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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🇯🇵 Some 150 Japanese residents file lawsuit to halt Fukushima water release, reports say

The lawsuit, filed with the Fukushima District Court against the Japanese government and the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO), claims that the release of treated water undermines citizens' right to live safely and threatens the operation of local fisheries, a Japanese news agency reported.

The suit claims that the provisions of the 2015 document have been violated, and that the government and TEPCO are obligated to solve the problem of radioactive water accumulation at the plant in another way that does not have a significant negative impact on the environment. The plaintiffs also seek to revoke the approval granted by Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority in May and July of this year to proceed with the water discharge plan.

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God helps those who help themselves: take a look at an underground Orthodox church, built by Russian military personnel in the special military operation zone

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Scott Ritter: Ukrainian counteroffensive’s last, desperate push

Recent Ukrainian attacks in against the villages of Rabotino and Verbovoe will only lead to further attrition of Kiev’s forces, Scott Ritter, former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and UN weapons inspector, told Sputnik's New Rules podcast.

Ukraine is gaining ground in its counteroffensive started in June, claimed NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday, addressing lawmakers at the European Parliament. Does that mean Ukraine has finally achieved a breakthrough after nearly four months and heavy casualties?

🗣"To answer that question, we have to know what the goals and objectives of the current phase of the Ukrainian counteroffensive are," Scott Ritter, a military analyst and former US Marine Corps intelligence officer, told Sputnik.

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🇷🇺SJ-100: the entirely domestically-built Russian airliner

Western sanctions did not stop the development of the Russian aircraft industry. A demonstration of Russia's technological independence is the first flight of the SJ-100 short-haul aircraft, which is an updated version of the Sukhoi Superjet-100, but with Russian-produced components replacing imported ones.

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❗️President Putin arrived in Sarov, the “birthplace” of Russian nuclear weapons

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📹 The work of T-80BV tank crews in the Kupyansk area. Tank crew men in the special operation zone provide fire support to motorized rifle units, ensuring the advance of Russian troops.

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Russia has information on plans to blow up Black Sea gas pipelines

🗣 "Ships patrolling routes of the TurkStream and Blue Stream pipelines, have been under attack... [Russian forces] started patrolling these parts of the Black Sea because we have information that there are plans to blow up the pipelines as Nord Stream has been blown up," Lavrov said at an event in the Russian embassy in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka.

The minister also addressed the demands for Russia to allow grain exports via the Black Sea, saying that the country would not allow transit through the humanitarian corridors which are being used to carry out attacks on Russian ships, both military and civilian.

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Check out the new episode of #AfroVerdict from Sputnik Africa to hear what African journalists propose to promote solidarity to oppose bias and stereotypes!

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❗️The Investigative Committee of Armenia announced the release of blogger Badalyan and Sputnik Armenia columnist Gevorkyan

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🗣️ On the level of corruption in the US:

“What about US corruption? I mean, you see a Congress that frankly is incredibly corrupt. The Congress people are lining their own pockets a lot of times from the defense industry that they're funding through these wars... We've spent, I think the latest calculation I saw, something like $8 trillion on war since 2000. $8 trillion, can you imagine the human needs that could have been satisfied with that money?“ labor attorney, human rights activist and author Daniel Kovalik told Sputnik.

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❗️ Russian air defense system intercepted another Ukrainian aircraft-type drone over Bryansk Region, Governor Alexander Bogomaz said on Friday. While no casualties were documented the incident did prompt structural damages to buildings of the Bryansk I railway station.