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Erdogan - when asked if he considers HAMAS a terrorist organization:
About twenty years ago, when I was traveling in the USA, I was asked this question again, and at that time I answered: I do not consider HAMAS a terrorist organization. On the contrary, I see it as a resistance movement. HAMAS does not have serious weaponry or significant capabilities. They use the little they have to try to protect themselves.
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🇷🇺🇺🇦Continuation of the night strike campaign: Nikolaev, Chernigov region, and Kirovograd region
On the night of September 22 to 23, 2025, massive strikes by Russian strike means continued against key military industry facilities, energy infrastructure, and transport logistics of Ukraine. Now let's review the strikes on gas turbine industry hubs, high-voltage substations, and railway traction centers.
🔻Nikolaev (21:05, 22.09.2025)
The strike hit the territory of State Enterprise "Nikolaev Aircraft Repair Plant "NARP" and the adjacent complex "Zorya-Mashproekt", specializing in the production of gas turbine units for the navy and stationary power generation.
▪️On the territory of "Zorya-Mashproekt", a fire was recorded in the administrative building and production workshop. Preliminary damage includes:
• test stands for M35 and M70FRU gas turbine engines used on Ukrainian Navy ships;
• rotor balancing units (Schenck-class), ensuring turbine assembly precision.
▪️On the territory of "NARP", damage was noted to the mechanical assembly section, including CNC machines used for repairing airframes and units of frontline aviation. Windows in workshops were blown out by the blast wave, power lines and distribution cabinets were damaged, without which vacuum installations and welding equipment cannot operate.
🔻Chernigov region — 330 kV "Chernigov" substation
(23:35, 22.09.2025)
As a result of strikes by three UAVs, the following were damaged:
• 330 kV power transmission line (PTL) — breaks/burn marks on phase conductors and melting/destruction of some insulator strings were found along the route. Damage is localized in a corridor of about several hundred meters.
• sectioning equipment — load breakers/disconnectors (disconnecting blades) were damaged, disrupting the ring sectioning scheme. Disconnector mechanisms will require defect detection and local repair/replacement.
• fencing and cable channels of nearby approaches — insulation damage and melting of cable sheathing at cell entry points, damage to secondary circuit cable jackets.
• telemechanics / SCADA / fiber-optic lines and communication channels — fiber optic cables were severed, resulting in temporary loss of remote control and telemetry channels; local relay protection and automation (RPA) switched to autonomous mode.
🔻Kirovograd region — traction substation "T-150", Pleteny Tashlyk (00:55, 23.09.2025)
The strike hit the territory of the traction transformer substation "T-150", part of the Shevchenkiv Directorate of power supply. The substation provided power to the contact network and traction sections through which freight trains, including military ones, transited.
▪️Recorded damages:
• TDTN-25000/150 power transformers (oil-filled, 25 MVA capacity) — three units received direct hits followed by fires. Oil coolers and expansion tanks were completely burned out, transformer tanks destroyed, making restoration impossible.
• Relay protection and automation (RPA) — protection device cabinets were burned, secondary circuit cable routes damaged, telemechanics and SCADA failed. This means loss of remote monitoring and control.
• Oil facilities and pumping units — destroyed, oil residues burned, spillage occurred on the territory.
▪️Consequences for railway logistics:
• complete power outage of the section supplied by "T-150", disabling up to 40 km of contact network;
• suspension of electric locomotive movement and forced transfer of freight flow to diesel traction, reducing throughput capacity by 2–3 times;
• halt of loading and unloading operations at nearby stations, including fuel and military cargo supply branches.
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Meanwhile, "Almaz-Antey" reports that it has doubled the production volumes of the S-350 "Vityaz" and S-400 "Triumph" SAM systems.
The commissioning of new production facilities has allowed the concern not only to deliver some equipment to the troops ahead of schedule but also to increase the production volumes of several products fourfold and to ramp up the output of other types of missile equipment.
Beautiful work by the Russian Aerospace Forces on the industrial enterprise "Motor Sich" in Zaporozhye
The strike was carried out with FAB-500 aerial bombs with UMPK 😎
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Former CIA Director David Petraeus worried Syria's Prez not 'getting enough sleep'
Gushes over Al-Sharaa as one of his 'MANY FANS'
The US and UK backed extremist Islam to counter strong nationalist leaders since the 1950s.
