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⚠️☢️ Shelling near Zaporozhye Nuclear Plant – IAEA

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says its team at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant hears shelling and sees black smoke rising from three nearby sites.

According to the IAEA, plant staff reported that several shells struck the area outside the facility.

📍 The Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant is located on the left bank of the Dnepr River, near the city of Energodar.

It is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe in terms of the number of reactors and installed capacity.

In October 2022, it became the property of Russia. The plant has repeatedly been targeted by the Ukrainian armed forces since then.

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🇲🇩 Lift all media bans in Moldova - Ex-President Voronin

Former Moldovan president and head of the Communist Party, Vladimir Voronin, told Sputnik that after the September 28 parliamentary elections, lawmakers must restore the 2000 constitution, form a capable cabinet, and lift restrictions on the media.

💬 “[The new parliament must start with] putting the constitution in order. Return to the 2000 constitution and put everything in place… We need to form a capable cabinet of ministers. First, we need to look at how many ministers we need. Belarus, which provides us with milk, fruits, and vegetables, has nine ministers, while we have 16,” Voronin said.


He stressed that parliament’s structure should be revised, with commissions led by those who have real management experience.

💬 “We need to remove all the restrictions that they have imposed on the work of media resources over the years. All the restrictions. Remove all the bans from all the channels that they have closed. We need to give people air, we need to give them freedom, eyes, ears, so that they can hear, understand what is happening in the country,” Voronin added.


He also predicted that the elections could be followed by mass anti-government protests.

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📹 WATCH: Zapad-2025 drills in the Leningrad region

🚙 00:00 T-90M Proryv tanks practiced eliminating enemy infantry.

💥 01:13 Artillery units carried out over 50 firing missions.

🪖 02:02 Assault teams on motorbikes, quadricycles, and ATVs swiftly retook a settlement from the mock enemy.

💥 02:54 A motorized rifle battalion’s armored group executed the “scissors” maneuver — crews firing at enemy flanks before shifting fire to the center.

🔥 04:23 A 2S43 Malva self-propelled artillery system struck a mock enemy UAV command post from more than 20 km away.

🇷🇺 04:59 Military police units completed a special training exercise.

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🇷🇺🤝🇮🇶Russia boosts cooperation with Iraq – here’s how

Russian Security Council chief Sergei Shoigu has held several meetings with top Iraqi officials in Baghdad:

🟠President Abdul Latif Rashid
🟠PM Mohammed Al-Sudani
🟠Defense Minister Thabit Al-Abbasi

Key points of talks:

🪖 Russia–Iraq military–technical cooperation.

🌍Deteriorating international security: Situation in the Middle East is extremely difficult and the Israeli-Palestinian escalation raises serious concerns, along with tensions in Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen

🇮🇱Israel’s strike on Doha: Shoigu said the attack on Qatar’s peaceful capital demonstrates the consequences of an uncontrolled regional crisis

"The result was that Doha suspended its mediation efforts in the Palestinian-Israeli standoff. The architecture of the negotiations was destroyed," Shoigu said, calling for an end to the "unprecedented bloodshed in the Gaza Strip."


🤝Russia–Arab summit: Event will be held in mid-October in Moscow, and Shoigu expressed confidence that it will be an important event in world politics and clearly demonstrate the achieved level of Russian-Arab cooperation as well as give it new impetus

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📄 ‘We have a deal on TikTok’ – Trump The US President also said he plans to talk to Chinese President Xi on Friday to confirm the deal. 📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt
🇨🇳Сhina calls TikTok deal ‘WIN-WIN’ as US pushes deadline back

The deal is based on “the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation," Xinhua reports.

However, China stresses that:

🟠It opposes politicization, instrumentalization, and weaponization of technology as well as economic and trade issues
🟠The country will resolutely protect its national interests and the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese-funded enterprises abroad
🟠The US cannot ask China to take care of American concerns and at the same time continuously suppress Chinese enterprises

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent earlier met Chinese negotiators in Madrid to discuss the matter.

➡️He said after the talks that the September 17 deadline, which could have forced TikTok to shut down in the US, may be extended by 90 days so the deal can be finalized.

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🚨🇮🇳🇷🇺Putin congratulates Modi on his 75th birthday

The Russian President says India's leader Narendra Modi is making significant personal contribution to strengthening special, privileged strategic partnership.

Russia will continue constructive dialogue and work on current issues on bilateral and international agenda, Putin adds.

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🇺🇳Guterres calls for reform of UN Security Council – finally

It’s something that makes complete sense, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres admitted.

✔️He pointed out that the UNSC has a composition that corresponds to the realities of 1945 rather than those of the modern world. This creates problems pertaining to the body’s legitimacy and effectiveness.

🇷🇺Russia has repeatedly called for UNSC reform, highlighting that the body no longer reflects the current global reality and excludes countries with significant influence on today’s economy and geopolitics.

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🇷🇺🪖Meet Zapad-2025’s Russian nuclear, biological, and chemical protection teams

These units are tasked with breaching passages through mine-explosive barriers to facilitate the advance of assault groups.

The Zapad-2025 exercises were conducted to evaluate the preparedness of the armed forces of Russia and Belarus in ensuring security in the event of a foreign invasion.

