🇬🇧 🔼 Annual inflation in the UK in September accelerated to 10.1% from 9.9% a month earlier: Statistics Bureau

📹 “Nothing but a bullet awaits me there”: A refugee from an area recaptured by Ukraine describes how civilians there are being executed for accepting humanitarian aid from Russia

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🇬🇧 Beleaguered Liz Truss is facing a potentially “make or break” appearance in the Commons for a tough session of Prime Minister's Questions which could determine her survival in office, UK media reported.

▪️ Truss, who has been desperately trying to shore up support for her leadership after sacking former Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng and ditching most of her debt-fueled tax-slashing economic agenda, is to face off against Labour party leader Sir Keir Starmer in Parliament Wednesday.

▪️ Just six weeks after being appointed Prime Minister, Liz Truss is already facing calls from Tory backbenchers to quit after a series of U-turns that have all but annihilated sacked Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng's budget, with speculation rife as to who might replace her.

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🇬🇧 On Tuesday, UK Secretary of State for the Home Department Suella Braverman, slammed the "Guardian-reading, tofu-eating, wokerati" defending government's Public Order Bill in Parliament.

💬 "Yes, I'm afraid, it's the Labour Party, it's the Lib Dems, it's the coalition of chaos, it's the Guardian-reading, tofu-eating wokerati, dare I say, the anti-growth coalition that we have to thank for the disruption that we are seeing on our roads today," she said to MP’s during the third reading of the public order bill.

▪️ Braverman urged MP’s and peers to "do the right thing, respect the rights of the law abiding majority and support this bill".

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❗️ Vladimir Rogov, a senior official in the Zaporozhye regional government, told Sputnik that Ukrainian troops attempted to land on boats in Energodar in order to take control over the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant (NPP).

💬 "Last night, a large group of landing boats, crowded with militants of special operations forces, emerged from the southern region of the city of Zaporozhye and other directions. A large loaded ship also went with them. After the shelling of the city, an attempt to land troops began, including with the aim to seize the Zaporozhye NPP. The battle went on for several hours, at least three or three and a half hours. The landing attempt was repulsed," Rogov said.

▪️ According to him, at least 30 boats took part in the landing.

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❗️ Head of Russia’s Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin’s latest statements on the investigation of the Crimean Bridge terror attack:

▪️ The planning and organization of the terrorist act on the Crimean Bridge was carried out by the Ukrainian special services;

▪️ 8 out of 12 people involved in the crime were detained;

▪️ Technical expertise to establish the initiating device of the fuse and the mechanism of detonating the explosive are underway.

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❗️ Eurozone annual inflation accelerates to 9.9% in September from 9.1% in August - Eurostat

🇮🇱 🇺🇦 Former Israeli Prime Minister and current opposition leader Netanyahu has spoken out categorically against the possible supply of weapons to Kiev, according to The Jerusalem Post.

▪️ Weapons transferred to Ukraine could end up in the hands of Iran, the former Israeli PM explained. In addition, everything that could provoke the spread of the conflict beyond the borders of Ukraine should be avoided, Netanyahu added.

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⚡️ Air alert announced in Odessa, local media report

⚡️ Air alert announced in Nikolaev and Nikolaev region, local media report

⚡️ All Ukrainian attacks during an attempted offensive in the Kherson region have been repelled, the defense line is being held, local authorities say

⚡️ Air raid alert announced in Kiev - local authorities

⚡️ Erdogan says agreed with Putin on gas hub, Europe can use Russian gas through Turkey

⚡️ Air raid alert announced in Kiev, Cherkasy and Chernigov regions – local authorities

⚡️Air raid alerts have been declared in most regions of Ukraine. Aircrafts were scrambled over the Chernigov region to intercept missiles - local media reports

⚡️The Russian Army continued strikes on Ukrainian military control center targets and energy infrastructure on Wednesday, all targets eliminated – Russian Defense Ministry

🇦🇺 🇨🇳 Australia's Defense Minister Richard Marles has asked the country's Defense Department to investigate claims that former Australian military pilots were recruited to join a South African flight school operating in China.

▪️ Amid reports that China’s military is employing lucrative schemes to recruit former British RAF jet pilots to help train its own air force, Australia is set to probe whether its own pilots are being similarly headhunted.

▪️ Earlier, with reports that up to 30 retired UK military pilots have been recruited to train members of China's People's Liberation Army, Britain's Ministry of Defense wrote on Twitter that the pilots involved had been told they were at risk of prosecution under the Official Secrets Act.

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⚡️Russian troops eliminate Ukrainian forces attempting to capture Zaporozhye NPP, Russian MoD says

⚡️ Israel will not supply weapons to Ukraine for several operational reasons - defense minister

⚡️ Explosions in Kiev are reported by local media

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

▪️The Russian Army eliminated more than 40 Ukrainian servicemen, four armored combat vehicles, and three pickup trucks in the Kupyansk direction.

▪️Russian Forces thwarted an attempt to cross the Zherebets River at night, eliminating more than 30 Ukrainian soldiers, three armored combat vehicles, and two cars.

▪️Russian troops eliminated more than 120 Ukrainian servicemen and mercenaries, eight armored combat vehicles, and 12 cars in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction. Seven command posts, Ukrainian manpower, and military equipment were destroyed in 156 areas.

▪️The Russian Army destroyed three ammunition depots in the areas of the settlements of Chervona Dolina, Kharkov region, Novogrigorovka, Zaporozhye region, and Bereznegovatoe, Nikolaev region.

▪️Russian forces destroyed two Ukrainian S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems.

▪️Russian troops destroyed two artillery batteries and two platoons of Uragan multiple launch rocket systems.

▪️Russian air defense systems shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft, 12 UAVs, and intercepted 11 shells from HIMARS and Olkha rocket systems, as well as eight HARM anti-radar missiles.

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