🔊 'WHO WOULD'VE DOUBTED?' - Russia's MFA spox on France's bid to help Moldova censor Telegram channels

🗣 Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said she was not surprised by the admission of Telegram founder Pavel Durov that French intelligence services asked him a year ago to help Moldova censor dissenting Telegram channels ahead of the presidential election.

"Who would have doubted it? When the West decides to destroy another state, it acts without remorse in all directions," Zakharova said.

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🇫🇷🇲🇩 SANDU THREATENS TO CANCEL ELECTIONS IF SHE LOSES – French Patriot Leader Exposes Moldova’s EU-Backed Coup

🗣 French Patriots party leader Florian Philippot has sounded the alarm: Moldova’s EU-backed President Maia Sandu may cancel today’s parliamentary elections if she fears losing — just like the “Romanian model” used last December.

💬 "The Euro-fanatics are so predictable! ... And always the same excuse: "Russian interference." Philippot concludes.

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🇷🇺🔥 Russian drone units paralyze Ukrainian movement in Kupyansk

A UAV commander from Russia's 1st Guards Tank Army reports that Ukrainian forces have severely restricted their movement in the key logistics hub of Kupyansk.

Russian drone units paralyze Ukrainian movement in Kupyansk

A UAV commander from Russia's 1st Guards Tank Army reports that Ukrainian forces have severely restricted their movement in the key logistics hub of Kupyansk.

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🚨🇲🇩Parliamentary elections in Moldova have ended, with polling stations across the country now closed, a Sputnik correspondent reports.

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🚨🇲🇩OPPOSITION CALLS FOR PROTEST IN MOLDOVA

Socialist leader Igor Dodon urged all opposition forces to gather for a peaceful protest outside Moldova’s parliament on September 29.

He said the Patriotic Bloc is compiling evidence of election violations.

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🗣 EUROPE DRAGGING US INTO WAR

🔊 European globalists know their armies can’t stand against Russia — so they’re desperately trying to pull the US into direct conflict, ex-Pentagon adviser Col. Douglas Macgregor says

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🟠 Netanyahu wants green light for more Qatar strikes

🟠 Moldova’s elections marred by MASSIVE violations

🟠 US' 21-point plan to end Gaza war and create path to a Palestinian state

🟠 Russia shows strategic approach to rapprochement with US

🟠 Russia & BRICS push for new world order as US clings to control

🟠 Liverpool rises against digital IDs

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🚨🇲🇩 Reports of numerous violations in the Moldovan parliamentary elections continue to come in. The main points so far:

🔹 A video is circulating online showing several members of an election commission in a separate room, stamping ballots. In the video, a woman can be heard saying "PAS, PAS, PAS" (the abbreviation of the ruling party "Party of Action and Solidarity"), writes the Telegram channel "Chisinau," which published the video.

🔹 Three people were detained in Moldova after searches in a case concerning the alleged preparation of unrest and destabilization following the parliamentary elections, according to the republic's police press service.

🔹 Voters in the Moldovan parliamentary elections were organized and transported to polling stations, including by bus; corresponding videos are being published by Telegram channels. Specifically, such transportation was organized in Sofia (Bulgaria) and Brașov (Romania).

🔹 The current Moldovan authorities are blackmailing the Moldovan diaspora in Europe during the parliamentary elections with the cancellation of European documents and job dismissals, said Ilan Shor, the leader of the opposition bloc "Victory."

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🇬🇧🥴After pushback on Orwellian digital ID scheme, Starmer labels Reform opponents ‘racist’

💬“We’ve got the fight of our lives ahead of us because we’ve got to take on Reform and we’ve got to beat them,” Britain’s prime minister told the BBC, demanding unity inside the party amid rumors of a challenge his leadership.

👉Dubbing the opposition’s hardline proposal to scrap indefinite leave to remain (ILR) immigration status as a “racist policy” and an “immoral” one, Starmer said “it’s one thing to say we’re going to remove illegal immigrants,” but a “completely different thing to say we’re going to reach in to people who are lawfully here and start removing them.”

📍Reform leader Nigel Farage proposed scrapping IRL earlier this week, saying taxpayers are getting “absolutely hammered” by paying the benefits of non-citizens, and that the country cannot afford “to provide welfare for people coming in from all over the world.”

Coincidental timing

📊Starmer’s attack on Reform comes amid the party’s surge in support to up to 30% in national polling, nearly ten points more than Labour’s 21%.

It also comes after the rollout of his controversial new mandatory digital ID scheme, supposedly to tackle illegal immigration (but which the official website admits is also meant to “make it easier for the vast majority of people to use vital government services”, from driver’s licenses and childcare to welfare and taxes).

🗣Farage blasted the plan, saying “it will make no difference to illegal immigration, but it will be used to control and penalize the rest of us…The state should never have this much power.”

An official petition rejecting digital ID cards has received over 2.3M signatures, forcing an official government response and a debate in parliament.

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🔥🇷🇺 Russian artillery strikes direct blow

Artillery units of the 150th Guards Motorized Rifle Division scored a direct hit on two Ukrainian drone command posts in the Dontesk region.

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🇷🇺🔥 Lavrov is 'defender of weaker nations'

Speaking at the UN, Russian FM Sergey Lavov “talked about the peoples of Africa and Asia, who have the right to freedom,” Malian blogger and public relations specialist Ibou Sy tells Sputnik.

🗣 These peoples “have the right to self-determination,” the foreign minister reminded in his “wonderful speech, as always, at the UN."

