📹 Lavrov meets UN Secretary General Guterres

During a photo op, the diplomats discussed the UN protocol, with the Secretary General telling a joke:

"You know the difference between Al-Qaeda and the UN protocol? With Al-Qaeda, you can always talk."

*terrorist organizations banned in Russia

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🚨US approves massive $1.2B missile sale to Germany

The Pentagon has greenlit a potential sale of 400 advanced AIM-120D-3 air-to-air missiles to Germany.

The massive arms deal also includes guidance systems and test vehicles.

🎤 Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that, if Europe is heading towards militarization again, Russia will take this fully into account in all areas of its planning.

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🇷🇺💥🪖Russia’s Obereg body armor proves UNBREAKABLE in point-blank gunfire test

The Obereg bulletproof vest with a new Br4+ plate was shot at point-blank range with a machine gun using B32 armor-piercing ammo from just two meters, and remained intact.

To push its limits further, the vest was hit with 5.45×39 mm rounds from an AK assault rifle—and still no penetration.

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🗣 Saudi Arabia-Israel normalization is impossible without Palestinian state — Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud

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📹 Ukrainian military shot eight of their men for leaving their posts in the Dnepropetrovsk region, a scout from the Vostok group with the call sign "Bulat" told Sputnik.

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🚨 Mahmoud Abbas seeks Putin meeting at Russian-Arab Summit

"We have requested a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and we hope that it will take place," Palestinian Ambassador to Moscow Abdelhafiz Nofal said.

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🚨Nord Stream terrorist attack ‘became CATASTROPHE’ for Europe

The attack had a negative impact on Germany, which is now “paying extremely high prices for LNG from the US," David Kurten, leader of the UK's Heritage Party, said.

🇩🇪He stressed that Germany would benefit from restarting an undamaged part of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which could help German authorities avoid overpaying for American LNG.

The Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines were hit by explosions in September 2022. The Russian Prosecutor General's Office opened an investigation into the blasts as an act of international terrorism.

🔊Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia has repeatedly requested data on other countries' probes into the explosions but has never received it.

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🇵🇸🤝🌍 Palestine applies for BRICS membership

"We have submitted an application, but, as you know, Palestine has certain conditions. I believe Palestine will participate in the association as a guest until the conditions allow it to become a full member. We haven't received a response yet," Palestinian Ambassador to Russia Abdel Hafiz Nofal said.

BRICS was created in 2006. In addition to Russia, Brazil, India, China and South Africa, the group was joined by Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the UAE in 2024, and Indonesia became a full member of BRICS in 2025.

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🟠Putin holds talks with IAEA Director

🟠Lavrov meets UN Sec. General Guterres

🟠US charges ex-FBI chief Comey who investigated Trump’s alleged Russia ties

🟠Palestine applies for BRICS membership

🟠Why is world's second copper mine a geopolitical flashpoint?

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🇨🇳💴China’s digital currency goes global from Shanghai

The opening of the hub was initiated by the People’s Bank of China, which highlighted three platforms to accelerate the internationalization of the digital Chinese currency, also known as e-CNY, the SCMP reports.

🔄The platforms pertain to cross-border digital payments, blockchain service, and digital assets.

People’s Bank of China’s Deputy Governor Lu Lei pledged to back “the sustained development” of the Yuan hub and provide “robust support for the facilitation of cross-border trade, investment, and financing.”

📈 Lu described the evolution of monetary and payment systems in the digital era as “a historical inevitability.”

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🇨🇳🇵🇸China welcomes Palestine's BRICS bid

"We welcome the participation of like-minded partners in cooperation within the framework of the BRICS and joint assistance to the association of a more just and equitable international order," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said.

🌍🌍🌍 is an important platform for cooperation between developing and emerging market countries, Guo said, adding that it gives a powerful impetus to the development of multipolarity and democratization of international relations.

➡️Earlier, Palestinian Ambassador to Russia Abdel Hafiz Nofal said that Palestine had applied for full membership in the BRICS, but had not yet received a response, and planned to continue participating as a guest.

