⚡️ 🇷🇺 🇹🇷 President Putin and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had a telephone conversation where they discussed Ukraine and bilateral relations, according to a statement made by the office of the Turkish President.

▪️ Erdogan also reiterated Ankara's readiness "to do their part for the peaceful resolution of the Ukraine issue in a way that would benefit everyone," the statement adds.

⚡️ The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize to human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, the Russian human rights organisation Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organisation Center for Civil Liberties

📊A new study revealed that the number of US employees who encountered political bias in the workplace had doubled since 2019.

24% of respondents said they had personally experienced differential treatment due to their political views or affiliation, according to the survey conducted by the Virginia-based association Society for Human Resource Management.

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⚡️Ukraine is engaging in 'nuclear blackmail', Moscow says

⚡️The Russian Foreign Ministry on Zelensky's words about a 'preemptive nuclear strike': this is a direct recognition of the Kiev regime in its criminal thoughts; there is no getting out of it

⚡️The German Cabinet of Ministers on Zelensky's words about a preemptive 'nuclear strike': the Chancellor clearly opposes the use of nuclear weapons

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📹 Russia's MoD has published footage showing the destruction of a column of Ukrainian troops.

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“They basically said that I’d be killed for wearing the hat”

📹WATCH Kanye West tells Fox News host Tucker Carlson how people reacted to his support of Donald Trump.

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⚡️ Recep Tayyip Erdogan expects to meet with President Putin in upcoming 3 or 4 days

🤔 On Wednesday, al-Qaeda* claimed responsibility for the gruesome September 26 attack in Burkina Faso. Ouagadougou is striving to bolster security while the nation and other Sahel states are calling upon the French military to leave the region.

* al-Qaeda is a terrorist organization banned in Russia and many other countries.

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❗️ President Putin’s statements, made at the CIS leaders' meeting:

▪️ The transition to national currencies in relations with CIS members will strengthen sovereignty and deepen integration, this is not related to the political situation;

▪️ Tragic events are taking place in Ukraine, conflicts are also taking place between other CIS countries, this requires the development of measures to resolve them.

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⚡️ The Russian MoD’s latest statements on the Ukraine crisis:

▪️ Over 80 AFU personnel, 5 tanks, 4 infantry combat vehicles, 10 motor vehicles, as well as 1 German self-propelled artillery system with high-precision ordnance have been eliminated.

▪️ Russian forces have eliminated over 30 Ukrainian personnel, 2 infantry combat vehicles, and 5 armored vehicles and 5 pickups when AFU forces attempted to cross the Zherebets River near Krasny Liman.

▪️ A total of over 300 Ukrainian personnel, 7 tanks, 13 armored combat vehicles and 17 motor vehicles have been destroyed along the Nikolayev-Krivoy Rog axis.

▪️ Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery have neutralized 6 AFU command posts, 53 artillery units at their firing positions, and 162 areas where combatants and military equipment were concentrated.

▪️ Air defense units have shot down a Ukrainian Air Force Mi-8 helicopter in the DPR.

▪️ 21 projectiles launched by HIMARS and Olkha MLRS, as well as 4 HARM anti-radar missiles have been shot down in air in the Kherson region.

▪️ Some 315 airplanes and 158 helicopters, 2,164 unmanned aerial vehicles, 379 air defense missile systems, 5,448 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 862 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 3,453 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 6,360 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed during the special military operation.

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📹 A demonstration against the increase in electricity prices is taking place in Warsaw, our Sputnik correspondent reports.

🗣 The slogans on display include "Further only darkness", "The government makes the city dark", and "The government - dilettantes."

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🚫🇮🇳 While the exact reason behind the surge is not clear, the cases are getting more & more heartbreaking.

👉🏼 Check out just a few of the most recent cases of hate crimes against Indians living in the US and Canadians, which represent only a small fraction of the total.

💬“I can't figure out what the thinking is behind the policies with Ukraine, why they would be so careless about this when it can really come back to bite them. And it almost certainly seems like it's going to, if humanity is still around, once the dust settles here, you're going to have a Ukraine that is no longer in possession of its Eastern territories, where the vast majority of the population is Russian-speaking and in the past, loyal to Ukrainian politicians who were pro-Russian, those won't be there anymore,” Author and political scientist Aaron Good said.

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💡🇮🇹Central heating will be restricted in Italy this winter according to a new government decree.

▪️Italians will face an extra fifteen days without central heating under a new government decree. In addition, they will also be told to turn their heating down by one degree and off for an extra hour a day.

▪️The restriction in heating comes as European governments look to reduce demand and shore up energy supplies ahead of winter.

▪️In France, homes and offices will be heated to a maximum of 19C, there will be no hot water in public buildings, and the temperature in swimming pools and gyms will also be reduced. At the same time, Spain has also mandated that heating not rise above 19C and Germany has stopped lighting up public monuments and buildings for aesthetic reasons, warning that heating may be turned off in the entrances, corridors and foyers of public buildings.

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