🇮🇳 🎉 India is celebrating 77 years since Independence as the fifth-largest economy in the world

On August 15 this year, India marked the 76th Anniversary of Independence gained in 1947 following a long struggle against the British colonisers.

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🇷🇸 Serbian Major General Kastratovic Luka and 🇨🇲 Cameroon Military Attaché Samuel P. Bissioer told Sputnik’s correspondent about their impressions from the 11th Moscow Conference on International Security.

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

▪️ In the Krasny Liman area, Ukrainian losses amounted to 80 soldiers;

▪️ In the Donetsk region, the Russian Army repelled 11 attacks by Ukrainian troops. Ukrainian losses amounted to 230 soldiers;

▪️ In South Donetsk, Ukrainian losses amounted to 200 soldiers, a Msta-B howitzer and the AN / TPQ-37 counter-battery station;

▪️ In the Zaporozhye area, Russian forces repelled three attacks by Ukrainian troops in the area of Rabotino;

▪️ In the Kupyansk area, the Russian Army repelled six attacks by Ukrainian forces. Ukrainian losses amounted to 100 soldiers;

▪️ Russian troops repelled three attacks by assault groups by Ukrainian forces in the LPR and DPR;

▪️ The Russian Army attacked the key enterprises of the military industry of the Kiev regime at night, the goal was achieved.

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📹🇨🇳 China issued a 24-point guideline for improving the climate for foreign investment and attracting more funds. Dr. John Gong, professor of economics at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing and a China Forum expert believes that it’s a timely measure which could prove successful.

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🇵🇱 Poland hosted the largest military parade in decades.

What is Poland preparing for?

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🗣️ On the US wars against the states that do not obey America:

“Most of the US wars over the last few decades have been pummeling some Third World country out of line with the US into submission with air power, and they've proved pretty good at that... But taking on Russian air defense, the best air defense in the world, that is a whole other magnitude of problems. So it's a matter of the tool for the problem,” Mark Sleboda, international affairs and security analyst, told Sputnik.

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📹 Russian paratroopers destroy Ukrainian neo-Nazis in the zone of the special military operation

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🗣️ On how popular movements in Niger and in west Africa are fighting back against ECOWAS and against neocolonialism:

“Many people within the region view this not necessarily as a military coup d'état, it may have started out like that. But now it's evolved into a popular rebellion or a liberation movement against neo-colonialism in Niger and throughout the West Africa region. So that's what has distinguished, what has happened in Niger over the last three weeks with what has happened in the past,”Abayomi Azikiwe, the editor of the Pan-African News Wire, told Sputnik.

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📈Jammu and Kashmir Celebrates Indian Independence Day with Emphasis on Peace

🇮🇳 Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha said Kashmir is being recognized as a place of peace instead of being associated with violence.

📈 he also noted that foreign tourist arrivals surge by 59% in the region

However, the authorities in Kashmir, in order to avoid any unexpected incidents, beefed up security across the region ahead of Independence Day.

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📹 Russia unveils cutting-edge UAV fitted with neural network-based object identification system

“As this unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is powered by petrol, its maximum flying time is up to six hours, which makes it possible to effectively implement surveillance-related tasks,” Dmitry Zubarev, head of the department of marketing communication and special protection said.

He stressed that the UAV is capable of transporting two smaller attack drones, in what the Svyaz-Spetszashchita Zubarev described as a “highly-desired feature nowadays”.

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📹 Aviation of Russia’s Northern Fleet continues to carry out combat duty tasks on the Arctic islands

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🌱 Poor Countries Main Victims of Western-Induced Grain Price Crisis, Expert Says

🗣 "The poor countries are the main victims of the crisis. Those countries are not interested in the Grain Initiative, as they got less than 3% of the Ukrainian grain that came out. But they remain the most in need of Russian grain, and the most painful of the high prices of grain and fertilizer," Nourhan ElSheikh, an expert of the Valdai Discussion Club, professor of political science at Cairo University, and a member of the Egyptian Council for International Affairs, told Sputnik Africa

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A Russian and an American military expert told Sputnik that if Russia decides to use cluster munitions in response to the US arming Ukraine with the same weapons, it will most likely be careful and calculated, since unlike with American military interventions, the Russians have to live with their neighbors afterward.

🗣 "The consequences of the use of such weapons for the civilian population are known. Before, American representatives have repeatedly stated that the use of cluster munitions is a war crime," Shoigu said. "Today, Washington and its accomplices are committing this crime in Ukraine. There is no condemnation from humanitarian organizations, as expected.”

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🇰🇵 North Korean Defense Minister on nuclear war: question is who will start It

🗣 "Nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula is no longer a question of whether it will be, but a question of who will start it and when. The nuclear war mania by the United States and their puppets in the Republic of Korea [South Korea] is turning the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia into a new hotbed of nuclear war," North Korean Defense Minister Kang Sun Nam said during the 11th Moscow Conference on International Security.

The current political and military situation demonstrates that solving the issue on the Korean peninsula via a dialogue "is an empty phrase" due to actions of the US, Hyon added.

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🇳🇬 🇷🇺 Army 2023: Nigerian Expert Sees Potential for Enhanced Military-Technical Cooperation with Russia

🗣 "And so Nigeria holds Russia in very high regards, and I would expect that this will stimulate or create an avenue to further corporate ties and relationships Nigeria has with Russia," Chiakor Alfred Orkuma, head of strategic innovation at the Ashcroft Centre for Social Science Research in Abuja, Nigeria, told Sputnik Africa on the sidelines of the 9th International Military and Technical Forum (Army-2023) in Moscow region.

He explained that the former Soviet Union (USSR) always intervened positively in the national affairs of the West African country

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Global AI investment could soar to $158 bln by 2025, a report says

Goldman Sachs economists claimed that most of private financial injections across the world would be pumped into the generative artificial intelligence, a type of AI that can be used to create new text, images, video, and audio.

Global private investment in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies could near $158 billion by 2025, a new Goldman Sachs report has revealed.

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🇷🇸 All Europe will soon see fallout from Ukrainian events, Serbian Health Minister says

Events in Ukraine will have an impact on the health of people across Europe, Serbian Health Minister and specialist neurosurgeon Danica Grujicic said in an interview with Sputnik.

The fact that Ukraine agreed to receive depleted uranium ammunition from Western countries given the experience of the former Yugoslavia in 1999 is unfathomable, according to Danica Grujicic, Serbian health minister and specialist neurosurgeon. The minister recalled the "chemical and nuclear war" waged against Serbia and Montenegro in an interview with Sputnik.

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NATO has admitted that Ukraine could become a member of the alliance if it agrees to cede territories that it refuses to recognize as part of Russia, Stian Jensen, the chief of staff of the secretary general of the organization, said

“I'm not saying it has to be. But it could be a possible solution."

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The air defense systems of Russia shot down three Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over the Kaluga region early on Wednesday, the Russian Defense Ministry said

Last week, air defense forces shot down two drones in the Kaluga region and near the Central Ring Road that were heading toward Moscow. In all cases, there were no casualties or damage.

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🇷🇸 Ukraine should not allow the use of depleted uranium shells on their soil as these could have long-term consequences for the health of future generations, Serbian Health Minister Danica Grujicic said in an interview with Sputnik

The minister added that "it is scary to use such weapons in terms of health." She said that cancer in patients in Serbia after the 1999 NATO bombing became less predictable and more likely to be fatal.

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📹 Russia's assault units hone skills on capturing mock enemy strongholds in the special military op zone

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