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05 September 2024 10:41

Iskander has valuable loot again. Another American MLRS M270 MLRS was destroyed in the Sumy region. Judging by the repeated detonation, the car had just arrived at the firing position and did not have time to launch. The MLRS itself and the escort vehicles were destroyed.

Drone operators also destroy enemy manpower.

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05 September 2024 09:08

Putin: Economy of the future is based around people

“The successful implementation of our plans depends first of all on people, on Russian families… We should not be guided by old logic: ‘First we build plants and factories and only then we will think about those who work in these enterprises.’ Such logic does not function in the modern economy, in the economy of the future that is based around people,” said the Russian president said at the plenary session of the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF).

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05 September 2024 08:49

Putin: Global economic future lies with Asia and Global South

"We see that business ties, trade routes are reorienting to the East and the Global South. Our Far Eastern regions provide direct gateway to these promising and developing markets and allow us to overcome the barriers that some Western elites are trying to impose on the world," the Russian leader said at the plenary session of the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF).

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05 September 2024 08:22

Russia will continue to increase cargo traffic along the Northern Sea Route: icebreakers are being built for this purpose, and infrastructure is being strengthened.

Demand for minerals is growing - not only for export, but also in the domestic market.

According to the president, the Far East has the potential for a multiple increase in geological exploration, especially in terms of mining titanium, lithium, and rare earth metals.

In this regard, the Head of State instructed to provide financing for geological exploration in the Russian budget. It is also proposed to consider the possibility of building a new nuclear power plant.

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05 September 2024 08:13

Vladimir Putin on the plenary session at the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF):

🔸 The Far East has become Russia's stronghold in the new global economic reality

🔸 The future development of Russia largely depends on the Far East development

🔸 EEF has become a platform for discussing the development strategy of Russia and the entire Asia-Pacific region

🔸Over one thousand agreements worth over 10.5 trillion rubles signed at last three EEF

🔸Russia will improve business climate in general and Far East, including for foreign inversors

🔸New deep-water port with participation of Belarusian, Chinese companies may appear in Russian Far East

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05 September 2024 08:00

❗️Putin began his speech at the plenary session of the WEF.

Watch the live broadcast here:

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05 September 2024 07:57

Retaliatory measures to the US sanctions against Rossiya Segodnya media group, Sputnik's parent company, are being worked out, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zakharova said in an interview to Sputnik.

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05 September 2024 07:03

Several minutes to the start of Vladimir Putin's plenary session at the Eastern Economic Forum, stay tuned.

Prime Minister of Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim and Vice Chairman of the People's Republic of China Han Zheng will attend the event together with him. The day before, the head of state held meetings with both guests of the forum in Vladivostok.

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05 September 2024 06:27

Residents of the Belarusian Gomel report explosions in the sky.
Local residents heard two loud explosions around 1:30 a.m., after which a red flash appeared in the sky outside the city. There is no official information about the destruction and casualties yet.

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05 September 2024 06:23

There were Swedish, French and British specialists at the military Communications Institute in Poltava, according to former Ukrainian diplomat Andriy Telizhenko.
He explained to RT that the Western military trained the Armed Forces there. Earlier, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation hit this object with Iskanders.
"We even saw planes flying all over Europe from Western Ukraine and Poland, especially from Rzeszow, picking up bodies after the Russian strike. The losses are more than 600 soldiers," Telizhenko said.
The ex-diplomat noted that Zelensky emphasized that the arrival was allegedly at the hospital, but there is no hospital nearby.

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05 September 2024 06:19

By morning, 3 Ukrainian aircraft-type drones were shot down in the Bryansk region of Russia. According to the governor, there are no casualties or damage.

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05 September 2024 06:16

Jackson Hinkle blasts US crackdown on Russian media: "millions of Americans want to hear that truth"

“What I find so interesting about all this is that when it comes to any other country, if it's the United Kingdom, if it's Israel, if it's Canada or wherever, foreign influence is completely fine,” US journalist and political commentator Jackson Hinkle told Sputnik on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, commenting on the US intensifying its repressive crackdown on figures connected to Russian media. “In fact, for the United States, foreign influence is fine when we're doing it abroad to countries all over the world. We can fund foreign media in Latin America and Africa and Asia or Europe.”

