🇷🇺🇧🇾Russia’s state policy provides for the possibility of using nuclear weapons in response to aggression against Belarus, Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov said.

In the face of Western pressure and NATO's hostile activities near the Union State's borders, Moscow and Minsk are stepping up their military cooperation.

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❗️The Russian State Duma (Russian Parliament) may ratify the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreement between Russia and North Korea on October 24

The document with the relevant decision of the Committee on Foreign Affairs is posted in the electronic database of the Duma.

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🌍🌍🌍 Summit meeting under the chairmanship of Putin began in Russia's Kazan

Main statements by Vladimir Putin:

🔸 Russia seeks to strengthen the authority of BRICS in the world, focus on solving global and local problems.

🔸 It would be wrong to ignore the unprecedented interest of countries of the Global South and East in BRICS expansion.

🔸 Authority and influence of BRICS on the global stage is high.

🔸 BRICS countries have enormous economic, scientific, demographic, and political potential.

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❗️Russia's Battlegroup Tsentr has liberated the settlement of Nikolaevka in the Donetsk People's Republic, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

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🇷🇺🪖Key statements from the Russian Defense Ministry's daily briefing on the special military operation's progress:

◻️ Ukrainian losses reached a total of 510 militants in Battlegroup Zapad's area of responsibility.

▫️ Russia's Battlegroup Zapad defeated Ukrainian formations near Slavyansk in the Donetsk People's Republic.

◻️ Enemy losses in Russia’s Battlegroup Tsentr combat zone came to 450 soldiers.

◻️ Ukrainian losses reached a total of 800 troops in Battlegroup Yug's area of responsibility.

◻️ Russian Air defenses hit 14 HIMARS rockets and shot down 78 Ukrainian drones.

▫️ Russian Air defenses hit the infrastructure of military airfields, a fuel base, storage sites for unmanned boats, and drone production workshops.

◻️ The Black Sea Fleet aviation destroyed four Ukrainian unmanned boats.

◻️ Ukrainian losses amounted to more than 115 militants in Russia’s Battlegroup Vostok combat zone.

◻️ Ukrainian losses reached a total of 90 troops and two ammunition depots in Battlegroup Dnepr's area of responsibility.

◻️ Enemy losses in Russia’s Battlegroup Sever combat zone came to 100 servicemen.

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🇧🇾President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, has arrived for the BRICS Summit in Russia's Kazan

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🎥🎥 BRICS SUMMIT - DAY 2

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🗣 Putin on New Economic Initiatives Within BRICS:

🔸 The New BRICS Investment Platform is designed to bolster national economies and facilitate investments among the group's nations.

🔸 Establishing the BRICS Grain Exchange is aimed at safeguarding national markets from external interference and speculation.

🔸 Setting up a platform for fair competition is needed to promote equitable competition among BRICS member countries.

🔸 Russia suggests the creation of a separate platform for precious metals and diamonds within the BRICS framework.

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🇮🇷 President of Iran, Masoud Pezeshkian, has called on BRICS members to take practical steps so that in the future some countries could not impose sanctions on others

The period of unipolarity in the world is coming to an end, he added.

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🌍🌍🌍 It is a Marshall Plan in reverse in which emerging and developing economies finance the developed world - President of Brazil

"BRICS has been responsible for a significant portion of global economic growth in recent decades... However, financial flows continue to flow to rich nations. It is a Marshall Plan in reverse in which emerging and developing economies finance the developed world," Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said at the BRICS Summit in Kazan, adding that "BRICS initiatives and institutions break with this logic."

He also emphasized that BRICS countries stand for "3.6 billion people who are part of dynamic markets" and represent "36% of global GDP by purchasing power parity," while having "72% of the planet's rare earths, 75% of the manganese and 50% of the graphite."

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🌍🌍🌍 Putin: Brazil's chairmanship of BRICS next year will put bloc’s leadership in good hands

Main statements by Brazilian President Lula da Silva during the BRICS summit:

🔸 Possibility of creating banking system that will reduce costs in commercial relations is being discussed.

💬 "When we talk about the banking system, we are discussing the possibility of creating a financial system that will reduce the costs for our commercial relations," Lula said, speaking via video link at a meeting of the Kazan BRICS summit.

🔸 Conflicts in Ukraine, Middle East can spread to whole world, that this should not be allowed.

💬 "It happened in Palestine, now it is moving to Lebanon, also the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Now there are two wars, which can capture the whole world, so we need to work together towards the goal. The contribution to our chairmanship will be — we will work in the field of unification, unity on equal rights. This is another chapter of our work," Lula said

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🔸 BRICS countries should become leaders in reforming the global governance system, Chinese President Xi Jinping said at an expanded BRICS Summit meeting in Kazan.

“We should build a fair BRICS and become leaders in reforming the global governance system,” the Chinese leader said.

🔸 Xi Jinping stressed that the international balance of power is undergoing profound changes, but reform of the global governance system is lagging far behind.

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🗣Putin: BRICS need to counter using the climate agenda to eliminate competition

"We need to counter the attempts to use the climate agenda to eliminate competition from the markets. This is especially important for the developing markets. This is what the BRICS contact group for climate and sustainable development is doing," Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the BRICS Summit in Kazan.

Putin added that the elaboration of a common position on the establishment of fairer rules of the game in the global economy and the reform of the international financial system would be accelerated thanks to the launch of the special BRICS consultation mechanism on WTO issues.

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🗣Pepe Escobar: Putin-Xi-Modi talks ‘set the stage for meat of the matter’ at BRICS Summit

💬 “Today is the actual start of the Kazan Summit…The bilaterals between Putin and Xi and Putin and Modi were wonderful. They were like friends talking. This was essential to set the stage for today is the meat of the matter,” veteran international affairs observer Pepe Escobar told Sputnik on the sidelines of the summit in Kazan.

"We assume that they will tackle the Saudi Arabia issue. Is Saudi Arabia in or out? We're probably going to have a decision today. And of course, the geoeconomic papers are on the table for all of them," he said.

💬 “That is expecting something today that is, I would say, larger than life, in fact, because the decisions hovering over the leaders, they understand the historical importance of what is going to be decided today and tomorrow here in Kazan,” Escobar concluded.

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❗️The final declaration of the BRICS summit has been adopted, containing general assessments of the global situation and long-term goals, stated President Putin.

The document will be submitted to the UN as a joint statement following the summit, he added.

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🗣 Putin: Those who use dollar as a weapon, make a great mistake

"[Madam Rousseff, you] said that the dollar was used as a weapon. It is true, and we see that. I think it is a great mistake by those who do it, since the use of the dollar, which is still the most important tool in global finance... as a political tool, undermines trust in this currency..." Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the BRICS Summit in Kazan, adding that "we are not rejecting the dollar or fighting against it. But if they don't let us work with it... We should seek other alternatives, and this is exactly what we do,

Russian President also stressed that speed of transition to a "fairer economic system" will depend on the timing of abandoning the use of "someone else's rules and someone else's platforms".

"We aspire to cooperation, but still we should understand that the longer we live and work under someone else's rules and on someone else's platforms, the longer the transition will take to build a new fair economic financial system, and the more turbulence we will experience, including those that we now witness in the Middle East," Putin said.

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