🇮🇳 🇨🇦 US Supports Canada's Stance in Khalistan Row Against India: White House

🇺🇸 🗯 “As soon as we heard from the Canadian Prime Minister publicly about the allegations, we went out publicly ourselves and expressed our deep concern about them, our support for a law enforcement process to get to the bottom of exactly what happened and to ensure that the perpetrators are held accountable,” US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan remarked.

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🇭🇺 Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said that sanctions against Russia do not work, “they failed.”

Szijjártó shared this opinion with reporters after negotiations with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of the high-level week of the UN General Assembly (GA) in New York.

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Check out the latest #AfroVerdict episode from Sputnik Africa to hear why Africa has "moral high ground" regarding peaceful solutions

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Experts: Ukraine-Poland spat signals resurgence of ‘national interests’ over NATO’s pro-Kiev agenda

More than a year and a half into its proxy war with Russia, NATO is facing a resurgence of national interests on the part of its member states, especially those along the “eastern flank” who have been asked to bear the brunt of the conflict in Ukraine, experts said. However, that doesn’t always mean they’re backing down from a hawkish position.

Check out Sputnik's article to find out more

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The Russian peacekeeping contingent continues to perform its tasks in the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh

Over 50 tons of cargo were delivered to Stepanakert, including food rations and basic necessities. The Russian peacekeeping contingent is assisting more than 800 civilians, over than 400 of them are children, the Russian MoD reports.

Earlier, hostilities broke out between Armenia and Azerbaijan after Baku launched an ‘anti-terrorist operation’ to ‘restore constitutional order’ in Nagorno-Karabakh.

On Wednesday, the parties to the conflict agreed to a total ceasefire in the region, mediated by the command of the Russian peacekeeping contingent.

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🇷🇺🇺🇳 Russian FM Lavrov has delivered a video message from Lugansk schoolgirl Faina Savenkova to Guterres. In the video she calls for an end to the killing of children in Donbass by the Kiev regime, an end to the shelling of peaceful homes and schools, and an end to the supply of Western weapons to Ukraine.

According to Russia's MoD, the video was delivered during a meeting between the minister and the UN Secretary General at the organization's headquarters in New York.

📹 Grad MLRS units of the Pacific Fleet Marine Corps perform combat missions around the clock in the zone of the special military op

Grad MLRS units provide round-the-clock artillery support to airborne assault units, destroying identified enemy targets.

Fire adjustment on identified targets located at a distance of several dozen kilometers is carried out with the help of unmanned aerial vehicles.

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🇸🇾🇺🇸 The US has taken a number of economic measures to discourage Arab countries from re-engagement with Damascus

Such US policies eventually caused the Arab League's special committee to halt contacts with Syria, despite the country's readmission to the organization, a source familiar with the matter told Sputnik.

Earlier this week, media reported that the Arab League committee, which was formed in May to seek a comprehensive solution to the Syrian crisis, had frozen its contacts with representatives of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

Financial support for Syria and plans for its post-war rebuilding turned out to be hampered by the US's Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2019 and its expected supplement, 2023 Assad Regime Anti-Normalization Act, which might extend the US administration's authority to sanction those cooperating with Syria, the source said, adding that anticipated investments from Arab countries never materialized.

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Air defense systems in Sevastopol worked, and missile debris fell in the area of the Sukharnaya Balka pier, the city authorities report

The maritime passenger transport has been suspended in the Bay of Sevastopol.

Sevastopol authorities issued alert on danger of missiles in the region.

Yesterday, Ukraine launched a missile strike on Sevastopol, Crimea, hitting the headquarters of Russia's Black Sea Fleet.

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😳 Mexican cartels have become the fifth-largest employer in Mexico, according to new findings by researchers

Researchers discovered that an astounding 175,000 individuals in Mexico are currently employed by approximately 150 different cartel groups, a feat that underscores the significant challenges faced by analysts and governments in comprehending the rising cartel influence and violence plaguing the nation.

Over the last 10 years, a startling 37% of known cartel members had either been killed or incarcerated. Astonishingly, despite these losses, cartels managed to expand their membership. To compensate for these losses, the study estimates that cartels must have recruited nearly 20,000 new members annually.

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The explosion of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant was aimed at creating a threat to biological security, the head of Russia's consumer rights watchdog, Rospotrebnadzor, Anna Popova, told Sputnik

She added that , thanks to the work of experts, it was possible to avoid any complication of the epidemiological situation in the area.

She also said that a special anti-epidemic mobile laboratory is working in the region to prevent possible issues.

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🗣 German parliamentarian has voiced concerns about the Taurus long-range cruise missiles, fearing that these missiles, intended for delivery to Kiev by Berlin, might potentially be equipped with nuclear warheads

She dismissed the German government coalition's belief that "Ukraine will be able to control itself and avoid hitting targets in Russia with these weapons" as "naive".

The German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, stated that Berlin's reluctance to approve the delivery of Taurus missiles to Ukraine stems from the determination to avoid involving NATO in a potential conflict with Russia.

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🇷🇺🇱🇾 Russian search-and-rescue officers are working in dangerous areas that other foreign teams have already attempted, at the request of Libyan authorities, after the country suffered from floods

According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, they have already covered 530 thousand square meters of land and 80 km of coastline.

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📹 Ukraine lost an assault group of more than ten fighters during another attempt to storm Russian positions in the village of Kleshcheevka in the DPR

In the footage, Russian soldiers show captured weapons, as well as dead Ukrainian soldiers.

