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MOSCOW. Sept 29 (Interfax) - Electricity generated from wind power in Europe has dropped nearly 50% in the past two days, and the forecast for Thursday and Friday calls for practically calm weather, which requires utilizing other sources of energy. Gazprom's request for pumping Russian gas through Ukraine today has not changed from the previous days and months. UKRAINIAN TRANSIT The Gas Transport System Operator of Ukraine, or GTSOU, has accepted a booking from Gazprom today to transport 42.4 million cubic meters of gas through the country against 42.4 mcm the previous gas day, data from GTSOU show. Capacity was...

South Africa’s president insists it’s not up to Washington to determine his country’s diplomatic ties Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa has called on the United States to stop granting asylum to him. “punish”African leaders were pressured to break ties with Moscow by pointing out legislation that was passed through Congress, which allows for further US intervention in the region. Ramaphosa met with Joe Biden, US President, on Friday to discuss the Countering Malign Russian Activities in Africa Act. He stated that the measure was a good idea. “will harm Africa and marginalize the continent.” “We should not be told by...

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit will be held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, from Thursday to Friday. The summit has received particular attention from the international community. Fifteen heads of state, including Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will attend the summit. This is the first face-to-face discussion between leaders of the SCO member states since the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The meeting will include Iran as the ninth member of the SCO and issue the Samarkand Declaration to expound the SCO's position on a series of international issues. As the world's largest...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday the grain leaving Ukrainian ports after a blockade that fuelled a global food crisis was mostly reaching Europe instead of developing nations and questioned the merits of the deal. The United Nations and Turkey brokered an agreement with Moscow and Kyiv -- the first between the two since the February launch of Russia's military campaign -- restoring frozen Ukrainian grain deliveries across the Black Sea. But Moscow has voiced increasing frustration with how the agreement was being applied. An amendment to the deal also allowed Russia to get open access to fertiliser shipments and...

The UN’s IAEA has reported that Iran has 55.6 kilograms (122.6 pounds) of 60% enriched uranium. The body says this means Iran is able to produce up to 25 kg (55 lbs) of 90% enriched uranium, enough for a nuclear bomb. The real story could be even more concerning. Consider the hoary phrase, “There’s more than one way to skin a cat.” Similarly, there’s more than one way to make a nuclear bomb. The Union of Concerned Scientists has said that it might be possible to produce a fission-type nuclear weapon with as little as 15kg (33 lbs) of highly...

After the light Luhanks Peoples' Republic forces who had held that area were overrun by the ISIS style attack of the Ukrainian forces, the Russian army has pulled up its heavy reserves. Mi-26 helicopters brought in armored vehicles and soldiers to stop the attacks wherever possible. The Ukrainians are also pulling in heavy weapons for a new push along their front lines. Armored land bound Russian forces are coming in from the east and north. The Russian air force and army aviation have air superiority and pound the Ukrainian lines. We can expect a lot of attacks on the quite...

NEW YORK, UN. Sept 7 (Interfax) - UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday he believes that the area around the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant should become a demilitarized zone, while the Ukrainian side should pledge not to move into this territory. "An agreement on a demilitarized perimeter should be secured," Guterres said at a UN Security Council meeting. "That would include the commitment by Russian forces to withdraw all the military personnel and the equipment from this perimeter and the commitment by the Ukrainian forces not to move into it," he said. "The Zaporizhzhya facility and its surrounding...

«We will not encourage the Hungarian people to pay the price of the war. Energy sanctions will hurt Europe more than Russia, so their strengthening will be contrary to common sense». On the end of August the Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Peter Szijjarto, said the Hungary doesn’t even want to discuss energy sanctions, which is about 85 per cent dependent on Russian gas, SchengenVisaInfo.com reports. These comments followed a meeting with the Estonian homologue, Urmas Reinsalu, during which Hungary reinstated its position and opposed a strengthened package of sanctions that Estonia was initiating. Minister Szijjarto pointed out that it...

(from a Russian's report - who to believe - elpadre Energodar continues to receive messages about how the situation is developing in the vicinity of the city where the nuclear power plant (Zaporozhskaya) is located. Some details of the actions of Ukrainian sabotage groups that landed in the coastal part - northeast of the city are reported. The landing site is marked in blue on the map. According to some information, helicopters were used for the landing, which flew at low altitudes, and boats that crossed the Kakhovka reservoir. It is reported that not all sabotage groups managed to land...

Imports of Russian goods by Mexico saw a substantial annual increase of more than 20% during the first six months of the current year, according to the latest figures released by the Bank of Mexico. In monetary terms, Mexican imports from Russia amounted to $1.193 billion. In June alone, purchases of Russian goods by the North American nation exceeded $275 million – the second-highest figure in Mexico’s history. In May 2021, the country bought Russian goods worth $283.9 million, reports RT. In 2021, trade turnover between the two countries reached a record high, exceeding $4.5 billion. The US remains Mexico’s...

