⚡️⚡️Agreement on Kherson region joining Russia ratified by State Duma

💷 Loan repayments in the UK account for 40 percent of the average home-buyer's monthly spending, according to research by Nationwide building society. However, there is a wide chasm between the capital and the north of England: in London, mortgage repayments swallow 64.4 percent of wages, whereas in the North they are less than 26 percent.

🗣 “The significant increase in house prices in recent years, together with the significant increase in mortgage rates since the start of the year, have pushed the typical mortgage payment as a share of take-home pay well above the long-run average,” Robert Gardner, the building society’s chief economist, says

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⚔️An update from the Russian Federation's Ministry of Defense on the course of the special military operation:

▪️The Armed Forces of Ukraine have lost more than 500 servicemen and about 60 units of military equipment after three days' hostilities in the direction of Kupyansk;

▪️Massive fire damage was inflicted on enemy reserves in the Krasniy Liman direction. The total losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in this direction after three days' hostilities amounted to more than 900 servicemen;

▪️More than 260 militants and 14 units of military equipment were destroyed in the Artyomovsky direction as a result of a missile attack on areas of concentrated manpower and military equipment belonging to the 10th Mountain Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;

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▪️The 21st battalion of the 56th Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than 100 servicemen in the direction of Donetsk as a result of allied forces repelling an enemy attack;

▪️As a result of a strike by Russian Aerospace Forces on units of the 24th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlement of Davydov Brod in the Kherson region, up to 60 militants and seven pieces of military equipment were destroyed;

▪️All attacks of the Ukrainian military in the direction of Nikolayev and Andreevka, were successfully repelled by Russian Armed Forces

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⚡️Switzerland does not support Zelensky's idea of transferring frozen Russian assets to Ukraine, the country's economy Ministry told Sputnik

🛢World oil prices have jumped 5 percent (Brent is $89.4; WTI is $84) as expectations abound of production cuts by the OPEC+ alliance.

OPEC+ ministers will gather in Vienna on October 5 for the first time since March 2020 - and, according to media reports, will consider cutting production by more than a million barrels per day.

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“The Italian government is borrowing €200 billion to cover price differences due to their decision to cut Russian gas” - Elijah Magnier, a veteran war correspondent said as he discussed the price Europeans are going to pay due to “the colonization of the Americans [in Europe].”

💬 “Can you imagine? So, governments are borrowing money just to compensate for the price of gas that was delivered cheaper than ever to the European continent. Now everybody is going to print more money, devaluating the currency that is already devaluated and make the population suffer heavily just because we cannot say no to the American administration.”

🎧 Listen to more of Magnier’s opinion in our podcast Fault Lines

❗️ Russia remains a major power that cannot be ignored, so the talks continue - French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne

💬 The Polish Foreign Ministry’s insistence that Russia's Ambassador to Warsaw condemn the referendums is a provocation and an unprecedented case - Russian Foreign Ministry

⚠️Ukrainian forces shell central district of Donetsk with HIMARS missiles - DPR

❗Federation Council International Committee supported ratification of treaties with four subjects on joining Russia

🇩🇪🇵🇱 The Polish Foreign Ministry has demanded that Germany pay $1.3 trillion in reparations for Second World War

Poland is demanding this money "as compensation for the damage caused by the occupation by the Nazis" during the Second World War. The demands include compensation for "looted artworks, archives and bank deposits".

Poland's Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau also demanded that Germany should make every effort to give German society a "true" picture of the war and its "disastrous effects on Poland".

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❗Shelf life of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine extended to 18 months - Federal Registration Service

🔺 Finally the stars are aligned: Blinken calls Nord Stream attacks a ‘tremendous opportunity’
🔺 Lost Truss: Amid the economic crisis, British Prime Minister is facing her own approval rating crisis
🔺 Lula vs. Bolsonaro: Leo Flores joins us to discuss the big Brazilian stand-off

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❗️ Slovakia's, Spain's and Estonia's foreign affairs ministries have summoned the local Russian envoys because of the referendum for the accession of the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye, Kherson regions to Russia