📹 Ukrainian servicemen are ashamed to walk the streets in Kiev as the residents may mistake them for military recruiters, a captured Ukrainian military officer told Sputnik

The country's military recruiters have a bad reputation for corruption and attempts to forcibly recruit military-age men using strongarm tactics

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🇦🇺 New censorship tool? Unraveling Australia’s Orwellian crackdown on bank clients

The National Australia Bank's terms and conditions, set to step into effect November 1, feature a new "unacceptable account conduct" addendum enabling the banking behemoth to "investigate instances where it identifies or is made aware that an account or an electronic banking service is being used in a financially abusive manner."

The latter includes "coercive or controlling behavior to limit a person’s access to or use of funds; making profane, derogatory, discriminatory or harassing comments to any person; making or promoting threatening or abusive language to any person," and "making or threatening physical or psychological harm to any person."

Free speech activists fear the new regulations are rife for potential misuse to target politically undesirable people

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❗️🇷🇺🇹🇷 LIVE NOW: Putin and Erdogan hold press conference after talks

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⚡️ Putin on results of talks with Erdogan: Relations between Russia, Turkiye developing successfully in all areas, meeting was successful

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🇷🇺🇹🇷 Vladimir Putin's statements made during press conference after talks with Erdogan

▪️Tendency on use of national currencies in settlements between Russia, Turkiye visible, share of euros and dollars decreasing

▪️Russia always been, will be reliable and responsible supplier of gas, intends to continue providing gas to Turkiye, third countries

▪️Discussion with Erdogan focused on situation in Ukraine, Black sea grain deal

▪️West continues to block fulfillment of part of grain deal obligations concerning Russia

▪️While Russia ensured grain corridor’s safety, other side used it for terrorist attacks

▪️Russia will continue to export food and fertilizers

▪️Russia will be ready to revive grain deal and will do it immediately when all agreements implemented

▪️Withdrawal from Black Sea grain deal did not affect global food markets, grain prices declining, no evidence of food shortage

▪️Russia believes future of Syria should be determined by citizens themselves without external pressure

▪️Exchange of views with Turkiye very useful

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🇷🇺🇹🇷 Statements made by Erdogan during press conference after talks with Putin

▪️Turkiye is ready to mediate the Ukraine crisis

▪️Russia's expectations from the Black Sea grain deal are fair

▪️The deal played a great role in preventing a food crisis

▪️Turkiye believes that a new package of proposals for the grain deal could contribute to its resumption

▪️Construction of a new nuclear power plant in Turkiye's Sinop was discussed

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🇷🇺🇹🇷 Follow-up comments by Vladimir Putin's during press conference after talks with Erdogan

❗️Ukraine’s counteroffensive is failure, not just stalemate

▪️Russia never refused mediation efforts to resolve situation in Ukraine

▪️Erdogan pays great attention to the crisis in Ukraine, but Kiev refused agreements reached through mediation of Turkiye

▪️Russia initially agreed to participate in Black Sea grain deal as number of obligations towards Russia promised to be fulfilled, but nothing happened

▪️Western countries lied to Russia when it came to implementation of grain deal obligations

▪️Food corridors should not have been used for military purposes, but currently being used for that by Ukraine

▪️Gas pipelines, including Blue Stream, attacked by drones

▪️Russia expects good grain harvest, export potential will remain at level of 60 million tons

▪️Russia ready to fully meet Turkiye's grain needs

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🇷🇺🎉 Member of legendary Alyosha tank crew gets royal welcome fit for Khan upon returning home

Compatriots in the Ust-Aldansky district of Russia’s Yakutia presented the gunner of the legendary tank Alyosha with a herd of horses, a UAZ truck, and a plot of land, the head of the village told Sputnik.

A video, courtesy of the district’s administration, shows Alexey Neustroyev participating in the festivities.

