⚡️ Russian Military Has Used Several Hundred Kamikaze Drones in Operation in Ukraine - Source

The Russian Armed Forces have already used several hundred domestic-made loitering munitions, also called kamikaze drones, in Moscow's special operation in Ukraine, a source told Sputnik.

“Since the beginning of the special operation in Ukraine, the Russian military has already used several hundred domestic-made loitering munitions. We are talking about Cube drones and two types of Lancets,” the source said.

📈 Buffett’s conglomerate closes $11.6B Alleghany insurance buy

Warren Buffett’s company completed its largest acquisition in years Wednesday with its $11.6 billion purchase of the Alleghany insurance conglomerate. The purchase announced in March will further expand Berkshire’s sizeable insurance operations and add a few more companies to its stable, including a steel fabricator and toy company owned by Alleghany.

The purchase announced in March will further expand Berkshire’s sizeable insurance operations and add a few more companies to its stable, including a steel fabricator and toy company owned by Alleghany. In addition to owning more than 90 operating companies, Berkshire holds a sizeable investment portfolio with major stakes in Apple, Bank of America, American Express and Coca-Cola among other companies.

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⚡️ Ukrainians Used Electric Shock Torture on Captive Russian Soldiers – Eyewitnesses

Ukrainian security forces electrocuted, starved and beat Russian prisoners of war with hammers, two eyewitnesses told Sputnik.

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🇷🇺 Drones being used by Russian military forces in Ukraine are wholly manufactured in Russia, Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyanskiy stressed to reporters after allegations surfaced that Iran was providing UAVs to Moscow.

💬 "UAV used by the Russian army in Ukraine are manufactured in Russia," Polyanskiy said on Wednesday, adding that Western officials are inventing artificial pretext.

▪️ The official further added that the United Nations Secretariat does not have a legal mandate to conduct an investigation into the alleged use of Iranian-made drones in Ukraine.

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📹 “There were no soldiers here”: A pensioner from the LPR speaks about how his elderly neighbours were struck by Ukrainian shelling

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⚡️ Air alert activated in Odessa, Kirovogradskaya, Poltavskaya, Cherkasskaya Regions, local authorities say

⚡️ Explosions heard in Nikolayev, air alert activated in the region, Ukrainian media report

😡 Russian sailors are hated, discriminated against and treated badly by both authorities and their colleagues around the world, the Danish trade magazine Lederne Søfart reported.

▪️ Carsten Ostenfeldt, who has a top position in the large international ship management company Anglo-Eastern, told the magazine that Russians are directly harassed during port calls, as the authorities, for instance, may spend up to six hours looking through their passports and papers.

💬 “Our Russian sailors are solid people who have been with us for many years, but we are in a situation where having Russian crew on board can cause major problems in ports”, Ostenfeldt said.

▪️ Since the start of Moscow's special operation in Ukraine, Russians in Europe and the West in general have been slapped with sanctions and faced discrimination, hostility and humiliation, including violent attacks — a process facilitated by lopsided media coverage and prejudiced political framing.

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⚡️ Air alert activated in Kiev, local authorities say

📹 Russia’s MoD has published footage showing the Western Military District’s signal operators in combat

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⚡️An air alert has been declared on the entire territory of Ukraine: local media

🇬🇧 UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s resignation, Chief Whip Wendy Morton’s attempt to step down and a Tory MP revolt over fracking have prompted new speculation among Conservative lawmakers that under-fire Prime Minister Liz Truss could be forced out of No 10 “within weeks or even days”, according to the British news outlet.

▪️ The outlet quoted an unnamed senior backbencher as saying that “this is the beginning of the end” for Truss. According to the source, “she [the PM] will be gone by Christmas, if not before.”

▪️ The insider was echoed by former Brexit adviser David Frost, who wrote in the article for The Telegraph that the UK Prime Minister “just can’t stay in office.”

