🇷🇺🪖 Russian forces destroy Ukrainian DANA self-propelled howitzer

Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🇷🇺🪖 Russian UAV crews from Battlegroup Yug wipe out Ukrainian forces and field storage sites near Spornoye

Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🇹🇷🇮🇱 Turkiye will label Israel as a “war criminal” for its actions in Gaza, Erdogan says

💬 "Israel, we will also declare you as a war criminal to the world, we are preparing for it, and we will introduce Israel to the world as a war criminal," Erdogan told the thousands who had gathered to express support for the Palestinians.

Slamming the Western world’s politicians and their media for legitimizing the “massacre of the innocent people” in Gaza, Erdogan denounced the West as the “main culprit behind the massacre unfolding in Gaza.”

According to the Turkish leader, Israel was being used as "a pawn" in the region, which could be "sacrificed" later.

Referencing the recent resolution overwhelmingly passed in the UNGA calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, which both Israel and the US rejected, Erdogan reiterated a call to the Israeli government “to open the doors of dialogue to establish peace.”

Subscribe to @SputnikInt

💰 Gold soars past $2,000

Geopolitical unrest, particularly the recent Palestine-Israel escalation, has ignited a 10% surge in gold value, outshining investments in the S&P 500.

Central banks globally are eyeing increasing their gold reserves, signaling gold's continued allure as a safe asset amid global uncertainty.

Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🇵🇸🇮🇱 More than 3,300 children have been killed in the Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip; a thousand more have been buried under rubble, Palestinian health officials say

Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🇷🇺🪖 Key points of Russian MoD briefing on progress of special military op in Ukraine

▪️Russian forces repelled two Ukrainian attacks in the Kupyansk direction, eliminating up to 165 servicemen

▪️Russian troops repelled two attacks by Ukrainian assault groups in the Krasny Liman direction, eliminating up to 70 servicemen

▪️Ukrainian losses in the Donetsk direction amounted to 100 servicemen, with two UAV control points destroyed

▪️Russian forces repelled four Ukrainian attacks in the South Donetsk direction, eliminating 130 servicemen

▪️Russian air defenses brought down 44 Ukrainian UAVs

▪️The Russian Army destroyed a Bukovel electronic warfare station near the Komsomolskoye settlement in the Zaporozhye region

Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🇺🇸 Donald Trump vows to reimpose travel ban targeting Muslim countries if he gets reelected in 2024

💬 “You remember the travel ban? On day one I will restore our travel ban. We had a travel ban because we didn’t want people coming into our country who really love the idea of blowing our country up,” Trump told the annual summit of the Republican Jewish Coalition on Saturday. At the rally, the 45th POTUS also took a dig at the Biden administration’s “weakness,” promising to “restore peace through strength,” while also preventing “World War III.”

Back in 2020, Joe Biden overturned his predecessor’s ban, while decrying an unacceptable rise in Islamophobia.

Subscribe to @SputnikInt

Ukraine Watch was created to expose the truth and break censorship.

🎙 Daily translations of Russian and Ukrainian TV : Subnoscriptd & Dubbed into English with precision

📝 Expert analysis of the economic, political and social situation — operatively translated.

🗝 Historical perspectives and hidden facts of Ukrainian history.

⚡️ Up to the minute news from the front.

Ukraine Watch: Facts without the fluff.

Scott Ritter: Israel faces ‘near impossible task’ in Gaza

💬 "Simply trying to navigate the rubble-strewn streets of Gaza will be a nearly impossible task for the Israeli troops. The going will be slow, and the Israeli infantry will have to operate dismounted, exposing themselves to sniper fire and ambushes. Israeli vehicles will find themselves hemmed in without the ability to maneuver, making themselves vulnerable to mines, improvised explosive devices, and anti-tank weaponry. Close air support under these circumstances will be very difficult, effectively neutralizing Israel’s greatest advantage," Scott Ritter, military analyst and former US Marine Corps intelligence officer, pointed out.

Israel has conducted a series of ground incursions into Gaza over the past week, each building on the last and increasing in scope and scale. This appears to be part of an Israeli strategy to gradually build up to an operation that, when completed, will fall just short of a general assault on Gaza, according to the analyst.

