🇮🇳 🚀 #Chandrayaan3 Captures First Picture of the Moon

🌔 The Indian Space Research Organisation (#ISRO) unveiled the first images of the Moon captured by Chandrayaan 3, India's remarkable third unmanned Moon mission.

The Moon mission has been smooth so far and ISRO is hopeful that Vikram Lander will make a soft landing on the Moon's surface on 23 August.

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🇷🇺🇹🇷 Turkish president Erdogan intends to propose the resumption of peace talks on Ukraine in order to establish an early ceasefire during the talks with Vladimir Putin scheduled for August, a source in the administration of the Turkish leader told Sputnik

Putin and Erdogan may discuss economic relations during the talks as well as, trade in national currencies and tourism, a source familiar with the negotiations told Sputnik

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Nicolas Maduro condemned the lack of response from European leaders and a number of media to Quran-burning incidents in Sweden and Denmark

Maduro criticized media for not covering the issue, adding that he "strongly condemns" hate crimes against Muslims and the activities of "extreme right-wing and racist circles" destroying copies of the Quran in Europe.

Several Quran-burning demonstrations have taken place in Denmark and Sweden in recent months. Most Muslim countries have condemned the demonstrations, and some have summoned the Swedish and Danish ambassadors to issue letters of protest.

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📹 The Russian Army continues to complete all the targets of the special military op using (0:07) Grad multiple rocket launchers to hit Ukrainian positions

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Russia and Qatar are working on joint projects amounting to over $1.67 billion

Russia-Qatar trade reached nearly 70 million Qatari riyals ($19.23 million) in the first quarter of 2023, Russian Ambassador to Doha Dmitry Dogadkin has said in an interview with Sputnik.

Dogadkin noted that Moscow and Doha consider cooperation in transportation and logistics to be promising area of cooperation, particularly the implementation of the International North-South Transport Corridor.

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🇮🇶 Iraq has urged the United States and the United Kingdom to hand over its former officials, who are accused of having stolen $2.5 billion in public money

Interpol had issued "red notices" for the private secretary and a political adviser to former Prime Minister Mustafa Kadhimi, who hold US citizenship, as well as for former Finance Minister Ali Allawi, a UK national, Al Arabiya news channel reported, quoting the head of Iraq’s committee for integrity.

The scandal revolves around suspected illegitimate withdrawals of cash from the country’s Tax Commission between 2021 and 2022. Kadhimi and his former finance minister both denied being involved in the scheme.

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Russia expects the BRICS countries participating in the meeting in Jeddah on Ukraine to inform Moscow about the progress of the consultations, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said

Without the participation of Russia and taking into account its interests, no meetings on Ukraine have the slightest added value, Zakharova added.

In addition, she stressed that a fair settlement is possible only if Kiev stops hostilities and terrorist attacks, and the West stops pumping Ukraine with weapons.

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💬 “We have no moral standing in this crisis“

The current US policy regarding the Ukrainian crisis is insane, Diane Sayre, an independent candidate for the US Senate race from New York, told Sputnik

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📹 Russia's Grad BM-21 multiple-launch rocket systems destroy a mortar position and a stronghold of the Ukrainian troops in the zone of the special military op

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🗣 “The commanders didn’t say a peep“

Ukrainian officers do not tell the soldiers anything about the so-called counteroffensive, they learn about it from TikTok, one of the captured Ukrainian soldiers told Sputnik

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Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has written about black transplants in Ukraine in her article

⁃ Ukraine has long been known as a world leader in organ trafficking.
⁃ Scandals involving the illegal removal of organs from corpses began to appear in the late 1990s in the wake of the country’s socioeconomic deterioration.
⁃ Organ trafficking increased in scale after the start of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine.
⁃ It has been reported in the media that organs of killed soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were available for sale in one of the biggest shops of the darknet. A heart, liver, kidneys and other body parts with price tags starting at 5,000 euros are on offer.
⁃ Delivery is limited to EU countries and it would take 48-60 hours to receive the desired organ in a medical box.

This is conclusive evidence that the Ukrainian state is covering up and encouraging this bloody business, Maria Zakharova concluded.

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❗️ Russian MoD briefing on the progress of special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️In the Zaporozhye area, the Russian Army repelled three attacks by Ukrainian troops close to Uspenovka and Rabotino. Russian Forces destroyed up to 80 Ukrainian soldiers and a D-30 howitzer;

▪️In the Donetsk region, Russian forces successfully repelled the attack of the assault groups of the Airmobile Brigade of Ukrainian forces near Belogorovka in the DPR. Ukrainian losses amounted to 135 soldiers;

▪️In South Donetsk, Ukrainian losses amounted to 225 soldiers;

▪️In Krasny Liman, the Russian Army destroyed more than 65 military units of Ukrainian forces;

▪️In the Kharkov region and the LPR, the Russian Army successfully repelled 12 counterattacks by Ukrainian troops;

▪️Near Kupyansk, Ukrainian losses amounted to 110 soldiers;

▪️Russian Forces repelled the attack by Ukrainian assault groups in the Urozhaynoye area in the DPR;

▪️Russian air defense systems intercepted nine Storm Shadow rockets and destroyed 14 drones.

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