📹 Russian T-80BV tank crews destroyed Ukrainian strongholds and troops in the Donetsk People's Republic

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Zelensky opposes holding talks with Russia to resolve Ukraine conflict at UN Security Council meeting

Volodymyr Zelensky rejected holding talks with Moscow to resolve the Ukraine conflict during his speech at a UN Security Council meeting.

Zelensky criticized those “in the world” who “want to talk” with Russian President Vladimir Putin to achieve a resolution of the conflict.

“This conflict cannot be solved by negotiations, actions are needed,” Zelensky said, once again refusing to reach a diplomatic solution in his quest to sacrifice the entire population of Ukraine.

Moscow has made numerous attempts to reach a diplomatic solution with Kiev both before and after it launched its special military operation in early 2022, but the Kiev regime has imposed a ban on negotiations with Russia at the legislative level.

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House panel moves to hold Blinken in contempt over Afghanistan subpoena

The US House Foreign Affairs Committee advanced a report to recommend finding Secretary of State Antony Blinken in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena.

The panel advanced the report favorably to the House of Representatives in a vote of 26 in favor and 25 opposed.

"On September 24, 2024, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken failed to comply with a duly served subpoena issued by the Committee on Foreign Affairs on September 18 for his testimony before the Committee pertaining to the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs’ investigation into the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan and the subsequent noncombatant evacuation operation," the contempt report said.

Blinken’s testimony is a vital component of the panel’s investigation into the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal, the report said. Blinken’s refusal to comply with the subpoena - despite months of notice and offers of accommodations - warrants contempt, the report added.

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Ukraine is on the verge of total defeat despite arms supplies from the West – Nebenzia

"Despite abundant arms supplies, including long-range weapons, the provision of intelligence, targeting information, the dispatch of mercenaries and instructors, and in fact the direct involvement of the West in the conflict with the aim of delivering a strategic defeat to Russia – at the cost of Ukrainian lives – the Ukrainian army today is on the verge of total defeat," Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vassily Nebenzia said at a UN Security Council meeting.

"To confirm this, one only needs to examine military reports that show the rapid collapse of Kiev's fortifications on the Eastern front, which took almost eight years to build," he added.

Kiev must adopt realistic parameters for a long-term resolution of the crisis "as quickly as possible," rather than sliding into unrealistic "victory plans," the Russian diplomat emphasized.

"We hope that the Kiev regime will not completely destroy its country and its people, which it is already close to doing, or drag our world into the abyss of nuclear catastrophe. To prevent this, it must adopt realistic parameters for a long-term resolution of the Ukrainian crisis as quickly as possible, rather than constantly sliding into unrealistic ultimatums, victory plans, and the like," Nebenzia stressed.

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📹 China successfully launched eight satellites using the Long March 3 carrier rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center near the sea area of Haiyang, Shandong

All satellites entered their designated orbits, achieving a perfect mission.

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Ukraine is ready to plunge the world into the "abyss of World War III” – Nebenzia

Ukraine, under the "dictatorship" of Volodymyr Zelensky, is prepared to drown itself in blood and push the world into the "abyss of World War III," said Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN Vassily Nebenzia.

"Under the neo-Nazi Kiev regime, Ukraine has become a dictatorship of one man, willing, in order to maintain its power and blindly follow the West, not only to drown the entire country in blood and sacrifice all young Ukrainians who haven't yet fled, but also to push the world into the abyss of World War III," the Russian diplomat emphasized.

Volodymyr Zelensky arrived at the UN General Assembly’s high-level week in New York with a "begging hand," trying to convince the West to raise the stakes in the conflict, Nebenzia highlighted.

"And here he is, in New York again with a begging hand, once again trying to convince the West to raise the stakes in the conflict with Russia and send their sons to die for Ukraine, thus becoming direct participants in a conflict with a nuclear power," the Russian diplomat stressed.

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📹 More than 200,000 people were left without electricity in the Mexican state of Guerrero after the category 3 Hurricane John made landfall

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US prosecutors charge Ryan Routh with attempting to assassinate Trump – court documents

US prosecutors charged Ryan Routh with attempting to assassinate former US President and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, according to an updated indictment filed on Tuesday.