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🇷🇺 Putin: Russia's withdrawal from the grain deal has not affected global food markets; grain prices are falling, and there is no shortage of food

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🇷🇺 Putin confirmed that Russia is ready to consider reviving the grain deal, but only after restrictions on Russian agricultural exports are lifted.

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🇷🇺🗡 Sky-high showdown: Su-34 deployed hypersonic Kinzhal 'Dagger' missile

The Sukhoi Su-34 plane used the hypersonic Kinzhal missile in the course of the Ukraine conflict. The initial Russian service members who accomplished this mission were decorated with state honors, noted a source in the Russian army.

The Russian "Kinzhal" represents the armed forces' advance to a sixth-generation weapon system boasting high velocity (with a speed range of 2,000 to 3,000km) aeroballistic missiles. This hypersonic missile is deployed via the MiG-31K interceptor, a specialized aircraft specially modified for this mission. Furthermore, earlier reports indicate plans to equip Kinzhals on Tu-22M3 strategic and Su-34 fighter bombers.

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📊 The combined share of BRICS' economies in global GDP is forecast to rise to 30 percent from January 2024, India’s state-owned bank State Bank of India (SBI) has said in its new report.

🌐 📈 The report states that the combined GDP share of the six new countries would be around 11 percent of the BRICS’ GDP — Saudi Arabia would contribute four percent, while Argentina, the UAE and Iran would contribute two percent each.

🇮🇳 India contributes 11 percent to BRICS’ overall GDP, 🇷🇺 Russia accounts for eight percent, 🇧🇷 Brazil for seven percent, while 🇿🇦South Africa’s share averages around 2 percent.

👉 Read full article on Sputnik India!

🗣️ On the difficulties the US has faced disseminating propaganda:

“It was easier before social media, before the Internet, it was easier for the United States to project that propaganda image, that it is the champion of rights and democracy through its propaganda, while it's destroying half of the planet… But today, the propaganda the United States is dishing out, it does not relate to the tsunami of social media that we see every day that contradicts this lie, this myth of American democracy and human rights. And it's not working anymore,” Laith Marouf, broadcaster and journalist, told Sputnik.

🎧 Listen to more of Marouf’s analysis in our podcast The Critical Hour

🇩🇪 German FM Annalena Baerbock thanks Romania for increasing exports of ‘cocaine grain'

The German foreign minister misspoke during a press conference with her Romanian counterpart when speaking about the expansion of European corridors for Ukrainian grain supplies.

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🇪🇺🇵🇱 EU to face electricity shortage in winter - Polish energy chief

"I think it is electricity," she told a Polish news agency, when asked what would be the most problematic energy sector for the EU this winter.

The official argued that the shortage would stem from the decision of Warsaw's "Western neighbors" to shut down all nuclear power plants ahead of schedule, describing the move as "more of a political and ideological than a practical one," adding that Poland would face similar problems but to a lesser degree than other EU countries.

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Reznikov's replacement: Who is the new Ukrainian defense minister, Rustem Umerov?

Volodymyr Zelensky removed Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov from his post Sunday, citing the need for "new approaches and other formats of interaction with both the military and society in general."

👉 Sputnik reached out to a veteran Ukrainian politician in exile and a senior retired US Army officer to get a better sense of Reznikov’s replacement

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👨🏻‍🦳Biden's Quest to Find Xi Jinping at the G-20 Summit

🇺🇸 🇨🇳 American President Joe Biden seems to be on a mission of his own - a game of hide and seek with China's President Xi Jinping!

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🇪🇺🇨🇳 European carmakers struggle to catch up with China's lead on electric vehicles

Despite a wave of laws and regulations across the West incentivising electric and hybrid cars — while setting cut-off dates for new petrol- and diesel-powered vehicles — Chinese manufacturers are still a decade ahead of the likes of Mercedes and Peugeot.

A cutting-edge crop of Chinese auto firms are taking advantage of new emissions laws to make inroads into the European car market with competitively-priced electric vehicles. Now established marques are looking for ways to fight back.

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