Macron joins in condemning Israel: In fact, civilians are being bombed today. In fact. These children, these women, these old people are being bombed and killed. There is no justification and no legitimacy for this. So we call on Israel to stop. I am not a judge. I am a head of state. I remind everyone of international law. I call for a ceasefire.

Note: Well, he's understandable. because Paris has a lot of young Muslims with a lot of heart. And one more pogrom Paris may not be able to withstand.

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Missiles are returning to Kiev and Odessa!

Zin Note: These strikes are becoming a lot more targeted while using fewer drones/missiles. We know what the RF is capable of producing, so I can only assume that they're building up an arsenal for larger strikes at a later date. However, with a weakened Ukrainian air defense shield and the improvements made to these weapons and how they are used, fewer are needed to achieve results in the first place. When the big strikes do happen, it's going to be devastating.

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🔴 Kiev at these moments.

The Patriot air defense system is trying to intercept our Ballistics

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Current deployment of US Navy attack ships in the Middle East.

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⚡⚡⚡ Two powerful explosions in a row sounded on the Left Bank of Kiev

After them, the air raid warning sounds in the city.

Klitschko has everything under control, don't panic!

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The Ukrainian Armed Forces tried to counterattack from Novokalinovo towards Krasnogorovka, north of Avdeevka, but were defeated and driven back

Meanwhile, military correspondents confirm that Russian fighters have entered the village of Stepovoe, where they have established a foothold on the eastern outskirts.

▫️On the southern flank, the Russian Armed Forces also have progress in the industrial zone in the Mineralny area.

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🌟 Avdeevskoe direction
Situation at 9:00

🔴 The night passed steadily and tensely. The guys were gaining a foothold in new positions. All enemy counterattacks were repulsed.

🔴 Now heavy artillery is working, clearing the way for our assault groups, which at that moment went forward .

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad arrived on a state visit to Saudi Arabia.
One of the main topics is the Gaza Strip.

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🪂 Artemovsk direction.

In the north of Andreevka, the Russian Armed Forces regained their previously lost positions above the reservoir and secured a position in the forest plantation behind the railway track.
Thus, they cut off the enemy forces’ access to the road from Opytny to Otradovka.

In the north of Kleshcheevka, behind the railway road, the enemy still manages to hold positions.

Zin Note: To remind you that aren't aware, there is an Opytnoye Southwest of Artemovsk as well another Southwest of Avdeevka.

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In order to judge the moral strength of a people and what it is capable of in the future, one should not take into account the degree of ugliness to which it can temporarily and even though in the majority, humiliate itself, but only the height of spirit to which it can rise when the time comes.
Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Today is 202 years since the birth of the great Russian writer.

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Famous mixed martial arts fighter Jeff Monson came to the LNR.

He held a master class for the children of Lutuginsky district, which ended with mass hugs.

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The whole country should know the names of the Heroes of Russia! Recently, this noscript was awarded to Guard Sergeant Yuri Shcherbakov, who, as part of the crew of an anti-tank missile system, destroyed a total of:

- nine tanks,
- four armored personnel carriers,
- twelve infantry fighting vehicles,
- four trucks with ammunition, as well as two platoon strong points and more than a hundred Ukrainian fighters.

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The entire territory of Ukraine is on air alert as of 11.11 at 13:15 (Moscow time)

An air alert has been issued for the entire country, with anticipated arrivals at military facilities.

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FPV drone operator Jumbo mastered the control of a combat drone in record time - two weeks. In just the last 24 hours, the fighter has already hit his sixth target. Russian drones operate in a swarm in Rabotino and detect enemy movements from the air. Detachments of Ukrainian Armed Forces militants, under artillery and tank fire, are trying in vain to gain a foothold in the barely surviving trenches.

The tank will begin to destroy the trench. The enemy understands this and hurries to hide in neighboring trenches or deeper shelters. Then Russian fighters launch an FPV drone into the sky. Upon takeoff, the warhead of the drone is automatically cocked. It is best to fly directly above the treetops - then the enemy will not have time to notice. A few moments pass, and the operator places the drone directly at the enemy hiding in cover.

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"This action was organized in support of Jews living in France and abroad who have nothing to do with what is currently happening. I am surprised that politicians and media in France interpreted this as an anti-Semitic act": The French media, which had started to spin the "Russian trace" in the appearance of Stars of David on the walls of Jewish homes, were upset - Moldovan businessman Anatoly Prizenko admitted to organizing the action.

Note: always looking for a Russian trace and find someone from the post-Soviet countries. Truly for the West we are all Russians here.

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Medvedev: According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, drug production in Afghanistan has decreased by 95% from the end of 2022 to the present day. And this applies both to the reduction of poppy cultivation (from 233 to 11 thousand hectares) and opium production itself (from 6.2 thousand to 333 tons). In less than a year, the Taliban (banned in our country as a terrorist organization), no matter how we treat it, has done what the coalition of NATO impotents led by the Americans, supposedly fighting terrorism in the country, could not do in 20 years. This is what happens when the one who was really interested in exporting heroin to Russia and other countries leaves the region. Extra joy: everything is still the same in Mexico.....

