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BRICS Bank to expand trade in national currencies amid sanctions: South Africa
Aug 14, 2023 10:28New Development Bank (NDB) launched by the BRICS bloc aims to increase local currency fundraising and lending, amid Western sanctions against founding shareholder Russia, South African Finance Ministry has announced.
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John Bolton: Biden admin merely delaying Ukraine’s defeat
Aug 14, 2023 10:19Hawkish ex-US National Security Advisor John Bolton has slammed the Biden administration’s Ukraine policy as aimed at merely delaying Kiev’s defeat, further calling for imposing harsher sanctions “clandestinely.”
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Russia to equip new submarines with hypersonic zircon missiles
Aug 14, 2023 06:08Russia plans to equip its new nuclear submarines with hypersonic zircon missiles, chief of the country's largest shipbuilder has announced, adding that it will deliver five more ships to the Russian navy by the year's end.
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Russia fires warning shots at cargo ship in Black sea
Aug 13, 2023 11:36A Russian warship has fired warning shots at a cargo ship in the southwestern Black Sea as it made its way northwards.
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Russia lashes out at US ‘shameless’ defense of Kiev's 'proper' use of cluster bombs
Aug 13, 2023 10:57Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov has lashed out at Washington for its “shameless” and “outrageous” support of Ukraine’s use of globally banned cluster munitions, noting that the bombs have already killed a Russian journalist.
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US-led coalition violated Syrian airspace 32 times over past day: Russia
Aug 13, 2023 10:30A high-ranking Russian military official has declared that war planes of the US-led military coalition have violated the Syrian airspace nearly three dozen times in the past 24 hours.
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Twenty Ukrainian drones taken out over Russian Crimea
Aug 12, 2023 12:42Russia’s Defense Ministry has reported that the country's air defenses shot down 20 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over Crimea.
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US slaps sanctions on Russian financial elite
Aug 12, 2023 05:04The United States has imposed sanctions on four Russian businessmen as means of trying to pile up pressure on Moscow over the latter's ongoing military operation in Ukraine.
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Ukraine's Zelensky fires heads of military call-up centers over alleged corruption
Aug 12, 2023 02:52President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed all heads of Ukraine's regional military committees, in a move that would likely create recruitment challenges for Kiev in the midst of a counteroffensive against Russia.
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Ukraine’s deputy defense minister slams sexual abuse in military
Aug 12, 2023 02:39A Ukrainian deputy defense minister has castigated “unacceptable” sexual advances to female soldiers by commanders in the military.