🇺🇸 US Commerce Secretary warns of looming government shutdown worries among business leaders

The White House has urged Congress to swiftly approve a short-term spending bill to avert a partial shutdown, with Gina Raimondo emphasizing the need for a speedy resolution. She noted that such an event could pose a significant challenge to the economy and potentially hinder its progress.

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📹 SpaceX Dragon capsule carrying Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev returns to Earth from ISS

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🇷🇺🇹🇷 Putin and Erdogan meeting: What to expect from Russia-Turkiye summit?

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are set to hold negotiations in Russia’s Black Sea resort city of Sochi on September 4, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday. This will be the first meeting between the two leaders in person since October 13 last year in Astana, Kazakhstan.

👉 Sputnik takes a closer look at what to expect from the upcoming talks

📹 WATCH Russian Ka-52 and Mi-35 chopper crews destroy (01:10) Ukrainian stronghold in Krasny Liman direction

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🪖 Ukraine's Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov says he has submitted his resignation to the Ukrainian parliament

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🇨🇳 Chinese premier Li Qiang will take part in G20 Summit in India, Chinese Foreign Ministry says

Earlier, several Western media outlets reported that Chinese President Xi Jinping is unlikely to attend the summit.

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🪖 Ukraine's Defense Minister Reznikov: Legacy mired in corruption

Oleksii Reznikov has been Ukraine's defense minister since November 2021, during which time both the ministry and Reznikov repeatedly faced anger over a series of corruption scandals.

In January, Ukrainian media released a report claiming that the food the ministry buys for servicemen is twice or three times more expensive than in Kiev's ordinary food shops. At the time, Reznikov dismissed these stories as a smear campaign and said that the data from the published invoices has "an error in converting pieces into kilograms".

Another scandal took place in the autumn of 2022, when Ukrainian defense ministry bought 180,000 winter jackets from a Turkish firm at a cost of $86 million. However, it soon transpired that these jackets were for summer, and their full cost amounted to only $29 million.

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🇷🇺🇹🇷 The Putin and Erdogan meeting in Sochi is scheduled to start at 13:00 (+03 GMT), a source in the Turkish presidential administration told Sputnik.

Erdogan is already on his way, his plane left about half an hour ago, Turkish media reported.

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🇵🇱🪖 Poland reportedly starts extraditing men of conscription age to Ukraine

A total of 80,000 Ukrainian men of conscription age have entered Poland from Ukraine since the start of the Russia’s military op in February 24, 2022, according to the Polish authorities.

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🇷🇺 Russia seeks to build constructive relations with foreign partners that are interested in this, and is open to a broad dialogue on all pressing issues, President Vladimir Putin said in a message to the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) participants, published on Monday by the Kremlin.

💬 "Russia intends to continue to actively participate in efforts to build a system of interstate relations in the Asia-Pacific region based on equality, mutual benefit and respect for each other's legitimate interests," Putin said.

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⚡️ Putin at the meeting with Erdogan: We hope that Turkiye gas hub negotiations will be finalized and the situation in the energy sector will become more stable

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❗️More statements from Putin-Erdogan talks in Sochi:

▪️ Everything goes according to the plan at the Akkuyu nuclear plant, the first unit to be launched next year

▪️The issues related to Ukrainian crisis will be not ignored at the meeting

▪️Putin tells Erdogan Russia is open to the negotiations on the Black Sea grain deal

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❗️Putin-Erdogan Meeting in Enlarged Format Starts in Sochi

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🇷🇺🇹🇷 Putin: Hopefully Russia and Turkiye will agree on gas hub soon

💬 "I hope that in the near future we will complete negotiations on the creation of a gas hub in Turkey in order to make the energy situation in the region more stable and balanced. And I think this will be beneficial," Putin said.

Regarding the energy cooperation, Putin said that "agreements have been reached" between main supplies and consumers on both sides.

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