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❗️If NATO supplies Patriot complexes to Kiev and provides its personnel, they will immediately become a legitimate target for Russian forces, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said amid Pentagon's statement saying that the US doesn't rule out providing Patriot surface-to-air missiles to Ukraine.

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⚡️The US does not plan to supply its Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine yet, but it will continue consultations - Pentagon

"I don't think the weapons that have been sent already to Ukraine have been tracked that well, just sort of like a fire-and-forget kind of mentality that, hey, we did a good thing, we sent all these weapons over there," the Director of Veterans for Peace Garett Reppenhagen said.

💬"In Afghanistan, we developed a special program to track these systems. And that program wasn't necessarily sync up to the systems that were used in the United States. So obviously, due to power failures and other issues in Afghanistan and then just the habit of using analog records and the lack of an ability to have those systems match up, Afghans were just basically going back to paper and pencil to record all these systems and then later had to manually data enter those."

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🇨🇳China Launches Shenzhou 15 Manned Spacecraft

🚀China launched Shenzhou 15 manned spacecraft on Tuesday from the Jiuquan Cosmodrome in northwestern Gansu Province, it will take a crew of three to the Tiangong Orbital Station, the launch is broadcast by China Central Television.

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‼️Pentagon: No Plans to Provide Patriot Missiles to Ukraine

The United States does not have any plans at this time to provide Patriot surface-to-air missile systems to Ukraine, Defense Department spokesperson Pat Ryder said on Tuesday.

"Air defense continues to be a top priority for the Defense Department and for the international community when it comes to supporting Ukraine. In terms of any type of Patriot battery from the US, right now, we have no plans to provide Patriot batteries to Ukraine, but again, we’ll continue to have those discussions," Ryder said during a press briefing.

Advanced systems such as the Patriot missile system require significant maintenance and training, which is accounted for when determining what aid to provide Ukraine, Ryder said.

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🤔Why G7's Muddled Plan to Cap Russian Oil Prices is Bursting Apart at the Seams

The EU failed to agree on price caps on Russian seaborne crude oil again on Monday, even though the mechanism is due to enter into force on December 5.

What's behind the controversy, and has the plan been reasonable from the start?

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🇺🇸🇮🇷 US advances to knockout stages after beating Iran in 1-0 match

"The commanders use us as cannon fodder”

📹WATCH: Ukrainian troops complain to their government about the conditions of military service.

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NATO Chief Stoltenberg Claims Constructive Dialogue With Russia Not Working

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday that the constructive dialogue with Moscow, which, according to him, the alliance had been building for many years to strengthen the NATO-Russia Council, is currently dysfunctional.

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💬“These corporations are set up to deal with logistics and personnel. And the government bases the military, provides a fixed contract with that company and then they wash their hands of the whole situation and say this is between the company and their employees. And typically these bases, like when I was in Iraq in the middle basically of a war zone, we brought foreign nationals in provided by Kellogg, Brown and Root,” Director for Veterans for Peace Garett Reppenhagen said, commenting on media reports that thousands of workers have allegedly been trafficked into jobs on US military bases by private contractors.

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Turkey May Launch Syria Ground Operation at Any Moment, Presidential Spokesman Says

Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin stated in an interview with the national press that Ankara may start a ground operation in Northern Syria and Iraq when it sees a need.

"The time, scale and boundaries of the operations of the Turkish Armed Forces are determined by Ankara... The operation can begin tomorrow, next week, even later, at any time. The situation is being assessed by the Turkish military and intelligence," Kalin said.

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‼️Air raid warnings issued in two regions of Ukraine - ministry

Russian 3D Digital Twin Modeling Could Improve Oil Production

According to scientists at Volgograd State Technical University (VolgSTU), the developed methodology of digital twins will increase the strength of steel ropes used in oil extraction without the need for expensive preliminary testing.

Russian scientists have used computer modeling to discover a solution to one of the oil industry's principal headaches.

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Traffic Jam: Chinese Academics Find Starlink Satellites Routinely Break Space Safety Rules

Elon Musk has laid out plans to launch tens of thousands of small satellites into orbit to facilitate the Starlink global high-speed internet service, but the proposal has raised eyebrows of many space-faring countries, including the US military.

A study recently published in the Chinese peer-reviewed journal Radio Engineering has determined SpaceX routinely disregarded some of the basic rules of orbital safety with its Starlink satellites. If China doesn’t follow suit, it risks being left behind in the rapidly accelerating new space race.

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There is no evidence that Tehran intends to develop nuclear weapons, reviewing its participation in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Vladimir Yermakov, director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Non-Proliferation and Arms Control Department, said in an interview with Sputnik.

💬"Iran has been and remains a conscientious participant in the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. The conclusion of the JCPOA in 2015 helped to finally and irrevocably remove all the questions that the [International Atomic Energy Agency] had to Tehran at that time...After that, for several years Iran remained the most verified state among agency members. No deviations from its obligations were identified...There is no evidence that would indicate Tehran's intention to ever reconsider its participation in the NPT and start developing a nuclear explosive device." Vladimir Yermakov said

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A footage of Russian forces performing combat training in Belarus

The fighters improve their shooting skills by hitting targets that simulate fire points and manpower of a mock enemy.

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⚡️🇵🇰 At least 21 people injured in a blast that targeted a police patrol in Quetta city, Pakistan's province of Balochistan.

According to preliminary data, a suicide bomber set off an improvised explosive device near a polio vaccination site, which was supervised by police.