🇷🇺🇮🇳 Settlements in national currencies between Russia and India have grown five-fold in monetary terms in 2023 year-on-year, while the average transaction amount in the first half of the year has increased by 83%, deputy chairman of Sberbank's executive board Anatoly Popov said.

"Sberbank is the key bank partner for the corporate clients who are working in national currencies with India. This year the volumes of settlements with India have grown five times in monetary terms compared to the same period last year," Popov told reporters on the sidelines of the SberVED 2023: India conference.

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🇷🇺📹 Russian peacekeeping contingent's military personnel delivered 12 tons of humanitarian cargo to Stepanakert for the civilians of Nagorno-Karabakh

▪️ The humanitarian aid included food, medicine and basic necessities.

▪️ In addition, along the route of the humanitarian convoy, Russian peacekeepers provided assistance to civilians leaving the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh independently. Military personnel of the Russian peacekeeping contingent provided drinking water, bread and baby food to anyone in need.

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📌 House Republicans held the first public hearing of their impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden on Thursday

Here are some key takeaways from Thursday's hearing:

▪️ GOP witnesses say there is still not enough evidence to impeach Biden;

▪️ GOP outlines questions they want answered;

▪️ Democrats attack investigation for a lack of evidence against the president;

▪️ The White House has denied any wrongdoing and dismissed the investigation as politically motivated.

President Biden has been accused by Republicans, who have a narrow control of the House, of profiting from his son Hunter Biden's overseas business ventures during his tenure as vice president from 2009 to 2017.

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🧐 House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer issued subpoenas for Hunter Biden and his brother James Biden seeking to obtain their personal and business records

According to copies of the subpoenas, the panel is giving Hunter and James Biden until October 12 to provide the requested documents or they may risk facing criminal contempt of Congress charges.

The Oversight Committee has disclosed since January that the Bidens and their associates established more than 20 shell companies, amassing more than $24 million from sources in China and other countries. The investigation also identified nine Biden family members linked to these business operations and affirmed the president interacted with the business affiliates on at least 24 occasions.

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🇷🇺🇦🇫 5th meeting of the Moscow Format on Afghanistan begins in the city of Kazan, Russia

The Moscow format was introduced in 2017 on the basis of the six-party mechanism for consultations between special representatives from Russia, Afghanistan, China, Pakistan, Iran and India.  

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🇷🇺 Russia's response is rooted in deterrence, not escalation, writes Vijainder K Thakur in his column for Sputnik India.

Instead of retaliation with indiscriminate missile strikes, Russia has focused on minimising Storm Shadow attacks through:

▪️ Improved the software of its Air Defense (AD) systems.

▪️ Deployment of Krasukha EW systems to thwart radar imaging of targets by US/NATO SAR equipped drones, aircraft and satellites.

▪️ The use of aerosol spray artillery shells to cloak potential targets from the optical seeker on Storm Shadow and analog missiles.

▪️ Mounting relentless counter air operations on Ukrainian air bases involved in missile attacks on Crimea.

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The Russian defense line turned out to be stronger than the West thought - Chief of the British General Staff

''Ukraine's counter-offensive is proceeding slowly because Russia's defensive lines turned out to be stronger than the West expected,'' Chief of the British General Staff Admiral Tony Radakin was quoted as saying by a British newspaper.

Radakin went on to say that Ukraine's operations are hampered by the lack of military training for the country's mobilized soldiers. Furthermore, he elaborated on the limited advancements due to the "wide variety" of military vehicles and equipment utilized by Ukrainian forces, which currently require the use of both Soviet-era and Western weaponry. He also suggested that the Kiev government may have launched its counteroffensive too late.

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📹 The Russian Army continues to destroy enemy armored vehicles and positions of the Ukrainian troops in the zone of the special military operation

Precise artillery and UAV strikes destroyed the AHS Krab self-propelled guns and enemy positions near the city of Seversk.

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🇭🇺 Orban believes some Hungarian money from the EU budget could be given to Kiev

The EU froze more than €6 billion earmarked for payments to Hungary, citing failure to meet requirements to fight corruption, increase transparency in public procurement and strengthen the independence of the judiciary. Orban noted that Budapest had met all the European Commission's requirements.

Earlier, Orban's chief of staff, Gergely Guillas, said that Ukraine would not receive a penny from the EU budget until Hungary receives the money it is owed from European funds, as unanimous support is needed to change the EU budget.

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📹 Russia's Grad MLRS crews in combat

After receiving data on the identified location of the Ukrainian nationalists from the crews of the unmanned aerial vehicles, the artillery crew immediately arrived (0:07) at the combat zone.

Having moved the combat vehicle from the traveling position to the combat position, the artillerymen aimed the system at the target and destroyed (0:31) the enemy group with a volley of rocket shells.

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📹 The Russian Armed Forces destroyed enemy targets on the territory of the Avdeyevka Coking and Chemical Plant

As a result of the targeted fire attack of the aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces on the Avdeyevka Coking and Chemical Plant, the personnel, ammunition and fuel depots located on the territory of the enterprise were destroyed.

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🗣🇸🇰 Zelensky is beginning to bore the world, even the most convinced "hawks" are beginning to speak to him in a different language, said Robert Fico, leader of the Slovak opposition party Smer.

Slovakia will hold parliamentary elections on Saturday. Fico’s Party, who has vocally opposed further aid to Ukraine, is leading in the polls.

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⚡Kremlin spokesman Peskov on the possibility of extending the mission of Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh: This is Azerbaijan's territory, and the issue will be discussed with Baku

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🚝 Chennai-Vladivostok Corridor: A New Silk Road for India-Russia Trade

🗯 "At present, there is the Mumbai-Moscow route. But the Chennai-Vladivostok corridor goes to the other side of Russia and it is very fast because it is free from a lot of obstacles that exist on the other side," Manpreet Nagi Singh, Indian Chambers of International Business President (ICIB) told Sputnik India.

🇮🇳 🇷🇺 The evolving trade dynamics between India and Russia offer promising prospects beyond traditional sectors, and the changing geopolitical landscape creates opportunities for both nations to strengthen their economic ties.

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