💥Footage of a precision strike on the location of the command staff of the Ukrainian Kherson group of forces

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🇹🇷 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said his health condition is much better.

On Saturday, the Turkish president spoke from the stage at a public event for over half an hour.

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📹 Russian Grad multiple rocket launcher system destroys Ukrainian artillery 3 km from line of contact

During a Russian offensive, Ukrainian artillery was forced to be located next to the line of contact, where it became an easy target, a Russian serviceman told Sputnik.

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🇵🇱Kiev sends note of protest to Poland, EU over ban on Ukrainian import

"Yesterday, notes were sent to embassies of the Republic of Poland and the European Union regarding the absolutely unacceptable situation with trade restrictions on import of Ukrainian agricultural products," Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko said on social media.

Nikolenko said that the imposed restrictions corresponded neither to the agreement between Ukraine and the EU nor the principles and standards of the European single market. There are all the necessary legal grounds for immediate resumption of the import, Nikolenko added.

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🌍 The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) was established in 1997,exactly 26 years ago, to implement the Chemical Weapons Convention, the world's first multilateral chemical weapons disarmament agreement. Its aim was to end the production, stockpiling, transfer, and use of chemical weapons and to eliminate existing stocks of these weapons. However, the OPCW has lost its impartiality and transparency over the years, becoming a convenient instrument in the West's geopolitical games.

The OPCW has been accused of being infiltrated, influenced, and compromised by Western blocs, into following an agenda.

The Syrian War demonstrated that the OPCW was showing a clear bias against the Syrian government and its allies and was failing to investigate potential supplies of chemical weapon ingredients to terrorist groups operating in Syria

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💸Twitter has announced an option to monetize accounts, which will allow all its users to earn money from their posts.

"WORLDWIDE! Creators across the globe can now sign up and earn a living on Twitter. Tap on 'Monetization' in settings to apply today," Twitter said on Friday.

The company owner, Elon Musk, said that all Twitter users can now monetize their content.

"Content creators can now enable subnoscriptions to their text, pics & video worldwide on this platform!" Musk tweeted.

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BRICS' De-Dollarization Initiative Would Benefit Africa's Economy, Expert Says

The crusade by the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) group of nations to create a new financial infrastructure would have a positive impact on the development prospects of African nations, said Ashraf Patel, a senior research associate with the Institute for Global Dialogue and member of the South Africa BRICS Think-Tank Network, in an interview with Sputnik.

🗣"The BRICS alternative reserve currency would have a positive effect for African nations. Most of them are commodity export countries - especially minerals and oil - and agriculture. So, the first step would be to start trading those commodities with an alternative currency," he said

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🎺🎷🎻Today, the State Kremlin Palace is hosting the semi-final of the Road to Yalta 2023 International Music Festival, which celebrates its fifth anniversary this year. Singers from over 50 countries, including Italy, Germany, Serbia, India, China, Turkey, the US, Greece, Hungary, and France, applied to participate in the annual WWII song festival and competition, aimed at preserving historical memory and promoting international dialogue through "musical diplomacy."

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🪐Seismic waves rippling through Mars' core offer clue about how it became 'Hostile to life'

Despite a loss of communication with NASA's InSight Mars Lander due to accumulated dust on its solar panels, seismic data collected over four years has revealed that seismic waves are rippling through Mars' core. This discovery sheds light on why Mars evolved into a barren and "hostile to life" planet, despite evidence of liquid on its surface in the past.

The research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that Mars' core is different from Earth's and is most likely completely liquid. The lack of a magnetic field makes the planet's surface inhospitable to life. The findings will aid future geological investigations of other planets in the solar system.

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🇩🇪 German instructors are training Ukrainian soldiers for urban combat at a dozen military bases across the country ahead of Kiev's much-touted spring offensive, a German tabloid reported on Saturday.

The report said that over 1,000 personnel of Ukraine's special forces are being trained in Germany at "a good dozen" of Bundeswehr bases. In particular, they are being taught to conduct urban combat and operate heavy equipment, including Leopard 2 tanks and self-propelled howitzers Panzerhaubitze 2000, the newspaper said.

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🇵🇱 Russian investigators will give a legal assessment of Poland's seizure of the Russian embassy school building in Warsaw, the Russian Investigative Committee said on Saturday.

"Head of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin has ordered investigators to request necessary information from the Foreign Ministry and give a legal assessment to all circumstances of the incident," the committee said in a statement published on social media.

A total of 29 people, namely employees and their family members, including children, were on the school grounds when the Polish authorities swooped on the building.

Having loaded their belongings into a truck, the school employees are leave the building to the Russian patriotic march "Farewell of Slavianka" and Soviet military song "Katyusha." Polish judicial officers remain on the school grounds and continue to take inventory of the premises and property.

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Vanessa Beeley, an independent investigative journalist who specializes on the Middle East and Syria, told Sputnik:

💬 “I don’t think it can lay claim to pursuing its goal honestly and genuinely when its bias is against the perceived enemies of the West”

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US nuclear sensors in Ukraine deployed to scapegoat Russia

Karen Kwiatkowski, a former US Department of Defense analyst and retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, suggested that the US may be deploying nuclear sensors throughout Ukraine to quickly shift blame to Russia if any radioactive weapon is used or reported in Western media.

She also proposed that the deployment could serve as a direct message to the remnants of the Ukrainian military and political leaders who could run amok, thus upsetting big Western corporations' plans to rebuild Ukraine. She also pointed out that there may be innocent explanations for the deployment, such as concerns about radiation leakage from nuclear reactors.

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Kazan prepares for International Games of Future: 300-Day countdown ceremony in Moscow

The Games of Future is a high-tech international tournament that will be held in Kazan, Russia from February 23 to March 2, 2024.

The competition will involve 2,000 athletes from over 100 countries competing in 16 hybrid disciplines that combine traditional sports, esports, and mixed reality technologies.

During the opening ceremony held simultaneously in Moscow and Kazan, a virtual assistant named Marusya, created by Russian technology company VK, was one of the hosts. Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a video message emphasizing the games' significance for Russia and the world, and a countdown clock was launched for the 300-day countdown to the games.

Visitors at the event could access augmented reality through a QR code on the clock and view pictographs of the disciplines presented in the games. The countdown ceremony was held in Moscow.

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Vanessa Beeley, an independent investigative journalist who specializes on the Middle East and Syria, told Sputnik:

💬 “I think until the OPCW opens its doors to a frank and open discussion with the dissident inspectors who are contesting the findings of the OPCW in Douma in Syria, it has no credibility”

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Pentagon approves request by State Department to help US citizens depart Sudan

"The Secretary of Defense [Lloyd Austin] approved a request for assistance from the Department of State to support the safe departure of U.S. citizens and their immediate family members via overland. The Department of Defense deployed U.S. intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance assets to support air and land evacuation routes, which Americans are using, and we are moving naval assets within the region to provide any necessary support along the coast," Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh said in a statement.

The US priority "has been and remains" to help as many US citizens leave Sudan as safely as possible, according to Singh.

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