🇬🇧British bookmakers say that there is a 95 percent probability that the UK's former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, will become the country’s new PM, Sky News has reported.

The campaign aimed at returning Boris Johnson to the post by persuading Sunak and leader of the House, Penny Mordaunt to quit the race (the so-called trading day) has failed, according to the Financial Times. Furthermore Johnson only managed to secure few more than 50 votes from the Conservative Party.

More than half of Conservative MPs are now supporting Rishi Sunak in the leadership race - Sky News

Some 178 Tory MPs are supporting Sunak - more than half of the party's 355 tally

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⚡️ Ukrainian 'dirty bomb' threat is real, up to West whether they want to believe it or not, Kremlin says

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov's latest statements:

▪️Many Russian assets, including gold and foreign exchange reserves, have been illegally stolen by the West.

▪️Macron and Scholz show no desire to listen to Russia. Erdogan has taken a different approach.

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⚡️Air raid alert issued in all regions of Ukraine.

❗️Russian MoD briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️Russian troops repelled all enemy attacks in the Kupyansk direction, destroying more than 25 Ukrainian soldiers, one tank, five armored personnel carriers, and four pickup trucks.

▪️The Russian Army stopped the advance of Ukrainian forces with air strikes, artillery fire, and defending units, eliminating more than 20 Ukrainian servicemen and two infantry fighting vehicles in the Krasny Liman direction.

▪️Russian forces repelled an enemy attack with the use of artillery fire, eliminating 25 Ukrainian servicemen, one tank, three infantry fighting vehicles, and two vehicles in the Southern Donetsk direction.

▪️Russian artillery strikes eliminated more than 80 Ukrainian servicemen, 11 armored combat vehicles, and 15 vehicles in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction.

▪️The Russian Army destroyed four Ukrainian command posts, 72 artillery units, as well as Ukrainian manpower and military equipment using operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces, and artillery in 174 districts.

▪️Russian forces destroyed a Ukrainian ammunition depot near the village of Dvurechnaya in the Kharkov region.

▪️Russian air defense systems shot down three UAVs, and 21 HIMARS and Olkha rocket system shells.

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❗️Russia welcomes the transformation of Africa into one of the centers of a multipolar world, says Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

💭The head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said that Rafael Grossi - the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency - has decided to send experts to Ukraine because of Russia's statement that Kiev is working on a "dirty bomb"

Earlier, Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that he was worried about possible provocations by Ukraine with the use of a "dirty bomb" when talking to colleagues from France, the UK, the US and Turkey.

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❗️The idea of giving confiscated Russian assets to Ukraine is a violation of all norms, we will fight such plans, says Kremlin spokesman Peskov

🎂 Just Stop Oil can now be seen at London's Madame Tussauds waxworks museum: the activists threw a chocolate cake at a wax statue of King Charles III. Has the oil already stopped?

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⚡️ Russian MoD has info on contacts between Ukraine, UK on nuke tech

Russia's MoD: Work on the creation of Ukraine's "dirty bomb" is in its final stages. Information has emerged about contacts Zelensky's office has with representatives of the UK on the issue of obtaining technology to create nuclear weapons

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The Russian Ministry of Defense on the possible consequences of a provocation by Kiev with the detonation of a "dirty bomb" or a low-yield nuclear weapon:

▪️Detonation of a radiological explosive device will result in an area of up to several thousand square meters being radioactively contaminated

▪️As a result of a provocation with the use of a "dirty bomb", Ukraine expects to intimidate the local population, increase the flow of refugees across Europe and expose Russia as a nuclear terrorist

▪️The Ministry of Defense has made arrangements to counter possible provocations from Ukraine: forces and means are ready to perform tasks in the event of radioactive contamination

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❗️Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's latest statements:

▪️Russia will raise the issue of Ukraine making a “dirty bomb” at the UN;

▪️Russia has double-checked the information on Kiev’s plans to make a “dirty bomb,” it’s not an unfounded accusation;

▪️Russia has no information about the IAEA sending experts to Ukraine.

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🇬🇧 Convicted sex offenders & pedophiles are working for the UK police force, data released under a Freedom of Information request shows.

104 police officers and staff received a criminal conviction while serving in the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) from January 1, 2019 until July 31, 2022.

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“They fired from the roof, and we were sitting in the basement”: a woman from Severodonetsk on how the Ukrainian military used them as human shields

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⚡️Ex-UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak becomes next prime minister as Penny Mordaunt pulls out of Tory leadership race

🇬🇧 Meanwhile, Britain's favorite Downing Street mouser Larry the Cat has a reason to be excited about the new PM.

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🇬🇧 UK PM for 40 days Liz Truss has expressed her support for Rishi Sunak’s appointment for the UK next prime minister.

⚡️Russian Chief of General Staff Gerasimov spoke by phone with UK counterpart Radakin - Russian Defense Ministry. They discussed the situation related to the possible use of a “dirty bomb” by Ukraine.