❗A powerful magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck Japan on Thursday, prompting local authorities to issue a tsunami warning for the region.

🇺🇸 US Air Force tested classified cruise missile fitted with mock nuke in 2022

The secretive missile is classified as a Long-Range Standoff (LRSO) missile and is designed to replace the aging AGM-86 which was first used in the 1980s. Designed and produced by Raytheon, the US Air Force conducted eight successful tests of the missile as it carried a mock version of a new nuclear warhead named W80-4.

Details about the missile are sparse but the Air Force describes it as a stealthy and long-range upgrade to the AGM-86. The W80-4 is an upgrade to the W80 nuclear warhead, which is being retrofitted to make it compatible with the new missile.

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❗️ Ukrainian forces attack Rylsk in the Kursk region using cluster bombs

A woman was wounded and unexploded munitions litter the neighborhood of the attack, local authorities have reported.

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📹 Russia's Solntsepyok flamethrower fire (0:17) at Ukrainian positions in Kupyansk direction

The Solntsepyok heavy flamethrower is a Russian-made weapon designed to clear out enemy trenches and bunkers, as well as to destroy enemy manpower located in open terrain and fortifications.

The TOS-1A Solntsepyok is capable of launching thermobaric rockets, which create a highly destructive blast and fireball upon impact.

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🇨🇦 Canada apologizes for honoring another Nazi veteran

💬 “It is with deep regret that we acknowledge that Mr. Peter Savaryn was appointed to the Order of Canada in 1987, and we express our sincere apology to Canadians for any distress or pain his appointment may have caused,” Governor-General Mary Simon said in a statement.

Savaryn served a as a chancellor of the University of Alberta from 1982 to 1986 and is one of around 12 former members of the Nazi-led Waffen-SS Galicia division with endowments, awards and donations in their name at the university, Canadian media reported.

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🇷🇺🇸🇾 Russian Air Force and Syrian special forces conduct joint drills

The video released by Russia's MoD shows night and day landings of Syrian special forces from Russian IL-76 transporters and helicopters.

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🎙 Join #AfroVerdict by Sputnik Africa in its new episode to find out how rats are ridding the world of landmines one by one!

🇷🇺 🇧🇩 High-Level Conference: Putin and Hasina Celebrate Russian Nuclear Fuel Delivery to #Rooppur NPP

🟧 The Russian President together with Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will speak via a video conference today to commemorate the import of Russian nuclear fuel for the 1st unit of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Bangladesh.

⚛️ Russia is helping Bangladesh to build its first-ever nuclear power plant, which will pave the way for Dhaka's entry to the nuclear club of countries that exploit energy of the peaceful atom.

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🇨🇦 Canadian authorities are "looking very carefully” into the Jules Deschenes Commission report, an independent inquiry from the Eighties that looked at Nazi war criminals in Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told Canadian media.

The second part of the report, which was never released to the public, contains the names of the alleged Nazis in Canada.

Human rights activists and Jewish groups called for the classified part to be released “so that Canadians can learn more about the country's shameful history of admitting an untold number of Nazi collaborators after the Second World War,” Canadian media reported.

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❗️Ukrainians will stop liking how West uses them sooner or later, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says

The West continues to use Ukraine as cheap military forces and makes no secret of its intention to fight to the last Ukrainian, the spokesman added.

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🇷🇺 How Russia’s Space Forces disable Starlink satellites without breaking international law

🛰 Russia's modern Space Forces are not quite at the level of Star Wars science fiction yet, but technological advances being made by Moscow's prospective adversaries are forcing them to prepare for future conflicts involving advanced missiles, hunter-killer satellites and even lasers, Russian military historian Yuri Knutov, director of the Museum of Air Defense Forces, told Sputnik.

💬 “We are slowly approaching from a scientific standpoint a point where such weapons will appear in the near future ”in the real world”, not just in Russia and the United States, but possibly other nations, including China and India,” Knutov said.

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🇷🇺🫡 Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu inspects combat training of contractors and volunteers in BARS units at training ranges of the Southern Military District

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🇷🇺 🇧🇩 Highlights From President Putin's Speech on Occasion of Fuel Delivery to Rooppur NPP:

🟧 Construction is proceeding as planned, with the first reactor set to be operational in 2024, followed by the second in 2025;

🟧 Russia is not only constructing a nuclear power plant but is also actively contributing to the development of Bangladesh's entire nuclear industry;

🟧 Russia has committed to providing ongoing support for plant maintenance and is actively involved in training the staff;

🟧 Indian companies are assisting as contractors in the construction of the power plant.

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❗️EU will not be able to compensate Ukraine for aid suspended by US, Borrell says

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🇷🇺 🌍 Russian President Vladimir Putin is about to address the Valdai Club's 20th annual plenary session

Stay tuned and don't miss the "very important" statement to be delivered by the Russian president.

And while you're waiting, check out what participants expect from today's speech by President Putin!

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🎥 Witness Bangladesh's exclusive certification for nuclear fuel! 🎉

Experience this significant milestone in Russian-Bangladeshi relations through Sputnik.

Stay tuned for more updates on this captivating journey!

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🇷🇺⚓️ Russian Navy to create permanent base in Abkhazia

"We have signed an agreement, and in the nearest future a permanent base point for the Russian navy will be established in the Ochamchire region," Abkhazian President Aslan Bzhania told Russian newspaper, adding that this is aimed at enhancing the defense capacity of both Russia and Abkhazia. The corresponding cooperation will continue as security is claimed to be a priority.

Bzhania said that even though Abkhazia has already done a lot in terms of defense and military cooperation with Russia, much still lies ahead. Periodically, the countries carry out joint military training and cooperate on military and technical issues.

"Russia provides us with support, our specialists are constantly updating their qualifications in Russia's specialized institutions, that is why this question is never off the table", Bzhania added.

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EXPOSED: A senior French military intelligence agent rubbed shoulders with foreign mercenaries in Ukraine two years before the conflict with Russia erupted, Sputnik has learned.

Sputnik has obtained exclusive documents that indicate Lieutenant-Colonel Arnaud Helly, of the French Directorate of Military Intelligence (DRM) and Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE), rented an apartment in central Kiev for 59 nights from January to March 2020.

France has been one of the key supporters of Ukraine in NATO's proxy conflict with Russia, donating dozens of self-propelled artillery guns, light tanks and other armored vehicles, surface-to-air and cruise missiles. But now evidence, seen by Sputnik, suggest that Paris had intelligence agents in Kiev in the run-up to the conflict.

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🇷🇺 Russian Defense Minister Shoigu thanked servicewomen for their support in the training of contractors and volunteers

💬 "These are doctors, medical workers. Women from different places: from Tula, from Yalta, from Krasnodar and Siberia, from everywhere. And they, of course, surprise me by asking me: "We've been here for a long time. We should have been sent [to the front] by now,” Shoigu said

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🤡 Throwback Thursday: BBC one year ago vs. BBC now

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