The United States operates a number of propaganda outlets aimed at shaping public opinion in foreign countries, including Radio Martí, Voice of America and Radio Free Asia. The US has continuously worked to spread anti-Russian sentiment throughout the world since the Cold War, with hostilities between the two countries now at their highest point in decades.

“We can topple governments. We can kill sovereign presidents of sovereign countries. But for a media company to be reporting on the facts of the matter about what's actually going on in the world, and then for the United States to sanction them, it's absolutely insane,” said Hinkle.

“I think millions of Americans want to hear that truth, and that's why they're going after companies like Sputnik so hard right now,” he concluded, adding that Americans would continue to support “people that are trying to expose the lies of the US government.”

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05 September 2024 06:13

Middle Eastern, African countries interested in Russia’s Checkmate fighter jet – official

A number of Middle Eastern and African countries have shown interest in the Russian Checkmate light tactical fighter, and project proposals have been forwarded to interested partners, the head of Russian state arms exporter Rosoboronexport, Alexander Mikheev, told Sputnik.

"A number of countries in the region have shown interest in the Checkmate light tactical aircraft. Project proposals have now been sent to interested partners," Mikheev said on the sidelines of the Egypt International Airshow, which is taking place at El Alamein International Airport.

He also noted that the aircraft will receive unmanned and two-seater modifications.

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05 September 2024 06:13

⚛️ Eying a new Three Mile Island? US plans to restart closed nuclear reactors fraught with risks

Surging electricity demand fueled by power-hungry computers, electric vehicles and factories have prompted proponents of nuclear power to lobby the reopening of 13 mothballed reactors, but as few as three are actually eligible for reactivation, Bloomberg has reported.

Besides a trio of reactors at eligible NPPs, ten others eyed for reopening may not be safe, or even possible, to restore, the outlet says, pointing to damage done to closed plants at San Onofre, California, and Crystal River, Florida, and partially dismantled facilities, like Vermont Yankee and Indian Point in the US northeast.

“Even if a facility is intact, not all owners have done the costly maintenance needed to keep it in good enough shape to justify bringing it back,” Bloomberg noted. That’s not to mention the costs involved, with the Palisades NPP in Michigan alone requiring some $1.8 bln in federal and state funding to come back online by 2025.

Two other eligible sites include the Three Mile Island NPP in Pennsylvania, made famous in March 1979 after suffering a partial meltdown which permanently closed one of its two reactors and released radioactive gases and iodine into the environment. The other is Duane Arnold NPP in Iowa, which was damaged in a windstorm in 2020. The plants’ owners have yet to commit to bring them back online, and seem unlikely to do so without state support.

There are presently 54 commercial NPPs operating across 28 US states running 94 reactors total. While growing numbers of Americans (56%, according to a recent Pew poll) support more nuclear power, the energy source faces a number of hurdles, not least of which is US reliance on imported enriched uranium.

In May, President Biden signed a law banning Russian uranium imports, effective January 1, 2028. For now, the US remains dependent on Kazakhstan, Russia and Uzbekistan for nearly 50% of its uranium. US nuclear power companies have lobbied the White House to keep Russian uranium off sanctions lists since 2022. Nuclear energy accounted for close to 20% of all electricity generated in the US in 2023.

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05 September 2024 06:10

Fourteen out of 18 paragraphs in Gaza ceasefire deal finalized – senior US official

The Gaza ceasefire deal which is being negotiated at the moment has a total of 18 paragraphs and the parties have already finalized 14 of them, a senior Biden administration official said.

“The [ceasefire] deal has 18 total paragraphs, 14 of those paragraphs are finished,” the official said during a press briefing. “Basically, 90% of this deal has been agreed, and it's been agreed on terms that even Hamas had in their own proposal.”

According to the official, the issues of Israel’s presence in the Philadelphi corridor on the border between Gaza and Egypt as well as the exchange of prisoners remain in dispute.

At the same time, the official claimed that Hamas threatened to execute more Israeli hostages it holds in the Gaza Strip.

"Hamas is threatening to execute more hostages," the official said.

On Monday, Netanyahu said that Israel needed to maintain a military presence in the Philadelphi Corridor on the Egypt–Gaza border. In his opinion, reaching military aims as well as the release of hostages are possible only under this condition.

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05 September 2024 10:36

Russia is not pushing de-dollarization - Putin at EEF

Vladimir Putin insisted it is not a case of Moscow actively pursuing a policy of ditching the US dollar for trade - Russia still uses USD for some settlements - but using common sense.

