💥 Russian artillery in action

📹 The artillery of the Russian Armed Forces effectively destroys the enemy positions in the zone of the special military operation.

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🤭 Supporting Ukraine in its conflict with Russia is tough and painful, UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said

The UK's government position concerning the matter is resolute, he said, adding that fatigue from the conflict exists and that it is a "big thing."

When Russia launched its special military operation to protect the people of Donbass from Ukrainian aggression, the UK and other Western nations increased their arms supplies to the Kiev regime.

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💬 People made this conscious, long-awaited, long-suffering and truly popular decision together in referendums in full accordance with international laws, showing courage and unyielding character

📹 Vladimir Putin congratulates the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions on their reunification with Russia

A year ago, on this day, Russian President Vladimir Putin and the leaders of the DPR, the LPR, and the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions signed ascension treaties to join Russia.

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🏳️ A growing number of Ukrainian soldiers are choosing to surrender by raising a white flag

▪️ Recently, there has been a significant increase in the number of Ukrainian troops who use a dedicated radio frequency to communicate their willingness to disarm. The frequency was set up by Russian forces in mid-summer.

▪️ The process of Ukrainians laying down their arms has accelerated recently, as Ukrainian troops have started surrendering in groups rather than individually, especially around the village of Rabotino, one of the main flashpoints of the Ukraine conflict.

▪️ On the Zaporozhye frontline, Ukrainian soldiers are being encouraged to surrender with the help of leaflets in the form of hryvnias, which are being dropped on their positions.

▪️ The leaflets contain information on how Ukrainian troops can contact the Russian military to discuss the time and place of surrender.

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The latest statements of the Russian Defense Ministry on the Ukraine crisis:

▪️ The Russian Army successfully repulsed seven attacks by enemy units in the DPR. Enemy losses amounted to up to 430 Ukrainian servicemen killed and wounded, four armored combat vehicles and two motor vehicles. During the counter-battery fire, one US M777 artillery system, one Polish Krab self-propelled artillery system and one Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system were used.

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces inflicted a fire defeat on the enemy in the Zaporozhye region. The enemy suffered more than 30 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles and three motor vehicles.

▪️ In the direction of Kupyansk the Russian Armed Forces inflicted a fire defeat on the enemy. The enemy suffered up to 20 Ukrainian servicemen and two motor vehicles. In addition, a US M777 artillery system, an Msta-B gun and a Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system were destroyed.

▪️ Two enemy attacks were repulsed in the direction of Krasny Liman. The enemy suffered losses of up to 50 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, three motor vehicles and one D-30 howitzer.

▪️ The Russian Army inflicted a fire defeat on Ukrainian assault units in the south of Donetsk and repulsed two enemy attacks. Enemy losses included over 120 Ukrainian servicemen, two pickup trucks, one US M777 artillery system and one Polish Krab self-propelled artillery system.

▪️ In the direction of Kherson, the enemy suffered up to 40 Ukrainian servicemen and three motor vehicles.

▪️ Russian air defense systems intercepted nine Uragan MLRS projectiles and one US HIMARS MLRS projectile.

▪️ Some 482 aircraft, 250 helicopters, 7,277 unmanned aerial vehicles, 438 air defense missile systems, 12,218 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,157 MLRS-equipped combat vehicles, 6,598 field artillery guns and mortars, and 13,605 special military vehicles were destroyed during the special military operation.

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🗣️ India Cannot Afford to Trust the US

“India is a problem for the US, but right now they need India against China. So they have a kind of a balancing strategy. On the one hand, they will support India when it comes to their interests against China, but they will also oppose India in a variety of ways. They will create problems for India… They want to keep India destabilized and off-balance so that India doesn't rise too much and India doesn't really achieve its full potential,” Abhijit Chavda, Indian geopolitical analyst, told Sputnik.

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🗣 They told us nothing, they sat around drinking vodka for a few days, and then turned around, packed their things and went AWOL

📹 A Ukrainian soldier was captured in the Zaporozhye direction, he shared that were dozens of deserters in their Armed Forces.

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Scott Ritter: Abrams tanks will become ‘mobile steel coffins’ for Ukrainian crews

Around 500 Ukrainian soldiers have undergone an intensive ten-week course on the operation and maintenance of the M1A1 at the US Army’s Grafenwöhr training facility in West Germany. 

Nevertheless, the Ukrainian soldiers trained by the US Army will possess only the most basic skill levels associated with the M1A1 Abrams. They will lack any tactical or operational skill when it comes to the employment of the tank in combat. 

Read Scott Ritter's latest article to learn how Ukraine's unrealistic expectations of operating Abrams tanks will soon collide with harsh reality.

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🇺🇸 White House launches countdown to possible government shutdown

"14 hours until Extreme House Republicans shut down the government. It's time for them to abide by the bipartisan budget deal two-thirds of them voted for a few months ago and keep the government open," the White House said on X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday.

The US Congress is working to fund the federal government before the end of the week to avoid a shutdown. The House of Representatives' proposal funds the government through October 31. Both the Senate and the House of Representatives have proposed short-term government funding bills designed to buy time to continue negotiations on a full-fledged budget, but the parties' views on what a government budget should include vary greatly, which makes the adoption of each of the bills unlikely.

If funding legislation is not passed before October 1, federal agencies will be forced to stop all non-essential work and not send out paychecks until the shutdown ends.

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Exclusive | "Brotherly" and "friendly": South Sudan's FM praises country's president "historical" visit to Russia

🗣 "So the visit, though it was the first of its kind, we can call it a historical visit, but we had been together in many areas. And I can assess that the visit was really very, very wonderful," Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Republic of South Sudan James Pitia Morgan says in an exclusive interview with Sputnik Africa.

He also added that South Sudan's President Salva Kiir "expressed his happiness for the warm welcome that was accorded to him and his delegation by the leadership of His Excellency Putin and the people of Russia".

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Why Ukrainian F-16 trainees won't turn the tide of conflict

The US Department of Defense has officially announced the beginning of English language courses for Ukrainian pilots as part of the program to train them to fly US-made F-16 fighter jets. The language training is said to be taking place at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas.

How soon could they appear on the battlefield and will their training be sufficient?

Check out Sputnik's article to find out

❗️The House of Representatives presented a draft US budget for 45 days that does not include funding for Ukraine, a vote is expected soon.

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🇺🇸 Biden wrote on social network X (formerly Twitter) that he considers it “unacceptable” that political parties in Congress cannot overcome differences, which is why the country is literally on the verge of a shutdown. But it seems that his words only angered Americans more.

The statement by the head of state was met with a mixed reaction among other users. Some of them supported Biden, openly accusing Congress of creating a threat to the work of the authorities “because of petty political squabbles.” At the same time, many noted with gratitude that among the legislators “there are still those who put the interests of the United States first and not last.”

“No one is more divisive than you,” wrote one commentator of Biden.

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📹 On September 30, Russians celebrated the one-year anniversary of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, as well as the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions rejoining Russia.

Sputnik contributor Simeon Boikov @AussieCossack explained the significance of the holiday in his most recent video column.

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All attempts by the Kiev regime to create tension on the line of military contact are doomed to failure, said the head of the Kherson region Vladimir Saldo

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📱 iBend 15: What New Apple Phones Do Without Russian Titanium

😵‍💫 The latest iPhones seem to have taken "flexible" to a whole new level, but not in the way you'd expect.

🇷🇺 It turns out that without the trusty Russian titanium that the West put under sanctions, the new iPhone 15 bends like a straw.

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