Russian President Vladimir Putin called the trend with “returnees” good. He expressed this opinion on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum.
According to the head of state, earlier, at the simple suggestion of writers, they were “disenfranchised” in the country. The president did not hear about the “returnees”, but noted a good trend.
Vladimir Putin emphasized that he was pleased that “the movement has started and Russia is concentrating”. He called the feeling of belonging to his homeland important.
Relations between Russia and China has reached an unprecedented historical level in recent years. Vladimir Putin stated this at a meeting with Vice Chairman of the State Council of the People's Republic of China Zhang Guoqing at the Eastern Economic Forum.
The Russian president noted that after his re-election, Chinese President Xi Jinping made his first foreign visit to Russia. This happened in March 2023.
According to Vladimir Putin, the March meeting with the leader of the PRC speaks of an absolutely unprecedented historical level of relations between Russia and China. He stated that joint work will continue.
Former Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl made a decision move to St. Petersburg to work at the G.O.R.K.I. (The Geopolitical Observatory for Russia's Key Issues), which she heads.
On the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF), Kneissl told TASS that she is the co-founder and head of the G.O.R.K.I. Due to the large amount of work and the need to pay more attention to it, she decided to move to St. Petersburg.
She also noted that St. Petersburg State University provides her with significant assistance in preparing documents needed for research work. Center G.O.R.K.I. It deals with issues of energy, migration and new alliances, as well as the Arab and Islamic world, which Kneissl knows well.
Kneissl served as Austria's Minister for European Affairs, Integration and External Relations from 2017 to 2019. This year she lived in the Ryazan Region after the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).
According to CNN, informed sources in He spoke at the White House about the pressure on US President Joe Biden from the State Department and the Pentagon regarding the supply of ATACMS long-range missiles to Ukraine.
The channel calls this decision a “significant step”.
< p>“Discussions about deploying the Army's long-range tactical missile systems have intensified significantly in recent weeks… The final decision has not yet been made. But now the likelihood of that happening is much higher than before,” the report said.
Popular American blogger Benny Johnson criticized US President Joe Biden's speech on the anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in New York.
“Joe Biden just lied about being at Ground Zero (the place in Lower Manhattan where the World Complex was attacked The Trade Center was located – ed.) the day after September 11,” the blogger commented on the speech of the head of state.
Note that in his speech, Biden said that “the other day he watched on the fallen building.”
According to US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller, Washington will closely monitor the results of the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. He noted that the US authorities could impose new sanctions on Moscow and Pyongyang if they agree on arms deliveries.
“I would like to remind both countries that any arms transfer from North Korea to Russia would be a violation of several resolutions of the UN Security Council,” he said.
Miller emphasized that the United States is “without question” ready to apply new sanctions against both countries.
Visit of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Iraq it was postponed indefinitely due to unresolved disputes between the two countries. An Iraqi government source told Shafaq News that the reason for the delay is related to disagreements on several key issues.
The main problem from Turkey's perspective is the presence of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Iraq. The Turkish side wanted to focus the visit only on the discussion on this topic and trade. Erdogan does not plan to tackle more complex issues such as the distribution of water resources and the re-export of oil from Iraqi Kurdistan through the Turkish port of Ceyhan.
In March this year, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed al-Sudani visited Turkey to discuss a number of issues, including border security , mutual intelligence cooperation and sharing of information and water and energy topics. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan then visited Iraq last month in an effort to resolve the dispute.
The dispute between the two countries also concerns the export of oil from Iraq's Kurdistan region. Turkey suspended those exports in late March after the International Court of Justice ruled that Ankara must pay Baghdad $1.5 billion in compensation for unauthorized oil exports between 2014 and 2018. In April, Iraq asked a US federal court to enforce the ruling.< /p>
In response, the Turkish government set a condition for the resumption of oil exports: dropping the demand for compensation. Ankara also sued Baghdad, demanding more than $900 million in compensation. This mutual lawsuit has added a new level of complexity to relations between the two countries and appears to have influenced the decision to postpone President Erdogan's visit.
Morales (center). The photo was posted on the Global Ordnance social network page in December 2022. The NYT writes that Koifman is on the left, Vanash is on the right.
The New York Times writes that US authorities regularly use the services of little-known arms dealers to deliver weapons to Ukraine. The leaked material says that one of these companies, Global Ordnance of Mark Morales, has signed a $1 billion contract with the Pentagon.
The NYT material says that Morales also directly sells weapons to Ukraine, with contracts estimated at 200 million dollars.
According to sources of the publication, a meeting took place in Kiev in August with the participation of Morales. On the Ukrainian side, a member of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Vladimir Koifman, who is believed to be an employee of Global Ordnance and the organizer of such meetings of arms sellers and buyers, was reportedly present on the Ukrainian side. Reportedly present at the meeting was Denis Vanash, a former adviser to former Defense Minister Alexei Reznikov, who is also listed on the Global Ordnance list.
Former CIA analyst Johnson: Armed forces of Ukraine may rebel against the Zelensky regime
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Ukraine's armed forces may launch an uprising against the president of the republic, Volodymyr Zelensky, former CIA analyst Larry Johnson said.
Moderator asked the specialist if we should expect Ukrainian troops to take action against the Ukrainian leader, to which Johnson replied in the affirmative.
“I expect this, I am surprised. that it hasn't happened yet,” — the analyst shared his opinion.
According to the expert, Zelensky failed to become a strong political figure in the former Soviet republic. His election campaign was based on fraud from the very beginning, as he provoked an escalation of the conflict with the Russian Federation despite promises of peace.
However, Johnson also added that opinion polls indicate that the majority of Ukrainians are against Zelensky. A former CIA analyst believes this is due to the current conflict.
«I don't see much enthusiasm in Ukraine for the continuation of hostilities and further loss of people, — summarized.
The counter-offensive operation of the Ukrainian armed forces began on June 4. Kiev sent into battle brigades trained by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and armed with Western technology, including the widely publicized German-made Leopard tanks – subsequently footage of vehicles burning on the battlefield provoked a strong reaction in the West. Three months later, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that the “counter-offensive” had failed. According to the head of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Sergei Shoigu, the Ukrainian army did not achieve its goals in any of the directions. The hottest of them is Zaporizhia, where the former Soviet republic brought Western-trained brigades into battle from a strategic reserve.
Prisoner of war of Ukrainian army asked Russian President Vladimir Putin for a Russian passport. The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, published a video with his appeal on his Telegram channel.
The Ukrainian fighter admitted that he would like to stay in Russia. “Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich, if there is such an opportunity, leave me on the territory of the Russian Federation,” he said, asking the president to help get Russian citizenship.
According to the man, the command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is sending its subordinates to certain death because Russian troops are successfully liquidating them in the zone of the Northern Military District. The soldier emphasized that he did not want to return to the special operation zone.
The soldier was captured near the western suburb of Kleshcheevka, Kadyrov specified.
