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🇺🇸 The Pentagon failed its annual audit for the sixth consecutive year. Half of the Defense Department’s assets still don’t meet auditing standards.

An independent audit of the Pentagon’s accounting systems gave only seven out of 29 sub-audits a passing grade, the department’s chief financial officer told reporters.

The Pentagon's assets are estimated to be worth $3.8 trillion, alongside $4 trillion in liabilities. Some US lawmakers have recently called for greater transparency of Department of Defense spending amid growing evidence that Ukrainian officials are misusing American military and economic aid.

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😏 The next victim of "Zelensky curse"?

British Foreign Minister David Cameron went to Kiev for an audience with Ukraine's President almost immediately after the appointment. Well, how long will Cameron last in office after an infamous handshake ("Zelensky's black mark")?

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🐉 Russia's dragon teeth defense

📹 Russian army’s sappers demonstrated the operation of IMR-3 obstacle clearing vehicles in the special operations zone, a Sputnik correspondent observed the drills.

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The statement by US President Joe Biden about the need to create a sovereign Palestinian state is a substitution of concepts, the US itself has withdrawn from the discussion of the settlement, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday.

On Wednesday, Biden said that a Palestinian state, existing alongside Israel, must be the endpoint of the current conflict in the Middle East.

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🇷🇺🇨🇳 From Silk Road to cyberspace: Valdai International Discussion Club and East China Normal University meet in Shanghai

Highlighting the significance of this cooperation, the Russian Ambassador to China Igor Morgulov stated, "On virtually all global issues, our countries have overlapping or very close positions. The relationship between Russia and China will only be strengthened and develop further."

The scientific conference on "Crisis and Global Transformation: China and Russia Facing the Challenges of a Changing World Order" is running from November 16 to 17.

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🇺🇸 Republican Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa has called on Samantha Power, the administrator of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), to clarify where American taxpayer dollars are going in Ukraine.

In a letter to Power obtained by a US media outlet, Ernst wrote that she finds “these assistance activities and USAID’s lack of transparency particularly troublesome” in connection with the Biden administration’s recent request of about $14 billion in additional appropriations for non-military funding to Ukraine.

The senator added that she’s unwilling to agree to dole out almost $25 billion in “hardworking Americans’ tax dollars for so-called economic aid to Ukraine."

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🇷🇺🪖 Key points of Russian MoD briefing on progress of special military op in Ukraine:

▪️In the Donetsk area, the Russian Army repelled 14 attacks by Ukraine troops. Ukrainian losses amounted to up to 240 soldiers;

▪️In Krasny Liman, the Russian forces repelled the attack of the Azov* brigade. Ukrainian losses amounted to up to 175;

▪️ In the Kupyansk region, Russian troops repelled three attacks by Ukrainian forces. Ukrainian losses amounted to 110;

▪️ In Zaporozhye, the Russian forces defeated the troops and equipment of three Ukrainian brigades. Ukrainian losses amounted to up to 100 military and two tanks;

▪️The Russian troops defeated two brigades of Ukrainian forces in the areas of Ugledar and Konstantinovka. Ukrainian losses amounted up to 70 soldiers, a Krab self-propelled gun and an FH70 howitzer;

▪️The Russian air defense systems destroyed 26 Ukrainian drones in the day, as well as intercepting two HIMARS shells and a JDAM aerial bomb.

*recognized as a terrorist organization and banned in the Russian Federation

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❗️The dedollarization process has already been launched - Sergey Lavrov

“A process has been set in motion: at the last [BRICS] summit in Johannesburg world leaders asked finance ministers and central bank governors to make recommendations on alternative payment platforms,” Russian Foreign Minister stated

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🗣 The United States is vulnerable in the Middle East

"If there is conflict, American bases in the Persian Gulf region will definitely be destroyed," Seyed Mohammad Marandi, University of Tehran professor, told Sputnik, adding that US troops in Iraq and Syria would also find themselves under fire from local resistance groups.

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❗️The Western judicial system has repeatedly proven its bias - Sergey Lavrov about the French court’s arrest warrant for Bashar Assad

Commenting on the infamous episode of the use of chemical weapons in Syria in 2013 (in which Assad is accused of being involved), Lavrov said that even “Western journalists at one time published facts that chemical weapons were used by terrorists, not the [Syrian] government."

The minister also pointed to the court's decision on the Malaysian Boeing crash in July 2014, when the verdict was made on the basis of data from American satellites, which the court itself did not even receive, but the court said: “They had not seen the data themselves, but they could not disbelieve the US."

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📹 Another missile of the Avangard complex was installed in the Orenburg region in southern Russia

The Avangard hypersonic missile system can reach speeds of more than Mach 27, which is almost 30,000 km/h. It is designed to destroy particularly important objects of the civil and military infrastructure of the aggressor country.

According to media reports, the Avangard hypersonic unit can maneuver and move at high speed, providing a breakthrough in missile defense.

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🗣 Director of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City reaches out for the first time after the IDF raid:

▪️Israeli soldiers roam through the wards, they have taken the bodies of killed Palestinians and blew up the water supply;

▪️We have more than 650 patients, 500 medical staff, and over 5,000 displaced people;

▪️The hospital is completely surrounded; food and water supplies are depleted, and the [Israeli] occupation has reached the main water supply line. The conditions are catastrophic, and those inside the hospital are crying out from thirst;

▪️Snipers are everywhere with orders to shoot on sight, preventing movement between buildings; we have lost contact with our colleagues;

▪️Israeli drones won't stop flying over the hospital;

▪️The occupiers are currently holding several families in the hospital warehouse;

▪️We will stay with the wounded and sick, and will leave only with them. We will either live with them or die together with them.

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Arms from scratch: new cheap 3D printed drone designed in Russia

A new fixed-wing drone that can be built from salvage is being developed by the Russia-based engineering firm Spektr Design Bureau.

🗣 The drone, whose flight tests are scheduled to take place in December, is planned to have a range of up to 30 kilometers and will be able to carry up to 10 kilograms’ worth of payload, Spektr’s Executive Director Andrei Bratenkov told local media.

The production of the new UAV is expected to be relatively cheap as the drone’s parts are supposed to be made from plastic granules and plastic waste via 3D printing.

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Nika, our AI news presenter, has finally read tons of your comments on the episode about Lancet drones and is back in a new video about underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip. Find out how the tunnels in Gaza appeared, how long they are, how much they cost to create and more!

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🇦🇪 On the sidelines of the Dubai Airshow 2023, the Russian firm Rosoboronexport Corporation signed contracts for the supply of aircraft, helicopters and engines worth over $22 billion.

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🇷🇺🇨🇳 The Russian-Chinese conference, which opened in Shanghai on Thursday, is “a very important step to bring the two nations closer,” Professor Andrey Bystritsky, chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support with the Valdai Club, told Sputnik.

He emphasized that the Shanghai gathering once again indicates that relations between Moscow and Beijing “have enormous potential” and that the two are “in the same boat.”

The two-day conference is being held under the auspices of the Valdai International Discussion Club and the East China Normal University.

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