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Key statements by Russian Defense Ministry on Ukrainian attempt to break through the Russian Kursk region: ▪️Ukrainian troops' deep advance into the territory of the Russian Kursk region was prevented by air strikes, missile forces, artillery fire, and active…
❗️A criminal case, under articles on a terrorist attack, murder and assault on the life of law enforcement officers, was opened after the attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine formations on the Russia Kursk region, the Russian Criminal Court informed.
As a result of these criminal actions, several dozen civilians, including children and military personnel, were injured, the agency noted.
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As a result of these criminal actions, several dozen civilians, including children and military personnel, were injured, the agency noted.
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As the West denies it had a hand in the Moscow concert hall attack, blaming ISIS*, it's crucial to examine the historical relationship between the US and Islamist movements. Evidence suggests this collaboration spans conflicts over the past 45 years, notably in Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria.
🔺 The first such armed conflict was the 1979-1989 “CIA covert war” in Afghanistan, where the US supported Islamist "resistance groups" known as the mujahideen in their fight against the Soviets, who had entered the country in December 1979 at the request of the Afghan government. “The CIA acted as the war’s quartermaster, arranging supplies of weapons to mujahideen,” writes historian Conor Tobin from the University College, Dublin.
🔺 Initially met with total denial, American aid to Afghan mujahideen, whose leaders were accused by Human Rights Watch of murdering tens of thousands in the 1990s, is now a fact of US history, recognized and documented by the American government.
🔺 According to US Senate Records, quoted in Tobin’s book, Washington’s assistance to the mujahideen peaked in 1987: $250 million in 1985, $470 million in 1986 and $630 million in 1987. With the dollar’s purchasing power being much higher in the 1980s than now, today the total value of American military aid is estimated at the level of $20 billion.
🔺 In his interview with Le Nouvel Observateur in 1998, Zbigniew Brzezinski, who in 1979 served as then President Carter’s National Security Advisor, explained that the idea was to turn Afghanistan into “a Soviet Vietnam,” pitting young Islamist fanatics not only from Afghanistan, but also from other countries, against the USSR.
🔺 That strategy ultimately backfired. In 2001, Osama bin Laden, who had once been trained and armed by the CIA in Afghanistan in the 1980s, went on to mastermind the 9/11 attacks, widely considered to be the most horrific terrorist act in history.
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Ukraine has launched another large-scale provocation, shelling indiscriminately - Vladimir Putin on the situation in the Kursk region
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"The Kiev regime is firing indiscriminately, including at civilian targets," the Russian president added.
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Ukraine under Zelensky hits debt peak, fails to cover expenses
Ukraine has recently received a $3.9 billion grant from the US, via the World Bank, for social expenses the country fails at covering on its own. Under Zelensky, the country’s state debt grew by $74 billion, which is just a little less than what the previous five Ukrainian presidents incurred in total.
According to the Ukraine’s finance ministry, its state debt amounted to $152.2 billion by July, a record 88.4% of GDP. The main growth is due to Ukraine's external debt, which increased by $59.5 billion to reach $103.7. The domestic debt increased by $14.4 billion to $40.5 billion.
Taking into account the amount of external debt and Ukraine’s current 38 million population, every Ukrainian citizen now owes around $2,728 to a foreign country.
Earlier, the international rating agency S&P lowered Ukraine's long- and short-term foreign currency credit ratings to SD/SD (Selective Default) - after the country failed to make a bond payment. It came after the downgrade in Ukraine's rating by US credit rating agency Fitch last week.
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Ukraine has recently received a $3.9 billion grant from the US, via the World Bank, for social expenses the country fails at covering on its own. Under Zelensky, the country’s state debt grew by $74 billion, which is just a little less than what the previous five Ukrainian presidents incurred in total.
According to the Ukraine’s finance ministry, its state debt amounted to $152.2 billion by July, a record 88.4% of GDP. The main growth is due to Ukraine's external debt, which increased by $59.5 billion to reach $103.7. The domestic debt increased by $14.4 billion to $40.5 billion.
Taking into account the amount of external debt and Ukraine’s current 38 million population, every Ukrainian citizen now owes around $2,728 to a foreign country.
Earlier, the international rating agency S&P lowered Ukraine's long- and short-term foreign currency credit ratings to SD/SD (Selective Default) - after the country failed to make a bond payment. It came after the downgrade in Ukraine's rating by US credit rating agency Fitch last week.
