📹 The Russian Armed Forces are continuing to carry out strikes on Ukrainian military command and energy systems, as well as on arsenals with foreign-made ammunition and weapons, Russia’s MoD says

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

▪️The Russian Army continued to strike Ukrainian military control and energy systems, and arsenals, hitting all the designated targets.

▪️Russian Forces destroyed a space communication station of a Ukrainian government communications center in the Odessa region.

▪️Russian troops occupied Gorobyevka in the Kharkov region during an offence in the Kupyansk direction.

▪️Ukrainian Army losses in the Kupyansk direction amounted to more than 60 military personnel, one tank, three armored combat vehicles, and two pickup trucks.

▪️Russian Forces thwarted an attempted attack by a Ukrainian tactical group reinforced with tanks in the Kislovka area in the Kharkov region.

▪️The Russian Army thwarted attempts by Ukrainian troops to cross the Zherebets River, eliminating 46 soldiers in the Krasny Liman direction.

▪️Russian troops thwarted an attempt by the Ukrainian Army to break through defenses, repelling an attack in the Nikolaevo-Krivorozhsky direction in the Kherson region. More than 90 Ukrainian soldiers, one tank, eight armored fighting vehicles and 21 vehicles were eliminated.

▪️The Russian Army destroyed a command post of the Dnepr Regiment and a repair workshop for radar stations.

▪️Russian Forces destroyed two Ukrainian artillery batteries in the Kherson region and a platoon of American HIMARS MLRS in DPR.

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🐘 🦁 Take a look at an incredible video showing an elephant defending an injured lion from a pair of hyenas in South Africa’s Kruger National Park.

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🇨🇳🇹🇼 Interpol is unable to grant observer status to Taiwan, Secretary General Jurgen Stock says.

“In 1984, the Interpol General Assembly recognized the People’s Republic of China as the sole representation of China. As such Interpol recognizes Taiwan is part of China and as China is a member of Interpol, Interpol cannot grant Taiwan observer status in General Assembly,” Stock said at the 90th Interpol General Assembly.

The assembly gathers once a year and makes all the major decisions affecting general policy, the resources needed for international cooperation, working methods, finances, and programs of activities.

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🇺🇸 The United States plans to dramatically ramp up the Coast Guard’s presence in the Indo-Pacific in 2023, a senior Washington official has revealed.

▪️ Beijing has repeatedly blasted Washington over the “provocative” deployments of US Coast Guard vessels in disputed areas, including the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait.

▪️ The US is the only nation on Earth that maintain Coast Guard commands across the far corners of the globe, thousands of kilometers from America’s own home shores.

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🇮🇱 🇺🇦 Israel has rejected Ukraine's request for a telephone conversation between the two countries' defense ministers, according to Haaretz.

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Kiev would send an official note to Israel requesting immediate air defense supplies and cooperation in the sector.

Previously, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev, commenting on Kiev’s requests for supplies of air defense systems and other advanced weaponry from Israel, said that such deliveries would destroy the inter-state ties between Moscow and Tel Aviv.

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🎥🇬🇧 A loud bang can be heard in a video that has recently emerged online, as UK police carried out a “controlled explosion” in central London earlier today.

Government buildings along Whitehall in central London were evacuated after reports of a suspicious package near Downing Street.

Officials and politicians were held inside Downing Street and other government buildings for over an hour while the alert was dealt with. Whitehall is home to several government departments, including the Foreign Office, the Cabinet Office, and the Ministry of Defense.

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🎥🇫🇷 Clashes between protesters and police are taking place in Paris, where demonstrators are rallying to demand higher wages, as well as for the retirement age to be lowered to 60 and for encroachments on the right to strike to be lifted.

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🎥 A pair of long-range Tu-95MS strategic bombers carried out a routine flight over international waters in the Pacific Ocean, the Bering Sea, and the Sea of Okhotsk on Tuesday, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

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🇺🇸 More than 500 retired US military personnel have worked for foreign governments since 2015, often enjoying six-figure consulting contracts, according to an investigation by The Washington Post.

Most of the personnel have worked as civilian contractors to help upgrade the militaries of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and other Gulf countries. The Gulf aside, there are many other cases of foreign governments hiring retired military personnel.

While retired military personnel are permitted to work for foreign governments if they obtain approval from their armed forces branch and the State Department, the US government largely withheld information about them until the Washington Post sued the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and the State Department. The newspaper was also given documents secured through a similar lawsuit by The Project On Government Oversight.

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💬 "Currently there is the Taiwan Policy Act, which is wending Congress right now. And if it passes, it will signal the end of the One China policy, literally a declaration of war. It prepares for a rotational presence of US forces on Taiwan Island, i.e. turning Taiwan into a military base, fast tracking weapons, declaring it a non-NATO ally, sending $6.5 billion worth of asymmetrical, lethal arms. And it does everything except literally declare war. But among those provisions, Section 803 is about sanctions against China. Exactly the type of sanctions that the US has been levying against Russia,” says KJ Noh, a journalist and political analyst.

🎧 Listen to more of KJ Noh's analysis on our podcast.

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⚡ Russia wants Ukraine to be independent from the West and NATO, friendly towards Russia, Russian military commander Surovikin says

⚡ Commander of Russian forces in zone of military operation says situation remains tense, Ukrainian forces keep making attempts to attack

⚡ Ukrainian military targets civilian infrastrusture in Kherson region, commander of Russian forces says

⚡ Surovikin says there is evidence of possibility of Kiev preparing missile attack on hydroelectric power station dam in Kherson region

⚡ Surovikin says Russian military will make sure that civilians can leave Kherson region to other parts of Russia safely

🇮🇷 Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman slams EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell for his “colonial mentality” remarks.

On October 13, speaking at the opening of the European Diplomatic Academy in Bruges, Borrell said that Europe was a "garden" and the rest of the world was a "jungle" that could invade if the "gardeners" do not take care of it.

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❗️Highlights from statement by General Sergei Surovikin, commander of Russian forces in the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️The situation in the special operation zone can be characterized as tense.

▪️ Ukrainian forces continue to attack the positions of the Russian Army in the Kupyansk, Krasny Liman, and Nikolaevo-Krivorozhsky directions.

▪️The Ukrainian regime is seeking to break through the Russian defenses, pulling up all its reserves to the front line, mainly inexperienced territorial defense forces. In fact, Kiev is dooming them to destruction.

▪️The daily losses of the Ukrainian military range from 600 to 1,000 killed or wounded.

▪️The advance of the Russian Army on the battlefield is not the main goal; the army protects every soldier and methodically eliminates the enemy’s advances. This not only minimizes losses, but also significantly reduces the number of civilian casualties.

▪️The special operation has confirmed the effectiveness of Russian aviation and air defense systems.

▪️Russian aviation has carried out more than 34,000 sorties and over 7,000 guided weapons have been used. The latest Kinzhal hypersonic missile has proven itself well at eliminating targets.

▪️The fifth-generation Su-57 fighter jet is able to carry out a wide range of tasks, hitting both air and ground targets.

▪️More than 8,000 sorties have been carried out by UAVs, destroying more than 600 Ukrainian military targets.

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