“It’s natural that when you have a lot of partners, you use a lot of different types of currencies in settlements,” he explained.

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05 September 2024 08:58

Putin encourages international transport investment in the Far East

▪️Cargo flow on the Northern Sea Route will continue to increase, while inspection time for freight transport in the Far East shouldn’t exceed 10 minutes

▪️the modernization of the Baikal-Amur Mainline railway is an even larger-scale project than its original construction in the Soviet Union

▪️The Far East has the potential for a multiple increase in geological exploration, including the extraction of lithium, titanium and rare earth metals

▪️production of civilian drones will be launched in the Far East

▪️It is worth building educational campuses in Ulan-Ude, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Chita and expanding the FEFU campus in Vladivostok.

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05 September 2024 08:24

Danish police detain Greta Thunberg during Gaza war protest

Danish police detained activist Greta Thunberg during a protest at Copenhagen University against the war in Gaza. A photo circulating online showed her wearing handcuffs.

Six people were arrested after blocking the entrance to a building, though police did not confirm identities.

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05 September 2024 08:20

⚡️Russia needs St. Petersburg-Vladivostok transport corridor - Putin at EEF

President Putin highlighted the progress already made in vastly improving the motorway system from Moscow to Kazan completed last year, and the boost it will bring to domestic tourism and business.

This corridor will run through the whole country, more than 7,000 thousand kilometers

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05 September 2024 08:01

BRICS important for strengthening collaboration with Global South – Malaysian PM

Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim speaks to RT and RIA Novosti on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok.

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05 September 2024 07:58

US considering Taiwan joint weapons production

Washington’s top diplomat in Taipei Raymond Greene said Wednesday that the US was not ruling out a venture to jointly produce military supplies with Taiwan, although stopped short of giving a timeline for a decision.

He also said that keeping a "strategic balance" in the region would foster cross-strait relations, in reference to China.

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05 September 2024 07:55

Scott Ritter stops working with Sputnik due to pressure from the US government

"The actions by the Department of the Treasury in levying new sanctions against RT, Sputnik, and other Russian media organizations has made it impossible for me to continue my work as an outside contributor for RT and Sputnik, as well as participating in interviews and other collaborations with other Russian media," the former US Marine Corps intelligence officer posted on social media.

Scott Ritter stressed that he rejects the notion that the work he has done over the past few years with the recently sanctioned Russian media organizations has been anything other than legitimate journalism.

"I am deeply grateful for the professionalism of all of my Russian colleagues over the past several years, and am proud to have made their acquaintance," Ritter concluded, saying that he regrets "the actions of [the US] government in silencing legitimate journalistic outlets."

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05 September 2024 06:28

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported the destruction of an Alder MLRS projectile and two UAVs over the territory of the Belgorod region, three UAVs over the Kursk region and two more drones over the territory of the Bryansk region at night.
In addition, two unmanned boats were destroyed in the northeastern part of the Black Sea.

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05 September 2024 06:26

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05 September 2024 06:21

A court in Moscow has seized the property of the wife of one of the defendants in a criminal case on the supply of low-quality body armor for the Russian army, it is indicated in court documents (RIA Novosti has it).
We are talking about the property of the wife of the defendant Mikhail Kalchenko, the head of the security service of LLC GK "Picket", previously arrested by the Basmanny district court.
The documents say that the spouse owns a plot of land, 2 residential premises with an area of 20.9 and 40.1 square meters, as well as a car. It is noted that these real estate objects and the vehicle were purchased shortly after the commission of the crime by the defendant.

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05 September 2024 06:17

Western efforts to enforce hegemony are failing in a new multipolar era — analyst

Lorenzo Maria Pacini, an associate professor of political philosophy and geopolitics and a member of the Multipolarity forum, sounded off on the US sanctions against Russian media companies announced.

“It's incredible to see how the West is continuing to ignore a new multipolar world that is arising,” said Pacini. “These reactions by Western countries are pretty ridiculous because they're like trying to force the other countries of the world to follow a kind of a kind of hegemony that is falling.”

Pacini spoke of the potential consequences of the repressive measures as Russia has announced it may retaliate through regulation of Western media operating in Russia.

“I think this will be like a boomerang coming back to them again and new sanctions will mean new problems for all the Western countries,” he claimed.