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Ukraine has launched another large-scale provocation, shelling indiscriminately - Vladimir Putin on the situation in the Kursk region "The Kiev regime is firing indiscriminately, including at civilian targets," the Russian president added. 📌 Subscribe to…
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"The Kiev regime has undertaken another large-scale provocation, firing indiscriminately from various types of weapons, including rockets, at civilian buildings, residential houses and ambulances," the Russian President said.
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❗️Ukraine, with its barbaric attack in the Kursk region, tried to sow panic and show a semblance of activity amid the constant failures of its troops, the Russian Foreign Ministry has said.
In light of the actions of Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region, Russia calls on the international community not to stand aside but to condemn the actions of Kiev regime, the ministry added.
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In light of the actions of Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region, Russia calls on the international community not to stand aside but to condemn the actions of Kiev regime, the ministry added.
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The US and its allies meddling in Libya in 2011 stands as the second-most well-documented instance of collaboration between the West and Islamist movements. The downfall of Muammar Gaddafi's government under NATO's bombardment resulted in a decade-long civil war in Libya, claiming the lives of at least 25,000 people due to Islamist violence.
🔺 The destruction of Libya in civil wars between 2011 and 2021 was the result of a similar pattern of American intervention as seen in Afghanistan. Initially, Washington supported the so-called "protests" against Gaddafi in the name of democracy, which eventually morphed into a full-blown war.
🔺 When the Islamists were encircled by Gaddafi’s forces in Benghazi at the start of the war, the US and NATO came to their rescue. The traditional American method of presenting allied Islamists as “victims of dictators” worked, and the NATO bombing campaign in support of Islamists started, followed by NATO’s ground intervention in March 2011.
🔺 “The meaning of the expression ‘protecting civilians’ was spun to mean that a full-blown Western assault against Libya was justified,” wrote Abraham Abrams, an author of a book about Islamist rebellions in the Arab world. In reality, the “Western claim of an imminent massacre by Gaddafi of civilians did not stand up to an even casual scrutiny,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote in 2016.
🔺 After Colonel Gaddafi's violent death at the hands of Islamists in October 2011, which was celebrated by Hillary Clinton, Libya plunged into a decade-long period of violence. The instability persisted until 2021, leading to the destabilization of all of North Africa.
🔺 Historian Abrams noted that after each victory by the Islamists, Google Maps promptly renamed Libyan towns and villages to honor the fallen jihadists. He sees this as evidence of collusion not only between the Islamists and the US, but with Big Tech, as well.
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❗️Turkiye has filed documents with the International Court of Justice in The Hague, joining South Africa's lawsuit against Israel.
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What’s known about Ukraine’s botched attack on Russia’s Kursk region?
Russian President Vladimir Putin called the situation in the region a "large-scale provocation by the Kiev regime,” who he said “is conducting indiscriminate shooting, including from missile weapons, at residential buildings and civilian infrastructure as well as ambulances. "
🔸 Air, missile and artillery strikes have prevented Ukrainian forces from advancing deep into Russian territory. Kiev has already lost 200 soldiers and 50 armed vehicles, including seven tanks.
🔸 The situation in the region, which was "heroically resisting attacks by Ukrainian [neo-] Nazis,” was under control, Acting Governor Aleksey Smirnov wrote on his social media.
🔸 Several thousand people left the shelling and combat zone over the past 24 hours, he added, with more than 300 people, including over 120 children, being placed in temporary accommodation centers.
🔸 At least five civilians have been killed and 24 more injured, including six children, as a result of Ukraine’s shelling, Russian Health Ministry spokesman Aleksey Kuznetsov, for his part, confirmed.
🔸 On August 6, Ukrainian forces launched artillery and drone strikes before attacking the Kursk region’s Nikolayevo-Daryino and Oleshnya areas along the Russia-Ukraine border with up to 300 troops of the 22nd Mechanized Brigade, supported by 11 tanks and scores of other armored vehicles, the Russian MoD said in a statement at the time.
