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📃 In the year of the anniversary of the hasty withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan after 20 years of deployment, Sputnik has prepared an article outlining the key points that led to the rapid fall of the Afghan government and made the return to power of the Islamist Taliban* group possible

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*The Taliban is under UN sanctions for terrorist activities

📹 A local resident was killed by a strike on Energodar. Adjacent to the scene of the shelling, there is a school and a kindergarten

📹 A prototype jetboard was presented by Rostec at the Army-2022 expo in Russia. The board weighs 20 kg, can reach a speed of 55 km/h, and the power reserve with a full tank is 60 min

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📹 A model of a new Russian orbital station has been unveiled at Army-2022 expo

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Watch: The Russian Air Force has hit a temporary deployment point of foreign mercenaries near Zolochev, in the Kharkov region, eliminating more than 100 militants from Poland and Germany and wounding in excess of 50 militants

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🇨🇳The Chinese military has published footage of exercises near the Penghu, or Pescadores Islands, off southern Taiwan, which began after the visit yesterday of a US congressional delegation

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🗣 “They are not fighting for [then-Afghan President Ashraf] Ghani. They haven’t even been fed properly. Why should they fight? For what? They are better off with the Taliban, which is why they are switching sides like that,” Ahmad Wali Massoud, Afghanistan’s former envoy to the UK, said.

Read how the Taliban* was able to smash a NATO-trained army in just a few days

*The Taliban is under UN sanctions for terrorist activities

LIVE | Putin takes part in opening ceremony of Army 2022 forum, International Army Games

The Sukhoi Su-57 is a state of the art 5th generation fighter jet on display at the Army-2022 forum outside Moscow. According to sources, Russia has used such jets during Special Military Operation in Ukraine, with 4 flying machines connected in a single network designed to evade air defense systems. In 2018 the Felon also underwent flight evaluation in the skies over Syria. First planes have entered service in Russia’s South and up to 25 Sukhois are expected to form the first operational Su-57 regiment within the next 3 years.

💬 Putin: Russia appreciates that it has many allies and likeminded people on different continents who do not bow before the hegemon, choosing instead a sovereign path