📹WATCH: Russian Tor-M2U SAM system destroys Ukrainian target, as part of the special military operation in Ukraine.

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Riddle of High-Speed Plasma Jets Shooting From Galactic Nuclei Solved by Astronomers

🔭A team of astronomers led by Ioannis Liodakis from the University of Turku has managed to gain new insight into the nature of blazars – active galactic nuclei that emit jets of magnetized plasma pointing nearly towards the observer.

Using the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) – a space observatory that is a joint venture between NASA and the Italian Space Agency – Liodakis and his colleagues took a closer look at a blazar called Markarian 501 located over 300 million light years away.

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📹 Russia's MoD has published footage showing airborne troops' exercises in the rear area of special military operation

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📹 More than 50,000 migrants have died since 2014 in the pursuit of a better life abroad, whereas their countries of origin, transit or arrival have done little "to eliminate the consequences of these tragedies, let alone prevent them", according to a report from the International Organization for Migration’s Missing Migrants Project

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👉 Follow our LIVE UPDATES on the Ukrainian crisis

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🗣"It's scary of course. But what else can you do? Someone needs to defend our homeland."

A student from the Lugansk People's Republic tells how he has been watching atrocities by the Ukrainian army since 2014. Now he is 19 and has voluntarily joined Russian forces

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"On your forehead or on your leg?": A DPR soldier returned from Ukrainian captivity showed where the letter "Z" had been carved on his body. The man was scarred by the Ukrainians during his torture.

📹 A submarine of the Russia's Pacific Fleet took part in a drill during which it launched Kalibr cruise missiles at targets both at sea and on the coast: the first missile hit a target simulating an enemy ship, the second missile flew more than a 1,000 kilometers and hit a coastal target at the tactical field of Surkum in the Khabarovsk region in Russia’s Far East.

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⚡️Kremlin calls Kiev's readiness for peace incorrect interpretation, says de facto Ukraine not abandoning intention to return Crimea by military means, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says;

Kremlin on Zelensky’s words about returning Crimea: this is discussion of alienation of Russian territory, this is out of question, Dmitry Peskov added

Kanye West who has in the past expressed a desire to run for president in 2024 said that former US President Donald Trump "started screaming at him, telling Kanye that he's going to lose" when they were having dinner together in Florida.

The rap music artist released his first two-minute campaign video on Twitter on Thursday in which he lambasted Trump

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❗️The Nord Stream 2 pipeline’s damage has been revealed in recent footage shown by Danish TV.

While Denmark and Sweden have barred Russia their probes of the incident, the Russian Foreign Ministry has underscored that the investigation can only be considered reliable and objective if Moscow participates in it.

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📹"Crush everything! Anyone who wanted to leave here has left and we do not need those who remained." A resident of Lisichansk, LPR described the callous attitude of Ukrainian forces towards civilians and said the city was shelled almost every day before Russian forces appeared.

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⚡️ Circumstances of execution of Russian prisoners of war in Ukraine should be investigated, those responsible should be brought to justice - UN OHCHR

🇨🇲⚽️🇷🇺 Cameroonian Footballer Gael Ondoua Performs at World Cup in Boots Bearing Russian Flag

▪️ The player has said a number of times that Russia is his second home because he has lived in the Russian Federation since he was nine and is a citizen of both Cameroon and Russia.

🗣 "None of the organizers paid attention to the Russian flag on my boots. It can't be taken away from me because I feel like both a Cameroonian and a Russian," the 27-year-old athlete explained to Sputnik.

▪️ The footballer began his career in the youth team of Moscow team 'Lokomotiv'. He also played for the capital's 'CSKA', Lugansk’s 'Zarya' and Makhachkala’s 'Anji'.

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Greta Thunberg Leads Hundreds of Youths in Suing Swedish State for 'Illegal' Climate Policy

Researchers have warned that the Swedish and North European climate movement has become more radical disrupting public events, blocking roads, gluing themselves to runways at airports and blockading plants and industrial facilities. The latest move from the protesters is a lawsuit against the Swedish state from 600 young climate activists led by Greta Thunberg which will be filed on Friday 25 November.

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

▪️The Russian Air Force struck three points of temporary deployment of Polish mercenaries in the Kharkov region, up to two hundred militants were destroyed;

▪️In the DPR, the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed more than a hundred mercenaries, as well as one tank, two armored combat vehicles, and eight cars;

▪️As a result of an attempted offensive in the LPR, up to 30 Ukrainian servicemen, three infantry fighting vehicles, and four armored vehicles were destroyed;

▪️Near Krasny Liman, LPR, Russian troops conducted a preemptive attack on Ukrainian positions. The Ukrainian regime lost up to 70 militants, one tank, four armored combat vehicles, and two pickups;

▪️As a result of an unsuccessful attack in the DPR by Ukraine, up to 60 Ukrainian servicemen, two tanks, and three infantry fighting vehicles were destroyed;

▪️During a counterattack attempt in the Zaporozhye region, more than 50 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored vehicles, and two pickups were destroyed;

▪️Russian troops hit six enemy control points in the Kharkov region, the LPR, and the DPR, as well as 67 artillery units in firing positions, manpower, and military equipment in 164 districts;

▪️In the DPR, a US-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar station was destroyed. In the Zaporozhye region, a warehouse of rocket and artillery weapons of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed

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WATCH LIVE | Fans and tourists gather at Doha fan zone ahead of Qatar vs Senegal World Cup Match

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📹Russian Su-25 attack aircraft strike Ukrainian positions (video courtesy of Russia's MoD)

As a result of the air strikes camouflaged fortified field positions and armored vehicles belonging to the Ukrainians were destroyed.

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