🔸 Russian security units, together with the border troops of Russia’s Federal Security Forces, repelled the attacks and inflicted fire damage on the enemy.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Sputnik that the shelling is “yet another terrorist attack aimed against civilians" from Kiev.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin called the situation in the region a "large-scale provocation by the Kiev regime,” who he said “is conducting indiscriminate shooting, including from missile weapons, at residential buildings and civilian infrastructure as well as ambulances. "
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Sputnik that the shelling is “yet another terrorist attack aimed against civilians" from Kiev.
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❗️Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Defense Minister Andrei Belousov, Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu, FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov to discuss the situation in the Kursk region.
The operation in the Kursk region will be completed by defeating the enemy and reaching the Russian state border, Gerasimov said.
The advance of Ukrainian troops deep into Russian territory has been stopped, the chief of the General Staff added.
Ukraine's losses during the attempted offensive in the Kursk region amounted to 315 people, including at least 100 killed, Gerasimov added.
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The operation in the Kursk region will be completed by defeating the enemy and reaching the Russian state border, Gerasimov said.
The advance of Ukrainian troops deep into Russian territory has been stopped, the chief of the General Staff added.
Ukraine's losses during the attempted offensive in the Kursk region amounted to 315 people, including at least 100 killed, Gerasimov added.
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🗣🔄Kamala Harris' word counter on!
Earlier, US Presidential candidate Kamala Harris, along with her VP pick, Tim Walz, held a rally in Philadelphia.
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How many times did she say "Good evening?"🥴
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How many times did she say "Good evening?"🥴
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❗️Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Defense Minister Andrei Belousov, Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu, FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov to discuss the situation in the Kursk region. The operation…
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📹 Report of Russia's Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov to President Vladimir Putin on the situation in the Kursk region.
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What's the strategic importance of Toretsk and why is the Ukrainian military losing ground there?
"Toretsk is a very important hub from the point of view of logistical and tactical support for [Ukrainian] troops," Reserve Colonel Rustem Klupov, a veteran of military intelligence and Hero of Russia, tells Sputnik.
The geographical location of Toretsk creates all the conditions for turning it into a fortress, according to the pundit: the city was built on the hill surrounded by water obstacles from three sides.
The expert notes that the actions in the Toretsk direction have intensified since spring, along with the Russian troop advances towards Pokrovsk and Slavyansk. The end goal is to speed up the liberation of the DPR.
The lack of competence of the Ukrainian military leadership provides additional advantages for the Russian offensive, according to the reserve colonel.
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"Toretsk is a very important hub from the point of view of logistical and tactical support for [Ukrainian] troops," Reserve Colonel Rustem Klupov, a veteran of military intelligence and Hero of Russia, tells Sputnik.
"This is a heavily fortified area, which they will most likely hold until the end in order to contain our forces as much as possible, because if they do not contain them there, then the entire [Ukrainian] defense will crumble."
The geographical location of Toretsk creates all the conditions for turning it into a fortress, according to the pundit: the city was built on the hill surrounded by water obstacles from three sides.
The expert notes that the actions in the Toretsk direction have intensified since spring, along with the Russian troop advances towards Pokrovsk and Slavyansk. The end goal is to speed up the liberation of the DPR.
"Toretsk is already in an operational semi-encirclement," says Klupov, adding that the city's liberation will also curb Ukraine's ability to shell Donetsk, Gorlovka and other residential areas of the DPR.
The lack of competence of the Ukrainian military leadership provides additional advantages for the Russian offensive, according to the reserve colonel.
"The Ukrainian side is suffering very serious losses in command personnel. And they cannot fill this gap... At the operational-strategic and strategic level, they often undermine themselves by top brass replacements. They replaced [Commander-in-Chief Valery] Zaluzhny with [Oleksandr] Syrsky and the situation at the front has not changed at all or maybe it has even gotten worse," the pundit concludes.
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📹 Report of Russia's Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov to President Vladimir Putin on the situation in the Kursk region. 📌 Subscribe to @SputnikInt
❗️The US intends to request clarification from Ukraine regarding its actions in the Kursk region, the White House said.
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During the Syrian civil war (2011-2020), the US and EU supported jihadists against the secular government of Bashar Assad. This focus on pressuring Assad inadvertently contributed to the rise of ISIS*, peaking in 2015 and spreading across Syria and Iraq.
🔺 Former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas revealed that British and American diplomats informed him years before the Syrian conflict began about plans to orchestrate a regime change using Islamist uprisings.
