RT News - August 15 2024 (17:00 MSK)

Kiev admits it had private consultations with Western partners on the Kursk incursion - contradicting Washington's narrative, which earlier denied any involvement. US media claims Ukraine's former commander-in-chief Valery Zaluzhny was the mastermind behind the Nord Stream pipeline explosions but evidence, however, points to CIA involvement. As India marks 78 years of Independence from British colonial rule South Africa celebrates freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi, whose wisdom found enthusiastic advocates on the African continent.