Russian President Vladimir Putin sees no need for massive air strikes in Ukraine "at least for the time being".

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"We are always outraged by any attempts to cancel Russian culture. We see it as nonsense, and we must not behave in the same manner,” Russian Presdient Vladimir Putin said.

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👊Police in Kishinev, Moldova violently detained protesters on Friday who demanded that authorities compensate for the increase in gas and electricity tariffs and allocate financial assistance to vulnerable segments of the population.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin on what can be considered a defeat of Ukraine.

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❗️The main work on the restoration of the Crimean bridge will be completed by the end of the year, the deputy chairman of the Russian government says.

❗️Actor Robbie Coltrane, famous for playing Hagrid in Harry Potter, has died at the age of 72.

⚡️An electrical substation has caught fire in Russia's Belgorod after Ukrainian shelling, the region’s governor says.

▪️There's no information about possible victims yet.

▪️Earlier, it was reported that part of the city’s population has been left without electricity.

⚡️The fire at the substation in Belgorod has been extinguished, the region's governor says.

Specialists have reportedly started reconnecting the facilities to a backup power source.

WATCH: A LPR resident describes how his colleagues were killed as a result of the Ukrainian missile attack.

📲Elon Musk is being investigated by federal authorities over his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, the social media company's legal team indicated in a court filing, according to media reports.

Now, Twitter's legal team is ramping up the pressure to get Musk to hand over documents associated with the investigation, arguing they "bear upon key issues in this litigation," CNBC reported.

Elon Musk is presently under investigation by federal authorities for his conduct in connection with the acquisition of Twitter," Twitter's legal team said in an Oct. 6 filing, according to Bloomberg. Musk's legal team has been citing "investigative privilege" when defending its noncompliance related to handing over documents from the investigation to Twitter, CNBC reported.

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🚨Five people, including an off-duty police officer, were killed, and two were injured in a shooting spree that unfolded Thursday night in Raleigh, North Carolina. Police have identified the suspect as a 15-year-old male. The suspect is in critical condition in the hospital.

The shooting occurred in a residential neighborhood near the Neuse River Greenway, a popular trail on the outskirts of the state capital. A motive is yet to be established, but Raleigh Police Chief Estella Patterson said the investigation remains ongoing.

"My heart is heavy because we don't have answers as to why this tragedy occurred," Chief Patterson said at a Friday morning news conference. More than 34,000 people have died in shootings in the US in 2022, more than half of which were from suicide, according to the Gun Violence Archive website.

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“Winter is coming.” 🥶🥶🥶

The famous Silicon Valley venture capital investor Chamath Palihapitiya has some strong opinions about the energy crisis in Europe. While speaking on the popular Apple podcast “ALL–IN,” Chamath says Europe is in an energy crisis because they listened to Greta Thunberg instead of Donald Trump.

"An entire continent essentially allowed a 16-year-old girl to dictate their energy policy. And when Greta Thunberg was able to shame an entire continent into walking away from nuclear and not really evaluating how you can have energy independence. What they did was they put Europe in an incredibly fragile position...

[President Trump's] language turned people off even though the message that he was delivering was 100% right. When Trump went to the United Nations, he was clear, he was precise, and in hindsight, and I'm saying this as a Democrat, he was right about the German reliance on Russian gas and the European reliance"...

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🇬🇧British Prime Minister Liz Truss has fired her finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng and scrapped parts of their unpopular economic package in a desperate bid for political survival, less than 40 days into her premiership.

With financial markets in turmoil, a chastened Truss said on Friday that she accepted her government’s plans for unfunded tax cuts had gone “further and faster” than investors were expecting.

Truss, 47, promised to act quickly to tackle the UK’s cost-of-living crisis, saying that within a week, she would devise a plan to tackle rising energy bills and secure future fuel supplies.

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🪨🧨At least 25 people have died, and dozens remain trapped underground after an explosion in a coal mine in northern Turkey's Bartin province. Around 110 people were working in the mine at the time of the blast, almost half at over 300 meters deep.

Turkey's health minister Fahrettin Koca said 11 people had been rescued and were being treated. As night fell, emergency workers were digging through rocks to try to reach more survivors.

The explosion is believed to have occurred at around 300m deep. Some 49 people were working in the "risky" zone between 300 and 350m (985 to 1,150ft) underground, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said. The cause of the blast is not yet known, and the local prosecutor's office has begun an investigation.

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🔹Media Debunks GOP ‘Hoax’ Claiming Schools Keep Litter Boxes for ‘Students Who Identify as Cats’

As part of their drive to roll back LGBTQ rights in states across the US, conservative figures have repeatedly claimed that school districts are being forced to keep litter boxes used by students who supposedly identify as animals. There’s just one problem: it’s never happened.

According to a Friday article by NBC News, at least 20 Republican candidates and elected officials have claimed in 2022 that public school districts in the US are being forced to place litter boxes, usually used by indoor cats or other pets, to instead be used by students who identify as cats instead of regular bathroom facilities.

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🔭♊Astronomers have observed the brightest flash of light ever seen from an event that occurred 2.4 billion light-years from Earth and was likely triggered by the formation of a black hole. The burst of gamma rays -- the most intense form of electromagnetic radiation -- was first detected by orbiting telescopes on October 9, and its afterglow is still being watched by scientists worldwide.

Astrophysicist Brendan O'Connor told AFP that gamma-ray bursts that last hundreds of seconds, as occurred on Sunday, are thought to be caused by dying massive stars, greater than 30 times bigger than our Sun.

"It's really breaking records, both in the amount of photons, and the energy of the photons that are reaching us," said O'Connor, who used infrared instruments on the Gemini South telescope in Chile to take fresh observations early Friday.

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