💰 The US has enough money for military supplies to Ukraine for a few more weeks; however, further aid could dwindle without a congressional decision, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby reportedly said.

Kirby urged lawmakers to approve another $24 billion package while conditions on the front remain favorable for a Ukrainian counteroffensive.

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🇺🇸🔎 US reconnaissance flights near Crimea tripled since start of year

During the week of September 18-24, US reconnaissance aircraft and strategic drones, as well as the "scouts" of their NATO allies, flew 21 flights near Crimea, according to data from the portal Flightradar24.

In particular, American P-8A Poseidon and EP-3E Aries II, British RC-135W Rivet Joint and Luxembourg-based E-3A Sentry aircraft flew over the eastern coast of Romania. US RQ-4B Global Hawk strategic reconnaissance aircraft flew over the central and eastern Black Sea. Most of the sorties - 16 out of 21 - were flown by US aircraft.

One day before the September 22 Ukrainian cruise missile attack on the Black Sea Fleet headquarters, the activity of reconnaissance flights by the US and its allies increased to six flights a day. Thus, there is a connection between the intensity of the Western reconnaissance flights and the intensity of Ukrainian attacks on the Crimea.

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💥 Nord Stream pipeline attack one year later: West seeks to shift blame onto Ukraine

Explosions hit the Nord Stream pipelines, built to deliver gas under the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany, on September 26, 2022. The attack remains clouded in mystery one year later: Denmark, Germany and Norway have left Russia out of their investigations into the attack, prompting Moscow to launch its own investigation with charges of international terrorism. Media reports offered different explanations for what really happened.

Pulitzer Prize-winning US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh’s take:

▪️The terrorist attack was carried out by US Navy divers with the help of Norwegian operatives
▪️The explosives were planted during the NATO BALTOPS 22 exercises in June 2022
▪️Joe Biden personally made the decision about the terrorist attacks following more than nine months of secret discussions with his national security team

Western media’s official theory:

▪️The attack was carried out by Ukrainian swimmers who had rented a yacht
▪️The operation was financed by a "private sponsor" from Ukraine
▪️The US was not aware about the preparation and carrying out of the terrorist attack

❓Which one sounds more convincing to you?

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🥺 Bitter? Fox News cuts Trump speech after he says interview with ousted Fox star Tucker Carlson outperformed GOP debate

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💬 "The development and deployment of nuclear weapons provide a level of security and deterrence that, from Pakistan's perspective, is necessary to counterbalance India's military might", former defense attaché in Pakistan's Armed Forces explained.

🚀 🇵🇰 Pakistan's nuclear arsenal is growing, with new warheads, delivery systems, and increased production. Recent satellite images show the construction of launcher facilities.

◾ By 2025, Pakistan's warhead count could reach 200, surpassing earlier US projections. These developments raise concerns amid economic and political challenges.

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🇨🇦 “Not everything is Russian disinformation”: Elon Musk comments on the honoring of a Ukrainian Nazi veteran in the Canadian parliament

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🇫🇷 France losing great power status as Africa turns to BRICS

Following the July 26 military takeover in Niger, the nation's de facto government has demanded that French diplomats and troops leave the West African state. Nonetheless, the Elysee Palace resisted the demands, claiming that it would withdraw only if Niger’s ousted President Mohamed Bazoum requested it. However, on September 24, Macron gave up.

💬 "France hiding behind President Bazoum has been a farce to cover up the end of the French neocolonial empire of Africa," Paolo Raffone, a strategic analyst and director of the CIPI Foundation in Brussels, told Sputnik. "The army-led events that have changed governments in many countries in the Sahel region, although each different for their domestic logic, share a common and widely supported desire to end the de facto French 'mandate.'"

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🇵🇱 Strike on Poland last year that killed two people was done by Ukrainian missile, Polish investigation concludes

Ukraine has yet to provide Poland with any material regarding the incident, Polish media reported, citing sources familiar with the investigation.

The Polish prosecutor's office confirmed that a verdict on the case is ready, but remains confidential.

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🇨🇦 Justin Trudeau skipped the G-20 dinner in New Delhi because he “got high on cocaine", ex-Indian diplomat Deepak Vohra believes.

According to Vohra, the alleged evidence was discovered by sniffer dogs on the plane that brought the Canadian PM to India.

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🪖 US-made ATACMS sent to Ukraine 'risk ending up on black market'

There is no clarity as to how many of the ATACMS will be delivered to Ukraine, nor when they will arrive, UK military analyst Sean Bell has warned on British media.

He added that there were several reasons that gave Washington pause when it came to signing off on the weapons that Volodymyr Zelensky had been clamoring for. One of these was that the ballistic missiles can be used at long distances, and if they target Russian territory there is a grave risk the situation could escalate.

Sean Bell added that there are no big war stocks of these ATACMs, as they are very expensive, high-tech weapons.

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❗️Ukrainian losses for September have amounted to over 17,000 servicemen and more than 2,700 pieces of military equipment, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu

The destroyed equipment includes seven Bradley IFVs, two German Leopard tanks, and one Challenger.

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🇷🇺🇹🇳 LIVE NOW: Lavrov holds press conference with Tunisian counterpart Ammar

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❗️Kremlin on US supplies of Abrams tanks to Ukraine: These tanks will burn too

Western weapons deliveries will be unlikely to change the balance of power on the battlefield, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

The US continues to increase its involvement in the conflict, while the Russian Army is improving its countermeasures skills, he added.

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🇷🇺 Russia's Black Sea Fleet commander Admiral Viktor Sokolov alive and well despite reports in Western media of being killed in Ukrainian strike on Sevastopol

The ministry has published a video showing the commander participating in the department's board meeting.

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🇪🇺🇷🇺 The EU will not be able to completely abandon gas supplies from Russia in the near future, as this could inflate market prices, Kirill Logvinov, the acting head of the Russian mission to the EU, told Sputnik.

💬 "If we talk about calls for a complete refusal of Russian supplies of ‘blue fuel,’ including LNG, then in the near future this is impossible. Refusal to purchase it from Russia under existing long-term contracts will entail serious financial costs for the European Union. Stopping the use of free volumes of domestic LNG in conditions of limited supply will once again increase energy prices in the EU," Logvinov said.

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🇷🇺🇮🇷 Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi had a detailed exchange of views on the situation around Nagorno-Karabakh and the normalization of Yerevan-Baku relations, the Kremlin said.

Both sides expressed a mutual interest in activating the “3+3” consultative platform (Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Russia, Iran, and Turkiye).

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❗️US operatives responsible for the Nord Stream pipeline explosions left no traces of their activities, and no important information on the operation was digitized, Pulitzer Prize-winning US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has said.

Reports on the operation were sent only to the CIA, which kept in touch with those planning the attack, and to President Joe Biden. Paper documents were destroyed after the pipelines were blown up, Hersh added.

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❗️Russian peacekeepers evacuate Nagorno-Karabakh civilians injured in a fuel explosion near the Stepanakert-Askeran highway

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❗️Terrorist attack on Nord Streams had little to do with Ukrainian crisis, Hersh says

💬 “It resulted from fears in the White House that Germany would waver and turn on the flow of Russia gas—and that Germany and then NATO, for economic reasons, would fall under the sway of Russia and its extensive and inexpensive natural resources. And thus followed the ultimate fear: that America would lose its long-standing primacy in Western Europe,” Pulitzer Prize-winning US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh.

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