“I opened the door and smoke was everywhere”

📹WATCH: Local residents describe how Ukrainian troops shelled a residential building in Donetsk

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Head of US Nuclear Forces Claims Ukraine ‘Just a Warmup’ for ‘Very Long’ Struggle With Russia, China

US Navy Adm. Charles Richard, the head of US Strategic Command, recently warned the US would soon face a protracted conflict with China unlike anything it’s faced before.

“We have to do some rapid, fundamental change in the way we approach the defense of this nation,” Richard said at a Navy symposium last week.

“This Ukraine crisis that we’re in right now, this is just the warmup,” he said. “The ‘big one’ is coming. And it isn’t going to be very long before we’re going to get tested in ways that we haven’t been tested in a long time.”

Richard warned “the ship is slowly sinking” because China is fielding new capabilities faster than the United States, which will soon find itself outnumbered and outclassed on the battlefield.

🚨🚨 Air Raid Warnings Issued in Several Regions of Ukraine - Authorities

Air raid warnings have been issued in the Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Dnipropetrovsk and Nikolayev regions of Ukraine, according to the online air raid alert map of the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation.

Air raid sirens also sounded in Kiev-controlled areas of Russia's Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.

🇺🇸US Midterms: A look into seven key Senate battlegrounds

With the start of the mid-terms just hours away, Republicans are reportedly poised and ready to try to win control of the evenly divided US Senate.

Here’s a closer look into the seven states which are seen as Senate battlegrounds in the midterm race.

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🌏COP27: Will rich nations walk their 'loss and damage' talk or sweep it under rug again?

The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as the Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP27), kicked off on November 6 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, with participants of the event agreeing on Sunday to discuss whether wealthy developed countries should compensate vulnerable states for climate-related disasters.

"Loss and damage" is a general term used by UN climate negotiators to refer to the impact of developed nations that have emitted most of the carbon dioxide historically fuelling climate change, on poorer nations that have not contributed significantly to the problem, but nonetheless suffer from it.

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📹The Russian Defense Ministry has published footage showing 152mm Giatsint towed cannon crews training in the Leningrad region

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South Korea Says It Recovered Wreckage from DPRK Missile Test That Landed in Its Waters

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Tuesday that it had recovered pieces of a short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) test-fired by the North last week. The weapon allegedly crossed the Northern Limit Line (NLL), a line in the Yellow Sea that is recognized by Seoul, but not by Pyongyang, as the maritime border between the Koreas.

According to media reports, the wreckage was retrieved from the seafloor using a drone submersible.

🇪🇺More than a quarter of Europeans say they are in a "precarious" financial state and half fear they soon will be, according to a new poll.

▪️The six-nation survey by Ipsos for French poverty NGO Secours Populaire (People's Aid) found that 27 percent were in financial dire straits, defined as "one unexpected expenditure could change everything," while 55 percent said they had to be careful with spending to avoid getting into the same position.

▪️It also found that 54 percent of 6,000 people polled in France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland and the UK had seen the purchasing power of their income fall over the past three years.

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‼️JUST IN | Trump Reveals 'Big Announcement' to Come in Mid-November

The former president informed supporters at his Monday rally in Ohio that he will be "making a very big announcement" on November 15 at his Mar-a-Lago estate.

"We want nothing to detract from the importance of tomorrow," he said.

📹WATCH: Mortar crews manned by personnel called up as part of the partial mobilization have participated in combat exercises (video courtesy of Russia’s MoD)

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🇺🇸 🇰🇵The US government is drafting a resolution for the UN Security Council to increase sanctions pressure on North Korea, and is also considering deploying an aircraft carrier in the Sea of ​​Japan should North Korea conduct a nuclear test, the Japanese media reported, citing sources.

▪️ In particular, the draft resolution may include a restriction on the export of oil and oil products from North Korea, as well as sanctions against the Lazarus hacker group, which is allegedly associated with the North Korean regime.

▪️ In addition, it is not ruled out that if the draft resolution is not approved, the United States, Japan and South Korea will impose unilateral sanctions against North Korea.

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📹 😅 A Washington State man was caught on video running into a plate glass window as he attempted to get away with stolen luxury goods, knocking himself unconscious.

▪️ The brazen robbery reportedly happened in broad daylight at a Louis Vuitton store in Bellevue.

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🤔 Former US congressman Ron Paul said in an op-ed that the Republican Party must promise to end the unrestricted flow of funding to Ukraine if its candidates win congressional majorities in the midterm elections.

🗣 "First, Republican Party leadership must vow to end the massive money spigot opened by the last Congress for Ukraine," Paul said in the opinion piece published by the EurasiaReview on Monday. "This would be a move strongly supported by the Republican base."

▪️ Paul characterized the conflict in Ukraine as a proxy war between Russia and the US-led NATO alliance. Ending the conflict would reduce the "dangerously high" possibility of global nuclear war, Paul said.

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❗️ West continues to create conditions for strengthening Taliban's* radical wing - CIS anti-terrorist center

▪️ Deteriorating situation in Afghanistan increases risk of destabilization of situation in Central Asia - CIS anti-terrorist center

*the organization is under UN sanctions for terrorist activities

🇷🇺 🇺🇸 US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said during a think-tank event that US officials recently had an opportunity to engage with the Russian government at senior levels to reduce risk and convey the consequences of the potential use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine.

▪️ American media reported that Sullivan has been conducting confidential talks in recent months with Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov and Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev. The Kremlin and the White House declined to confirm that such talks took place.

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🧐 The United States may face a major shift in political life after the upcoming midterm elections because the level of trust in Congress and the media continues to decline, Washington-based Eurasia Center Executive Vice President Earl Rasmussen told Sputnik.

👉 Check out more on Rasmussen’s analysis of the upcoming elections

🙅‍♂️ China has canceled a video message from European Council President Michel criticizing Russia's special operation in Ukraine and calling for a reduction in trade dependence on China, which was scheduled to be shown at the opening of the CIIE international trade exhibition in Shanghai last week.

▪️ Michel's spokesman confirmed that the European side had provided, at the request of the Chinese authorities, a recorded address from the head of the European Council, which ultimately was not shown.

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📹 Russia’s FSB has published footage showing the detention of SBU saboteurs in Kherson region

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