📹 A former militant of 'Kraken', one of Ukraine's nationalist battalions, speaks about how he was abandoned after being wounded.

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😱 📹 New footage of the Finnish prime minister having fun at an allegedly drunk party has surfaced online, a day after the first such video was released.

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📹 A so-called “flash mob” of looters were caught on camera ransacking a 7-Eleven in Los Angeles earlier this week — making off with handfuls of snacks, cigarettes and other goods, authorities said.

😳 Footage released by Los Angeles police depicts dozens of people, many of them not bothering to hide their faces, grabbing up various goods as they swarmed the chain store Monday shortly after midnight in the Harbor Gateway section of the city.

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▪️ The wait continues for the transportation of the stranded Nord Stream turbine to Russia, prompting Germany's Siemens Energy to propose creating a playlist on the Spotify streaming platform in a witty Friday tweet.

▪️ The famous turbine has not reached its destination yet, the company's post says, adding that "it is standing lonely at our site in Mulheim."

🗯 "Let’s do the poor thing a favor and create a Spotify playlist." the company said, asking what tracks should be included in the list.

🥴 Is Siemens playing on the nerves of Europeans who find themselves in a predicament in the light of anti-Russian sanctions?

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⚡️ Defense ministries of Russia, Kazakhstan preparing joint drills within CSTO format - President Putin

⚡️ JCPOA revival deal stipulates lifting sanctions on 17 banks, 150 organizations - Al Jazeera

⚡️ Deal on Iranian nuclear dossier stipulates fine for US if it abandons agreement again - reports

📹 Watch a 7news report on how Australia sent Ukraine 300 kamikaze drones.

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🎥 🇷🇺🇰🇿 WATCH Russia's President Putin greeting his Kazakh counterpart Tokayev who arrived in Sochi, Russia, on Friday.

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⚡️🇷🇺🇫🇷 Putin and Macron spoke on the phone for the first time in a while.

Russia's president drew Macron's attention to the remaining obstacles to Russian exports, which do not contribute to global food security.

😂 Gazprom sarcastically replied to Siemens over its suggestion to create a Spotify playlist.

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👎 Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov has told reporters that all the attempts by Washington to “strangle” and “cripple” the Russian economy by means of sanctions “evidently” failed.

▪️ When asked to comment on recent State Department publications aimed at “debunking myths” of the resilience of the Russian economy to the Western sanctions, Antonov said that the US administration seems to be “wishing to convince itself and its allies of the effectiveness of their favorite geopolitical weapon.”

▪️ He added that Washington is “ready to resort to any biased and agenda-driven assessments” and that “obsession with restrictions does not allow Washington to understand that the chosen strategy has failed.”

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🇨🇳 China’s maritime safety authority in Guangdong province said Friday that a fresh military exercise will be held on August 23 between Macao and Hong Kong, off the southern coast.

🗯 "Maritime traffic in the designated areas will be prohibited during the exercise," the administration said.

▪️ The war games will be held at the mouth of the Zhu Jiang river and near Wailingding Island from 7 a.m. (GMT 23:00 on August 22) to 2 p.m. and from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m.

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▪️ Whether or not former President Donald Trump is indicted over what federal agents found during a search of his home will come down to perception management rather than facts because the US justice system has been politicized, former FBI Principal Legal Counsel Coleen Rowley told Sputnik.

🗯 "The task of predicting a Department of Justice indictment is above my paygrade, especially given the continuing politicization and disintegration of this judicial institution," Rowley, a Time magazine whistleblower of the year and former legal counsel to the FBI Director, said. "'Making one's own reality' perception management has triumphed, with facts no longer mattering."

▪️ This has been proven, she added, by the Russiagate hoax, alleged WMDs in Iraq, and many other powerful "propaganda sales jobs" of recent history.

🗯 "Which of the power-mongering theories of the two competing sides' narratives will ultimately succeed requires a crystal ball that I just don't have. But neither does... anyone else," she said. "All that one can wisely say is plenty of time does exist before the next presidential election for further political shenanigans, the likes of which can and will almost certainly rock the United States."

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⚡️ US silent on Kiev's strikes on Zaporozhye NPP, contributing to possible nuclear disaster - Russia

⚡️ Swedish police responding to shooting at Malmo shopping mall

🇺🇸 🇺🇦 US announces new $775 mln arms package for Ukraine