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

▪️Russian forces repelled three Ukrainian attacks in the Krasny Liman direction, eliminating up to 65 servicemen

▪️Russian troops eliminated up to 60 Ukrainian servicemen and destroyed two tanks the Kupyansk direction

▪️The Russian Army repelled three Ukrainian attacks in the Donetsk direction, eliminating up to 285 servicemen and a French-made CAESAR howitzer

▪️Russian air defenses brought down 58 Ukrainian UAVs

▪️Ukrainian losses in the South Donetsk direction amounted to more than 120 servicemen, with six cars destroyed

▪️Russian forces hit a Ukrainian repair and restoration shop for armored vehicles in Kharkov

▪️Ukrainian losses in the Zaporozhye direction amounted to 90 servicemen, with two armored personnel carrier and two howitzers destroyed

▪️Russian troops destroyed Ukrainian workshops for producing solid rocket fuel and explosives near Pavlograd

▪️The Russian Army repelled a Ukrainian attack near Priyutnoye in the Zaporozhye region

▪️Russian forces destroyed a Ukrainian weapons depot of the 41st Mechanized Brigade near Kupyansk in the Kharkov region

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🪖 'Vulnerable' Abrams tanks in Ukraine may be swiftly 'detected & destroyed' by Russia's UAVs

💬 “The technologies of warfare are changing rapidly. The proliferation of drones has made [Abrams] tanks more vulnerable," Gustav Gressel, a senior policy expert at the European Council on Foreign Relations, which specializes in armed conflict and military affairs, said.

Gressel underscored that last autumn, when Ukraine was begging for Western tanks, Russian forces did not have as many UAVs at their disposal. Accordingly, the significance of the arrival of Western battle tanks has been diminished, Gressel added.

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🇵🇱 Practice what you preach? Polish MEP says ‘we will save Christian Europe’ just week after ‘gay orgy at church’ scandal

💬 "We will save Europe, Christian Europe. Because the difference between us and them is that we have dignity, honor, courage, we are not afraid or ashamed of being Polish," Dominik Tarczynski, a member of the European Parliament, boasted.

This passionate speech comes just a week after the Catholic Church in Poland was rocked by a scandal involving a “gay orgy” on the premises of the Basilica of Saint Mary of the Angels in Dabrowa Gornicza, as reported by local media.

The “incident” was described as “purely sexual in nature,” organized by a priest who had invited fellow clerics and a male prostitute to the assembly. The abundance of “pleasure”-enhancing drugs led to the prostitute losing consciousness, which prompted others to call for an ambulance.

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☣️'Experiments were carried out': why Ukrainian soldiers are becoming antibiotic-resistant

One European healthcare system found that Ukrainian citizens arriving for treatment often have dangerous bacteria and antibiotic resistance. Western media raised the alarm about this phenomenon, which might threaten the entire continent.

However, experts told Sputnik that antibiotic resistance could be a sign that these people had undergone biological experiments.

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🇺🇸📉 Bidenomics and Bust: US heading for recession with 'Sleepy Joe' at the wheel

Joe Biden has touted the supposed success of “Bidenomics” as vindication of his controversial presidency. Media commentator and economist Mitch Roschelle has warned that if America's finances take a turn for the worse, it will sink his hopes of reelection.

US President Joe Biden is steering his country into a recession — and an electoral car-wreck for his Democratic Party — says an economist. The 80-year-old White House resident has increasingly focused in public speeches on singing the praises of his economic policies, which he has dubbed "Bidenomics."
But economist Mitch Roschelle told Sputnik that Biden is a habitual liar.

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💸 Poland and Ukraine may experience complex relations in the coming months, but Warsaw does not intend to meet Kiev's economic expectations regarding the grain embargo, Polish government spokesman Piotr Muller stated on Tuesday.

💬"[We are] not freezing relations, but we know very well that Ukraine also has its own economic interests, for example, in the field of agriculture, and we will not be able and will not want to live up to these expectations from Ukraine," Muller told reporters, describing the relations between the two countries as "complex" in the near future. However, "this does not mean that these relations will be bad," Muller added.

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🤔What happened to Joe? A huge bruise on the US president’s face has been spotted

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🐶🇺🇸Pentagon official was arrested for being a member of the dog fighting ring for 20 years

Before being arrested on Thursday and suspended from the government service, Frederick Douglass Moorefield, 62, was a deputy chief information officer for command, control, and communications for the Secretary of Defense’s Chief Information Officer, US media reported.