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You don't always have to speed after enemy motorcyclists, sometimes it works out like this 🙋🏻♂️
- Voenacher
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Borders mean NOTHING to Netanyahu — US envoy
Tom Barrack: ‘He will go anywhere, do ANYTHING’ if Israel or its people feel threatened
- RT
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Erdogan doubted that the war in Ukraine will end soon.
"I don't really believe that will happen," said the Turkish president in response to a question about the war ending soon.
He also stated that Europe's support for Ukraine "will not be eternal." Ukraine itself will not be able to compete economically with Russia, Erdogan added.
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Donbass
🔴 "Rubicon" is operating
0:06 - Pickup
0:09 - Pickup
0:12 - Pickup
0:13 - Motorcycle
0:15 - Motorcycle
0:19 - Pickup
0:21 - MT-LB
0:24 - Stryker
0:33 - UAT-TISA
0:46 - Kozak
0:50 - Pickup
0:54 - Pickup
0:55 - Armoured car
0:57 - NRTK
0:58 - Armoured car
0:59 - NRTK
1:03 - NRTK
1:06 - BMP-2
1:09 - DJI Mavic
1:10 - DJI Mavic
1:12 - DJI Mavic
1:14 - Baba Yaga
1:15 - Baba Yaga
1:16 - Baba Yaga
1:17 - Baba Yaga
1:18 - Baba Yaga
1:19 - Baba Yaga
1:19 - Baba Yaga
1:20 - FPV drone
1:21 - Baba Yaga
1:22 - DJI Mavic
1:22 - Baba Yaga
1:23 - Baba Yaga
1:24 - Baba Yaga
1:25 - Baba Yaga
1:26 - Baba Yaga
1:26 - DJI Mavic
1:27 - Baba Yaga
1:28 - Baba Yaga
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1:30 - Baba Yaga
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1:31 - DJI Mavic
1:33 - Baba Yaga
1:34 - Baba Yaga
1:35 - Baba Yaga
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1:38 - Baba Yaga
1:40 - Baba Yaga
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1:44 - DJI Mavic
1:45 - Baba Yaga
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1:47 - Baba Yaga
1:48 - DJI Mavic
1:49 - Baba Yaga
1:50 - DJI Mavic
1:50 - Baba Yaga
1:51 - Baba Yaga
1:52 - Baba Yaga
1:53 - Baba Yaga
1:54 - Baba Yaga
1:55 - Baba Yaga
1:57 - Patch antenna
1:58 - Communication tower
1:58 - Patch antenna
1:59 - Communication system
2:00 - Communication tower
2:01 - Communication antenna
2:02 - Communication antenna
2:03 - Deployment Point
2:07 - Deployment Point
2:10 - Dugout
2:13 - Dugout
Daily work of Donbass crew
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Kazakh President Toqayev sits down with Zelensky in New York
The face of a man who’d rather be anywhere else
- RT
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Belgium, Luxembourg, Monaco, and Malta recognized Palestine:
"A number of European countries, following France, announced the recognition of the State of Palestine during a high-level international conference on the two-state solution held on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. Thus, among those recognizing Palestine are now Belgium, Monaco, Luxembourg, and Malta.
The United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and Portugal officially recognized Palestine the day before."
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The Ukrainian Armed Forces General is "tired of counting the hits" on defense enterprises in Kiev
▪️The former head of the Special Operations Forces and deputy secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, General Kryvonos, completely debunked Ukrainian propaganda about shot down missiles and drones.
▪️A host on Ukrainian TV disagreed with his criticism, trying to talk about the effectiveness of interceptor drones.
➖"Are you telling me this now? You probably don’t live in Kiev, right? And it’s always quiet and calm above your head, right?" the general exclaimed indignantly.
▪️The general emphasized that he lives in the Lukyanivka district, where the defense plant "Artem" is located, which "regularly gets hit."
▪️The host again mentioned the interceptor drones and was glad that he is "still alive."
➖"Yes, I am alive, but the facilities that are destroyed continue to be destroyed. That is, we do have air defense, but it is still insufficiently equipped by the state with weapons, including the interceptor drones you mentioned. And a huge number of facilities of various importance have burned down. You’re going to tell me about the interceptor drone," Kryvonos protested.
