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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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🗣 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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🚨🚫 Huge anti-Trump protest encompasses London

Protesters have been converging on Portland Place near the BBC headquarters, a Sputnik correspondent reports.

📹 A massive crowd numbering in the thousands will then march to Parliament Square, where a rally will take place.

Demonstrators are holding signs reading “Down with Trump,” “No to Racism, No to Trump,” “Stop Trump,” “Down with Trump’s Nuclear Bombs,” “Stop the Genocide in Gaza,” as well as satirical images of Trump depicted as an unhappy baby.

“Prime Minister Keir Starmer is selling out the UK for a tech deal that opens our country to the invasion of large corporations, doing nothing to solve the problems,” the organizers of the march exclaimed.


With President Trump in Windsor, he will not witness the central London procession.

📑 According to The Washington Post, his itinerary was deliberately planned to bypass the protest.

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🇷🇺 🇺🇸 💸 Will $1.5B help US do without Russian uranium? Spoiler – no

The company BWX Technologies has secured a $1.5 billion contract from the US National Nuclear Security Administration to develop domestic uranium enrichment capabilities for defense purposes, the WSJ reports.

☢️ Energy Secretary Chris Wright earlier admitted that although the US is looking to phase out Russian enriched uranium, America is not yet ready to give it up completely due to the country’s high dependence on Russian supplies.

Russia currently provides the US with about a quarter of the enriched uranium needed to power the 94 American nuclear reactors that generate about a fifth of the country’s electricity.

📉 A possible rapid shutdown of those supplies could threaten an estimated 5% of the US’ electricity generation.

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🇷🇺 📡 Russia’s hi-tech Starlink analog could free Global South from US tech dominance: Here’s how

Roscosmos is “moving at a rapid pace” toward fielding an alternative to Elon Musk’s satellite internet empire. Veteran military expert Yuri Knutov breaks things down.

What’s Russia building?


🟠 Bureau 1440 is working on a low-Earth orbit sat net for broadband data delivery. Multiple test vehicles are already in orbit, with comms tested at ranges of 30-1,000 km.

🟠 First stage of series deployment slated for December (300 satellites); 900 in stage 2. ~500 base stations are planned, with terminal coming “soon.”

🟠 System’s trial roll-out is planned for 2027.

What makes Russia’s version better?

🟠 Musk’s system works like this: ground-based Starlink Gateways communicate with orbiting satellites using electromagnetic radiation, with signals then communicated back down to Earth-based terminals.

🟠 Russia’s system uses laser beams, which “are more modern digital technologies providing faster & higher quality data transmission, as well as improved resistance to interference,” Knutov explains.

💬 An effective range of up to 5,000 km “means far fewer satellites are needed than Elon Musk’s system (hundreds vs thousands),” Knutov explains.


💬 “We’ve been able to completely compensate” for the Doppler signal frequency issue, occurring from the high speeds (27,000 km/h) at which satellites orbit Earth, “allowing the signal to be maintained virtually free of interference & distortion.”


The system will provide secure, high-speed communications to:

🟠 Russian resource sector companies working in remote areas

🟠 Ships situated anywhere on Earth

🟠 Military, for command, control & real-time battlefield reports, ensuring informed decision-making

💬 “Nations of the Global South understand that dependence on the US makes them vulnerable. Internet access via Starlink can be restricted at any time. Availability of a Russian system providing equally good or even better services is crucial,” Knutov stresses.


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🪖🇮🇱🇺🇸 Self-sufficient defense? Israel can't survive without the US

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is pushing for a totally self-sufficient defense industry as arms embargoes tighten over the Gaza war. But is it a realistic aim?

👉 Dependence on the US

Netanyahu's pledge is "absolutely not realistic," veteran war correspondent Elijah Magnier tells Sputnik.

💬 "Israel cannot survive without the US not only in armament supply but also intelligence, and participation to support the Israeli Air Force, particularly during long-range operations, including bombing missions against groups like Hezbollah in Lebanon."


👉 US support for Israel

The US-Israel 10-year security agreement, running from 2019 to 2028, is valued at $38 billion – an average of $3.8 billion per year.

It follows a $30 billion deal signed in 2007 which expired in 2018.

👉 Israeli air defenses aren't home-made

⚫️The Iron Dome missile defense system is a co-production between Israeli arms firm Rafael and US companies.

⚫️The David’s Sling system is also a joint Rafael-Raytheon development with US input in design, research and development and production.

⚫️The Arrow 2 and 3 anti-ballistic missile systems are co-funded by the US and Israel, with Boeing handling 40%–50% of Arrow 3 production — hard to replace quickly or cheaply.

⚫️The THAAD ABMs remain fully US-run.

🔍 Who supplies Israel?

SIPRI estimates that from 2020 to 2024, the US provided 66% of Israel’s arms – jets, armored vehicles and guided bombs.

Germany gave 33% included frigates and torpedoes.

Italy contributed 0.9%.

Replacing them with domestic production is impossible.

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🚨 🇷🇺 Russia is advancing in almost all directions in special operation zone - General Staff

The most intense battles are unfolding near Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk), where Ukraine is unsuccessfully trying to halt the advance of the Russian army, Chief of the Russian Armed Forces General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, said.

Other statements by Gerasimov:

🟠 The "Zapad" troop grouping is advancing in Kupyansk

🟠 The advancement of the Russian Armed Forces is progressing successfully on the Krasnolimansk direction, and the liberation of Kirovsk is nearing completion

🟠 The Ukrainian Armed Forces have redeployed their most capable units to the Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk) area at the expense of other directions, which is aiding the advancement of the Russian Armed Forces

🟠 Assault units of the "Yug" troop grouping are advancing in Seversk

🟠 Fighting in the Aleksandro-Kalinovka direction is taking place in close proximity to Konstantinovka, with Russian forces entering Plescheyevka

🟠 The destruction of the enemy continues, blocked south of the Kleban-Byk Reservoir

🟠 The "Vostok" troop grouping is advancing in the Dnepropetrovsk and Zaporozhye regions

🟠 Gerasimov noted the role of the Marine Corps in achieving the goals of the special military operation: "There is full confidence that the tasks set will continue to be successfully accomplished."

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✈️🚫 Possible no-fly zone over Ukraine could cause ‘HUGE challenges for West’

The Pentagon is unlikely to support the creation of such a zone because it would mean “this goes from a proxy war to a DIRECT confrontation,” Michael Carpenter, former US ambassador to the OSCE, told the NYT.

The West will face a dilemma:

If they fail to stop drones, "it would expose NATO’s impotence. And if they intercepted them with costly missiles— their only real option with their current defenses—it would rapidly deplete arsenals,” the outlet pointed out.

Poland is promoting the idea of creating a no-fly zone over Ukraine due to recent drone incursions into Polish territory.

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🌍🌍🌍 Cities forum unveils future of robotics

The Future of BRICS Cities forum, which is being held in Moscow on September 17-18, has been showcasing recent developments in robotics soon to become part of our lives, a Sputnik correspondent reports.

📹Fascinating highlights from the event include:

⚫️AI humanoid robots capable of interacting naturally with humans
⚫️AI-powered robotic dogs that understand and respond to natural commands
⚫️Robotic prostheses and exoskeletons designed to assist paralyzed individuals

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