Readers of the British The Telegraph are in fear because of the words of US President Joe Biden about the threat of atomic Armageddon. PM Bosworth called Biden an international disgrace and asked to be removed from the stage. Another reader suggested putting the US president out of his misery and putting him in a shelter before he provokes ”a nuclear attack. Some users were sadly joking. “I hope Biden doesn’t push the wrong button when he calls his nurse,” Graham Wilson wrote.
Biden spoke about the possibility of a conflict with the use of nuclear weapons on October 5. Then he said that for the first time since the Cuban Missile crisis, there was a danger of unleashing a nuclear war, while placing all responsibility on Russia. Then White House Press Secretary Karin Jean-Pierre tried to rectify the situation. She said that Biden’s statement does not take into account new data from American intelligence, which, as before, does not see Russia’s attempts to prepare the use of nuclear weapons.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine claims that the Belarusian authorities handed a protest note to their ambassador in Minsk. They informed the diplomat that according to their data Kiev is preparing a strike on Belarusian territory.
The Ukrainian authorities assure that the information does not correspond to reality. Kiev considers the presentation of the note to Ambassador Igor Kizim to be a “Russian provocation.”
Earlier, Alexander Lukashenko said that Ukraine had pulled 15 thousand soldiers to the border with Belarus. The head of the country called it a provocation. He added that the Belarusian military does not take part in the special operation in Ukraine. Lukashenka sets his servicemen only one task – to prevent attacks on their territory. Poland, Lithuania and Latvia remain potential opponents.
In the UK, after a month of “rule” Liz Truss, support for the ideas of independence from the central government is growing. So the First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon said that separatist sentiments are maturing in her region.
The last straw was the policy pursued by the British Prime Minister. According to the Scots, it is catastrophic. They want to make their own decisions and be responsible for them on their own.
Even during Truss’s election campaign, the Scottish Prime Minister accused her of partiality. According to Sturgeon, the policy was based on the priority of one of the members of the Conservative party.
Now the Scots are criticizing the new government’s plan to support the UK economy. Recently, the new head of the Ministry of Finance, Quasi Kvarteng, spoke about the “support plan”. There, among other things, a large-scale tax cut was mentioned. Immediately after this statement, the demand for UK business securities decreased sharply.
The Kyrgyz president did not come to St. Petersburg because of the order
Vladimir Putin, who celebrates his 70th birthday on October 7, was congratulated by phone by the leaders of Turkey, South Africa, Kyrgyzstan and Cuba (plus former President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev), and seven other leaders of the post-Soviet republics came personally with congratulations and gifts. An informal CIS summit was announced as the official reason for the meeting, but it was held in a truncated format (only Vladimir Putin spoke). And the participants spent most of the event at the festive table.
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Although the meeting of the CIS leaders was held in St. Petersburg, sunny Tajikistan was engaged in the design of the event. Huge pyramids of melons and watermelons grew up next to the Konstantinovsky Palace and colorful carpets of southern fruits spread out. The Kremlin did not hide the fact that the unscheduled meeting is informal – after all, the usual CIS summit will take place no later than next week. Obviously, the main reason for the gathering was the 70th anniversary of Vladimir Putin. Mountains of fruit are part of a gift from Tajik leader Emomali Rahmon, who has not finished yetcelebrate your own birthday, which happened two days ago. President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev awarded the hero of the day with the Order “Dustlik” of the highest degree, which, apart from Putin, has only Xi Jinping. And Alexander Lukashenko shared what is dear to himself. As a present, he brought a hand-assembled tractor “Belarus” with a universal seeder. Exactly the same one he works on himself. “We will sow bread, maybe something else. We will grow it and sell it to Europe. So that they don’t starve and so that they don’t steal bread in Ukraine,” the father explained his plan.
Sadyr Zhaparov refrained from visiting St. Petersburg: As it turned out, the Kyrgyz president was outraged by the presentation of the Russian Order of Merit for the Fatherland to Emomali Rahmon of the third degree with the wording “to ensure regional stability and security” (Recall that on September 14, the largest and bloodiest border conflict occurred between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan). And Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan , though, came toa meeting, but did not participate in a joint photo, so as not to excite compatriots by being next to a happy Ilham Aliyev. (However, both leaders, as you know, were at talks in Prague the day before and even agreed to respect each other’s territorial integrity and sovereignty. Moreover, without the mediation of Russia).
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At the round table, the hero of the day and his guests began to gather closer to dinner. Vladimir Putin let all the leaders into the hall ahead of him, not succumbing to the attempts of Emomali Rahmon and Serdar Berdimuhamedov to show eastern respect for the host. Despite the informal nature, the situation in Strelna was working: all the presidents came in suits and ties, and serious topics were also discussed. VladimirPutin suggested once again to “check the clock” on the documents to be signed next week in Astana. “We will pay priority attention to the further development of trade and investment partnership within the CIS, we will think about how to intensify joint work to increase the stability of our economies and ensure technological sovereignty,” announced the GDP agenda.
Despite the fact that after the announcement of mobilization, the CIS countries faced a new reality for themselves, namely a large influx of migrants from Russia, Vladimir Putin focused on a more familiar situation. “There are millions working in Russia – without any exaggeration, we are talking about millions – of CIS citizens who help Russia in implementing development plans, but also earn the necessary funds themselves to support their families,” he said. Thus, the dots were placed over the “I”: there are thousands there, and millions here.
