🇨🇳 National flags are lowered in Beijing in connection with the death of former Premier Li Keqiang

His cremation will take place on Thursday. As a sign of mourning, flags are flown at half-mast on the central Tiananmen Square, the Great Hall of the People, the Chinese Foreign Ministry and other government institutions throughout the country.

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Elon Musk agreed that Ukraine can not defeat Russia in the current conflict

💬 "Unfortunately, this analysis is accurate," Musk wrote on social network X, responding to a post by billionaire David Sachs, who analyzed a Time article that said the conflict is "unwinnable" for Ukraine, Kiev's military goals are unrealistic, and Zelensky is "delusional." Because he is unable to recognize the real state of affairs on the front lines and will not consider peace negotiations with Moscow.

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Protected by reliable air defense

📹 The effectiveness of Russian air defense crews is impressive. Last month alone, they destroyed over 1,400 enemy air attack weapons, including 37 aircraft and six ATACMS operational tactical missiles.

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Ukraine is not successful?

🙃 Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus made a prank call to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, pretending to be the head of the African Union

📞 In the call (confirmed as authentic by the Italian government), Meloni said that all her European colleagues were already tired of Ukraine and explained that despite the Ukrainian counteroffensive, nothing had changed.

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🇮🇱 The Israeli army said it had clashed with terrorist cells in northern Gaza, killing 'dozens of terrorists'.

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Russia is concerned that the United States may expand the geography of its network of biological laboratories in Africa, Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador at Large Oleg Ozerov told Sputnik

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Ukrainian top general: 'We are in a stalemate, NATO textbooks were not much help'

The Ukrainian army's counteroffensive is in a stalemate, and a massive technological leap is needed to break the deadlock, Commander-in-Chief General Valery Zaluzhny has admitted in an interview with the Economist.

"There will most likely be no deep and beautiful breakthrough," he stressed.

The general also admitted that "NATO's textbooks" and "the calculations that Kiev made" to plan the counteroffensive did not help the Ukrainian forces break through the Russian defensive lines.

Earlier media reported that Zaluzhny and Volodymyr Zelensky are at odds, with the latter believing that Ukraine should press ahead with counteroffensive attempts while the veteran top brass officer urges caution.

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❗️400 US citizens will be allowed to exit to Egypt on Thursday, Gaza Strip authorities reported

Hunting down the Leopard

📹 Footage of the destruction of the German Leopard tank used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

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🗣 France's idea to create a coalition against Palestinian movement Hamas is fraught with further escalation in the Middle East, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Sputnik

On October 24, French President Emmanuel Macron proposed during his visit to Israel to create a regional and international coalition to fight Hamas.

The diplomat said that France should support Russia's position on necessity to focus on political and diplomatic ways to resolve the Israel-Palestine conflict if it "really wants to contribute" to efforts on stopping violence in the conflict area.

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🇷🇸 Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said he does not plan to form a future cabinet with the anti-Western and pro-Russian Serbian Radical Party (SRP) of Vojislav Seselj, but at the same time plans to maintain traditional relations with Russia and China on the way to the European Union

Vucic on Wednesday signed a decree to dissolve the Serbian National Assembly (parliament) and set early parliamentary elections in the country for December 17. Along with them, municipal elections in 65 cities and areas, including Belgrade, as well in the autonomous region of Vojvodina, will be held.

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🤔 Israel is discussing an option that would allow Hamas leaders to leave the Gaza Strip in exchange for the release of all hostages

Yedioth Ahronoth reports that this would allow the war to end in a short time. Otherwise, the military campaign could last for years.

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❗️Vladimir Putin signs bill revoking ratification of CTBT

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Key statements of Kremlin spokesman Peskov at the daily press briefing:

▪️This is not correct, the special military operation will continue consistently, all goals will be achieved, Peskov commented on the words of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine about the stalemate on the battlefield;

▪️Kiev must understand that they have no prospects of victory on the battlefield: the sooner they understand this, the sooner the situation can be resolved;

▪️Abbas's visit to Russia remains on the agenda, but due to the situation in the Middle East, it is still difficult to talk about dates;

▪️Russia is shocked by the data on civilian deaths caused by the Israeli bombing of the Jebaliya refugee camp in Gaza; humanitarian law must be respected.

▪️The The United States informed Russia of plans to launch a missile over the Pacific Ocean; the Kremlin made no comment on the failure of the launch.

▪️In There is already an understanding in the West that the sanctions imposed on Russia also affect their interests, but we don't wear rose-colored glasses, the pressure will increase.

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📹 Su-25 crews carry out strikes on enemy military objects and hardware

As a result of the strikes, concealed Ukrainian fortified field positions and hardware were destroyed.

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❗️ The Israeli army announced a strike on two anti-tank missile launch sites in Lebanon

🇺🇿🇫🇷 Uzbekistan intends to expand its partnership with the French uranium mining company Orano, the press service of the Uzbek president reported

Yesterday, Uzbekistan announced its readiness to increase exports of uranium to France.

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The Rafah checkpoint is ready to facilitate the transportation of injured civilians to Egypt for medical treatment, as per Khaled Zayed, the head of the Egyptian Red Crescent in North Sinai, who spoke to Sputnik

"Currently, five ambulances have arrived on the Egyptian side, and the process of transferring the wounded from the Gaza Strip to Egypt is ongoing. We anticipate that these injured individuals will be transported through the checkpoint in multiple stages."

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Amnesty International has confirmed that Israel used white phosphorus munitions in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon

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