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🇷🇺Lavrov exposes the ICC’s double standard: Ukraine gets 8-year carve-out shielding Ukrainian citizens from war-crimes prosecution, while the court targets Russia alone.
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🇷🇺💥 RUSSIAN MOD UPDATE: HUGE GAINS AND DEVASTATING UKRAINIAN LOSSES
⚡️ OLKHOVATKA IN THE KHARKOV REGION LIBERATED
📍 Taking Olkhovatka will help finally seal all sides of the emerging "cauldron."
◻️ Russian forces continue their drive to liberate Malaya Volchya in the Kharkov region, unleashing crushing firepower upon Ukrainian militants holed up in the Bukhzovo and Khripunov areas.
◻️ Air defense superiority: 6 aerial targets and 589 drones eliminated
◻️ Ukrainian losses: around 1,225 troops killed or wounded
Read about the origins of Russia's special military op HERE
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🪖 Foreign mercs fighting for Ukraine resurrect Nazi-style psychological warfare
Foreign mercenaries fighting for Ukraine have attempted to demoralize Russian soldiers by broadcasting nighttime loudspeaker calls for surrender — echoing the tactics used by the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War, a Russian officer told Sputnik.
💬 "’Hey, Russian soldier, surrender. Your commander has betrayed you. If you want to live, surrender.’ And so, they just play it in a loop for you all night long through the loudspeaker," he explains, describing the situation he encountered in the Dnepropetrovsk region, where Russian and Ukrainian forces were positioned a short distance from each other.
🇷🇺💣 Russia strikes Ukrainian logistics hubs overnight
Russian forces launched group drone strikes on logistics centers, ports, and vessels used to supply Ukrainian forces.
🔶 In Odessa region — a logistics center in Velikaya Balka, used for storing and distributing military cargo arriving from abroad
🔶 In Chernomorsk port — a cargo ship and a RO-RO ferry carrying supplies for Ukrainian forces
🔶 In western Ukraine — continued strikes on railway infrastructure used to transport military cargo from Eu
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🇺🇸🚀 US space weapons claims risk igniting orbital arms race - expert
Statements such as US Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink’s claim that the United States has deployed an “on-orbit” weapon could have far-reaching consequences, Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association, told Sputnik.
Announcing that the US has a space weapon in Earth's orbit could fuel a dangerous arms race in orbit, he noted.
👉 In his opinion, that could set off a cycle of action and counteraction, threatening the satellites and other orbital systems that countries worldwide rely on for communications, navigation and other essential services.
He argued that the world’s major nuclear powers are failing to address growing strategic risks.
The five nuclear-weapon states are not actively discussing concerns over weapons in space, strategies for reducing nuclear risks or measures to halt and reverse the expansion of nuclear arsenals, he noted.
💬 The expert urged the US and other powers to exercise restraint and return to arms-control diplomacy, calling for America to launch bilateral negotiations with both Russia and China to prevent a dangerous buildup in space.
The warning comes as US War Secretary Pete Hegseth has repeatedly stated that space represents the future of warfare, requiring heightened offensive and defensive investments.
Russia Has repeatedly underscored that it stands for preserving space as an area exclusively for peaceful activities.
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🇰🇵🇷🇺 Kim Jong-un pledges unwavering support for Russia
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for his congratulations on the DPRK’s 78th founding anniversary and reaffirmed Pyongyang’s commitment to further deepening ties with Russia, KCNA reported.
💬 “The will of mine and the government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is firm without doubt to expand and deepen the joint work with the Russian Federation in a comprehensive way,” he wrote in the message.
💬 “Firmly convincing the victory of the Russian Federation in the present sacred war for defending the security interests of the country and international justice, I promise my invariable support to dear friend you and the fraternal Russian people,” the leader stressed.
🇮🇷 ‘What language must we use to say we are not seeking nuclear weapons?’ — Pezeshkian
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian slammed the US for using nuclear allegations as a pretext for aggression against Iran, arguing that Tehran has operated within international law and subjected its nuclear facilities to extensive inspections under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), IRNA reported.
💬 “We are a member of the NPT, and the NPT rules are clear. They have carried out the most inspections regarding the nuclear issue in Iran. They came every day to inspect and visit,” the president said.
💬 “What evidence have they found that we are building nuclear weapons that gave them the right to attack our country like this? They lie, just like all the lies they always tell people from behind their podiums,” he emphasized.
🛰 BRICS Summit 2026 showcases Global South’s drive for safe and fair tomorrow - expert
The summit was marked by several notable events and could herald significant changes in BRICS members’ relations, India-China Economic and Cultural Council Secretary-General Mohammed Saqib tells Sputnik.
