❗️Twitter has started to mark some Ukrainian media outlets as affiliated with the Ukrainian authorities.

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📹 The Russian Defense Ministry has published footage showing Su-35S and Su-30SM aircraft in combat as part of the special military operation in Ukraine.

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📹 The head of the Donetsk animal shelter spoke about rescuing cats in Mariupol during the hostilities

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⚡️South Korea has launched air-to-ground missiles in the direction of international waters north of the demarcation line with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea).

The launch came in response to North Korea's firing at least 10 missiles towards the Sea of Japan to the east and the Yellow Sea on the west

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😄 US President Joe Biden promised "to give the Republicans hell", while delivering a closing address in the gym of Florida Memorial University, bigging up the Democrats a week before the mid-term elections. In his speech, Biden criticized many Republicans, including former President Donald Trump - though he didn't mention his name - for failing to pass the infrastructure law as he did, and for the economic situation he inherited when he became president.

😏 Election forecasters, meanwhile, predict that the Republican Party will win the House of Representatives next week

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🤨 Also from Joe Biden:

▪️Сonfuses the Ukraine conflict with the Iraq war;

▪️Wrongly says his son Beau, who died after a battle with brain cancer in 2015 at the Walter Reed National Medical Military Center in Bethesda, Maryland, died in Iraq;

▪️Refers to Hurricane Ian, which wreaked havoc throughout Florida this autumn, as ‘Hurricane Ivan’;

▪️Says he 'spoke to' man who 'invented' insulin, who died before the president was born

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⚡️Ankara has informed Shoigu about Ukrainian position on grain deal, claiming there are no concerns about the corridor's safety, Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said

⚡️The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) fired 100 artillery shots from Kangwon Province into the buffer zone area into the Sea of Japan and launched at least 17 short-range ballistic missiles and surface-to-air missiles on Wednesday, South Korea media has said

⚡️Russia's FSB says thwarted sabotage by Ukrainian special services at energy infrastructure facility in Crimea

🇨🇳🇵🇰 Pakistan's PM Shehbaz Sharif meets Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Wednesday

The visit - the first Sharif has made to China since he took charge in April - comes at a tumultuous time for Pakistan, both politically and economically.

Sharif is the second foreign leader—after Vietnam's ruling Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong — to visit China since Xi's re-election as General Secretary of the Chinese communist party for the 3rd term.

⚡️Moscow is aware about Kiev's attempts to create a "dirty bomb", deploy nuclear weapons of NATO countries. The current situation is beneficial primarily to the US, Russian Defence Minister Shoigu says.

🗣"The US and European countries defiantly ignore elements of nuclear blackmail by Kiev, for example, provocations against the Zaporozhye NPP", Shoigu added

⚡️ North Korea fires 6 additional missiles toward East and Yellow Seas, South Korean media citing military says

❗️Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu delivers his latest statement on the Ukrainian crisis:

▪️NATO's presence near Russian borders with the participation of troops from non-regional members of the alliance has grown 2.5 times since February to more than 30,000 people, and could rise even higher;

▪️The US is seeking to use the crisis to maintain global leadership, but the main goal of the West is to destroy the economy and military potential of Russia;

▪️The crisis in Ukraine is being used to weaken other countries including EU members;

▪️Russia's Ministry of Defense considers the military security of the Union State a priority as NATO’s actions pose a threat to Russia’s allies, especially Belarus;

▪️The Kiev regime is resorting to devious tactics, including terrorism attacks, contract murders and shooting civilians with heavy weapons.

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⚡️Russian Foreign Ministry says it will soon summon British ambassador in connection with London's involvement in Ukraine's attack on Sevastopol

⚡️Russia considers an unprecedented step to increase the readiness of the Norwegian armed forces - Foreign Ministry

⚡️One of the conditions for the resumption of Russia's participation in the "grain deal" is the elimination of direct and indirect obstacles to the export of fertilizers, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says

⚡️⚡️Russia resumes participation in grain deal after receiving security guarantees from Kiev - Russian Ministry of Defense

⚡️Thanks to UN, Turkey, it was possible to obtain necessary written guarantees from Ukraine on grain deal - Russian Defense Ministry

⚡️Kiev gave guarantees that it will not use grain corridor and Ukrainian ports for combat operations against Moscow - Russian Defense Ministry

Previously Russia suspended participation in the grain deal as the Kiev regime with the participation of UK specialists committed terrorist attacks against the ships of the Black Sea Fleet and civilian vessels

❗️The latest statements by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov:

▪️All parties to the conflict on the Korean peninsula should avoid steps that could cause tensions to increase;

▪️Nuclear arms rhetoric has become "overheated” at the official level and by media in the West, and Russia considers the situation irresponsible and will not be part of it;

▪️Twitter must comply with Russian law for restrictions to be lifted.

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