🇷🇺🇮🇩 Russian and Indonesian officials in banking and financial systems are discussing the possibility of accepting Mir cards by Indonesian banks, Ambassador to Russia Jose Antonio Morato Tavares told Sputnik.

Tavares noted that Indonesia is aware of Russia’s intention to introduce its payment system Mir in several other countries, including 🇻🇳Vietnam, 🇹🇷Turkey, 🇰🇿Kazakhstan, and 🇧🇾Belarus.

👉 In March, both Visa and Mastercard announced that they were suspending operations in Russia over Moscow’s special military operation in Ukraine. Visa and Mastercard cards issued by Russian banks no longer work outside the country or in foreign online stores.

🇬🇧 😁 The famous lettuce, which lasted longer than Truss, was projected onto the wall of the British Parliament at night.

▪️ Earlier, British Prime Minister Liz Truss announced that she will stand down as leader of the Conservative Party after her policies triggered economic turmoil and sharply divided the party.

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🥴 Joe Biden seems to struggle getting off stage again at Pittsburgh rally as he twists and turns to find the exit - just one month after a similar incident following his UN speech.

▪️ After finishing his speech, Biden was seen turning toward his right to exit the stage when he stopped to talk to his team, before exiting on the left.

▪️ This is just one moment among many awkward encounters Biden has had in the past few months.

▪️ In September, he was seen wandering about the UN stage after a speech and in August, he struggled to put on his coat and his wife had to help him.

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⬇️ 😨 The level of support for the British Conservatives has fallen to its lowest point in the history, according to PeoplePolling poll.

▪️ Only 14% of Britons would now vote for Tories.

🗣 Many respondents, when asked what association they have with the Tories, used the words "useless", "incompetent", "mess" and "chaos".

▪️ At the same time, only 53% are ready to vote for Labour.

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♟ US chess master Hans Niemann has filed a $100 million lawsuit against world champion Magnus Carlsen from Norway and others for allegedly defamatory claims, crowing a scandal that rocked the chess world with cheating allegations in a high-profile competition earlier this year.

▪️ Among others, the lawsuit claims that the defendants, including the popular Chess.com website, inflicted “devastating damages” against Niemann by “egregiously defaming him” and “unlawfully colluding” to bar him from the professional chess stage.

💬 “My lawsuit speaks for itself”,19-year-old Niemann said in a Twitter post.

▪️ Earlier in September, Carlsen withdrew from the Sinquefield Cup in Saint Louis after losing to Niemann, and eventually came forward with concerns that Niemann had cheated. This was the first time in Carlsen's career to withdraw from a major event in progress, and the incident was considered to be unprecedented in top-level chess.

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❗️Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov: Russia is working on allowing Moscow to investigate the Nord Stream pipelines terrorist attacks via diplomatic channels, but so far there has been no response.

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❗️Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov: If the identity of the perpetrators of the Nord Stream terrorist attacks are made public, many people in European countries will be surprised.

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📹The Russian Ministry of Defense has published footage showing the work of Russian signal operators in combat

📡Signal troops' professionals from the Central Military District are on uninterrupted duty at communication centers as well as command and control posts.

▪️They organize the interoperability of special forces, mechanized infantry, artillery, air defense units and aviation among each other and with authorities.

▪️Modern equipment and operators’ experience allow for units to be provided with communication along all the front line.

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

▪️Russian Forces eliminated 25 Ukrainian servicemen, two infantry combat vehicles and two pickup trucks near Krasny Liman;

▪️Russian Forces eliminated more than 120 Ukrainian troops, six armored vehicles and 13 other vehicles in the Kherson region;

▪️Russian Forces destroyed a Ukrainian hangar with foreign-made military equipment;

▪️Russian Forces eliminated more than 40 Ukrainian troops, as well as destroyed two tanks, three armored combat vehicles and five Ukrainian pickup trucks near Zaporozhye;

▪️Russian Forces hit three Ukrainian command posts in the DPR and in the Kherson region. In addition, Russian Forces hit 69 Ukrainian artillery units at their firing positions;

▪️Russian Forces destroyed two Ukrainian ammunition depots in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions;

▪️Russian Forces destroyed a fuel storage facility for Ukrainian military equipment in the Nikolayev region;

▪️Russian Forces destroyed six Ukrainian UAVs in the DPR and in the Kherson region;

▪️Russian air defense means intercepted 33 HIMARS rockets and two HARM rockets in the Kherson region and in the DPR.

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📹 “I turned my head and saw all this glass flying at me”: Terrified Senior Citizens from Donetsk miraculously survive Ukrainian shelling

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❗️ Kiev's allegations that Russia has planted mines at the Kakhovskaya HPP dam are false and do not correspond to reality, local authorities told Sputnik

📉The popularity rating of French President Emmanuel Macron has plummeted by seven points in a month, while that of French Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne has likewise shot down by ten points, according to a survey conducted by the BVA research and consulting center.

▪️The survey data shows that only 36% of respondents now have a positive attitude toward Macron and 41% towards Born.

▪️This may be explained by the negative reaction of the majority of the French to how authorities are coping with the fuel crisis: 71% of respondents believe that the government is controlling the crisis poorly, while 32% rate its actions "very poorly".

▪️Previously, clashes between protesters and police took place in Paris, where demonstrators were rallying to demand higher wages, as well as for the retirement age to be lowered to 60 and for encroachments on the right to strike to be lifted.

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📹Energodar authorities are restoring apartments damaged as a result of Ukrainian shelling, Sputnik correspondents report.

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❗️ Ten journalists were wounded and one killed when Ukrainian troops hit a civilian crossing in Kherson - official

⚡️An air alert has been declared in most parts of Ukraine.

⚡️Ukrainian media report explosions in the Kiev region