Drones are the biggest danger in the special military operation zone

American Daniel Martindale, who provided Moscow with intel for strikes against Ukrainian military targets while in Ukrainian-controlled territory, stated in an interview with Sputnik that the greatest dangers in the conflict zone is artillery shelling and drone strikes.

"That's the biggest danger that we had to face when they came to evacuate me - was drones and artillery, mostly from drones. It took us about three or four hours to cover half a kilometer to go from my place in the village to the outskirts."

According to him, being in the Ukrainian-controlled area was a battle for survival.

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American Daniel Martindale, who was assisting the Russian Armed Forces while in Ukrainian-controlled territory, told Sputnik that he did not encounter any US citizens in Ukraine who could be suspected of gathering intelligence.

In response to a question about whether American generals, CIA officers, or other US intelligence personnel are operating in Ukraine, Martindale stated:

“I can't comment. The only thing I'm close that I came close to seeing there was a British guy who visited my village who was probably involved with intelligence. I didn't come across any Americans who you could even suspect of being involved with intelligence gathering.”

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Ukrainians would celebrate Russian troop entry, says US volunteer

Daniel Martindale, a US citizen who voluntarily aided Russian troops in the Ukrainian conflict zone, expressed confidence that the people of Ukraine warmly welcome Russian soldiers who are liberating settlements during the special military operation.

"When I left [from the territory controlled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces], the Russians had just arrived. They basically crossed the front line to evacuate me. So I didn't get to see how my neighbors greeted the Russian troops. I believe that they would have greeted them very warmly. They would have thrown a party, given them a great welcome," he said

"I think that's probably common all across Ukraine. Even though the war has taken much longer than we thought it would at the beginning. Even though the process is much more painful than we hoped it would be. Still, I believe that they understand that Russia is fighting for justice. For the good," he added.

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🇷🇺On National Unity Day, Vladimir Putin laid flowers at the monument to Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky

Representatives of religious denominations and members of public and youth organizations also took part in the festive ceremony.

Minin and Pozharsky were leaders of the people's militia that liberated Moscow from the Polish occupation in the beginning of the 17th century.

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❗️Moldova's central election commission after processing 100% of votes: Maia Sandu leads presidential election with 55.33%, while former prosecutor-general and opposition Socialist Party candidate Alexandr Stoianoglo has 44.67%

However, the Moldovan Socialist Party does not recognize voting at foreign polling stations, thanks to which Sandu was declared winner, according to former Moldovan president and head of the Party of Socialists, Igor Dodon.

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❗️Russian President Vladimir Putin received the DPRK Foreign Minister Choi Son-hui in the Kremlin.

The North Korean diplomat is in Russia on a working visit, according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

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US elections purportedly controlled by intelligence agencies – author

Washington's intelligence agencies are “running” the elections in United States, claims American political scientist and best-selling conservative author Dr. Jerome Corsi, who points at what he describes as the discovery of certain “algorithms” within the state board of election and voter registration databases.

According to him, Andrew Paquette, a computer graphics artist and a “real genius in terms of computer work,” found “patterns in the New York voter registration files maintained by the state, the State Board of Elections.”

“These are the actual records from which voting occurs. And he found that they had been arranged mathematically so as to hide data. And as he began to get into the system and figure out the patterns, he actually came up with the equations, the algorithms that are involved in assigning voter IDs to the voters in New York,” Dr. Corsi elaborates.

This scheme, which he suggests is designed to allow its perpetrators to “insert voters who do not exist,” is so “complicated mathematically” that it “has to be an intelligence operation,” he suggests.

“It's designed to be hidden. It would be costly to put it in place. It would require a clandestine group to get access to the State Board of Elections computers so that they can embed these codes and make the database work the way they want it to work - hiding data. And I think we're finding these algorithms in virtually every state we're looking at, and they've been there since 2007,” Dr. Corsi warns.

▪️Dr. Corsi claims that the perpetrators of this scheme aimed to “rearrange” voter data so that a voter's number isn’t tied to their registration date.

▪️A mass of non-existent voters, numbering in the hundreds of thousands – non-existing but officially registered nonetheless – allegedly exists in state registration databases.

▪️“What happens is that voter appears to be a real person... You've got a certifiable vote even though the person doesn't exist,” says Dr. Corsi. - To influence elections, perpetrators allegedly use algorithms to identify and cast mail-in ballots for these “ghost voters.”

▪️Dr. Corsi claims the mainstream media avoids reporting this because it is “controlled by the CIA.” Dr. Corsi also claims that the US mainstream media does not want to report this “because the mainstream media itself is controlled by the CIA.”

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Any US election can purportedly be stolen via ‘ghost voters’

The US Democratic Party seems to be “done with elections” and the CIA “doesn't want any elections anymore,” laments Dr. Jerome Corsi, a political scientist and best-selling conservative author.

