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🚀 Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle with Meteor-M satellite installed at the launch complex of Vostochny cosmodrome
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❗️The first Abrams tank deployed by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the special operation zone was destroyed in the Avdeyevka area, Pushilin’s advisor Yan Gagin told Sputnik.
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❗️The first Abrams tank deployed by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the special operation zone was destroyed in the Avdeyevka area, Pushilin’s advisor Yan Gagin told Sputnik. Subscribe to @SputnikInt
Photos of a burning Abrams tank and a video posted on social media allegedly depicting the moment when the tank was shot has been circulating online. In the second video, an unknowing Abrams tank can be seen carelessly wandering before the attack occurs.
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🇹🇷 On his 70th birthday, Turkish President Erdogan opened a new train line in Istanbul and received a cake with his own image as a gift.
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Zelensky’s Ukraine casualty numbers don’t match up with Western figures
At least 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed since February 2022, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Sunday.
This was the first official death toll from the Kiev regime in over a year. Zelensky’s estimate is wildly disparate with those that even US officials and the oft-distorted mainstream media have served up. Here is a look at some of them:
▪️January 2022: Gen. Eirik Kristoffersen, Norway's defense chief, offered an estimate of Ukraine’s losses appearing on Norwegian TV. “Ukrainian losses are probably over 100,000 dead or wounded,” Kristoffersen told TV2.
▪️September 2022: General Mark Milley, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaking at the press conference at the Ramstein airbase in Germany, mentioned tens of thousands of Ukrainian losses
▪️Also at the time, unnamed US officials were quoted by The New York Times as saying privately that the numbers were closer to 120,000 killed and wounded.
▪️Feb. 21, 2023: A Pentagon trove of secrets leaked online through the Discord messaging platform said US officials believed that as of February, Ukraine had suffered 124,500 to 131,000 casualties.
▪️Aug. 18, 2023: US officials estimated Ukraine’s battlefield losses at close to 70,000 killed and 100,000 to 120,000 wounded. They claimed the figure was derived using satellite imagery, communication intercepts, social media and on-the-ground media reports
▪️When reporting on Zelensky's latest claim, both The New York Times and The Washington Post conceded that these figures could not be independently verified, with the NYT pointing out that it “differs sharply from estimates by US officials.”
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At least 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed since February 2022, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Sunday.
This was the first official death toll from the Kiev regime in over a year. Zelensky’s estimate is wildly disparate with those that even US officials and the oft-distorted mainstream media have served up. Here is a look at some of them:
▪️January 2022: Gen. Eirik Kristoffersen, Norway's defense chief, offered an estimate of Ukraine’s losses appearing on Norwegian TV. “Ukrainian losses are probably over 100,000 dead or wounded,” Kristoffersen told TV2.
▪️September 2022: General Mark Milley, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaking at the press conference at the Ramstein airbase in Germany, mentioned tens of thousands of Ukrainian losses
▪️Also at the time, unnamed US officials were quoted by The New York Times as saying privately that the numbers were closer to 120,000 killed and wounded.
▪️Feb. 21, 2023: A Pentagon trove of secrets leaked online through the Discord messaging platform said US officials believed that as of February, Ukraine had suffered 124,500 to 131,000 casualties.
▪️Aug. 18, 2023: US officials estimated Ukraine’s battlefield losses at close to 70,000 killed and 100,000 to 120,000 wounded. They claimed the figure was derived using satellite imagery, communication intercepts, social media and on-the-ground media reports
▪️When reporting on Zelensky's latest claim, both The New York Times and The Washington Post conceded that these figures could not be independently verified, with the NYT pointing out that it “differs sharply from estimates by US officials.”
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❗️The Hungarian Parliament has approved Sweden’s application to join NATO.
The vote was 188 for and six against out of 199 deputies in the Hungarian parliament. Hungary became the last NATO country to approve Sweden's application.
