🇨🇳🇷🇺 Chinese car manufacturers had a 30% share of the Russian market last year following the exodus of the Western brands because of the sanctions. This year the projection is at 50%.

🗒 Coming up is my story and a video from the assembly line of AAT - Moscow's "Alpha Automotive Technologies" plant. The AAT has been working in partnership with Renault Russia for more than 15 years, and after Renault left the Russian market, it switched to making parts for locally-assembled Chinese brand "Haval"

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⚡️🇵🇰🇦🇫 Gunfire reported between Pakistan's security agencies and Afghan Taliban* on the Torkham border crossing

The reason for confrontation remains unknown at this moment.

*under UN sanctions for terrorism

📹 Have a look at Russia’s pavilion at the international arms exhibition IDEX-2023 that just kicked off in Abu Dhabi

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UN Security Council to Discuss Pyongyang's Missile Launches on Monday

An urgent meeting of the UN Security Council (UNSC) will be held later on Monday to discuss the latest missile tests carried out by North Korea.

According to the UNSC schedule, the meeting will be held at 15:00 (20:00 GMT on Monday).

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❗️ An air alert has been declared throughout Ukraine

The alert was also announced in Kiev, where "important partners" are expected this morning.

⚡️Ukrainian media reports allege US President Joe Biden arrived in Kiev for talks with Volodymyr Zelensky

❗️ Key statements made by Kremlin spokesman Peskov at a daily press briefing:

▪️ The Kremlin responded to the statements of Moldovan Prime Minister Dorin Recean, who said that he would seek "the demilitarization of Transnistria."

▪️ Peskov said that Kishinev is slipping into anti-Russian hysteria and recommended "Moldovan counterparts to be more careful."

▪️ The Kremlin did not rule out that President Putin will meet with Wang Yi, a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, who will be visiting Moscow.

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❗️Confirmed: US President Joe Biden has made an unannounced visit to Kiev

📹 Russia’s Su-35S on combat sorties as part of the special military operation (video courtesy of Russian MoD)

Multipurpose fighter jets patrolled a target area and covered the actions of bomber and ground-attack aircraft, as well as helicopters.

During one of the sorties, an AFU aircraft was timely detected and eliminated.

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💭🇮🇳🇪🇺 Indian FM's European mindset remark echoed in Munich Security Report 2023

German Chancellor Olaf Sholz noted that India's FM had a point when he said, “Europe has to get out of the mindset that Europe’s problems are the world’s problems, but the world’s problems are not Europe’s problems.”

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❗️ Biden: US to stay with Ukraine "for as long as it takes."

"Billions will be allocated to Ukraine in the form of budget aid," US President also said.

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S.Korean Ruling Party Head Calls For Development of National Nuclear Arms

Seoul should consider acquiring its own nuclear capabilities to successfully deter a threat posed by Pyongyang, if the current measures are not sufficient enough to effectively respond to it, Chung Jin-suk, the leader of the South Korean ruling People Power Party (PPP), said on Monday.

"We need to seriously consider developing our own nuclear capabilities if such a response [to North Korea's nuclear threats using Seoul's existent deterrence system] is insufficient," Chung said at a party meeting.

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⚡️ Biden says US and allies have promised to transfer about 700 tanks, thousands of armored vehicles, more than 2 million shells to Ukraine.

A plaque dedicated to Joe Biden have been installed on Kiev’s ‘Alley of Courage’.

🥴 Any ideas where does this QR code lead to?

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⚡️ Joe Biden has left Kiev: White House

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

▪️Russian air defense systems destroyed 15 Ukrainian drones;

▪️Russian forces destroyed 100 Ukrainian military personnel near Krasny Liman (DPR);

▪️Russian forces destroyed up to 50 Ukrainian military personnel, one tank and three vehicles near Kupyansk (Kharkov region);

▪️Russian troops destroyed over 115 military personnel in Donetsk direction;

▪️Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Ukrainian Air Force Su-27 aircraft near the city of Izyum in the Kharkov region;

▪️Russian forces destroyed up to 60 military personnel in the Donetsk direction and in the Zaporozhye region.

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