🇷🇺 WWII Liberation of Kiev: How Nazi defenses came crashing down

Monday marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Kiev by the Red Army after nearly two-and-a-half years of brutal occupation by the Nazis and their collaborators during World War II. The surprise offensive was unexpected by the Axis after the bloody battles at Kursk in the summer of 1943.

🎞 Check out Sputnik’s video for unique historical footage, photos and facts about how the battle for Kiev unfolded.

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Whilst Australian Prime Minister Albanese is enjoying tax payer funded overseas trips to the US & China, trouble is brewing at home.

The powerful Labor-Greens coalition in Australia which helped Albanese come to power is now turning against the PM over his support of Israel against Palestine.

Deputy leader of the Australian Greens Senator Mahreen Faruqi brought the "people's protest" into Parliament storming out of the Senate with a group of 11 Federal Senators.

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 Latest updates on the Palestine-Israel conflict

▪️Blinken arrives in Turkiye for another key meeting amid Israel-Hamas conflict after his unannounced Iraq visit

▪️Hamas calls on UN to visit Gaza hospitals to deny their use for military purposes

▪️The US Ohio-class strategic nuclear submarine has arrived in the Middle East

▪️Israeli military strikes 450 aerial targets, takes control over Hamas compound in past 24 hours

▪️UN aid agency for Palestinian refugees has lost 88 employees to the Gaza conflict in the past four weeks

▪️Israeli military said 75 trucks carrying aid entered Gaza from Egypt in the past 24 hours

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🇷🇺🪖 Russian D-30 howitzer crews destroy Ukrainian command and observation post in Artemovsk (Bakhmut) direction

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🪖 'Ukraine is out of cannon fodder and so is NATO': Former US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Chas Freeman highlights rift within NATO over Ukraine military aid

“There are divisions over Ukraine [within NATO] and they are growing, not decreasing. That’s because it’s become obvious at this point that Ukraine has lost territories… and may lose more territory.

"If the whole program was to fight to the last Ukrainian, and you are running out of Ukrainians, you don't have a policy," Freeman stressed.

This comes as the head of the Zaporozhye region said that the Ukrainian counteroffensive in this direction has been completely stopped, the Ukrainian forces are "exhausted", and only agony remains.

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🇷🇺🇰🇿 Putin expected in Kazakhstan on November 9, President Tokayev’s press office says

The news come almost a week after Emmanuel Macron paid an official visit to Kazakhstan.

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Western Sanctions on Russia: A Tool Employed Selectively, Asserts Indian External Minister

🇮🇳 Indian External Minister Subramanyam Jaishankar, in an interview with Italian media, asserted that Western sanctions on Russia are selectively employed, giving the false impression of global consensus that does not align with reality.

❗He highlighted that restrictive measures are predominantly utilized by Western countries as a convenient tool to serve their foreign policy objectives.

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🇯🇵 Japan may ‘sacrifice’ its own defense industry interests in favor of US as it cuts costs

A collapse in the yen is forcing Japan to scale back a historic five-year plan costing 43.5 trillion yen ($290Bln).

One of the goals of boosting defense spending was the desire to promote the development of the national defense industry by expanding purchases of products made by Japanese companies for the self-defense forces. However, by all accounts, "this is exactly what the Japanese will have to economize on now," Oleg Paramonov, Senior Researcher of the Institute for International Studies told Sputnik.

Japan will probably sacrifice the interests of its own defense industry in favor of continued purchases of American weapons, said the expert.

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🇷🇺 Kremlin to Sputnik on reports that Vladimir Putin made decision on 2024 Russian presidential elections: President yet to make statement on this issue, start of campaign not announced yet

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🇷🇺🪖 Russian Lancet loitering munition destroys Ukrainian communications station

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 Israel launched airstrike on Gaza's only psychiatric hospital, Palestinian foreign ministry says

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☃️ Ukraine is “preparing for the most terrible winter,” the country's Foreign Minister Kuleba said in an interview with German media.

“Ukrainians are buying candles and “preparing for the worst winter.” We try to protect our power plants as best we can. But Russians are learning. They will once again test our endurance with their missiles,” he said.

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

▪️The Russian Army repelled six Ukrainian attacks in the Kharkov region, with Ukrainian losses in the Kupyansk direction amounting to up to 135 servicemen

▪️Russian forces repelled two Ukrainian attacks in the Donetsk direction, eliminating up to 200 Ukrainian servicemen

▪️Russian troops prevented five attempts by Ukrainian forces to land on the left bank of the Dnepr River in the Kherson direction, eliminating up to 130 Ukrainian servicemen

▪️Russian air defenses intercepted two HIMARS rockets and shot down 23 Ukrainian UAVs

▪️Ukrainian losses amounted to up to 100 servicemen in the Krasny Liman direction, 115 servicemen in the South Donetsk direction and up to 160 servicemen in the Zaporozhye direction

▪️Russian forces repelled one Ukrainian attack in the Rabotino area

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🇷🇺🪖 Russian artillerymen hit Ukrainian troop positions near Belogorovka

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🗣️ On Ukraine losing the West’s sympathies:

"Regardless of what's happening in Ukraine and again, our commiserations and sympathies to Mr. Zelensky, who has fallen off the front pages, nice and shivering in his Kiev office, no one's visiting him anymore. It was a stage where he was as popular or Kiev was as popular destination as Epstein's island for various Western leaders. Not anymore. So, Ukraine is now kind of yesterday's problem. It's not going to go the way the West want. They backed a loser," Phil Kelly, Belfast-based political commentator and socialist activist, told Sputnik.

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🇵🇸🇺🇸🇮🇱 Antony Blinken has little to show for his three-day Middle East diplomatic push

Israel, Jordan, the West Bank, Iraq, and Turkiye were the stopovers made by the US secretary of state in a flurry of activity ostensibly aimed at preventing further regional fallout from the Palestine-Israel conflict. However, America’s top diplomat elicited a tepid response.

Blinken had pressed Israel to agree to “humanitarian pauses,” but his call was publicly dismissed by Tel Aviv. Representatives of Israel's Arab neighbors in one voice reiterated calls for an “immediate ceasefire” as they faced Blinken in Jordan, urging him to “stop this madness.”

However, wrapping up his diplomatic back-and-forth, the secretary of state doubled down on the US stance that it would not push for a ceasefire.

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🇷🇺🪖 Russian artillerymen hit Ukrainian troop positions near Berestovoye

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🇵🇸 Hamas political leadership offered ‘clemency' for hostage release by Israel in secret talks

The fate of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza has prompted Israel to offer an incentive for political leaders of the militant group, US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh wrote on Substack.

“We’re holding out clemency for the Hamas political leadership - giving them a chance to surrender the hostages and cling to life,” a source told the Pulitzer Prize-winner.

Sy Hersh wrote that Yahya Sinwar, who now directs the political wing of Hamas and his colleagues have been told that if they want to survive, they must “release the Israeli hostages and agree to begin holding immediate war-crime tribunals.”

“The thought was that if they agree to try their own people and order them executed, they will be given their lives while also exonerating Israel for the war,” an American official was quoted as saying.

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