❗️📹 BRICS Leaders Address Summit Audience

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📹 Heads of delegations of the BRICS countries before the start of the second day of the organization's summit

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❗️ Vladimir Putin takes the floor at the BRICS summit

💬 BRICS states have established themselves on the global stage, defending the opinion of the world's majority, he said

❗️ Russia as chairman of BRICS next year intends to hold summit in october 2024 in Kazan, Vladimir Putin says

❗️ Key statements made by Vladimir Putin while addressing the BRICS summit:

▪️BRICS stands for the formation of a multipolar world order based on international law, including the right of people to their own development;

▪️BRICS countries are against hegemony and neo-colonial policies;

▪️Russia's actions in Ukraine are dictated by one thing - to put an end to the war unleashed against civilians by the Kiev regime that is supported by the West;

▪️It’s high time to establish permanent commission on transport within BRICS framework, which will work on logistics;

▪️Putin calls on BRICS countries to expand settlements in national currencies, cooperation between banks;

▪️Russia expects to intensify BRICS cooperation in research and is ready to share technology.

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⚡️India fully supports #BRICS expansion based on consensus: Modi 🇮🇳

“In 2016, we had defined BRICS as a group for inclusive solutions. Eight years later, BRICS will now be breaking barriers, reinvigorating the economies, creating opportunities and shaping the future,” the Indian Prime Minister said.

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🤔 A record number of reconnaissance aircraft were seen yesterday over Romania and the Black Sea, a Romanian media has reported

The flights were made by two Boeing E-3 Sentry, Lockheed EP-3E Aries II, Bombardier Challenger 650 ARTEMIS, as well as an RQ-4B Global Hawk drone, according to data.

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🇮🇳 Indian PM proposes joint BRICS space programs

Prime Minister Narendra Modi proposed creating a consortium for space exploration and weather monitoring during the summit of BRICS leaders.

The BRICS countries are working on a common constellation of satellites, he recalled.

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📹 Russian president addresses a message to the 15th BRICS Summit on a fair world order and the bad influence of neo-colonialism.

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BRICS Welcome Any Country With Potential to Contribute to Its Values, Says S. African Minister

In an exclusive interview with Sputnik Africa, Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, South Africa's Minister of Small Business Development, shared her insights on the potential expansion of BRICS and the opportunities it could bring to the African business sector.

"What's important again is no to lose what joins us together as the BRICS," she said. "It's about the developing countries that are coming together in order to look at governance and security matters and other global political issues, whilst we increase trade, also"

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The Ukrainian counteroffensive is "very difficult" Zelensky said at a joint press conference with the Finnish PM

🗣 "We see in which directions we are moving forward, but it is very difficult for us, thousands of mines... but the most important thing is the trend that the military reports to me, which I receive daily. We are moving, but little by little," Zelensky said.

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⚡️ 🚀 India Conquers the Moon: Chandrayaan-3 Makes Succesful Landing on Lunar Surface

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⚡🇮🇳 India lands its descent module on the Moon

Prime Minister Modi, who is in South Africa for the BRICS summit, watched the live broadcast of the historic landing

India has become the first country in the world to successfully land a space vehicle on the south pole of the moon

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🗣 The criminal actions of the Kiev regime will not go unanswered, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said, commenting on today's drone attacks on Russian territory

Moscow does not intend to ignore the role of Western intelligence agencies in these crimes, she said, stressing that the West is passing intelligence information to neo-Nazis to help build drone routes.

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The MiG-29 fighter jet has taken off to escort the Poseidon patrol aircraft of the Norwegian Air Force over the Barents Sea - the Russian MoD

No violations of the state border were allowed, the MoD added.

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The Russian MoD’s latest statements on the Ukrainian crisis:

▪️The Russian Armed Forces carried out offensive actions in the assigned areas of responsibility and improved the tactical situation near Kupyansk. With the support of aviation, artillery fire, and heavy flamethrowers, four attacks by enemy assault groups were repelled. The enemy's losses during the day amounted to up to 170 troops, one tank, five armored fighting vehicles, three pick-up trucks, one US-made M777 artillery system, as well as one D-20 howitzer.

▪️Four Ukrainian attacks were repelled by competent actions of the Russian units, air strikes, and artillery fire during the day in the Zaporozhye region. Up to 80 Ukrainian soldiers, four motor vehicles, Polish-made Krab and German-made Panzerhaubitze 2000 self-propelled artillery systems, one D-30 gun, three US-made M119 howitzer, and one US-made AN/TPQ-48 counter-battery radiation station have been neutralized.

▪️The Russian Army repelled three Ukrainian attacks in the DPR. The enemy suffered losses of up to 180 troops, three armored fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, one Gvozdika and one Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system, and D-30 and D-20 howitzers in this direction over the past 24 hours.

▪️The enemy suffered losses of up to 60 troops, two armored fighting vehicles, two pick-up trucks, and one D-30 howitzer during the day near Krasny Liman.

▪️Russia’s aviation and artillery inflicted damage on clusters of Ukrainian manpower and hardware in South Donetsk The enemy's losses amounted to up to 145 Ukrainian troops killed and wounded, one tank, as well as one American-made M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery system during the day.

▪️Up to 20 Ukrainian troops, three motor vehicles, and one Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer were destroyed by enemy fire in Kherson region.

▪️Operational-Tactical and Army Aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery engaged Ukrainian manpower and hardware in 143 areas during the day. One P-18 radar for detecting and tracking air targets was neutralized near Zaporozhye.

▪️Russian air defenses intercepted one HIMARS MLRS projectile during the day.

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