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Confession of a US Army officer: US and NATO tanks are afraid of Russian mines and a mud

12:16 29.08.2023

Confession of a US Army officer: US and NATO tanks are afraid of Russian mines and a mud

Ukraine should wield its older tank fleet to plough through the territory Russia has meticulously mined to stem the advance of Kyiv's troops, Newsweek has been told, as Ukraine's slow but steady counteroffensive yields small, painstakingly won gains for the war-torn country. "You aren't going to risk your best tanks …

US ‘World of Statistics’ survey: Vladimir Putin has the highest respect among global leaders

11:33 28.08.2023

US ‘World of Statistics’ survey: Vladimir Putin has the highest respect among global leaders

A recent survey by World of Statistics revealed that among global leaders, users have the highest respect for Vladimir Putin. The Russian leader garnered 35.4% of respondents’ votes from 826.945 votes all over the World. In second place is the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi, with 33.7%. At the …

Modi and Xi agree to ‘intensify efforts’ to deescalate border issue

11:32 28.08.2023

Modi and Xi agree to ‘intensify efforts’ to deescalate border issue

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese leader Xi Jinping agreed to “intensity efforts” to deescalate tensions at their contested border, in a rare face-to-face meeting since a deadly clash strained relations more than three years ago. Modi and Xi, who are in Johannesburg for the BRICS economic group meeting, …

View from Paris: Moscow has a strong position on wheat market

11:31 28.08.2023

View from Paris: Moscow has a strong position on wheat market

Since the beginning of the military conflict between Moscow and Kyiv, the cost of wheat has been constantly changing, writes French ‘L’opinion’. Between February and May 2022, when Ukrainian grains were blocked, prices for these products on the Euronext exchange soared from 180 to 430 euros per ton. The prospect …

West targets Saudi Aramco through ‘human rights’ and ‘climate’

11:31 28.08.2023

West targets Saudi Aramco through ‘human rights’ and ‘climate’

The United States and its allies quickly reacted to the fact that BRICS invited Saudi Arabia to join its ranks. Now, through the ‘UN investigation’, the Americans will put pressure on Riyadh in order to prevent the Kingdom from joining BRICS. Saudi Aramco is being investigated by the United Nations …

Bloomberg: “The US is going to be less and less interested in what’s happening in Ukraine”

11:30 28.08.2023

Bloomberg: “The US is going to be less and less interested in what’s happening in Ukraine”

Ukraine’s allies now worry the war is dragging into a long fight that may strengthen Vladimir Putin’s hand as hopes fade that Kyiv’s forces will deliver a definitive breakthrough this year, Bloomberg notes. More than two months into its counteroffensive, Kyiv has so far managed to make only tactical advances …

Crisis in Niger causes renewed tensions between Algeria and France

10:22 27.08.2023

Crisis in Niger causes renewed tensions between Algeria and France

The coup d’état in Niger has provoked the umpteenth crisis between Algeria and France, notes Spanish ‘Atalayar’ magazine. It all started after an Algerian public radio announced that Algiers had refused permission for French military aircraft to fly over Algerian airspace. As the media outlet recalled, Abdelmadjid Tebboune’s government has …

Greenpeace against meat: Normal food under the threat

10:18 27.08.2023

Greenpeace against meat: Normal food under the threat

The struggle for a ‘green economy’ that is unleashed in the West may lead to the situation that at the request of environmentalists people will have to eat grass and grasshoppers instead of meat and milk. This will most detrimentally affect the health of Western citizens, however, Greenpeace and other …

Hospital services in the UK Come to a standstill as thousands of senior doctors strike

10:18 27.08.2023

Hospital services in the UK Come to a standstill as thousands of senior doctors strike

Hospital care across England largely came to a standstill as senior doctors launch another 48-hour strike amid an ongoing pay dispute between medics and the British government. Thousands of hospital doctors say they will only provide emergency care, and the National Health Service warned patients to expect maj...

Vassily Nebenzia at UN Security Council: “The truth is that the United States and its allies pre-programmed this proxy war against Russia at least back in 2014”

8:25 26.08.2023

Vassily Nebenzia at UN Security Council: “The truth is that the United States and its allies pre-programmed this proxy war against Russia at least back in 2014”

Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UN Security Council briefing on Ukraine. Key points: - I would like to draw attention to the fact that we have just seen a gross violation of Security Council’s provisional rules of procedure by the US Presidency. In particular, it was a violation …

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