Why Zelensky's vow to continue counteroffensive through winter is wishful thinking

Speaking to the US press, after a day of meetings on Capitol Hill and the White House, Zelensky pledged to keep fighting through the autumn and winter this year. He also vowed to take Artemovsk (also known as Bakhmut) and a couple "more cities". He said that US assistance should keep flowing to Ukraine, despite growing calls in the US Congress to reduce or halt the financial assistance altogether.

The Kiev regime is reportedly going to continue its "counteroffensive" in autumn and through winter, as per President Volodymyr Zelensky. But does Ukraine have enough resources for that?

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India Stresses 'Ingrained' Relations With Global South at UN

🌐 "As far as India is concerned, our engagement with the Global South is not just a matter of policy, it is ingrained in the very fabric of our culture and philosophy," India's UN representative, Ruchira Kamboj said.

◾️Kamboj highlighted India's support during the pandemic, providing vaccines to nearly 100 countries and medicines to 150 nations.

◾️India's development partnerships have also expanded, with 75 projects across 56 developing nations through the India-UN Development Partnership Fund.

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📹 Russia’s repair units continue to provide uninterrupted service to military hardware involved in the special op

Thanks to the high qualifications of the servicemen of the repair units, as well as modern maintenance and repair machines, repair work of any complexity is carried out in the field.

In order to maintain the high combat capability of units and ensure the continuous conduct of combat operations, weapons that are necessary for the fulfilment of a combat mission are repaired in the first instance, as well as those that can be repaired as soon as possible. Servicemen carry out their tasks in several shifts, which allows work to be carried out both day- and nighttime.

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📹 Civilians of Nagorno-Karabakh thank Russian peacekeepers for their help

Russian military personnel escorted convoys of civilians from Nagorno-Karabakh leaving for Armenia. In total, five buses and 41 personal vehicles left, accompanied by Russian peacekeepers. 311 civilians were transported, including 102 children.

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📹 Russian kamikaze drone obliterates Ukrainian mortar crew in Soledar direction

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🇷🇺🇩🇰 Denmark fears conducting investigation with Russia into Nord Stream blast, ambassador says

There is still no cooperation in the investigation of explosions on gas pipelines between Denmark and Russia, Russian Ambassador to Denmark Vladimir Barbin told Sputnik.

💬 “Does this position of the Danish prosecutor’s office express fears in Copenhagen that the Russian side may find out something that will create risks for Denmark’s cooperation with the United States in the security sphere or Denmark's supply of weapons to Ukraine? Perhaps this is the reason for the total secrecy of the investigation into the terrorist attack on the pan-European energy infrastructure that took place a year ago?" Barbin said.

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❗️Sea station "virtually destroyed" and grain storehouse damaged after overnight explosions in Odessa, Ukrainian defense forces spokeswoman says

The Russian Army has regularly sent strikes against Ukrainian defense, military administration, communications and energy facilities. As Vladimir Putin pointed out, this is retaliation for the Ukrainian terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge and other attacks on civilian infrastructure in Russia. Since the attack on the bridge, air raid alerts have become a regular feature throughout Ukraine's regions.

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🇨🇦 Outrage as Canadian MPs honor Nazi-linked veteran with standing ovation. What is known so far:

▪️Russia will demand an explanation from Canada for its decision to honor a Nazi veteran in the House, Russian Ambassador to Canada Oleg Stepanov told Sputnik. Stepanov called the act not “a mistake, but a consequence of the impunity of former Nazi criminals”.

▪️Yaroslav Hunka, who fought in the ranks of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the Nazi SS during the Second World War, received a standing ovation after being hailed as a veteran of the "struggle for Ukrainian independence against the Russians during WWII".

▪️The Speaker of Canada's House of Commons, Anthony Rota, took responsibility for what was characterized as an oversight, calling the initiative "entirely my own".

💬 "I have subsequently become aware of more information which causes me to regret my decision," he said, adding his "deepest apologies" to Jewish communities for honoring the 98-year-old.

▪️But Jewish human rights group, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center, demanded an apology and said: "An explanation must be provided as to how this individual entered the hallowed halls of the Canadian Parliament and received recognition from the Speaker of the House and a standing ovation,"

▪️The office of Canada's Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, shifted the blame to the House Speaker, saying that "no advance notice was provided to the Prime Minister's Office, nor the Ukrainian delegation, about the invitation or the recognition".