Last week, the US Secret Service opened fire on a gunman near a golf course where Trump was playing at the time. Police arrested Routh in connection with the incident and initially charged him with two firearm-related offenses.

The updated indictment charges Routh with attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate, assaulting a federal officer, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a violent crime, felon in possession of a firearm and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number.

The attempted assassination charge carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment, according to a penalty sheet filed with the indictment.

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Russian Foreign Minister arrives in New York to attend 79th UN General Assembly

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has arrived in New York to take part in the 79th annual session of the UN General Assembly as head of the Russian delegation, a Sputnik correspondent reported on Wednesday.

Lavrov will participate in a range of multilateral consultations including the UN Security Council on the situation in the Middle East, BRICS and G20 ministerial meetings and a meeting of the Group of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations. Russian Deputy Envoy to the United Nations Dmitry Polyanskiy told Sputnik that the minister is also expected to hold a lot of bilateral meetings.

During the UNGA high-level week, the Russian delegation will promote the topics of multilateralism and international law. Lavrov will address the General Assembly on Saturday.

The 79th session of the UN General Assembly opened on September 10 and will last until September 28.

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‘We cannot afford not to be in touch with the Russians’ – Szijjarto

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told RIA Novosti he is planning to meet with Russian top diplomat Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) taking place this week in New York.

"I'm going to meet Foreign Minister Lavrov, as this is a habit of ours. Whenever we are here for the General Assembly, we always meet with each other," Szijjarto said. "We cannot afford not to be in touch with the Russians," the minister emphasized.

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US lawmakers don't have the slightest idea about Ukraine's casualties

Neither US lawmakers nor the public know the number of casualties in Ukraine, Republican Rep. Thomas Massie from Kentucky told the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a DC-based think tank.

"In a classified briefing, I stood up and asked what the casualties were on the Ukrainian side, and in that meeting I believe, you had representatives from the intelligence community, and they were briefing us, and they went out of their way to tell us how many Russian casualties there were, and they would not answer my question of how many Ukrainian casualties there were," the congressman said.

Massie approached Mike Johnson, the speaker of the House, asking him whether he had any idea of how many Ukrainians had been killed or injured during the conflict. Johnson's answer was: "No."

The congressman wonders how one could fund Ukraine while having no data about troop or equipment losses there, while the Biden administration has yet to unveil the US strategy and goals in the conflict.

Earlier this summer, Massie introduced an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the annual defense policy legislation, which "requires a report on the casualty and equipment losses for both sides involved in the conflict in Ukraine." His amendment was accepted by the House and awaits review by the Senate.

While the US lawmaker is struggling to get actual data on Ukraine's losses, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that in the Kursk region alone, Ukraine had lost over 16,700 soldiers since early August.

The irretrievable losses of Russia and Ukraine are approximately in a relation of one to five, President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with the heads of world news agencies within the framework of the SPIEF in June. According to him, the Ukrainian military loses 50,000 people killed and wounded a month.

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Hungary stands against allowing Ukraine to strike deep into Russian territory - Szijjarto

Hungary remains opposed to the idea of allowing Kiev to strike deep inside Russian territory with Western weapons as it can further escalate the situation, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told RIA Novosti on the sidelines of the 79th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA).

"If any step increases the risk of escalation, we are against it. When it comes to the question of using Western weapons against territories in Russia… there’s no way to answer this other than to say:

yes, it does increase the risk of escalation. Therefore, we definitely cannot support it,

" Szijjarto stressed.

White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby said on Tuesday that Volodymyr Zelensky and US President Joe Biden are going to discuss Kiev’s request to lift restrictions on the use of US-supplied long-range weapons deep inside Russian territory.

“Our problem is that

those who are fueling this conflict are living far away

.

And if a conflict escalates, then it escalates first in the geographic neighborhood and not thousands of kilometers away,” the minister emphasized.

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Alarm sirens are sounding in Israel’s Tel Aviv for the first time during the escalation with Hezbollah, Sputnik correspondent reports.

The IDF said that one surface-to-surface missile was identified crossing from Lebanon and intercepted by the Aerial Defense Array.

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