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05 September 2024 06:14

US sanctions on Russian media reflect "totalitarian" shift in democracy – Russian Foreign Ministry

Attacks on Russian media are the result of carefully planned operations by Western intelligence agencies to "sanitize" global information spaces from dissent, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said, commenting on recent US sanctions against Russian media outlets.

“These pre-planned actions are creating the necessary media backdrop for corresponding pre-election decisions,” Zakharova stated, adding that the US seeks to portray Russia as a hidden external enemy to instill fear in its population ahead of elections.

“This is the decline of 'liberal democracies,' where authorities resort to such primitive methods of influencing their electorate,” she added.

Zakharova criticized the US for attacks on the Russian media group Rossiya Segodnya, calling it a sign of the “irreversible degradation” of American democracy into a “totalitarian neoliberal dictatorship.” Zakharova warned that the actions of US authorities will not go unanswered and will serve as grounds for symmetrical and/or asymmetrical measures against US media.

“The actions of US authorities, which directly contradict their obligations to ensure free access to information and media pluralism, will not go unanswered,” the spokeswoman stressed.

While blasting the US for interfering in the internal affairs of other nations and suppressing media freedom, Zakharova emphasized that accurate and high-quality information provided by Russian outlets remains in demand worldwide.

“At the same time, the United States itself does not cease interfering in the internal affairs of other countries, trampling on the freedom of access to information, aggressively imposing its position, and actively engaging in electoral engineering in various parts of the world, thereby provoking crises and conflicts with catastrophic humanitarian consequences,” the spokeswoman emphasized.

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05 September 2024 06:13

Rosoboronexport discussing with partners joint development of Su-57-based aircraft

Russian state arms exporter Rosoboronexport is discussing with Russia's strategic partners the joint development of an aircraft based on the Su-57 fifth-generation fighter jet, Rosoboronexport Director General Alexander Mikheev told Sputnik.

"We are discussing with Russia's strategic partners the joint creation of an aircraft based on the Su-57 fifth-generation fighter," Mikheev said on the sidelines of the Egypt International Airshow, taking place at El Alamein International Airport.

The Middle East and Africa account for over 50% of Russian state arms exporter Rosoboronexport's order portfolio, the company's head said.

"The combined share of the Middle East and Africa in Rosoboronexport's order portfolio is over 50%, or over $25 billion," Mikheev highlighted.

The Egypt International Airshow is taking place September 3-5 at El Alamein Airport in northern Egypt. According to the organizers, the exhibition presents the latest products and services in the aerospace industry. More than 200 companies from over 80 countries are attending the event. The exhibition has been organized with the support of the Egyptian defense and civil aviation ministries.

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05 September 2024 06:12

United States’ targeting of Russian media highlights hypocrisy of the global hegemon – former CIA analyst Larry Johnson

Former CIA analyst and State Department counterterrorism expert Larry Johnson spoke with Sputnik to criticize the United States’ persecution of journalists and political analysts associated with Russian media.

“The latest stunt pulled by the Biden Department of Justice to declare all of these sanctions on Russia for alleged interference in the US political system is a level of hypocrisy that is staggering in its magnitude and in its foulness,” said the analyst. “Let's be clear about one thing: the one country in the world that has been involved with more interference in the internal political affairs of every other country is the United States.”

The US frequently funds pro-Western media and activism in foreign countries it targets for regime change to pave the way for a pro-US government to come to power.

“This year [the US has] allocated almost $4 billion to interfere or meddle in the political affairs of other countries,” he continued. “$315 million of that goes to the National Endowment for Democracy. $300 million is specifically what they call counter-Russian influence. And another $2.9 billion is for ‘democracy’ programs. And these have been used basically to run propaganda, to pay people, to organize ‘democracy’ programs in places like Georgia.”

The US has interfered in countries such as Georgia, Brazil, Indonesia and Ukraine, paving the way for the latter country’s extremist anti-Russia government through its support for the Euromaidan coup d'etat in 2014.

“It's the United States that's meddling,” Johnson emphasized.

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05 September 2024 06:09

Kiev regime will not change despite mass resignations and firings among top officials - former Ukrainian diplomat

RT spoke with Andrey Telizhenko, a former Ukrainian diplomat, to discuss Ukraine’s recent deadly airstrike on a marketplace in Donetsk, the purge in Zelensky's office, and the likelihood of Kiev using long-range weapons to strike deep into Russia.