❗️Highlights of President Putin’s remarks during a trip to Veliky Novgorod:

▪️Russia’s ill-wishers have prompted it to develop its own “intellectual products”;

▪️Russian software developers have to fill the niche left by western firms that left the country;

▪️Russia’s budget deficit will be decreased by 0,7% in 2025.

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⚡️The People's Liberation Army of China (PLA) should "focus on preparing for real hostilities," Chinese President Xi Jinping says.

⚡️Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed that it is a "lethal risk" for Russia to have its sovereignty weakened, adding that such mistakes will not happen again.

⚡️Biden tells the UNGA that the US "remains committed" to the One-China policy, as he claims Washington "seeks diplomacy" on Taiwan Strait

⚡️New York Attorney General files lawsuit against Trump, his children.

“The lawsuit alleges that Donald Trump, with the help of his children Donald Trump Jr, Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump, and senior executives of the Trump Organization, falsely inflated his net worth by billions of dollars to induce banks to lend money to the Trump Organization on more favorable terms than would otherwise have been available to the company, to satisfy continuing loan covenants, induce insurers to provide insurance coverage for higher limits and lower premiums, and to gain tax benefits, among other things.” The Attorney General said in a statement.

If Donbass, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions become part of Russia, it will send a message to NATO: "Watch out, you're attacking Russian territory now!" Jim Jatras, former US diplomat and former senior foreign policy advisor to the Senate Republican leadership says on the upcoming referendums.

💬"I think one of the key things here that people have not focused on is that if these areas then do become part of the Russian Federation, like Crimea did, it's essentially to say to NATO, which is taking an increasingly visible role in this, that 'Watch out, you're attacking Russian territory now!'.... I think there are very credible reports that a lot of these personnel are not Ukrainians, there are a lot of Poles, maybe Americans, British, people from other NATO countries."

🎧Listen to more of Jim’s analysis in our podcast: Referenda in Donbas, Declassification Tango, Church Committee Redux?

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met with Central African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadéra

▪️The head of Russian diplomacy and Touadéra discussed bilateral cooperation.

▪️The meeting took place on the sidelines of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly in New York

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President Faustin-Archange Touadéra of the Central African Republic (CAR) meeting with Russian FM Lavrov. CAR leader mentioned health, food security and environment in his UN GA speech ahead of the meeting. Bilateral agenda discussed with Lavrov, both sides underlined previous contacts in Moscow as Russia and CAR are very close.

Trump calls New York lawsuit 'another witch hunt'

'Twenty. No, that wasnt Biden", a Kazakh delegate said after counting cars in a motorcade while we were waiting to cross the street. Each year's UNGA brings impressive theatrics to Manhattan.

⚡️Lavrov: Donbass republics, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions are ennoscriptd to exercise the right to self-determination in accordance with the UN Charter

“Really nice guy”

🤼‍♂️Famous actor Tom Hardy stunned spectators by appearing in a martial arts competition, ultimately winning the event.

Hardy entered the 2022 Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Open Championship in secret, a competition held by the Ultimate Martial Arts Championships at Oakgrove school in Milton Keynes.

The audience was amazed as “Bane”, dressed in a blue gi, conquered his opponents and won all his matches.

“Everyone recognised him but he was very humble and was happy to take time out for people to take photographs with him… It was a real pleasure to have him compete at our event,” a spokesperson for the championship said on Hardy’s performance.

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⚡️Federal Reserve raises US rates by 75 basis points in 5th rate hike of the year

💡“Resourcefulness” is the “engine” of progress that makes life easier and “brings smiles” to people

📹Have a look at Sputnik’s footage showing great examples of ingenuity among Chinese workers and Thai teachers.

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As the US President Joe Biden who addressed the UN GA has accused Russia of violating the UN charter by launching a special military operation in Ukraine, some experts point at the fact that America itself does not practice what it preaches when it comes to International law. I spoke with Christopher C. Black, international criminal lawyer with 20 years of experience in war crimes and international relations, and a commentator on international affairs, who says that the US is the "prime criminal and violator" of the UN charter.

📹Russia's MoD has published footage showing how Russian service personnel deliver humanitarian aid to a boarding school in Zaporozhye.

Several hundreds of kilograms of groceries, household chemical goods, prime necessity items and clothes have been delivered to children in the boarding school’s custody.

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Russia's top diplomat Sergey Lavrov has a busy schedule at the UN headquarters. Can't help but notice that he knows many delegation members, even from smaller countries, by first name - exactly the case when he greeted guests from Central African Republic today before speaking with the country's President.

🇺🇳 Urgent action needed for food security

Leaders from Europe, the Americas and Africa called Tuesday for urgent action and funding to ease a growing global food security crisis that has been exacerbated by Ukraine conflict and, thanks to climate change, threatens to get worse in coming years.

Last week, the UN food chief warned the world is facing “a global emergency of unprecedented magnitude,” with up to 345 million people marching toward starvation.

David Beasley, executive director of the UN World Food Program, told the UN Security Council that the number is 2½ times the number of acutely food-insecure people before the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, and that there is a real risk of “multiple famines” this year.

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