Note: once the invisible hand of the market was removed from Afghanistan's throat, the system began to work differently....
I wonder if there is the same invisible hand of the market behind fentanyl.

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By the way, developing this theme.

What is the secret of your untold fortune? Oh, I've just been working hard

Historian and writer James Bradley at the presentation of his book China Mirage:

"When we hear the name Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the first thing that should come to mind is China. Because it was one of the major influences on young Roosevelt's life. His mother, Sarah Delano Roosevelt, grew up in Hong Kong. She was the one who paid Franklin's bills. Franklin Roosevelt never had a high paying job. For most of his life, he was a civil servant. Yet he had yachts, townhouses in New York, a summer home in Maine. Where did he get all this money? From his mother's family-- Delano. Where did the Delanos get their money from? His grandfather Warren Delano was an American drug lord in China, the largest American opium trader in that country.

It's the same as if the Cali cartel, which supplies cocaine to the U.S., had nurtured the president of Colombia. It seems wild to us. But Warren Delano was an opium trafficker, that is, a criminal from the Chinese point of view.

You think I'm giving you an unusual example from history? Not at all. If you drive up and down the East Coast of the United States, there are traces of the Chinese opium trade.

Take Yale University. The Tomb, now the headquarters of the Skull and Bones Society on the Yale campus, is still funded by the Russell Trust. The Russell Trust was the largest drug trafficker in China, and Warren Delano worked for them. Yale University was built on land given to it by opium drug lords.

The most famous building on the Columbia University campus is the Lowe Library. It is named in honor of Abbott Law, who traded opium in China with Warren Delano. Princeton University's first major donor was Stephen Green. Stephen Green took over Russell and Company's opium operations after Warren Delano, having gotten rich, returned to the United States.

America's first industrial city, Lowell, Massachusetts, was founded by opium merchants. The first railroads on the East Coast? Opium money. How did the great American transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson have so much time to do philosophy? Because he married the owner of an opium fortune. Take the Council on Foreign Relations. It's the Coolidge Family, opium again. Chiquita banana company, AT&T phone company? Same thing. Dig into the history of any person with the last name Forbes. For example, in the family tree of (former) U.S. Secretary of State John Forbes Kerry. What do you see there? You'll see a fortune made in the drug trade because his great-grandfather traded opium in China.

When the Chinese talk about a century of humiliation, that's what they mean. We sold them opium under the roof of the British, French and American fleets. Warren Delano was consul in Canton, he welcomed the first ships of the American navy in the First Opium War. If you come to Canton, what is now Guangzhou, you will see a statue dedicated to the man who asked Warren Delano to stop supplying drugs to China. Go to Chinatown in New York, there are two statues erected there. One to Confucius, the other to an official named Lin, who begged Warren Delano to give up the drug trade in China."

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A new Sapphire electronic warfare system against drones will be demonstrated to visitors of the #DubaiAirshow2023 international aerospace exhibition to be held in the UAE, TASS news agency reported citing a statement by Vladimir Artyakov, First Deputy Director General of Rostec State Corporation.

"The Russian exposition will also feature the Sapphire drone countermeasures complex. It detects and classifies aircraft-type UAVs, micro- and minidrones weighing up to 250 g, as well as artisanal vehicles," Artyakov said.

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You know what the funniest thing about this whole story of U.S. indirect warfare with Russia? The story. Russian-American trading company. Fort Ross. Americans have decided to go to war with their history and don't understand why the Russians are building all this stuff in the Donbass. The answer is. Fort Ross. We've always been like this.
I'll remind you: confrontations with Indians were very rare, the perpetrators were most often moved to Alaska, but not killed. Strange behavior though, but I'll also remind you: the Decembrists, for example, were sent to Siberia, but not executed. This is normal.

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U.S. presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy: If Russia and China are in a military alliance and we get into World War III, the United States of America as we know it today may cease to exist. Russia and China have significant military space forces. We have no meaningful defensive or offensive capabilities in space.

Note: so we need to rally more strongly with China. We have an old tradition here: whoever gets scolded from the other side is definitely our man.

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Irish businessman Chay Bose: I am in the Elektrozavodsky district of Moscow. Yesterday I posted some pictures of the Moscow neighborhood and the huge amount of construction that is going on there. But some in the comments adamantly refuse to believe in the reality of what is actually happening in Russia. It's mind-boggling. I believe it's people who have been so inundated with propaganda and this billion dollar media machine to convince them that Russia is their enemy, that everything that comes out of Russia is untrue. You see that construction is not limited to any one part of the city. It is happening all around the outskirts of Moscow and in other major Russian cities. So again, I urge people to look for news sources about what's going on in the world and ask the question: who wants you to believe these reports about Russia?