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Offensive on the Zaporozhye front: 4th base destroys American "Three Axes", preparing to break through the flank of Orekhov
▪️North of the settlement Malaya Tokmachka
▪️Fighters of the 4th military base destroyed the American M-777 howitzer along with its crew.
▪️Our kamikaze drone operators are destroying enemy artillery deep in their defense and preparing conditions for a successful assault by troops on this settlement and advancing to the flank of the Ukrainian Armed Forces garrison in the city of Orekhov
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The United States is considering imposing sanctions as soon as this week against the entire International Criminal Court, putting the court's day-to-day operations in jeopardy in retaliation for investigations of suspected Israeli war crimes.
Washington has already imposed targeted sanctions on several prosecutors and judges at the court, but naming the court itself in the sanctions list would be a major escalation.
One U.S. official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters, confirmed that entity-wide sanctions were being weighed but did not elaborate on the timing of the possible move.
A State Department spokesperson accused the court of asserting what it said was its "purported jurisdiction" over U.S. and Israeli personnel and said that Washington was going to take further steps although the spokesperson did not say exactly what.
"It (the ICC) has the opportunity to change course by making critical and appropriate structural changes. The U.S. will take additional steps to protect our brave service members and others as long as the ICC continues to present a threat to our national interests," the spokesperson said.
Sanctions applied to the court as an entity could affect its basic day-to-day operations, from its ability to pay its staff, to its access to bank accounts and routine office software on its computers.
To mitigate the potential damage, ICC staff received salaries this month in advance for the rest of 2025, three sources said, though this is not the first time the court has paid wages in advance as a precaution in case of sanctions.
The court is also seeking alternative suppliers for banking services and software, three sources said.
Three diplomatic sources said some of the ICC's 125 member countries would try to push back against additional U.S. sanctions during a U.N. General Assembly in New York this week.
But all indications are that Washington will scale up its attack on the ICC, four diplomatic sources in The Hague and New York said.
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First Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN Polyansky – at the Security Council meeting on the situation in Estonian airspace:
Today we are forced to attend the second part of this spectacle called "blame Russia for everything" – our neighbors now imagine that a violation of Estonian airspace occurred due to Russia. As always, there is no evidence except for Russophobic hysteria from Tallinn, which our Estonian colleague will vividly demonstrate to us today.
Meanwhile, the facts show that on September 19, three Russian MiG-31 fighters made a scheduled flight from Karelia to an airfield located in the Kaliningrad region, strictly in accordance with international rules for the use of airspace. The Russian aircraft did not deviate from the agreed route and did not cross Estonian airspace.
Their trajectory passed over the neutral waters of the Baltic Sea, more than three kilometers away from the island of Vaindlo. This is confirmed by objective monitoring data. If Estonia wanted, they could have verified this themselves. But Tallinn has no such goal; the task is different – contrary to facts and common sense, to stir up hysteria and accuse Russia of provocations.
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🇷🇺🇺🇦Night strike campaign — Odessa and Poltava regions
The wave of strikes logically continued the line of destruction of key elements of the enemy's aviation infrastructure.
🔻Odessa — airfield and aviation plant (21:00 — 21:20 22.09.2025 / 21:00 22.09.2025)
▪️Airfield (near the old terminal)
• Damage to the runway and taxiway surfaces: localized craters and cracks in the concrete slab, destruction of joints and local concrete bedding over a length of approximately 200–400 m.
• Lighting and cable routes: cables of emergency and airfield lighting circuits, ALS sections, and marker power circuits damaged — a full inspection and replacement of lighting control units are required.
• Air defense in the airfield area: according to preliminary reports, air defense positions were located near the airfield, but there is currently no confirmation of their destruction — the likelihood of their survival is high.
▪️Odessa Aviation Plant (administrative and production block)
• Administrative building and service areas: a direct hit caused a fire in the two-story building. Rooms of the quality, metrology, and documentation departments (server room, archives) were damaged. Loss of technical and design documentation reduces the ability to promptly accept and certify repaired units.
• Test stands and auxiliary equipment: partial damage to auxiliary unit acceptance stands (stands for starting/running auxiliary power units) — blocking the possibility of final testing of small units and assemblies.
• Power supply and transformers: localized power outage in factory sections due to damage to power cable lines and distribution cabinets.
