🦾 Rescue tech at its best: Robot rolls victims to safety in emergencies

⛔️ Meet a Japanese robot designed to save lives during emergencies.

It pulls unconscious victims to safety using a conveyor belt and rolls them to safety without risking the lives of firefighters.

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🇷🇺 VIKTOR LEONOV: HERO WHO SHAPED SOVIET AND MODERN RUSSIAN SPECIAL FORCES

👉 Viktor Leonov was one of the founders of the legendary Northern Fleet's reconnaissance detachment, responsible for sending German transports and elite Wehrmacht mountain units to the bottom of the Arctic fjords during WWII. For his heroism, he was awarded his first Gold Star of Hero of the Soviet Union in 1944.

But his greatest trial and glory lay ahead.

Check out the details in this video by Sputnik👆

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☦️ ⚔️ Holy relics DESECRATED amid Ukraine's WAR ON ORTHODOXY

🔊 Staff of the so-called “museum” at the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra have removed reliquaries with the relics of Orthodox saints and dumped them outside, the Union of Orthodox Journalists reports.

😶 It adds that some kind of “manipulations” are being performed with the holy relics.

🗣 The move has stirred a wave of condemnation in Russia, with claims that this "act of terrible anti-Orthodox vandalism only confirms the militant attitude of the Western world towards the destruction of Orthodoxy and, through it, the entire Russian world."

👉 Earlier in the year, Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture formed a commission to "inspect" the relics of saints in the caves of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra amid the crackdown on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC).

📅 In 2023, Ukraine struck a deal with UNESCO to remove Christian treasures from the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) claimed the relics were headed for museums in Italy, France, Germany, and the Vatican.

“The West has always plundered its colonies—Ukraine is no exception,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned at the time.

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🚨 🇵🇸 Israel airstrikes completely obliterated Al-Manasra refugee camp in central Gaza

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🚨 🇺🇸 US farmers left crying as Brazil SNATCHES Chinese soy market

👉 The new blow is direct fallout from the US tariff war on BRICS.

🔍 How severe will the consequences be?

🌾 Zero crops orders

🔸 Soya bean growers are begging the Trump White House to strike a deal with China as prices crash and this year’s harvest may rot in silos

🔸 China has no new soya orders from the US for marketing year 2025/26—when it typically books 14% of the expected harvest

🔸 China buys 61% of the world’s soybeans, mostly for animal feed, as meat demand soars

🔸 But with a 20% retaliatory tariff and taxes piling duties to 34% in 2025, US farmers are priced out while rivals scoop up the market

🔸 US farmers felt the heat in 2018. Soybean exports to China plunged from $12.8b before Trump’s first trade war to $3.2b in 2018 – costing farmers $9.4b says the Department of Agriculture (USDA).

🔸 Exports rose to $14b in 2021, but a new trade war now threatens another crash as China grows tired of US unpredictability

🇧🇷 Brazil fills the void

🔸 China’s soybean imports hit 11.7 million tonnes in July 2025, up 18% year-on-year

🔸 Brazil supplied 10.4 million tonnes—nearly 90%—cementing its dominance as China’s top agricultural partner. US exports plunged by 11% to just 421,000 tonnes, leaving it with less than 4% of the market.

🔸 China began its pivot to Brazil years ago to boost food security. Brazilian soybean output has grown with Chinese investment since the 1990s.

🔸 The USDA estimates Brazil produced 42% more soybeans than the US in 2024/25

🔸 China is using its soybean market to gain influence in US trade talks

🔸 By sourcing more from Brazil, it reduces geopolitical risks and gains steady, reliable supplies.

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📹 WATCH: Russian Pacific Fleet FIREPOWER in action

The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the Pacific Fleet frigate Marshal Shaposhnikov carried out live-fire drills in the Sea of Japan.

💥 The crew launched Kalibr and Uran high-precision cruise missiles, striking a mock enemy sea target with pinpoint accuracy.

🔸 Video released by the ministry shows the launches and the successful hit. successful hit.

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🇷🇺 🇮🇳Blowback: US threats bring Russia and India closer together

💬 “Сloser cooperation among big powers like Russia, India and China is regenerated to reap the benefits and avoid pitfalls of hegemonist approaches,” retired Indian diplomat Anil Trigunayat tells Sputnik after high-level Russo-Indian talks.

📍 Trigunayat stressed that reliability, dependability and the three Ms—mutual interests, mutual sensitivity and mutual respect—are “becoming the guiding principles” of BRICS members.