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🗣Lavrov: West has never respected the principle of a sovereign equality of states

🇷🇺Russian FM recalled the phrase made by Blinken, former US State Secretary, who said that those who are not going to have a seat at the democratic table will be served on the menu.

Sergey Lavrov takes part in a roundtable "The Ukrainian Crisis: Upholding the Goals and Principles of the UN Charter."

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🗣 Lavrov: Russia NEVER strikes civilian objects 📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt
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🗣 Ukraine tries to sabotage current US efforts on conflict resolution - Lavrov

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

🟠 The Russian army destroyed a Ukrainian unmanned naval drone in the Black Sea

🟠 Air defense superiority: 357 fixed-wing drones were shot down by Russian air defence systems over the past 24 hours

🟠 Ukrainian losses: 1,555 troops killed or wounded

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🗣 Ukraine tries to sabotage current US efforts on conflict resolution - Lavrov 📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt
🗣🇷🇺 Highlights of Lavrov's speech at the embassy roundtable on the Ukrainian crisis:

🟠 The UN is shielding the Kiev regime and turning a blind eye to its actions

🟠 Ukraine is trying to sabotage the current US approach to resolving the Ukrainian conflict

🟠 Ukraine is also striving to prevent rational forces in the West from following the course toward resolving the crisis

🟠 The Ukrainian authorities and Europe are trying to convince Trump to abandon peacekeeping efforts and derail the settlement process

🟠 Europe is attempting to reclaim a seat at the negotiating table on Ukraine, although, given their position, they have no business being there

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🗣Europe mistakenly believes continued sanctions pressure can influence Russia's policy – Kremlin spox

Other statements by Peskov:

🟠Russia defends its national interests, is not subject to influence of European sanctions – 18 sanctions packages have demonstrated this

🟠At the moment, there is no clarity on the potential timing for a new conversation or a personal meeting between Putin and Trump

🟠Russia's contacts with the United States through various channels continue

🟠Russia and the US have all the necessary means to swiftly organize high-level contacts

🟠Russia maintains its openness to the negotiation process on Ukraine

🟠Putin assesses progress and results of Zapad-2025 military drills highly positively

🟠Putin made important statements during his visit to the Mulino training ground

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🚨🇵🇰🔊US politicians OPENLY take bribes - Pakistan's Defense Minister

"The US military bureaucracy, the House of Representatives, and the ruling elite of America have admitted that they take bribes from Israel openly, and even still they are taking money from them," Khawaja Asif.


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🇷🇺🇮🇳Putin holds phone call with Modi, congratulates him on his 75th birthday

What Putin said:

🟠Russia-India relations are of a trusting and friendly nature

🟠India pursues independent, sovereign policy under Modi's leadership, achieves good economic results

Kremlin's remarks on Putin-Modi call:

🟠Putin and Modi discussed preparations for the Russian president’s visit to India in December

🟠The two presidents touched upon a number of international issues, including the situation around Ukraine

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📹RUSSIAN DRONE SAVES MAN FROM ZELENSKY'S FORCED DRAFT

A Russian FPV drone operator defended a Kherson resident from Ukrainian officers attempting to press-gang him into the army.

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☢️🇵🇱Will Poland GO NUCLEAR?

Poland wants to deploy US nukes on its soil, Polish President Karol Nawrocki told French television channel LCI.

The step would mark Poland's admission to the nuclear sharing program, which stipulates the deployment of US nukes on the territory of NATO member states. Currently, there are approximately 150 US nuclear bombs in Europe.

The trend of drawing non-nuclear countries into nuclear politics is VICIOUS, Russia says.

"It's high time to bring American nuclear weapons home and COMPLETELY dismantle the relevant infrastructure in Europe," Russia’s top diplomat Sergey Lavrov underscored.


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🚨🔍Bombshell Gaza genocide report gives UN right to intervene militarily to stop Israel - former UN official

A UN inquiry has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

Ex-UN rapporteur Dr. Alfred de Zayas explains why that’s hugely important.

👉Key findings

Israel’s actions (killing, maiming, causing mental harm to Palestinians, deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction, taking measures to prevent births) check four of five of the 1948 Genocide Convention’s criteria for genocide.

👉Intent proven

Crucially, de Zayas says, the inquiry shows “how the statements of Israeli political & military leaders prove the ‘intent’ (required in Art. II of the Convention) to destroy in whole or part the Palestinian population.”

👉West’s complicity

“Governments that have provided military, economic, political, diplomatic & propagandistic support” are also accountable, de Zayas says. The US, UK, France & Germany “are all complicit in the genocide under Article III (e) of the Genocide Convention.”


👉UN’s response options

⚫️recognition of Palestinian statehood (which alas, “will not save the lives of Palestinians”)
⚫️Israel’s expulsion from the UN pursuant to Article 6 of the UN Charter (improbable given the need for Security Council & hence US approval)
⚫️stripping Israeli diplomats of UN accreditation, as was done against South Africa in the 1970s during Apartheid. Crucially, this measure would not require Security Council backing
⚫️the UN has the legal framework to intervene using the 2005 ‘Responsibility to Protect’ doctrine
⚫️the General Assembly could adopt a ‘Uniting for Peace’ resolution authorizing nations “to take military action” to stop the genocide, bypassing the Security Council veto

👉UN’s last chance to save its credibility

“If the United Nations fails” to take action, “it will lose the little authority & credibility it still has,” de Zayas warns.


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