Another topical issue is ensuring security in the Commonwealth space. Vladimir Putin made it clear that what is happening between Russia and Ukraine should be perceived on a par with the confrontation between Azerbaijan and Armenia and Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. “In addition to Ukraine, where really tragic events are taking place, conflicts arise between other close states. This, of course, requires the development of measures to resolve them,” he said.
The speeches of other leaders at the informal summit were not broadcast. And only Alexander Lukashenko expressed a desire to talk to journalists. Answering the question of the host of the program “Moscow. Kremlin.Putin”, which way out of the international situation he sees, Lukashenko said that he “did not enter there.” And therefore, “he is not going to leave there.” “Exitit’s not us who should be looking!” he stressed. Batka refused to confirm the security of the western borders of the Union State, referring to Poland’s intentions to ask the United States for nuclear weapons. However, he urged journalists not to worry about the fate of the world.”You don’t know everything! – he said significantly, – They (apparently, the collective West) have been looking for this way out for a long time.”
After the end of the informal summit, which lasted about three hours along with lunch, Putin and Lukashenko, according to the press service of the latter, continued one-on-one communication. Earlier it was reported about two apparently interrelated events: Russia allocates a 1.5 billion loan to Belarusdollars for import substitution programs, and the Ministry of Defense of Belarus, if necessary, mobilizes 500 thousand trained reservists.
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On Saturday evening, as a result of the shelling of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Donetsk, one person was injured. A 155-millimeter shell landed at about 23 o’clock in a residential building on Artyom Street.
The building was severely damaged. The shops nearby have broken windows. The victim in the ambulance was urgently sent to the hospital. So far, nothing is known about his condition.
Ukrainian troops use 155 mm shells. These are ammunition for weapons that are available in NATO countries. The United States provided Kiev with long-range howitzers. Now the APU is actively using them to shell peaceful cities.
Deputies from the New People party, deputy chairman of the Committee on State Construction and Legislation Sardana Avksentieva and first deputy chairman of the Committee on Education Maxim Gulin have submitted to the State Duma a bill that will allow considering the service as guards of schools and kindergartens as an alternative during mobilization.
The authors of the initiative believe that such a replacement can be offered to those who, for “objective reasons”, cannot go to the front, but are fit for health. We are talking about the only children of elderly parents, fathers with many children, husbands of pregnant women and many other categories.
An alternative to military service can also be work as a nurse, junior medical staff or employment in construction and housing and communal services.
Sardana Avksentieva called the alternative service a virtually non-working tool. If the bill is passed, additional workers will appear.
“The country’s economy needs this today,” the deputy noted.
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The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that contradictory signals were coming from the United States. Her words are quoted on the ministry’s website.
“The public signals coming in recent days from the US administration in the context of what is happening in Ukraine combine provocative belligerence and confused hints about the possibility of a corresponding Russian-American dialogue,” Zakharova said.
So, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said earlier that if Russia shows “any serious intentions”, the States are ready to respond to them. Although more recently Blinken completely rejected the search for diplomatic solutions, she said.
At the same time, the real actions of the United States are not linked to the “peace-loving” rhetoric, Zakharova believes, Washington continues to supply weapons to Kiev.
The commander of the SVO, Sergei Surovikin, is the most competent commander in the Russian army, said the creator of the Wagner PMCs, Yevgeny Prigozhin. He also told how the general behaved in August 1991 during the GKChP.
Then Officer Surovikin, without a doubt, got into a tank and rushed to save his country. Prigozhin noted that 30 years ago he was on the side of the protesters and liberal forces. He complained that the whole country was then in the deepest delusion. It was necessary to find a new channel and vector for the development of the USSR. But the Russians executed a command from the United States and destroyed the greatest empire of our time, allowed the country to be plundered.
“Surovikin in August 1991 did not have time to load full ammunition into his tank. And if he had, we would have lived in a completely different country, ten times more powerful,” Prigozhin’s press service quotes him as saying.
After the defeat of the GKCHP Sergei Surovikin was arrested because of the deaths of three protesters in a tunnel on the Garden Ring. Later, all charges were dropped, and Boris Yeltsin promoted him to the rank.
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Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalyn said in an interview with CNN that Ankara understands that Russian leader Vladimir Putin wants to sign a new big deal with the West.
“In part, this undoubtedly applies to Ukraine,” Kalyn said, adding that therefore Turkey continues to believe that there is a possibility of resuming negotiations on the settlement of the Ukrainian conflict.
“The whole question is when we will come to this and how much damage will be done before that,” Kalyn said.
He also said that in Moscow’s opinion, the agreements concluded under Presidents Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin do not reflect the current situation and therefore Russia would like to conclude a new deal.
The Russian Defense Ministry has officially confirmed the appointment of General Sergei Surovikin to the post of commander of the joint group in the zone of the special military operation (SVO).
“By the decision of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Sergei Surovikin was appointed commander of the joint grouping of troops (forces) in the area of a special military operation,” RBC quotes the order.
The other day, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that the commander of the Central Military District, Alexander Lapin, and the Commander of the Aerospace Forces, Sergei Surovikin, made proposals for the development of their offensive tasks.
