🗣️ On Russia’s pivot to the east:

“What people need to understand here is that Russia is not looking to the West anymore. They don't need the West… Russia is looking to the east, they're looking to the Global South, that the West has pretty much lost every attempt to try to from Russia, where Russia has tried to cooperate with the West time and time again. And they realized through these sanctions and through this economic development, in spite of them, that they really don't need them,” Fiorella Isabel, journalist, told Sputnik.

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❗Russian air defenses down Ukrainian UAV over Belgorod region and two drones over Bryansk region

🇮🇳 🇷🇺 The developing countries appreciate Russia's security concerns vis-a-vis the expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), former Indian envoy Anil Trigunayat told Sputnik India.

🌾 Russia's strengths in maintaining a stable food, fertilizer and energy global supply chains was very useful for the developing nations, Indian Navy veteran Seshadri Vasan noted.

🗯 "Russia, in turn, requires the support of Global South in forging a new global narrative," Vasan added.

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📹 Soldiers of the Dnepr Battlegroup destroyed an American-made M777 howitzer with loitering ammunition

The enemy's camouflaged firing position was revealed with the help of drone operators and destroyed along with the crew.

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🔺 Russia and North Korea will cooperate in space and military spheres, standing together against "imperialism" – Kremlin
🔺Top Republican directs US House committee to open Biden impeachment inquiry
🔺All thirty-one NATO countries plus Sweden are reportedly gearing up to conduct the bloc's biggest military drills since the Cold War in early 2024

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❗Russian air defense systems have thwarted multiple drone attacks over the Bryansk Region overnight Thursday, the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed

Russia has increased missile, tank and ammunition production, overcoming sanctions and Western export controls, an American newspaper has reported

Before the start of the special military op in Ukraine, Russia produced 100 tanks per year. This year, it has already made 200. In terms of ammunition, it is capable of producing two million artillery shells per year, according to the newspaper, citing a high-ranking representative of one of the Western Ministries of Defense.

Chancellor of the Estonian Ministry of Defense Kusti Salm noted that the current production of ammunition in Russia is seven times higher than production in the West.

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🗣 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the end of the world order that emerged as a result of the Cold War

Decades of relative geopolitical stability have given way to “intensified competition with authoritarian and revisionist powers, he said.

He called Russia's actions in Ukraine "the most acute and pressing threat to the international order."

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'Somebody has to do It': why volunteers fight In Artemovsk (Bakhmut)

Battles raging around-the-clock – the enemy never stops trying to pincer the city, trying to seize the dominant heights, while the volunteer formations are holding the southern flank. Why deputies, children of wealthy parents and other ordinary people decided to go to the front - read in Sputnik's material.

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🇮🇳 🇷🇺 Russian Minister Unveils India’s Bid to Mutually Build Non-Nuclear Icebreakers

🗯 "This is a continuation of the work that we began in March of this year. At my invitation, the Minister of Ports and Shipping of India came to the Russian Federation. This is his first time in Russia. India is interested in training personnel in Arctic navigation. We made a proposal for the joint creation of non-nuclear icebreakers on Indian shipyards. We are studying this proposal," Minister for Development of the Russian Far East Alexey Chekunkov stated.

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The Ukrainian Armed Forces tried to attack the Sergey Kotov, a patrol ship of the Black Sea Fleet, with five uncrewed boats in the Black Sea on 14 September, around 05:00 Moscow time (02:00 GMT)

The ship's standard weapons fired back and destroyed all 5 enemy uncrewed boats.

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Dedollarization is happening at a steady rate within BRICS and in the global economy, although more work needs to be done to accelerate the process, Michael Goddard, the president of the Netley Group, told Sputnik

"The harder part" in efforts to replace the dollar lies in the reserve aspect of the currency, the Netley Group president noted. For instance, the United States' big advantage at the moment is the breadth of its bond market, Goddard explained.

"One of the ways, I think, BRICS could develop something to compete with that would be the technology to actually link the BRICS bond markets," the entrepreneur added.

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📹 Russia’s Uragan MLRS crews continue eliminating (1:04) (1:08) enemy personell and armored vehicles in southern Donetsk

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📹 Russian Northern Fleet's Arctic exercises

Fleet personnel trained to fire anti-submarine weapons, missiles and artillery, performed anti-terrorist drills, as well as their standard activities.

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Asian businesses could be able to fill the void left by Western companies in Russia's market since the interest of this region in Russia is big, Michael Goddard, the president of the Netley Group, told Sputnik

The entrepreneur also expressed hope that Russia and its partners in Asia would find new ways to facilitate investment flows.

"There will be very soon new ways to move capital in and out of Russia or in and out of anywhere. I believe a lot of that will come to the digital ruble, digital yuan that will enable people to move money. Plus, there will be an analogue of SWIFT which they are already working on. And between all of these things, they will be able to move money in and out of Russia," Goddard added.

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📹🙃 European Commissioner Ylva Johansson preferred to knit rather than listen to EC President Ursula von der Leyen's speech on the state of the EU yesterday

The leader of the French Patriots party, Florian Philippot, published this footage on social networks, noting that von der Leyen's speech was "unbearable".

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76-year-old Republican Senator Mitt Romney has called on US President Joe Biden to join him in retirement and annul his bid for re-election next year

Referring to POTUS’ promise made during his election campaign in 2020, Romney told reporters that “President Biden, when he was running, said he was a transitional figure to the next generation. Well, time to transition.”

The senator also said that he thinks “it would be a great thing if President Biden […] was to stand aside” and let his party “pick someone in the next generation.”

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🤯 Ukrainians disqualified the contestants of Miss Ukraine beauty pageant for their ties to Russia

Among the contestants were several girls who worked and lived in Russia. For example, one of the contestants used to live in Moscow and moved to Dubai last year, but keeps in touch with Russian models and speaks Russian. After the publication of the models' data, Ukrainians demanded the cancellation of the contest.

In light of of the scandal, the organizers of Miss Ukraine decided to establish a special commission to identify ties with Russia.

On Wednesday, September 13, three contestants were eliminated from the competition and two more quit on their own initiative.

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📹 Russia's multipurpose attack helicopters continue to wipe out Ukrainian strongholds and hardware

The main strike force of the joint task groups are Ka-52 "Alligator" and Mi-28 "Night Hunter" helicopters. Such groups are closely followed by Mi-35 helicopters. These helicopters launch unguided missiles at enemy targets and provide cover for attack helicopters.

Mi-8 transport and attack helicopters with a fire support group on board also join such groups. The tasks of the latter are evacuation of crew members, on-board documentation and equipment of attack helicopters in case of emergency.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 The Congress of Russian Americans (CRA) has fought Russophobia throughout its 50-year existence by opposing closures of parks and demolition of monuments linked to Russian heritage

Most recently, Aleuts in Sitka, Alaska, wanted to completely remove the Baranov statue - representing Alexander Baranov, who governed the territories of Russian America from 1799-1819. CRA President Natalie Sabelnik expressed concern with that demand to destroy the statue as a Russophobic act.

The CRA president emphasized that Russophobia remains a part of life in the United States just as intolerance against other minorities - African, Asian or Jewish Americans - also exists. "Yes, a lot of progress has been made, but it still prevails in the United States. It is still something that I am not sure will ever go away," she said.

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