The Russian Ministry of Defense showed footage of the destruction of Ukrainian equipment and personnel by drones in the DPR

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🇷🇺 🌍 Russia's approach to African countries has always been the same, believes Nelson Mandela's great-grandson

"They don't ask about, 'Oh we did this during the struggle for liberation for South Africa. So what are you doing for us?' They say, 'No, we are still here as your friends'," Mayibuye Melisizwe Mandela told Sputnik Africa.

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🇫🇷 France has conducted a successful test-launch of a strategic ballistic missile without nuclear warhead, the French Defense Ministry has announced.

The missile landed in the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean a few hundred kilometers off the coast, the statement read.

The statement added that the test-launch had been carried out with strict observance of France's international obligations.

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The IDF claims to have carried out an operation at a Hamas military base belonging to the organization’s military intelligence unit. The IDF purportedly located ammunition depots and seven rocket launchers.

"IDF soldiers of the Paratroopers Brigade, together with the Armored Corps, Engineering Corps and the Israeli Air Force, operated in the Sheikh Ijlin and Rimal areas in order to identify and destroy Hamas infrastructure and assets. During the operations, the soldiers located approximately 35 tunnel shafts as well as a large number of weapons and eliminated terrorists," the statement said.

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🇷🇺 On November 19, Russia marks the Day of Missile and Artillery Troops. These forces remain “the most important military branch that is used in the special military operation in Ukraine,” Moscow-based military expert Alexei Podberyozkin told Sputnik.

According to him, these troops’ missions include high-precision strikes on fortified areas of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Russia currently uses a variety of artillery and missile equipment in the special operation zone, including self-propelled and towed howitzers and mortars, multiple launch rocket systems, plus operational-tactical missile systems equipped with ballistic and cruise missiles.

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

▪️ The losses of Ukrainian troops in the direction of Donetsk exceeded 240 servicemen per day;

▪️ The attack of the Azov* special forces brigade was repelled by the Russian Armed Forces in the direction of Krasnoliman;

▪️ Russian troops in the south Donetsk direction hit the personnel and equipment of four Ukrainian brigades;

▪️ Russian troops hit ammunition depots in the Kirovograd and Kiev regions;

▪️ Russian troops destroyed Ukrainian aircraft fuel depots at the Kanatovo airfield in the Kirovograd region;

▪️ Losses to Ukrainian forces south of Donetsk amounted to up to 145 military personnel;

▪️ Russian air defense systems intercepted 2 projectiles from the HIMARS and Olkha systems, destroyed 31 Ukrainian drones within 24 hours;

▪️ Ukrainian losses in the Zaporozhye direction amounted to more than 100 military personnel per day.

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🇷🇺 On the occasion of the Day of the Russian Missile Forces and Artillery, the Russian Defense Ministry released a video showing spectacular footage of the professional combat work of the servicemen of the Armed Forces.

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🌐 🇷🇺 Putin is expected to attend the online G-20 summit hosted by India on 22 November - reports

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🇷🇺 Russia’s Lancet drones viewed as ‘scourge on the battlefield’ for Ukraine

A sophisticated version of Russia’s Lancet kamikaze drone – also referred to as loitering munition – is becoming an increasing threat to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a US media outlet has reported after analyzing a video released by the Russian Armed Forces.

It appears that the newer Lancet's warheads blow up in the air before firing explosively formed penetrators, such as slugs of molten metal, toward the target, something that helps the Russian unmanned aerial vehicle to evade Ukrainian defenses, according to the outlet.

The drones are used in the Russian special operation zone to target various Ukrainian military assets, including howitzers, armored vehicles, and multiple launch rocket systems, as well as command and observation posts and troops.

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The ship captured by the Houthis near Yemen is not Israeli and there are no Israelis among its crew, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said

🗣 "The hijacking of a cargo ship by the Houthis near Yemen in the southern Red Sea is a very grave incident of global consequence. The ship departed Turkey on its way to India, staffed by civilians of various nationalities, not including Israelis. It is not an Israeli ship," the IDF reported on its Telegram channel.

Earlier on Sunday, Sabereen News reported that the Ansar Allah movement (Houthis) ruling in northern Yemen may have seized the Galaxy Leader, an Israeli-affiliated ship with 22 crew members, in the Gulf of Aden.

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❗️An Australian communist attending a free Palestine rally in Sydney today has called for Australia to "eject US bases" from its territory.

🗣 "Working class Australians and the poor must storm the US bases and not give into slavery of the US Empire."

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Does TikTok support Palestine?

In the United States, several Washington lawmakers have accused the Chinese network of shaping the views of American youth on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The administration of TikTok has refuted this and, armed with sociology, has claimed that the problem is not the algorithms but that young people support Palestine and nothing can be done about it.

Content with the hashtag “freepalestine” has already received 27.3 billion views, while content with the hashtag “standwithisrael” has only 484.1 million.

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🇮🇱 Three of Israel's seven reconnaissance aerostats, which could have warned the Israeli authorities of Hamas' October 7 attack, were inoperable that day because of the government's alleged failure to upgrade and maintain the equipment, Daily Mail reported, citing security sources.

The inoperable spy balloons made Israel's defense line along the Gaza border vulnerable. The failure to operate the aerostats may be attributed to insufficient funding.

The aerostats, equipped with a payload of cameras, sensors and spyware, have long been a key part of Israel's early warning system, and had they functioned properly, the outcome of the Hamas attack might have been different, the newspaper reported.

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📹 Epic protests for the 6th week in a row supporting Palestine blocked several kilometres of main roads in the heart of Sydney's CBD today as Sputnik explains.

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

▪️The number of civilian deaths in the enclave since October 7 has exceeded 13,000, 5,500 of them are children, according to the Gaza Strip authority;

▪️More than 6,000 people in the Gaza Strip are considered missing; they could not be found under the rubble of buildings after the bombing, enclave authorities say;

▪️More than 100 Hamas members were arrested in several days, including three participants in the October 7 attacks, Israeli military said;

▪️Israeli army says it carried out operations at a Hamas military base, found depots of weapons, rocket systems;

▪️The IDF says it detected about 10 mortar rounds targeted at Israel's Shlomi from Lebanon, retaliating fire at Lebanese territory.

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❗️Tens of thousands of angry Sydney locals have turned their anger towards the ruling Australian duopoly of the Liberal & Labor parties over the perceived failure in Australia's foreign policy on the Israel-Palestine war.

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🇺🇸 Divisions are brewing within the Democratic camp over Washington's support to Israel's Gaza war

At the weekend, Senator Bernie Sanders called to condition Israeli aid on certain demands, which included significant pauses in the ground operation; no re-occupation or blockade of the Gaza Strip; ending settler violence and expansion in the West Bank; and a commitment for a two-state solution after the war.

Even though Vice President Kamala Harris earlier stated that the White House is "not going to create any conditions on the support that we are giving Israel to defend itself," the pressure within the Democratic party is growing with more and more Dems calling for a ceasefire.

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