By recruiting Sweden and Finland to the alliance, NATO has absorbed the last neutral countries of Scandinavia, seriously escalating tensions in Northern Europe and the Arctic and leaving global security even more fragile.
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The vote was 188 for and six against out of 199 deputies in the Hungarian parliament. Hungary became the last NATO country to approve Sweden's application.
By recruiting Sweden and Finland to the alliance, NATO has absorbed the last neutral countries of Scandinavia, seriously escalating tensions in Northern Europe and the Arctic and leaving global security even more fragile.
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🇰🇵 The state news agency of the DPRK has sharply responded to remarks by Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko, who spoke about Ukraine's readiness to fight North Korea in the future.
In an article, one of the agency's columnists called Ukraine "weak" and the DPRK a global nuclear power. Pyongyang considered Goncharenko's comments as "the height of ignorance and ridicule."
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In an article, one of the agency's columnists called Ukraine "weak" and the DPRK a global nuclear power. Pyongyang considered Goncharenko's comments as "the height of ignorance and ridicule."
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Scientists in Crimea have come up with an innovative nanopowder that can be used in aircraft construction, radiation protection, as well as the production of new materials and equipment, Vladimir Gavrish, director of the Advanced Technologies Center at Sevastopol University, told Sputnik.
According to Vladimir Gavrish, in aircraft construction, nanopowders can be used to create new alloys that are stronger and lighter, reducing the weight of aircraft and increasing their payload capacity. In radiation protection, nanopowders can be used to create new materials that absorb ionizing radiation more effectively.
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"It can be used in many areas, now we have the best results in composite materials, radio-protective materials, in certain construction mixtures, concrete, cement, ceramics and so on. And further use is primarily additive technologies, possibly the creation of new devices, taking into account photocatalytic effects, the creation of new alloys," the scientist said.
According to Vladimir Gavrish, in aircraft construction, nanopowders can be used to create new alloys that are stronger and lighter, reducing the weight of aircraft and increasing their payload capacity. In radiation protection, nanopowders can be used to create new materials that absorb ionizing radiation more effectively.
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Rats on a sinking ship: Why did NYT publish expose on CIA ops in Ukraine?
“They’re lying about the US role in those early stages,” former CIA analyst Larry Johnson told Sputnik, commenting on the NYT expose published Sunday on the US intel agency’s operations in Ukraine.
“And then, they’re saying that it was the United States trying to rein in Ukraine from carrying out all these terrorist attacks. So it’s really like we’re trying to send the message that ‘these attacks on Russia were not the fault of the United States, it was the Ukrainians acting on their own,’” which is another patent falsehood, according to Johnson.
The story’s publication is “a sign that the end is near for Ukraine,” the observer believes. “It’s a sign that the rats are starting to leave the sinking ship. This is their way to say that it’s not the fault of the United States. You know, ‘we did everything we could, it’s these crazy Ukrainians.’ This is part of a ‘blame Ukraine’” narrative.
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“They’re lying about the US role in those early stages,” former CIA analyst Larry Johnson told Sputnik, commenting on the NYT expose published Sunday on the US intel agency’s operations in Ukraine.
“They’re lying about the US and British role in helping create the coup and what happened in the Maidan. They’re acting like ‘oh, you know, the Maidan happened and then the CIA was contacted, after the fact’. Well that’s not true,” Johnson said.
“And then, they’re saying that it was the United States trying to rein in Ukraine from carrying out all these terrorist attacks. So it’s really like we’re trying to send the message that ‘these attacks on Russia were not the fault of the United States, it was the Ukrainians acting on their own,’” which is another patent falsehood, according to Johnson.
The story’s publication is “a sign that the end is near for Ukraine,” the observer believes. “It’s a sign that the rats are starting to leave the sinking ship. This is their way to say that it’s not the fault of the United States. You know, ‘we did everything we could, it’s these crazy Ukrainians.’ This is part of a ‘blame Ukraine’” narrative.
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