Mossad Director Dedi Barnea countered optimistic remarks by the officials, back from Washington last week after making an urgent bid to ward off the damage contained in the nuclear accord with Iran before the US signs. It is a “bad deal,” they said, but the Biden administration may still be amenable to some adjustments. Barnea, however, harshly denigrated the deal on the table as “a strategic disaster” when he met a small group of reporters after briefing the Prime Minister and other high officials on the true state of play. Israel’s spy chief, who leads the national intelligence effort, did...

The United States of America intends to assign a special name to the military mission in Ukraine and put an active American general at its head. This fact is direct evidence that Washington intends to switch to direct intervention, which may also mean the transfer of American military contingent to Ukraine in order to conduct special military operations, which significantly increases the escalation in the region. Information on this subject is published by The Wall Street Journal. As follows from the data presented, Washington will unite into a single mission and appoint a responsible high-ranking officer who will lead the...

"A valuable present for Ukraine on the occasion of its Independence Day! U.S. President Joe Biden announced the allocation of nearly $3 billion in military aid to our state. The package includes air defense systems, unmanned aerial vehicles, artillery systems, and radars," Ukrainian media outlets quoted Shmyhal as saying on social media. In addition, the Ukrainian state budget on Wednesday received another $3 billion as a non-refundable grant from the U.S. via the World Bank mechanism, the prime minister said. "This is the first tranche from the additional $4.5 billion of direct budget aid," he said.

MOSCOW. Aug 22 (Interfax) - Germany, Europe's leading gas market, has reaching its minimum target of stocking 80% of underground gas storage (UGS) capacity. However, the EU's primary economy intends to continue active gas injection ahead of the coming winter. The gas transit request via Ukraine was unchanged from previous days and months. UKRAINE TRANSIT Gas Transport System Operator of Ukraine or GTSOU has accepted a request from Gazprom for Monday to transport 41.6 million cubic meters of gas through the country, data from GTSOU show. The request for Sunday was 42.2 million cubic meters. Capacity was requested only through...

Indian External Affairs Minister (EAM) Jaishankar predicted that the Asian Century will arrive upon his country and China finally resolving their border disputes, which Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin agreed with shortly thereafter. These two multipolar Great Powers are the world’s largest developing countries and are therefore capable of significantly influencing the global systemic transition to multipolarity. It therefore follows that maintaining stable relations and comprehensively building upon progress in this respect is among their most important grand strategic priorities. To this end, it’s absolutely imperative that no third parties meddle in this very sensitive issue. The declining American...

ISTANBUL. Aug 19 (Interfax) - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday he had reminded Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at their meeting in Ukraine about his readiness to arrange Zelensky's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Turkey if that becomes possible, the TRT television channel said. "Erdogan said upon his return from Ukraine he had reminded Zelensky of his readiness to host Zelensky-Putin talks," the channel said. According to Erdogan, Turkey "will continue to promote a settlement of the Ukrainian crisis by means of diplomacy and talks." Turkey is also ready to participate in Ukraine's recovery, Erdogan said....

BRUSSELS. Aug 18 (Interfax) - The authorities of the six largest European countries did not allocate new bilateral military aid to Kyiv in July, the Politico publication said, citing data from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and its Ukraine Support Tracker resource. "Throughout all of July, Europe's six largest countries offered Ukraine no new bilateral military commitments", the report said. Politico added that this was the first month that such data was posted since the beginning of Russia's military operation in Ukraine. The fresh data covers the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and Poland. Politico noted that...

The world is on fire and our globalists overlords like it that way…they created it. Ukraine is burning, Taiwan is on the block, and the Middle East is about to blow. Ukrainians are dying by the truckload, daily. President Zelenskiy of Ukraine is not working for the Ukrainian people…no…he is working for the same people Obama and Biden are working for — the Fourth Reich. Zelenskiy pushed for, and enabled the war. He could have prevented it, but he didn’t. OBiden could have prevented it, but he didn’t. Putin was only too happy to oblige when OBiden opened the door,...

Less than a month after the January 6, 2021, assault on the US Capitol, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin took the extraordinary step of pausing all operations for 24 hours to “address extremism in the ranks.” Pentagon officials had been shaken by service members’ prominent role in the events of January 6. Of the 884 criminal defendants charged to date with taking part in the insurrection, more than 80 were veterans. That’s almost 10% of those charged. More remarkable, at least five of the rioters were serving in the military at the time of the assault: an active-duty Marine officer...

MOSCOW. Aug 9 (Interfax) - Ukraine's Gas Transport System Operator (GTSOU) has accepted a request from Gazprom for Tuesday to transport 42.1 million cubic meters of gas through the country, up from 41.8 mcm on Monday, data from GTSOU show. Capacity was requested only through one of two entry points into Ukraine's Gas Transport System, the Sudzha metering station. A request was not accepted through the Sokhranivka metering station. "Gazprom is supplying Russian gas for transit through the territory of Ukraine at the volume confirmed by the Ukraine side via the Sudzha metering station at 42.1 million cubic meters on...