. That's to the dismay of US politicians, who rang alarm bells over Russia's increasing influence. Russia says its artillery has destroyed Ukrainian control centers and ammunition depots across the Donbass front. An RT crew visits a Lugansk artillery unit. Brazilian President Bolsonaro reiterates his country won't join anti-Russian sanctions. That's despite Ukrainian President Zelensky's call for Brasilia to choose a side in the conflict.