🇮🇱🪖 Are Israeli mercenaries leaving Ukraine en masse?

Here's what Scott Ritter, military analyst and former US Marine Corps intelligence officer, told Sputnik:

"There are reports that Israeli citizens who are serving with Ukrainian armed forces are leaving Ukraine and heading back to Israel, I have no independent way of verifying such reports. However, if these Israelis have a reserve duty obligation and are considered to be of potential when it comes to combatant duties, then it is very likely that they would be seeking to return to Israel, especially at this time of a general mobilization in Israel.

This is a very difficult time for Israel and one would expect that all available manpower will be drawn upon. The interesting thing is it comes at the time of the collapse of the Ukrainian combat cohesiveness on the line of contact with Russia, where Russia has taken advantage of gaps in Ukrainian manpower to push forward aggressively in an offensive manner. And it would seem that Ukraine is not in a position to release any manpower, even if they are Israelis heading back to Israel in the aftermath of the Hamas attack."

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🇷🇺 The Russian Energy Week 2023 international forum opens in Moscow

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 Hundreds of casualties, including children, have been taken to Dar Al-Shifa hospital in the Gaza Strip, a Sputnik correspondent has reported.

Earlier, the Red Crescent movement said that the Gaza Strip blockade has led to a collapse of healthcare, with hospitals open to casualties for only four hours a day.

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🇷🇺 Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) head Alexander Bortnikov takes aim at Ukraine-NATO collaboration

▪️There are 17 training camps in the EU for Ukrainian militants under the patronage of NATO intelligence services

▪️Western intelligence agencies and NGOs are recruiting international terrorists and mercenaries for Ukraine’s forces

▪️The goal of the US and NATO is to militarily expand into CIS territory. Ukraine has become a staging ground where terrorists and mercenaries learn the methods of modern warfare and then use this expertise in other CIS countries

▪️13 European PMCs and members of 9 paramilitary proxy formations are involved in hostilities against Russia in Ukraine

▪️Daesh* and other international terrorists are part of sabotage and reconnaissance groups sent from Ukraine to carry out attacks and acts of terrorism against Russia

▪️The plans of Ukrainian military intelligence and its British bosses to sabotage nuclear power plants in Russia should be qualified as nuclear terrorism

▪️As a result of Ukrainian sabotage, the No. 2 power unit of the Kursk nuclear station was shut down in an emergency

* Daesh (ISIL/ISIS/Islamic State) is a terrorist group outlawed in Russia and a number of other countries

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🇵🇸🇮🇱Aftermath of strike on Deir al-Balah in central Gaza Strip

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🇸🇰 Robert Fico will become the new Prime Minister of Slovakia, and Peter Pellegrini will take over as President of the National Council. Representatives of the parties Smer-SD (the winner of the election), Hlas and the the conservative SNS  signed a memorandum of understanding and agreed to conclude a coalition agreement.

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❗️🇵🇸🇮🇱 Israeli Army has no accurate data on death toll in Kfar Aza; there was a massacre of women, elderly, children, an army spokesman has told Sputnik

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 Upscale Al-Rimal neighborhood in Gaza before and after Israeli shelling

The photos were taken one day apart.

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🇧🇪Belgium to set up €1.7bn Ukraine aid fund using Russian frozen assets, Belgian PM says

Alexander de Croo said that Belgium plans to transfer to Ukraine “all funds received from taxation of profits from Russian assets”, these funds will be used to purchase weapons, humanitarian aid, to finance the EU civilian mission for Ukraine, as well as macro-financial assistance.

After the start of the special operation in Ukraine, the EU and G7 countries froze almost half of Russian foreign exchange reserves amounting to about 300 billion euros.

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❗️British Foreign Minister James Cleverly arrives in Israel, local media reports

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