❗️Sputnik correspondents were not allowed to attend Macron's press conference on the margins of the G20 summit in New Delhi. Journalists who tried to enter the event were told that the hall was completely full.

Only the French press was allowed into the hall, security officials said. Many Indian and Western journalists were unable to get into the press conference.

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🗣️ On the new reality the US has to come to grips with:

“So I think there's a whole new reality setting in in the West about the impossibility of achieving their goals and objectives, especially if those goals and objectives are prefaced on the requirement for the Ukrainian army to be able to sustain this kind of large scale offensive operations. I think this is it. I think we've hit the high water mark of this conflict in terms of this is as good as it's going to get for the Ukrainians. It will never get any better. They will never have an army that was as capable as the army that they had that they threw into battle when this counteroffensive started. Those troops are gone, never to be replaced. And from here it's just downhill,” Scott Ritter, former US Marine intel officer and UN weapons inspector, told Sputnik.

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❗Russia demands apology from France for not allowing Russian journalists to attend Macron's press conference in New Delhi - Foreign Ministry

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🇻🇳 Vietnam ‘has no interest’ in joining the 'US-orchestrated’ anti-China coalition

Washington is eyeing “swaying Vietnam to its side,” for it believes the US can use Hanoi as “a counterbalance to China’s influence in South East Asia,” Professor Anna Malindog-Uy, vice president of the Manila-based think tank Asian Century Philippines Strategic Studies Institute (ACPh), told Sputnik.

Vietnam is vital to US foreign policy for several political, economic, and geopolitical reasons, the professor underscored. Firstly, the “strategic geographical location” of Vietnam in Southeast Asia is important to the US. Vietnam boasts “close contiguity and nearness to major global shipping lines like the South China Sea, and it has a border with China,” Anna Malindog-Uy stressed.

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🇷🇺📈 Exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Russia have already increased by several percent since the year start, Russian Energy Minister Nikolai Shulginov said in an interview with Sputnik at the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF).

"There are buyers of Russian LNG all over the world. And these are not only our new partners in Southeast Asia, but also European consumers," the official added. He said the current LNG production in Russia is not enough to satisfy all the demand for it on the foreign market, adding that all capacities in Russia are loaded.

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👣 Modi and Scholz barefoot and Biden in white slippers: G20 summit attendees at Mahatma Gandhi memorial ceremony

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🇺🇸US casts doubt on tank supplies to Ukraine as Russia wipes out the West's armor - report

The Russian military has destroyed so many Western armored vehicles during the special military operation that the United States and Europe have begun to question their effectiveness, a US magazine reported.As the authors of the publication note, the Russian army has successfully turned Western armor into smoldering junk, as it happens, with its domestic Kornet-model anti-tank units.

According to the journalists, the US has long been wary of sending M1A1 Abrams to Ukraine because it was afraid of massive losses of these vehicles on the battlefield, which could make the US military-industrial complex lose face, thereby soiling its much-hyped image. The Ukrainian Armed Forces has already lost a number of German Leopard 2A6s and British Challenger 2 tanks, although experts say they are more likely to endure combat than their US counterparts.

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🇹🇷 Erdogan warns that any grain route plans leaving out Russia are bound to fail

Ankara is placing enormous importance on ensuring food security in Africa, but any alternatives to the grain deal that exclude Russia's participation are bound to fail, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan cautioned on Sunday.

Erdogan also noted that Turkiye and Qatar were placing great significance on grain supplies to Africa, where food scarcity has had a serious impact.

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🇮🇩Indonesia's president calls for the world to end the global 'dichotomy'

The president of Indonesia, which hosted last year's G20 Bali summit, has been reiterating calls for emerging economies of the Global South to strive for collaboration and inclusivity.
The world must stop dividing countries into "developed and developing," Indonesian President Joko Widodo stated at the G20 summit in New Delhi, as he urged for more “equal and inclusive cooperation.”

“We need to put an end to the dichotomy that divides the world into north and south, developed and developing countries, east and west,” Widodo said in a statement delivered by the Press, Media, and Information Bureau of the Presidential Secretariat on Sunday.

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🇷🇺 Incumbent Mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin has been re-elected in the regional elections

Russians are electing top officials in 21 constituent entities of the Russian Federation, as well as additional elections of State Duma deputies for four vacant seats in single-mandate constituencies.

