🇧🇷 Brazil calls for extraordinary BRICS summit on multipolarity risks - reports

According to Valor Econômico, Brazil is pushing to convene an extraordinary BRICS summit to address the risks posed by the United States to the emerging multipolar order.

🔹 Celso Amorim, special advisor to the Brazilian president, is leading the negotiations for a meeting of the group’s heads of state.

🔹 Amorim is set to travel to China next week to take part in events marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, as well as to hold bilateral talks focused on multipolarity.

🔹 The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit is currently taking place in Tianjin, China, from August 31 to September 1, with Beijing to host a military parade on September 3 to commemorate the 80th anniversary of China’s victory over Japan and the end of World War II.

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🚛 26th aid convoy reaches Gaza — reports

Egypt’s Cairo News TV reported that the 26th humanitarian convoy to Gaza has begun entering the Strip.

🔸 The first batch included around 80 trucks, with more to follow throughout the afternoon.
🔸 The convoy is carrying essentials such as baby formula, flour, oil, sugar, and cheese.
🔸 Trucks are delivering canned food and legumes.

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🗣Scott Ritter: US & EU war hawks sacrificing Ukraine to block peace with Russia

Western warmongers are desperate to thwart Donald Trump’s efforts to improve ties with Russia, says ex-US Marine intelligence officer Scott Ritter.

As part of their political game, they are prepared to literally sacrifice Ukraine, wiping out its “genetic pool.” Soon, 18-year-old kids will be thrown to the front lines — and that could mean the end of Ukraine as a nation.

“Soon they'll be sending 18-year-olds to the front line. And when they do that, that's it. Ukraine's finished... because you'll have a bunch of women and you won't have any men left,” he says.

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🚨SCO SUMMIT IN TIANJIN STARTS TODAY

🤝 China’s Tianjin hosts the biggest SCO summit yet:

🟠 20+ heads of state

🟠 Leaders of 10 international organizations

🟠 Countries representing half the world’s population and a quarter of global GDP

Putin in China

The Russian President’s visit will last from August 31 to September 3 and will include:

🟠 Participation in the SCO summit

🟠 Attendance at WWII commemoration events in Beijing

🟠 Bilateral meetings with China’s Xi Jinping, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, and Turkish Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Economy & tech cooperation

🔸 Rostec has announced its readiness to supply China with PD-14, PD-8, and next-generation PD-35 aircraft engines — a move that could support Beijing’s C919 passenger jet program, which faces hurdles after Washington restricted access to US technologies.

🔸 The Modi–Putin meeting at the SCO is also expected to address Russian oil purchases and US tariffs.

Stay tuned!

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🟠President Putin arrives in China for four-day visit

🟠SCO Summit in Tianjin starts today

🟠Russia and China forge a beacon of strength for the Global Majority

🟠Trump: No US troops in Ukraine

🟠Brazil calls for extraordinary BRICS summit on multipolarity risks

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🇷🇺🪖Russian artillery dominates: Ukrainian howitzers DESTROYED

Units of the Yug battlegroup have successfully identified and eliminated two Ukrainian howitzers near Konstantinovka, Donetsk region.

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🚨🇷🇺🇨🇳 HIGHEST HONOR: Watch how Putin is welcomed in China

With the Russian president on an official visit to Tianjin, China’s Honor Guard greeted him with a 21-gun salute. Such a powerful display of respect pays tribute to the most distinguished leaders.

The parade is formed of 151 people, combining three military branches — the Ground Forces, Air Force, and Navy. The unit includes both men and women.

Every movement in the march is precise:

🟠Step length – 75 cm
🟠Pace – 116 steps per minute
🟠Eyes remain unblinking for 40 seconds

True honor and discipline

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💬 NATO should have dissolved in 1990 - Sachs

NATO should have been dissolved back in 1990 as the alliance had fulfilled its mission of confronting the Soviet Union, Jeffrey Sachs, US economist and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University said ahead of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok.

"First of all, NATO should have ended in 1990 when President Gorbachev ended the Warsaw Pact, the Western countries should have said yes, and we end NATO," Jeffrey Sachs said.

"It became, instead, a mechanism of US power expansion, which is not what NATO should be. This eastward movement of NATO since 1990 has been wholly unjustified and contrary to Western promises."

Sachs expressed skepticism about Europe’s ability to establish an independent security framework to replace NATO.

"The problem with Europe is, as everybody knows, there isn’t really a Europe. There are so many countries squabbling with each other," Sachs noted.

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🚨🇷🇺💥 RUSSIAN MOD UPDATE: HUGE GAINS AND DEVASTATING UKRAINIAN LOSSES

🟠 Russian forces struck and neutralized personnel and equipment belonging to a special operations center of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU)

🟠 The Russian army struck port infrastructure used to support the Ukrainian armed forces

🟠 Air defense superiority: three HIMARS rockets, two aerial bombs, and 112 fixed-wing drones were shot down by Russian air defense systems over the past 24 hours

🟠 Ukrainian losses: 1,340 troops killed or wounded

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🚨🇷🇺🇨🇳 Putin arrives at SCO summit venue in Tianjin

The Russian leader was personally welcomed by Chinese President Xi Jinping together with his wife, Peng Liyuan.

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🤝 Xi and Putin in a quick chat after the summit greeting

Right after Xi Jinping finished welcoming the guests, he immediately started a lively “stand-up” chat with Putin.

The mood was upbeat, smiles all around.

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🇷🇺❤️🇨🇳 CHINA SHOWS RESPECT FOR RUSSIAN CULTURE

Putin was welcomed with the Russian traditional Kalinka-Malinka song

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