🇷🇺🇹🇷 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.

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🗣️ 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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🇮🇳 🚦 Daredevil Auto-Rickshaw Driver Takes Traffic Evasion to New Heights

🛺 Caught in a jam at Hamdard Nagar Red Light Sangam Vihar Traffic Circle, Munna, the rickshaw driver steered his auto onto the footpath, then soared up the foot-over bridge stairs.

📹 The attempted escape was captured on video and went viral on social media.

👮‍♂️Later however, Delhi Police seized the auto and arrested Munna and his daring accomplice, ensuring that their escape didn't go unpunished.

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🇷🇺🇹🇷Grain deal, gas hub, and de-dollarization: what signal do Putin-Erdogan talks send to the West?

Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan met in Sochi on September 4 to discuss the creation of a gas hub in Turkiye, mutual trade, the use of national currencies, the Black Sea Grain Deal, and the Ukraine conflict, among other issues.

Will Russia and Turkiye revive grain deal? Will Russia and Turkiye continue de-dollarization? How is Russo-Turkish gas hub going?

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🇷🇺🇹🇷 What is the Russia-Turkiye gas hub and why is it important?

Russo-Turkish energy cooperation is proceeding, as Russian President Vladimir Putin outlined on September 4. Turkiye buys around 45% of its natural gas from Russia per annum via the Blue Stream and TurkStream pipelines across the Black Sea, and is continuing to implement the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant project together with Moscow. Meanwhile, one project that has caught the world's attention is the Russo-Turkish gas hub, which, theoretically, may revive the fuel's flow to the EU.

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🇮🇳 Developed by Hyderabad-based Grene Robotics, the revolutionary technology will play a crucial role in safeguarding skies by providing a strong defence against unauthorised drones.

🪖 Equipped with advanced artificial intelligence, machine-learning algorithms, and state-of-the-art hardware, 'Indrajaal' holds the ability to swiftly detect, and neutralise unauthorised drone activity in real-time, taking between 30 seconds and a few minutes.

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Russian air defense forces destroyed drones in the Kaluga and Moscow regions that were trying to attack Moscow overnight, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said

There were no damage or casualties on the crash site of debris, according to preliminary data. Emergency services are working on the site.

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US Depleted Uranium Shells Will Poison Ukraine, Won’t Change Conflict’s Outcome

Using depleted uranium as a weapon constitutes a crude form of the "recycling" of spent nuclear fuel, and first began to be experimented with by the United States in the 1970s.

The depleted uranium shells’ radioactive properties have a direct impact on their penetrative ability. When fired at enemy armor, DU-tipped rounds generate an immense amount of heat, literally sloughing off portions of the projectile as it rams into its target to keep the shell’s tip sharp and prevent mushrooming. 

But their destructive impact doesn’t end there. Because they are radioactive, the weapons have a tendency to poison their surrounding environment, affecting everyone from the troops inside the tanks firing the shells, to enemy combatants, and local civilians.

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💬 "It doesn’t take [legendary journalist] Bob Woodward to understand that Joe Biden is old"

It "wouldn't be a total shock" if President Joe Biden were to drop out of the 2024 White House race, Franklin Foer, a prominent biographer of the 46th president with extraordinary access to Biden's inner circle, suggested

This revelation comes amid growing concerns about President Biden's age, as he would be 86 years old by the end of a potential second term.

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Russian high-precision artillery strikes pound enemy positions

📹 Russian artillerymen crush Ukrainian firing points and strongholds in forests and woodland areas with surgical strikes.

UAV crews help pinpoint these artillery strikes.

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