⚡ Vladimir Putin’s latest statements on the counteroffensive by the Armed Forces of Ukraine:

▪️Ukrainian Armed Forces intensifying fighting, main actions taking place in Zaporozhye direction

▪️All counteroffensive attempts of Ukraine's Forces repelled, enemy has no success

▪️The Armed Forces of Ukraine left the bodies of their dead on the battlefield near Zaporozhye

▪️Ukraine suffered huge casualties during Wednesday battles in Zaporozhye direction, over 200 soldiers killed

▪️Russian forces destroyed 39 Ukrainian pieces of military equipment, including 26 tanks

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Poland and the US have signed an agreement to establish a maintenance center for Abrams in the western Polish city of Poznan, Polish defense company Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa (PGZ) said

In the future, the center will also be used by US troops deployed in Poland or other European countries, the company said in a statement.

The company recalled that in 2022, Warsaw and Washington signed a contract for the supply of 250 Abrams M1A2 tanks with related equipment, logistics and a training package. The delivery of the first Abrams M1A2 should take place by the end of 2024.

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💬 "We have a Russian company in the country which is mining uranium"

Doto Mashaka Biteko, Minister of Minerals of the United Republic of Tanzania, speaks about the prospects of his country using nuclear energy with the participation of Russian companies on the sidelines of the Second Russia-Africa Summit.

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📹 Russian President Vladimir Putin greets his African counterparts on the sidelines of the Second Russia-Africa Summit

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💬 "Rwanda as other countries is considering the integration of nuclear energy in its energy mix"

Fidele Ndahayo, a Rwanda Atomic Energy Board official, speaks about cooperation between Russia and his country in building and maintaining nuclear energy sector.

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Russia marks Day of Commemorating Donbass Child War Victims

This date, which commemorates 228 children who died as a result of the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, was established by decree by the head of the DPR in July 11, 2022.

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🇷🇺🏒 Putin signed a decree granting Russian citizenship to American hockey player Brennan Menell, who plays for Dynamo Moscow.

In the spring, the club said that Menell wanted to play for the Russian national team and that he really liked Moscow.

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❗️️Putin signs decree awarding Sputnik correspondent Rostislav Zhuravlev the Order of Courage posthumously

🇨🇳💱🇺🇸The Chinese yuan has been slowly gaining on the US dollar over the past month in the latest uptick in years of fluctuation.

That comes amid the rising trend of emerging economies settling bilateral transactions in their own currencies, rather than with the US greenback, which has dominated global trade since the end of the Second World War.

But will the yuan overtake the US dollar as the world's dominant currency? Asia pundit Thomas W. Pauken II helps us to map out some possible scenarios.

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🇷🇺 Commandos from Russia’s Airborne Forces seized a stronghold and captured Ukrainian troops.

After our artillery softened up Ukraine’s fortifications, the commandos from the Airborne Forces went on the attack. Fire support for them was provided by an armored group on a BMD-4M.

Some Ukrainian troops, wanting to save their lives, surrendered. However, those who resisted were eliminated.

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☦️ Kiev pressing for elimination of Ukrainian orthodox church

Moscow has stated that Ukraine’s legislative system is designed to help the Kiev regime spearhead the current crackdown on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

The report, published by the Russian Foreign Ministry, indicates “the full extent of political lawlessness” in Ukraine, in addition to the “legal outrage against the UOC, the gross systematic violation of the rights of Orthodox Christians by the Kiev regime,” and reactions by some international human rights organizations.

Find out the true story of the Kiev regime’s repressive acts against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church on our website

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🇳🇪 ‘Long live Russia’ echoes across the capital of Niger, as hundreds of residents flock to the National Assembly to express their support for the rebels.

Anti-French and pro-Russian slogans can be heard, and Russian flags can be seen in the videos posted on social networks.

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🇺🇳♨️ The era of global warming has been replaced by the era of global boiling, said UN Secretary-General António Guterres.

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🗣️ On the US will to maintain hegemony over the Global South as well as Europe:

“The Europeans are also stuck with the US in terms of being the hegemon and in that process, Europe is de-industrialized and actually being colonized by the US. And so the US wants to be hegemon, not just over the majority of the world, the Global South, as it's called, but also of Europe as well,” Linwood Tauheed, associate professor of economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, told Sputnik.

🎧 Listen to more of Tauheed’s analysis in our podcast The Critical Hour