🇫🇷🇶🇦 French President Emmanuel Macron is scheduled to pay a diplomatic visit to Qatar

Macron is expected to meet with Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani in Doha and discuss a variety of issues related to the conflict in the Gaza Strip, including ways to achieve a humanitarian pause in fighting, free more hostages and facilitate peace talks. At least four French nationals are believed to continue to be held hostage by Hamas.

The French president will be traveling to Doha from Dubai, where he arrived earlier in the week for the COP28 conference and reportedly discussed the Middle East crisis with several regional leaders on the sidelines, including Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Sisi.

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Russian servicemen attacked the assault groups of the Ukrainian troops who were trying to approach the positions of the Russian troops in the Kleshcheyevka area of the DPR.

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

▪️In the Kupyansk region, Russian forces repelled 18 Ukrainian attacks during the week. Ukrainian losses amounted up to 315 troops and two tanks;

▪️In Krasny Liman, 13 attacks by Ukrainian assault groups were repelled. Ukrainian losses amounted to over 950 soldiers;

▪️ In the Donetsk area, Russian forces repelled 17 attacks. Ukrainian losses amounted to over 1,680 military personnel and six tanks;

▪️ In the South Donetsk region, three attacks by Ukrainian troops were repelled. Ukrainian losses amounted to over 880 soldiers and one tank in a week;

▪️ In Zaporozhye, the Russian forces repelled 14 attacks. Ukrainian losses amounted to up to 315 soldiers and five tanks;

▪️ In the Kherson region, the enemy failed to land combat groups on the islands and the left bank of the Dnepr River. Ukrainian losses amounted to 450 soldiers and 23 boats.

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🇩🇪 German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall’s proposed armored vehicle production on Ukrainian soil may be unrealistic, Andrey Koshkin, retired colonel and expert at the Association of Military Political Scientists, told Sputnik.

He suggested that Germany could have been instructed by the US to let Kiev know that it wouldn’t be abandoned by its Western allies, and that Rheinmetal’s statement is little more than a politically-motivated push.

Koshkin also warned that the construction of this plant would pose a threat to Russia’s security, which is why the enterprise would be destroyed if built.

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Ukraine is sliding into authoritarianism because of Zelensky, Kiev's mayor has said.

🗣 “At the moment there is only one independent institution left, but it is under enormous pressure: local government,” Vitali Klitschko told Spiegel.

Klitschko also emphasized that for more than a year and a half since the beginning of the conflict, he had not had a single meeting or telephone conversation with Zelensky.

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🗣 The war in Gaza will last ten years if Israel intends to completely destroy the Palestinian Hamas movement, French President Emmanuel Macron said.

He also called on Israeli authorities to formulate their goal in the conflict more accurately.

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🇰🇿 Kazakhstan picked Su-30SMs jets over the French-made Rafales due to the advanced characteristics of the Russian aircraft, a US military magazine reported.

The media outlet in particular mentioned the Su-30SM’s ability “to fly much further and with a much greater weapons load” compared to the Rafale jets. In addition, the Su-30SM’s “situational awareness is considerably greater with its radar being approximately twice the size of the Rafale’s RBE2.”

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📹 The crews of Ka-52 attack helicopters of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed the control center and armored vehicles of Ukiranian forces in the Donetsk region

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‘Ukraine - bottomless pit’: MP slams Kiev's soaring demands amid growing crisis in Germany

Amid growing concerns about waning international support for Ukraine's "struggle," Kiev's financial appetites are sending shockwaves through German society.

Sarah Wagenknecht, a member of the Bundestag, expressed her dissatisfaction with the staggering 24 billion euro "gift" to Ukraine.

"Ukraine increasingly resembles a bottomless pit. According to the German government's own figures, it has directly transferred 24 billion euros in tax revenues to Ukraine during the conflict. This includes funds for weapons and contributions to the Ukrainian state budget," she stated.

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The Israeli army is resuming hostilities against Hamas at full strength, the country's defense minister has said.

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📹 Russian military drone operators launch precise strikes to destroy Ukrainian firing points and troops in the Lugansk region near Belogorovka village.

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

▪️The death toll from Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip since Friday has risen to 193, with more than 650 injured, the local Health Ministry said;

▪️A Palestinian doctor with Russian citizenship died as a result of an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on Friday, his relative told Sputnik;

▪️Hamas has said it has released all women and children held hostage by the movement in the Gaza Strip;

▪️Israel has recalled its negotiators from Qatar due to a "deadlock" in talks, according to Netanyahu's office.

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🇭🇺 Hungary’s Orban helps Europe with his stance on aid to Ukraine

While many in Europe seem convinced that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban wants to destroy the EU, that could not be farther from the truth, claims foreign policy analyst Gabor Stier.

“I believe that he is pro-European because he protects Europe’s interests by preventing it from spending lots of money on Ukraine, as we can see that this (spending) is pointless,” he says.

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🇬🇧 The UK is outpacing all other nations in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and leads the way in channeling substantial resources to perpetuate structural inequality in favor of the wealthy, according to a recent study by the Equality Trust, a prominent British charity.

The UK is spending a staggering £106.2 billion ($133.8 billion) a year to underwrite disparities in income, wealth and power, well above the OECD average, a recent study has concluded.

The study, noscriptd "Cost of Inequality," reveals that in contrast to the most egalitarian nations, the economic, communal, and individual toll of inequality in the UK is £128.4 billion ($161.8 billion) per year.

Priya Sahni-Nicholas, co-executive director of Equality Trust, emphasized that "inequality has made the UK a less healthy, less happy and less secure society than its more egalitarian peers".

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