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

▪️In the Kupyansk area, two attacks by Ukrainian forces were repelled in the Timkovka area;

▪️in the Krasny Liman region, clusters of manpower and equipment of the Ukrainian forces were defeated. Ukrainian losses amounted to 90 soldiers;

▪️In the Donetsk and South Donetsk directions, Ukrainian losses amounted to 280 people. A Ukrainian ammunition depot was destroyed in the area of the settlement of Bogatyr;

▪️In the Zaporozhye area, three attacks by Ukrainian troops were repelled in Rabotino and Novoprokopovka. Ukrainian losses amounted to 80 people, three tanks, and five infantry fighting vehicles;

▪️In the Kherson direction, up to 30 Ukrainian soldiers were destroyed;

▪️Five aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force (Su-27, two MiG-29 and two Su-25) were shot down.

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🇮🇷 Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Mohammad Eslami on Wednesday condemned Israel for threatening to use nuclear weapons against the Gaza Strip, stressing that this also means that Israel has admitted to possessing nuclear arms.

He added that it was high time for international organizations, especially the UN, to take decisive action against Israel, which he said is a grave threat to global peace and security, adding that the Iranian atomic chief also urged the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, to take an independent approach within the framework of nuclear non-proliferation.

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🇳🇱 The Netherlands will supply Israel with F-35 spare parts despite war crime risks, a Dutch newspaper reported, citing government sources.

The ministry's lawyers warned that Israel could be violating the laws of war, as it has already used F-35s to bomb Gaza. But blocking the delivery could seriously damage relations with both Israel and the United States, the media reported.

The Dutch Foreign Ministry told the newspaper that the export of goods to international partners in the F-35 program was "not restricted."

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An explosion occurred at a metallurgical plant in southern Turkiye. Over ten people are reported injured.

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📹 “There's no military reason to be hitting the center of Donetsk like this. It's inexcusable, it’s just terrorism,” Sputnik correspondent Russell Bentley (@TXDPR) reports from Donetsk following a Ukrainian attack on civilian infrastructure in the city yesterday.

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🙅‍♂️💵 No money - no elections

📹 Zelensky asked the West to fund Ukraine's elections last August. After his request was refused, he now claims it's not the right time to hold the ballot.

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📹 The Israeli army showed footage of the liquidation of Hamas tunnels and rocket launching positions

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📹 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shows his true colors?

🗣 “Israel is a bulwark for us... it’s almost like having an aircraft carrier in the Middle East. If Israel disappears, Russia and China will control 90% of the oil in the world and that would be cataclysmic for US national security,” RFK Jr. said.

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📹 Vladimir Putin knelt next to child cancer patients during a special visit to an oncology hospital

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🇺🇸 Humanitarian aid to Kiev may cease completely as the US has no funds left for direct budget support, the relevant American department reported.

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📈 BRICS is going to prevail over the G7 by 2040 as far as political and economic influence goes, a recent report showed.

The forecast suggests an expanding workforce and ample room for playing technological catch-up will boost BRICS’s share in the global economy to 45% by 2040, more than double the weight of the Group of Seven major advanced economies.

The study also foresaw that the recent enlargement of BRICS and its ambitions would help the group successfully challenge global US dominance and dethrone the dollar as the world’s primary currency.

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🪖 More women may be drafted in the Ukrainian military, as Kiev reportedly mulls the step after losing 90,000 soldiers in its botched counteroffensive.

Roughly 43,000 women currently serve in the nation's armed forces - a 40% increase since 2021, according to the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense. Restrictions preventing women from serving as machine-gunners, tank commanders and military truck drivers have also been lifted while the age limits for female recruits increased from 40 to 60.

While connoscripting women is nothing new, in Ukraine, new female recruits would be thrown into the conflict's meat-grinder, as the Ukrainian Armed Forces lacks soldiers, ammo, equipment and morale amid the stalled counteroffensive.

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Is there a weapon that could solve Ukraine's problems?

🖖"I imagine he [Zaluzhny] watched Star Trek and said, "You know, some phasers and photon torpedoes would be nice, that'd do the job"

Garland Nixon, host of our podcast The Critical Hour and Mark Sleboda, international relations and security expert discussed General Valery Zaluzhny's recent interview.

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The Palestinians in the West Bank witness the genocide and ethnic cleansing of a captive population in Gaza and know they are next, according to professor Mazin Qumsiyeh, a Palestinian nonviolent activist, Bethlehem resident.

"Since October 7th, the occupation army and settlers have already slaughtered 163 Palestinians in the West Bank. The situation is expected to worsen. Israel has blocked our cantons and arrested or kidnapped over 2,500 Palestinians. These political prisoners, now totaling over 11,000, are being subjected to torture through physical abuse and denial of food and medicine. The mood among Palestinians is bitter and angry. It is difficult for us to comprehend how the US government and its Western allies have colluded, collaborated, and funded this carnage for 75 years."

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📹 Could Iran and US tensions escalate amid the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

🗣 "Someone once joked, who put Iran in the middle of all of our bases. It's that silly and so it's meant as a deterrence on the one hand, but on the other hand it provides an Achilles heel really because it exposes U.S. forces to counterattack if necessary," Michael Maloof, former Pentagon senior security policy analyst told Sputnik.

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📹 A chemical plant is burning in Texas, eyewitnesses share footage of a giant column of black smoke. The authorities are evacuating people.

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🐼🇨🇳 The end of panda diplomacy

China is repatriating pandas amid reports of an upcoming meeting between Xi and Biden in San Francisco on the sidelines of the APEC forum.

Three giant pandas, long residents of the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, are returning to their homeland in China after 23 years in the United States.

China has been using pandas for diplomatic purposes since 1972 when its leader Mao Zedong promised two animals to the 37th US President Richard Nixon.

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On October 7, some 40 Israeli teenagers were killed at the Re'im festival and 32 captured in Hamas attacks.

Meanwhile, on the Palestinian side, over 4,000 children have been killed during the month-long conflict.

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

▪️Release of 10-15 hostages of Hamas in exchange for 1-2 days of humanitarian pause in Gaza discussed as part of Qatar-mediated talks;

▪️Israeli airstrikes kill 18 people in Nuseirat refugee camp in central part of Gaza Strip, according to reports;

▪️Israel's refusal to cease fire for several hours prevented Russian hostages from being released, the Hamas' spokesperson told Sputnik;

▪️Death toll among UNRWA staff in Gaza Strip increases to 92, according to UNRWA.

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🗣 Ukraine is a lost case for the West

"How are you going to win this war? Because the soldiers are not there anymore. And recently they also made a campaign in France for new mercenaries. So they are desperate. They're really desperate", independent journalist, writer Sonja Van Den Ende told Sputnik.

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❗The US Defense Department has confirmed its MQ-9 Reaper drone was shot down in the international airspace off the Yemen coast, media reported, citing a senior US defense official.