🎥 Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived at the Zagulba residence in Azerbaijan to hold talks with President Ilham Aliyev.

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Russia is ready to expand cooperation with Baku on issues of Russian language development, Vladimir Putin said during talks with his Azerbaijani counterpart in Baku.

Moscow would be happy if it could help strike a peace deal on Karabakh, he said.

Putin said that together with the Azeri leader, they discussed the issue of settling the situation in the South Caucasus and will continue talks on the matter today.

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🎥 WATCH: A large group of Ukrainian saboteurs was captured in the Kursk region

Russian marines of the 810th Black Sea Fleet Brigade captured a sabotage and reconnaissance group of 19 Ukrainian soldiers near Olgovka village. They belong to the 22nd Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian forces.

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❗️Germany must answer all questions about the Nord Stream bombing, Sergei Lavrov said.

The Russian foreign minister said that if the information Moscow wants is not provided officially, but appears in the media, that would suggest a set-up.

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❗️Ukraine lost up to 1,935 militants in one day, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense.

🇷🇺🪖 More statements from the Russian Defense Ministry’s daily briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

◻️ In the Russian Sever Battlegroup's combat zone in the Kharkov region, Ukrainian losses reached up to 170 militants, along with one tank and two infantry fighting vehicles.

◻️ The Russian Vostok Battlegroup struck three Ukrainian field depots, with enemy losses reaching up to 90 militants.

◻️ The Russian Zapad Battlegroup hit more favorable positions and repelled two counterattacks, inflicting losses of up to 535 militants.

◻️ Combat actions by the Russian Yug Battlegroup resulted in up to 570 Ukrainian militants killed.

◻️ Russian air defense systems shot down 49 drones, 26 HIMARS rockets, and one Hammer guided bomb.

◻️ In the Russian Tsentr Battlegroup's combat zone, Ukrainian losses amounted to over 495 militants and two tanks.

◻️ Ukrainian losses in the Russian Dnepr Battlegroup's combat zone totaled up to 75 militants.

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❗️It is absolutely clear to Russia that the government in Kiev is a terrorist and Nazi regime, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

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❗️Germany is exchanging data with Russia on the Nord Stream bombing, but is not informing it about the investigation’s interim results, the German Foreign Ministry says

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🎥 WATCH: Russian Su-34 destroyed a Ukrainian S-300P air defense missile system that was striking civilian targets in the Belgorod region, the Defense Ministry reported

Aerial reconnaissance detected a Ukrainian S-300P air defense missile system near the settlement of Volnoye in the Kharkov region. This air defense system was hitting civilian targets near Belgorod.

Russian forces fired a Kh-35 missile at the Ukrainian anti-aircraft system’s launch site. As a result, Russian troops observed the launcher catching fire and detonating.

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Has the Kiev regime's plan failed?

One of the objectives facing the Ukrainian army in the Kursk region was to enter Kursk, said Major-General Apty Alaudinov, deputy head of the Main Military-Political Directorate of the Russian Defense Ministry and commander of the Akhmat commando unit.

He came to such conclusions after interrogating Ukrainian prisoners and upon obtaining other materials.

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Clooney Foundation for Justice: Why did Russia just ban Hollywood megastar’s fake charity?
 
The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office deemed the activities of the New York-headquartered Clooney Foundation for Justice an undesirable organization on Monday, effectively banning the its activities in Russia.

“The Foundation…carries out work aimed at discrediting Russia. It actively supports false patriots who have fled the country, members of banned extremist associations and terrorist organizations. Hiding behind humanitarian ideas, the fighters for justice from Madison Avenue are promoting initiatives for the criminal prosecution of Russia’s top leadership, publicly disseminating negative pseudo-expert-based assessments of Russian legislation on foreign agents and NGOs,” the Prosecutor General’s Office said in a statement.

Clooney’s fund joins the rubbish heap of other undesirable organizations banned in Russia, from the Soros Foundations and the National Endowment for Democracy to the Atlantic Council, the Jamestown Foundation, the RAND Corporation, and others.

