📹Russia’s MoD has revealed footage showing Russian reconnaissance units in combat as part of the special military operation in Ukraine.

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🇫🇷Jordan Bardella has been elected chairman of the French party National Rally (formerly known as National Front), replacing Marine Le Pen

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❗️Evidence has been recovered indicating that the firebombing of an immigration center in Dover was motivated by a terrorist ideology, Counter Terrorism Policing South East said.

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⚡️ The Russian MoD’s latest statements on the Ukraine crisis:

▪️ Enemy units forming up to 1 battalion tactical group attempted to attack Russian positions towards Kuzemovka near Kupyansk.

▪️ Russian artillery and Army Aviation have neutralised units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

▪️ The attacks of 3 company tactical groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine towards Stelmakhovka, Ploshchanka and Kremennaya have been repelled near Krasny Liman.

▪️ In South Donetsk DPR, artillery units and assault groups have neutralised the Armed Forces of Ukraine’s units.

▪️ Along the Nikolayev–Krivoy Rog axis in the Kherson region, 2 enemy mechanised infantry companies, supported by tanks, attacked Russian forces.

▪️ Operational-Tactical and Army Aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery have neutralised five command posts of the enemy, as well as 87 artillery units at their firing positions, manpower and military hardware in 179 areas.

▪️ Fighter Aviation of Russian Aerospace Forces has shot down a Ukrainian Air Force MiG-29 airplane in the Nikolayev region.

▪️ Air defence units have shot down a Ukrainian Air Force Mi-8 helicopter in the DPR.

▪️ Some 331 airplanes and 169 helicopters, 2,435 unmanned aerial vehicles, 386 air defence missile systems, 6,335 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 882 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 3,554 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 7,048 units of special military hardware have been destroyed during the special military operation.

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🤔Elon Musk defended laying off more than 8,000 Twitter employees, saying ‘unfortunately, there is no choice’

💬"Regarding Twitter's reduction in force, unfortunately there is no choice when the company is losing over $4 mln a day…Everyone exited was offered three months of severance, which is 50% more than legally required," the new Twitter owner said.

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⚡️Russian Security Services in cooperation with the National Guard of Russia (Rosgvardiya) detained more then 20 SBU accomplices during a special operation in the LPR, a source told Sputnik

🤔 Earlier this week, Moscow called upon the major nuclear powers to demonstrate their readiness to prevent escalation and reject provocations with weapons of mass destruction. The West has turned a deaf ear to Russia's warnings again, thus encouraging potential provocateurs, Dutch journalist Sonja van den Ende told Sputnik.

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📹WATCH: Parrot steals reporter’s earphone live on air.

🦜A Chilean reporter was talking about a spike in local robberies when a mischievous parrot "decided to complete the reporter’s coverage with illustrative examples" by stealing his earphone.

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🙅‍♂️ San Francisco prosecutors refuse to release police bodycam and surveillance videos from the home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, where her husband Paul Pelosi survived a vicious attack by a home intruder last month.

🧐 District Attorney Brooke Jenkins did not elaborate further on the reasons behind the decision not to share the footage with the general public.

▪️The husband of the House speaker was attacked with a hammer at his California home last week, and was subsequently hospitalized.

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🌍 Despite the end of classic colonialism, European nations continue to engage in political games in Africa, intended to maintain a "stranglehold on African resources," Dr. Moses Tofa, a pan-Africanist and political analyst, told Sputnik.

"Because these political games tend to be characterized by opaque engagements and transactions between Western states or institutions and African political elites, they have created a crisis of trust in the state and its institutions...This has created a situation in which African citizens believe that 'they are on their own' because state leaders are corrupt, egocentric, and unwilling to protect and promote the wellbeing of society," the analyst explained.

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❗️South Korea and the United States have completed joint air force drills Vigilant Storm, involving about 240 aircraft, local media reports

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🇩🇪Rolf Mutzenich, chairman of the Bundestag parliamentary faction of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, said that the government of Ukraine put him in its list of terrorists only because he advocated the establishment of a ceasefire and the settlement of the conflict in Ukraine by diplomatic means.

In addition, the politician indicated that he had also received threats against himself.

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📹The Russian MoD has published footage showing how Russian Ka-52 helicopters destroy a Ukrainian Army strongpoint and armored hardware

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📹WATCH: Russian servicemen have provided civilians of Aleppo with more than four tons of prime necessity items (the video is courtesy of Russia’s MoD)

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⚡️At least 15 people have been killed in a terrorist attack on a military base in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu - report

📹Russian artillery units received aims from military intelligence members and then hit Ukrainian Forces in the Kharkov region, congratulating their comrades on their professional holiday

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🌍 🌱 Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg's statements about the ineffectiveness of climate conferences are a viewpoint from "prosperous Sweden," and the upcoming UN’s COP27 climate conference in Egypt is important for the poorer countries, Russian climate scientist Alexey Kokorin has told Sputnik.

🗣 "This is a viewpoint from prosperous Sweden... But suppose you live in some African country. You had ten small rains before, and now you have two heavy rains and nothing else. You have to save water somehow, or else you cannot farm, and you have to relocate. With what money will you dig a reservoir or build irrigation systems that are resistant to this? Only with grants," Kokorin said.

He added that the UN climate conference is extremely important for developing countries, especially in Africa, as it provides them with an opportunity to raise funds to tackle climate change.

On Monday, Thunberg said she would skip the COP27, which begins in Egypt on Sunday, after accusing world leaders of greenwashing.

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❗️Officers of the Russian military intelligence are carrying out the most difficult tasks in the course of Russia's special military operation in Ukraine, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Saturday on the occasion of Military Intelligence Day in the country.

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🇺🇸The US is preparing for the midterm elections on Sunday, with polls forecasting a major red wave.

Republicans are expected to take over the House of Representatives and boost their positions in state legislatures across the country.

However, President Joe Biden said he is optimistic about the prospects of the Democratic Party in the upcoming vote.

Sputnik discussed the situation American voters are facing ahead of the midterms with Lennora Pierrot, who is running for election to the Alabama House of Representatives to represent District 82.

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📹WATCH: Russian mobilized personnel are about to finish a training course in the Moscow region before departure to combat areas (the video is courtesy of Russia’s MoD)

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'Soros People' Likely helped orchestrate 'Controlled Demolition of America', US activist says

💬“US foreign policy, including the hideous abandonment in Afghanistan and unhinged Ukrainian response, has clearly been coordinated to weaken America and strengthen our enemies,” US national pro-family group MassResistance head Brian Camenker lamented in an article published in a US online magazine, naming Biden’s Administration policy as “a controlled demolition of America”.

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