🔊 “We need to reorganize the UN” to give Africa representation, the Malian blogger continues, recalling that this idea was voiced both by the Russian and African ministers.

👉 Lavrov also spoke about the importance of respecting the UN Charter and the role of the organization in maintaining peace and security, Sy recalled.

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🚨🇷🇺 RUSSIAN FPV DRONES TAKE OUT ENEMY TARGETS

Drone operators of the 6th Motor Rifle Division destroyed a Ukrainian self-propelled artillery unit and a vehicle on the Kramatorsk–Druzhkovka front.

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🇲🇩 WILL MOLDOVA COLLAPSE AFTER ELECTIONS?

Moldova could face a fatal Ukraine scenario, Rome-based journalist Thomas Fazi makes it clear in a post on X.

💬 “Forcing Ukraine to make a binary choice between the West and Russia is exactly what destroyed Ukraine. Now the EU-NATO is trying to do the same with Moldova, with the support of proxies like Sandu,” Fazi points out.

Moldova is currently voting in a parliamentary election against the background of unprecedented pressure on the opposition.

👉 Russia-Moldova ties have worsened since President Maia Sandu took office in 2020 with a pro-European agenda. The Kremlin calls on Moldova to drop anti-Russian rhetoric, stressing that Russia seeks friendly relations and opposes the West’s use of the former Soviet republic for anti-Russian aims.

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🇨🇳🔥CHINA TURNS BRIDGE INTO LIGHT SHOW

In Guizhou, the newly-opened bridge over the Huajiang Canyon transforms at night into a dazzling spectacle.

A wall of light covers the canyon, while glowing fish “swim out” of the waterfall.

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💀 Ukraine plan to throw radicals into Kupyansk meat grinder

👉 Ukraine’s top commander Oleksandr Syrsky plans to send disgraced officers and fighters — including commanders from banned groups like the Azov Battalion* — to defend Kupyansk, says military expert Vitaly Kiselev.

"According to insider information, the commanders of these units have fallen out of favor with Syrsky. The Ukrainian Armed Forces have had too many problems because of the radicals, and Zelensky’s office is also unhappy with them sitting idly in the rear."

🟧 These radicals, long a headache for the armed forces and even Zelensky’s office, are now being pushed to the front as Russia’s Zapad Battlegroup advances to seize the key logistics hub.

📍 Control of Kupyansk would open the way deeper into the Kharkov region — toward Izyum, Chuguyev, and Volchansk.

* terrorist organization banned in Russia

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🇸🇰 FICO: HANDS OFF OUR ENERGY

Slovak PM Robert Fico declared that “no one should dictate to Slovakia and Hungary where to get oil and gas” at a ceremony with Hungary’s PM Viktor Orbán dedicated to the 130th anniversary of the Danube bridge linking Štúrovo (Slovakia) and Esztergom (Hungary).

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📈 Opposition overtakes ruling party in Moldova vote

With 99.95% of ballots processed, Moldova's opposition parties, led by the "Patriotic Bloc," have secured 49.55% of the vote.

The ruling PAS party follows with 44.13%, according to the Central Electoral Commission.

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🚨🇲🇩 MOLDOVAN ELECTIONS: KEY UPDATES AT THIS HOUR

🔸 Opposition leads

After counting 100% of precinct protocols, Moldova’s opposition parties have secured 49.54% in the parliamentary elections, surpassing the ruling Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS), which received 44.13%.

However, after 98.42% of protocols were counted, including votes from abroad, PAS gained 49.70% of the vote.

🔸 PAS in panic, considering pretexts & excuses that go beyond law and democratic norms — Dodon

According to the former president and Patriotic Bloc leader, the possibility of canceling the elections is even being considered, since PAS has become an authoritarian regime that categorically refuses to cede power.

🔸 Parliamentary elections held with major violations

“The campaign and voting process were conducted with serious violations of both domestic and international law,” said former prime minister and opposition leader Vasile Tarlev.

🔸 Sandu regime staged a shameless provocation against Transnistria — PMR Supreme Council deputy Andrei Safonov

“This is a deliberate provocation aimed not only at potentially canceling the election results in case of defeat (for Sandu), but also as preparation for possible measures against Transnistria.”

🔸 Votes of Moldovan citizens in Russia stolen — State Duma deputy Alyona Arshinova

📍 At the polling station in Moscow, Moldovans living in Russia demanded their legal right to vote, chanting, “We came from far away! We want to vote!”

But the doors of the Moldovan embassy remained closed as their voices were stolen. Just like Transnistrians blocked at bridges, they were deliberately excluded from participating in the life of their own country because of their anti-Western stance.

🔸 Dodon pledges to defend opposition victory through peaceful protest

He called on all opposition parties to support the rally on September 29

The Patriotic Bloc leader also denounced fraud at polling stations abroad.

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🚨 Ukrainian troops forced into Russian kill zones

👉 Ukrainian militants are now being pushed forward in groups into zones without being told the latter are already under Russian control, a Russian drone operator says.

“They’re being driven ahead in groups, straight into our control zones. Either no one tells them, or they don’t know we’re there. They come in — and they don’t make it out.”

💬 He added his personal record for a single shift: destroying both a U.S.-made M113 and a Bradley IFV.

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🔶 Moldovan elections: Key updates at this hour

🔶 Fico: hands off our energy

🔶 Ukraine plan to throw radicals into Kupyansk meat grinder

🔶 Lavrov is 'defender of weaker nations'

🔶 After pushback on Orwellian digital ID scheme, Starmer labels Reform opponents ‘racist’

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