📞 Summary of Putin-Modi phone call on Monday:

▫️Putin and Modi exchange views over upcoming #G20 summit in New Delhi;

▫️Putin and Modi note importance of #BRICS agreements, including BRICS enlargement;

▫️Putin and Modi intend to implement large-scale energy projects, expand logistics infrastructure;

▫️Putin and Modi confirm intention to develop space 🚀cooperation.

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💬 "The prospects for the resumption of the grain deal directly depend on the substantive fulfillment … of those promises and those obligations that were made towards the Russian side"

The passage of the second ship along the ‘grain corridor’ is unrelated to talks with Russia on the resumption of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said 

Ukrainian media has reported that the second ship which was docked in Odessa since February 2022 left Ukraine and is on the way to Bulgaria.

In July 2022, Russia, Ukraine, Turkiye, and the United Nations reached an agreement that established a humanitarian corridor for vessels to export food and fertilizers. However, while Moscow has been performing its part of the deal, obligations to lift sanctions on Russian ships engaged in grain and fertilizer exports were not fulfilled.

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Republican Congress leader Kevin McCarthy has condemned the "culture of corruption" shot through President Joe Biden's family

In a TV news interview on Sunday, the House of Representatives speaker laid into the Democrat chief over the long list of revelations about how his son Hunter's foreign business dealings — including alleged influence-peddling — linked back to the former senator and vice-president.

The Republican pointed out that Biden's repeated claim that he had no involvement or even knowledge of his son's business dealings was now exposed as a lie.

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🇨🇳🇺🇸 US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo embarked on a trip to Beijing on Sunday to stress the importance of Sino-American economic ties in the aftermath of new curbs against the People's Republic introduced by President Joe Biden earlier this month.

"We share $700bn dollars of trade and I concur with you that it is profoundly important that we have a stable economic relationship," the US commerce secretary asserted to her Chinese counterparts. "It’s a challenging relationship, we will of course disagree on certain issues, but I believe we can make progress if we are direct, open and practical."

Why US Commerce Secretary's visit to China unlikely to break ice?

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❗️Court in Washington has scheduled the beginning of Trump's trial in the case of the storming of the Capitol on March 4, 2024

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The West wanted to create a “second Ukraine” out of Belarus

“Western countries, even before the special military operation, increased military, political and economic pressure on Minsk, openly sponsored Belarusian ‘zmagars’ [supporters of opposition], trained militants. In fact, they wanted to create a second Ukraine out of the country, another ‘anti-Russia,” Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council Alexey Shevtsov told a Russian newspaper in an interview.

The official added that the Western sanctions had a “reverse impact” and strengthened ties between Moscow and Minsk even more.

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📹 The crews of the Ka-52 of the Russian Aerospace Forces attacked strongholds and armored vehicles of Ukrainian forces.

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Head of the Republika Srpska within Bosnia and Herzegovina Milorad Dodik invited Bosnia and Herzegovina to apply for BRICS membership due to delays in joining the EU

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❗️ Russia has raised two fighters to prevent a possible violation of its border over the Black Sea by a US Air Force MQ-9 Reaper and RQ-4 Global Hawk drones. Moscow said on Monday that the UAVs were leading aerial reconnaissance in the area of the Crimean Peninsula.

After the Russian jets were raised, the US Air Force devices changed their flight direction and left the reconnaissance areas.

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📹 All quiet near the French embassy in Niger after the ultimatum on ambassador leaving the country expired, a Sputnik correspondent reported from the site.

Cars have not yet left the diplomatic mission in the morning, and there are no law enforcement officers in sight nearby.

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A transcript of the dialogue between Olaf Scholz and Emmanuel Macron about Vladimir Putin appeared on the web.

According to the transcript given to the German tabloid Bild, Scholz was depressed that Putin did not complain at all about the sanctions during the conversation and did not mention them at all.

According to Scholz, Putin is ready to hold a new meeting, but only in a trilateral format (without Zelensky). The Russian leader addressed about the demilitarization and de-Nazification of Ukraine, and also outlined Russian fundamental approach towards Ukraine in the special military operation.

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🗣️ On the BRICS expansion as a result of the US debacle in Ukraine:

“This is all the result of Biden and his escalation against Russia. He went to countries like Brazil and India and Saudi Arabia and basically demanded that they immediately boycott Russia. And their response was 'We'll get back to you on that. We'll think about it. Thanks.'.. Biden miscalculated because if the BRICS goes, if they have a currency that will lead to the devaluation of the US dollar, transactions that are now done in US dollars will be done in the BRICS currency,” Caleb Maupin, a journalist and political analyst, told Sputnik.

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🇺🇸 Republican Presidential Candidate Vivek Ramaswami's Pledges on Russia 🇷🇺

Indian-American Presidential candidate in the Republican Party Vivek Ramaswami vows to acknowledge Russia's authority over new territories if he secures the election.

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🇺🇸 The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill was placed on lockdown Monday after police received reports of an armed and potentially dangerous individual on campus.

Local media reported that a suspect has been taken into custody; however, lockdown procedures remain in effect. Citing first responders, the university's newspaper reported at least one individual sustained an injury on campus shortly after news of the shooting broke.

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🇺🇸 An all-clear alert has been issued at the UNC-Chapel Hill campus, with officials expected to hold a news conference on the incident in the coming hours

The Ukrainian soldiers are sawing up Western cluster munitions, extracting defeat elements from them and using them as shells for drones, an American news website columnist Joseph Trevithick reported.

This is evidenced by a video that appeared on the web. It is believed that the footage was filmed by the Ukrainian unit Achilles, which specialises in working with drones.

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🇪🇺 In recent comments on French media, a top European Union official reaffirmed that Ukraine will be unable to join the NATO alliance, as it has long sought to do, while it remains in conflict with Russia.

“As long as the conflict continues on European territory, Ukraine cannot become a member of NATO,” Thierry Breton, the EU’s commissioner for internal market, said on Monday.

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The Ukrainian president has signaled his willingness to hold democratic elections amid the conflict if Western partners provide financial assistance. He had earlier ruled the possibility out. What's behind the president's apparent "change of heart"?

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📊 More than half of all Americans are now more worried by the growing use and power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) rather than excited about its prospects, a new Pew Research Center survey revealed.

"Overall, 52% of Americans say they feel more concerned than excited about the increased use of artificial intelligence," the Pew Research Center said in a statement published with the survey results on Monday. "Just 10% say they are more excited than concerned, while 36% say they feel an equal mix of these emotions."

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On Sunday, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Kiev had increased its weapons and ammunition production. Earlier this month, the US mainstream media reported that Ukraine has been ramping up production of arms and ammo as NATO stockpiles dwindle and the US and EU search for new sources of ammunition to quickly supply it.

Does Ukraine have resources for an industrial boom?

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🇺🇸 The United States has provided Ukraine more than 3.1 million rounds of artillery, rockets and other long-range munitions, Deputy US Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks said on Monday.

The US has also cooperated with the private sector to help Ukraine access commercial technologies that aid them on the battlefield, Hicks said.

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