🔥 A chemical plant is on fire in Pamukkale in Turkey’s Denizli province, with explosions heard. The cause of the fire has not yet been established, while factory workers have been evacuated and firefighters are trying to localize the fire

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🎥 Combat firing of Russian artillery (video courtesy of Russia's MoD)

The precision of firing has been helped by drones called "birdies". The "Zoo" radar complex is also used by artillery units for reconnaissance of the positions of enemy fire weapons, calculating the trajectories of shells and missiles, adjusting the fire of friendly fire weapons, and tracking airspace.

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❗️ Russian MoD’s latest statements on the Ukraine crisis:

▪️ Eight armored vehicles and five motor vehicles of the Ukraine Armed Forces were destroyed while they were being loaded onto railroad transport in the Dnepropetrovsk region as a result of a high-precision strike by the Russian Air Force.

▪️ All attacks in the Kupyansk direction have been repulsed by the Russian Armed Forces. More than 50 Ukrainian servicemen, 1 tank, 2 armored personnel carriers, and 1 pickup truck were eliminated.

▪️ Russian artillery fire struck two Ukrainian company tactical groups in the Krasny Liman direction. The firepower's operation has resulted in scattering the enemy units. More than 30 Ukrainian servicemen, 2 armored vehicles, and 3 pick-up trucks were eliminated.

▪️ In the South Donetsk direction, 2 Ukrainian counterattacks have been repelled by artillery strikes and actions by Russian assault groups in the DPR. More than 50 Ukrainian servicemen, 2 armored fighting vehicles, and 1 infantry fighting vehicle were eliminated.

▪️ Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops, and artillery neutralized eight Ukrainian strongpoints in the Kharkov region, in the DPR, and in the Kherson region.

▪️ The Russian air defenses down 7 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over the past 24 hours. Moreover, 2 HARM anti-radar missiles were intercepted in the Kherson region.

▪️ Some 333 airplanes and 177 helicopters, 2,572 unmanned aerial vehicles, 390 air defense missile systems, 6,866 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 904 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 3,624 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 7,395 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.

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⚡️Meeting of Turkish, Finnish and Swedish foreign ministers on NATO membership will be held on Tuesday in Bucharest, Turkish Foreign Minister Cavusoglu said.

🗣 "Bucharest will host a trilateral meeting tomorrow with the foreign ministers of Sweden and Finland. Some obligations under the Madrid Memorandum have been fulfilled, some have not yet been fulfilled. In particular, concrete steps have not yet been taken to extradite Kurdistan Workers' Party members and a number of necessary amendments to the legislation on combating terrorism. The process is moving in a positive way, but a number of concrete steps are needed, especially from Sweden", Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu added

🇯🇵 Japan is going to make 50 small optical and radar satellites over the next two years to monitor military targets and their movement from a low altitude, a Japanese newspaper reported on Monday

🛰 Optical satellites will be able to take high-quality photos and videos of the Earth's surface in good weather during daylight hours, and radar satellites, will take radar images regardless of the time of day and weather conditions, the newspaper added.

The Japanese Defense Ministry planned to create a hypersonic weapons detection network of Russian and Chinese design, but the first test device will be launched no earlier than 2027 because of the complexity of manufacturing an infrared sensor, the newspaper said

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⚡️ Norwegian ambassador summoned to Russian Foreign Ministry due to arrests of Russian citizens

▪️ The ambassador was told that such a practice is inadmissible.

▪️ Russia calls on Norway to stop persecuting Russian citizens on the basis of nationality.

▪️ Earlier, Norway’s Court of Appeal decided to keep the son of the ex-head of Russian Railways, businessman Andrey Yakunin, under arrest after having been detained for illegal filming using a drone in Svalbard.

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🗣 The new US Ambassador to Russia may soon be approved. "It's very important to Biden that the US embassy in Moscow stay open and operational," US Chargé d'Affaires to Russia, Elizabeth Rood, said.

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🟩 Green activists have launched a new bid to bring London to a standstill over the busy Christmas season in their latest protest against fossil fuels.

▪️ Just Stop Oil, a spin-off from Extinction Rebellion well-known for vandalising famous artworks, began 17 days of roadblock protests on Monday.

▪️ The first reported incident came from The Strand, a main road running along the north bank of the Thames in central London, where around a dozen people walked slowly down the middle of the street holding banners.

▪️ Another protest took place in Shepherd's Bush, a busy junction of several major routes through west London.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸The meeting of the Russian-US bilateral consultative commission on the New START, scheduled to take place in Cairo on Nov 29- Dec 6, has been postponed, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
▪️Meanwhile, the US State Department has reportedly said it is ready to reschedule the meeting "at earliest possible date". ▪️ Signed in 2010, the New START is a nuclear arms reduction treaty between Russia and the US, aimed at halving the number of strategic nuclear missile launchers.

🇧🇪 📹 The police have taken to the streets in Belgium to demand "zero tolerance" for violence against officers. The reason for the protest is the November 10 murder of a policeman in Brussels.

▪️ At the same time, the media, politicians, and activists have previously accused the Belgian police of being too harsh on those participating in protests, especially young people.

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⚡️ The Russian Aerospace Forces have launched a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket loaded with a satellite from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome for the Ministry of Defense, Russia's MoD says

Iran Rejects US Accusations of Involvement in Attack on Oil Tanker Near Oman, Reports Say

The spokesperson for Iranian Foreign Ministry, Nasser Kanaani, rejected all the US accusations of its involvement in the attack on the oil carrier near the shores of Oman and called them baseless, the Iranian media reported on Monday.

Kanaani said that Iran had much strength to take responsibility for its actions and acted with courage, thus it rejected absolutely baseless accusations of the United States, media reported.

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⚡️ Russia’s ambassador to Canada tells Sputnik that he has been summoned to the country's Foreign Ministry

Pentagon Accuses PRC of Militarizing Space, Threatening US Supremacy

The director of staff of the US Space Force has accused China of posing a growing threat to America in the race for military supremacy in outer space.

“I think it’s entirely possible they could catch up and surpass us, absolutely,” Lieutenant-General Nina Armagno said, speaking at an event hosted by a Sydney-based think tank on Monday. “The progress they’ve made has been stunning, stunningly fast.”

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🦠 The monkeypox virus now has a new preferred name, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), and will be called simply mpox

The WHO announced that after receiving complaints that the present name was "racist and stigmatizing," mpox would be used in conjunction with monkeypox for a period of one year.

🙈 Monkeypox will thereafter be eliminated from vocabulary.

The WHO advised media and medical organizations to use the new nomenclature as well

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🇧🇷 🇨🇭 Brazil beat Switzerland 1-0 to reach World Cup last 16

🇨🇲 🇷🇸Cameroon came back from two goals down to draw with Serbia 3-3

😍 📹 Awwww

🐶 Work hard - bark hard!

😊 Just take a look at this adorable Chihuahua named Buddy who works the whole shift and helps its master, who works as a courier, to deliver all items safely and on time

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