⚡️ The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that she had received an American visa to participate in the UN General Assembly, but a number of other members of the Russian delegation had not yet been given visas

❗️🇷🇺On the sidelines of the SCO summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan today, Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to hold meetings with:

🇮🇷Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi
🇨🇳China’s leader Xi Jinping
🇵🇰Pakistan’s PM Shehbaz Sharif
🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan’s President Sadyr Japarov
🇹🇲Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedow
🇺🇿Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev

President Putin is also to take part in the trilateral summit Russia-Mongolia-China.

On Friday, the Russian leader will hold bilateral meetings with 🇮🇳India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, 🇹🇷Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and 🇦🇿Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev.

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Watch MLRS combat vehicles arrive at their starting position, deploy and launch rocket attacks with 220mm rockets at advancing Ukrainian forces

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📹 Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Samarkand for the SCO summit

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⚡️ "Security guarantees for Ukraine can only be given by leadership of this country, which will understand hopelessness of situation", Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists

⚡️Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping are in contact all the time, so there are no blocks to developing relations between the two countries further, Peskov said

🇷🇺 Russian President Vladimir Putin meeting with Sadyr Japarov, the President of 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan on the sidelines of the SCO summit in Samarkand. Many bilaterals precede the main event, more updates coming up.

Former First Lady Melania Trump shared her concerns with ex-New Jersey Governor Chris Christie over the phone and asked for his help in convincing Trump to take COVID more seriously, according to a book about Donald Trump's presidency which is soon to be released.

'The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021' reveals that Melania Trump worried during her husband's presidency that Trump was "blowing" the US response to COVID, but he told her she was worrying too much

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⚡️⚡️ Work on new Russia-Iran cooperation agreement at 'final stage': Putin

⚡️Russian delegation will leave for Iran next week, it will include representatives of 80 large Russian companies, Putin says

⚡️Effect of US sanctions against Russia and Iran will be neutralized, Iranian president says

⚡️UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres told the Russian delegation he would be prepared to hold a meeting with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov as part of the UN General Assembly's high-level week, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said

⚡️Russian Foreign Ministry on Ukraine's project on "security guarantees":

▪️This is an attempt to provide guarantees that the West will continue to finance and supply weapons;

▪️Only the return of Ukraine to a neutral status can give real guarantees

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⚡️China raises bids for gas supplies via power of Siberia even despite slowing domestic demand, Gazprom says

❗️ Pipeline gas supplies from Russia to Pakistan are possible, part of the infrastructure has been already created - Putin