🎥 A Russian battalion named in honor of Bogdan Khmelnitsky, consisting of ex-Ukrainian prisoners of war, has departed on a combat mission, fighter Viktor Kirichansky who goes by the code name “Kirik” told Sputnik.

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🇺🇸 US F-35 upgrade stymied by software problems, prompting delivery woes

The Pentagon is scrambling to fix delivery setbacks of its F-35 Joint Strike Fighter due to problems with software upgrades.
Tech Refresh 3, a suite of upgrades to the newest F-35s, has been plagued by software problems, forcing months-long delays to delivery, a US military news outlet reported.

The Defense Department is said to be mulling uploading “interim versions” of TR-3 software to speed up acceptance flights and get deliveries back on track.

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

▪️Russian forces repelled an attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) in the Kharkov region.

▪️The Russian Armed Forces attacked Ukrainian troops in the Donetsk direction; Ukrainian losses amounted to 115 servicemen killed and wounded.

▪️Russian air defense systems shot down a Ukrainian MiG-29 in the DPR.

▪️The Russian Armed Forces repelled three attacks by Ukrainian assault groups in the Zaporozhye region and eliminated up to 60 Ukrainian servicemen.

▪️The Russian Armed Forces destroyed a Ukrainian warehouse of aviation weapons and an S-300 anti-aircraft missile system.

▪️Russian air defense systems destroyed 45 Ukrainian drones.

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🇷🇺🇻🇪 Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the signing of an agreement on strategic partnership and cooperation with Venezuela.

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❗️Putin Addresses G20 Leaders’ Virtual Summit.

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🇷🇺 Putin says at the G20 summit that this format is an important structure in economic management, especially since confrontational attempts are still ongoing.

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🇷🇺 "The war in Ukraine cannot but shock, but the coup in Ukraine and the extermination of civilians there and in Palestine are not shocking," Putin said. He also wondered why world leaders are “not shocked” by the UN Secretary General’s words that the Gaza Strip has turned into a huge children’s cemetery.

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🇷🇺 Putin at G20 Summit calls Nord Stream bombing act of international terrorism.

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🇷🇺 Major stress in the global economy caused by the macroeconomic policies of some countries, Putin said.

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🇰🇵🛰 Why did North Korea launch a spy satellite?

North Korea’s homegrown spy technology in orbit will probably be a "positive development for the region", Russia's scholar of Korean studies, Andrei Lankov, told Sputnik.

The successful launch by Pyongyang of the reconnaissance satellite Malligyong-1, announced on Tuesday, was met with a predictable degree of alarm from South Korea, Japan, and the US.

However, Lankov suggested that the appearance of Pyongyang’s intelligence satellites in orbit will render the situation on the Korean Peninsula “more stable”.

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🇷🇺 "The war in Ukraine cannot but shock, but isn’t the coup in Ukraine and the extermination of the civilian population there and in Palestine shocking?" asks Putin.

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🇷🇺 Turbulence in economy caused not by Russia's actions in Ukraine, but by actions of West, Putin said.

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🇷🇺📹 Watch Russian President Vladimir Putin's full speech at the G20 summit.

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“The United States has lost all credibility now as a mediator, and nobody in the Arab world at the current moment sees the United States as a mediator. It is part of this war with Israel against the Arab people. And because of the shift of balance of power to happen, especially after the Ukraine war, the regional powers have become emboldened, countries are now challenging the United States. It's not like the situation ten or 15 years ago," Kevork Almassian, founder of Syriana Analysis, told the New Rules podcast.

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Switzerland approved on Wednesday the export of 25 tanks back to Germany after Berlin gave assurances that it would not break Swiss military neutrality laws by re-exporting them to Ukraine.

"Germany has undertaken not to send the tanks to Ukraine and given assurances that they will remain either in Germany, with NATO, or with its EU partners," the Swiss Federal Council said.

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Why Does the West Want Zelensky Out?

Ukrainian President Zelensky's fate has already been sealed by his Western patrons, international affairs analyst Mark Sleboda told Sputnik's Backstory podcast.

"They've lost confidence in Zelensky. He has been overruling not only his own generals on the battlefield, but he's been more importantly, he's been overruling NATO's planned offensive for him. All the indications are they want [General Valery] Zaluzhny to take over, but they can't go through another openly US backed coup in the country so soon after the last one. You know, they what they want the veneer, the appearance of elections to do this," Sleboda explained.

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🇧🇾 Belarus’s ATACMS and HIMARS-defeating beast: what’s the Polonez-M MLRS?

The Belarusian Army has taken delivery of a new batch of upgraded Polonez-M multiple-launch rocket systems.
The MLRS uses 301 mm caliber rockets, has a range of up to 300 km, and is nearly unstoppable thanks to a blazing-fast speed of up to 700 meters per second at angles up to 80 degrees in its terminal flight stage. The system can fire off a salvo of eight rockets in less than 50 seconds flat, with its high-explosive/high-explosive fragmentation warheads separating from their spent rocket engines, further reducing the enemy’s ability to ID or intercept them.

Each Polonez-M battery consists of two launchers, two transport-loaders and a mobile control module, and the system is based on Belarusian-made heavy-duty trucks which are also used by the Chinese and Russian militaries.

The system’s range, capabilities and firepower have been compared to America’s High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) and even the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS), with some analysts saying the Belarusian system is “even more accurate and modern.

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🇸🇱 Exclusive | Minister of Sierra Leone talks about the contribution of Russian education to the development of the West African nation

Thousands of Sierra Leonean students have received higher education in the Soviet Union and Russia, and upon their return have applied their knowledge to the development of the West African nation, Dr. Haja Ramatulai Wurie, Minister of Technical and Higher Education of the Republic of Sierra Leone, told Sputnik Africa.

💬 "We have got thousands of students who have already benefited, have gone back and have contributed the knowledge and the insights that they have acquired while studying in Russia. They have been able to apply that in Sierra Leone and contributed immensely to national development," the minister noted.

Russian education is "very attractive" to Sierra Leone, she added.

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🇰🇵 North Korea reportedly launched a ballistic missile toward the East Sea on Wednesday night; the launch probably failed.

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💬 "Never in my lifetime did I think I'd witness a genocide. One person is trying to eradicate another. But humanity has fallen back to the dark ages, and 80 years after the Nazis killed 6 million Jews in the Holocaust, the victims have now become perpetrators," Jeff Monson, an American-born Russian MMA fighter, said in his recently published video.

The MMA legend obtained Russian citizenship in May 2018 and became a lawmaker in the city of Krasnogorsk, near Moscow. Earlier, he proved to be an ardent supporter of Donbass, which resisted the Kiev regime after the illegitimate ouster of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich in February 2014.

In 2023, Jeff announced that he would renounce his American citizenship because of his opposition to the current policies of the US government, including the militarization of Ukraine.

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