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09 Aug 2023 09:30

🇷🇺 Putin introduces new procedure for informing UN about martial law

The Russian president has submitted amendments to the State Duma to change the procedure for informing international organizations about martial law and states of emergency in Russia.

The amendments are related to the termination of Russia's participation in the Council of Europe.

If the law is adopted, Moscow will not inform the CoE secretary-general about the introduction and lifting of martial law or any state of emergency.

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09 Aug 2023 08:32

🇧🇴 US, Europe seek control over Amazonia, Bolivian president says

🇺🇸 “Latin America and the Caribbean countries are a priority of the US national security strategy, which means that [the region] is of interest not only to the Department of State, but also to the US Department of Defense... The deployment of military bases in the region and in Amazonia is something that should attract our attention, we should be vigilant," Luis Arce said.

🇪🇺 "In this regard, we are concerned that Europe adheres to the same position: some are seeking to control Amazonia by military means, others - with the help of non-governmental organizations. We do not accept attempts to secretly control Amazonia," he added.

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09 Aug 2023 07:31

🇯🇵🇺🇳 UN chief’s Nagasaki Peace Memorial message mum on country that dropped A-bombs

Antonio Guterres called the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings an “unmatched horror for humanity” but as usual failed to mention the country responsible for the devastation

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09 Aug 2023 06:10

🇬🇧 Workers at UK munitions plant supplying Ukraine to strike over low wages

Louise Gilmour, the secretary of the GMB trade union in Scotland, said its members, who carry out "non-craft" roles at the plant, are now being paid up to 18,000 UK pounds ($23,000) less each year than other "skilled employees" after the plant's management significantly increased their wages to prevent the drain of the personnel by private defense companies.

The union has won the support for the dispute from Ukrainian trade unions. The Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine was cited in a UK media report as saying the plant played "a crucial role" in supplying Ukraine with munitions, urging the plant's executives to settle the dispute "as soon as possible."

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09 Aug 2023 03:11

🗣️ On the US strategy to “poison the atmosphere” in the Asia region:

“The US is trying to poison the atmosphere. They are trying to use South Korea as a proxy for war against China. North Korea is simply a stalking horse for war against China. It's a pretext. And the reason why South Korea is being pulled into this war is that the US is currently creating what I refer to as the JAKUS alliance, the Japan-South Korea-US alliance. It's like a little minime NATO in Asia, comparable to the AUKUS alliance that it intends to use to leverage for war against China,” KJ Noh, peace activist, teacher, and writer, told Sputnik.

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09 Aug 2023 02:34

🕉 Should Hinduism Play a Role in India’s Soft Power Strategy?

In his column, Francois Gautier delves into the potential influence of Hinduism on India's soft power approach:

🗯Unfortunately, we see that the World is not yet ready for this coming together paradise. And we need to go back to another ancient Hindu sacred text: The Bhagavad Gita. What does the Gita tell us? That when your country, your borders, your women, the very safety and wellbeing of your citizens is in danger, one needs to face the enemy and fight.

🇮🇳 The question needs to be asked: can India afford to be a soft power, when it is facing threats?

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09 Aug 2023 00:23

🇵🇰 "As the situation has unfolded, it is incrementally clear that Khan is being penalized for calling out the army," Priyanka Singh, specialist in Pakistani politics told Sputnik India

Khan's fate is similar to many others who were crushed by the army in the past be it Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Benazir Bhutto or Nawaz Sharif, Singh explained.

With arguably Pakistan's biggest inspiration and hero outside politics, considering he led the cricket-crazy country to its lone World Cup victory in 1992, spending his time in jail, Sputnik India looks back at Khan's sojourn from a determined and talented young cricketer to the occupant of the nation's top chair.

**👉 Read full story of Imran Khan on Sputnik India!**

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08 Aug 2023 22:34

CIA veteran: Nuland’s Niger trip meant to ‘intimidate’, ‘threaten’ new government

Niger’s government was overthrown by the military last month. On Monday, Victoria Nuland met with members of the new government for talks. What does the arch-neocon’s visit mean for the West African nation’s future?

Sputnik spoke to CIA and State Department veteran Larry Johnson for answers.

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08 Aug 2023 20:59

How much of what Blinken said lines up with reality?

Russia suspended its participation in the Black Sea Grain Initiative last month, citing the West’s systematic efforts to block the export of Russian food and fertilizers, and the fact that just 3 percent of the Ukrainian grain exported under the grain deal actually went to nations in need.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has given an interview to a French radio network targeting francophone Africans, making a series of provocative claims against Russia related to the grain deal, and complaining that Moscow’s donation of tens of thousands of tons of food to African countries was just “a drop in the bucket” compared to what’s needed.