Check out his full analysis on Sputnik's website

Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🎙Check out the latest AfroVerdict podcast episode as Sputnik Africa joins the world in raising awareness about strokes and ways to deal with them.

🏦🇬🇧 The Bank of England (BoE) is anticipated to predict an increased risk of a recession for the UK economy in the months ahead.

The upcoming meeting of the BoE’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) on November 2 is expected to:

• Revise down its estimates for gross domestic product (GDP) both for the second half of this year and for early 2024.

• Forecast an unemployment outlook of around five percent in the upcoming months - a surge up from 3.5 percent registered last year.

• Retain the key interest rate at 5.25 percent for a second consecutive meeting, despite inflation remaining high.

Britain is experiencing the worst inflation challenges among the Group of Seven, with the inflation rate at 6.7 percent in September.

👉Follow the link for more details

🇪🇺 Despite the EU claiming it may soon find legal leverage to use profits generated from Russia's frozen assets to aid Ukraine, this is empty talk, Jacques Sapir, director of studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), and Dmitry Golubovsky, analyst at Zolotoi Monetnyi Dom, told Sputnik.

Per the experts, the EU does not have a legal framework for "stealing" Russia's frozen assets or profits generated from them. What's more, such a move would be disastrous for the bloc's reputation and would immediately alienate high-profile global investors, according to Sputnik's interlocutors.

"If the EU implements what could be called a 'legal theft', the EU’s financial reputation would be ruined among non-Western countries. I don’t see investors from the Gulf States or from India or China to be very comfortable with this situation," stressed Jacques Sapir.

👉 Follow the link for more details

🇮🇱 Israel will amend a 2016 counterterrorism law to give the state government the right to designate individual individuals as terrorists, according to a joint statement issued Sunday by Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Justice Minister Yariv Levin.

The new amendments will strengthen administrative measures that can be used against terrorists and terrorist organizations, and are aimed at solving problems related to recruitment, financing and money transactions for terrorist purposes, the statement added.

Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🇮🇱🇵🇸 Latest updates on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict:

▪️Israel strikes near Al-Quds hospital in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Ministry stated.

▪️Israel reportedly reopened the second water pipeline to the Gaza Strip.

▪️The United States demands that weapons transferred to Israel be used under the "laws of war" to protect civilians from attacks, White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan stated.

▪️Turkey will label Israel a “war criminal” for its actions in Gaza, Erdogan says.

▪️The Czech defense minister calls for the country's withdrawal from the UN over the Gaza ceasefire resolution.

▪️50,000 Australians marched in Melbourne today in support of Palestine.

▪️Israel will amend the law to designate individuals as terrorists, the authorities stated.

Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🇷🇺 Call sign Matryona, a female medic serving in the assault corps of the Skiff Battalion (BARS-35), described her experience surviving an attack by a Ukrainian kamikaze drone.

💬 "I was evacuating the wounded from the front lines in this vehicle when a kamikaze drone struck us as we approached the hospital. I got shrapnel in my eye and suffered a concussion… It was hard to get myself together at first... But then we kept moving, taking the fighters to the hospital for further evacuation," the medic said.

The Ukrainian kamikaze drone took the life of one of the soldiers and inflicted severe injuries on another three. Even after sustaining injuries herself, Matryona displayed remarkable courage by providing aid to her comrades in need.

👉 Follow the link for more details

🇮🇱 Israel reconsidered its original plan regarding a ground assault targeting Hamas in Gaza after receiving advice from American officials, including Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin, a US report has claimed. The initial blueprint for an Israeli ground invasion of Gaza to go after Hamas ostensibly left US officials “alarmed.”

Subsequent brainstorming between the two allies prompted Israel to refrain from a full-scale invasion of the enclave in the wake of Hamas’ attack on October 7, US sources were cited as saying.

As a result of “war planning” between Israel and top US officials, the IDF was prompted to embark upon “more limited ground incursions” into Gaza, in line with a “phased” approach, as per the report.

👉 Follow the link for more details