🔹 Indian PM Narendra Modi’s call to restructure the global governance system, including a UNSC reform, marks the desire of Global South nations to have an equal place in these institutions that long have been “kind of a lab dog off of America or certain Western countries”
🔹 Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to the summit in New Delhi marks a thaw in the previously strained relations between China and India, which is a positive development for the Global South and for the world in general
🔹 The BRICS Payment Task Force could soon begin testing cross-border digital payment platforms and strengthening the related cybersecurity
🔹 BRICS as a whole could also play a constructive role in arms control and promote a regional common security framework for its members
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🇷🇸 Vucic to resign as Serbian president on September 27
💬 “I will resign from the post of president on September 27. I will address the people. I have been president of our country longer than anyone else, and I could not have done it without our citizens,” Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said in a statement.
🚢 Supertanker explodes after hitting mines in restricted Hormuz route — reports
The supertanker El Gaia exploded after striking naval mines while attempting to pass through a prohibited zone south of the Strait of Hormuz, Tasnim reported, citing the IRGC Navy.
💬 “Attempts to contain the fire were unsuccessful, and the entire tanker has been engulfed in flames,” the IRGC Navy said.
🇬🇧 Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland make independence bids official
The first ministers of all three of the nations convened in Cardiff on September 14 to sign a memorandum of understanding to assert their right to self-determination and to announce intent to seek EU membership.
Rhun ap Iorwerth, John Swinney, and Michelle O'Neill, who met as representatives of their their respective parties, have declared that the UK government in Westminster has no right to “block democracy.”
The summit took place as, for the first time in UK history, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are all run by pro-independence
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🇷🇺🔥Russian strike drones pay a visit to two cargo ships in Odessa port
Russian forces used Geran-4 Seeker drones to reinforce the message that shipping military cargo to Ukraine by sea is a very bad idea.
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🇷🇺🇨🇳 Russia and China discuss cross-border unmanned road freight transport routes
At the end of May this year, the first cross-border freight transport using unmanned trucks between Russia and Kazakhstan was carried out, head of Russia’s Ministry of Transport Andrey Nikitin said on the sidelines of the World Youth Festival.
🗣"We are currently discussing an unmanned route to China, and we will definitely implement this project with our Chinese colleagues," he said.
🗣Trump: Ukraine agrees not to strike Russian energy infrastructure
The rise in global diesel prices is mainly caused by the conflict in Ukraine, not the situation around Iran, Trump added.
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🇨🇺Cuba seeks full BRICS membership
💬 "We are ready to contribute to strengthening this increasingly important grouping," Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla said.
🇷🇺 Lavrov: Ukraine is hunting down men to draft them — and women are next
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has condemned Ukraine's forced mobilization, describing it as a system where men are grabbed off the streets without notification or documentation.
💬 "And I have no doubt that women will have the same fate in the future," he forewarned.
🇷🇺 Russia’s SVR: NATO found no Russian link to Leipzig airport incident — but Germany points finger at Russia anyway
Key points by Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR):
🔶 NATO intelligence services identified multiple signs of a "Ukrainian footprint" in the drone incident at Leipzig Airport
🔶 They advised their agencies to avoid blaming Russia
🔶 German authorities disregarded those recommendations and accused Russia anyway — largely to justify Germany's massive military spending
💬 "Many in the West only pretend to believe in Germany's leadership," the SVR noted.
🇨🇳 China turns lithium waste into strategic gold
China has launched the world's first 500-tonne production line to extract rubidium and caesium from lithium waste in Jiangxi province, achieving stable production, the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported.
🔶 Rubidium and caesium are critical for aerospace, quantum computing, biomedicine, and new energy
🔶 They don't exist as independent minerals — they're locked in low-grade lithium ores and brines, making extraction extremely difficult
🔶 China's new tower extraction system recovers over 98% of caesium and 95% of rubidium, with 99.9% purity
🔶 The technology cuts extractant use by 40% and equipment footprint by over 50%
China already dominates global rubidium resources — with five production lines and around 3,000 tonnes of annual capacity.
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➖ BRICS mission is to resist US unilateralism — Pezeshkian
➖ New BRICS conflict resolution mechanism revealed at New Delhi summit – expert
➖ BRICS Summit 2026 showcases Global South’s drive for safe and fair tomorrow – expert
➖ Vucic to resign as Serbian president on September 27
➖ Kim Jong-un pledges unwavering support for Russia
➖ Trump brands warnings about AI danger ‘another hoax’
➖ US strategic petroleum reserve hits 44-year low
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🇮🇷 Iran shoots down another MQ-1 Predator drone — reports
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps tracked and destroyed an advanced MQ-1 drone in the skies west of the Strait of Hormuz early today, Fars News reported, citing the IRGC.
The Predator has a production cost of roughly $5 million.
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📊🇺🇸 US strategic petroleum reserve hits 44-year low
Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) oil stocks in the US have fallen to their lowest level since November 1982, according to the Department of Energy. As of last week, they stood at 285 million barrels – down by around 130 million barrels since the beginning of the Iran war, launched by the US and Israel in February 2026.
