More key statements made by Dmitry Peskov:

▪️Change of Ukraine's defense minister is Kiev's internal affair;

▪️Agreements on grain is a multilateral process, so far it is hardly possible to agree on something specific;

▪️Vladimir Putin talked about drone attacks on ships guarding gas pipelines during a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

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🇹🇷🇺🇳 No prospects for peace in Ukraine on the horizon, Turkish President Erdogan has said

▪️The UN has proposed a mediation mechanism for paying for Russian food, Erdogan added.

▪️The Turkish president intends to discuss a possible resumption of the grain deal with the UN secretary-general during the General Assembly, which will be held this month.

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📹 Footage showing two American M88 recovery vehicles towing another wrecked German tank in the zone of the special military op has appeared on social media

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🗣️ On why Africa is pivoting to BRICS:

“This is something that France has never done in Africa, and the Germans have never done, the Dutch, the Spaniards, the Americans. These people are not bringing the prosperity to the African countries. What they do is they bring wheat. They say 'Oh, we feed you.' This is exactly what happened during the war in Yugoslavia, where the West was sending food to the Bosniaks, but allowing the Serbs to continue bombing. So all that is feeding the population; it means telling the population 'you depend on this for your survival.' But that is not right,”Elijah Magnier, veteran war correspondent, told Sputnik.

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❗️Human Rights Watch told Sputnik that it had collected evidence of the death of the inhabitants of the city of Izyum as a result of Ukrainian shelling with cluster munitions in 2022

▪️The organization said that it studied the situation on the ground and that there were remnants of cluster munitions everywhere in the city.

▪️Judging by the direction from which the fire was opened, it was possible to determine that they were used by Kiev forces.

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🇮🇳 India Wants to Change Its Name

📄 The Indian gov't is likely to introduce a resolution to officially change India's name to "Bharat" during a special parliamentary session scheduled for September 18-22, local media report.

Interestingly, President Droupadi Murmu has already been sending out #G20 dinner invitations under the name of "President of Bharat."

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💬 "Almost all legal scholars have voiced opinions that the 14th Amendment has no legal basis"

Donald Trump said that a possible attempt to block him from running for president in 2024 by invoking the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution is another "trick"

The former president also said that his opponent, incumbent President Joe Biden, is the "most incompetent and most corrupt" leader in the history of the United States, who is "incapable of winning in a Free and Fair Election."

The third section of the 14th Amendment provides that a person who has previously held civil or military office may not be elected if the candidate has participated in or supported a rebellion or insurrection.

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🗣 Russia will perceive the possible return of American nuclear weapons to Britain as a step towards escalation, Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said

Earlier, media reported that Washington could return to its 1958-2008 policy of stationing nuclear arsenals in Britain based on an analysis of the draft US Air Force budget by scientists.

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🗣️ On BRICS as a counterweight to the G7:

“US allies are defecting and joining the BRICS, and as you pointed out, Saudi Arabia, but also UAE, and essentially the large developing countries that have large assets of energy, both hydro energy and fossil fuel, are joining the BRICS. And what that does is it undermines the G7's control, the G7's 'globalist control' of the entire planet. It's creating a counter-hegemonic bloc. It's creating a multipolar world,” KJ Noh, author, journalist and geopolitical analyst, told Sputnik.

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🇷🇺 🪖 The ability of the Su-34 fighter bomber to launch Kinzhals will complicate and weaken Ukraine's ability to counter the threat from the Russian hypersonic missile, Vijainder K Thakur writes in his column for #SputnikIndia.

🛩 It's likely that Russia has developed an altogether new variant of the Su-34 to launch the 4,300 kg #Kinzhal missile, as was the case with the MiG-31K.

#Ukraine will have no way of knowing which Su-34 is armed with Kinzhal, which not. It's likely that at any given time, more than one Su-34 is in the air. When and which will launch a Kinzhal would be hard to determine.

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🗣 Russophobia and neo-Nazism have become the norm in Ukraine and the Baltics, and history has been used as a tool in the struggle - now history is being twisted to please politics in Europe, where some have completely lost their memory, Vladimir Putin said

It is important to provide equal rights to all participants in the special military op, including volunteer, mobilized, and contract soldiers, military, law enforcement officers - everyone fights heroically, and the families of the special military op participants must be provided with everything necessary, the president added.