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🌍 These BRICS Countries Could Benefit from African Union Membership in G20, Expert Assumes

The admission of the African Union to the G20 could also benefit some of the BRICS countries, offering them opportunities for strong economic development in Africa in the coming years, Binod Singh, the director of the BRICS Institute in New Delhi, told Sputnik.

🗣 "China is helping them [African countries] with infrastructure, India is helping them with education, Russia is helping them with engineering. Russia, China and India are important for them. Today, Africa is making great progress. China, India and Russia will grow a little slower. Africa's growth will be between 6 and 7% a year, which opens up great opportunities for us," the Indian expert explained.

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🇺🇸🇸🇾 US forces in Syria reportedly smuggled a combined 95 tankers’ worth of crude oil out of the country using two different convoys over the weekend.

Sources in the al-Yaroubia countryside in al-Hasakah province told local media Sunday that 40 tankers of crude oil were shipped to Iraq from the al-Jazeera oil fields using the illegal Mahmoudiya border crossing.

The sources also said that a separate convoy of 55 oil tankers, also from the al-Jazeera fields, was smuggled through the same crossing within the same 24-hour window.

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❗️ The plans of Washington and Brussels have once again failed, and for the first time elections were held in the new constituent entities of Russia in accordance with the law, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin has said.

The high turnout showed the desire of residents from the Donetsk, Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions to influence the future development of their region and our united country, Volodin added.

🇺🇸🇻🇳 "Good evening, Vietnam!" Joe Biden at Hanoi press conference mistook Robin Williams' anti-war movie for a song.

"Good evening, everyone. It is evening, isn't it? This around the world in five days is interesting. Well, one of my staff members said, 'Remember the famous song, Good Morning, Vietnam?' Well, good evening, Vietnam," said Biden.

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🇷🇺🇵🇭 Cebu City, the capital of the Philippine resort island of Cebu and a sister city of Russia's Vladivostok, is set to create a tourism exchange program between the two destinations, Cebu City Mayor Mike Rama told Sputnik.

"We will be definitely putting up a program that will exchange Cebu City tourists, [and they will come] to Vladivostok," Rama said on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) in Vladivostok.

The official added that he is accompanied at the forum by the chairwoman of the Cebu City tourism commission, Joy Pesquera, who is "bringing Vladivostok, Russia, to Cebu City."

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The two-day meeting of G20 leaders wrapped up in New Delhi on Sunday, with Western powers failing to “Ukrainianize” the agenda, and a number of pledges made aimed at increasing the Global South’s voice in world affairs. Sputnik reached out to international affairs experts to get a sense of the summit’s impact on the shifting world order.

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Predictions about tank warfare being a relic of the 20th century have turned out dead wrong, with Russia and NATO deploying hundreds of main battle tanks and thousands of other armored vehicles in Ukraine. Former Pentagon officer David T. Pyne shares his assessment of Russian tank forces’ capabilities against those of the Western alliance.

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❗️ At about 1.20 Moscow time, Kiev's attempt to attack targets in Russia with drones was foiled, two drones were destroyed over the Belgorod region, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

There were no casualties as a result of the destruction of the AFU UAV, parts of one of them fell on the roadway near a private house, said the governor of the region Vyacheslav Gladkov.

💸 The process of dedollarization on a global scale will be neither a fast nor an easy one, but it is definitely possible in the future, Carlos Tabunda, dean of the Faculty of International Relations at New Era University (Philippines), told Sputnik on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF).

Many countries remain tightly linked to the American greenback, said the Philippine expert, which explains why the dedollarization process is still a “big challenge”.

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🇫🇷🇳🇪 France does not recognize Niger's rebel authorities and, therefore, will agree to withdraw its troops from the country only if requested to do so by ousted Nigerien President Mohamed Bazoum, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday.

"French troops were deployed on the territory of Niger at the request of Niger itself ... France's position is simple: we condemn it [the military takeover], we demand the release of President Bazoum and the restoration of constitutional order, and we do not recognize the legitimacy of the rebels' statements ... And if we ever redeploy troops, we will do so at the request of President Bazoum," Macron said at the G20 Summit in New Delhi.

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