🗣️ On Kim Jung Un’s visit to Russia:

“This meeting is basically going to focus on building upon the economic and bilateral cooperation between North Korea and the Far East and Russia... And this is crucial because, as we know, Russia has been sanctioned, but so is North Korea. And Russia, until this moment, hasn't really said much about these sanctions that have been placed on North Korea. It has been just observing them and basically abiding by them. But I think that will be, that will change because this is an economic area that is not only in need of this sort of new revitalization, but it is the right moment right now,” Fiorella Isabel, journalist, told Sputnik.

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Brits outraged by disturbing noises from Ukrainian training grounds, reports say

Lydd residents living in the vicinity of the Lydd Ranges polygon submitted “numerous letters” to the town council demanding that action be taken. They complained about the strong noise coming from practice shootings and explosions. Upon being notified of the complaints, the Ministry of Defense agreed to limit the noise and cut exercises by a third.

Alan Smart, 63, who lives next to the firing range, called for shutting down the military base altogether. “I suggest closing it. The explosions are really noisy... I hate living here”, said the British man, who complained that his house is vibrating, and that his window panes are rattling due to the exercises taking place on the base.

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🗣️ On the US’ possible supply of long-range missiles to Ukraine:

“We've had no official statements from the administration, but apparently dozens of people from within the administration have leaked that Biden is just about to approve it. It seems like there's this pressure both from within the administration, between those who support this and in the media, which I have to say is driving it like 'Why won't you give these missiles to Ukraine? What's wrong with you?' I mean, that's literally the tone that the Western media has presented it,” Mark Sleboda, international affairs and security analyst, told Sputnik.

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🗣️ On Russia’s pivot to the east:

“What people need to understand here is that Russia is not looking to the West anymore. They don't need the West… Russia is looking to the east, they're looking to the Global South, that the West has pretty much lost every attempt to try to from Russia, where Russia has tried to cooperate with the West time and time again. And they realized through these sanctions and through this economic development, in spite of them, that they really don't need them,” Fiorella Isabel, journalist, told Sputnik.

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❗Russian air defenses down Ukrainian UAV over Belgorod region and two drones over Bryansk region

🇮🇳 🇷🇺 The developing countries appreciate Russia's security concerns vis-a-vis the expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), former Indian envoy Anil Trigunayat told Sputnik India.

🌾 Russia's strengths in maintaining a stable food, fertilizer and energy global supply chains was very useful for the developing nations, Indian Navy veteran Seshadri Vasan noted.

🗯 "Russia, in turn, requires the support of Global South in forging a new global narrative," Vasan added.

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📹 Soldiers of the Dnepr Battlegroup destroyed an American-made M777 howitzer with loitering ammunition

The enemy's camouflaged firing position was revealed with the help of drone operators and destroyed along with the crew.

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🔺 Russia and North Korea will cooperate in space and military spheres, standing together against "imperialism" – Kremlin
🔺Top Republican directs US House committee to open Biden impeachment inquiry
🔺All thirty-one NATO countries plus Sweden are reportedly gearing up to conduct the bloc's biggest military drills since the Cold War in early 2024

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❗Russian air defense systems have thwarted multiple drone attacks over the Bryansk Region overnight Thursday, the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed

Russia has increased missile, tank and ammunition production, overcoming sanctions and Western export controls, an American newspaper has reported

Before the start of the special military op in Ukraine, Russia produced 100 tanks per year. This year, it has already made 200. In terms of ammunition, it is capable of producing two million artillery shells per year, according to the newspaper, citing a high-ranking representative of one of the Western Ministries of Defense.

Chancellor of the Estonian Ministry of Defense Kusti Salm noted that the current production of ammunition in Russia is seven times higher than production in the West.

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🗣 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the end of the world order that emerged as a result of the Cold War

Decades of relative geopolitical stability have given way to “intensified competition with authoritarian and revisionist powers, he said.

He called Russia's actions in Ukraine "the most acute and pressing threat to the international order."

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'Somebody has to do It': why volunteers fight In Artemovsk (Bakhmut)

Battles raging around-the-clock – the enemy never stops trying to pincer the city, trying to seize the dominant heights, while the volunteer formations are holding the southern flank. Why deputies, children of wealthy parents and other ordinary people decided to go to the front - read in Sputnik's material.

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🇮🇳 🇷🇺 Russian Minister Unveils India’s Bid to Mutually Build Non-Nuclear Icebreakers

🗯 "This is a continuation of the work that we began in March of this year. At my invitation, the Minister of Ports and Shipping of India came to the Russian Federation. This is his first time in Russia. India is interested in training personnel in Arctic navigation. We made a proposal for the joint creation of non-nuclear icebreakers on Indian shipyards. We are studying this proposal," Minister for Development of the Russian Far East Alexey Chekunkov stated.

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The Ukrainian Armed Forces tried to attack the Sergey Kotov, a patrol ship of the Black Sea Fleet, with five uncrewed boats in the Black Sea on 14 September, around 05:00 Moscow time (02:00 GMT)

The ship's standard weapons fired back and destroyed all 5 enemy uncrewed boats.

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Dedollarization is happening at a steady rate within BRICS and in the global economy, although more work needs to be done to accelerate the process, Michael Goddard, the president of the Netley Group, told Sputnik

"The harder part" in efforts to replace the dollar lies in the reserve aspect of the currency, the Netley Group president noted. For instance, the United States' big advantage at the moment is the breadth of its bond market, Goddard explained.

"One of the ways, I think, BRICS could develop something to compete with that would be the technology to actually link the BRICS bond markets," the entrepreneur added.

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📹 Russia’s Uragan MLRS crews continue eliminating (1:04) (1:08) enemy personell and armored vehicles in southern Donetsk

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📹 Russian Northern Fleet's Arctic exercises

Fleet personnel trained to fire anti-submarine weapons, missiles and artillery, performed anti-terrorist drills, as well as their standard activities.

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