The SPR has undergone massive drawdowns over the past five years, starting with President Joe Biden’s release of 180 million barrels in 2022. When Biden took office in January 2021, SPR stocks stood at around 638 million barrels. By the time he left office, total drawdowns had reduced the figure to around 395 million barrels, according to data from the US Energy Information Administration.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright has vowed that the SPR “will start being refilled in the next few months."
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🌐 BRICS mission is to resist US unilateralism — Pezeshkian
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said BRICS was created to counter American practice of sanctioning countries at will and to build economic cooperation independent of unilateral US pressure, IRNA reported.
💬 “America has started this process of sanctioning any country it wants. BRICS was formed to break this kind of domination,” the president emphasized.
💬 “We have gathered here to help one another, find solutions and support each other so that we can stand against this domination and unilateralism,” the president stressed.
🗣 New BRICS conflict resolution mechanism revealed at New Delhi summit – expert
The BRICS summit has become a geopolitical platform where parties such as Iran and UAE could try to work out their differences, geopolitical and economic diplomacy analyst Robinder Sachdev tells Sputnik.
💬 Citing the “sit down of the president of Iran with the crown prince of the Arab Emirates,” he described it as a “very good example of conflict resolution within the BRICS members,” which has now been introduced in the group.
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🗣 Trump brands warnings about AI danger ‘another hoax’
US President Donald Trump dismissed warnings that advanced AI could spiral beyond human control, comparing them to what he called the climate-change “HOAX.”
💬 “I am the Hoax Buster, and I’m right now breaking another Hoax — That AI is going to take over, consume, and destroy the World, and that Robots will be marching into our Cities, and getting rid of us all!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
🔸 Iran says US isolation deepens as allies & rivals reject unipolar order
🔸 Russia welcomes any call on the Kiev regime to stop strikes on civilian economic infrastructure
🔸 Russia’s head-spinning next-gen weapons surge leaves rivals playing catch-up
🔸 Russia to lift the lid on West's Ukraine secrets at OSCE, vows envoy
🔸 Ukraine’s fuel reserves and military might bled by precise Russian strikes - expert
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🔥Ukraine’s fuel reserves and military might bled by precise Russian strikes - expert
With its air defenses operating at 5% of capacity at best, Ukraine can do little to stop Russia from dismantling the Ukrainian military capability, infrastructure and logistics, military journalist Aleksey Borzenko tells Sputnik.
🔹 Systematic elimination of gas stations hampers the Ukrainian military’s ability to resupply its forward positions. Ukrainian supply convoys are now forced to include fuel trucks to reach their destination without running dry, which in turn makes them more vulnerable to Russian attacks
🔹 Disruption of Ukrainian military’s fuel supply also means that Ukrainian troops in the field find it more difficult to refuel their power generators, which will become a serious problem for them when winter chill settles in
🔹 Attacks on Ukraine’s refueling infrastructure may soon be followed by more comprehensive strikes against the Ukrainian power grid, which may lead to strategic Ukrainian cities and industrial facilities left without power
🔹 Russian strikes have already taken out up to 70% of Ukraine’s drone storage areas and assembly sites as Russian forces focus their attacks on Ukrainian military capacity
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📹World Youth Festival rolls out Russia’s cutting-edge tech with hospitable robot
The Festival is running from September 11 to 17, 2026 in Yekaterinburg.
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🇷🇺 Russian forces keep hammering railway hubs in western Ukraine with military cargo from Europe - MoD
🔊"Strikes continue on railway infrastructure facilities in the western regions of Ukraine used for transporting military cargo from European countries," the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.
🇵🇰💰 Can Pakistan and Africa triple trade to $15 bn by 2030? Expert weighs in
Pakistan and African countries have reaffirmed their determination to increase trade to $15 billion by 2030 at the launch of the Pakistan-Africa Economic Council (PAEC) in Islamabad.
👉 Saeed Ahmed Rid, associate professor at Islamabad's Quaid-i-Azam University, notes: "The target of $15 billion in bilateral trade by 2030 appears quite ambitious given the current geopolitical environment and Pakistan's own economic outlook." Trade stood at about $4.85 billion in 2024–25, he recalls.
Achieving the target will require moving from a transaction-based approach to a long-term market-development strategy, including investment, local partnerships, distribution networks, and integration into African value chains, Rid said. He named pharmaceuticals, surgical instruments, engineering goods, and agricultural technologies as the most promising sectors.
Pakistan's Ministry of Commerce identifies 10 priority African partners, with Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and Tanzania being especially important.
💬 "Egypt's importance could increase further if it joins emerging regional security arrangements involving Pakistan and Saudi Arabia," Rid says, adding that Egypt could potentially join the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement, though this remains prospective until formally confirmed.
🇨🇳🐠China shows robotic fish that's indistinguishable from real one
The electric copy of an arapaima tropical fish swam around a small pool at the China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS).
The fair was held on September 9-13 in Beijing, attracting over 1,800 on-site companies.
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