A parade of Western visits to China highlight efforts by the U.S. and its allies to reduce tensions with Beijing. The U.S. commerce secretary and the U.K. foreign secretary made separate trips to the country, each insisting they did not want their country to decouple from China, though the former pointedly said American companies increasingly viewed China as “uninvestable.” It is unclear whether moves to calm rhetoric will be successful. Views towards Beijing have hardened in Washington and London, with the U.K. Parliament’s foreign affairs committee labeling Taiwan — which China regards as a renegade province — as “an independent country.” Beijing, too, may be unmoved: Chinese leader Xi Jinping has reportedly invited Russian President Vladimir PooPooPutin to visit in October.
Yep... this is the narrative racing around Russia. Russians are convinced Wagner warlord Prigozhin is still alive as conspiracy spreads that Putin killed body double https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...zhin-death-putin-bitcoin-russia-b2401927.html
Cutting his grass??!!!! Rotfl--- I read that and I thought there's gotta be a joke here somewhere. This is the best I could do. --- So Mr Chernykh finds himself outside the gates of hell, the Devil comes out and says "Wtf are you doing here? It's not your time. What were you doing?" "I dunno, I was just out front cutting my grass and here I am." "Hmmmm" says the Devil. That doesn't make any sense. Suddenly out of the darkness God's voice booms: >>>>"IT WAS ME... AND I DECIDED IT WAS YOUR TURN TO GET 'MOWED' DOWN."
Let's see the latest crap being shoveled by Putin's mouthpiece. Russia has 'right to war' with 'each and every' NATO country - Medvedev “Whether you like it, or not, history is on our side. We will bury you,” he said quoting former USSR leader Nikita Khrushchev. https://www.euronews.com/2023/08/30...war-with-each-and-every-nato-country-medvedev
Ukraine’s months-long counteroffensive at the crossroads Ukraine’s troops appear to be nearing a breakthrough, slowly edging south in the Zaporizhia region. https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/8/31/ukraines-months-long-counteroffensive-at-the-crossroads
The Associated Press Zelenskyy says Ukraine has developed a long-range weapon, a day after a strike deep inside Russia 3h This image made from a social media and and provided by Ostorozhno Novosti shows smoke billowing over the city and a large blaze in Pskov, Russia, on Aug. 29, 2023. Russian officials accused Ukraine of targeting six Russian regions early Wednesday in what appeared to be the biggest drone attack on Russian soil since Moscow sent troops into Ukraine 18 months ago. (Ostorozhno Novosti via AP)© Provided by The Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday his country has developed a weapon that hit a target 700 kilometers (400 miles) away, in an apparent reference to the previous day’s strike on an airport in western Russia. This photo taken from video provided by the official telegram channel of Pskov region governor Mikhail Vedernikov, shows smoke billowing over the city and a large blaze in Pskov, Russia, on Aug. 29, 2023. Russian officials accused Ukraine of targeting six Russian regions early Wednesday in what appeared to be the biggest drone attack on Russian soil since Moscow sent troops into Ukraine 18 months ago. (Pskov region governor Mikhail Vedernikov official telegram channel via AP)© Provided by The Associated Press Zelenskyy said on his Telegram channel the weapon was produced by Ukraine’s Ministry of Strategic Industries but gave no other details. On Wednesday, a four-hour wave of drones that Moscow blamed on Ukraine hit an airport near Russia’s border with Estonia and Latvia, damaging four Il-76 military transport planes, according to local reports. The airport is in Russia’s Pskov region, about 700 kilometers (400 miles) north of the Ukrainian border. In all, six Russian regions were targeted in the barrage amid the 18-month war. The Associated Press was unable to determine whether the drones were launched from Ukraine or inside Russia. Kyiv officials normally neither claim nor deny responsibility for attacks on Russian soil, though they sometimes refer obliquely to them. Zelenskyy’s remark was the clearest hint that Ukraine was behind the strike. Embed-Map-Russia-Ukraine-War© Provided by The Associated Press The attack forced the closure of Pskov airport, though it reopened Thursday, according to Russian transport officials. Another drone intercepted overnight near Moscow resulted in flight delays at several airports around the Russian capital, officials said Thursday. No injuries were reported. Russian news agency Interfax reported, meanwhile, that security services killed two people and detained five members of a Ukrainian sabotage group in the Bryansk border region on Wednesday. APTOPIX Russia Ukraine War© Provided by The Associated Press The apparent Ukrainian drones reaching deep into Russia and cross-border sabotage missions are part of Kyiv’s efforts to heap domestic pressure on the Kremlin, militarily and politically. Meantime, a Ukrainian counteroffensive launched in June is chipping away at some parts of the front line, Kyiv officials claim. Ukraine is aiming to “erode Russian morale and increase pressure on its commanders,” the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a think tank, said in an assessment. The strategy is “to bring Russian forces to a tipping point where combat power and morale may begin to break,” the IISS said in the analysis late Wednesday. ___ Follow AP’s coverage of the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine