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🇺🇳♨️ The era of global warming has been replaced by the era of global boiling, said UN Secretary-General António Guterres.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

Elena Bobkova, a war correspondent, public figure, and host of the Children of Donbass project, shares heartbreaking stories of the republics' kids surviving in the midst of a brutal military conflict.

🇫🇷 Macron says France seeks to beef up military presence in Indo-Pacific

According to the President of France, Paris' strategy in the Indo-Pacific region is based on diplomatic and military engagement.

"An additional 200 military personnel will be sent and 150 million euros [$163 million] will be allocated for our army here," Macron said during his visit to Vanuatu as part of a regional tour.

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💱The BRICS’ New Development Bank (NDB) intends to facilitate use of national currencies in transactions, NDB President Dilma Vana Rousseff stated at a plenary session of the Russia-Africa Summit in St. Petersburg, adding that this move is one of the bank's main priorities.

"The use of sanctions for political purposes or attempts to extend the jurisdiction of a country outside its territory does not solve a single problem, but rather exacerbates the existing ones," the bank president stressed.

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🔺The Second Russia-Africa Summit Kicks Off in St. Petersburg: Russia to Replace Ukrainian Grain at No Cost for African Countries, President Putin vows
🔺 How far will NATO allies go to fight their losing war in Ukraine?
🔺House and Senate set for fight over how much military aid to give Taiwan

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🗣️ On a potential impeachment against President Joe Biden:

“It's just part and parcel of the whole weaponization of the FBI, the Department of Justice, the Secret Service, where they protect Biden at all costs mentality that it has been covering up evidence, 51 of the top intelligence officials say that the laptop was a Russia hoax when they knew it wasn't. The FBI had the laptop. They knew it wasn't a Russian hoax, and yet they impeached President Trump based upon a phone call demanding that there be an investigation of the Ukrainian payoff system, knowing that, now we know, was completely false,” Steve Gill, Attorney and CEO of Gill Media, told Sputnik.

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🇷🇺 Loitering ammunition overtakes the enemy in the Zaporozhye Region

Russian servicemen continue to methodically eliminate enemy armored groups that attempt to attack the positions of Russian units.

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‼️US Senate Clears 2024 Defense Bill, Paves Way to Showdown With House

The US Senate easily passed the National Defense Bill Thursday night, following a 86-11 vote.

However, the bill will still have to be negotiated with the House of Representatives' version before being sent to President Joe Biden's desk.

Exclusive: 'Illegal Sanctions' Push Zimbabwean-Russian Cooperation, Minister Tells Sputnik

Both Russia and Zimbabwe are currently under sanctions imposed by the West, however, instead of setbacks, this leaves "much room" for more collaboration, Zimbabwean Minister of Information, Broadcasting and Publicity Monica Mutsvangwa told Sputnik Africa

🗣 "And there's so much room for us to work together because with or without sanctions, our people have to survive. Our companies have to survive, our economies have to grow," she said

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Ukraine Loses 20% of Western-Donated Equipment in Counteroffensive - Reports

Pressured to launch an attack against fortified Russian positions, Ukrainian forces have lost huge amounts of equipment given to them by NATO for the operation, with little to show for it.

According to reports in Western media citing Ukrainian and Western officials, the Kiev regime's forces have lost roughly one-fifth of their Western equipment over the last two months, including huge numbers of armored vehicles, as well as using up much of the stockpiles of ammo it has been given.

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