🔻Tatarbunary (00:59, 23.09.2025)
The strike hit the territory of the "Tatarbunary" hotel complex. Initially, the facility was used for civilian purposes, but at the time of the attack, it effectively served as a temporary deployment point. The complex housed groups of specialists who provided maintenance and preparation of unmanned boats (UB), as well as an unknown number of employees of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
As a result of the hit, the building suffered critical damage to load-bearing structures, with ceiling collapses on several levels.
▪️Preliminary consequences:
• part of the material base for servicing marine drones destroyed;
• possible losses among engineering and technical personnel and specialists in electronic systems;
• disruption of the work of field groups of the Main Intelligence Directorate involved in preparing marine sabotage operations (the number of personnel eliminated is currently unknown).
🔻Mirgorod, Poltava region (02:20, 23.09.2025)
Several hits were recorded on the airfield of the 831st Tactical Aviation Brigade in the area of the runway and the engineering-airfield service building. A two-story building housing runway maintenance units and airfield support equipment was completely destroyed. The airfield lighting cable network was damaged, and control panels and distribution cabinets failed.
Main hangars and aircraft in shelters were not seriously damaged, but airfield service operations are limited due to power outages and destruction of engineering and road service infrastructure.
🔻Suprunovka, Poltava region (03:00, 23.09.2025)
Buildings of auxiliary purpose at Poltava Airport were hit, including a two-story dormitory and utility buildings. A fire broke out covering an area of about 150 m². Although the facility was not used as a full-fledged civil aviation airfield, it was used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine for basing light aircraft and testing unmanned systems. The strike damaged infrastructure that supported the basing and technical maintenance of UAVs, including fuel storage and equipment rooms.
Yours, Partizan!
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🇷🇺🇺🇦System strikes on Zaporozhye engine building: “Motor Sich” and Ivchenko-Progress Design Bureau — anchors of the An-124 “Ruslan” program
Continuing the line of disabling critical links of the military-industrial complex, the strike on Zaporozhye hit two elements of a single production and design complex at once: “Motor Sich” (serial assembly/repair) and State Enterprise “Ivchenko-Progress” (development/modernization). Together they form a complete cycle for power plants — from design and bench testing to serial production, repair, and life extension. The key program on which the strategic transport aviation of Ukraine and its partners relies is the D-18T engine for the An-124 “Ruslan”.
🔻What exactly “falls” when this cluster is hit
▪️Resource and maintainability of the D-18T (An-124):
Without operational sections for rotor balancing and hot testing, any “hot section” (HPT/HPC) after cycle operation is simply not allowed for further use. Critical are:
• sections of high-precision machining of compressor/turbine disks and stages (5-axis machining, shape control to hundredths of a millimeter);
• vacuum/inert atmosphere furnaces for heat treatment and HVOF/APS stands for restoration coatings of blades (anti-oxidation/thermal protection);
• gas generator and full engine test stands for running-in modes, calibration of fuel automation.
▪️Shortage of “small parts” on which a large engine depends:
The D-18T bottlenecks are compressor/turbine blades made of heat-resistant nickel alloys, tips/bands, nozzle apparatus, precision bearing supports, and blade coatings. These parts exist only in the chain “designer — technologist — machinist — test stand operator.”
▪️Disruption of software/FADEC upgrades and improvements:
For further operation of heavy turbofan engines, control algorithm updates (FADEC/ECU) and service bulletins on crack resistance and thermal loads are needed. These works are concentrated in the design bureau: without live laboratories and test posts, modernization freezes, and active bulletins lose their implementation pace.
🔻Why this is critical right now — connection with “Ruslans” and more
• The An-124 “Ruslan” is operated by a small fleet where each aircraft is “golden.” Overhaul of the D-18T is a modular disassembly + test stand + certification card. Knocking out Zaporizhzhia’s capacities makes the fleet operationally dependent on single external contractors with long queues and logistical risks.
• Related product lines of “Motor Sich”/“Ivchenko”: TV3-117/VK-2500 (Mi-8/24), AI-450 (light aviation/UAVs), AI-20/AI-24 (An-12/24/26), AI-25/AI-222 (L-39/Yak-130). Even if the strike hit the “administration” or a separate workshop, any common infrastructure section affects the entire range — from hot sections to electronic tuning.