Check out Sputnik's fact check of the secretary’s remarks to separate facts from falsehoods.

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08 Aug 2023 19:55

Officials in Washington are making last minute preparations to announce $200 million in new military assistance to Ukraine, taken from the $6.2 billion in allocated but unspent cash fortuitously discovered in May and June, and chalked down to an accounting error.

The $200 million package is expected to include more anti-tank weaponry like the TOW and Javelin missile systems, additional ammunition for a range of weapons, Lockheed Martin-built rockets for the Patriot air and missile defense system, more Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) rockets of the kind used by Kiev to attack civilian areas in the Donbass, and more.

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08 Aug 2023 15:54

🇺🇸 General Dynamics recently unveiled its newest AbramsX main battle tank

But how do they fare against shrubbery on the battlefield?

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08 Aug 2023 14:55

📹 Today marks the 15th anniversary of the start of the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict

Watch what happened during those five fateful days in August 2008 in a Sputnik video recap

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08 Aug 2023 13:56

Ukraine 'can't win' - they're 'a junior high team playing a college team,' US Senator says

According to Sen. Tommy Tuberville, what Washington is doing is “trying to get everybody’s eye off the real problem,” which is “the Biden administration and the Democrats. They’re a total disaster.”

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08 Aug 2023 11:47

Victoria Nuland, during her visit to Niger, was not allowed to meet with either the detained president of the country or the head of the rebels.

She managed to communicate with the president only by phone. On behalf of the rebels, the chief of the country's general staff spoke with her.

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08 Aug 2023 11:14

📸 Stenin Contest 2023: Indian Photojournalist Work Wins Online Vote

🇮🇳 The spotlight is on Kabir Jhangiani, an exceptional talent hailing from India, as his breathtaking photograph "Seagulls around Yamuna River" takes first place in this year's Andrei Stenin Press Photo Contest.

🗯 Describing his work, Jhangiani eloquently shares: “A man rows his boat along the banks of the Yamuna River in New Delhi. Migratory birds come to India for the winter. They get to different parts of the country by October and usually leave in March.”

🕊 Jhangiani's lens beautifully captures the harmony of man and nature during this enchanting migration period.

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09 Aug 2023 09:04

🗯 "#Pakistan's standpoint is weak and violative of the contractual provisions. In case Iran takes it to the Court of Arbitration, Pakistan might be clamped with heavy penalties apart from losing face," Ahmed Abbas, former Brigadier in Pakistan Army and political observer told #SputnikIndia.

🇮🇷 🇵🇰 Looking at the #US interference in Pakistan's decision regarding the gas deal with Iran, the observer said, "As it is, US sanctions have not deterred countries like India, China, Russia, EU, UAE, etc. from conducting trade activities with Iran. Pakistan should have shown more spine, considering its ongoing energy crisis apart from a deep economic recession."

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09 Aug 2023 07:59

🇳🇪 ECOWAS-AU-UN mission to Niger aborted over 'unavailability' of military leaders

✍️ "The mission was aborted following a late-night communication from the military authorities in Niger indicating their unavailability to receive the tripartite delegation," a statement by the commission said.

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09 Aug 2023 06:44

🇷🇺 Russian troops ‘quickly’ adapting to cluster bombs as Ukraine fails to reach main defensive lines

“The cluster bombs are good. They are effective. But the Russians are dug in deep, and they learn quickly,” one Ukrainian reconnaissance company commander told a US media outlet, explaining that Russia has dug 7 foot-deep trenches and spread troops out over wide areas to avoid heavy losses.

“We’re demining the fields with bodies,” one Ukrainian platoon commander of Western-trained brigades told the outlet. “It’s awful.” Another, wounded in an apparent Russian missile strike during an attempt to advance, said that of the 60 men involved in an assault on Russian positions, 45 had been killed or injured.

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09 Aug 2023 05:40

🗣️ On the US economy:

“It's a contradiction in the neoliberal monetary policy. They need to raise rates to do something about inflation. It's relatively ineffective at the certain current level of 5% to 6% interest rates to really dampen inflation very much, especially in services. But the more you hit 6% and above, the more you're going to create interest rate risk and destabilize the banking system, which is already just hanging in there, being force-fed $400 or $500 billion so far from the Fed to keep it afloat. So it's a big contradiction here,” Dr. Jack Rasmus, professor of economics and politics at St. Mary's College in California, told Sputnik.

