📹 “On the third day, hunger set in”: Ukrainian soldier tells why he defected to Russian side

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🇳🇪 ECOWAS Chiefs of Staff meet in Ghana to finalize Niger military intervention plan, a French news agency reported on Thursday

An unnamed officer of the ECOWAS standby force told the broadcaster that no order had been given to stop the deployment, so the activation of the troops was still in force, despite diplomatic measures taken by the community.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸Russia prioritizing return of its citizens imprisoned in America, says Russian Ambassador to US

Furthermore, the diplomat urged the United States to stop detaining Russians in third countries, adding that 'the U.S. Administration continues to live in its own world, built on its own rules, ignoring the interests of other states'.

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🇷🇺🚇 Vladimir Putin and Moscow Mayor Sobyanin launch traffic on third line of Moscow Central Diameter

The Diameters are a system allowing commuters to travel easily between Moscow and the Moscow region. With the new line, travel is expected to become easier and faster, which could lead to further development for residents and businesses.

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🪖 Zelensky signs decree dismissing all regional military commissars

The Ukrainian president has allegedly vowed to replace them with people who have taken part in combat operations. This move is unlikely to affect the system of corruption that now thrives in Ukrainian military recruitment, Vladimir Yevseyev, a Russian military analyst from the Institute of CIS Countries, told Sputnik.

💬 “According to the available information, the money that flows into military recruitment centers [as bribes] get passed up the ladder, all the way to the president’s office,” Yevseyev said. “So this ‘pyramid’ is not going to be demolished – instead, certain people are simply going to be replaced.”

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❗️ Russia's "Luna-25" has taken the first image of the lunar surface, Roscosmos says

The image shows the southern polar crater Zeeman on the far side of the Moon.

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💬 Zelensky and Germany are two sides of the same coin. The real problem is that we are being played,” Vivek Ramaswamy Republican presidential candidate stated

🇺🇸 Longshot Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has hit out at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (#NATO) allies for taking a “free ride” on the US, as he questioned the failure of Washington’s European allies to meet their funding commitments towards the Euro-atlantic alliance.

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🇷🇺🚇 Putin supports high-speed railroad project from Moscow to St. Petersburg

The project should make it possible to get from one city to another in 2 hours and 15 minutes (it presently takes roughly 4 hours).

🇧🇾 The Russian president said that he will speak with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko about building a high-speed railroad between Moscow and Minsk, and added that he sees prospects for construction such networks to Donetsk and Lugansk.

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🇷🇺🚇 Vladimir Putin signed off on a project for the development of high-speed railroads

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🗣️ On the spillover effects of anti-Russian sanctions:

“Well, just imagine that. So, Russian sanctions deindustrialized Germany. Is that what we really wanted to do? Now, some people say, 'Yes, that's what Biden wants to do. He wants to turn Europe into a wasteland so it's an assured market for American products.' It could actually be true. Well, what's wrong with the Europeans? Why don't they realize that?” Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, economist and former Reagan administration official, told Sputnik.

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💸🇺🇸 Trump warns that the US dollar is losing its dominance as the world's reserve currency

"Our country is going to hell and we're not going to be the big boy," Trump said. "We have power, but it's waning. In fact, it's waning in terms of our currency. And I'm not just talking about the value of our currency, I'm talking about our currency being used throughout the world."

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🇷🇺🎮 Putin instructs the cabinet to find ways to promote Russian video games to foreign markets, according to a document published by the Kremlin.

Putin also gave the government until September 30 to develop a program within which small towns, as well as secondary and vocational schools, will be provided with access to audiovisual equipment. He also asked officials to think about creating a "digital distribution" service within the same task.

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🗣️ On the purpose behind putting Cuba back on the US state sponsor of terrorism list and how it serves to continue US imperialism:

“The state sponsor of terrorism designation, it's all to diminish the reputation of Cuba, to try to fight back against the positive reputation that it's gained across the world for sending doctors rather than bombs, for sending educators rather than assassins. That's the type of work that Cuba has done to promote peace, to promote health care and education. So what does the United States respond with? Not with open arms, not with Nobel Peace Prizes, but what they do instead is they create this list of state sponsor of terrorism,” Kameron Hurt, organizer with the International People’s Assembly, told Sputnik.

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📹 Fiery orange mushroom cloud erupts (0:10) as Ukrainian military train bombed by Russian forces in Dnepropetrovsk region

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"The Ukraine crisis has no parallels in world history": Dimitri Simes Sr., journalist and political scientist, speaks on the confrontation between Russia and Ukraine (comment made during Russia’s Army-2023 Forum)

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🇬🇧 Outsized, outgunned, and overpampered: what’s wrong with Ukraine’s British-made Challenger 2 tanks?

The Russian military confirmed this week that Ukraine has deployed its elite 82nd Air Assault Brigade in Zaporozhye. The brigade is known to be armed with Challenger 2s, the much-hyped but little-seen British tanks.

What are the tanks’ strong and weak points, and what challenges will they face against Russian forces?

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🇷🇺 More that half of Russians believe that their country is better than any other, while only 32% of respondents do not share this view, a poll by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM) showed.

"Russia is better than other countries – six out of 10 Russians (57%) share this view, which is by 5 percentage points more than five years ago (52% in 2018). A different view is shared by a third of our compatriots (32%, -8 percentage points compared to 2018). One in 10 people could not answer this question (10%, 5 percentage points more than in 2018)," the survey said.

Around 40% of respondents think that patriots should always support Russia even if it is not right, while 15% of Russians said that they "completely agree with" this statement, the poll showed. The survey added that the opposite view is shared by 32% of Russians, with 8% saying that they "completely disagree."

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