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🗣️ On the difficult economic state of France:

“I think Macron has never been in such a difficult situation, political situation, in his entire political career.… There is unrest in the country. There is a lot of unhappiness among the population. And we are not talking about the pension age. We are talking about the cost of life and the power of the euro that is in decline,” Elijah Magnier, veteran war correspondent, told Sputnik.

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Russian developers have created the Viarus simulator to train drone operators with the help of VR glasses

“Wearing the Viarus VR spectacles, a pilot steers the virtual drone in the same way as if he operates a real unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV),” Mikhail Sinakin, executive director of the Iksarus company, said in an interview with Sputnik.

The developers plan to create another drone control simulator to help pilots drill various scenarios for using UAVs in combat missions.

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The Russian MoD’s latest statements on the Ukraine crisis:

▪️The Russian Armed Forces have successfully repelled four attacks by enemy assault groups in the DPR. The enemy losses were up to 225 Ukrainian soldiers killed and wounded, two armored fighting vehicles, nine motor vehicles, one US-manufactured M777 artillery system, and one Grad MLRS system.

▪️The Russian Armed Forces have repelled two Ukrainian attacks in the Zaporozhye region. The enemy losses were up to 170 Ukrainian troops, two tanks, three armored fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, three US-manufactured M777 artillery systems, one M119 howitzer, one German-manufactured Panzerhaubitze-2000 self-propelled artillery system, one British-manufactured FH-70 gun, one D-20 and one D-30 howitzers.

▪️The enemy losses near Krasny Liman were over 70 soldiers, three armored fighting vehicles, one Polish-manufactured Krab self-propelled artillery system, and one D-20 howitzer.

▪️The Russian Armed Forces have destroyed enemy manpower and hardware near Kupyansk. The enemy losses were up to 50 Ukrainian soldiers, two motor vehicles, and one D-30 howitzer.

▪️The enemy losses in the Kherson region were up to 40 Ukrainian troops, including two sabotage and reconnaissance groups, two motor vehicles, and two D-30 howitzers.

▪️Air defense facilities have intercepted 21 HIMARS and Uragan MLRS projectiles.

▪️Some 467 airplanes, 248 helicopters, 6,409 unmanned aerial vehicles, 435 air defense missile systems, 11,653 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 1,148 fighting vehicles equipped with MLRS, 6,230 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 12,715 special military motor vehicles have been destroyed during the special military operation.

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The Russian carrier of hypersonic missiles, the Admiral Gorshkov frigate, will conduct a series of training exercises in the Atlantic, the Russian MoD has announced

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📹 The military exercise Combat Brotherhood 2023 is being hosted by Belarus from September 1 to 6 with the participation of military contingents from Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) member states

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🗣 "Russia will extend an additional voluntary reduction in oil supplies to world markets by 300,000 barrels per day until the end of December 2023," Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said, adding that the reduction is aimed at "strengthening the precautionary measures taken by the OPEC+ countries in order to maintain stability and balance in the oil markets."

🛢 The volume of voluntary reduction in Russia’s oil production will be reviewed monthly depending on the situation on the global oil market, Alexander Novak said on Tuesday.

In March, Russia announced that it will voluntarily cut its oil production by 500,000 barrels per day from the February level of 9.95 million barrels per day. In April, Russia said that it will extend its voluntarily reduction until year-end.

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🦠🤔 New COVID Spike: will Americans mask up again?

As per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nationwide COVID hospitalizations in the most recent week increased by 18.8% while SARS-CoV-2-related deaths surged by more than 21%.

As of yet, the CDC has not made a broad recommendation for everyone to wear masks. However, as per the US press, that could happen if hospitalizations reach "critical levels." Thus the agency recommends "universal masking" in jurisdictions with 20 or more people with COVID per 100,000 in local hospitals; whereas masking for high-risk individuals could be implemented when 10 to 19.9 people per 100,000 are hospitalized with COVID.

What measures have been taken by US states so far? Which States Have Imposed Mask Mandates? Which Politicians Oppose Masking Up?

Check out Sputnik's article to find the answers.