❗️ Key points of Vladimir Putin’s speech on state of Russian economy:

▪️Oil and gas revenues of the Russian budget in July-August recovered to last year's level, and active growth continues

▪️Russia's GDP has reached the 2021 level, and its growth is expected to be 2.5-2.8% by the end of the year

▪️One of the major challenges related to Russia’s economy is accelerated inflation

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🇮🇷🇺🇸 Qatari plane carrying US prisoners released as part of a prisoner swap with Iran has left Tehran airport, Iranian media reports

Two of the five Iranians released as part of the prisoner swap with the US are already in Doha, the report said.

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🇷🇺📹 WATCH Russian Grad MLRS eliminate concentrations of Ukrainian troops during special op

During aerial reconnaissance, areas with large concentrations of Ukrainian troops were identified and this information was transmitted to the artillery command center of the Tula airborne troops, the MoD said.

After receiving the coordinates, the Grad MLRS immediately moved to the area and attacked the enemy with 122 mm unguided rocket launchers.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷 The White House has confirmed that Iran has released US citizens as part of a prisoner swap and they are now on a plane.

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📹 The moment of departure of exchanged American prisoners from Iran.

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💬 "The way New Delhi and Moscow have supported each other in recent months, it will be beneficial for both countries in the long run to hold a stable mode of trade flow," Arpit Chandna, an expert in crude commodities.

🇮🇳 🇷🇺 The petroleum specialist noted that so far both governments have managed to shrug off Western restrictions and having a direct mode of transport should further curtail the effect of Western actions.

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❗️Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia decide to boycott the coordination platform for Ukrainian grain in Brussels due to Kiev’s threat to appeal to the WTO - reports

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❗️LIVE NOW: Lavrov meets with Chinese Minister of Foreign Affaires Wang Yi

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📹 Check out this amazing footage! Witness the Russian UR-77 Meteorit in action.

▪The UR-77 is armed with two charges, each stretching a staggering 96 meters and packed with over a ton of explosives.

▪Its capabilities go beyond just clearing minefields – the Meteorit can also strike enemy strongholds with precision. Prepare to be captivated by the power and effectiveness of the UR-77 Meteorit.

Stay tuned for more astounding updates! 💥🚀

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❗️Ukraine files lawsuits against Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia in WTO over their import ban of Ukrainian products, according to the Economy Ministry.

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💸 After plundering one of the world's poorest countries, Clintons look to cash in on ‘aid’ for Ukraine

The Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) has announced plans to launch a ‘Ukraine Action Network’, ostensibly to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to Ukrainians amid the West’s ongoing proxy war against Russia in the troubled Eastern European country.

The Ukraine Action Network is expected to help “mobilize existing CGI partners, as well as new leaders from around the world, to create and finance new commitments for Ukrainians.” The details of the program, including which “Ukrainians” specifically are expected to benefit, have yet to be elaborated.

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📹 Lethal combination: Russian mortar crews destroyed Ukrainian strongholds near Krasny Liman while UAV teams guided the strikes and helped assess the results.

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💵👀 Ukraine searches for cash as fighting drains coffers, foreign aid drops, creditors close in

Kiev faces a staggering budget deficit of over $40 billion+ in 2024, and has been informed of the fact that a failure to cough up the cash will cripple the military.

“If the government cannot cover its budgetary gaps, then the government will not be able to finance its military effort,” a Kiev-based brokerage firm researcher whose company is consulting authorities on ways to raise money told US business media on Monday.

The brokerage has proposed a novel idea: selling Ukrainian government bonds to foreigners to help account for at least some of the budgetary shortfall.

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🗣️ On the UAW strike and the working-class people of America being fed up with low wages:

“Look, if an inflation happens again, and let's remember last month, that is the month of August 2023, the inflation, which everyone said was going down, surprised everyone and went up. We're pushing 3.5% to 4% in inflation now. Well, what good is a wage increase of, say, 5% a year if the prices of everything are going up 4% this year, maybe five or six next year? Before you know it, the life of a contract of three or four years will leave workers behind at the end of that contract, where they are now. Their wages will not have gone up as much as prices. So what this union is saying 'We have every right to protect ourselves against inflation,” Richard Wolff, economy professor, told Sputnik.

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