▪️Canada opposition leader Pierre Poilievre criticized the PM's protocol service saying it was responsible for selecting the guests and that none of the parliamentarians could have known about Hunka's “dark past”.

💬 “Mr Trudeau must personally apologize and avoid passing the blame to others as he always does,” he said.

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📹🇷🇺 Russian Su-34s hit Ukrainian command and observation posts, armored vehicles and drone control points with guided munitions in Krasny Liman direction

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 Tucker Carlson 'tried to interview' Putin but Biden gov't 'stopped' him

While not clarifying who these officials were, the media personality went on to deplore the fact that no one “defended him” in the US news media.

💬 “I don’t think there was anybody who said ‘wait a second. I may not like this guy but he has a right to interview anyone he wants, and we have a right to hear what Putin says’… You’re not allowed to hear Putin’s voice. Because why? There was no vote on it. No one asked me,” Carlson said in an interview with Swiss media.

He added he believed the world was changing much more quickly than most Americans understand.

💬 “There is almost no coverage of the rest of the world in Western media… Americans don’t have a good sense of it. What we, in this country, refer to as the ‘Post-War Order’, all the institutions set up in the wake of World War II to keep the world peaceful and prosperous and the United States at the top of the pyramid, and that would include the dominance of the dollar, the SWIFT system, NATO, all of that appears to be crumbling, to me,” Carlson said.

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🇺🇸📉 Joe Biden’s approval rating hits new low, NBC poll shows

The US president’s standing among registered voters shows a disapproval rating of 56% – the worst reading since the start of his presidency.

Furthermore, 59% of voters disapprove of Biden’s handling of the economy, and 53% are displeased with his handling of foreign policy, the poll finds.

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📹🇷🇺 Russian mobile mortar unit from Dnepr Group of Forces destroys (0:32) Ukrainian stronghold with ammunition depot near Kherson

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🇵🇱🇨🇦 Poland's ambassador to Canada is demanding an apology from the country for honoring a Ukrainian Waffen-SS Nazi veteran in its parliament

Poland “will never agree on whitewashing such villains!” Witold Dzielski wrote on X (formerly Twitter).

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🇷🇺🎖🫡 Sergei Shoigu presents deputy platoon commander Ivan Kalashnikov (call sign Bolshoi) with Hero of Russian Federation noscript

💬 The commander showed courage and heroism while repelling superior Ukrainian forces near Urozhainoye in the South Donetsk direction, the MoD said.

📹 The video provided by the ministry shows five Russian servicemen, two of whom were wounded during this battle, confronting 12 Ukrainian troops.

▪️The commander skillfully led his subordinates, bearing the brunt of the battle, in full view of the enemy and conducting constant aimed fire at the advancing fighters, the ministry said, adding that two more Russian servicemen fought with the Ukrainian troopers in the flanks from the dugouts.

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🇷🇺🇨🇦 Kremlin is outraged by the honoring of a Nazi SS veteran in the Canadian Parliament, says crimes of nazism have no statute of limitations.

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🇷🇺🇪🇬 Sergey Lavrov opens exhibition dedicated to anniversary of Russia-Egypt diplomatic relations

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How to prevent a third World War?

The unfolding Ukraine crisis could be a prologue for a larger and more dangerous conflict, but if it could be avoided the world could build a fairer multipolar system, according to Russian political scientist Sergey Karaganov.

💬 "It will only get worse in the foreseeable future," warned Karaganov. "Each new call from Western leaders is more foolish, reckless, and ideologically charged than the previous one, making it more dangerous for the world. They are consciously fuelling the disintegration of their societies by promoting anti-human values."

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🇺🇸 First Abrams tanks have been delivered to Ukraine, two US defense officials said, arriving months ahead of initial estimates and in time to be used in Kiev’s counteroffensive against Russian forces.

More M1 Abrams tanks will be provided in the coming months, sources said, stressing that those that were delivered to Ukraine on Saturday were the first of 31 pledged by the Biden administration. Officials refused to specify how many have been delivered thus far.

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