🇺🇸 Washington’s big strategic mistake

🔶 The US tariff war is alienating India at both trade and geopolitical levels, warns Dr Anant Bhagwat, president of the Global Strategic Policy Foundation Pune

🗣 “What the US tariffs are doing is that they are accelerating India's push towards Atmanirbharta [self-reliance],” he says

🔶 At the same time they are accelerating Russo-Indian copperation under the ‘Make in India’ policy in a vast variety of fields, including defense, railways, nuclear power and crude oil

⚖️ Want to make deals with India? Treat it fairly

🔶 "While the US chooses to impose tariffs, India will diversify partnerships to safeguard our economic resilience," says ruling BJP party leader in Goa Savio Rodrigues

🔶 “The push to achieve $100 billion trade with Russia is not just about numbers; it is a strategic assertion that India has multiple avenues to grow, innovate, and secure its energy and defense needs,” he says

🔶 It's impossible to pit India, Russia and China against each other as the RIC mechanism—Russia, India, China—is a stabilizing forum for Eurasia and the Asia-Pacific

🔶 A carefully revived RIC could become a counterbalance to disruptive global alignments and strengthen India’s role as a bridge-builder

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📹 WATCH: US F/A-18 fighter jet EXPLODES during takeoff in Malaysia – reports

State media agency Bernama, citing the Royal Malaysian Air Force, said the incident occurred at a Malaysian airport. Both pilots survived, according to the Pahang state police chief.

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🚓 Nord Stream sabotage suspect revealed as ex-SBU officer – reports

The Wall Street Journal said the man arrested in Italy, Serhii K., is a retired captain of Ukraine’s security service (SBU) and former army officer.

According to Reuters, German prosecutors allege he led a team that planted explosives on the pipelines near Denmark’s Bornholm island after sailing out of Rostock on a rented yacht using forged documents.

The arrest warrant accuses him of collusion to cause an explosion, sabotage, and destruction of critical infrastructure.

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❓ Serial saboteur? – Arrested Ukrainian may be linked to another terror attack – reports

According to RaiNews, prosecutors in Genoa are probing whether Serhii K., the ex-SBU captain recently arrested in Italy for the Nord Stream sabotage, could also be tied to another attack — the February bombing of the Seajewel oil tanker off Savona.

🚔 Investigators suspect pro-Ukrainian saboteurs planted two explosive devices on the Maltese-flagged vessel.

Though the blasts tore holes in the tanker’s hull, they stopped short of triggering an environmental disaster. Italian prosecutors have opened a case for terrorism-related shipwreck.

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🚜 'STRATEGIC MISTAKE' - EU farmers BLAST trade deal with US

The EU’s largest farm union, Copa and Cogeca, says the new EU–US trade agreement is harming European agriculture, according to their official statement.

💬 “This deal grants improved market access for US agri-food products, while EU producers are left facing higher tariffs, now rising to 15%, on key export products. This one-sided outcome is not only unjustified — it is deeply damaging to a sector already under pressure,” the group said, calling the deal a “strategic mistake.”

The union also criticized the failure to deliver on European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s earlier pledge of zero tariffs on some goods, noting farmers had expected at least a reduction in duties on wine and spirits — but it never came.

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❌ US allegedly blocks allies from intel on Ukraine conflict talks with Russia – reports

CBS News claims US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has ordered that all intelligence related to the ongoing talks with Russia on Ukraine conflict resolution not be shared with US’s closest allies.

The directive, issued on July 20, classified all such material as NOFORN (“no foreign dissemination”), meaning it cannot be shared even with the “Five Eyes” alliance — the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

Officials told CBS News that only information already publicly released can be shared, while internal intelligence reports must remain within the originating agencies. The restriction does not apply to diplomatic or military operational data unrelated to the negotiations.

The White House has not commented on the directive, the outlet added.

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🚨 Attempted rocket attack on UN mission HQ in Tripoli – reports

Libya’s Ministry of Interior said it had foiled an attempt to target the UN Mission headquarters in Tripoli with an SPG rocket, calling the incident a “dangerous precedent” against international missions.

According to the ministry, the rocket landed in a residential home in Janzour, west of the capital, without causing damage. A security sweep led to the discovery of a vehicle containing two additional rockets and the launch base used in the attack. Authorities said investigations are underway to identify and apprehend those involved.

The UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) confirmed that its headquarters in Janzour was not affected, and expressed appreciation for the Libyan authorities’ swift response.

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❌ US forces eliminate senior ISIS leader in northern Syria

US Central Command announced an operation on August 19 in northern Syria targeting a senior ISIS* member and key financier.

According to the statement:

➖ He planned attacks in Syria and Iraq

➖ He had connections throughout the ISIS network, posing a direct threat to US and coalition forces and the new Syrian government

✅ In late July, US Central Command said its forces had killed an ISIS leader and his two accomplice sons during a raid in Syria.

*Terrorist organization banned in Russia

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