🇷🇺⚓️ Russia holds simultaneous missile launches across four environments for the first time in 30 years

The launches took place as part of the Finval-2023 naval drills that were held to train the military to protect communications across the Northern Sea Route.

Roughly 10,000 servicemen and over 50 units of military equipment were involved in the exercises. The equipment included surface and support ships, submarines, naval airplanes and helicopters, Bal and Bastion coastal missile systems, as well as high-capability all-terrain wheeled and tracked armored vehicles.

The exercises were defense-oriented and were designed to improve the training of troops to operate on the northeastern borders of the Russian Federation, the Russian Ministry of Defense noted.

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❗️Key points from the Russian Foreign Ministry's statement on the situation in Armenia:

▪️Pashinian's independence message of September 24 contains unacceptable attacks on Russia and can cause nothing but rejection

▪️This is an attempt to absolve oneself of responsibility for failures in domestic and foreign policy by shifting the blame to Moscow

▪️Pashinian's actions confirm the conclusion that the destructive processes instigated by the West for Armenia and relations with Russia are systemic in nature

▪️Russia has always been faithful to its allied obligations, respected Armenian statehood, and has not put the country before a choice

▪️The claims that the protests in Armenia were instigated by Russia have nothing to do with reality

▪️Yerevan is making a huge mistake by deliberately trying to collapse Armenia's multifaceted and centuries-old ties with Russia

▪️Yerevan has launched a real anti-Russian bacchanalia in the Armenian media

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📹 “Boom! The evacuation ended with the enemy fleeing since we began to shell them”

🇷🇺 Russian servicemen from the 1st Guards Tank Army, which is part of the Western military District, describe the destruction of two West-supplied Leopard tanks in the Kupyansk direction

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🇷🇺🇨🇳 Power of Siberia: How the gas pipeline aims at diversifying Russia’s natural gas export markets

By 2025, the annual amount of natural gas transported through the Power of Siberia pipeline is expected to reach the 38 billion cubic meters mark.

The Power of Siberia is a joint project between Russia’s Gazprom and the Chinese National Petroleum Corporation. In May 2014, the two companies signed a 30-year contract on Russian natural gas shipments to China.

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🇺🇸Failed presidential runner Hillary Clinton has repeated her discredited claims of Russian interference in US elections

Clinton dusted off the 2016 'Russiagate' conspiracy theory she used to explain her defeat by Donald Trump in an interview with MSNBC's Jen Psaki — the former White House press secretary renowned for her inability to answer journalist's questions.

Psaki claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin had "interfered in our elections in the past" — directly contradicting the findings of special counsel John Durham's inquiry that the claim was "uncorroborated" — and asked Clinton if she feared it would happen in 2024.

💬"I don’t think, despite all of the deniers, there is any doubt that he interfered in our election, or that he has interfered in many ways in the internal affairs of other countries, funding political parties, funding political candidates, buying off government officials in different places," Clinton claimed.

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📹 Footage of the work of the fighters of the Russian special forces "Osman" on the accumulations of the infantry of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Zaporozhye region.

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❗️Key points of Russian MoD briefing on progress of special military op in Ukraine

▪️At night, Russian troops struck points of temporary deployment of foreign mercenaries and training of sabotage groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF). The targets were hit.

▪️Russian Air Defense intercepted seven HIMARS MLRS missiles.

▪️Russian air defenses destroyed 33 Ukrainian UAVs.

▪️Russian troops destroyed up to 100 Ukrainian servicemen and one UAF tank in the Zaporozhye direction.

▪️ The Russian Army struck command and observation posts of two enemy brigades in the DPR and Kherson.

▪️The UAF lost up to 125 servicemen in the South Donetsk direction.

▪️The Russian Armed Forces repelled two attacks by UAF assault groups in the Krasny Liman direction and struck the Azov brigade (recognized as a terrorist organization, banned in the Russian Federation), eliminating up to 55 servicemen.

▪️The Russian Armed Forces repelled seven UAF attacks in the DPR. The enemy lost up to 445 servicemen.

▪️The Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed a Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter on an airfield in the Dnepropetrovsk region.

▪️The Russian Armed Forces destroyed up to 25 UAF servicemen in the Kupyansk direction.

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🇺🇸💰🇵🇱The US will provide a $2 billion loan to Poland to support its ongoing defense modernization, the US State Department has announced, adding that "the loan proceeds will further advance Poland’s military modernization effort across a wide range of capabilities, substantially contributing to strengthening the defense and deterrence of NATO’s Eastern Flank."

The Biden administration is providing up to $60 million in Foreign Military Financing to cover the cost of the loan to accelerate Poland’s urgent military procurements of defense articles and services from the United States, the release said.

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#SputnikInfographic 🇷🇺Russian T-90M tanks can now meet Western countries' main battle tanks on the battlefield. But are Western armored vehicles really capable of handling it?

📊Take a look at a visual comparison of the Russian T-90M and its western competitors in Sputnik's infographic.

🇭🇺 Hungary will not support Ukraine's position at any international forum until Kiev returns the laws that ensure the rights of the Transcarpathian Hungarians, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban stated on Monday.

