⚡️The IAEA mission of 14 people heading to the Zaporozhye NPP has arrived in Kiev, CNN reported

⚡️⚡️ Europeans paying for Brussels' 'irrational and absurd' energy policy while US profits: Kremlin

🇮🇶 This footage shows a woman (an al-Sadr supporter, according to reports) with an AK-47 assault rifle during protests in Baghdad’s Green Zone

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⚡️ Iraqi Shiite leader al-Sadr declared the "steadfastness" of his decision to stop political activity

⚡️Al-Sadr supporters began to leave the "green zone" in the center of Baghdad after his order, a source in the security forces told Sputnik

🇮🇶 In an address to supporters, Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr gave protesters one hour to leave the Republican Palace and Baghdad's Green Zone, threatening to leave the Sadrist Movement if they don't.

📹 According to videos from social media, the protesters are complying with the demand and leaving the Green Zone

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📌Russia's MoD issues its latest statements on the Ukraine crisis:

▪️Russian forces destroyed more than 1,200 Ukrainian troops in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction;

▪️The Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed production workshops at the Intervzryvprom plant that were used for the production of explosives in Krivoy Rog;

▪️Russian forces destroyed more than 200 Ukrainian soldiers and about 40 foreign mercenaries in the DPR;

▪️More than 100 troops of the Ukrainian Foreign Legion and Kraken formations were destroyed in strikes by Russian troops in the DPR;

▪️Russian aviation eliminated five Ukrainian headquarters, three warehouses of weapons and ammo, and 52 artillery pieces;

▪️On August 29, Ukrainian troops used four attack drones on the Zaporozhye NPP, all drones were intercepted by Russian air defenses;

▪️Russian air defenses shot down two Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft and five drones, intercepted three Tochka-U missiles, as well as 53 HIMARS, Alder, and Hurricane MLRS projectiles

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🇦🇫 The Taliban* have declared August 31, the day when US troops withdrew from Afghanistan last year, a public holiday, according to a document at Sputnik's disposal

*Organization is under UN sanctions over terrorist activities

😧 Marjolein from the Netherlands has achieved a sort of super-transition as he has gone from being a 31-year-old man to a 15-year-old girl, after realizing a couple of years ago that he wanted to be allowed to participate in official football competitions in the women's league.

Although the KNVB Cup does not allow Marjolein to play in a team that otherwise consists only of girls under the age of 20, he has managed to train with the girls, share their changing room and take showers with them.

🗣 "I was finally accepted by my teammates. For the first time, I did not have to change clothes in a separate room, but was welcomed in the ladies‘ dressing room - the most beautiful gift I could get"

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❗️🌐 Check out Sputnik's interview with Indonesian diplomat Hosea RB Manurung ahead of this year's G20 summit in Bali.

⚡️ A US delegation led by Arizona Governor Doug Ducey will arrive in Taiwan on Tuesday for a two-day visit, during which Ducey will meet with the head of the island's administration Tsai Ing-wen, Foreign Minister Joseph Wu, and representatives of Taiwan's semiconductor industry, the island's Central News Agency reported, citing a statement from Taiwan's Foreign Ministry

🇫🇷 More sports news! PSG star Kylian Mbappe is in a relationship with transgender model Ines Rau, Italian media Corriere dello Sport reports

▪The two have been dating for a few months, and were spotted for the first time in May during the Cannes Film Festival. Later, paparazzi caught the footballer with Ines on camera while they were on a yacht;

▪Ines Rau is known for being the first transgender model to get a cover on Playboy in 2017. At 16, Ines underwent surgery to change sex, and at 24 the model publicly revealed it

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❗Camilo Guevara March, Ernesto Che Guevara's son, has passed away

🪓 The Ukrainian military is building wooden copies of HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems in an attempt to "mislead Russian forces," The Washington Post says

😏 Beating the game: a video allegedly filmed in Turkey has emerged online showing a boy outplaying an ice cream trickster.

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