❗️ US President Joe Biden ordered sabotage of Nord Stream pipelines after over 9 months of highly secret debate within US national security community, according to information attributed to investigative journalist Seymour Hersh

Explosions occurred on September 26 at three of the four strings of Nord Stream 1 and 2 underwater pipelines built to carry a combined 110 billion cubic meters of Russian gas to Europe annually.

Russia called it a terrorist attack and opened an inquiry into possible international terrorism.

❗️ The report claims that US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan was involved in preparing an act of sabotage on the Nord Streams pipelines

📷 Deformed railway tracks in the quake-hit Turkish province of Kahramanmaras

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A new corrupt draft evasion scheme uncovered in Ukraine, a representative of law enforcement agencies told Sputnik.

🗣 "The entrance tariff is $10,000. It is a one-time payment to a military commissar in order to enroll a potential recruit in a volunteer organization operating at each Recruitment and Social Support Center of the Ukrainian army. This is how the military enlistment offices are called there now," the source said.

▪️ Each volunteer is expected to collect voluntary donations through social networks from citizens in favor of the army, the source added.

💬 "Depending on the amount collected, each volunteer is required to pay tribute personally to the military commissar through his intermediaries, the amount varies from 5% to 10% of the total sum collected," the source said.

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❗️American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has confirmed the authenticity of the article to Sputnik

Seymour Hersh, who published an investigation into the sabotage of Nord Stream, is one of the most famous journalists in the US.

▪️In 1969, he published a major investigation into a massacre in Vietnam (the Mỹ Lai massacre) carried out by the US military, for which he received a Pulitzer Prize.

▪️In the 1970s, Hersh covered the Watergate scandal, and in 2004 he wrote about the abuse of prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison.

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📹 The Russian MoD has published footage showing Russia’s Orlan-10 UAV crews in combat as part of the special military operation

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Sputnik spoke to Elijah Magnier, a veteran war correspondent, about the ongoing tragedy in Turkey and Syria after the deadly earthquakes that shook the two nations a few days ago and how the economic sanctions of the West are hindering the recovery efforts.

💬 “Only few countries, six or seven countries like Russia, China, Iran, Iraq, Algeria, Tunisia and the Emirates who rush to help Syria. The problem is all the other countries feel afraid of the American sanctions because they were told that any flight that landed in Damascus means a violation of the U.S. and EU sanctions. Even if there are harsh sanctions against Syria, the aim is to hit the population and allow them to remain under the debris, showing how we are really not looking at support of the population.”

🎧 Listen to more of Magnier’s analysis in our podcast Fault Lines: Biden's State of the Union: What's Changed?

Elijah Magnier explains what other effects Western sanctions have on Syria

💬 “Today, there is a large number of the population is without electricity, including in Damascus and the suburb in Aleppo that has been seriously damaged. Syria is really suffering from these sanctions and these sanctions as rightly President Joe Biden said the sanctions against Russia are not going to change anything. The sanctions against Iran have not changed anything since 43 years in 1979, and the sanctions against Syria since 2019 will not change anything. But they all have one thing in common: people suffer from the sanctions and only the population.”

🎧 Listen to more of Magnier’s analysis in our podcast Fault Lines: Biden's State of the Union: What's Changed?

📌 LIVE NOW: Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters speaks at UNSC meeting on Ukraine

❗️UK to weigh sending jets to Ukraine in 'long-term,' UK media reports. The Ministry of Defense will make an assessment of what planes London in theory could supply to Kiev, the report says.

❗️Russian Foreign Ministry on Seymour Hersh's investigative report of explosions on Nord Stream: Moscow said this many times.

Later, a Pentagon spokesperson told Sputnik that the US was not involved in Nord Stream explosion.

Coincidence or Just Trolling? Russia Develops Heavy Drone Called TrUMP

The drone, known as the ‘Transport Aviation Multifunctional Platform’, or its Russian-language acronym ‘TrUMP’, has a cruising speed of 195 km per hour, and a flight ceiling of 3,000 meters. It features a 2,650 liter cargo compartment, and can drop loads via parachute if necessary to the mission.

Sputnik’s source did not clarify whether the decision to name the drone the ‘TrUMP’ has anything to do with the former US president. However, Russian commentators online had a field day over the name.

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❗️Russian President Vladimir Putin is holding a meeting on the Afghanistan issue with security representatives from a number of countries. Here are the key statements:

▪️The terrorist threat has intensified after the US pullout from Afghanistan;

▪️4 million people in Afghanistan are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance;

▪️Contacts have been established with the leadership of Afghanistan in Kabul, there are good plans for economic projects.

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Watch footage of a campsite filmed by Sputnik correspondent in Antakya, Turkiye, where local authorities have organized the provision of emergency shelter and food assistance

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Video released by the Turkish Ministry of Defense shows a woman being rescued from a collapsed building in Adiyaman

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Pink Floyd Singer Roger Waters Says Russia Military Operation in Ukraine ‘Not Unprovoked’

Waters addressed the five permanent members of the Security Council and asked whether their goal in Ukraine was to secure profits for the war industry, maintain global power or obtain a bigger share of the "world cake."

He also noted that wars that are not approved by the majority of the citizens in the world and are destroying the planet and people oppose conflict precisely because they do not raise their sons and daughters to become cannon fodder.

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Video released by the Turkish Ministry of Defense shows UAVs working in the earthquake-hit areas. The drones are collecting information for the search and rescue operations.

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National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden recalled the Bay of Pigs Invasion following the revelation by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh about US involvement in the Nord Stream bombings

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