🇦🇲🇺🇸 Some 85 US troops will train with 175 Armenian soldiers next week as part of the Eagle Partner joint military exercise, the US Army said in a press release

The release detailed that the US soldiers will come from the 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division and Kansas National Guard, while Armenia troops will be from the 12th Peacekeeping Brigade.

Earlier, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the Armenian-US joint military exercises do not contribute to the stabilization of the situation in the region and the strengthening of mutual trust.

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Forces that are interested in sowing hatred and fear between Armenia and Russia are behind the provocation involving the detention of Sputnik Armenia columnist Ashot Gevorgyan, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said

Moscow is concerned about the growing number of pro-Western media structures in Armenia aimed at discrediting Russia, the diplomat said, adding that the tendency to spread "one-sided and negative information about Russia and Russian-Armenian relations" has recently prevailed in the information space of Armenia.

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📹 Russia’s Federal Security Service has foiled a railway sabotage plot in Crimea, which sought to impede military logistics

An intelligence agent working for the Kiev regime from Sevastopol was in the process of preparing the would-be sabotage incident, and a homemade bomb was confiscated from him, the agency said.

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Joe Biden struggles with low job ratings and age-related concerns

US leader Joe Biden faces persistent challenges from his low job ratings across the US, widespread concerns about his age and diminished confidence among Democratic-aligned voters, according to a poll conducted by a US media outlet.

There is no clear leader in a potential rematch between Biden and former President Donald Trump, who leads by a wide margin in the GOP primary.

Nearly half of registered voters (46%) say that any Republican presidential nominee would be a better choice than Biden next year.

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📹 Using drones, Russian reconnaissance officers track down groups of Ukrainian Armed Forces arriving at the front line for rotation.

With special tactics, the Russian Armed Forces have eliminated about 50 Ukrainian fighters in 10 days.

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🇸🇴 Teacher From War-Torn Somalia Shares His Story on International Literacy Day

📚 As the world celebrates Literacy Day, Sputnik Africa presents the inspiring story of a Somali teacher, Rufai Mohamud Hussein, who in an atmosphere of violence and lack of peaceful skies above his head, found the strength not to flee his homeland, but to educate local children and eradicate illiteracy for a better future.

👉 Read on to find out how to dare and dream!

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Blinken’s remarks on success of Kiev's counteroffensive 'fiction', a Zaporozhye official said

🗣 "All this is nothing but fiction. If there is any progress, it is in the theft and laundering of Western money, including that of US taxpayers, which is being thrown into a black hole to keep the regime of [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelensky in power," Rogov said.

He noted that Ukraine has become a gray zone into which billions of dollars are poured and where Western elites are making money.

"The West and the leaders of the gang of drug addicts and Nazis [Ukrainian government] are doing business on the death of the people of the post-Ukrainian space," Rogov added.

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❗️Another Challenger 2 tank was destroyed in the Zaporozhye region, Head of the Zaporozhye Region Yevgeny Balitsky said

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Biden impeachment vote could take place in the middle of September, according to a US lawmaker

Earlier in the week, Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene said a majority of House members support investigating Biden in order to move forward with impeachment proceedings.

🗣 "I think the House will vote in September. And this is all up to [House Speaker] Kevin McCarthy ... but he and I have had several conversations ... I would predict that in the middle of September, we have a vote. I would predict that it passes," Cormer said in an interview with the news broadcaster.

US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said that the information gathered by the Republican Party allows the question of Biden's impeachment to be raised. He said that the family of the US president was involved in a "culture of corruption".

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🛢 Non-oil and gas revenues of the Russian budget in August amounted to 1.82 trillion rubles ($18.6 billion), marking a 56.5% increase compared to the same period last year, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said on Friday.

At the same time, oil and gas revenues of the Russian budget has been significantly outpacing those of the last year since September despite external pressure, the government head added.

The Russian budget has been executed with $2.3 billion (230 billion rubles) surplus in August, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin stressed.

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Russia expects the final G20 document to cover in detail the issue of settlements in national currencies, Dmitry Birichevsky, director of the Department of Economic Cooperation at the Russian Foreign Ministry, told Sputnik.

🗣 “Our representatives are now working on it [the final document], they are already in New Delhi... This year, we expect detailed coverage of the topic of the global monetary and financial system, the issue of settlements in national currencies," Birichevsky said when asked what results Russia expects from the G20 and what it would like to see in the final document.

India has been chairing the G20 since December 1, 2022. The group's summit will be held in New Delhi on September 9-10. The leaders of the G20 countries and nine other states - Bangladesh, Egypt, Spain, Mauritius, Nigeria, the Netherlands, the UAE, Oman and Singapore - have been invited to attend.

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📹 Russia's Su-25 attack destroyed camouflaged fortified field positions and armored vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

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

▪️In the Kupyansk area, the Russian Army has improved the situation along the frontline. Russian forces repelled three attacks by Ukrainian forces, Ukrainian losses amounted to 100 soldiers;

▪️In the Donetsk area, Russian forces repelled 12 attacks by Ukrainian troops and a terrorist defense brigade. Ukrainian losses amounted to 215 soldiers;

▪️In South Donetsk, Ukrainian losses amounted to 190 soldiers;

▪️Near Krasny Liman, the Russian Army repelled two attacks by Ukrainian forces. Ukrainian losses amounted to 60 soldiers;
In the Zaporozhye region, Russian troops repelled five attacks by Ukrainian assault groups;

▪️In the DPR, the Russian forces hit command and observation posts of units of the 63rd Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the 100th Territorial Defense Brigade;

▪️Russian air defense systems intercepted four HIMARS missiles and shot down 31 Ukrainian.

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🗣️ On what Russian defensive lines are truly designed for:

“I think there's a misperception of what the first line of defense is for Russia, because here we are in September, which means now that for three months the Ukrainians have been beating their heads against what? Not the first line of defense, but the forward defensive zone, that is the defensive zone designed to receive an enemy attack… Even if they are successful in breaching the first line of defense, and there's no evidence that they have, there's nothing left. They will burn themselves out before the second line of defense,” Scott Ritter, former US Marine intel officer and UN weapons inspector, told Sputnik.

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Russia marks 80th anniversary of Donbass’ liberation from Nazi occupation

🇷🇺 On this occasion, Vladimir Putin congratulated the residents of the Donetsk People’s Republic and all citizens of Russia.

💭"The example set by the Red Army soldiers who fought in the Great Patriotic War has been carried on by the #Donbass militia guardsmen, who amplified that courage in the ongoing, new battle with Nazism, which began 9 years ago," the president noted.

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Chinese bloggers and opera singer banned from entering Ukraine

After Wang Fan performed the legendary Soviet wartime song "Katyusha" on the ruins of the Mariupol Theater, which had been destroyed by Ukrainian terrorists, the singer and the whole Chinese delegation visiting the city sparked outrage in the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The video in the Mariupol Theater has already gone viral in China: it has several million views.

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