🔊 Russia's financial mechanism in Africa 'breaks SWIFT system as such' - PSB Bank deputy chair

New financial mechanisms go beyond Russia's relations with its foreign counterparties, said Mikhail Dorofeev, Deputy Chairman of Russia's PSB bank.

"We are opening new offices in Africa... The system is already global, reaching the level of exchange within it and beyond Russia," he noted.

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🇷🇺📹 SPOTTED: Russian ballerinas gave a performance at the pavilion of Russia's PSB bank at the Eastern Economic Forum.

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🗣 "Any assistance to Ukraine prolongs the agony of the Kiev regime, carries serious risks of escalation, and has consequences for stability", stated Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said at the Eastern Economic Forum.

Other statements by Zakharova:

➖ Zelensky's security guarantees for Ukraine are unacceptable; they are "guarantees of insecurity."

➖ Russia does not intend to discuss any form of unacceptable foreign intervention in Ukraine.

➖ Russia is monitoring the NATO Namejs 2025 exercises and the increase in the number of forces involved.

➖ The US-South Korea military exercises cannot be called defensive; they are a provocation.

➖ Moscow believes that the release of Russian citizens in Baku would be an important step toward normalizing relations between the parties.

➖ The fake about an alleged navigation failure on the plane of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was only disseminated to divert attention from the successful SCO summit.

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🚨 Vladimir Putin departs on the boat "Uragan" to visit the National Center "Rossiya", the Kremlin says.

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🎥🎥 Putin visits the National Center "Rossiya" in Vladivostok

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🔥Russia is preparing to participate in the 2028 Olympic Games in the United States in full force, stated the President of the Russian Olympic Committee, Mikhail Degtyarev, during the session "Sports Diplomacy: New Challenges and Opportunities" at the Eastern Economic Forum.

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🚨🇷🇺 🪖 HEARTFELT MOMENT: PUTIN HUGS CADET WHO ALWAYS DREAMED OF BEING A SOLDIER

"I love the uniform, it’s our pride," the young man shared.

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🔥 Laos Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone has arrived at the "Russia-Laos" session as part of the Eastern Economic Forum

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🇷🇺 Female cadets ask for a hug from Putin

President Putin is visiting the Warrior Center in Vladivostok, where the Eastern Economic Forum is in full swing.

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🎥🎥 Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova is speaking at the "Asia - Gateway to the World: The Role of the Asian Continent in the Global Media Space" session at the EEF-2025.

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

◻️ Zelensky's security guarantees for Ukraine are unacceptable — Maria Zakharova

◻️ Сhina’s & Russia’s most formidable weapons

◻️ Iran freezes new cooperation with IAEA

◻️ US vows to beat China in the '2nd space race'

◻️ 'Flying Kremlin': Russia’s presidential jet revealed

◻️ Any assistance to Ukraine prolongs the agony of the Kiev regime — Maria Zakharova

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

✅ Final stretch of North-South global trade route nears completion

🔶 There are three issues Iran needs to resolve in order to finalize the design of the Rasht-Astara railway, the last component of the International North-South Transport Corridor’s western route, Russia’s Minister of Transport Andrey Nikitin told media on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok.

⏺ Buyout of the land where the rail will be built.

⏺ A bill making the project exempt from all taxes and welfare payments

⏺ Resolving all matters related to interbank operations

🗣 All three aspects are currently being resolved and the Iranian side has confirmed its interest in completing this project, Nikitin remarked.

The minister also suggested that construction may begin by the end of the year.

📑 The International North-South Transport Corridor is a 7,200km long multimodal trade route for moving freight between Europe and Asia.

📍 The route, consisting of railways, sea lanes and roads, runs from Russia to India via Iran and Azerbaijan.

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🇷🇺🇨🇳🇮🇳 Russia to sign Intergovernmental Agreement on the International Territory of Advanced Development with China and India in 2026

🗣 This was announced by Vitaly Altabaev, Deputy Minister of the Russian Federation for the Development of the Far East and Arctic, at the Eastern Economic Forum.

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🚨🇷🇺💥 RUSSIAN MOD UPDATE: HUGE GAINS AND DEVASTATING UKRAINIAN LOSSES

⚡️NOVOSELOVKA IN DNEPROPETROVSK REGION LIBERATED

Novoselovka was a major logistics hub and one of the last well-fortified defensive lines of the Ukrainian militants on the South-Donetsk front.

🔹 The Russian Armed Forces have struck Ukrainian transport infrastructure used in the interests of the Ukrainian militants

🔹 Russian air defense systems shot down four guided aerial bombs and 299 fixed-wing drones

🔹 Ukrainian losses: 1,370 troops killed or wounded

📌 Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🗣🇷🇺 Russia's Far East has a 900-YEAR COAL SUPPLY, Putin said at a meeting in Vladivostok

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🚨Members of the "coalition of willing" have expressed readiness to supply Ukraine with long-range missiles, according to the British government.

Russian President Vladimir Putin previously stated that Ukrainian forces could only carry out such operations with NATO personnel involved, signaling direct Western participation in the conflict. This could fundamentally change the nature of the confrontation, with NATO members effectively fighting against Russia.

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt