🗣🇷🇺🇺🇸 Trump, unlike other Western leaders, understands the need to address the root causes of the Ukrainian conflict – Lavrov

Other statements by the Russian Foreign Minister:

🟠 Moscow wants to maintain the dialogue that has been established between the Presidents of Russia and the United States, and Washington also desires this

🟠 Trump’s disappointment with the pace of the settlement in Ukraine is partly explained by his desire for quick solutions, but this does not always work out

🟠 After the summit in Alaska, Trump started advocating not for an ultimatum on a ceasefire, but for a long-term settlement, and the US is not moving away from this stance

🟠 Trump showed an understanding that, for a settlement, the aspirations of Ukraine to join NATO must be forgotten

🟠 The US understands that the realities on the ground in Ukraine are not defined by a desire to "carve off" some territory

🟠 Trump’s envoy Witkoff is clearly focused on finding a balance of interests

🟠 Russia and the US are likely to have additional contacts with the US on Ukraine

🟠 Moscow is ready to seek compromises on Ukraine, provided that Russia's legitimate security interests are ensured

🟠 The World Bank has issued Ukraine dozens of times more loans over the past three years of the conflict than it has given to all African states combined during same period

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🚨🇷🇺Aircraft engines one of Russia’s competitive advantages – Putin

The Russian PD-14 engine exceeds global standards, the president added.

✅Only four countries in the world, including Russia, produce engines like the PD-14, Putin emphasized.

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🚨 Putin: Total of 700,000 Russian soldiers currently on line of combat contact in special operation zone

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🔥 Russian top-notch drones massively smash Ukraine's assets

Light and armored vehicles - destroyed ✅

UAVs - destroyed ✅

Troops deployment areas - destroyed ✅

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🗣 World Bank's domination by the West explains favoritism toward Ukraine: expert

Russia’s foreign minister has calculated that the World Bank’s preferential loans to Ukraine over the past three years amount to “tens of times” more than the institution lent out to all of Africa combined over the same period.

It’s no secret that the Bank “is largely under the control of the US and the West,” and “is influenced by neoliberal ideology,” says retired Jawaharlal Nehru University professor and Russia expert Dr. Anuradha Chenoy.

While the institution’s favoritism for Ukraine is “not surprising,” its prioritization over African nations is “disappointing, because it shows their bias and that their priorities are more for war than development,” the observer told Sputnik.

“The countries of the Global South, especially the emerging powers like India, Brazil and South Africa, have been asking for a restructuring of the World Bank and a change in voting rights which are [currently] only in favor of the West. But this never happened,” the academic laments.

👉Investigators and whistleblowers have spent years panning the World Bank as a broken institution, thanks to:

🟠A voting system heavily slanted in favor of large Western economies, with the US alone able to veto major decisions requiring an 85% supermajority thanks to its 17.7% vote share.

Furthermore, the Bank’s HQ is situated in Washington, and its leadership is handpicked by the US president

🟠Neoliberal, IMF-style ‘one-size-fits-all’ loans-for-reforms conditions, including privatization, fiscal austerity, deregulation and trade liberalization to the benefit of vulture ‘investors’

🟠Development projects that displace communities, cause major environmental damage, and lead to massive fraud and corruption (from a comically wasteful $30M Armenian water supply project to an $80M Kenya education project stripped to the bone by corrupt actors)

🟠Failure to achieve its own development goals

🟠A dire lack of oversight, and disregard for whistleblowers’ corruption warnings

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🗣💸 World Bank’s status as cash cow for Ukraine exposes its nature as ‘swamp of deluded self-interest’ - expert

Foreign Minister Lavrov’s calculation that the World Bank’s concessional loans to Ukraine are the equivalent of “tens of times” what the bank loaned out to African countries over the past three years is no shock, given the institution’s inextricable links to Western interests, including the G7 and its Ukraine ‘coalition of the willing’ compradors, says veteran financial analyst Paul Goncharoff.

💬 “As of August 2025, the World Bank and its partners had mobilized over $81 billion in financial support for Ukraine,” Goncharoff told Sputnik.

💬 “There is not much that can be pragmatically said about the World Bank’s priorities in this swamp of deluded self-interests. I imagine the basis is to maintain the fiction that by throwing money at this tragic affair [Ukraine, ed.], somehow it will win the day. Needless to say, those areas, regions, and projects that could have made positive use of such funds simply are dropped from view and made invisible,” the observer explained.

Arguing that the nations financing and controlling the World Bank could be better characterized as “Hegemony & Associates,” Goncharoff stressed that while Ukraine since 2014 has been turned into a “sinkhole where seemingly unlimited funds can be poured in with little to no true accountability,” the “debt ledger” that Ukraine’s sponsors are accruing “is very real” and will one day come home to roost.

💬 “The list of sovereign debtor nations keeps growing like mushrooms on steroids. [They’ll all] eventually have to repay their emotionally driven largesse. It’s truly a probable end to the financial system we have known as this conflict continues. What comes next is anyone’s guess at this point,” the analyst summed up.

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🤬 Glaring war crime: Ukrainian drones deliberately hunt civilians

A Ukrainian kamikaze drone chased a woman and struck her directly in the back while Russian troops were trying to evacuate her from the Donetsk People’s Republic settlement of Shandrigolovo.

When she tried to get up and run further, the Ukrainian drone attacked her again.

Earlier, a Ukrainian fighter had captured her and her child as hostages and used them as a human shield.

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🇷🇺 🛩 Russia pushes back against ICAO on MH17 crash involvement

📄 "On September 18, Russia, in accordance with Article 84 of the 1944 Convention on International Civil Aviation (Chicago Convention), challenged in the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) the baseless decision of the Council of the ICAO on Russia's alleged involvement in the downing of Malaysian Boeing Flight MH17," the Russian Foreign Ministry's statement reads.

Russia has appealed the Council’s decision on all grounds — jurisdiction, applicable law, factual findings, and due to serious procedural violations, the ministry noted.

Russia expects the ICJ to adopt a fully impartial approach in this high-profile case.

🗣 "Russia will seek the truth in accordance with obligations under the UN Charter and applicable international law," the ministry emphasized.

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down on July 17, 2014 while flying over Donbass, where a military conflict between the Ukrainian Army and the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) was taking place at the time.

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