❗️The Russian Foreign Ministry called on the conflicting parties in Karabakh to immediately stop the bloodshed, stop hostilities and exclude civilian casualties.

During these hours, Russian peacekeepers provide assistance to the civilian population of Karabakh, including medical assistance, and are engaged in evacuation, the Foreign Ministry added.

🇺🇸 US Congressman Matt Gaetz said on Tuesday that he has drafted a subpoena for President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, and urged House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy to end the months of inaction by signing the document.

"After eight months of inaction, I have taken the liberty of drafting a subpoena to Hunter Biden. It simply requires your date and signature. Millions of Americans are wondering if you're serious," Gaetz said via the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter).

The subpoena requests that Hunter Biden turn over any and all records of contracts, agreements, financial agreements and communications with his father between 2008 and the present as well as all communications pertaining to his contacts with foreign and domestic business partners.

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🇺🇸 US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has postponed a vote on a stopgap spending bill amid his attempts to appease a small but powerful right-wing faction of the Republican Party as a government shutdown looms.

The procedural vote originally scheduled for Tuesday afternoon would have approved a 30-day government funding bill, moving it to the Senate and opening the door for wider talks. Some sort of funding bill must be passed by September 26 to avert a shutdown on September 30, but in lieu of agreement on larger appropriations bills, lawmakers have focused on passing a short-term funding bill to give them more time to negotiate.

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🇺🇳 UN chief Antonio Guterres said he will appoint a new panel on artificial intelligence, which will be tasked with delivering recommendations on addressing the new technology by the end of the year.

"Now AI is on everyone’s lips - a subject of both awe, and fear. Even some of those who developed generative AI are calling for greater regulation," Guterres said during remarks to the General Assembly. "To help advance the search for concrete governance solutions, I will appoint this month a High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence - which will provide recommendations by the end of this year."

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A retired Bundeswehr colonel and military expert has dismantled the outright lies and half-truths he says are being told in Western media about the “success” of Kiev’s counteroffensive.

“We mustn’t forget one thing: that despite all the reports about successes that we keep hearing [from the Ukrainian side], what’s being talked about are tactical battles, local successes, we’re talking about two, three or even five kilometers of advance, which then at some point again go back to Russia’s control,” Colonel (ret.) Wolfgang Richter said in an interview with German media.

Furthermore, Richter expects the intensity of hostilities to drop dramatically as weather conditions worsen a month to a month-and-a-half from now. Accordingly, the retired officer predicts that it will be next to impossible for Ukraine to achieve a breakthrough.

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📊 The #SputnikInfographic illustrates the precipitous rise of the US national debt, which reached over $33 trillion on Monday.

This level is 84 times higher than a century ago when adjusted for inflation, and the debt's growth has been marked by fluctuations, often linked to US wars and economic crises, before the 21st century.

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🇯🇵 Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications issued a report confirming an aging population as an ongoing concern in the world’s third-largest economy.

The report, released as Japan celebrates its Respect for the Aged Day, placed the number of people in Japan over 80 at nearly 12.6 million among a population of 124 million. Meanwhile, the number of people over 65, which the country defines as “elderly,” reached more than 36 million.

Perhaps chief among the issues raised is the imperative to maintain a workforce sufficient to support the country’s various social programs. Pension obligations, health care, and other services demand more funding as Japan’s population ages, but a graying society means fewer people are able to generate income and pay taxes.

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The Israel's new AI-powered Barak tank is now operational and being integrated into the Armored Corps, according to the Defense Ministry.

This tank, developed over five years, incorporates advanced targeting abilities to monitor and target enemy forces preemptively. It also features a system that enables drivers to see outside the tank using Elbit Systems' IronVision helmet, addressing navigation challenges, especially in urban areas.

The Barak is designed to adapt to soldiers' needs and will gradually replace older tanks in the IDF.

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A recent report reveals that US federal prosecutors are investigating personal benefits received by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk through Tesla, extending back to 2017. The probe covers transactions involving Tesla and entities linked to Musk and involves a grand jury.

This investigation follows earlier reports of the US Department of Justice examining Tesla's use of company resources for a house project known as "Project 42" in Austin, Texas, where Musk was expected to live.

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A US Marine Corps F-35B went down over South Carolina on Sunday after its pilot ejected mid-flight for reasons unknown. Why do F-35s seem so crash-prone? What’s wrong with them? And what role does the waste and fraud in the US military-industrial complex play in creating such a Frankenstein’s monster of an aircraft?

