🎉 Historic moment: Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE join BRICS

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🇮🇳 PM Modi welcomes #BRICS expansion

🗯 "India has always believed the inclusion of new members will contribute further to BRICS as an organization and give our new efforts a fresh dynamic."

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🗺 Today’s map of BRICS countries now looks like this: current members of the club are highlighted in blue, while new members are highlighted in orange

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❗️Key takeaways from the XV BRICS Summit declaration:

▪️The BRICS leaders support a comprehensive reform of the UN, including its Security Council, with a view to making it more democratic, representative, effective and efficient

▪️The representation of developing countries in the UN Council should be increased

▪️BRICS stress the importance of encouraging the use of local currencies in international trade and financial transactions between BRICS as well as their trading partners

▪️Brazil, India, China and South Africa extend their full support to Russia for its BRICS Chairship in 2024 and the holding of the XVI BRICS Summit in the city of Kazan, Russia

▪️The bloc calls for the need to make progress towards the achievement of a fair and market-oriented agricultural trading system, ending hunger, achieving food security and improved nutrition

▪️The leaders tasked Foreign Ministers to further develop the BRICS partner country model and a list of prospective partner countries and report by the next Summit

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❗️Vladimir Putin’s remarks at BRICS summit:

▪️BRICS not competing with anyone and not opposing itself to anyone

▪️The bloc has opponents — countries of 'golden billion' — trying to replace system of international law based on their own selfish rules

▪️BRICS stands for world order that would be truly balanced and take into account interests of many countries, preserving diversity of peoples

▪️Russia generally interested in strengthening ties with African continent, will implement projects in various fields

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📹 Vladimir Putin speaks about BRICS expansion at briefing

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🇯🇵 Protesters rally outside the Fukushima nuclear plant's operator TEPCO as Japan starts releasing wastewater into the Pacific Ocean

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❗️Russian Armed Forces hit Ukrainian military HQ in precision nighttime strike: goal achieved, object hit, MoD says

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❗️LIVE HAS ENDED: Sergey Lavrov talks to media at BRICS Summit in South Africa

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📸 Say cheese! World leaders pose for ‘family photo’ at BRICS summit

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Fun’s over! Lavrov reveals that all BRICS members favor keeping the BRICS brand name after enlarging the club.

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🇳🇴 Norway to provide F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine

The report comes from Norwegian broadcaster TV2, which claims several separate sources have confirmed the decision by the government.

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🇷🇺 Key points of Sergey Lavrov’s press conference at BRICS Summit:

▪️BRICS differs from the G7 in its approach to work, because Washington alone determines the entire strategy there, and others already complement it, here we reach consensus, and do not follow the commands of the head

▪️Consensus agreements are always more effective and durable.

▪️Before the opening of the summit, the Western media treated it like the opening of an "economic club." Well, there is some truth in this, we are able to influence the economy and logistics of the whole world. But to call us that is still to belittle the influence of our union.

▪️The BRICS countries supported the idea of the South African leader to create a commission for space exploration.

▪️The new world centers are no longer ready to live at the behest of the West, which is unable to abandon its colonial habits.

▪️Russia does not see any signs that the West is ready to fulfill its obligations so that we can return to the "grain deal" — there are only words so far.

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📹 Prigozhin jet crash: What we know so far

Footage from the crash site and the first eyewitness testimonies in this Sputnik explainer.

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🗣️ On BRICS creating new global world order:

“And this is what BRICS diplomats, sometimes they look at the challenges ahead and say, 'Can we pull this off? It's so complicated, so complex.... if you have them all interacting closer and closer, then they will be able to address the challenges, but in an atmosphere of cooperation and mutual respect and respect of each other's sovereignty, which is the absolute opposite of the rules-based international order,”Pepe Escobar, a geopolitical analyst and writer, told Sputnik.

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❗️Germany supplies Ukraine with Patriot missiles for first time

The new military aid package also includes:

▪️10 drone detection systems

▪️40 RQ-35 Heidrun reconnaissance drones

▪️510,000 rounds of ammunition for fire arms

▪️16 Zetros trucks

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

▪️Russian forces have destroyed over 6,000 Ukrainian UAVs since the start of the special military op

▪️An attack by a Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group was foiled in the Kherson area

▪️Russian troops repelled a Ukrainian attack in the Zaporozhye region

▪️The Russian Army repelled five enemy attacks in the Kupyansk direction, eliminating up to 50 Ukrainian servicemen

▪️Ukrainian forces lost up to 230 servicemen in the South Donetsk direction, as well as two armored personnel carriers, three cars, and two Gvozdika howitzers

▪️Russian forces successfully repelled six Ukrainian attacks in the Donetsk direction, eliminating up to 125 Ukrainian servicemen

▪️Ukrainian troops lost up to 80 servicemen in the Krasny Liman direction

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

▪️Five Ukrainian attacks were repelled in the Zaporozhye region

▪️Russian forces destroyed a Ukrainian control center, radar station, and two S-300PS launchers in the Nikolaev region

▪️Ukrainian forces lost more than 110 servicemen in the Zaporozhye direction, as well as four tanks, a Krab self-propelled howitzer, and four M777 artillery systems

▪️Russian troops destroyed four Ukrainian ammunition depots in the Kherson, Kharkov, and Dnepropetrovsk regions and in the DPR

▪️Russian air defenses intercepted four HIMARS missiles and shot down 42 Ukrainian drones

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💬 ‘Every small country in the world now has a choice they did not have before’

Richard D. Wolff, professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, explains that de-dollarization is about providing more countries with financial opportunities

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