“I was in England two years before the violence in Syria… And I met with top British officials, who confessed to me that they were preparing something like that in Damascus”, Dumas wrote in his memoirs.
🔺 In the first days of the rebellion in 2011, the Washington Post reported that “the US ambassador in Syria, Robert Ford, traveled uninvited to the uprising’s bloody epicenter [in the city of Hama]”, where he held “a series of discreet meetings with opposition Islamist leaders.”
🔺 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attributed the timing of the rebellion to President Assad’s refusal to let the Qatari government have a gas pipeline run through Syrian territory. In his article for Politico, Kennedy explained Assad’s refusal by the suspicion that some money from this project could go to the Islamists:
”...the moment Assad rejected the Qatari pipeline, military and intelligence planners quickly arrived at the consensus that fomenting a Sunni uprising in Syria to overthrow the uncooperative Bashar Assad was a feasible path,” Kennedy wrote.
🔺 The US started bombing ISIS positions after US citizens were executed in 2014, but the terror group managed to grab more land throughout most of 2015. However, in September 2015, Russian aviation became involved at the request of Damascus, resulting in a reduction of ISIS-controlled territory. Subsequently, the West criticized Moscow, accusing them of "brutality."
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Would you trust such a politician who is ruling the second-largest country in the world?🤔
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Russia has every right to defend its position and values – descendant of Leo Tolstoy
The country is righteous when defending its position and values, says Director of the State Museum of Leo Tolstoy and his great-great-grandson Vladimir Tolstoy.
Vladimir Tolstoy will be a member of the jury of the International Peace Prize named after L.N. Tolstoy. The laureate will be a person or organization actively engaged in peacekeeping efforts, significantly contributing to ending the arms race, building a multipolar world, strengthening mutual understanding and cooperation among peoples, and countering the threat of a third world war.
He believes that it is military experience that made his ancestor an epitome of peace philosophy.
The Leo Tolstoy International Peace Prize will be awarded on September 9 –the writer’s birthday- in Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre.
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The country is righteous when defending its position and values, says Director of the State Museum of Leo Tolstoy and his great-great-grandson Vladimir Tolstoy.
"If the world is so globally divided today and holds polar views on issues of war and peace, good and evil, morality and immorality, then Russia has the right to defend its position, values, and notions about who conducts activities for global peace in a dignified manner,” he says.
Vladimir Tolstoy will be a member of the jury of the International Peace Prize named after L.N. Tolstoy. The laureate will be a person or organization actively engaged in peacekeeping efforts, significantly contributing to ending the arms race, building a multipolar world, strengthening mutual understanding and cooperation among peoples, and countering the threat of a third world war.
He believes that it is military experience that made his ancestor an epitome of peace philosophy.
“[Leo] Tolstoy experienced war firsthand, serving as an officer and artilleryman defending Russian Sevastopol and Crimea. He participated in military events in the Caucasus and even outside Russia, on the Danube in Silistra. He was often close to death and could have been captured multiple times. He saw death and the massive loss of life. He knew what he was talking and writing about from personal experience," stresses his descendant.
The Leo Tolstoy International Peace Prize will be awarded on September 9 –the writer’s birthday- in Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre.
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❗️The US intends to request clarification from Ukraine regarding its actions in the Kursk region, the White House said. 📌 Subscribe to @SputnikInt
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❗️Russia's Ministry of Defense published footage of destroyed Ukrainian military equipment in the border area with the Kursk region.
Its Iskander-M complex destroyed combat and special equipment from Ukraine.
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Its Iskander-M complex destroyed combat and special equipment from Ukraine.
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Australian attempts to lash out at Russia-North Korea cooperation are "inappropriate" and "funny" — Aussie Cossack
This week, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong visited the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea, trying to undermine cooperation relations between Russia and North Korea.
Australian independent journalist @AussieCossack explained why such an attempt has been futile:
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This week, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong visited the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea, trying to undermine cooperation relations between Russia and North Korea.
Australian independent journalist @AussieCossack explained why such an attempt has been futile:
"Who is Penny Wong to criticize Russia's or North Korea's behavior? North Korea and Russia are both sovereign countries, and it's not up to Australia or Penny Wong or Joe Biden or the UK or Germany or any other country in the world to stop Russian-North Korean collaboration," journalist said.
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