🇨🇳 China's military has escorted the American destroyer USS Hopper out of its territorial waters in the South China Sea after it illegally entered them, the Chinese army has reported.

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Israel will resume military action in Gaza Strip if Hamas fails to release second group of Israeli hostages by midnight, according to reports.

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🇮🇱 Israel's Foreign Ministry denies alleged violations of deal with Hamas on truce, hostage swap

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Wait, what??

📹 According to Ukraine's official version, Kiev's withdrawal from the Istanbul peace negotiations with Moscow was solely due to the Bucha "massacre", but suddenly it turns out that Bucha was just a cover for the decisions of the British government and Zelensky to continue the war.

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Gazprom's ‘Power of Siberia’ gas pipeline hits historic record

“On November 23, the Chinese side submitted an application for Russian gas via the ‘Power of Siberia’ pipeline, which exceeded our daily contractual obligations once again. Gazprom has exported the requested volumes in their entirety and has set a new all-time record of daily gas deliveries to China,” the company announced in its social media.

The supplies are being carried out as part of a bilateral long-term gas purchase-sale agreement between Gazprom and China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC). 2023 alone has already seen Gazprom overperforming its contractual liabilities several times.

Last year, Gazprom exported 15.4 billion cubic meters through ‘Power of Siberia’. In 2023 the company expects to reach 22 billion. By 2025, the investment project aims to increase the supply volume up to 38 billion cubic meters on an annual basis.

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

▪️Egypt has received positive signals from all parties to the conflict in the Gaza Strip to extend the truce in the enclave so as to release more hostages, the Al Qahera News broadcaster reported on Saturday;

▪️The Egyptian authorities are engaged in talks on extending the ceasefire for several more days to release both hostages in the Gaza Strip and Palestinian detainees from Israeli prisons, the report said;

▪️Israeli prisons authority has received a list of 42 Palestinian prisoners due to be released on Saturday as part of a deal with Hamas, according to reports;

▪️Egypt, Qatar in talks with Israel, Hamas to solve the problem of release of group of hostages, according to a broadcaster, citing sources;

▪️Israel's Foreign Ministry denies alleged violations of deal with Hamas on truce, hostage swap.

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Could Ukraine conflict have ended in a month?

🗣 "I think it is clear that the US and UK both wanted Ukraine to leave the negotiating table and continue to fight over the Donbass. Boris Johnson’s persuasion was key to the abandonment of the 2022 peace process. (…) Johnson is an excellent public scapegoat for both the UK and the US. I expect he won’t be the only one, as rogue military officer and others in Ukraine will also be blamed for giving 'bad' advice to Zelensky," retired US Air Force Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, a former analyst for the US Department of Defense, told Sputnik.

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Volodymyr Zelensky has claimed that Ukraine has made an agreement with its Western partners on obtaining military ships to convoy vessels in the "grain corridor" in the Black Sea. He reportedly said this at the "Grain from Ukraine" conference in Kiev.

However, Western countries have not stated earlier their intention to hand over such ships to Ukraine.

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🇺🇸🇩🇪 US-German 'peace talks plot' shows West on brink of losing Ukraine

The two Western powers are reportedly trying to force Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into entering into talks with Russia, per German newspaper Bild.

Washington and Berlin have reportedly kicked off a plot to push Ukraine for negotiations with Russia by slashing military supplies to Kiev and leaving Volodymyr Zelensky with little if any options, according to the German publication.

According to Bild, there is also a plan B envisaging a frozen conflict that would solidify a new quasi-border between Ukraine and Russia along the contact line.

What's behind the report and its timing? Check out Sputnik's article to find out

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The Russian Aerospace Forces launched a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with a satellite from the Plesetsk space center for the Russian Defense Ministry, the ministry told reporters.

🗣 "On Saturday, November 25, at 23:58, from the Plesetsk State Test Cosmodrome of the Defense Ministry of the Russian Federation in the Arkhangelsk Region, combat crews of the space forces of the Aerospace Forces launched a Soyuz-2.1b... with a spacecraft in the interests of the Russian Defense Ministry," the ministry said.

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Israelis praise hostage release but still determined to uproot Hamas, according to Mideast experts

Hamas released thirteen Israeli hostages on Friday and 14 more are due to be freed on Saturday as part of a deal with Tel Aviv.

The four-day truce in the Gaza Strip kicked off on Friday at 8:00 am (GMT+2). As part of the agreement, Hamas will have to return 50 hostages taken during the October 7 attack in exchange for 150 Palestinian women and minors held in Israeli prisons.

On Friday, Hamas freed over two dozen hostages, including 13 Israelis, 10 Thai farm workers and a Filipino. Israel, for its part, freed 39 Palestinians while over 130 humanitarian aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip.