🗣 “Liz Truss must leave as soon as possible. Her successor, whoever it is, must be capable, competent, and able to communicate effectively,” Frost claimed.

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🕐 UK Prime Minister Liz Truss has just "12 hours" to save her position amid growing tensions over what appeared to be ill-conceived economic reforms, according to a Tory member of parliament.

🗣 Tory MP Simon Hoare has argued that if the Prime Minister was given a "career review" today then "the score sheet isn't looking very good" and she does not have long to turn things around.

🤔 The comment comes as pressure on Truss over widely-criticized economic changes continues to grow, with Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng and Home Secretary Suella Braverman already leaving the just over six-week-old government.

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📹 Russia's MoD has revealed footage of Lancet kamikaze drone strikes on Ukrainian military equipment during the special operation

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🤑 Billionaire Elon Musk stated on Wednesday that he is "obviously overpaying" for Twitter, but stressed that the social media giant had bright prospects.

▪️ During the quarterly earnings call for Tesla, the CEO stated that he is “excited about the Twitter situation". According to Musk, the platform "languished for a long time" but now it has "incredible potential", assessing it as an "order of magnitude greater than its current value" in the long run.

▪️ Earlier this month, he announced that the purchase is part of his plan to create "X, The Everything App," but the billionaire did not provide details on the matter.

▪️ The businessman is expected to finalize his deal and purchase the social media company for $44 billion before the expiration of the court deadline, on October 28.

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❗️ Moscow: EU mission for military assistance to Ukraine increases involvement of Europe in the conflict

▪️ The deployment outside Ukraine of a training mission for the Ukrainian military and military assistance provided by EU countries to Kiev increases the involvement of the European Union in the conflict in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday.

💬 "This step is on a par with the supply of lethal weapons to the Kiev regime, and qualitatively increases the involvement of the EU, making it, of course, a party to the conflict," Zakharova said at a briefing.

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

▪️Russian Forces eliminated more than 40 Ukrainian troops, as well as destroyed two Ukrainian armored combat vehicles and three pick-up trucks in the vicinity of Krasny Liman;

▪️Russian Forces eliminated more than 200 Ukrainian troops, 14 Ukrainian tanks, 16 Ukrainian armored combat vehicles and seven other vehicles in the Kherson region. In addition, two Ukrainian tanks, one infantry fighting vehicle and the UR-77 mine action system were taken as trophies and 18 Ukrainian servicemen surrendered;

▪️Russian Forces hit three Ukrainian command posts and 72 Ukrainian artillery units at their firing position in the Kharkov and Kherson regions, as well as five points of temporary deployment of the Ukrainian Forces in the DPR and in the Kherson region;

▪️Russian Forces destroyed four Ukrainian ammunition depots in the DPR, Kharkov and Zaporozhye regions. In addition, Russian Forces destroyed fuel storage facilities for Ukrainian military equipment in the Dnepropetrovsk region;

▪️Russian Forces destroyed an AN/TPQ-36 counter-battery warfare radar and ST-68UM low-altitude target detector in the DPR;

▪️Russian Forces shot down a Ukrainian MI-8 helicopter in the DPR;

▪️Russian air defense means destroyed 18 Ukrainian UAVs in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, as well as intercepted three Olkha rockets in the DPR.

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📹Activists from the Just Stop Oil group have sprayed the Harrods store with orange paint as part of continued calls for the government to cancel new oil contracts.

💬A spokesman for Just Stop Oil declared: "Our government is criminally incompetent and morally bankrupt. They are actively seeking to accelerate fossil fuel production, which will kill millions of people, while failing to address the worst cost-of-living crisis this country has ever seen. Vulnerable people will be freezing to death in their homes this winter, while the government refuses to tax the rich and the big energy companies that are profiting from our misery.”

Previously, two members of the group threw tomato soup on Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" painting in the London National Gallery and glued themselves to the wall.

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⚡️EU Council slaps sanctions on Iran for 'military assistance to Russia'