🇷🇺🇺🇸 US imports of Russian fertilizer hit record $944mln

Russia was the US' second-largest supplier of fertilizer this year, the largest supplier being Canada, which exported $2.8Bln of fertilizers in seven months. Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Qatar make up the other top five countries from which the US imports fertilizer.

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🇷🇺🇰🇵 Kim Jong Un’s train leaves Russia's Far East, marking the end of his visit, a Sputnik correspondent has reported

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☔️❄️ Mother Nature strikes again: US media blames natural phenomena for Ukraine's failing counteroffensive

Ukrainian forces have been dogged by a new nemesis. UK intelligence has already identified pesky Russian bushes on the battlefield as a bar to their ultimate success. But now a US media report has discovered a new enemy: the end of summer accompanied by “drenching rain and icy cold [weather].”

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🇷🇺 Russia vows condign response to NATO'S growing military presence in Arctic

💬 "The strategy to reinforce NATO's military capability in this area, which involves Finland's accession to the alliance and Sweden's looming connection to it, highlights the prevalence of aggressive tactics within NATO to safeguard its own security in the northern latitudes, even if it comes at the expense of other nations' security," the Foreign Ministry's Ambassador for Special Assignments, Nikolai Korchunov, said.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 US waging war against Russia, whether they want to admit it or not, Lavrov says

They're supplying weapons, ammunition and intelligence to Ukraine, the Russian FM noted.

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🇺🇸 Donald Trump might not be averse to choosing a woman as his running mate

“I like the concept, but we’re going to pick the best person… But I do like the concept, yes,” the 45th US President in the interview, while also indicating that he was not yet focused too much on picking a potential Vice President.

At the same time, Trump took a moment to single out Kristi Noem as “one of the people I’d consider,” adding that the South Dakota Governor had given him a “full-throated endorsement, a beautiful endorsement.”

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❗️Key points of Russian MoD briefing on progress of special military op in Ukraine

▪️Russian forces repels three Ukrainian attacks in the Donetsk direction, eliminating up to 180 Ukrainian servicemen

▪️Ukrainian losses in the Zaporozhye direction amounted up to 140 servicemen

▪️Russian troops repelled three Ukrainian attacks in the South Donetsk direction, eliminating up to 170 Ukrainian servicemen

▪️Russian air defense intercepted two JDAM bombs

▪️Russian forces hit Kharkov Armored Plant facilities, where Ukrainian armored vehicles were being repaired and restored, with a missile strike

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 Russian Navy escorted US submarine for record nine hours in March

💬 “A surprise inspection of the Pacific Fleet was held, during which the forces of anti-submarine aviation detected a US submarine in the designated areas," the naval aviation chief of the Russian navy, Andrey Pakhomov, said in an interview.

The submarine did not notice the escort because the aircraft used passive means of tracking, he explained.

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🇷🇺 Go touch some grass: Head of Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov debunks reports of his death

💬 “I strongly advise all those who cannot distinguish truth from lies on the Internet to take a walk in the fresh air, to put their thoughts in order. The rain is wonderfully invigorating,” Kadyrov said on his Telegram channel.

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🪖 Reality of Ukrainian mobilization: Authorities manhandle new 'recruit' at bus stop in Lvov

Earlier, a Ukrainian military office said that only 10 to 20 servicemen out of every 100 people mobilized to Ukrainian forces last autumn remain in service.

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🗣 On the rise of African integration:

“I don't think that the US and Europe can move against African integration… And I think that Africa's integration will find strong support from China, from Russia, from India, from Brazil, in other words, from the BRICS leading countries, and so from South Africa. So I think the economic integration in Africa is so needed and will be so powerful that it really is likely to continue,” Jeffrey Sachs, a Columbia University economist, told Sputnik.

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📹🇷🇺 Russian 152 mm Msta-B howitzer crews disrupt transfer of Ukrainian reserves in Kupyansk direction

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🇪🇺🇷🇺 EU mulls 'siphoning profits' from billions of illegally frozen Russian assets

The bloc’s plan, according to a draft paper cited by a US media outlet, is to impose a windfall tax on profits generated by the aforementioned assets, and funnel the money into the EU budget. The European Commission is gearing up for a meeting on the issue with officials from France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, and Italy on September 21, and after that will discuss the plan with all member states, sources were cited as saying.

A working group formed by the commission has ostensibly argued the need to follow a step-by-step implementation of the three key proposals contained in the draft paper.

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🇸🇦🚫🇮🇱Saudi Arabia suspends talks on normalizing relations with Israel, according to reports

The Netanyahu government had rejected "conciliatory gestures" towards the Palestinians and acceptance of the demands of the right wing bloc undermined any possibility of rapprochement with the Palestinians and Saudi Arabia itself, media reported, citing a source in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office.

The Israeli leadership is "at a loss" over Riyadh's decision to halt any negotiations with Washington on normalizing relations, the source added.

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🌍 African Economies Hurt by Rating Agencies, Says Malian Economist

Africa's economy is suffering from the judgments made by the major international rating agencies, Malian economist Modibo Mao Makalo explained to Sputnik Africa.

"The opportunity gap due to the poorly adjusted ratings from the three largest rating agencies have cost Africa an estimated $75 billion in lost revenue, according to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). This is a considerable sum that could have been used for socio-economic investments on the continent," explained Mao Makalo.

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🇺🇸🇨🇳 US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi discussed bilateral relations between Washington and Beijing, global and regional security issues and the Ukraine conflict during a meeting in Malta, the White House said.

During the meeting, the two sides also noted the importance of peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait, the statement added.

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🇫🇮 The Finnish President calls on the West to maintain relations with Russia

"I don’t mean any great friendship, but the capability to tolerate, even understand each other a bit," Niinisto said in an interview, adding that trust will be needed after the end of the Ukraine conflict to ensure that "a new war is not waiting behind the door."

Speaking about the risks of a nuclear war, Niinisto said that countries supplying weapons to Ukraine need to take into account the possible escalation of the conflict into "a big war, that’s world war."

💬"We’re in a very sensitive situation. Even small things can change matters a great deal and unfortunately for the worse. That is the risk of such large-scale warfare. The risk that nuclear weapons could be used is tremendous," the Finnish president added.

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❗ The Republic of the Congo's government refutes reports of "ongoing coup" in country

The Minister of Communications, Thierry Moungalla, denounced media reports that rolled out claims about the coup as "fake news."

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🇺🇸"Fake" American media have stopped talking about the conflict in Ukraine, and this is bad news for Kiev, former US President Donald Trump said in an interview.

According to the politician, this indicates the dishonesty of American journalism, which has completely discredited itself, as well as the fact that Ukraine is actually being defeated. According to Trump, he refuses to take sides in the conflict and advocates for people to stop the killing.

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