🇷🇺💰 Zelenskys’ Crimea apartment sold at auction for more than $450,000, proceeds go to supporting Russian troops

An apartment outside Yalta registered to Olena Zelenska, the wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, has sold at auction for the equivalent of about $475,000. The upscale digs, located in the village of Livadia on Crimea’s south coast in the ‘Imperator’ residential complex, was nationalized by Crimean authorities back in May. The auction’s winner offered the equivalent of $475,000 for the apartment – about $214,000 more than the starting price.

Crimean parliament chief Vladimir Konstantinov previously indicated that proceeds from the sale of the property of Ukrainian politicians in Crimea would be spent to support soldiers involved in the military operation in Ukraine and members of their families, and for the development of the peninsula’s cities.

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 Massive debris after Israeli strikes pulverized Gaza may offer a protective “cover” for Hamas militant group’s infrastructure hidden in underground tunnels, Andrey Koshkin, a retired colonel and expert of the Association of Military Political Scientists, told Sputnik.

To some extent, this rubble may present an obstacle for the IDF amid its expanded ground operations in the enclave, said the expert.

However, he added that if Israeli military determine that Hamas militants or infrastructure are hidden under the debris, bombs will be used that can blast through the wreckage to reach the target.

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🇺🇸 In an interview with US television that aired on Sunday, US Vice President Kamala Harris assured American voters that US President Joe Biden is still “very much alive” as she deflected a question about the president’s increasing age.

"Joe Biden is very much alive and running for re-election,” Harris told journalist Bill Whitaker, adding that she does "not have time for parlor games."

An increasing number of Americans have said they are worried about Biden’s age. One poll last month found 52.21% said they were “very concerned” and another 22.1% said they were “somewhat concerned” about the 80-year-old leader’s cognitive health.

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🇮🇱 Israel will not agree to a ceasefire with Hamas; calls for a ceasefire mean calls for surrender, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu stated.

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🇰🇪🇬🇧 UK's King Charles III is visiting Kenya on October 31, however against the backdrop of British colonial rule in the African region this visit could be met with much contempt.

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

▪️It is necessary for Israel to maintain normal relations with Russia, the Israeli Minister of emergency unity government said.

▪️Israel will not agree to a ceasefire with Hamas; calls for a ceasefire mean calls for surrender, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu stated.

▪️Israel will not allow fuel into the Gaza Strip, despite requests from humanitarian organizations and the UN, the IDF spokesman stated.

▪️Israeli tanks are seen approaching Gaza city, key road between the north and south of the enclave has been cut, AFP reports

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❗️ LIVE: Putin Holds Meeting on Middle East

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❗️Putin: US elites and their satellites are the main beneficiaries of global instability

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🗣️ On the internal conflict in the US showing that the Americans are being tired of spending money on foreign conflicts:

“The conflict that is going on, that the American people are sick and tired of sending billions of dollars to foreign countries to blow people up for profit, when there are people in this country who are suffering: the homelessness crisis is out of control; Lahaina in Maui is still in rubble and ashes; Flint, Michigan, still doesn't have clean water; the education system is in the toilet. And we're sending billions of dollars to Ukraine, for what? I think the American people are sick of that,” Misty Winston, radio host and political commentator, told Sputnik.

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❗️The American world with one hegemon is getting destroyed and is gradually going to the past, but the US do not want to agree with this, Putin said, adding that the USA wants to contain and destabilize its competitors using chaos.

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❗️The key points from Putin's speech at the security council meeting on the Middle East crisis:

▪️We see that in the Middle East, instead of punishing terrorists, they began to take revenge based on the principle of collective responsibility.

▪️They are trying to use the situation in the Middle East for division, including the use of lies, provocations, and aggression.

▪️When you look at dead children, the suffering of the old people, and the death of medicines in the Middle East, your fists cling, but emotions are not acceptable.

▪️The USA needs constant chaos in the Middle East, so they discredit those who are ready to stop the bloodshed. Even the UN is being persecuted.

▪️Russia’s position on the Middle East has never been self-interested and it has never had a double bottom: the key to the solution lies in the creation of a full-fledged Palestinian state.

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🇵🇸 More children have now been killed in Gaza over the past three weeks than perished in conflicts across the globe during any year since 2019.

That’s according to a report by Save the Children, a London-headquartered international children’s rights non-profit.
Per the charity’s figures, based on data from the Gazan and Israeli health ministries, some 3,195 children were reported killed in Gaza since the October 7 escalation, with another 33 perishing in the West Bank, and 29 in Israel, for a total of 3,257.

That’s far more than the number of children killed in any other armed conflict across some 20 nations throughout 2023, and the highest number since 2019, the charity says.

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❗️Putin on the recent events in Dagestan: they were inspired through social networks from Ukraine and through Western intelligence services.

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❗️Putin suggested that those who are worried about Israel should investigate the work of American intelligence services in Ukraine.

"I’m not sure that all the high-ranking curators of Kiev know what their charges are doing, inciting pogroms in Russia," Putin said.

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🇷🇺 Putin: It is the duty of a real man to fight Nazism during a special military operation, defending the Russian Federation, the future of the world, including Palestine.

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If battlefield losses continue to mount, the Ukrainian military may attempt to use ‘dirty bombs’, explains Sputnik correspondent Russell Bentley (@TXDPR).

Last week, the head of Russia’s arms control delegation in Vienna, Konstantin Gavrilov, warned that the “Kiev regime, with the support of Washington and its satellites, is preparing and implementing dangerous chemical provocations against the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in violation of obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention.”

Since March 2022, the Russian Defense Ministry has released several reports providing evidence of an extensive US biological laboratories program in Ukraine.

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🗣 Larry Johnson has commented on Putin’s speech on the Middle East crisis and the Sunday riots in Dagestan

The expert concurred with the Russian President in the view that the US has been attempting to control the entire world by encouraging instability. Johnson compared the US with “a drowning man in the ocean who’s frantically without a life jacket trying to grab hold of something, anything to stay afloat,” stressing that the US has been desperately struggling to maintain its hegemony.

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🗣️ On Russia and China’s role in resolving conflicts:

“Russia has adopted, from what I've seen, a very balanced position. They condemned the Hamas terrorist attack, the terrible suffering of the Israelis in the attack, but they've also condemned the Israeli actions and the terrible loss of life that they’ve caused. And they're trying to play it neutral, which is what the US – the US has failed at diplomacy over the years in that conflict by serving as Israel's lawyer and pumping all that weaponry into the Israelis... So, I think Russia and China are stepping in. And we see this elsewhere in the Middle East,” Jeremy Kuzmarov, managing editor of CovertAction Magazine and author, told Sputnik.

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❗️ The Israeli army continues to expand its ground operation in the Gaza Strip, introducing additional forces there, an IDF spokesman said