🔻Operational projection of the strike
• Overhaul times lengthen: without own test stands and coatings, the hot section “travels” to external sites where there is neither engineering continuity nor “native” instruments. The result is months of delays.
• The share of “cannibalization” grows: to keep a minimum number of aircraft operational, parts are taken from “donors.” This quickly depletes the fleet’s resource.
• Fleet predictability falls: the “Ruslan” is the heavy shoulder of logistics. Any unplanned engine failure without local repair hits the transport schedule and operational supply.
🔻What is lost
— sections of rotor balancing and high-speed testing;
— vacuum furnaces/furnaces with controlled atmosphere, lines for applying HVOF/APS coatings;
— coordinate measuring machines/metrology (CMM, optics, interferometry) — without them, assembly is not allowed;
— power facilities (TDTN-class transformers, RZA) — without stable power supply, test stands and furnaces simply cannot be started.
📌Today’s strike on Zaporozhye is not “just another fire”, but a jab into the nervous system of Ukrainian aircraft engine building.
Yours, Partisan!
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"Sent to the meat grinder": Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers from the Lvov repair battalion threaten a mass desertion from the unit — Kiev media
▪️Soldiers of the 219th repair battalion of the 125th Territorial Defense Brigade declared their intention to massively go AWOL (absent without leave).
▪️They made this decision after an attempt to transfer them to an assault unit.
▪️According to them, they received an order to transfer 24 people, many of whom are over 50 years old, to combat units.
➖"A combat order is coming now – my son is being sent to the 218th battalion. To the meat grinder, to rifle companies to retake positions they lost," said a Ukrainian soldier.
➖"All 24 people involved have decided to go AWOL. The biggest absurdity is that this is a drone war now, specialists are needed. My son, who is a specialist, is being thrown into the trenches. Men over 50, who are also not assault troops by age, are also being thrown into the trenches," he added.
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Ukrainian authorities this week released a photo of the September 3 arrest of Artur Rudko, a well-known athlete and former goalkeeper for the country's two main soccer teams , Dynamo Kiev and Shakhtar Donetsk. In the image, he appears with three other men as he was intercepted by border agents who prevented him from fleeing the country to avoid serving in the army. Despite the urgent need for troops, authorities warn that around 1.5 million men of conscription age—from 25 to 60 years old, with no health, professional, or family exemptions—continue to slip through the net. Ukraine needs around 300,000 troops to replenish brigades that are fighting at half-strength and exhausted, and in some cases have only 30% of the necessary human resources, according to a report by the OSW think tank in Poland .
EL PAÍS has interviewed three of those who refuse to serve in the army. Neither the government nor the army report the official number of victims, dead or wounded, but the interviewees, in touch with reality, unhesitatingly use a primary argument to justify their life outside the law: "Fear of dying."
That warlike ardor that led Ukrainians to line up to receive a rifle, to be trained, to don the uniform, and to rush to the front has been deflating over time.
Behind this lack of volunteer candidates lies not only the uncertainty of the war's end, but also a growing distrust in an inefficient system tainted by high levels of corruption, which many exploit to shirk their duties and leave others in charge of defending the country. Goalkeeper Rudko had already been arrested last month and had to pay a fine before being transferred to a training center, but he took advantage of a permit to try to escape, local media report. Both he and the others arrested in the border mountains reportedly paid $8,000 (€6,800) each to leave the country illegally. The athlete, who less than two years ago faced FC Barcelona in the Champions League with Shakhtar Donetsk, is now back in uniform and training to receive his assignment.
“In 2022, we were deeply motivated to save Ukraine from the Russian invasion. We all wanted to do something for our country ,” he comments. After all this time, "we haven't received a single positive story from those who are enlisted. We only receive shit," says Julia, Sasha's partner, on the banks of a river where they live, several hours from Kiev, the capital. Fed up, she insists that they can't even find those responsible for recognizing the disqualification, and that, for this reason, Sasha has to live in hiding. "I'm afraid to even go to the center of town. It's dangerous. I only sometimes go to the store after eight in the evening," she explains.
Sasha recounts the case of a university classmate who ended up working at the TCK and who stated in the WhatsApp group that half of his mobile contacts are already dead.
On the front lines, commanders have to act as psychologists and even cheerleaders to try to force men who have been on duty for months to endure. It's the only way to deal with the shortage of troops, which is impossible to alleviate with aid from abroad in the form of money, weapons, and a few mercenaries. Despite all this, the number of desertions—which further burdens the army—reaches 10%, according to some local media.
