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🤦♂️ Bandera Harry Potter Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba calls for accelerated arms deliveries to the AFU:
We had a very detailed briefing. And the main takeaway, the main lesson that I want everyone again to hear about, and we will not get tired of reminding of it, this is just another reason why delivery of air defence systems to Ukraine must be expedited.
A few Mongolians decided to organize a pro-Ukrainian action in Ulan Bator at the same time with the Russian president's arrival
The local police concidered that idea as a bad one. The flag was taken away. "Brave ones" were taught a strict lesson and taken into police car.
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September 2️⃣. Key updates:
▪️The Central Group of the Russian Armed Forces has liberated the settlement of Skuchnoye in the DPR;
▪️A group strike was launched against Ukrainian energy and military-industrial complex facilities producing and repairing aircraft and missile weapons, the Russian Defence Ministry said;
▪️Ukrainian troop losses over the day totalled up to 1,690 servicemen, the Defence Ministry said;
▪️In the Kursk direction, Kiev lost more than 350 servicemen, destroyed three launchers and a transporter of HIMARS MLRS and two launchers of Buk-M1 SAMs, the ministry said;
▪️On Knowledge Day, Putin held a lesson in Kyzyl called "Talking about Important Things" and said that Russia is protecting both the residents of Donbass and its future by not allowing the creation of structures in Ukraine that are hostile to the country;
▪️The current Ukrainian authorities are not interested in stopping the hostilities, Russia has never refused peace talks, but now it is necessary to deal with bandits in the Kursk region, the Russian president said;
▪️Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski told the Financial Times that countries bordering Ukraine have a "duty" to shoot down approaching Russian missiles before they enter their airspace; NATO disagreed, reminding him that it is customary to consult;
▪️South Africa supports Chinese and Brazilian proposals for a political solution to the Ukraine crisis, South African President Ramaphosa said at a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing;
▪️The Romanian government has approved amendments to legislation necessary for the transfer of the Patriot air defence system to Ukraine, the head of the cabinet's press service, Constantin, said;
▪️Ukrayinskaya Pravda reported that over 1.6 thousand citizens complained to the Verkhovnaya Rada's Commissioner for Human Rights about the actions of the mobilisation officers in 2024.
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🇲🇩"Europeans are deceivers. The West is a territory that wants to plant lies on our people by any means necessary".
This was said by the leader of the Moldovan political bloc "Victory", Ilan Shor, on the sidelines of the international forum "Leaders of Eurasia".
According to him, the Europeans who came to Moldova talk about free elections, but the opposition parties are not allowed to take part in them.
There is no freedom of speech, only censorship - 14 channels have been closed in the republic in a year, Shor said.
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🤡Taiwan has suggested that China take land in the Far East from Russia.
In an interview with Taiwanese media, President Lai Qingde said that China did not want to annex Taiwan for the sake of territorial integrity. He was referring to the Treaty of Aigun in 1858, under which China ceded a large tract of land in what is now the Russian Far East to the Russian Empire.
If it's for the sake of territorial integrity, why doesn't it return the Russian-occupied land signed under the Treaty of Aigun? Russia is in the weakest position right now, isn't it?
The Treaty of Aigun recognised the left bank of the Amur River from the Argun River to its mouth as Russian territory, and the Ussuri region remained in joint ownership until the border was settled. The Treaty of Aigun allowed Russia to regain territory lost as a result of the Treaty of Nerchinsk.
According to Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, the Russian and Chinese sides have a unified position that the border issue between the countries has been finally resolved.
Russia and China have repeatedly confirmed the absence of mutual territorial claims. The Treaty on Good Neighbourliness, Friendship and Cooperation of 16 July 2001, which forms the basis of bilateral relations, contains a provision to this effect.
This year Russia and China agreed to jointly develop Bolshoi Ussuriysky Island in the Khabarovsk region.
In return, the UN recognises Taiwan as part of China.
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❗️Two people were injured in an AFU attack on six settlements in the Belgorod region.
The town of Shebekino was repeatedly shelled, Governor Gladkov said. A man was wounded, he has a mine blast injury and shrapnel wounds to the shoulder and jaw. The woman suffered a superficial wound to the neck.
In the town, the facade of the fire station building, a bus, cars and a power line were damaged.