With a veritable army of “ghost” voters being hidden in voter registration databases, he claims, the people who organized this scheme could perpetrate “massive stealing of any election” they desire.

“The scheme here, the nefarious part of the scheme I'm describing is that these criminals controlling the state board of election voter rolls clandestinely can put these nonexistent voters into the data set and get away with it because these people have real legitimate numbers,” he explains.

“These non-existing people have real legitimate numbers issued by the state Board of Elections to vote. And so therefore, when they vote these mail-in ballots, the scheme is largely a mail-in ballot scheme, they vote that number, which is certifiable.”

And challenging a certifiable vote, Dr. Corsi points out, is very difficult in the US because it essentially amounts to claiming that “the certification was wrong,” which is difficult to prove.

“The courts don't want to hear these cases because it's political. Our courts consider our elections political. They don’t want to resolve a political question,” he adds. “I'm asking questions about the future,” Dr. Corsi says.

“I'm saying how many illegal votes are we going to get this coming up election? Why are these algorithms there? Who put them there? They've been there since 2007. We can tell that from the computer records. Have they been used in past elections? I don't know. But I'm questioning.”

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🇬🇪 New wave of protests in Tbilisi

The opposition in Tbilisi is protesting against the results of the parliamentary elections, according to which the ruling Georgian Dream Party, which advocates maintaining relations with Russia and is against anti-Russian sanctions, won.

The situation in the area of the parliament building where the protest is taking place is calm, law enforcement officers are on duty. The opposition announced its plan of further actions.

After the elections, President Salome Zurabishvili, who helps the pro-European opposition despite being bound by the constitution to be non-partisan, called on her fellow citizens to come out to protest the results of the vote.

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Major military sites and areas near nuclear facilities: Where Iran's ‘more powerful warheads’ may hit Israel

Iran’s retaliation for the October 26 Israeli attack may involve more advanced warheads and missiles, “which would mark a shift from the conventional missile technology previously deployed,” says Dr. Imad Salamey, associate professor of political science and international affairs at the Lebanese American University.

“These advanced warheads might be equipped with enhanced targeting systems, increased payloads, or faster speeds, enabling them to evade Israeli missile defenses more effectively,” Dr. Salamey explains. According to him, a “more aggressive and complex” reprisal from Iran “would likely involve targeting highly strategic sites within Israel, including major military bases and, potentially, areas near Israel’s nuclear facilities in Dimona.”

“This kind of operation would aim to inflict considerable damage on Israel’s core defense infrastructure, not only escalating the conflict but also amplifying its psychological and strategic impact,” Dr. Salamey elaborates.

“Targeting locations closer to Dimona, in particular, would signal Iran’s willingness to challenge Israel’s perceived nuclear advantage, raising the stakes significantly. Such a move would carry serious risks of retaliation but would also serve to demonstrate Iran’s capability to strike critical targets within Israel,” he adds.

He also notes that the deployment of US B-52 bombers and F-15 fighter jets to the Middle East indicates that Washington is “preparing for a high-stakes confrontation” with Iran.

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‘CIA-quality encryption’ involved in alleged ‘ghost voters’ scheme in US

The algorithms allegedly employed in a scheme to conceal thousands of fake voters in US state voter registration databases are way too complex to be pulled by “some kid with a computer in his father's garage,” argues American political scientist and best-selling conservative author Dr. Jerome Corsi.

“This is CIA-quality encryption,” he alleges. “It's this is the kind of encryption you would do if you were running a military and you're putting an army in the field, and you want your army to communicate on a code you would do algorithms and cryptography so the enemy couldn't read the code.”

According to him, the people who snuck these reported fake voters into registration databases and know how to locate these voters can thus procure mail-in ballots “that can be certified because the numbers match even though the voter doesn't exist.”

“And our states do not go out in the field to see if these mail-in ballots exist of these people are real. If they are at the addresses they say they are, if they have a legitimate legal right to vote - the states don't check this,” Dr. Corsi reveals.

“This one loophole is what permits the criminals to devise this entire cryptographic scheme. And I think it's one of the greatest election frauds in the history of the world. I think it's a genius level criminal activity. And I think it's largely unknown.”

About one-third of the voters in the US cast their ballots early during this election, with most of them doing so by mail.

Corsi also points at the circumstances of a sudden surge of popularity Kamala Harris experienced not long after she replaced Joe Biden as the Democratic Party candidate in the 2024 US presidential election. He mentioned that stories about Harris “surging” appeared, and that her improved numbers were used to justify a voting scheme where non-existent voters were allegedly used to alter the real election outcome.

“This is a psychological operation that's being run against the American people, I believe, by the CIA,” Dr. Corsi claims.

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