👎 A 66% majority of British people believe that the ruling Conservative Party made a mistake in electing Liz Truss as prime minister, and 50% support her ouster, a YouGov poll conducted for The Times newspaper showed on Friday.

▪️ Truss' appointment satisfies only 9% of those surveyed, and another 24% were undecided, the poll found.

▪️ Meanwhile, 62% of those who voted for the Conservative Party in the last general election consider the Tories made the wrong choice in selecting Truss as prime minister, and only 15% believe the opposite, according to the survey.

▪️ Almost half of those sampled, 43%, said that former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak would do a better job as prime minister than Truss, the survey added.

Subscribe to @SputnikInt

❗️ President Putin’s latest statements made at the sixth Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia:

▪️ Russia is ready to assist in the restoration of the unified energy system of Central Asia;

▪️ President Putin has called on Central Asian countries to join Russia's import substitution projects;

▪️ The new format of the summit won’t be useless, as the increasingly unstable situation in the world has pushed for interaction;

▪️ It’s necessary to work with the current Afghan government.

Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🤔British bookmakers reportedly taking bets on who will last longer - Liz Truss as a Prime Minister or lettuce, which decomposes in 35 days.

Subscribe to @SputnikInt

❗️North Korea fired additional artillery shells into the East and Yellow Seas on Friday, following its firing of a short-range ballistic missile and artillery rounds earlier in the day, the South Korean news agency YONHAP claims

📹Activists from the British environmental movement threw tomato soup on Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" painting in the London National Gallery and glued themselves to the wall.

Subscribe to @SputnikInt

📹 😱 Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson slammed the Ukrainian president on Thursday's edition of his show after Zelensky appeared to make demands of the US Treasury. "The scope of this year's report should not be less than $5 billion," Zelensky declared.

Carlson called Zelensky an "uppity foreigner" after watching the clip, during which Zelensky declared how much he would need from the US.

Subscribe to @SputnikInt

⚡️UK Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has been sacked, British media report

The reported sacking comes ahead of Prime Minister Liz Truss' press conference amid speculation she is going to ditch plans to scrap a rise in corporation tax.

⚡️British pound sinks following the reports of Kwarteng sacking

❗️Russia’s MoD briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️Russian Forces hit an arsenal with significant stockpiles of weapons, military equipment and munition from Western countries in the Lvov region;

▪️Russian Air Forces performed high precision strikes, hitting Ukrainian military command and energy facilities in the Kiev and Kharkov regions;

▪️Russian Forces eliminated more than 30 Ukrainian servicemen, as well destroyed two Ukrainian armored combat vehicles and four pickup trucks near Kupyansk;

▪️Russian Forces eliminated more than 120 Ukrainian servicemen, as well as destroyed five armored fighting vehicles, four pickup trucks and four vehicles near Krasny Liman;

▪️Russian Forces eliminated more than 90 Ukrainian servicemen, as well as destroyed two tanks, six armored fighting vehicles and three pick-up trucks in the DPR;

▪️Russian Forces eliminated more than 130 Ukrainian servicemen, as well as destroyed three Ukrainian tanks and 18 Ukrainian vehicles in the Kherson region;

▪️Russian Forces eliminated more than 170 Ukrainian servicemen and militants, as well as destroyed four Ukrainian armored combat vehicles, three pick up trucks and six other vehicles;

▪️Russian Forces destroyed six Ukrainian munition depots in the Kharkov, Zaporozhye and Nikolayev regions;

▪️Russian Forces shot down Ukrainian Su-24 aircraft in the Nikolayev region;

▪️Russian Air Defense weaponry destroyed 15 Ukrainian UAVs, as well as intercepted 14 HIMARS and Olkha rockets.

Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🇬🇧Lib Dems call for general election amid reports Kwarteng got the boot

"This mustn't just be the end of Kwarteng's disastrous chancellorship, it should be the death knell of the Conservatives' reckless mismanagement of our economy," Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said. "People are angry, fed up and worried about the future. [...] Enough is enough. It started with Boris Johnson failing our country, and now Liz Truss has broken our economy, it is time for the people to have their say in a general election."

Subscribe to @SputnikInt

❗️Kwasi Kwarteng confirms he's been sacked as UK chancellor after just over a month in the role

📹🌧India's state of Uttar Pradesh has been hit by flash flood following heavy rainfall, with many of the eastern parts of the state still submerged.

Watch Sputnik's video on the floods and subscribe to @sputniknewsindia

❗️WATCH LIVE Russian President Vladimir Putin Holds Press Conference in Astana

❗️Putin: Germans paying the price for Berlin prioritizing NATO relations

What Else Did Putin Say During the Astana Presser?

▪️Russia has always been open to negotiation with Ukraine, and when Kiev is ready, mediating efforts of third countries would be welcome;

▪️Ukrainian leadership lost interest in peace talks as soon as Russian troops redeployed from the Kiev region;

▪️No need to conduct massive strikes on Ukraine at the moment;

▪️Russia has no goal to annihilate Ukraine;

▪️One branch of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline is in working condition, however, decision on its launch is not being made and is unlikely to be made, "it's not Russia's business";

▪️Erdogan played a pivotal role in POW exchange with Ukraine, and Russia is very grateful;

▪️UN Secretary General is handling issues around the grain deal, but doesn't always succeed;

▪️Putin expects mobilization to end in two weeks. 222,000 people out of the planned 300,000 have already been mobilized, and no additional connoscription is on the table;

▪️Security has been enhanced around energy and transport infrastructure following the Crimean bridge attack;

▪️Putin sees 'no need' for talks with Biden: "we should ask him if he's ready to hold such talks with me or not. I don't see the need, to be honest."

▪️No decision yet on trip to G20 summit in Indonesia.

⚡️Jeremy Hunt appointed next UK Chancellor as Kwasi Kwarteng booted

📹The Russian Defense Ministry has published footage showing the launch of Russian missile strikes on the position of Ukrainian depots housing western weapons in the Lvov region.

Subscribe to @SputnikInt

⚡️UK Prime Minister Liz Truss announces U-turn on her policy to scrap the planned rise in corporation tax from 19% to 25%

Truss' mini-budget sent markets into turmoil, borrowing costs surging, and ratings plunging in a tumultuous first month in office.

'No need for talks with Biden:' Putin says 'we should ask' US President 'if he's ready to hold such talks with me or not. I don't see the need, to be honest'

Subscribe to @SputnikInt

Russian President Vladimir Putin on NATO’s attitude to Germany: “Not a lot of people think about their (Germany’s) interests, otherwise they wouldn’t blow up the Nord Stream pipelines."

Subscribe to @SputnikInt