🇺🇸 Netizens in stiches at manipulated video of Biden buying "exercise for dementia" books

The video, posted on Twitter July 16 with caption "Is this for real," amassed over 1.6M views, with many joining the mockery:

▪️"That looks like the other Biden though. The original one"
▪️"Load up Joe, load up!"
▪️"Joe will need to buy the whole section"

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🇮🇳🇷🇺 Russia Becomes India's 3rd Largest Trading Partner for First Time in History

The volume of bilateral trade grew 3.8 times in January-May to a record $27.1 billion, the ministry's data showed.

📈 Over this period, India increased its imports of Russian goods by 3.9 times up to $26.5 billion, which allowed Russia to stay the country's second largest importer. At the same time, the export of Indian products to Russia grew by 2.6 times to $639 million.

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📹 RFK Jr claims US biolabs in Ukraine harvest Chinese and Russian DNA to develop a bioweapon targeting specific ethnicities

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🗣️ On reducing NATO’s influence on the ground in Ukraine:

“The ability of NATO to influence the situation on the ground in Ukraine is becoming weaker with each passing day, and therefore it's putting NATO in the position of having to potentially take positions and implement policies that could risk widening the war and going into direct conflict with Russia, which means a nuclear war,” Larry Johnson, former CIA and State Department analyst, told Sputnik.

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🇦🇫 “We used to make and sell 20 to 30 coffins every day”

Afghan coffin and maker furniture makers explain how their business changed after US troops' withdrawal from Afghanistan

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🇺🇸 ‘Need to help Ukraine’: Biden admin’s go-to phrase to justify immoral schemes & deeds

Jake Sullivan, White House National Security Advisor, commented on the transfer of cluster munitions to Ukraine, expressing confidence that the moral authority of the US was not harmed by this action. He also stated that President Joe Biden is determined not to leave the Kiev regime without weapons.

Sullivan emphasized that it is more important for the United States to continue supporting Ukraine by providing them with weaponry.

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🇮🇱 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was released from the Sheba Medical Center in the city of Ramat Gan east of Tel Aviv after being hospitalized feeling unwell, a Israeli news agency reported on Sunday.

Doctors confirmed the Israeli leader experienced dehydration. The prime minister was implanted with a subcutaneous device to monitor his heart rate.

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🗣️ On Latin American leaders' ban of Ukrainian President Zelensky attending the EU-CELAC meeting:

“Part of the reason for this has been the suspicion, or at least the appearance, that with Spain inviting Zelensky representing Ukraine to this summit, that Latin America and the Caribbean would be in a de facto manner supporting Ukraine and/or overtly supporting NATO's and its expansion. And of course, there are a number of countries in Latin America and the Caribbean overtly opposed to one or both of those. So it was a success. They were successful in uninviting Zelensky, and he has then, Zelensky himself has since publicly stated in the international press that he will not be attending,” Teri Mattson, Latin America campaign coordinator for CODEPINK and podcast host for WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean, told Sputnik.

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Kiev regime’s budget has netted over $23 bln from international partners in past six months, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmygal said

"In the first six months of this year, the state budget received 1.3 trillion gryvnas from taxes, fees, and other payments. Expenditures during the same period amounted to 1.78 trillion gryvnas. We are grateful to our international partners who have allocated over $23 billion since the beginning of the year to finance the budget deficit," Shmygal wrote in a social media post.

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Ukrainian forces shell Donetsk, children among the wounded

The Ukrainian army has launched an artillery strike on a district in Donetsk, causing a fire in a residential building. There are casualties among civilians, including children, Sputnik correspondent reported.

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🇺🇸 Jake Sullivan, White House National Security Advisor, spoke to American media on Sunday. Key point from his speech:

▪️ The question of Ukraine's membership in NATO is resolved and not up for discussion, but democratic reforms are a condition for joining the alliance.

▪️ American military forces will not engage in combat with the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine. This position remains fundamental and constant.

▪️ The conflict in Ukraine is not at an impasse, and difficulties with Kiev's counteroffensive were expected.

▪️ The United States will give permission for Europe to train Ukrainian pilots on F-16 aircraft and provide necessary resources. Europeans need "a couple of weeks" to arrange preparations.

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🗣️ On the US concerns about China:

“The US can't engage in a military confrontation because that would be insane. It can try to harass China economically, but that's not going to work. So, the US is really, really on a losing path. And the fact that things are going poorly in Ukraine just compounds the problem as far as the Biden administration is concerned,” Dan Lazare, investigative journalist and author of "America's Undeclared War,” told Sputnik.

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🎥 Russian Msta-S self-propelled howitzer crews operate in Zaporozhye direction

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UK legislators warn Britain's ability to arm itself in dire straits

NATO’s proxy war in Ukraine has uncovered fragility and cracks within the British defence establishment. On Tuesday, the UK's defence ministry will roll out its plans to respond to external threats and will prioritize integrating cutting-edge technologies, like drones and artificial intelligence, to augment its defensive capabilities.

“For the first time since the end of the cold war, we have to face the prospect that we could become involved in a peer conflict with Russia.....In this new, more challenging environment, we need a defence procurement system which can . . . equip our armed forces to fight and to win," the committee said.

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Ukraine stands to lose roughly $500 million per month if the grain deal with Russia is not extended Monday, an analysis by Russian media using data from the UN and Ukraine’s Ministry of Agriculture and Customs Service has shown.

According to the figures, between August 2022 and June 2023, Ukraine exported some 50.6 million tons of grain worth a total of $9.8 billion, with some 78-80 percent of exports accounted for by the country’s ports, and the remainder via rail, road and barge-based shipments.

Exports enabled by the Black Sea Grain Initiative accounted for 28.1 million tons of grain, or 55.5 percent of all Ukrainian sales abroad.

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