⚡️ About two million people in southwestern Japan have been ordered to evacuate ahead of a powerful typhoon forecast to hit the region on Sunday, according to public broadcaster NHK-World Japan

▪️ Former President Donald Trump took the stage at the Save America rally in Youngstown on Saturday.

🗣 Ex-POTUS, while delivering remarks in support of Republican Senate Candidate J.D. Vance, said that the Germans could "be left without a country" due to the reduction in Russian energy supplies.

▪️ According to him, he had long warned Germany about such a threat, and even somehow gave Merkel a white flag to "surrender" to Russia.

🤔 Among other things, Donald Trump said President Biden was emptying the strategic oil reserve in an attempt to bring down fuel prices as much as possible ahead of the fall election, and predicted that with the end of the electoral season, gasoline prices will rise sharply again.

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🇷🇺🇨🇳Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev will pay a visit to China on Monday to hold Russian-Chinese security consultations, the press service of the Russian Security Council said on Sunday.

🗯"Nikolai Patrushev will hold Russian-Chinese consultations on strategic stability with Yang Jiechi, China's Communist Party Politburo Member, as well as Russian-Chinese consultations on public security, justice and law and order with Guo Shengkun, China's Communist Party Politburo Member," the statement said.

⚡️ Japan issues tsunami alert as 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes off coast of Taiwan

⚡️ The latest statements of Russia's first deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyansky on the delay issuing visas for Russian diplomats heading to the UN General Assembly:

▪️ Moscow expects that the entire delegation going to the UN General Assembly will receive American visas.

▪️ The very fact that visas are being issued literally on the eve of the visit is an unprecedented situation that significantly complicates the solution of organizational and logistical issues.

▪️ Russia will insist that the UN Secretary General launch arbitration against the United States due to regular problems with the issuance of visas to diplomats.

▪️ Earlier, Dmitry Polyansky said that Washington was refusing to issue visas to most of the Russian delegation slated to attend the UN General Assembly meeting, which will take place in New York on September 19-23.

📹 A refugee from the Kharkov region says that she was on the Ukrainian death list for helping Russia.

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🇺🇳 The behavior of Ukrainian representative in the UN Security Council (UNSC) is openly resented on the sidelines of the Organization, which puts Kiev's backers in an awkward situation, Russian Deputy Representative to the United Nations Dmitry Polyansky told Sputnik on Sunday.

🗯 "The behavior of the Ukrainian delegation to the Security Council already crosses all boundaries and puts Kiev's Western patrons in an awkward position," Polyansky said, adding that Ukrainian representative constantly verbally attack Russian diplomats, claiming that Russia is an unlawful member of the UNSC.

▪️ Western countries do not allow themselves to criticize Kiev and its UN envoy, the diplomat noted.

🗣 "So the delegation of Ukraine turns its speeches in the Security Council into a scenes of cheap and scandalous talk shows. However, by acting in this way, the permanent representative of Ukraine is doing a disservice to both their country and its backers. After all, it is quite obvious that a representative of a country, demonstrating the lack of basic diplomatic decency, harms the image of the country he represents," Polyansky stressed.

📌 The diplomat noted that on the sidelines of the UN, more and more countries are openly outraged by this situation, they directly say that the manner of behavior of the Ukrainian permanent representative harms the image of his country.

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🗣 Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov emphasized the "absolute similarity" of the positions of Russia and China in relation to the provocative actions of the United States.

🗯 “Moscow and Beijing are unanimous in their assessment of the “impermissibility of such destabilizing behavior,” he said.

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📹 Russia’s MoD has revealed footage showing Su-25 assault fighters in combat amid the special military operation.

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📹 Russia’s MoD has published footage showing Central Military District engineering troops in combat amid the special military operation.

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📌 Russian MoD’s latest statements on the Ukraine crisis:

▪️ 47 artillery units, manpower and military equipment of the AFU in 127 areas were hit, including the points of basing of foreign mercenaries of the American private military campaign Academi and Kraken national formations.

▪️ The Russian Aerospace Forces have hit personnel and military equipment of the units of the 28th Mechanized and 79th Airborne Assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Nikolaev using high-precision weapons.

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces successfully repelled attempts at an offence made by Ukrainians with the forces of three company tactical groups from the 60th Infantry and 57th Mechanized Infantry brigades supported by six tanks.

▪️ The Russian Aerospace Forces, missile troops and artillery have launched massive fire attacks at the units and reserve forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

▪️ The units of the 65th Mechanized Brigade of the AFU were hit by concentrated fire in Zaporozhye region. The enemy losses were up to 100 Ukrainian servicemen, as well as more than 10 units of military equipment.

▪️ The command post of the Primorye group in Nikolayev region and three command posts of the AFU in Kharkov region, Zaporozhye region and in the DPR have been eliminated in tactical and army aviation strikes by missile troops and artillery.

▪️ A 155-mm M777 howitzer manufactured by the United States and a S-300 surface-to-air missile radar near Dvurechye have been eliminated by high-precision Russian Air Force strikes near Kramatorsk.

▪️ During a 24-hour period, eight unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down by the Russian Air Defense Troops.

▪️ Some 293 airplanes and 155 helicopters, 1,981 unmanned aerial vehicles, 375 air defense missile systems, 5,022 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 837 combat vehicles equipped with MRLS, 3,397 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 5,680 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.

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🤔 What the buck?

😲 New England fishermen spotted a somewhat unusual sight off the coast of the east end of Nantucket Island on Monday: a pair of antlers poking out of the water. Two bucks were swimming together in open water about a mile off the coast.

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📹 A powerful storm sweeping north through the Bering Strait on Saturday caused widespread flooding in several of western Alaska's coastal communities, knocking out power and sending residents fleeing for higher ground.

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📹 Jeff Monson, an American-born MMA fighter who was granted Russian citizenship in 2018, says that he receives death threats from Ukrainians for his attempts to talk about what is happening in Donbass.

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