👉 Find out here

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🇷🇺 Russian military personnel practiced underwater driving of T-72B3 tanks at a specialized water field

During the training, the driver mechanics crossed a pond about four meters deep. They also practiced controlling a combat vehicle on a muddy bottom in conditions of lack of visibility using a gyro-compass designed to determine the direction of movement of tanks under water.

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Last week, Ukraine refused to accept 10 Leopard 1A5 tanks from Germany due to their unsatisfactory technical condition, German media reported, citing sources.

According to the publication, Kiev has informed a special committee within the German Ministry of Defense that the German armored vehicles that arrived in Poland need to be repaired.

However, since neither the necessary technical personnel nor the required spare parts are available, sending the Leopards to Ukraine "makes no sense," the report said.

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🇷🇺 Lobaev Arms, a Russian producer of long-range high-precision rifles, has started to test a "hypersonic bullet" capable of piercing a target instantly and effectively.

Hypersonic sniper rounds capable of reaching speeds of over 1,500 meters per second (m/s) are now being tested in Russia, Vladislav Lobaev, founder and head of the Lobaev Arms, a Russian private weapons manufacturer, has told Sputnik.

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🪖 Ukraine’s air defense missiles will continue falling on civilians: Here’s why

The September 6 incident in Konstantinovka wasn’t the first incident of its kind, and given the air defense strategy adopted by Ukraine’s military, and the technical means at its disposal, it won’t be the last, Alexey Leonkov, a veteran Russian military analyst and editor of Arsenal of the Fatherland, a Russian military affairs magazine, told Sputnik.

💬 “We’ve observed failures in the work of Ukraine’s air defense forces before. They’re taking place due to the fact that air defense systems have been deployed without taking into account the features of the urban environment, without taking into account the operation of the systems,” Leonkov explained.

Worse yet, he noted, Ukraine has been running low on munitions for its air defenses, leaving them scraping the bottom of the barrel and turning to older, Soviet-made Buk and S-300 missiles which are long past their "use by" date.

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🇷🇺📹 Russian Baltic Fleet's Stoikiy corvette performs missile strikes while on maneuvers

Precision firing was carried out at a special air target meant to represent a small aerial target.

The crew fired missiles from the Redut naval air defense system at mock targets at the fleet’s sea range simulating a situation where the supposed "enemy" would be using electronic countermeasures, the ministry said.

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🇺🇸👔 Dress to depress: Formalwear will no longer be enforced on the floor of the US Senate, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says

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🇵🇱 Ukraine is a “drowning man” who grabs on to everything and threatens to “drag anyone to the bottom” who tries to help him, Polish President Andrzej Duda said.

The Polish president also said he canceled a meeting with Zelensky at the UNGA.

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🇵🇰 Pakistan Responds to Reports of Selling Weapons to Ukraine

📄 Pakistan has termed a report published by an American media house that claimed Islamabad had sent arms and ammunition to Ukraine in exchange for the $3 billion in IMF assistance announced earlier this year as "baseless and fabricated".

🗯 "The IMF Standby Arrangement for Pakistan was successfully negotiated between Pakistan and the IMF to implement difficult but essential economic reforms. Giving any other color to these negotiations is disingenuous", Mumtaz Zahra Baloch, a Pakistan Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, said in a press conference in Islamabad.

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❗️Russian peacekeepers have evacuated more than 2,000 people, including 1,049 children, from the most dangerous areas of Nagorno-Karabakh, the MoD said.

All evacuated residents have been provided with temporary accommodations and hot meals, while the injured are receiving medical assistance.

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🧠🔌 Elon Musk's Neuralink starts recruiting volunteers to plug their brains into AI

Musk’s Neuralink took to Twitter to announce: “We’re excited to announce that recruitment is open for our first-in-human clinical trial! If you have quadriplegia due to cervical spinal cord injury or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), you may qualify.”

Despite receiving the FDA’s approval to conduct human trials, the company faced scrutiny after allegations of animal abuse following reports that it killed about 1,500 animals since 2018. The same report had claimed that the number of animal deaths was too high because of Musk’s demands to speed up research.

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⚡️ Azerbaijani Defense Ministry halts “anti-terrorist activities” in Nagorno Karabakh starting 1 pm local time on September 20

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