Today, the Russian MoD announced that the Russian Army repelled four attacks by assault groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the direction of Donetsk.

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The Russian Armed Forces destroyed part of the stockpiles of cruise missiles, depleted uranium shells, launchers of multiple launch rocket systems and anti-aircraft missile systems that the West had transferred to Ukraine

They carried out 12 group strikes against targets such as aircraft and armored vehicle repair facilities, oil refineries, ammunition storage sites, high-precision foreign-made weapons and equipment, intelligence and training centers for Ukrainian saboteurs, and accommodation points for foreign mercenaries, according to the Russian MoD

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⚡ Russian reconnaissance group destroyed a Leopard tank with a German crew of Bundeswehr servicemen in Ukraine: commander of the scout group to Sputnik

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❗️Exclusive: Australian protestors rallied in Sydney on Saturday to oppose the Labor Albanese government’s proposal to establish an Indigenous people’s advisory group within the government

Opponents of the initiative warn that instead of reducing racial inequality, it will only serve to create a group of unelected government bureaucrats with little public accountability.

A national referendum on the Albanese government’s proposal will be held on October 14.

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The US battle tanks Abrams, which are expected to be delivered to Kiev soon, will not last long directly on the front line, neither are the ATACMS long-range missiles likely to become a game changer, the head of Ukraine's military intelligence service, Kyrylo Budanov, said

He also said that a small number of ATACMS missiles "won’t change the situation," as Kiev needs "at least hundreds" if not thousands of such weaponry.

The head of Ukraine's military intelligence also said that using air defense systems to fight Russian aviation is "very costly and ineffective," adding that he would prefer striking Russian air bases instead.

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Ukrainian draft dodgers “dream up extreme ways” to avoid the frontline as the country is struggling to tackle low morale in the army, a UK newspaper has reported

The newspaper highlighted the case of a 20-year-old Ukrainian soldier who was wounded in battle. Now, he will never be able to go back to the front lines, particularly due to the unsympathetic treatment he received from his commanders.

Follow the link to read his shocking story, which shows the contemptuous attitude of Ukrainian commanders towards their personnel.

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🗣️ On Vivek Ramaswamy’s version of a peace deal to end the Ukraine conflict:

“Vivek Ramaswamy, just like De Santis, they're both neocons. Vivek says, "I want a peace deal with Ukraine and Russia, we'll give Russia all of the territory that they've gotten. And Ukraine will just have to eat it," right? But then he says, "we're going to do that in a deal with the Russians to break off their ties with China.".. You're going to tell them what they have to accept, take Novorossiya. And then you're going to tell them they have to cut off relations with China? Who are you, bud?…And he paints China out to be the big baddie here. I think China's great. I think we should work with China, win-win cooperation,” Jackson Hinkle, host of The Dive, told Sputnik.

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The Russian Defense Ministry has issued the following statements on the Ukraine crisis:

▪️The Russian Armed Forces repelled 28 enemy attacks in the DPR in the period from September 17 to 23. Over the past week, as a result of air, missile and artillery strikes in this direction, the enemy's losses amounted to more than 1,455 Ukrainian servicemen killed and wounded, 16 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 25 motor vehicles, 15 field artillery pieces, and three MLRS combat vehicles.

▪️In the direction of south Donetsk, Russian units have repelled five enemy attacks in concerted action over the past week, continuing to defeat concentrations of enemy personnel and hardware. Enemy losses in this direction amounted to over 950 Ukrainian servicemen killed and wounded, 14 armored combat vehicles, 32 motor vehicles and five field artillery pieces. In addition, two ammunition dumps were destroyed.

▪️Russian troops repelled eight Ukrainian attacks in the Zaporozhye region. During the fighting, more than 515 Ukrainian servicemen, 24 armored combat vehicles and 19 motor vehicles were destroyed. In addition, 35 pieces of enemy field artillery were neutralized in the course of counter-battery fire.

▪️The enemy losses in the Krasny Liman direction amounted to up to 435 Ukrainian servicemen killed and wounded, 15 armored combat vehicles, 16 motor vehicles and eight guns.

▪️In the direction of Kherson, the enemy made unsuccessful attempts to seize bridgeheads on the islands and the left bank of the Dnepr. During the military operations, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 445 Ukrainian soldiers, nine armored combat vehicles, 35 motor vehicles, 11 field artillery guns. In addition, eight sabotage and reconnaissance groups were disabled.

▪️During the week, the enemy attempted to attack facilities on the Crimean Peninsula with cruise missiles and UAVs. In the course of repelling the attacks, the Russian air defense systems destroyed five cruise missiles, one Neptun anti-ship missile and 37 attack drones.

▪️The Russian Armed Forces' fighter jets and air defense systems destroyed the following aircraft last week: Su-24m, Mig-29 and two Su-25 ground attack aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Forces.

▪️During the week, air defense and electronic warfare systems shot down and suppressed 257 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles and intercepted 46 HIMARS MLRS rounds, nine Storm Shadow cruise missiles, two JDAM air-to-air bombs and three HARM anti-radiation missiles.

▪️During the special military operation, an astonishing number of military assets were destroyed. These include 477 aircraft, 249 helicopters, 7,067 unmanned aerial vehicles, 438 air defense missile systems, 12,071 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,154 MLRS-equipped combat vehicles, 6,502 field artillery guns and mortars, and 13,351 pieces of special military equipment.

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