⚡️ A new package of EU sanctions against Russia will come into force on Thursday, reports say

♻️Greenpeace says it disrupted Truss's speech because she's putting environmental protections 'through the shredder'

Greenpeace UK made a statement moments after the interruption, identifying areas where policies considered by Truss’s cabinet contradicted the 2019 Conservative election manifesto.

💬“Who voted for this? In a healthy democracy, people should get the government program they voted for, but Liz Truss is putting most of it through the shredder”, Greenpeace UK’s head of public affairs Rebecca Newsom said in the statement.

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💬 "The United States is doing everything possible via the war in Ukraine, the expansion of NATO, which is creating tension in Europe, forcing Germany to buy gas from the United States, which is many times more expensive than the gas it was getting from Russia, the United States is doing everything possible to weaken Germany," John Ross, a senior fellow of the Chongyang Institute at Renmin University of China, says.

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📹 Russia's MoD has published a video depicting the Airborne Troops' modernized BRDM-2MS armored reconnaissance vehicles in action, and the training of mobilized personnel in the special military operation area.

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❗️Russia’s MoD briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️Russian forces launched missile attacks at the forward echelon and reserve forces of the Ukrainian 92nd Mechanized Brigade in the Kharkov region. As a result, up to 100 Ukrainian service personnel and 14 units of military equipment were eliminated;

▪️Russian forces eliminated 15 Ukrainian service personnel and destroyed seven armored combat vehicles and five pickups with large-caliber machine guns from the 14th Mechanized Brigade in the Kharkov region;

▪️Russian forces performed a massive fire attack at the manpower and equipment of the Ukrainian 93rd Mechanized Brigade in the Kharkov region and in the DPR. As a result, more than 90 Ukrainian service personnel and seven Ukrainian armored vehicles, as well as two Ukrainian sabotage groups formed by a total of 21 militants were eliminated;

▪️Russian forces launched fire attack at the positions of the Ukrainian 54th Mechanized, 80th Airborne Assault and 10th Mountain Assault brigades, eliminating up to 70 militants, as well as a Ukrainian tank, three Ukrainian armored combat vehicles and six pickups with large-caliber machine guns;

▪️Russian forces performed missile attacks at the units of the Ukrainian 102nd Territorial Defense Brigade in the Zaporozhye region. As a result, up to 30 militants and seven Ukrainian vehicles were eliminated;

▪️Russian forces eliminated two Ukrainian tanks, four infantry combat vehicles and up to 30 Ukrainian neo-Nazis in the Kherson region;

▪️Russian Air Forces performed massive fire attacks at the Ukrainian forces in the Kherson region, eliminating more than 120 Ukrainian service personnel, two tanks and eight armored combat vehicles;

▪️Ukraine’s army has lost a total of more than 230 personnel, four tanks, 18 armored combat vehicles, two Gvozdika self-propelled howitzers, two mortars and 20 motor vehicles in the Nikolayev-Krivoy Rog direction;

▪️Russian forces destroyed six Ukrainian missile, artillery armament and munitions depots in the DPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions;

▪️Russian forces destroyed a Ukrainian hangar with Bayraktar TB-2 UAVs, as well as a counter-battery warfare radar and Ukrainian MIG-29 aircraft in the Nikolayev region;

▪️Russian air defense destroyed six Ukrainian UAVs, as well as intercepted 15 HIMARS rockets, one Olkha projectile and two HARM missiles.

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❗️The OPEC+ Monitoring Committee agreed to reduce oil production by 2 million bpd, Reuters reports.

The price of Brent crude oil on the London ICE exchange rose above $93 per barrel for the first time since September 21.

⚡️Russia has declared the charge d'affaires of Lithuania in the country persona non grata - Russian Foreign Ministry

📹 A refugee from the Kharkov region can't hold back her tears when she describes the atrocities committed by the Ukrainian Army in the occupied territories.

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❗️Alec Baldwin and Rust producers will continue filming in January 2023 after reaching confidential settlement with slain cinematographer Halyna Hutchins' husband, the Daily Mail reports

⚡️OPEC+ agrees to cut oil production by two million barrels per day, source says.

An American tourist damaged two antique busts in Vatican museums while demanding a meeting with Pope Francis, the Roman newspaper il Messaggero reported.

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⚡️Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the transfer of the Zaporozhye NPP to Russian control - decree

⚡️OPEC+ agrees to cut oil production by 2mln barrels per day from November, will take levels agreed for August as basis - Communique

📹WATCH Depositors to whom Lebanese banks refuse to issue their savings at the real exchange rate protest at the Central Bank.

The protestors came out with a call to "stop the printing press because of the absolute collapse of the Lebanese lira," and then they started burning tires.

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⚡️OPEC+ does not know what will happen to EU embargo, price cap on Russian oil; who will support it, how market will react - Saudi minister

⚡️White House: US Energy Department will deliver another 10 million barrels from strategic petroleum reserve to market next month

❗️White House: Biden Administration will consult with Congress on additional tools and athorities to reduce OPEC's control over energy prices

❗️Latest statements by Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak:

▪️Russia will continue to supply oil only to those consumers who provide market pricing mechanisms;

▪️The introduction of a price cap on Russian oil prices will damage the energy market, lead to shortages and price rises;

▪️Russia is ready to supply gas via the undamaged Nord Stream 2 pipeline;

▪️Investigation of Nord Stream incident should be carried out with Russia's participation, but operators, Gazprom, Rostekhnadzor not allowed yet.

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🚀The Falcon 9 rocket launched from the spaceport in Florida with the Crew Dragon ship and a crew of four people, including Russian Anna Kikina.

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📹Have a look at the launch of the Falcon 9 rocket from a different persepctive.

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❗️US President Biden is disappointed with the "myopic" decision of OPEC+ to reduce oil production, the White House says.

The president will discuss ways to weaken the influence of OPEC on prices with Congress.