🪖 “So much death for so little”: Elon Musk comments on reports of “miniscule” gains from Ukraine’s much-touted counteroffensive

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🇷🇺💥 Powerful Russian artillery strikes smash Ukrainian attempts to advance in the area of Artemovsk (Bakhmut)

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🇨🇳🔋🇪🇺 Europe’s energy ‘ecosystem’ could get hooked on China’s batteries by 2030

Concerns are on the rise that the European Union could find itself deeply “reliant” on China for lithium-ion batteries and fuel cells - crucial for electric vehicles - by 2030, warns a paper prepared for the bloc’s leaders and cited in a media report.

The EU may be one of the world leaders in electrolyser manufacturing – a key factor in green hydrogen production – but it relies heavily on China when it comes to lithium-ion batteries and fuel cells. This will multiply EU demand for the batteries "between 10 and 30 times in the coming years," the document is cited as saying.

The European energy ecosystem could have a dependency on China by 2030 of a different nature, but with a similar severity, from the one it had on Russia, warned the document.

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🇷🇺🇰🇵 Kim Jong Un extends ‘heartfelt thanks’ to Putin, Russians for hospitality

Kim's visit to Russia brought about "a new radical turn" in the development of Moscow-Pyongyang relations and consolidated "the traditional ties of good neighbor and cooperation" between the two countries, state media reported.

💬 "He [Kim] extended his heartfelt thanks to President Putin and the Russian leadership and people for their special care and cordial hospitality in every place during the whole period of his visit to Russia, wishing Russia prosperity and its people well-being," the statement read.

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🇷🇺🔥 Russian forces reduce Ukrainian armored vehicles to scrap in South Donetsk direction

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🇷🇺⚓️ Russia holds Northern Sea Route naval drills

The exercise involves more than 50 units of military equipment and some 10,000 servicemen. All aspects of the drills are of a defensive nature, the MoD said.

The drills also featured live firing of Vulkan, Granit, and Oniks cruise missiles at mock targets in the Bering Sea, with all missiles hitting their targets, the ministry added.

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❗️Russian forces hit Ukrainian storage facilities with Storm Shadow cruise missiles and depleted uranium munitions, MoD says

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

▪️Russian forces repelled two Ukrainian attacks in the Krasny Liman direction, eliminating over 50 Ukrainian servicemen

▪️Ukrainian losses in the South Donetsk direction amounted to over 180 servicemen, with 11 Ukrainian vehicles destroyed

▪️Russian air defense systems intercepted five HIMARS missiles overnight

▪️The Russian Army repelled six Ukrainian attacks in the Donetsk direction, eliminating up to 255 Ukrainian servicemen

▪️Russian air defenses destroyed and suppressed 27 Ukrainian UAVs

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❗️Explosions heard near administrative building containing DPR head's office in Donetsk, Sputnik correspondent reports

Ukrainian forces fired three missiles at the center of Donetsk, local authorities said.

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🇺🇸 'Spending cuts & no blank check for Ukraine': US House Speaker's bid to avoid Gov’t shutdown

The race is on to avert a US government shutdown before the looming September 30 deadline, with Kevin McCarthy and his allies having reportedly come up with a new short-term spending plan they hope to push through the House of Representatives amid the funding logjam.

The deal that the US House Speaker purportedly presented to Republican lawmakers in a private conference call on Sunday evening would extend the deadline to fund the government until October 31, and was brainstormed jointly by a coalition representing the House Freedom Caucus, generally considered as the most conservative, and the more mainstream Main Street Caucus.

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❗️Putin: Russian economy recovered from sanctions pressure

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❗️ Key points of Vladimir Putin’s speech on state of Russian economy:

▪️Oil and gas revenues of the Russian budget in July-August recovered to last year's level, and active growth continues

▪️Russia's GDP has reached the 2021 level, and its growth is expected to be 2.5-2.8% by the end of the year

▪️One of the major challenges related to Russia’s economy is accelerated inflation

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🇮🇷🇺🇸 Qatari plane carrying US prisoners released as part of a prisoner swap with Iran has left Tehran airport, Iranian media reports

Two of the five Iranians released as part of the prisoner swap with the US are already in Doha, the report said.

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🇷🇺📹 WATCH Russian Grad MLRS eliminate concentrations of Ukrainian troops during special op

During aerial reconnaissance, areas with large concentrations of Ukrainian troops were identified and this information was transmitted to the artillery command center of the Tula airborne troops, the MoD said.

After receiving the coordinates, the Grad MLRS immediately moved to the area and attacked the enemy with 122 mm unguided rocket launchers.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷 The White House has confirmed that Iran has released US citizens as part of a prisoner swap and they are now on a plane.

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