Roman Kostenko, a renowned military officer and secretary of the National Security, Defense acknowledged in July that, despite 30,000 monthly recruitment attempts, they face a shortage of 1.5 million men who are not fulfilling their duty
Link to full article
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'Al Salam Alaykum, Mr President. It's an honor to meet you, sir' — Former CIA Director David Petraeus sits down with Syrian Prez in New York
14 years ago Petraeus led post-9/11 war on Iraq — US had a $10 MILLION bounty then-Al-Qaeda's Al-Sharaa
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🇺🇦🇺🇸 Ukraine does not expect miracles from Zelensky's visit to the USA — Al Arabiya
- Kiev's hopes for tough sanctions against the Russian economy are fading.
- Nevertheless, Zelensky will ask Trump at the meeting to strengthen sanction pressure on Russia.
- Only 18 percent of Ukrainians believe that military actions can end this year.
- Ukraine is preparing for a reduction in support from the West.
- "Ukraine has not only faced failures in sanctions and a reduction in US aid, but may also lose support from some other allies in Europe," says a source from the publication.
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🇺🇸🤡US Ambassador to NATO Whitaker on the need for the US to help its NATO allies stop buying Russian oil.
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❗️❗️❗️🇪🇺🇲🇩Europe is preparing to occupy Moldova — SVR
- This is planned to be done at any cost, up to the introduction of troops and the actual occupation of the country.
- At this stage, NATO armed forces units are being concentrated in Romania near the Moldovan borders.
- Troop deployment to the Odessa region of Ukraine is being prepared to intimidate Transnistria.
- The first group of professional military personnel from France and the United Kingdom has already arrived in Odessa.
- This scenario has been repeatedly practiced during NATO exercises in Romania and may be implemented after the parliamentary elections in Moldova on September 28.
- Europe fears that falsification of voting results will force Moldovans to take to the streets to defend their rights.
- After that, at Sandu's request, the armed forces of European countries will force Moldovans to accept dictatorship.
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🇩🇰🤡The Danish Foreign Minister Rasmussen stated that Russia "must retreat".
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Zelensky talks 'religious freedoms' in Ukraine
Man who banned Russian Orthodox Church, just so we're clear
- RT
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‼️🇺🇦💥 Russian forces launched a series of strikes on Ukrainian targets overnight
▪️At least five explosions were heard in Zaporozhye. Authorities report strikes on industrial facilities.
▪️Numerous strikes were recorded in Chernihiv. The local governor reports an attack on a "critical infrastructure facility."
▪️In Tatarbunary, there were hits on the hotel building, Ukrposhta, and Ukrtelecom.
▪️Strikes were also reported on targets in Poltava, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Kharkov regions, and in Krivoy Rog.
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The International Monetary Fund has persuaded Ukraine's government to accept the fund's $65 billion estimate of foreign funding needed through 2027 compared to Ukraine's earlier $38 billion estimate, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.
The size of a new IMF loan to Ukraine, though not formally discussed, has been estimated at about $8 billion, the report added.
Ukraine's current $15.5 billion programme with the IMF expires in 2027.
Kyiev is spending about 60% of its budget on its war effort against Russia and relies heavily on financial support from its Western allies to cover the cost of pensions, public sector wages and humanitarian spending.
The IMF is considered a lender of last resort. The US and European controlled IMF modified its lending rules in March 2023 to allow for loans to countries facing "exceptionally high uncertainty" from events like war to borrow.
The US along with Europe has refused to rebalance the voting shares since 2010 as voting shares are suppose to reflect economic size. China accounts for about 18% of the global economy, yet it enjoys just a little over 6% of the IMF's voting share. Currently, the US is the biggest shareholder with a 16.5% share, effectively giving it veto power since major decisions need 85% approval.
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Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger announce their withdrawal from the International Criminal Court.
Source: AFP
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🇺🇦Ukrainians stormed the TCC and released three mobilized men
- "A group of unknown individuals attacked the Kalush TCC, three conscripts escaped" — reported by the Ivano-Frankovsk regional TCC.
- "An investigative-operational group is working at the scene" — say the Ukrainian military commissars.
- No other details have been provided yet.
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