Moorefield and his friend Mario D. Flythe have been charged with promoting and furthering an animal fighting venture, according to the report.

Both men were members of the dogfighting ring called "the DMV Board," according to an FBI affidavit cited in the report. Nine members of the ring were indicted in 2022 in the state of Virginia and eight more pleaded guilty and cooperated with investigators, according to the report. Moorefield and Flythe were released after being arraigned, the report added.

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🇺🇸💸 Could Biden keep arming Ukraine as the Pentagon's Ukrainian funds dry out?

President Joe Biden has called upon American lawmakers to approve a new multi-billion package for Ukraine as funding for Kiev is drying out. Why has the Ukraine military aid become a sacred cow for the US establishment, and is it capable of keeping it uninterrupted?

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❗At least 20 people have died after a bus fell off a bridge near Italy's Venice, a city hall spokesperson has detailed

🇷🇺 Aerial reconnaissance revealed hidden Ukrainian positions. Russian airborne forces immediately launched several strikes using Grad MLRS, successfully destroying enemy personnel and their hidden positions.

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🗣️ On US claims of Chinese threats:

“It's Washington's fears about the idea that it might be losing dominance all over the planet, but in particular in the Asia-Pacific… Since when did China become a threat to us? I mean, they haven't done anything differently than they have before... And so now anything China does, regardless of whether it's good, bad or indifferent, is somehow framed as something dangerous and risky. What do you call a spy balloon that doesn't spy? A Chinese spy balloon! What do you call a threat that isn't a threat? A Chinese threat,” KJ Noh, author, journalist and geopolitical analyst, told Sputnik.

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❗The US House has officially removed Kevin McCarthy from his speakership post in a historic vote that came down 216 to 210

🇺🇸🇬🇪 What is USAID doing in Georgia?

US bilateral relations with Georgia (the country, not to be confused with the American state) seem a bit tarnished, and it’s USAID’s activities in Georgia that are to blame.

The Georgian State Security Service (GSSS) has accused the agency of funding an NGO that trained Georgian youth to organize unrest, the start of which was planned for October-December this year. The US Embassy in Tbilisi stated that the allegations were false. But Georgian authorities were not satisfied with this answer, describing the US response as “astonishing and insulting.”

So, is the US spending money in the Caucasus country, and if so, for what purposes?

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🇺🇸Ukraine could struggle to receive aid from other countries if aid from the United States lapses due to congressional inaction, National Security Council Strategic Communications Coordinator John Kirby stated.

💬“Without our support, it’s not inconceivable that some of that other support would be harder for Ukraine to achieve,” Kirby said during a press briefing.

The US has “incredible convening power” to organize assistance efforts for Ukraine, Kirby claimed, adding that the US has a couple of months of funding remaining to support Ukraine, after which there would be a lapse in assistance unless US lawmakers pass a new aid package, Kirby stressed.

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🗣️ On Zelensky’s current position:

“There's no denying that Zelensky is in a bad spot, because he hasn't, as you said, he hasn't delivered on his promises: the Western wunderwaffen [wonder weapons] haven't worked… And so, the weapons are running out, the money's running out, his troops are surrendering, his offensive hasn't budged, and it’s basically a series of Pickett’s charges across open ground being cut, shredded to pieces by Russian artillery,” Nebojsa Malic, Serbian-American journalist, told Sputnik.

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➡️ Insiders have detailed that McCarthy has no intention to submit another speakership bid

Congressman Kevin McCarthy after being the first speaker to be ousted in the House of Representatives announced he will not run for the position again, but that he wouldn't change a thing.

"I will not run for speaker again, I'll have the conference pick somebody else," McCarthy said Tuesday evening. "I wouldn't change a thing."

McCarthy added the country is too great for the small visions of those eight Republicans who voted alongside Democrats to oust him from his post. Moreover, McCarthy said he will look into whether he will remain in Congress.

🇫🇷🪲 The French health minister assured the nation that there was no need to panic about bedbug infestation, after commuters complained that public transport in Paris was crawling with the bloodsucking insects.

💬"There is no reason for general panic. We are not being invaded by bedbugs. And it is not related to migration, if this needs to be said… It is related to mobility: when you return from abroad, you may bring them on yourself," Aurelien Rousseau told a French radio broadcaster.

Bedbug infestation is giving headaches to the French sanitary watchdog Anses in the run-up to the 2024 summer Olympics. Anses estimates that the insects have invaded one in 10 households across France in the past several years. In recent months, they have been popping up in hotels, cinemas, on trains, and even on ferries.

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