🇺🇸⚡️ — Trump's jokes:

The power this post (US president) has is just incredible. I could ban fishing.
I think I'll do it for just one or two days.

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🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — The Trump administration is considering the possibility of entering into business deals with Russia even before the end of the war in Ukraine, according to The New York Times, citing sources.

According to the newspaper, Washington wants to show Moscow the seriousness of its intentions to restart relations and create additional incentives for the Russian elite to end the war. The specific deals being considered are currently unknown.

This approach differs from Trump's previous position, who stated that deals with Russia were only possible after the end of the war, the NYT notes.

The newspaper claims that during a recent meeting in the Kremlin, Putin told Witcoff and Kushner that Russia would seize all of Donbas within a few months and would be able to inflict heavy blows on Ukrainian energy infrastructure. Kushner responded by reminding Putin that he had said the same thing a year ago: "What are the chances that we'll come back here in a year and you'll say the same thing again? Maybe we shouldn't waste a year?"

The publication also reminds readers that Congress has passed a bill on "hellish" sanctions against Russia.

"But if the Trump administration is taking a carrot-and-stick approach to Putin, it appears that the emphasis is on the carrot," the article states.

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🇸🇰🌐🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ — The Prime Minister of Slovakia, Robert Fico, has expressed concerns that there is currently an effort to find a pretext for starting a conflict between NATO and Russia.

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🇭🇺🇷🇺🇭🇷⚡️ Hungary could end its dependence on Russian gas by October 2027.

Budapest is also negotiating with Croatia to use the Adriatic pipeline at full capacity, aiming to reduce its reliance on Russian oil.

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🇷🇸🇷🇺⚡️ Serbia awards Russian emergency crews for their role in fighting wildfires.

A Russian Il-76 carried out 65 sorties and dropped 2,700 tonnes of water on fires from August 20, helping contain blazes and prevent their spread toward residential areas.

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🇷🇺🇬🇧⚡️— Russia summons Britain’s deputy head of mission over London’s continued supply of drones and weapons to Ukraine.

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🇷🇺🇬🇧⚡️— Russia warns it reserves the right to take retaliatory measures over Britain’s supply of long-range offensive weapons to Ukraine — Russian Foreign Ministry.

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🇷🇺⚡️ Russia says clinical trials of Ebola and Marburg vaccines are nearing completion, with manufacturing preparations set to begin soon, per Rospotrebnadzor.

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🇾🇪🇸🇦🇮🇹⚡️ — The Italian Air Force's F-2000 (Eurofighter Typhoon) fighter jet sustained damage as a result of a Houthi attack on King Fahd Air Base in Saudi Arabia.

An operational group of the Italian Air Force, consisting of 4 *Eurofighter F-2000A* fighter jets, 1 Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) aircraft E-550A, and 4 transport aircraft with refueling capabilities C-130J/KC-130J, was deployed to the air base to assist Saudi Arabia in providing air defense.

This is the second incident involving Italian aviation in the Middle East in the past six months. In March, it was reported that as a result of an Iranian attack on Al-Salem Air Base in Kuwait, 2 Italian Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets were damaged, and 1 MQ-9 Reaper drone was destoryed.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — Russia’s Ministry of Defense has released footage showing Ukrainian radar and electronic warfare (EW) systems being struck by Geran-4 loitering munitions.

• A Ukrainian P-19MA radar station was destroyed by a Geran-4 loitering munition equipped with an electro-optical (EO) seeker near Shyroke, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. A “dome-shaped” EW station was also struck in the same area by a Geran-4.

• Near Dalnyk, Odesa Oblast, vehicles associated with a Ukrainian 79K6 Pelikan radar system were detected moving. Their movement was tracked, and the radar was struck by a Geran-4 loitering munition while being deployed.

The strikes were carried out during daylight hours on September 17.

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🇺🇦⚡️ — Zelensky announced the creation of the "Carpathian Eight" — a new format involving Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Poland, Slovakia, Czechia, Austria, and Hungary.

The countries plan to cooperate in the areas of security, energy, logistics, and cross-border economics.

Another pointless organization.

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🇧🇾⚡️ — President Lukashenko, accompanied by his Spitz dog, scolded officials for the poor care of flax in the fields.

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🇸🇦🇪🇺⚡️ — NEW: Saudi Arabia will halt crude oil supplies to European refiners next month after a drone attack shut its key East–West pipeline, affecting all European customers with long-term contracts, Bloomberg reports.

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🇨🇳🇺🇸⚡️ — China and the US are preparing for a meeting between Xi Jinping and Donald Trump.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio held a phone call ahead of the expected meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and President Trump, scheduled for September 24.

Wang Yi stated that China and the US should prepare for the "next stage of high-level interaction in the spirit of equality, respect, and reciprocity," while emphasizing the need for closer communication, cooperation, and the management of differences.

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🇮🇱🇺🇸🇸🇦⚡️ — Israel plans to seek advanced U.S. weapons as “compensation” for the F-35 sale to Saudi Arabia, including bunker-buster munitions previously refused and access to classified U.S. programs, Walla reports.