⚡️ More than 622,000 metric tons of grain shipped from Ukrainian ports in August - Turkish Ministry of Defense

🤪 Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin is once again at the center of a party scandal - a video from a private party has leaked online.

▪️ The chairman of the Finnish Social Democratic Party and the country's prime minister, for the second time in her term, has criticized for her wild behavior. Sanna Marin (in a black top in the video) is having fun in the company of her friends, who are discussing cocaine in the background.

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⚡️🇷🇺 Lavrov will hold talks with his Syrian counterpart in Moscow on August 23, Russian Foreign Ministry said.

🇷🇺 🇹🇷 Russia has started the supplies of the second regiment of its S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems to Turkey after the signing of a relevant contract, Russian Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) Director Dmitry Shugaev told Sputnik on Thursday.

🗣 "The relevant contract document [on the supply of the second S-400 regiment to Turkey] has already been signed, which, among other things, provides for the localization of the production of the system's individual components," Shugaev said, adding that the implementation of the contract has already began.

▪️ Turkey remains Russia's important partner, and the two countries have close trade and economic relations with bilateral collaboration actively developing in many areas, including military-technical cooperation, he said.

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📹 On August 18, 2022, 3 MiG-31i warplanes loaded with Kinzhal hypersonic missiles were redeployed to Chkalovsk airfield in Kaliningrad Region as part of additional strategic deterrence measures.

▪️ During the course of the flight, interaction with the fighter aviation of the 6th Air Force and Air Defense Army, as well as the naval aviation of the Baltic Fleet, was practiced.

▪️ MiG-31i warplanes with Kinzhal hypersonic missiles will be on round-the-clock combat duty at Chkalovsk airfield.

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❗️Zelensky says agreed with Guterres parameters of possible IAEA mission to Zaporozhye NPP

⚡️ Leaders of Serbia and Kosovo did not come to agreement during Brussels meeting but agreed to continue dialogue in coming days - Borrell

🌚🌝 What is the origin of the Moon?

▪️There are various theories. According to one, the Moon could be formed jointly with the Earth as a result of the compression of a space dust cloud;

▪️Other scientists believe that the Moon was formed after a collision of the Earth with another cosmic body, others believe that there were several bodies: asteroids;

▪️One theory even supposes that long before there were several moon-like bodies near our planet!

▪️Recently, one of the theories received new evidence

💬The statements from UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres after meeting with Presidents Erdogan and Zelensky on the global food crisis and grain deal:

▪️There are signs that global food markets have begun to stabilize;

▪️21 ships have departed Ukrainian ports under the grain deal;

▪️Wheat prices have dropped by 8% after the signing of the grain deal;

▪️Parties to the grain deal have worked in "good faith";

▪️There's no solution to the food crisis without Ukrainian or Russian products

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🇮🇹 Italy is hit by a downpour with hurricane winds. In Tuscany, a storm demolished trees and roofs, killing two with four injured. The video shows winds so strong that they spin the Ferris wheel

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🇮🇹 The consequences of the hurricane in Italy's Venice: this is what Piazza San Marco looks like

🇨🇳 Meanwhile in China: An army of robot dogs dancing in sync at the World Robot Conference in Beijing

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Does the robot dog bite?

❗️Erdogan intends to discuss with Putin results of his talks in Lvov

🇬🇧 45 million Brits may be hit by fuel poverty by January, new study reveals

‼️WARNING: SENSITIVE CONTENT

In May, a war correspondent reported from the scene that a body of a murdered and raped woman had been found at Ukrainian Armed Forces positions after Russian forces took the village of Dolgen'koye.

Now, another terrible find in the forests of the Izium front was reported. A grave, containing the partially skeletonized remains of several women, apparently local civilians, was discovered not far from the former positions of the Ukrainian military.

🇧🇷Brazil's President Bolsonaro has been provoked and cursed by a blogger

A YouTuber named Wilker Leão uttered several provocations and curses against the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro. In the video, Leão is seen filming the president, calling him "vagabundo" (a tramp). Bolsonaro tried to stop the footage himself, but only guards were able to push the man away.

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📹 The NYPD has shared footage of a man punching a 52-year-old in the head seemingly without provocation, causing a skull fracture, broken cheek and brain bleeding in the Bronx. The victim is in a critical condition and the police are searching for the suspect

❗️The air defense system in Crimea's Kerch has just worked, according to preliminary information. The advisor to the governor says there is no danger

🇲🇱🇫🇷France condemns Mali's statement that Paris is allegedly supplying terrorists with weapons and regards it as an "information manipulation" designed to distract attention from the deteriorating security situation in the West African country

"We condemn the spread of information manipulations, which in no way must distract attention from the deterioration of security and the humanitarian situation in the country, the first victims of which have been its population," a spokesman for the French Foreign Ministry said at a briefing, commenting on the accusations by the Malian authorities.

The spokesman stressed that France was withdrawing forces from Mali "in full transparency towards the Malian armed forces and partners" and would continue to fight terrorism in the Sahel and West Africa.

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