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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❗️Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on escalations in Nagorno-Karabakh

▪️Talks between Putin and Armenian president-Pashinyan being agreed, contacts with Azerbaijan president Aliyev not yet planned

▪️Azerbaijan's actions in Nagorno-Karabakh are de jure on its territory

▪️Moscow does not accept Armenia’s reproaches regarding Nagorno-Karabakh, they are groundless

▪️Armenia is an ally and partner of Russia, contacts continue both with Baku and with Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh

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❗️Azerbaijani Defense Ministry announces suspension of “anti-terrorist activities” under following conditions:

▪️ Armenian militias and illegal armed formations located in the Nagorno Karabakh region lay down their weapons

▪️ They leave their combat positions and military posts and completely disarm and leave the territory of Azerbaijan

▪️ Illegal militias are disbanded

▪️ At the same time, all weapons and heavy equipment are surrendered

▪️ The realization of these processes is ensured in coordination with Russian peacekeepers

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❗️Azerbaijan and representatives of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians have reached agreement on complete cessation of hostilities with peacekeepers' mediation, MoD says

Through the mediation of the command of the Russian peacekeeping contingent, an agreement on the complete cessation of hostilities has been reached between the Azerbaijani side and representatives of Nagorno-Karabakh, the ministry said.

The implementation of the agreements will be carried out in coordination with the command of the Russian peacekeeping contingent.

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🇦🇿🇷🇺🇦🇲 Russia’s MoD releases video of Russian peacekeepers’ base in Nagorno-Karabakh where civilians are taking shelter

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🇷🇺⚓️ The Russian corvette, Gremyashchy, unleashes a Kalibr cruise missile at mock ship from a distance of 300 km during the Finval-2023 drills

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🇷🇺🇨🇳 Putin, at a meeting with the head of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, said that he accepted Xi Jinping’s invitation to visit China in October

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❗️Putin says Russian peacekeepers are actively working with all parties involved in this conflict, doing everything to protect civilians.

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