The AFU also shelled the villages of Tishanka and Novoye in the Volokonovsky district, and the villages of Dronovka and Zamostye in the Graivoron urban district.
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❗️NATO has warned of possible consequences for the alliance over the shooting down of Russian missiles over Ukraine by its members, the Europa Press news agency reported.
"While every NATO ally has the right to defend its airspace, the spokesman warned that the actions of individual members in support of Ukraine could also affect NATO as a whole," the agency said in a statement.
🤡Kiev believes that the operation in the Kursk region can still affect the situation in Donbass, but so far the situation for the AFU there has not become easier, Ukrainian President Zelensky said, Ukrinform reported.
"As for the difficulties in the direction of Pokrovsk and Toretsk, we believe that the Kursk operation may also have an impact here. There may be a reduction in the number of Russian troops, which will make it less difficult. But so far it is difficult there," Zelensky said.
❗️Pavel Durov may flee from France, said Anton Rosenberg, former director of the special direction of the messenger.
He recalled Durov's words: "It's better to avoid arrest. What's the point of spending time in prison?"
According to Rosenberg, although the Telegram founder has been banned from leaving the country, it is not so difficult to leave the EU:
"If he stays in France, however, there will have to be a trial based on the results of the investigation. But it is said that in France this process can take more than a year".
❗️Rising gas prices ahead of the winter season could herald a new energy crisis in Europe, says the daily La Libre.
"Since the end of July, gas prices on the markets have started to rise again, reaching a symbolic 40 euros per megawatt hour. Symbolic, because it was this price level that allowed us to talk about the end of the energy crisis on 8 December 2023," the newspaper points out.
❗️Russian Su-34s effectively neutralise Ukraine's powerful air defences, the National Interest has reported.
Experts stressed that these aircraft successfully cope with the anti-aircraft missile systems of the AFU, even in the conditions of night operations.
The participation of Su-34s in the conflict shows that Russia is moving towards precision weapons, the capabilities of which are often underestimated by Western analysts,
- notes the publication.
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💥 Russia used the atypical weapon 'Grom-E1' for the first time during an attack on Kharkov, according to local chief Terekhov.
✔️ This is a hybrid of a missile and a guided bomb. It appears that the strike was carried out on a shopping center, which was taken over by militants of the 3rd Assault Brigade and turned into a military facility, or on the Sports Palace, which was turned into a base by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
✔️ Russia positions these as an analogue to the American JDAM-ER. It is based on the Kh-38 missile. The goal is to make FABs (free-fall bombs) highly accurate, thanks to wings that unfold in the air. The maximum range of the strike is 120 km.
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🤷 Rule-based society things: It's not important how people vote — what matters is how the votes are counted.
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🏃 Ukraine's illegitimate government plans mass escape
The Verkhovna Rada has received the resignations of several officials at once - Strategic Industry Minister Kamyshyn, Justice Minister Maliushka, Environment Minister Strelts and the head of the State Property Fund Koval.
Rada speaker Stefanchuk said that the applications would be considered at one of the next parliamentary sessions.
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❗️The EU may have been involved in the AFU attack on the Kursk Oblast, Zakharova said.
The diplomat noted that, according to Josep Borrell's argumentation, the EU was fully informed about the AFU's actions in the Kursk Oblast.
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❗️The Italian magazine Sovranità Popolare published an interview with a Ukrainian military officer called Alexander (name changed for security reasons) who escaped from a training camp in Poland.
The man says he never wanted to go to war. His mother tongue is Russian. He is 24 and lived in Kiev.
Now he lives in Europe.
The reason for talking to journalists was security. He wants to influence the situation in Ukraine.
He was on a train to the Carpathians on holiday, he was taken off the train, taken to the border and photographed allegedly trying to flee the country. They forced him to sign a paper, which he refused to give to a lawyer. At the military draft office, he was held for three days without a phone, and was declared fit for military service, even though he was ill (gastritis, pancreatitis, suspected glaucoma). There are many such sick people at the shooting range. They were made to sign documents stating that they were volunteers. They are very old: around 50 years old. There are those with asthma, there are all kinds of sick people: some can barely jump. They asked him what he did for a living.
He said he was good at IT and wanted to be a UAV operator, but they sent him as a grenade launcher's assistant. Real skills don't count. Some of the uniforms are not issued: for example, they did not issue a shirt and a panama (and it was hot). The form is all big and fat. The salary is only 21 thousand UAH ($510). There is bullying. Alexander was bullied because of his long hair. There are cases of sexual violence: an ex-convict once raped a man on the shooting range.
