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🇮🇳👩🏾‍🦰🥊 The International Boxing Association's (IBA) women's world boxing championships is due to be hosted in India again.

In early April 2023, New Delhi will be the venue for the elite tournament - a role it has performed twice before, in 2006 and 2018.

The final dates of the competition have yet to be agreed and will be revealed by Umar Kremlev, the IBA's president.

Interestingly, India has never hosted the men's world boxing championship having lost the hosting rights because it refused to pay the necessary fee in 2021 after which the IBA canceled all previous agreements.

But India is determined to make the most of this opportunity and it is thought that the competition will take place at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium. This year at the IBA's women's tournament in Turkey, India won three medals, including gold for 26-year-old Nikhat Zareen in the flyweight category.

⚡️Commander of Russian Forces in Ukraine Surovikin delivers report to Defense Minister Shoigu on special military operation

⚡️Russian MoD announces troop withdrawal from parts of Kherson region to the left bank of Dnepr River.

❗️Life and health of Russian servicemen are always a priority, Shoigu added.

❗️Commander of Russian Forces in Ukraine Surovikin’s statements on the progress of the special military operation:

▪️Situation in area of Russia's special operation in Ukraine generally stabilized;

▪️Russian troops resumed offensive in certain areas;

▪️Defense in the Kherson direction is stable, but there are some specific issues;

▪️115,000 residents of Kherson region left area of hostilities;

▪️The Russia Army successfully resists all offensive attempts by the enemy;

▪️Russian forces prevent attempted offensive of Ukrainian troops in Kupyansk, Lyman areas;

▪️City of Kherson, adjacent settlements cannot be fully supplied and functional, people's lives are constantly in danger;

▪️From August to October, the Ukrainian Army lost more than 9,500 people killed and wounded in the Kherson direction;

▪️The advancing side is suffering greater losses than the one that is on the defensive;

▪️Ukraine continues offensive attempts despite high losses in manpower, equipment; attacks are being repelled by Russian forces;

▪️If Kiev carries out more powerful attack on Kakhovka dam, flooding will lead to significant civilian casualties.

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🤔 The “NATO is not a party” in Ukraine talking point has been repeated ad nauseam over the past eight months, with Moscow catching the military bloc tripping up in its own lies last month after Mr. Stoltenberg warned that a Russian victory in Ukraine would constitute a “defeat” for NATO that would “make the world more dangerous.”

But can one ever be sure about their involvement in a security crisis threatening to escalate into a global inferno?

👉 Here are a few warning signs.

📹 Russian Forces have repelled all attempted attacks by Ukrainian forces, says Commander of Russian Forces in Ukraine Surovikin

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📹 Ukraine’s losses in Kherson direction 7-8 times more than Russia’s, says Commander of Russian Forces in Ukraine Surovikin.

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📹 Surovikin suggests redeploying Russian forces from parts of the Kherson region for offensive elsewhere and to preserve combat effectiveness

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🇮🇳🐘🍵 India is known all over the world for its tea plantations, which do not leave indifferent even the local fauna. Elephant attacks on tea plantations have become more frequent recently, they cause a lot of trouble to farmers, eating crops and destroying everything around.

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🇷🇺 General Sergei Surovikin has announced the withdrawal of Russian forces from the right bank of the Dnepr River, citing the difficult tactical situation and Ukrainian plans to attack the city of Kherson.

What motivated the commander's decision? What is it meant to accomplish? How does the move tie in with broader strategic considerations?

👉 Here are a few possible ideas.

❗️Scott Ritter, a military analyst and former US Marine Corps intelligence officer, tells Sputnik why the Russian MoD's decision to withdraw from parts of the Kherson region to the left bank of the Dnepr River was right.

💬 “This is a decision that seemed to focus on preserving the lives of thousands of Russian soldiers over holding on to territory which has no intrinsic value in the short term. I think it was a just decision, one that was made based upon purely military objectives.”

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Acting Kherson Governor Vladimir Saldo confirmed on Wednesday that Kirill Stremousov, the deputy head of the regional administration, had died in a car accident in the region.

"It is very hard for me to tell you that Kirill Stremousov died today. He died on the territory of the Kherson Region, moving in a car that got into an accident," Saldo said on Telegram.

Later in the day, Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded Stremousov with the Order of Courage posthumously.