🗣️ On the change of US narrative towards China:

“What's funny for me this time is that last year was "China's the great threat to the world, taking over the world!" Suddenly the narrative changed. "China's in collapse!" And as soon as the narrative changed, every columnist... who has never been to China, started writing articles about the Chinese collapse and the Chinese failure and the end of the Chinese economy. It's all nonsense, basically. It's just nonsense,” Jeffrey Sachs, a Columbia University economist, told Sputnik.

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❗️The Soyuz MS-24 cosmonauts have already put on their spacesuits and left for the spaceship.

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What is the current Ukrainian government and what do they want?

💬 The Kiev regime, specifically Zelensky is a puppet regime of criminals that are employed and paid money by the CIA, by the British MI6, former State Department counterterrorism analyst, Scott Bennet, says.

And videos like the ones Cirillo records could be produced somewhere in Florida, Bennett says.

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

▪️In the Kupyansk direction, the Russian Army destroyed up to 20 military personnel and two self-propelled guns of the Ukrainian Armed Forces;

▪️In the Zaporozhye region, Russian forces repelled two attacks by Ukrainian troops in the area of Rabotino. Ukrainian losses amounted to 145 soldiers;

▪️In the Donetsk direction, the Russian Army repelled four attacks by Ukrainian forces near Kleshcheevka and Mayorsk. Ukrainian losses amounted to 275 soldiers, four armored fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, three US-made M777 howitzers, as well as one Gvozdika howitzer;

▪️In the Kherson direction, Russian forces destroyed up to 75 military personnel and two Akatsiya self-propelled guns of the Ukrainian Armed Forces;

▪️In South Donetsk, Ukrainian losses amounted to 175 soldiers, two armored fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, two D-30 howitzers, and one D-20 gun;

▪️Near Krasny Liman, the Russian Army repelled two attacks by Ukrainian troops. Ukrainian losses amounted to 55 soldiers, one tank, two armored fighting vehicles, and one D-20 gun;

▪️Russian forces discovered and destroyed two unmanned boats of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the southwestern part of the Black Sea.

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❗️A drone was shot down by electronic warfare equipment in the Livensky district of Russia's Oryol region, there was no damage or casualties, the governor said

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Modern Warfare

Cooperation between artillery crews and UAV pilots poses great danger to the fighters of the Ukrainian Armed Forces

Russian artillerymen destroyed assault groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the zone of the special military operation.

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📌 WATCH LIVE: Launch of the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome

🇩🇪 Bundestag member Dagdelen urges Germany to lift sanctions against Russia

🗣 "It is high time we put an end to the self-destructive sanctions which do not hit Russia rather than boomerang on Germany, devastating citizens and companies," Dagdelen said in social media on Thursday.

The consequences of the "economic war," which Berlin has been waging against Moscow, are deteriorating the situation in Germany, resulting in an increased number of bankruptcies. Around one in 10 companies in the food service industry is at risk of going bankrupt.

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🇨🇳 China has decided to impose sanctions against the US-based Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin defense technology companies over an alleged arms supply to Taiwan, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning said on Friday.

🗣 "Lockheed Martin Corporation, St. Louis, MO directly participated in the US arms sale to Taiwan announced on August 24 as the principal contractor. Northrop Grumman participated in several US arms sales to Taiwan. In accordance with the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law of the People’s Republic of China, China decides to impose sanctions on these two above-mentioned US defense corporations," the spokeswoman told a briefing, adding that Beijing calls on the United States to respect China's sovereignty and stop arms sales to Taiwan so as not to provoke "China's resolute response."

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🚀 The Soyuz-2.1, a rocket with the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft, launched into space from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to the ISS. It included two Russians and an American.

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Trump says ready to testify under Oath he didn't order Mar-a-Lago security tapes deleted

"Sure, I’m going to — I’ll testify," Trump told an American news agency in an interview.

He further insisted that the tapes were not deleted, highlighting that he voluntarily shared them with investigators even though they are his property.

"In other words, there was nothing done to them. And they were my tapes. I could have fought them. I didn’t even have to give them the tapes, I don’t think," Trump stated.

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‘Upyr’: advanced Russian drone wreaks havoc on Ukrainian army across frontline

Moscow is intensively using various modifications of drones in the special military operation zone in Ukraine, amid Kiev’s futile efforts to break through the Russian army’s defensive lines.

The Russian military has started launching the first-person view (FPV) drone Upyr (loosely translated into English as “vampire”) in the Donetsk area of the front line.

Where has this unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) already been used and what about its efficiency?

Sputnik runs a check to find out.

In honor of International Democracy Day, #AfroVerdict features two political experts to explain Africa's take on the myth of the West's one and only "true" form of neoliberal democracy.

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📌 WATCH LIVE: Approaching, docking and opening of the hatch of the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft on the International Space Station

❗️Three European countries prolonged a ban on Ukrainian grain imports

🇵🇱 Poland will introduce a ban on the import of Ukrainian grain from midnight, despite the European Commission’s refusal to extend the embargo, the prime minister said

🇭🇺 Hungary's government announced on Friday it would maintain restrictions on Ukrainian grain, defying a decision by the European Commission to end the import ban.

🇸🇰 Slovakia will unilaterally extend the ban on the import of Ukrainian grain from Ukraine, Slovak broadcaster Markiza reported on Friday, citing the Slovak Agriculture Ministry.

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Europe snubs Ukraine's demand to extradite draft dodgers

Ukrainian officials believe that tens of thousands of "draft dodgers" have fled to Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Germany and other European countries to obtain refugee status there.

The nation's law enforcement agencies have been reportedly instructed this month to request the extradition of men of military age who earlier sneaked out of the country in order to prosecute them, as per the Ukrainian press. Avoiding connoscription is a criminal offense in Ukraine, which could be punished by prison time from three to five years.

What is Europe's response?

Check out Sputnik's article to find out