What do Israelis think of the agreement? Check out Sputnik's article to find out

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Second Group Of Hostages, Consisting Of 13 Israelis, 4 Thai Citizens, Making Its Way Through Egypt To Border With Israel - Israel Defense Forces

🗣 "Red Cross representatives have just transferred the hostages to Egypt. According to the information that was received by the IDF, 17 hostages were released, including 13 Israeli hostages and 4 Thai hostages. The released hostages' convoy is currently making its way through Egypt to the meeting point at Kerem Shalom," IDF said on Telegram.

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🇦🇺🇵🇭 Australia and Philippines launch joint naval patrols in South China Sea

The patrols involving vessels from both navies are expected to be conducted from November 25 through 27.

The Armed Forces of the Philippines and Australia have launched their first joint maritime patrol as part of the inaugural Maritime Cooperative Activity in the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone in the South China Sea.

According to a joint statement issued by Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles and Philippines’ Secretary of National Defense Gilberto Theodoro Jr., the Maritime Cooperative Activity “represents the practical implementation” of the Strategic Partnership signed between the two countries in September and will be held from November 25 through 27.

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🇮🇳 🚀 Aditya-L1 Space Station Nears its Final Stage

The spacecraft is expected to reach the strategic Lagrangian point L1 by January 7, 2024,S. Somnath, the head of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), said on Saturday.

From this vantage point, Aditya-L1 is expected to conduct critical observations of the Sun.

🗯 "Aditya is on the way. I think it has reached almost its final phase," the ISRO chief told Indian media.

The ISRO team is currently making incremental preparations for the spacecraft's crucial entry into the L1 point, he added.

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Detect and destroy!

📹 Footage of the combat work of the Su-30SM and Su-24M crews of the Black Sea Fleet off the coast of Crimea.

The pilots' task is to detect and destroy unmanned boats and high-speed landing boats of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Aviation from the duty forces destroy detected targets from aircraft cannons or using aircraft bombs.

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🎯 Caught and destroyed!

Footage of the combat work of the reconnaissance aircraft "Orlan-10" and 152-mm howitzers "Msta-B" of the Russian paratroopers in the Artemovsk region.

The "Orlan-10" drone revealed an ammunition depot and an observation post of the Ukrainian troops. After receiving the data from the aerial reconnaissance, the paratroopers took up a firing position and prepared the Msta-B howitzer for use. As a result of the joint work, the detected targets were destroyed.

The innoscription on the shell reads "For VDV, For Tula". VDV are Russian airborne troops, while Tula is the hometown of these Russian soldiers.

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🇬🇧 The BBC has "failed to report accurately" on the ongoing bloodshed in Gaza - "through omission and lack of critical engagement with Israel's claims," a group of eight BBC journalists from the UK claimed.

Because the BBC is essentially an "organ of the British government" and represents "Anglo-Saxon geopolitical and financial interests," the media outlet "is bound to be aligned at some level with Israeli positions," argued Come Carpentier de Gourdon, the convenor of the editorial board of World Affairs magazine.

“Therefore, I think it is inevitable that any major Western government-connected, or at least the mainstream media, to be in some way affirming that Israel, as the saying goes, has the right to defend itself and therefore has to do what it can to defeat its enemies when they attacked the state of Israel,” Gourdon remarked. “That is the situation and the position and the whole West is basically aligned on that.”

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🚀 The Russian Ministry of Defense has released footage of the launch of a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with a satellite.

"At the estimated time, the satellite was placed in the target orbit and the ground equipment of the Aerospace Forces Space Forces established control over it," the ministry noted, adding that the spacecraft's on-board systems were functioning normally.

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Davyd Arakhamia, the head of Zelensky’s Servant of the People party, has shed some light on the Russian-Ukrainian talks of March 2022, suggesting that it was then-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson who brought the negotiations to nothing.

"The unfolding 'truth-telling' by various players is actually aimed at removing Zelensky and ending the war with as little Western humiliation as possible," retired US Air Force Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, a former analyst for the US Department of Defense, told Sputnik.

Kwiatkowski's stance is shared by Dmitry Evstafiev, a political scientist and professor.

"It's easier for the West to boot Zelensky rather than persuade him to hold peace talks with Russia after the Ukrainian president legally prohibited bargaining with Moscow," he said, commenting on a report by the German newspaper Bild, which claimed that the US and Germany were considering a plan to force Zelensky to hold talks with Russia by cutting military supplies to Kiev.

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

▪️Hamas movement agreed to continue implementing the prisoner exchange deal with Israel after Egypt and Qatar conveyed Israel's assurances of commitment to all provisions of the deal;

▪️Israel released the second batch of 39 Palestinian prisoners who arrived in the West Bank in exchange for 13 Israeli citizens and 7 foreigners, including 4 Thai hostages who were released in response to efforts by the Turkish president;

▪️According to the IDF, significant progress has been made in efforts to free the second group of Israeli hostages from the Gaza Strip;

▪️The second group of hostages released from Gaza arrived in Israel, the IDF reported;

▪️The Israeli authorities have received a list of hostages to be released later today.

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Crews of Su-25 fighter jets of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed camouflaged fortified field positions and armored vehicles of the Ukrainian armed forces in the Donetsk region with missile air strikes.

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