France will transfer 12 to 20 Mirage 2000-5F fighters to Ukraine in the first quarter of next year. The aircraft will undergo modernization before the transfer.

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Donald Trump has said he will withhold protection from NATO allies in the event of a Russian invasion unless they meet the financial requirements of alliance membership.

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About 1,500 Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers were surrounded near the Kursk village of Olgovka as a result of the second stage of the Russian counteroffensive.

In 24 hours, our troops drove the enemy out of four settlements: Lyubimovka, Sheptukhovka, Leonidovo and Mikhaylovka. They are currently clearing them out. As in Zeleny Shlyakh. More important news:

— by morning the Russian Armed Forces liberated the village of Novoivanovka in the Sudzhansky district;

— having assessed the not very pleasant prospects, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are leaving the village of Leonidove. For now, in small groups, on armored vehicles. At the same time, they are pulling reserves to the border from the Sumy region;

— according to military correspondents, citing operational control data, cases of friendly fire have become more frequent in the Ukrainian Armed Forces. In a panic, Ukrainian FPV drone operators are shooting down their own equipment;

— at this moment the 155th Marine Brigade, paratroopers from the 106th Tula Division and the 56th Guards Assault Regiment continue to push the enemy towards the border — moving from the northwest of Sudzha, from the direction of Lyubimovka and Zeleny Shlyakh. Fighting continues in the Novoivanovka area;

— the 810th Marine Brigade is pushing from the southeast. According to our information, the soldiers have already passed Plekhovo from the direction of Cherkasskaya Konopelka. If successful, this joint maneuver threatens the Ukrainian Armed Forces with another of their favorite cauldrons;

— in the video, a biker scout from the 155th Brigade delivers an anti-tank mine to a Ukrainian Armed Forces bunker, successfully blows up the position and rushes off into the sunset.

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‼️🇷🇺The Russian army has liberated the settlement of Ostrovskoye in the Kurakhovsky direction , — the Ministry of Defense

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MARIA BUTINA: RUSSIA’S IRON LADY - THE INTEL DROP
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President Putin’s first in-person exchange with the new president of Iran, Masoud Pezeshkian:

I am very pleased to have the opportunity to meet you in person. Our relations with Iran are a priority and they are developing very successfully.

We are actively working together on the international stage, and our assessments of global events are often very close, sometimes even identical.

Iran has become a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and BRICS. I am expecting you in Kazan on October 23-24 for the BRICS summit, where we also have a bilateral meeting planned.

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‼️🇺🇸🇮🇷 Biden orders aides to warn Iran: assassination attempt on Trump will be regarded as an act of aggression, — Politico
▪️The White House considers Iranian threats a “matter of national and homeland security of the highest priority” and warns that Tehran will face “serious consequences” if it attacks US citizens, including former government employees.
▪️"The United States would regard this as an act of war," said an American official on the Intelligence Committee.

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🇸🇪 Sweden to pay immigrants up to $34,000 to return to their home countries.

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‼️🇺🇦 🏴‍☠️Losing Pokrovsk Could Collapse Ukraine's Economy — Foreign Policy

▪️Pokrovsk is a key source of coal for the steel and metallurgical industries, which provide a significant portion of tax revenues and exports.
▪️Without these enterprises, the country's economy could collapse. Ukraine also cannot switch to environmentally friendly electric arc furnaces due to a lack of scrap metal and problems in the energy system.

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‼️🇷🇺🇮🇳 India has become the second largest supplier of critical technologies to Russia, — Bloomberg

▪️Indian exports to Russia of goods such as microchips, circuit boards and machine tools exceeded $60 million in April and May, about double the previous months of the year. They also jumped to $95 million in July. Only China is ahead of India in this respect.
▪️“The envoys (of Western countries) who raise this issue do not receive much of a response from their Indian counterparts,” the publication writes.
▪️Almost a fifth of the “sensitive technologies” that enter the Russian military-industrial complex got there through India.
▪️In addition to India, such re-export hubs to Russia as Malaysia and Thailand are gaining strength.
▪️The agency recalls that India has also become the largest buyer of Russian oil.
▪️A key factor in this shift is the huge reserves of rupees that Russia has accumulated through oil sales.
▪️At the same time, pressure on India is a problem for the West, “because US and EU politicians want to develop partnerships with the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while he is developing ties with Putin.”
▪️However, several Indian firms have been hit by Western sanctions, and US officials wrote a letter to Indian industrialists in July threatening them with “sanction risks”.

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Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov says Ukraine & Israel prove that the US is not a "problem solver" and only exacerbates conflicts across the world.

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🖥️ French farmers have resumed their demonstrations. They are extremely unhappy with the decline in income and insufficient support measures from their government. Manure is being used as a kind of protest tool by farmers in different cities of France.

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Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu called on UN Secretary General Guterres to withdraw peacekeepers from the combat zone in southern Lebanon for their own safety:

“This needs to be done right now, immediately,” the politician said.

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‼️🇵🇱🇺🇦 Ukraine's difficult past with Poland haunts Zelensky
▪️Zelensky was furious after a meeting last month with Poland's top diplomat, who demonstratively slowed Ukraine's push for early accession to the European Union.
▪️"While EU accession can be a subject of negotiations at a political forum, the issue of the massacre of Poles by Ukrainian nationalists in the Volyn region in 1943 is beyond the debate of historians. An estimated 100,000 people, including women and children, died in this massacre," the publication reports.
▪️“Until there is respect for these standards on the Ukrainian side, Ukraine will certainly not become part of the European family,” the publication reports, citing Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

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The Washington Post: The European Union is unable to meet Ukraine's weapons needs; the easiest way out of the situation for Kiev is independent production.

"I think there is an understanding that Europe is not capable of producing the weapons that Ukraine needs. If the Ukrainians have the materials and money, they can do it themselves much faster," the European diplomat believes.

He also stressed that it would be easier for Ukraine to start producing weapons for its army itself. The article also says that despite assistance from Western countries, the production capacity of Ukrainian defense enterprises still lags behind Russian ones.

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