🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin: Ukrainian attempts to break through Russian defenses fail every time during special military op

💬 “All attempts by the enemy to break through our defenses - and this is a task which includes the use of strategic reserves - they have not been successful during the entire offensive. The enemy is not enjoying any successes,” the Russian president said, praising the Russian army's heroism.

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🇷🇺 Russia could reverse engineer its trophy NATO weapons, Putin says

💬 “There’s the expression ‘reverse engineering’. We’ll see what happens, because modern equipment…we have it, and it’s very effective, let’s take the T-90 Proryv tank for example, which is the best tank in the world without any exaggeration. But the enemy also produces modern equipment. And if there’s an opportunity to look inside and see if there’s something there that we can use, well, why not?” Vladimir Putin said in an interview with Russian television.

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🗣️ On NATO's move towards Asia-Pacific as a shift towards a confrontation with China:

“Asia is not part of the North Atlantic, this is one of the reasons why France, amongst other powers, has poured cold water on this idea of opening a NATO office in Japan, obviously meant to target the People's Republic of China... And I think what's happening is that NATO is in search of a mission because its escapade in Ukraine is collapsing,” Dr. Gerald Horne, a history professor at the University of Houston, TX, and author, told Sputnik.

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🇺🇸 Netizens in stiches at manipulated video of Biden buying "exercise for dementia" books

The video, posted on Twitter July 16 with caption "Is this for real," amassed over 1.6M views, with many joining the mockery:

▪️"That looks like the other Biden though. The original one"
▪️"Load up Joe, load up!"
▪️"Joe will need to buy the whole section"

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🇮🇳🇷🇺 Russia Becomes India's 3rd Largest Trading Partner for First Time in History

The volume of bilateral trade grew 3.8 times in January-May to a record $27.1 billion, the ministry's data showed.

📈 Over this period, India increased its imports of Russian goods by 3.9 times up to $26.5 billion, which allowed Russia to stay the country's second largest importer. At the same time, the export of Indian products to Russia grew by 2.6 times to $639 million.

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📹 RFK Jr claims US biolabs in Ukraine harvest Chinese and Russian DNA to develop a bioweapon targeting specific ethnicities

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🗣️ On reducing NATO’s influence on the ground in Ukraine:

“The ability of NATO to influence the situation on the ground in Ukraine is becoming weaker with each passing day, and therefore it's putting NATO in the position of having to potentially take positions and implement policies that could risk widening the war and going into direct conflict with Russia, which means a nuclear war,” Larry Johnson, former CIA and State Department analyst, told Sputnik.

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🇦🇫 “We used to make and sell 20 to 30 coffins every day”

Afghan coffin and maker furniture makers explain how their business changed after US troops' withdrawal from Afghanistan

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🇺🇸 ‘Need to help Ukraine’: Biden admin’s go-to phrase to justify immoral schemes & deeds

Jake Sullivan, White House National Security Advisor, commented on the transfer of cluster munitions to Ukraine, expressing confidence that the moral authority of the US was not harmed by this action. He also stated that President Joe Biden is determined not to leave the Kiev regime without weapons.

Sullivan emphasized that it is more important for the United States to continue supporting Ukraine by providing them with weaponry.

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🇮🇱 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was released from the Sheba Medical Center in the city of Ramat Gan east of Tel Aviv after being hospitalized feeling unwell, a Israeli news agency reported on Sunday.

Doctors confirmed the Israeli leader experienced dehydration. The prime minister was implanted with a subcutaneous device to monitor his heart rate.

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🗣️ On Latin American leaders' ban of Ukrainian President Zelensky attending the EU-CELAC meeting:

“Part of the reason for this has been the suspicion, or at least the appearance, that with Spain inviting Zelensky representing Ukraine to this summit, that Latin America and the Caribbean would be in a de facto manner supporting Ukraine and/or overtly supporting NATO's and its expansion. And of course, there are a number of countries in Latin America and the Caribbean overtly opposed to one or both of those. So it was a success. They were successful in uninviting Zelensky, and he has then, Zelensky himself has since publicly stated in the international press that he will not be attending,” Teri Mattson, Latin America campaign coordinator for CODEPINK and podcast host for WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean, told Sputnik.

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Kiev regime’s budget has netted over $23 bln from international partners in past six months, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmygal said

"In the first six months of this year, the state budget received 1.3 trillion gryvnas from taxes, fees, and other payments. Expenditures during the same period amounted to 1.78 trillion gryvnas. We are grateful to our international partners who have allocated over $23 billion since the beginning of the year to finance the budget deficit," Shmygal wrote in a social media post.

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