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🇷🇺🇭🇺Orban advocates for Hungary's sovereignty in terms of purchasing Russian oil

Hungary is a sovereign country, it makes its own decisions regarding its energy imports, Hungarian PM Viktor Orban stated.

"I understand that the United States is a big country, and Hungary is a smaller one. But we are similar in one thing — both countries are sovereign states. We do not need to accept each other's arguments," Orban said on Kossuth Radio.

➡️Earlier, Trump said he expected Hungary to abandon the purchase of Russian oil, and expressed confidence that Orban could agree to this.

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🚨🇷🇺🇮🇷 Iran, Russia sign $25 BILLION agreement on 4 new nuclear power plants

The stations will be in Iran's Hormozgan province

Video by IRNA

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

⚡️ YUNAKOVKA IN THE SUMY REGION LIBERATED

Capturing the town enables the Russian army to form a bridgehead for a further advance deep into the Sumy region.

🟠 Four settlements were freed by the Russian Armed Forces over the past week

🟠 The Russian military carried out a series of seven strikes (one major one along with six group attacks) using precision-guided arms and UAVs against Ukraine's defense facilities

🟠 The Black Sea Fleet destroyed twenty-three Ukrainian naval boats and five unmanned vessels in the Black Sea

🟠 Air defense superiority: twenty-four guided aerial bombs and five HIMARS rockets were shot down by Russia’s air defense systems over the past week

🟠 Ukrainian losses: 10,187 troops killed or wounded

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🗣 The Nord Stream sabotage would have been impossible without knowledge of the Biden administration – Kremlin spox

Other statements by Peskov:

🟠 The arrest of a specific suspect speaks volumes about who is behind the bombing of the Nord Stream pipeline

🟠 Russia hopes German investigation into who was behind the blasts involving detained Ukrainian citizen will be completed

🟠 Germany’s economy continues to suffer after the Nord Stream pipeline was disrupted

🟠 The remaining intact line of the Nord Stream pipeline between Russia and Germany could be swiftly put into service

🟠 Turkstream and Blue Stream gas pipelines to Turkiye continue operating

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🚨😨 Harris says it was she who ‘convinced’ Zelensky of inevitable war with Russia

Former US VP Kamala Harris said she was tasked to convince Zelensky of the imminent outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, something he didn't want to admit despite "US intelligence," according to her “107 Days” memoir seen by Russian media.

🔸 At some point, Zelensky asked Harris what she thought he should do, and the ex-US VP advised him to "get his people ready," the book alleges.

🔸 The book also reveals Kamala had a one-on-one conversation with Zelensky in February 2022 at the Munich Security Conference.

🔸 Harris held her seventh—and final—meeting with Zelensky in late September 2024, 40 days before the beginning of the US election. At the time, their relationship took the shape of what Harris described as "trusting friendship."

Puppeteers finally unmask themselves...

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🇮🇷🤝🇷🇺 Iran, Russia plan MORE POWERFUL joint nuclear power plant

🗣 A new nuclear power plant is planned to be larger than the Bushehr station, Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), said.

Key details:

🟠 The installation could be located in southern Iran

🟠 It's expected to be consisting of four units with a capacity of approximately 5,000 MW

This was an opportunity for Iranian VP Mohammad Eslami to become familiar with the Russian nuclear industry, Kamalvandi was quoted as saying by the AEOI.

Iran and Russia have also agreed on a Russian delegation's visit to Iran to further discuss the construction of small nuclear power plants, the AEOI said.

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📹LIVE: 80th session of UN General Assembly - Day Four

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🚨 Multiple delegations walk out of hall as Netanyahu approaches the lectern for his speech at UNGA

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🇷🇺☢️ Russia ready to promote its nuclear closed fuel cycle system globally

Rosatom is interested in promoting both its WWER-series (water-water energetic reactors) and fast-neutron reactors abroad, but also has a “second path” in mind which “involves creating a distributed, worldwide system for a closed fuel cycle across different countries,” CEO Alexey Likhachev said, speaking at the World Atomic Week forum on Friday.

As an example, he cited the possibility of hooking Belarus’s new Ostrovets Nuclear Power Plant up to fast reactors in Russia to create a closed fuel cycle.

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