📹 Russian MT-12 Rapira guns batter Ukrainian positions

The MT-12 is a classic Soviet anti-tank gun, still very effective as a light artillery piece, given that it has a relatively large 100mm caliber for its weight.

The guns primarily use an OF15 high-explosive shell, weighing almost 30 kg, with 16.7 kg of explosive filler inside. They can be fired at ranges up to 8.2 kilometers, causing massive damage to both enemy infantry and defensive structures.

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India's #Kakrapar Nuclear Plant Reaches Full Capacity with Indigenous Developed Reactor

🇮🇳 The 700 MW reactor, which utilizes heavy water, was commissioned in June and initially operated at 90% capacity. Additionally, another reactor at the same plant is nearing completion and is expected to be operational by 2024.

🔋 These new additions will greatly enhance Kakrapar's power output, surpassing its previous two 220 MW reactors. The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) is also actively pursuing similar projects in Rajasthan, Haryana, and other states.

▪Presently, India's nuclear power plants collectively have a total capacity of 6,780 MW, with plans to expand it to 16,700 MW as outlined by the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB).

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💰 Russia has no desire to "kill" the dollar; it is the US that has abandoned its position which was previously acceptable to everyone, Russia’s FM Sergey Lavrov says.

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📹 WATCH Russian forces wipe out Ukrainian tank

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🇪🇺 Stagflation threat looms over Eurozone amid dismal growth & stubborn inflation

Despite the aggressive monetary policy of the European Central Bank aimed at curbing inflation, the consumer price inflation rate in the Euro area was at 5.3% in July 2023, revealed the ECB. In fact, inflation has remained above the ECB’s target of 2% for around 26 consecutive months. In none of the Eurozone’s 20 member countries has it reached that level yet

The largest contributor, yet again, has been food inflation, rising 9.8% from a year earlier on average. Energy costs soared 3.2% in August from the previous month.

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🇷🇺🇹🇷 Putin and Erdogan to hold talks in Sochi on September 4, Kremlin spokesman Peskov confirms

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🇷🇺 Russia’s Sarmat strategic missile system was put on combat duty, Yuriy Borisov, the head of the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos, stated

The RS-28 Sarmat is Russia’s next-generation silo-based, three-stage, liquid-fueled, multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle (MIRV)-equipped ICBM. The missile has an operational range of up to 18,000 km, enough to target almost any spot on Earth, and can reportedly be equipped with 10–15 warheads, up to two dozen Avangard hypersonic glide vehicles, or a combination of warheads and countermeasures, including dummy warheads to distract and fool enemy missile defenses.

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What are CSTO 'Combat Brotherhood-2023' Drills?

The joint Combat Brotherhood-2023 drills are taking place in Belarus from September 1–6. Earlier, the Ministry of Defense of Belarus announced that members of the Armed Forces of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Russia had already arrived in the country.

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💬 ‘The West is obsessed with containing and defeating Russia’

🇷🇺 Russia’s FM Sergey Lavrov rips into Zelensky’s 10-point “peace formula”

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🪖 Ukraine shells Donetsk 90 times amid start of academic year in Russia

The city has been under constant fire since early morning, with at least four people injured in the Kievsky district, a Sputnik correspondent has reported.

Ukrainian forces shelled the city of Donetsk at least 90 times, mostly using NATO-supplied 155 mm artillery rounds, as well as MLRS rockets (conventional and incendiary), and three cluster bombs.

One of the shells hit the Donetsk City shopping mall, killing a six-year-old girl and injuring more than 10 people.

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🗣️ On the reasons Russia is fighting with the West:

“It is not against the West as such we are fighting. We are fighting against the pretension of the West to be universal, to be the measure of things, we are fighting against the refusal of the West to consider that Russian culture, Russian political system, Russian society can be built on totally different principles. So the West doesn't accept any alternative to its principles. And when the West still follows this line of kind of behavior, we have no chance to stop the war,” Alexander Dugin (@Dugin_Aleksandr), one of the world’s most famous political philosophers, told Sputnik.

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🇺🇸 Biden dragged US into proxy war with Russia that Moscow 'is winning,' Marjorie Taylor Greene says

The intelligence community was blatantly “lying” to Americans, claiming that Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, wants to “take over Europe,” the Republican politician said.

💬 “Energy bills are going up, your groceries are going up… inflation is hurting you. You're watching your retirement money shrink to nothing because inflation's going up.” Pointing out that the US federal government was mired in debt "worth $32 trillion," she queried: “Are we going to end up in another war?”

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

▪️The tensest situation during the week was in the Zaporozhye and Donetsk directions

▪️In the Zaporozhye direction, Russian forces thwarted 44 attacks on Russian positions, eliminating more than 960 people. In addition, Ukrainian forces are transferring one of the last formations of the strategic reserve, the 71st Jaeager Brigade

▪️In the Donetsk direction, attempts by Ukrainian troops break through Russian defenses failed, with 36 attacks repelled, and 2,385 Ukrainian servicemen eliminated

▪️In the South Donetsk direction, the Russian Army thwarted Ukrainian offensive plans, destroying up to 1,025 Ukrainian servicemen

▪️In the Kupyansk direction, Russian tactical positions were improved by taking over Ukrainian strongholds and key heights, eliminating up to 470 Ukrainian servicemen

▪️In the Krasny Liman direction, Russia forces thwarted 14 Ukrainian attacks, eliminating up to 540 Ukrainian servicemen

▪️In the Kherson direction, the Russian Army’s main efforts were concentrated on hitting Ukrainian manpower, eliminating up to 230 Ukrainian servicemen. According to the testimony of prisoners, most of the Ukrainian servicemen refuse the mission of forcing the Dnepr River, fearing death from Russian fire

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⚡️Putin said that he will soon have a meeting with Xi Jinping. The topic of discussion will include humanitarian contacts.

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🇷🇺🇹🇷 Shoigu met in Moscow with the Turkish Foreign Minister, said that the grain deal was stopped through no fault of Russia.

The defense minister also noted that Moscow intends to continue to cooperate Ankara on Syria.

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