The Hollywood star and Jeffrey Epstein-connected multimillionaire’s fund was founded in 2016 by Clooney and his wife, human rights lawyer Amal Clooney.

The globalist vehicle disguised as a charity has received major funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and got in the crosshairs of the Russian state in May, when it weaponized its so-called “Docket Project” to issue secret arrest warrants against Russian journalists in Europe, including reporters covering the Ukraine conflict. 

Clooney and other Hollywood celebrities have long been suspected of ties to US intelligence and the deep state. Last month, independent journalist Brett Carollo sent a Freedom of Information Act request to the Central Intelligence Agency relating to “all communications” between Clooney and the agency.

In June, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Radio Sputnik that many of Hollywood’s top stars seem to owe their careers to the promotion of a political agenda, “whether it’s Tibet, the anti-Russian agenda or something else.”

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Statements by the Russian Defense Ministry on the situation in the Kursk region

◻️ Units of the Sever battlegroup, supported by army aviation and artillery fire, are conducting reconnaissance and search operations to identify and destroy enemy sabotage groups in forests south of the settlements of Skrylevka and Sheptukhovka.

◻️ Attacks by enemy assault groups towards the settlements of Olgovka, Russkoye and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye have been repelled. As a result, the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) lost a tank, an infantry fighting vehicle, two combat armored vehicles and more than 25 troops. Four Ukrainian servicemen were taken prisoner.

◻️ Air strikes, artillery fire and the actions of the defending troops damaged concentrations of Ukrainian manpower and equipment in the areas of the settlements of Borki, Bogdanovka, Vishnevka, Viktorovka, Kositsa, Lyubimovka, Melovoy, Snagost, west of Martynovka and southeast of Korenevo.

◻️ Operational-tactical aviation carried out strikes on concentration areas of UAF personnel and military equipment reserves in the areas of the settlements of Basovka, Vorozhba, Kruzhok, Miropolye, Novaya Sich and Sadki in the Sumy region.

◻️ Over the past 24 hours, the UAF lost more than 330 servicemen and 27 armored vehicles, including four tanks, an infantry fighting vehicle, three armored personnel carriers, 19 combat armored vehicles, as well as eight cars, two artillery pieces and three mortars.

◻️ In total, during the military operations in the Kursk direction, the enemy lost up to 3,800 servicemen, 54 tanks, 26 infantry fighting vehicles, 48 armored personnel carriers, 281 armored combat vehicles, 123 vehicles, 27 artillery pieces, five anti-aircraft missile systems, seven multiple launch rocket system launchers, including three HIMARS and one MLRS, five electronic warfare stations, as well as four units of engineering equipment, including two engineering vehicles for obstacle clearance and one UR-77 mine clearing unit.

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Is the US frightened by Iran’s potential nukes?

Iran could declare itself a nuclear weapons state "by the end of the year”, Mike Turner, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee predicted, going on to blame the Biden administration for this possible outcome.

"What we see now with this administration, [Iran] might declare themselves a nuclear weapons state by the end of this year, with the reports have been- news reports have been out stating that there is a possibility," he said on Sunday.

Earlier, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian remarked that Iran’s defense doctrine does not include any provisions for nuclear weapons. In light of this, the United States will have to reconsider its policy towards Tehran.

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Statements by Putin and Aliyev following talks in Baku:

◻️ Azeri President Ilham Aliyev said that and Russia’s Vladimir Putin held a detailed discussion on a "north-south" transport project. The possibility of moving 15 million tonnes of cargo or more along the route every year was considered.

◻️ Putin said he and Aliyev discussed a wide range of bilateral issues between Russia and Azerbaijan.

◻️ During the talks, special attention was paid to increasing mutual trade between the two countries, Putin said.

◻️ Development of the north-south corridor will benefit relations between Russia and Azerbaijan, Putin stated.

◻️ Russia and Azerbaijan are building tankers for the transportation of oil products; this will increase the supply of energy resources to world markets, Putin said.

◻️ Russia supports raising Azerbaijan’s status within the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and back’s the republic's goal of strengthening ties with the BRICS group of countries.

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