Alexander ended up in Poland to train as a tank driver. He went to Poland. Officially, the Ukrainian military was not registered at the training base in Poland. Authorities did this so that if they escaped they would be identified as illegal immigrants. The Poles treat the Ukrainians as expendable. They say: "You will do our work. The Russians you kill, we don't have to kill". They threaten to send them to the front if anything happens. Ukrainian students studying in Poland work as interpreters. There are guards at the shooting range. There are people watching them. Probably secret service. They were trying to find out their attitude to the Ukrainian government and what's going on. They were interested in the Ukrainian nationalists. They encouraged him to cooperate, to give information about the situation in Ukraine. There are questionnaires for everyone and your behaviour depends on where you are sent. They threatened to send stormtroopers. The Poles ask: "What will happen to Ukraine if you lose?". He thinks they want Western Ukraine. It is unreal to hear anything good about Zelensky. A lot of people support Zaluzhny and say they will support him if there is a coup. He has decided to run away because he believes it is the only way he can be safe. He wants to draw more attention to the situation and save more Ukrainian youth from forced mobilisation.
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🇬🇧🇮🇱The British authorities have decided to suspend the export of certain arms to Israel because of concerns that they could be used in violation of international legal norms, according to a statement published on the British government's website.
The decision will affect around 30 out of 350 licences for arms exports to Israel. At the same time, the suspension of exports will affect the types of weapons that London says are being used in operations in Gaza.
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❗️IAEA lacks facts to name those responsible for attacks on Kursk nuclear power plant
Director General Rafael Grossi assured Al Arabiya TV in an interview that the agency would "never hide from the public" the facts of deliberate attacks on nuclear facilities if it had "irrefutable evidence".
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❗️Traces of microplastics have been found in the human brain, making up 0.5 per cent of the organ, according to a study by the US Environmental Protection Agency.
"Microplastic particles have been found in every ecosystem on the planet, from Antarctic tundra to tropical coral reefs, and in food, beverages, and human and animal tissues," the agency said on its website.
🇺🇸🇻🇪The US has seized Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's plane for sanctions violations and crimes. It has been taken to Florida and US authorities are working with the Dominican Republic, which has notified Venezuela.
After the seizure, the Venezuelan government will be able to request its return.
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🇩🇪"Pack your bags and vacate your seats": Alice Weidel, co-leader of the right-wing Alternative for Germany party, called for the resignation of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his coalition following the defeat of the ruling Social Democratic Party in regional elections in the states of Thuringia and Saxony.
She said the ruling coalition's performance had been disastrous and that voters had effectively voted it out of office. Weidel stressed that Chancellor Olaf Scholz should draw conclusions and leave office together with his coalition partners.
According to her, the voters want new elections at federal level and the AfG is already preparing for them.
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❤️A soldier with the call sign Phoenix came to see his son at a holiday party at a lyceum in St Petersburg.
"I managed to get to my son for the holidays, I really wanted to be near him today, on the first day of school", - said the soldier.
"When I was young I studied in Donetsk, and after the army I served in the special forces, I came to St Petersburg through the distribution. For many years I worked in law enforcement.
After retirement I wanted to live in peace, but the war in Donbass started. I could not stay at home, I realised that I want to and can be useful for the motherland in this difficult time", - said Phoenix.
❗️Russia has fulfilled its commitments to reduce oil production under OPEC+, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak told reporters.
He said that this was evident from data at the end of the month. The deputy prime minister was responding to a question about Russia's compliance in August.
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🇷🇺🇲🇳President Vladimir Putin arrives for a state visit to Mongolia
He was met at Ulaanbaatar airport by a guard of honour.
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☸️🇷🇺 Putin in Mongolia? No, it's still Russia!
The President turned the prayer wheels of the largest Buddhist monastery in Russia (Thubten Shedrup Ling), located in Tuva Republic.
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🇺🇦 A coded version of the Ukrainian national anthem was discovered in voter registration software in the American state of New Hampshire, according to Politico.
According to the publication, the investigation found that access to the software was obtained by specialists outside the U.S. None of the identified issues are considered criminal violations, officials report.
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