💬"Ukraine has been oppressing Hungarian schools for several years; they [Ukrainians] want to convert them into Ukrainian schools or, if that does not work out, close them. The Hungarian government fights at every international forum for the rights of Transcarpathian Hungarians, especially children," Orban told Hungarian lawmakers.

The prime minister added that the new Ukrainian leadership of the school in the city of Mukachevo banned singing the Hungarian anthem and wearing clothes in the Hungarian national colors in the educational institution.

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🗣️ On the frosty reception Ukrainian President Zelensky received during his stop in Washington:

“Well, it reflects the fact that the Biden administration has got to attempt to conceal from the population of the United States what's really happening, which is the economic situation in the United States is bad… US real wages fell for three years in a row, and under conditions in which the economic situation in the US is bad for the population, he's given tens of billions of dollars to Ukraine, to which the reaction of the population will be 'Well, why the hell doesn't he spend these tens of billions of dollars on us?'… So what all the frostiness is about is that he's got to attempt to conceal what's going on, because he's very worried, because the economic situation is so bad, he's not going to be reelected,” John Ross, author and economist, told Sputnik.

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🇨🇦 Untold story of how Canada became a safe haven for Ukrainian WWII-era Nazis

Before World War II, Ukrainian Canadians were among the most tightly knit, pro-labor, pro-Moscow, and anti-fascist migrant communities living in the True North Strong and Free. That began to change after the war and the arrival of thousands of Ukrainian Nazi collaborators wanted for war crimes across Eastern Europe.

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🇷🇺Russia's UAVs are ‘tested to ensure efficiency’ during winter's ice and low temperatures

Russia's unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), like all military equipment, are tested before being brought into service. It is during testing that a device’s characteristics are “tweaked” and certain corrections made to ensure they can work properly in the winter months, Edward Bagdasarian, a UAV specialist and head of the Aerocon business, as well as an expert on the Aeronet working group, told Sputnik.

Low temperatures and becoming covered in ice are the two main difficulties encountered by those operating UAVs in winter, Artem Blinov, a UAV expert, told Sputnik. Accordingly, any drone that runs on batteries has its operating time significantly reduced, said the expert.

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🇩🇪 German Foreign Minister Baerbock admitted that Berlin sent the Kiev regime "old-fashioned" equipment or supplied almost non-functional military aid

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🗣️ On how President Zelensky has become the dictator of Ukraine:

“Today, Ukraine is going begging for money for weapons, anything it can get its hands on to fight, continue fighting and destroying Ukrainians and killing Ukrainians and Russians. So this is the situation. And the political situation is that there's a lot of Ukrainians who are afraid to speak out. Around 30-40%, I can tell you, that's for sure. But they're afraid to speak out, they're against the war. They want peace. They want to get back to their lives. And I think if they will speak up, 20% others will join who are in the middle that do want to also get back their lives,” Andrii Telizhenko, former Ukrainian diplomat and whistleblower, told Sputnik.

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🗣️ On the state of the US economy:

“In the first six months of this year, the US consumed more capital in depreciation than it created. I mean, it's an extraordinary paradox that the world's number one capitalist country, in net terms at the present time isn't creating any capital… The situation therefore, as a result of this is the economy is going to grow very slowly. It's a pseudo-discussion in the US at the present time. They say 'Oh, it'd be a great victory if we don't have a recession, etc.,' it really doesn't make a great deal of difference whether the economy is growing very slightly positive or very slightly negative. The US is heading into extremely slow growth, and maybe there'll be a recession,” John Ross, author and economist, told Sputnik.

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🇪🇺🇨🇳 EU flexes muscles on ‘fair trade’ with China

The European Union's principal trade negotiator conveyed a clear message, asserting the bloc's unwavering stance in upholding balanced competition and protecting its interests.

💬“The lack of reciprocity and level playing field from China, coupled with wider geopolitical shifts, has forced the EU to become more assertive,” said Valdis Dombrovskis, an executive vice-president at the European Commission, as stated in the noscripted remarks scheduled for delivery during a keynote address at Tsinghua University.

Dombrovskis stressed that competition stands as a cornerstone of the European Union's economic landscape, serving to invigorate and advance the prowess of our corporate entities.

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Rosatom to Deliver Fuel to Bangladesh's Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant Soon

⚛️ 🇷🇺 Rosatom anticipates supplying fuel to the Rooppur nuclear power plant in Bangladesh "in the upcoming weeks," Alexey Likhachev, the head of the company, announced during the IAEA general conference.

💬 "In the approaching weeks, we shall be delivering fuel to the Rooppur nuclear power plant site in Bangladesh," he revealed.

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☠️ West uses Ukraine as settling tank for outdated and dangerous equipment

Over 2,000 pieces of equipment, including Challenger 2 tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, and Bulldog personnel carriers, belonging to the British Armed Forces may have asbestos-containing materials (ACMs), according to the nation's Defense Ministry.

Asbestos is a group of naturally occurring fibrous silicate minerals that are resistant to fire and corrosion. It is also an excellent thermal and electrical insulator. However, when asbestos materials become damaged, tiny fibers could get stuck in the lungs, leading to asbestosis, a scarring of the lung tissue, and mesothelioma, a type of cancer.

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