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09 Aug 2023 02:36

"There was an attempt to fly two combat drones into the city. Both were shot down by air defenses. One near Domodedovo [town in the south of Moscow], and the other one near the [Moscow-] Minsk highway," Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said on Telegram.

The mayor said there was no immediate information about casualties from falling debris, adding that emergency services were working at the site.

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09 Aug 2023 02:29

‼️ Two combat drones attempting to reach Moscow shot down by Russian air defenses

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08 Aug 2023 23:32

🗣️ On the anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki:

“So there's real deep questions about whether the atomic bombings were militarily necessary. It seems not. Japan was defeated. They had no air defenses. Just look at the large number: dozens of major cities in Japan had been firebombed by US conventional bombing by air forces.. I guess in Eisenhower's case, he got over it, because by the time he was president, it was part and parcel of US military strategy to supposedly rely on deterrence to exercise US superpower status,” Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste watchdog at Beyond Nuclear, told Sputnik.

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08 Aug 2023 21:31

📹 A Russian UAV revealed the camouflaged firing position of a Ukrainian self-propelled artillery mount. As a result of the loitering munition strike, the self-propelled gun was destroyed.

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08 Aug 2023 20:26

#SputnikInfographic 📊 Armed conflict in South Ossetia in 2008

Exactly 15 years ago, Georgia launched a full-fledged invasion of South Ossetia which claimed the lives of Russian peacekeepers in the region. The sleeping city of Tskhinval, South Ossetia, was rocked by Georgian artillery shelling. After the bombardment, Georgian troops and tanks stormed the city. The invasion was authorized by then Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili.

Check out Sputnik’s infographic to learn about Georgia's Invasion of South Ossetia

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08 Aug 2023 19:52

🗣️ On the anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki:

“So there's real deep questions about whether the atomic bombings were militarily necessary. It seems not. Japan was defeated. They had no air defenses. Just look at the large number: dozens of major cities in Japan had been firebombed by US conventional bombing by air forces.. I guess in Eisenhower's case, he got over it, because by the time he was president, it was part and parcel of US military strategy to supposedly rely on deterrence to exercise US superpower status,” Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste watchdog at Beyond Nuclear, told Sputnik.

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08 Aug 2023 15:23

🇵🇱 Do Poles want their historical territories in Ukraine back? This man says they do

A video has gone viral on the Internet in which a man, who introduces himself as a Polish mercenary, says he is fighting to get back territories in Ukraine that historically belonged to Poland

The man says Warsaw’s real plan for Ukraine is to collapse their economy and then “take” them without a fight.

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08 Aug 2023 14:26

❗ Russian MoD briefing on the progress of special military operation in Ukraine:

◾Russian troops successfully repelled three attacks by Ukrainian Forces in the LPR and DPR;

◾In the Kherson direction, Russian forces destroyed up to 50 Ukrainian soldiers and three D-20 howitzers;

◾In the Donetsk region, the Russian Army repelled 18 attacks by Ukrainian assault groups;

◾In the Krasny Liman, Ukrainian losses amounted to 80 soldiers and a Grad MLRS combat vehicle;

◾In the Kupyansk, the Russian Army destroyed up to 110 Ukrainian soldiers;

◾In the Zaporozhye area, Ukrainian losses amounted to 110 soldiers. Russian forces destroyed a tank, an M777 artillery system, a FH-70 howitzer and a Krab self-propelled gun;

◾In South Donetsk, Ukrainian losses amounted to 125 soldiers. Russian troops destroyed eight armored combat vehicles and two D-30 howitzers;

◾Russian forces repelled three attacks by Ukrainian troops near Nikolskiy and Urozhayniy in the DPR;

◾Russian air defense systems intercepted five HIMARS MLRS rockets and destroyed Ukrainian 17 drones.

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08 Aug 2023 12:47

📹 The Kiev regime shelled a residential district in Novaya Kakhovka in the Kherson region, setting one house on fire, a Sputnik correspondent has reported.

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08 Aug 2023 11:14

📸 More photographs from Winners in Stenin Contest 2023

Sleeping Queens by Fabrice Mbonankira (Burundi) won the second place.

The third and fourth places were taken by Russia’s Pelagia Tikhonova and her Remembering 1945 and Yevgeny Filippov for Individual Race.

Another Indian photographer, Sayan Adhikary from Kolkata, won the fifth place with The Dying Tradition through Circle.

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08 Aug 2023 10:43

📹 Russian Ka-52 chopper targets Ukrainian armored vehicle in Kransy Liman direction

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