🇨🇳 The Chinese armed forces remain on high alert after USS Higgins and Canada's HMSC Vancouver proceeded in the Taiwan Strait amid heightened tensions in the region, spokesperson for the Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA), Senior Colonel Shi Yi, said on Wednesday.

▪️ On Tuesday, the US 7th Fleet said that the naval ships had transited the Taiwan Strait to demonstrate the "commitment of the United States and our allies and partners to a free and open Indo-Pacific."

🗯 "The US torpedo-boat destroyer USS Higgins and the Canadian frigate HMSC Vancouver proceeded via the Taiwan Strait on September 20. The eastern zone of the PLA combat command instructed that naval and air forces accompany the vessels along the entire route. The command units maintain high combat readiness to rapidly resist all threats and provocations and resolutely defend state sovereignty and territorial integrity," Shi said on WeChat.

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🇦🇫WATCH: The footage from the explosion site in Kabul. Media reports, that it was a gas explosion in a restaurant near the energy company's office.

⚡️ Touching upon the issue of the military costs of the armed conflict in Ukraine, Sergei Shoigu estimated that Kiev has lost half of its army, which originally had about 200,000 troops at the initial stage of Moscow’s special operation.

▪️ Over 2,000 foreign mercenaries were eliminated in Ukraine in the past months by Russians, the minister said, adding that 1,000 remain at the combat zone.

▪️ Russian losses, Shoigu noted, amount to 5,937, noting that the servicemen were “courageously fulfilling their duties.”

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⚡️Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov's latest statements:

▪️At the moment there are no agreed-upon communication formats yet, concerning a possible Putin-Macron conversation;

▪️The mobilization of 300,000 people within the framework of partial mobilization will not be instantaneous;

▪️Putin did not hold any telephone conversations with foreign leaders on the eve of his address to the nation;

▪️The Russian government will determine as soon as possible the categories of citizens ennoscriptd to a deferral from partial mobilization;

▪️The Kremlin cannot disclose the unpublished seventh paragraph of the decree on partial mobilization in Russia, as it is for the official use;

▪️There are no exact plans for the date of the announcement of the President's message, the Kremlin will provide it in a timely manner.

⚡️Kremlin on Borrell’s statement about tribunal on Russians: he is not respected here as EU foreign policy chief.

📹 Russian MoD has revealed footage showing the Central Military District's Uragan MRLS crews, tank units and assault groups engaged in combat.

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⚡️Bosnia’s Serb leader Dodik’s statements:

▪️Referendums in Donbass is independent decision of people who live there, we should respect their choice;

▪️Russian people live in Donbass, their desire to join Russia is objective;

▪️ It would be an honor to participate as an observer in referendums in the DPR and in the LPR

🚫 Twitch blocked the channel of a Russian who launched a round-the-clock broadcast of burning gas utilities.

▪️ When attempting to watch a stream, a message appears: "This channel is currently unavailable due to a violation of the Community Guidelines or Twitch Terms of Sale."

▪️ The reason for the block hasn't been specified.

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📹 The Russian MoD has published footage depicting how the Western Military District's military medical professionals provide aid to civilians.

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❗️ The Russian MoD’s latest statements on the Ukraine crisis:

▪️ Russian Aerospace Forces have launched a high-precision attack resulting in elimination of over 75 troops and nine units of military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

▪️ Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery have neutralized 8 AFU command posts, as well as 68 artillery units, 147 troop and military equipment concentration areas.

▪️ Air defense units have shot down 11 unmanned aerial vehicles over the past 24 hours.

▪️ Ukrainian artillery continued launching attacks at Energodar and the territory of Zaporozhye NPP.

▪️ Some 295 airplanes and 155 helicopters, 2,018 unmanned aerial vehicles, 375 air defense missile systems, 5,052 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 841 combat vehicles equipped with MRLS, 3,405 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 5,743 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.

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📹 A mass demonstration against rising prices is taking place in Brussels. The protest was organized by the Belgian trade unions and gathered, according to the police, more than 10 thousand people.

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❗️ US 'trampled upon' Iran nuclear deal, President Raisi says at UNGA

❗️ Iran will seek a fair trial for those responsible for the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani, President Raisi says at UNGA

"This is a leader who fought against oppression - the US committed a crime when they killed him," Raisi said, holding a picture of Qasem Soleimani

🇮🇷 🗣 "We are seeing a global change where international organizations have become instruments of repression," Iranian president Raisi says

Russian FM Sergey Lavrov meeting with Director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Grossi on the sidelines of the 77th UN General Assembly. Russia's top diplomat has a busy schedule, and he actually shared this fact with Grossi, you can probably hear him saying that in the video.

⚡️Key Points of Iranian President Raisi's UNGA speech:

▪️US cannot tolerate independent countries, while international organizations have become instruments of repression;

▪️Tehran is not seeking to obtain or build nuclear weapons;

▪️Iran wants parties to the 2015 nuclear accord to meet their commitments and provide guarantees;

▪️Killing of Iran's Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani by the US under President Trump should be investigated;

▪️Israel is responsible for building the "biggest prison in the world" in Gaza.

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⚡️Lavrov, IAEA chief discuss situation around ZNPP, Russian Foreign Ministry says