🤐🇪🇺European leaders have kept mum on the exact sums that are needed “to rebuild Ukraine” because they are afraid of a possible negative reaction among their countries’ citizens, a US media outlet has reported.

It referred to a recent article written by Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen for a German newspaper, in which they cited 35 billion euros ($34.6 billion) as the amount that EU members “have so far raised” for Kiev.

The outlet argued that the sum is “a far cry from the 350 bln euro ($345 bln) figure von der Leyen cited at the October 25 meeting, based on the World Bank's current cost estimate for the damage done to Ukraine.”

💬In addition, it outlined that “these world leaders know this, but refuse to say it for fear that citizens of various European nations would decide that Ukraine’s democracy simply isn’t worth forking over hundreds of billions of their hard-earned money for, much less going without heat or other necessities this winter.”

📹 The DPR People's Militia has published footage showing Krasnopol guided projectiles hitting the military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

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📹 “We were driven to the exchange with bags on our heads”: A female POW who returned from Ukrainian captivity describes the conditions of her detention

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👏 💪 Russian ice hockey player and captain of the Washington Capitals team Alexander Ovechkin broke the record for the most goals scored with one franchise in National Hockey League (NHL) history.

😱 Ovechkin, 37, scored his 787th goal in the game against the Arizona Coyotes on Saturday, thus surpassing the legendary Gordie Howe for most goals with a single team.

💬 "Ovechkin passed Gordie Howe, who scored 786 goals in 1,687 games over 25 seasons with the Detroit Red Wings from 1946-1971. Ovechkin reached the milestone in his 1,287th game with the Capitals, who selected him with the No. 1 pick in the 2004 NHL Draft," NHL said in a Saturday release.

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📌 LIVE UPDATES: Ukrainian troops shell Alchevsk using HIMARS missiles - LPR

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🤔 The administration of US President Joe Biden is privately encouraging Kiev to demonstrate a readiness to negotiate with Moscow, American newspaper reports citing people familiar with the discussions.

▪️ The newspaper said on Saturday that Washington does not want Ukraine to start negotiations with Russia, but, instead, aims to ensure that Kiev has the support of other countries.

💬 "Ukraine fatigue is a real thing for some of our partners," one US official said.

▪️ According to the newspaper, concerns are mounting in parts of Europe, Africa and Latin America, as food and fuel prices are rising amid Russia’s ongoing special operation in Ukraine.

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⬇️ 🇺🇸 The Biden administration continues to play down the possibility of the US facing a recession in the near future amid warnings that the process may kick off in just a matter of months.

📌 Last month, former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers suggested that America could experience a recession within the next 18 months, which he claimed would be “a consequence of the excesses” that the country’s economy has been through.

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🇯🇵 The Japanese government considers relaxing restrictions on exports of secondhand military equipment including tanks and missiles and explores the possibility of such supplies to Asian countries free of charge, Japanese press reported on Sunday citing sources.

▪️ Provisions allowing the country to send secondhand equipment to other nations could be included in an updated National Security Strategy, which is set to be released by the Japanese government until the end of this year, sources told Nikkei, adding that this measure should strengthen Japan's military cooperation with other countries in the region amid China's growing military power.

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❗️Tanzania's Precision Air plane en route from Dar es Salaam to Bukoba crashed into Lake Victoria in Tanzania.

❗️The crash reportedly occurred due to a bad weather.

❓There is no immediate information on how many passengers were on board.

👉A rescue operation is underway.

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❗According to preliminary reports, at least 53 people (49 passengers and 4 crew members) were aboard the plane that crashed into Lake Victoria in Tanzania.

⚡️Ukrainian troops have shelled the Kakhovskaya HPP with 6 HIMARS missiles, hitting the dam lock; there is destruction, local emergency services report

😨 Former US President Donald Trump said on Sunday he doubted the country could survive the two remaining years of President Joe Biden's term, alluding to the failures of his administration.

💬"This country — I don't know if it's going to live for another two years that's what is happening. So you've got to get out and vote for this man [Republican candidate Mehmet Oz]. He is a good man," Trump said at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania ahead of the upcoming midterm elections.

▪️Trump stressed that the US "has never been so bad as it is right now," noting Washington's weakening standing in the world.

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❗️Russian MoD's briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️Russian Forces eliminated up to 200 Ukrainian troops, as well as destroyed eight Ukrainian tanks, nine armored combat vehicles and eight pick-up trucks in the Kharkov region;

▪️Russian Forces eliminated up to 250 Ukrainian troops, as well as destroyed four Ukrainian armored combat vehicles, one Ukrainian Grad MLRS, one Ukrainian self-propelled artillery station and twelve other vehicles in the DPR and in the LPR;

▪️Russian Forces eliminated up to 100 foreign mercenaries and militants from Ukrainian Nazi formations, as well destroyed 10 Ukrainian armored combat vehicles in the DPR;

▪️Russian Forces eliminated up to 70 Ukrainian servicemen, as well as destroyed one Ukrainian tank, an infantry combat vehicle, four pick up trucks and two US-made M777 howitzers in the DPR;

▪️Russian Forces eliminated more than 50 Ukrainian servicemen, as well as destroyed eight Ukrainian armored combat vehicles, two Ukrainian artillery systems and ten other vehicles in the Kherson region;

▪️Russian Air Forces hit a Ukrainian command post and 67 Ukrainian artillery units at their firing positions in the DPR;

▪️Russian Forces eliminated a Ukrainian ammunition depot, as well as destroyed a Ukrainian Msta-B howitzer and two other Ukrainian vehicles in the Zaporozhye region

▪️Russian Forces hit a Ukrainian artillery ammunition depot, eliminating up to 120 HIMARS rockets, 250 Smerch rockets and two transport-charging vehicles;

▪️Russian Air Forces shot down one Ukrainian UAV in the Kherson region;

▪️Russian air defense destroyed 16 Ukrainian UAVs, as well as intercepted six HIMARS rockets, two Olkha rockets, one HARM rocket and one Tochka – U ballistic missile.

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British King's Counsel Alper Ali Riza, in an article for a European newspaper, alleges the US and Europe are behind the unleashing of the Ukrainian crisis.

▪️ Riza believes that the EU and Washington could have prevented the conflict before the start of the hostilities.

💬 "A wiser and more pragmatic British government, under strong American leadership, could have deterred Russia from taking decisive steps, instead of unwisely insisting on the sovereign right of every country to join NATO, regardless of Moscow's security concerns", Ali Riza says

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⚡️Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a meeting with members of Russia’s Security Council next week, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says