🛰🇺🇸 Maxar satellite imagery shows what Lahaina, Hawaii, looked like before the fires and what was eventually left of the city

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🗣️ On the significance of cluster ammunitions for Ukraine:

“The only thing these cluster munitions do for Ukraine is allow them to continue firing artillery a little bit longer so that the offensive has dragged on much longer than expected with no results at all. This allows Ukraine to put some more time up on the clock to try to make something happen here... The real determining factor is who is taking more positions from whom and who is losing more troops. And the answer is very clearly Ukraine. Ukraine is losing more troops,” Brian Berletic, ex-US Marine, independent geopolitical researcher, and writer based in Bangkok, told Sputnik.

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🇷🇺Russia's state corp Rostec quadruples armored vehicle production

"Deliveries are often made ahead of schedule. I would like to note that the vehicles we send to the front are constantly being improved, taking into account the combat experience. Their protection is improved and so on," Rostec's First Deputy Director General Vladimir Artyakov said.

Factories Uralvagonzavod and High-Precision Complex produce a wide range of armored vehicles, including T-72B3, T-80, and T-90M tanks, BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicles, BMD-4M paratrooper infantry fighting vehicles, Msta-S howitzers, and other equipment. Artyakov also recalled that since the beginning of the special operation, the production of ammunition for self-propelled artillery and MLRS has increased 20 times.

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☦️ The court in Kiev granted the reserve's claim to the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra for "removing obstacles in the use of property". Now the monks can be evicted, the lawyer said.

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🗣️ On the US policy of "circling the wagons" of its allies:

“The policy of Biden and the US is to circle the wagons of those allies that are really heavily dependent on the US, the G7, Europe and Japan, South Korea, Australia and so forth - the circle of the wagons, and to make sure that that core of its empire is protected… The US is circling the wagons of its reliable allies, economic and political, which is a sign of great weakness, by the way. And it's engaging in more force, military adventures here to try to protect this empire, but it's really fraying at the edges very seriously,” Dr. Jack Rasmus, professor of economics and politics at St. Mary's College in California, told Sputnik.

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📹 Three Ukrainian soldiers crossed the Dnepr River and surrendered in the Kherson region

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🗣 'Hunter is a Geopolitical Disaster': Ramaswamy Slams Biden Over Security Aid to Ukraine

💸 US presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said that Biden’s “failure” to articulate how aid to Ukraine advanced American interests “reeks of corruption”.

The 37-year-old Indian-American presidential contender reiterated his charge that Hunter Biden’s past association with Ukrainian energy company Burisma could be a possible reason why Washington has been helping Kiev.

🗯 “It's now fair game to ask whether the geopolitical disaster known as Hunter Biden has something to do with it,” Ramaswamy wrote on social media platform X.

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🇷🇺🇨🇳 The first group of Chinese tourists arrived in Russia under the agreement on visa-free travel. They were warmly welcomed at the Moscow airport.

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🇩🇪 Why is TSMC building a multibillion-dollar semiconductor chip factory in Germany?

The investment of Taiwan's TSMC, the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer, in a German chip-producing company is a significant step in the development of a complex political environment around chip manufacturing.

Sputnik delves into what is known about TSMC's planned chip production facility, its underpinnings, and other sundry issues.

🇺🇸 US President Joe Biden in a letter to Congress is asking for an additional $13 billion in supplemental funding to continue military assistance to Ukraine next year.

"$9.5 billion for equipment for Ukraine and replenishment of DOD stocks; and $3.6 billion for continued military, intelligence, and other defense support," the document said.

Biden is also asking for $7.3 billion for economic, humanitarian, and security assistance to Ukraine.

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🇺🇸The White House has dismissed polling showing that a majority of Americans don't want to send any more money to Ukraine to fund NATO's proxy war against Russia, ruling out that assistance would stop in spite of public wishes.

"We have seen throughout this war solid support from the American people, solid support from the Congress in a bipartisan and bicameral way for continuing to support Ukraine and we're going to stay focused on that," National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said.

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🗣️ On Poland becoming another proxy for the US:

“Now the US positioning Poland as the next proxy in line for Washington to use to wage a proxy war against Russia with. We hear about this massive military buildup that Poland is undertaking. They're doing this at the expense of resources that could be better invested in Poland for the Polish people,” Brian Berletic, ex-US Marine, independent geopolitical researcher, and writer based in Bangkok, told Sputnik.

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